Hello and welcome to the first ever done Sparse and Grandpa
episode Talkback. Starting with the very first
episode, Journey Begins. This is an idea that I've had
floating around for a while and now just as a fun thing for our
group to do, as well as the chance to gain some additional
insight from the players and I regarding the campaign.
For full transparency, at the time of this recording, we've
recorded the entirety of this campaign except for the finale.
So the only context we might be missing and being able to speak
on is the very end of the game, and we've got everyone here say
hello. Hello.
Hello.
Hi. So IRL we recorded this in like
May of 2021, is that correct? Oh.
Rich, either the video, is the video supposed to be fine or?
It is. It is.
Well, it's not. I mean, there's no video to it,
but can you all hear it? Yeah, I cannot.
Like you, while you were doing your intro, it was playing the
commentary thing over it, so you might have like a clash.
Yeah, I mean, that's how it's going.
That's how it's going to be. It's the OK, you know, it's
like, but the intention was, I was thinking about calling this
a director's cut, but we're not really directors because.
I understand. Like, we're all community
directors. And so I was picturing like DVDs
back in the day where you'd watch it and then you would like
hear the directors talking over it.
That's kind of what the goal here kind of is.
So tell me if you want it louder or quieter, but you can also
probably control it on your end. No, we have, I have my own
volume, so it's fine. And also, for what it's worth, I
intend to share the video and the audio so you can watch it
with the auto generated subtitles since it's probably a
little hard to listen to. I would imagine not impossible
though, but top these couples and plazas, I guess from
delectable going into this. How do you guys, I don't know,
is there anything that you're like looking forward to
revisiting or how do you expect to feel about it or like do you
guys have any well? Notions about this?
It's funny for me because I've like, since I've not been part
of any editorial process at all, I've not listened to a playback
at all whatsoever. OK?
So like, it's just gonna be like Redisco.
Oh my God, I remember that happened four years ago or
something. Like it's just gonna be a lot
to. And just remember.
Yeah, yeah, this is pretty much four years ago.
That's pretty crazy, Pokémon Band.
Yeah, I also delete all of my thoughts when the session ends.
So like professional? Bat I've been there with with
the I'm a player and for sure and ready for business how
others are still it's funny. I have all these notes still
from this setting the scene, which granted, it's the most
important because it's the first episode to do that kind of
stuff. But like nowadays my I feel like
maybe if I like one of my DM weaknesses that sometimes I just
feel like I don't give enough flavor.
Sometimes it's not necessary to do but also like I never went as
hard as I did for the first session as far as describing a
scene, but I think that's normal.
Probably a gentleman yeah towards you and says ticket
please. So do you all remember the
invitation I gave for you guys to play DND with me to ever what
that was? Oh yeah, but invitations.
Those were really cute. Yeah, I tried to personalize
them all to your characters that we had discussed in in session
0, little invites to come to Lily Cove, basically.
So what we did for session one was we just jumped into, it's
like everyone got off the boat and they're in Lily Cove for
this festival. Like we've seen.
Like the hiker? Jimmy was first.
Like they have that full style. And again, even though I'm
clearly supposed to be here on vacation also, I feel like I'm a
completely different person. The microphone quality is wild.
It's way different. It's just so.
It's just so we're. Listening of it is you and
Melissa were in the same room at the.
It was, yeah, at the beginning we were both in the same.
Room so you're picking it up on both mics Yeah, up and.
Down, Yeah, Thanks. To himself.
Yeah, is is this man here to to work or is he here on vacation?
Well, welcome. I didn't, I never like
conceptualized that Gimli was the first player in the
campaign. He was the first one to appear
kind of fun. Does Gimli have a friend with
him? Gimli does Gimli.
Has a Oh, there's like an echo. That's crazy.
Oh yeah, I put animations. That was there.
Animations with pictures. Oh hell yeah for the first.
Production quality. For this week I I stopped
putting stuff in the videos and and then eventually Kira took
over and she doesn't send videos, she sends MP3's so he's.
Actually visibly very excited to be here rather than being like,
uncomfortable like. I like the idea of Trevor being
visibly excited despite not having a face bobbling by your.
Feet. Oh yeah.
Do you? Are you carrying currently?
He'll be bobbling by my feet. OK.
Excellent. So yeah, where where's Gimli
trying to go right now? Because I was told to relax and
my wife wouldn't let me carry my bag everywhere I go.
So I think gimbly more exposition.
Yeah, has to be. It's the first episode.
Had to keep going. Yeah, you're trying to move me
long. I was like I need more.
Exposition now, you guys. I'm a wife guy, you need to
know. I'm the dad of the party.
No, not like not like a bad wife guy.
No, not like a bad wife guy. Yeah, would let me.
To clarify. With my bag, even though I
insisted that I needed to keep it for reasons sure.
All. Right, I needed to keep it for
reasons. Walk around.
There's the classic trope of you all meet in a Tavern, which is
just easy for DMS to do. I want to do a Pokémon
alternative that was maybe a little more interesting.
I don't. Know you all meet in a town.
Yeah, coming from and like, it's tricky when everyone's from a
different region too. It's like, how do cosmopolitan
people all get together that isn't adventurers and
mercenaries in a pub, you know? Right?
But I think this worked out. I think.
This was a decent Yeah, it was. Good means of getting everyone
together. The hard thing is uniting them
with a common issue, which was what, you know, I'm assuming
anyone listening to this has listened to this already.
Or like, without the commentary, which was everyone had something
stolen from them. I thought that was a good way to
unite everyone. Yeah.
Yeah, that was good. Yeah.
It's a pretty easy one to like paint the the bad guys like
truly as bad right off the bat. For us.
It's one of the yeah, it makes it super easy when it's in the
direction. I guess that's another DND trope
too, is that your DM shows you a big bad like right at the start,
you know like yeah the evil demon comes and just kills a
random guy and is like you're next and then leaves.
You know that's. Like, yeah, it's, it's a, it's a
trope for a reason, though. It's very effective, like
getting everything kick started so.
Totally. That's him.
Schmitt's here following him and Quacko.
Farfetch is very excited to see everybody.
Quacko's just like walking up and talking to everyone they
can. Great.
So Quacko is like stronger and. Then I'm just like, forfeit, get
over here. I definitely had like more.
He's Cantonian, right? Yes, I don't know.
Again. This.
I had a vision in my head at the time and I don't know what that
vision is anymore. Cosmopolitan.
Of your character up and. Down yeah, there's like a
dynamic with like Quacko. It's very.
Strange tears, Your ticket. And I thought I would be like
our ping more quacko like back and forth as well.
Yeah. To be fair we didn't super know
how we were going to RP the Mons going into, we just felt it out
make any reaction. I also want to say that
Moccasins bit is straight up ripped from Schmidt from New
Girl. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Yeah, as is a lot of Schmidt
things, right? Does Schmidt and Quacko?
I think that was the only. It's like it's.
Like a general person. It was like general personality,
Yeah, but. Set on your way to the Cove Lily
Motel. But he's grown so much.
Who? Else he's a lot.
And are they coming by ship? Are they coming?
But yet some house remain the same time.
Lily Ship. Here Elodie time, same story
goes to you as you depart from your ship from the Kalos region.
What does the Ticketmaster see before him?
Average height girl, early 20s. She's got freckles and, like,
caramel brown hair just above her shoulders.
Yeah, I had like a whole physical description written
out, but I was like, I got to get everything in there.
No, that's awesome. That helps a lot together.
Probably smells pretty good, like a bakery or.
Something. Oh yeah, he looks like.
You know, not everyone writes to appeal to the olfactory very
often, so it's good. To have that you probably chill.
You got to get every cent in there in the juice box or
something. What's What's this military's
name? Cabbage.
Excellent cabbage.
I love cabbage. We all love cabbage.
Also, for the record, when we recorded this, we like this was
still before we thought about doing a podcast.
I was recording strictly for archival purposes, and I think
it's in a post show episode one or two or three.
I don't remember where I was like, we could just upload this
and everyone was like, yeah. That sounds good.
It sounds cool, yeah. And.
Then for like a year and a half we cruised with our 30 listeners
and then Spotify was like Nope and then changed it.
Pretty crazy running a lemonade stand, there's all sorts of
stuff. Definitely going for some local
specialties. Local specialties sure yeah you
you set your eyes on a on a booth that is up towards this
could be a fun time. I think it was mentioned closed
in the interviews maybe but just if you guys all want to quickly
just and how did you land on your starting there?
We have one maybe we can go in order as it is on screen.
So probably. Maybe Garbi first.
Oh, so like I'm always picking stuff that like I'm VGC
inspired. So I think around the time we
started this, I was like super high on playing like Giggle.
It's sandstorm trick room stuff looks like a kid and I just love
playing Giggle it. So I was like, oh, I'm going to
pick this guy. Like I was going to pick a rock
type. I was going for a minor theme.
This just seemed like the perfect fit with that and I
really loved Giggle it at the time.
It just like it all kind of came together that way probably.
Be checking in like with. Her great.
Why did you pick far fetched with?
Their far fetched yeah and with her grandparents beginning of
generation 8 they would be selling sure.
Or there was one point where I was like your.
Grandparents helping them. Carries fuck VGC.
I'm not playing VGC for a while, I'm going to be a shiny hunter
and I was looking at false swipe users a couple rounds and the
old stab false swipe user in base sword and shield was far
fetched. Carnivine.
Friend, I was like, that's a funny hunting Pokémon, helping
them carry. And then so Farfetch just kind
of stayed at the front of my party stand, let's check back.
And I don't know something about his little duck, his little butt
waddle that he did when he was a man who he got me from.
His work in the mines at Sino Grace I'm going to give.
You this opportunity if you. I was between 2 characters I
think originally because I was like there was 1 character I was
thinking about doing that had a Marie and she was like a farmer
who was into technology I guess weird thing.
And then the other was a Baker who had a military because I
really like Millsery and Jen. I actually.
He's he's. Brought some and yeah, I just, I
kept really coming back to like the idea of like playing a Baker
and I really Carl. And so I was like, this will be
fun to play, I'm sure. Like, that's easy to play with
the Pokémon you love, you know? Yeah, and he's swallowing them
and then through a hole in his shell he's spitting out like
pure gems and honey bee girl. Why did you pick a wolf?
Pics. Hey.
Gimli good. He's been a fan of fire types.
Shocker there right? He embraces and I've always had
a soft spot for just Vulpex in general.
I also cosplayed, poorly I might add, at one of my first anime
conventions. It's actually.
A pretty similar amount and like I don't who did you cosplay as
prepared to give. Such a vulpex.
Oh. OK, I didn't catch that.
OK, cool. Cool, cool.
Yeah, no, like very poorly made it, like hand sewed it myself.
Terrible. But I've always loved like fire
types in general. But we'll pick.
So like, it's cute. It's a fox and it's fire and
it's so cool and like, oh, we call.
Them. Yeah, Jimmy.
But you know those like Yep, I'm fire type.
Very cool. Well I'm so glad that Gemma
convinced you to take some time off and and come see us here in
Gimli. Some some Gimli lore drop
looking for his son. There was so much, of course,
like so many, like MPCS associated around Gimli.
Yeah, specifically in the first episode, yeah.
Absolutely. No.
The whole union was there, right?
Except for Gemma. A bunch of lava comes out.
Yeah. All good to see you there,
little boy. Carl or you?
Guys pretty funny looking for a place to sit down your bags I.
Think so? Yeah.
My wife would kill me. She found out I was carried my
bags around. Yeah, one of the hardest parts
for me also like playing DND, but it might have been for you
guys as well, is determining your motivation.
You know, it's hard sometimes. Like, you want to play the game,
but what does your character want to do, right?
And I think Gimli just came out swinging with I can't find my
son. He went to Mount Silver and he's
gone. And that's like pretty.
Easy. I've always had a tendency to do
that, to make it like easier on the DMS to have like a super
easy motivation to grab onto. Yeah, but there was always like,
I'm looking for something or I'm doing, I'm looking for a person,
or it just makes for a very easy motivation for them to write it
and build something out. Totally, totally.
So it's just like like some nice flip flops, like Gucci flip
flops. So he's changed out of his
moccasins. Gucci flip flops.
Gucci Flip. Flops.
Is crazy. 1. More button.
I don't remember that. That's so funny.
Compared to what Schmidt wears now, it's crazy.
Just full of mechanical arm. A cowl.
Yeah, that's fucking sick. That's awesome.
Whenever I sent the reference to the artist that I had for the
art done saunt drawn. Down to the beach for the final
outfit that over. There yeah, that might that
might make its way to before this goes up that might not.
But the beach there's I'd sent them like throwing all the
Hawkeye from I think Marvel rivals or another Marvel game
where like his sleeve like was specifically missing.
It had something to do with like how he aimed his bow or whatever
or like draw the arrow. Yeah.
And I was like, that's his metal arm.
So just a sleeve. Missing this bodysuit.
Yeah, this nice kind of white oak wooden.
It's definitely a bit of a trope.
There's a couple in there for especially what's the word not
unwilling, but like the protagonist who isn't
necessarily fully on board with being a protagonist kind of vibe
that I, you know, that kind of fell into to lose their arm.
It's like a thing. The one that's coming to mind
immediately is Adventure Time. But I think I feel like that's a
thing like that's common. Am I wrong with?
That Skywalker loses that, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like people who are forced into heroism.
A reluctant adventure? Yeah.
Losing something of themselves? Exactly.
And that wasn't planned first minute, it just happened to work
out. Dog, There was like nothing
planned for Schmidt going into this.
I had like a rough idea of a character and I'm like, yeah,
fuck it, we'll go for it. Yeah, figure it out as we go.
I mean, that's the vibe for the campaign as a whole, really.
It's just like basic idea, let's just see what happens, right?
Probably. Go check in in the hotel too.
Did so leader not get revealed because she's not on the video
yet And or maybe I just botched the edit who knows.
Grandparents and Poppy the carnival.
So they're setting up, I re listen to this, your
grandfather's, I want to say like within the past year or
something good. To see you, I hope you've been.
Learning that yeah, we're talking about the grandparents.
She. Lies yeah and says yeah me and
Soli are doing. So there we go, it was 1 solely.
With eardrops, OK, it's it's. Been great so I remember it was
like the the gold magic harp. Yeah, yeah, the first shiny.
What's coming up right here? Yeah, yeah.
What a great like, I love the aesthetic collection of these
starters. I know you guys didn't
coordinate it, but it's just cool.
Like there's a good. Yeah, so fun.
Yeah, yeah. They're all distinct and even
like their body form factor is entirely different too, which is
like, kind of cool. Yeah, we're.
So strong. Excellent.
Asahi pulls out like a big like container, a big glass.
Like it almost looks like a blender, but there's no blender
base. It's just a big, big cup,
essentially. And she starts shoveling a bunch
of berries into Carnivine's mouth, and Carnivine starts
chewing. Oh yeah, Carnivine was the
blender, forgot about that. Just pours them out of the side
of its mouth and boom. Probably a health code
violation, but they got that. I would have had cannon that
carnivine's saliva is probably very sugary, right?
Because it's a flytrap, so maybe that just makes the smoothie
really good. Berry Masters as they could
setup's going really well now. That's probably.
Where they're all different, like Pokémon's probably more
sterile than other things depending on the Pokémon.
Yeah, maybe games or whatever kids these days like to do.
So I politely ask my grandparents for some fun money
for the day because I am poor of.
Course, of course. Hold on, let.
Me, of course you're poor. Of course of.
Course 300. Dollars.
Well, I had, I think I started like 60 pokey dollars.
Did I have you guys roll for money or was it like based on
your background? I had a bunch of bills like.
He didn't. Yeah, I.
Want to say it was based on background?
Yeah. But I think it was based on
background and then we rolled a die and then you decide like you
gave us what that die was or what that translated to, like
how many times that number on the die.
That sounds right. Was for money for.
The ping pong balls into the fish bowls, but there's no fish
in the bowls. They have like little fake fish,
but they're definitely prizes there.
There's like a arm wrestling spoof where like there's just a
cardi who's like really swollen one arm and he's like come arm
wrestle me win tokens. Those are those are the ones
that are meeting at the time, like probably right before we
started playing this. I feel like she would probably.
I was playing in an online group and we were doing like wandering
like. The.
Outs the full title the the Faye module for DND 5E while beyond.
The. Yeah, and the exposition for
that, like the Tavern that you meet in is a carnival and you
like, play mini games and stuff. And I thought that was a cool
idea, so I stole it because it lets you kind of explore.
It lets you roll some dice and like kind of just like chill out
a bit before the adventure starts.
I thought it was a cool idea. So that's partially where this
inspiration came from for this environment.
They did that Chrono Trigger. Did they?
Yeah. Yeah, it's a cool, cool
environment. I think if you're in a Tavern,
the only like solo role play stuff you can do to get comfy is
like, what do you order? Kind of where do you sit?
He's so bad. I'm still in the minds.
God that echo was so bad. How do we even how do people
listen to this first episode? My God.
That's funny. I'm so sorry at the hotel.
You know I. Would and with all the love in
my heart, I will still say this audio is not as bad as critical
roles first episode and the have you guys listened to that?
It's a nightmare. Dude, it's so bad about it.
And that's critical role, like they're goaded, but like, yeah,
their their debut is rough, but I also feel like it's just it's
just the nature for a real play podcast to have the first
episode just have problems. Like that's just.
Just what happens? Critical Role was using only
room mics. Like they were all in a room and
they just had like 1 microphone to try to pick everyone up.
Yeah, something like that. It was rough, fun little fruity
for. The summer so.
I feel like y'all are interested in some ale.
And he raises an eyebrow in question.
Absolutely. Slams fist.
OK, yeah, he, he just pulls the ale.
Yeah, he he pulls. The minds, they persist.
The minds. The minds in the minds.
Very good. The minds persist, and so do I.
Knowing like DND for session tropes, did you guys anticipate
anything bad would happen or did you think it would just be happy
go lucky festival? I shrugged it off.
It wasn't. Do you remember?
That was like 4 years ago so. I truly remember having no
expectation to. Go yeah, I don't think I had any
expectation at all. I was just.
Like I had to be here. This was my first D&D experience
ever also. On their backs and they're
wearing sunglasses. All.
All four of them are wearing sunglasses.
The two lads. Since this, you've had a few
more D&D experiences, even that you DM DA couple, right?
Crabs included. Yeah, nice.
We did the gala gala with this, my DM, the Kala Cthulhu session
with Kira, Liz Naser. Yeah, I'm Melissa Sun and.
They're all sunburned, they're in sunglasses and then like to
the right of them are just two crab poke.
I have finished 15 E campaign and started a lot of a module of
another one since we started this, so that's pretty cool.
They're all lined up like sardines.
A couple of our friends, like we had an in person one for a
little bit and then just like life got in the way.
So we haven't played. And then I have my other like
candle keep campaign that I've, I think I've been playing pretty
much just as long as we've been playing or we started very
shortly after, like we've been doing that for a while.
Check it out, it's pretty good. They got some tiny.
Mushrooms. We're almost done with that.
So grill. Them up delicious.
What the fuck is this voice right now?
Yeah, I, I man, I was trying to do that.
You. Put them on a stick, they're so
good. Girl.
Some mushrooms, but you never. Had girl mushrooms like these
before, they're so fucking. Said.
If your MPCS aren't memorable, then what are they?
You know, like you gotta gotta I'm.
Just saying we're we're gonna be roasting each other the whole
time. It's.
Fine. Oh, absolutely.
I'm gonna start roasting myself any moment.
Checking to the hotel. And so I'm still with the bides
bro, like. That's funny, the schmick kebabs
were like so iconic that Grace put it on the first party
sketch. It's like, I think, I think it's
reversed that order. I think Grace put it on the
first party sketch and then they became iconic.
You think so? We hope you enjoy, yeah?
Mercy. No, I think that's why she do
them. He's like, I'm holding both.
So quacko. Can do his thing.
French accent. Yeah, the French accent was so
bad. I was like, I'm going to try
this. Accents are fun.
It stayed from. Mercy.
Yeah. Mercy, Mercy Buku.
I thought it was good, but yeah, it can be.
It can be kind of challenging. And I think you can also flavor
it that like Elodie spent so much time in hoe and she just
adopted the regional accent. You know, it's like.
Yeah, 2 days and then she's like, I'm in.
Yeah, that's like these people are literally speaking my
language. It's the high charisma stat you
just fit into social situations, you know?
Maximum Riz. That's called masking, yeah.
Yeah. Oh no, Elodie's autistic.
Honestly, yeah. The reveal.
Honestly, I. Director's commentary to find
out like motivations by my character we're actually that
she's masking come. On well masking can be for like
ADHD or other things other any type of neuro divergent.
No, I just need autism. There goes Corp.
It's just kind. Of like a golden fish in the
water corn. Corp.
I need Corp to come back.
Corp. I if.
I've taken. Anything from we need a weekly
quota of that. And from the listeners, it's
that. You guys need Pokémon sounds all
the time, you can never get enough.
Talk you do like these Pokémon sounds all the time, but you do
like such a like high pitched weird like and then discord
doesn't pick it up you. Never.
Know. Go back.
Yeah. It's a mystery.
So this is like you do a. Pokémon Sound Discord doesn't
pick it up. Yeah.
Oh no. This is awesome.
Hell yeah, yes, OK, that's not awful.
I think Corp might have been the first Richie Pokémon Silence.
That might have been it. Corp Cor Oh no I got 6.
For. You know someone was raging that
we didn't try full out to get the shiny magic card 16.
Could you imagine? Like nobody is the name.
With like a shiny guy. I feel like, I don't know, it
looks like the the the. Kind.
Of like Dungeon fans are not shy to say whenever they didn't like
something. Yeah, that's.
Fair, but nobody has said anything about that shiny magic.
Art, that's fair. Would you like to buy some more?
I guess. He'll do two more, you buy two
more. 40. Yeah, you can.
Cindy's spending all of her grandparents money trying to get
a magic car. Yeah, just a gamble, yeah.
A shiny's a shiny, you know that's true.
That's true. That's literally what you said.
Yeah, I was like, quite. It's so funny.
I literally just had that same conversation.
And I stand by that something. Me too.
I also. Stand by that.
And then I got. AI have not changed at all, not
even a little in the four years we've been playing.
Only got married and yeah since solely to go get.
It yeah, I've had. I got engaged, got married.
Three different jobs and I moved to gathering close from like
halfway across the country. Very peculiar.
So did I graduate college while we were doing that?
That's possible. I think so.
They're all individual. Constitution checks.
Can I find the oldest message? I don't know.
I'm sorry I. Got a in the server.
I got an. Eight.
Yeah, 22. I graduated 2022.
OK. Well, we started in 2021, right?
Yeah. Beers.
With the lads. So yeah, I graduated go that's.
Pretty crazy. Might incur disadvantage, but
you're having a great time. You're chatting it up.
You're slatting backs, slapping backs.
You're just slatting backs. Slatting backs.
Slapping bags. Slatting.
Bags, baby. Get a tattoo of that on my back.
There's a slatting bags a rattly tramps that.
Oh. True.
Trim stamps. Magic trim stamps.
Guys, magic trim stamps slide in the bag.
Oh God, it's a. Pretty esteemed.
We know somebody, we have a friend who does tattoos like.
We do that for sure. Schmidt, you came in to get some
crab, right? Yep, all.
Right, he says ho in style kebabs, Come get your ho in
style kebabs. There's a Paris there who's like
cutting up a bunch of vegetables and he says they're only 8 pokey
dollars each. Definitely didn't improvise that
price for. Quacko.
With lightning speed, the parasols.
I'll give them both to Quacko. Give them.
Both to Quacko. Awesome, yeah.
They give both to Quacko. The Paris switches from prep and
then. Schmidt needs to watch this
figure, Robs. Onto the grill and like forces.
Them to. I remember when it was like, oh,
do you want this cookie? No, it's bad for my complexion.
That was very much like so good, iconic.
I wouldn't to be the no guy. Yeah, classic improv tool,
always saying no, always to the to the but.
It works. It was so.
Funny. And you're giving the both to
Quacko. Yes.
All right. Are you gonna take his leak or
is he just gonna hold all three of them?
He he'll probably hold all three of them.
OK, great. How does he like a?
Like a tuff to feathers where like he.
They're like. Behind.
I was wondering how he did that. Cool.
You know, like like around his tail or whatever and then so
he'll like tuck his leak back there and then they'll just.
Have both kebabs. There's an animation principle
called hammer space. You guys know about that?
I'll probably. Just go and like.
Feel like I've heard about it but it's nothing.
It's the idea of when a character reaches behind their
back and then pulls out, for instance, a hammer that like,
wasn't there. The one that catches your eyes.
I like the idea that Farfetched has a hammer space for his leak
leak space. Yeah, this is before, like at
the beginning of the campaign, we didn't call Krakos leak a
sword. Really.
Rich Yeah. When did that pick up?
It was very early on, but maybe like I know these first couple
episodes, it's just a yeah. Do you know about?
Region Would you like to try some of our?
Delicacies. And I just kind of said it one
like in a combat, I think. Yeah, what?
Looks like a. Little kind of stuck, yeah.
Paste. It's cool.
It's a great little. It's like a personification
paste and it's almost sizzling in the summer.
I guess that poses a question you guys, this is more this is
to you, but also to whoever's listening, possibly.
Should we listen back for every gym challenge?
I'm not sure I'm considering so nice maybe having people like
vote for which one they want to do for each gym.
But I also don't want some favoritism to happen where like
oops, all LED is like the thing or whatever.
So curious what you guys think about that Spices but isn't
great at handling spices when they are ingested?
Yeah, when my Listen Gym challenges sounds very fun.
OK, maybe not all of them. Maybe we'll see.
We'll see when we get there. Too.
OK. So, so I mean, I guess depending
on when we release these, we could put it out to fans like
which gym challenge they want like they would.
Want better? Yeah, yeah.
Then that's I like that. But my only concern then would
be the oops all LED situation or oops all Schmidt or whatever.
Gotcha. I mean, we can still pick from
there, but at least it gives us like a an idea what the fans are
into. OK, Yeah.
We'll see the unit and salespeople are so like they
say. So what do you think And they?
Like, didn't you have one where like, Gimli's gym challenge was
just botched? It was like, well, here's what
happened. We couldn't get it to record.
It's the end. Yeah.
It's so funny that the. Single time that we had a
terrible recording failure was when Gimli destroyed the fire
Gym and there's like nothing that liberated it.
There was no role play lost because he just destroyed it.
So it was very serendipitous that if we had to have a
failure, it was that specific episode.
Pretty funny. OK, sorry.
Did did you return the ball do? I need to roll for solely to
find it. Yeah, you do.
OK, what do I need to? Report just AD 20, you know what
you're looking for, so we're going to say it's investigation.
17 with no anything so. Yeah, Richie, you got a little
echo too do. You.
Yeah, I'm sure. Back to the vendor.
Are you going to take him solely's mouth?
I had like a $10 Amazon microphone.
I think, I think it might be more room tone than echo.
But yeah, it could be. It could be.
OK, solely launches it up and it ricochets off the wall and is
the keyboard from our call right now or is this from the video
solely returns? No, it's from the video.
That's in the video, yeah. That's crazy dude.
Was that That must have been me trying to.
Leave cuz you were recording locally on your end, right?
Yeah yeah. So you don't have discords like
noise suppressor? Yeah, the noise suppressor isn't
there, so. Funny next and then.
And he. So that's like here, it pops in
every time. And then it's like, who was
cooking your mouth? And it was, yeah.
I was probably rich cooking when I was over.
Yeah, it. Probably was.
Yeah, waste the time. It's so funny we have drunk.
Gimli. But don't worry, it was me and
Jacob that said sorry every time.
He's a few beautiful. OK, no one time legitimately
like and. Quacko.
And my mouse died like the day before we had session and I'm
like what the fuck am I gonna do?
So I just went out and bought a new mouse and every time it
clicked it was so fucking loud. Not.
Quite having. Succeeded like I would click and
I would watch it like the green light register on my speak
bubble you. Seem to have gathered towards
the center of the town right now you're like in this crux that's
so how long did it take to unite you guys in game 30 minutes
that's about right in the Pokémon center and.
That's interesting. Even then, I think Schmidt tried
to leave again. Upsetting.
Yeah, probably of a young man who says Pablo.
No what? Do you all do?
We are not taking turns anymore. You were all acting together.
Boy, what was that? I think we're going to go
investigate, find out what's going.
On Over There Classic. Player helping out the DM.
I don't know what that was, but I'm going to find out.
But like not like I'm running to go help, more to like see what's
going on from a state. Whoa, what's that?
OK, but but all the typing galloping up.
I don't know why I. Sold it.
There's so. Much of it that's I didn't
remember that. That's.
Super wild. I also had an unusually lab
keyboard at the time. Yeah.
Cuz it's it's a bed screen. Great.
It probably just follows. I'm assuming it's like a crowd
that's like gathering around it. So he probably just follows the
crowd over there. OK, sure, sure that can't.
Necessarily. Are you compelled to see what
the hubbub is about? Yeah, I'll probably just like
check in with like Kevin and be like, yo, like did you, did you
hear that? And then like, we'll probably go
check it out. OK, so as you all kind of gather
around this, this commotion, you see a young man, probably in his
late teens, early 20s. He has all these objects and
boxes that seem to be general like convenience goods for
trainers. He has got like all these lights
that he has equipped to the front of his booth, but they
aren't turning on. And he just says again, Pablo,
where'd you go? I need you.
He's he's like very upset. He's rummaging through his
boxes. He's like doing the thing where
he pokes his head around and he he puts his, his hand in like a
salute over his eyes to, to block out the sun a little bit.
And he's he's trying to find something or someone who's
Pablo. Friend, are you looking for?
Someone, yes, my, my precious Pablo.
He's gone missing. I literally cannot start the
shop without him. I I need you to find him for me.
He's about this big and he holds up his hands to be like about a
foot and and he's yellow and he has really cute little black
ears and a tiny black tail and adorable pink cheeks.
Please, please find him. Oh it's a Pokémon then yes.
He's the first vague figure out the Pokémon description.
Yeah, yeah. How to find him and anyone?
Who finds Not even that vague? I think it was pretty obvious it
was Picchu, but. Mitts and.
Cindy Roll investigation for sorry I was.
Going to say I, you know, it was a bit of a learning curve in
this and then walks the. Other way?
In this campaign where I, you guys, we're all Pokémon fans.
So I wanted to have it be a little a little bit of deduction
to be like, oh, what is the monster?
But then I was realizing that, well, First off, it's weird that
there's at least a handful of people whose introduction to
Pokémon is this podcast, which is really weird to me.
That's. Why?
But we have. People come in the discord and
say that I just don't believe it so.
We've had other like the opposite too.
Yeah, intro to. DD people come and listen and
then they turn to DD. Yeah.
So once we started getting a more kind of cosmopolitan
listener base, I've tried to make an effort of and also
there's like Jen Warner's and stuff and people do just like
aren't familiar with the newer Pokémon.
So I wanted to make sure also give the name at some point too
in Hawaiian shirts. But it's it's a delicate
balance. I I'm not a fan of just saying
outright what it is because I feel like it's just not very
flavorful or fun I guess. I would ask them like, hey, have
you seen a a Picchu? My name was Pablo.
Pablo, yeah, said he would never forget that name again.
Disgusting. Stuff.
Cuz then we get discounted. Like the whole combo with.
The. Jean shorts, probably.
Like Schmidt, that's. Really.
What the fuck? And then, Oh yeah, the guy at
the booth was looking for a peachy.
I haven't seen anything. Come on.
Quacko should go. Schmidt did some growth, dude.
What can you say? What do you think of this code?
Yeah, I'm gonna like ask the guy like is is there anything I can
help you with while Oh my God, the friends are fat.
I'm gonna die. Is there?
Anything I can empty? It's sweet.
It's. No, it's really funny that.
OK. We don't have camera on so we
can't see you cringe so. That's fine.
OK, great. We can't see it, but we can feel
it in our heart. Yeah, we can.
Yeah, yeah, I'll. Do that.
Question for the DM. Yeah, Does Schmidt hear him cry?
Yeah. OK.
Starts to feel a little bit. This is an investigation, right?
It's perception because we we're looking for clues, but we don't
really know what yet. I got a dirty 20.
Yeah, Dirty 20. Great.
So you notice that there are in fact some strange footprints
that actually don't belong to Schmidt and Quacko, who you
haven't formally met yet. However, you also notice
something a little more problematic.
Your cherished favorite whisk is no longer with you.
How obvious? How obvious was it?
I asked. You all the OG whisk taker.
The the the whisk that definitely.
Came back later the OG whisk taker.
Was. OK, here's a fun question for
you guys. Do you remember the villain from
episode one who never showed up again?
Who stole all your shit? Oh, what was his name?
His. Name in his.
Pokémon, it's like a secret base.
There's a crab, I forget if it. Was you had a bar, that makes
sense. Croton.
It was a Croton. Do you remember the guy's name?
The concerning. Footprints.
It wasn't Calvin, but it should have been.
I was going to say, I feel like it.
Wasn't Calvin, but it. Was just another kid.
It was just a kid. He didn't get recycled a number
that you we could have. He might have just been a vandal
of troublemaker, but he could you know, you could have cannon
all sorts of stuff about him, either him or the crab.
I don't remember which him. Follows the footprints.
I was named Drew as an homage to boarding parties.
DM but I don't that's. Cool.
Don't remember the rest, I'm going to.
Go find my pickaxe and maybe this P2.
Schmidt, you're the last one. What do you think?
Yeah, Did I see the footprint? I'm still just.
Like, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
I had no idea what to do.
Yeah, and I was trying to be an. Asshole.
That's a tough combination, man. That's rough.
Yeah, being lost at an asshole like yeah, I don't.
Want to walk but I'm going to be a Dick.
About it struggle, yeah, I mean. Hey.
OK, OK, that's my fault. That's on me and.
Then so I take the. Kebabs off him like.
One, that's when you take the kebabs, see if you.
Can get ahead of me and then I run off towards there and I sent
quacko ahead of me yeah that was one of the original things it
came back up later cuz Quacko was per efficient in perception
and the idea was to have like quacko like fly ahead and like
check things out and make like perception checks from quacko
the sky or whatever yeah. Flies in front.
Of and I think it happened twice the whole campaign.
You did it here and then you did it in Duford, right, 121, yeah,
yeah, in the area. Hey, I mean, doing it twice is
pretty good. That are floating in the breeze.
They're smiling and just kind of cheering to themselves.
They're like me just in the wind.
OK yeah, checking my notes and we'll find out too, because
we're listening. But the I my notes say klepto
kid is Drew and the Krodant is named Alfie.
I don't think that's a reference.
I think that was just a name. I decided for Krodant.
There's a, There's a. It's a cute name, I like it.
But yeah, I, I messaged you guys before we started playing.
I was like, tell me everything you have and pick one item
that's important to you. So for Cindy, that was the Berry
pouch, which did come up in the future.
That was something that came up quite often.
LD was the whisk. For Schmidt, it was Taco's leak,
which, yeah, that's pretty important.
And forgive me, it was pickaxe and some somehow a Krodon
managed to snap all those things.
I guess the only unrealistic 1 is the pickaxe, but Krodonts are
pretty strong festival in your path on either side of the.
Fence This should have been the first of our money failed
perception checks. We didn't comment on Spotify
recently, that was like, is it just me or does this party fail
perception checks like weirdly often?
All the time. Yeah, unfortunately, Olivia.
Is. Crazy.
It's pretty weird, yeah. Literally don't know what's
happening. They're like, it gave the point
that we're just expecting it. We're like, oh, oh, someone
rolled perception check. You know what had happened,
Ganglund. We're just moving on and.
What's crazy is that you guys missed like huge plot teasers.
From. That like really significant
ones. So pretty funny.
Pretty funny messing. With you, Mr. You.
Walk guys with me so we have to battle when we're listening.
To that, yeah, there's Alvin, I guess.
Diplomacy. I try to reason with them.
I'm like. Calvin, that's.
A diplomacy. We love diplomacy.
Is definitely something I heard in AD and D podcast OK I gotta
chase down these people someone else do and I'm like yeah I'm
gonna do it OK 1313 I give up on diplomacy very easily all he
knows if. You log guys.
With someone there's. It's it's happening.
I wanted to scare you guys that this would be like the whole
campaign that trainers would be like it's time and you like have
to battle them. That was the purpose of Calvin.
It is netball and there's just this little.
Did you guys fear that at the time or were you not worried
about? It no, I think everybody was
laughing at me because I couldn't push him.
Yeah, and it just. Yeah, there was No Fear.
And then also immediately we met somebody else that's like, Oh
yeah, no, that's just him. And we're like, OK, cool.
That's just this fucking kid. Like OK, great all.
Right there's Calvin is the first trainer you face besides
your rival in the Gen. 3 games, Youngster Calvin.
He doesn't have a Ventinats, but that is where I got the name
was. I was just like pick a
youngster. As he sends out his beloved Tim,
he eyes all of you and he's like, I think I can take on all
of you. So this.
Is this is an invitation for all of you?
Troll initiative. Despite the fact that this is a
4V1, Tim and his his trainer Calvin seem to not be
intimidated by you at all. Amazing.
He's not going first, but he's well and prepared and Schmidt
gets to go first cuz in fact, he was the one that was originally
challenged. Schmidt has like, like he's like
rubbing his head with like his head in his hands.
Mm hmm. He's just like.
Not he's kebab hands, he's kebab.
Hands, kebab. Hands.
Yeah, OK. For sure, but he's just like.
They wouldn't. He wouldn't have kebab hands
because. Schmidt doesn't battle much.
They're on sticks for on purpose, right?
Or maybe they dripped a bit Peck or whatever.
I. Don't.
Well, I meant like his hands. With the kebabs in the OH.
OK, that was directly a reference to a ego rafter
cartoon wacko. Swoops in has.
Had. Enough.
Was it the one with Pikachu versus Venusaur used to Peck?
Yeah, yeah, this little purple, the trainer would be like
Venusaur user, Solar beam, whatever, man.
I don't know. Venusaur's like what?
Like turns around and starts. And it's now Cindy's turn.
Tim noises. Tim noises use.
Ember. If he possibly could, he buries
his hands, his head further in his hands.
Yeah, shame is a free action. It is a free action.
So true. That's good.
Run that laugh track, baby An. Eight, you guys are the laugh
track, I know. I'm just wheezing half the time,
man. Tim Dodge.
It and then. Tim Oh my God.
Yeah, and. Like jumps and just dodges the
ember and it's, you're starting to worry like, OK, this kid's
like, like kind of full of it. But like, maybe he's on to
something like this. A little scary.
LED's turn. Yeah, we're gonna use draining
KISS. Very cool, let's see it.
Yeah, we got a 12. Cabbage's first draining kiss.
Real. Yeah.
Is that natural or did was that what you added?
That's what I added. OK, yeah, cabbage.
The military kind of floats in for a for a sinister smooch.
And once again, Calvin is like. Damn, don't like that And.
Then Tim goes Bree and just barely gets out of the way.
Did you say Tim? Dodge it, Skyrocket.
Yeah, Tim's the name of the ventinet.
Yeah, Tim's the ventinet, Yeah. OK, the subtitle said.
Damn, dodge it. Yeah, I saw that.
Damn, who's damn? Damn, no, damn.
Like the curse. Oh yeah, Half cabbage even.
Better, yeah. Even better, I.
Don't think it does. So Calvin makes this command for
Tim and. So you edited this one, right?
Yeah, you could say. That just kind of floats,
notice. Yeah, there's a lot more umms
and AWS and. Yeah, Tim and Tim Kyra's goaded
for sure. Joy and fighting spirit.
I edited them until the volcano erupted.
I think that's great. We're.
Going in with a. Tackle all right, Chevrolet.
Which also coincidentally, is when Spotify wanted to blow up
because that's when we were able to pay Kira.
So it's all I'm not going to make.
All of that was around the same time.
It's up to gimmick to decide. Regardless, this tackle hits, so
what's the damage? Is a total of 2 damage.
Nice, yeah. So.
Is that the first successful damage rule was?
Going to. Harden right afterwards, I
think. So tackle for two damage.
The memories. Yeah, Gimli, hard carrying as
usual. Now you guys are throwing out
triple damage digits sometimes. Seems you know sometimes.
Only a couple times. Only a couple times, but a lot
of them are pretty close. All the other Pokémon missed
their attacks, and he thinks no more of this nonsense.
And he catches Tim the Venonet in the middle of its victory
dance from dodging all these attacks and deals a nice little
blow to it. We're gonna cycle back.
I mean 2 HP when you have like 10 is pretty significant.
Tim and Calvin are. Like otherwise preoccupied with
everyone else, right? God shut up.
What do you think? No one's a bigger hater than
Schmidt than squints. God, what a terrible character
that I play for some. Reason we were all learning a
lot. I Another part of this combat
that I that Grace managed to capture in her TikTok is that
this has got to be like one of the funniest routes in Hoenn.
It's just, it's one of those Pokémon routes that's like,
there's one in Canto too that is just randomly full of fences.
There's just fences all over. The place.
Yeah, like why are all these fences?
Yeah, and I just love the idea of Calvin being here and
challenging you guys. Like at this location, it's
just, it's just funny. So it's I feel like Pokémon
doesn't do that as much. Anymore.
Oh God, Squids can't do math the first time.
Oh, am I OK? That's not me to say in the
episode, but I I could have added.
That on the line, sure. Oh, is it?
Is it me this is? Like.
His whole life, yeah. So Quacko can leave.
He's not going to let you pass. You already tried to push him.
You can send Quacko on like a mission and I guess escape
initiative if you really want. Yeah, I really just did not want
to be with the group he's going. To it can be a little hard as
Adm but. That made it work that I like
was I like this I will let. Him it's fine, I.
Think, I think your, I think your idea early on as a player
was like, if I'm an asshole, I'm a lone wolf in the party.
I don't need anybody else. So that's like it's starting to
evolve beyond that. I wanted it to be like he.
Tries to fly away from Tim. I think in my head it was like,
I wanted this to be the comedic relief character and it'd be
like karmic, you know? So he would be an asshole and
then shit what happened to him we got.
An 18. Yeah.
I think that's what happened. I mean, it was tougher.
Yeah. No, that's absolutely.
Schmidt gave up and lost to Watson was when it like all
changed. I feel like you know.
Yeah, just definitely that whole arc.
And I've said it so many times, but the symbolism in the Watson
rematch is so good. Dude.
That's like my favorite part of the campaign probably is the.
Stretch of episodes, I think in between the Watson matches,
yeah, and a little bit after. Yeah, just huge growth for
Schmidt. And like, it's just, yeah, it
was so sick. Big, big fan of that for sure.
So while it's a little rough now and clearly like more for the
first like dozen or so episodes, I think the payoff is like
pretty awesome. I think it's really, yeah.
I remember I was in like a pretty dark place too.
Yeah, I'm sure that didn't help. I mean yeah, post pandemic,
other personal things, potentially shitty job market
can be rough and it can bleed into your fantasy characters for
sure, but there's not much HP left.
So I got a 5. Yeah, that is more than.
I feel like despite Cindy being the only character that has a
canonical birthday, she has not grown at all.
Yeah. She's like Ash Ketchum, you
know, so they celebrate his birthday.
Like 6 times chaotic. Yeah.
Of her arms and just give a big old schmooch.
Actually, I feel like Cindy gets more chaotic.
Big old schmooch. Like biggest schmooch you've
ever seen. Great.
What was I typing right? Out of it.
Awesome. What's funny is that like I, I
just don't type nearly as much as this anymore.
Like not even close. Dude.
There's some campaigns where my notes, my prep notes is 2
sentences and I'll like make like don't forget blank and
that's like the entire session and what the fuck was I typing?
I just don't know. Your mouth still tingles
cabbage, but you aren't in pain anymore, if that makes sense.
Good. Calvin says, Oh, I can't believe
you beat me, Tim return and then he faces you all and he says
that was really close you. This isn't the last you'll see
of me and like runs. Away and then it.
Wasn't and it wasn't. Jesus, that's crazy.
I'm so looking forward to seeing Tim again.
Is what what Garvey said. That's your story and you did a
couple times. I I realize now that I was not
actually looking forward to it. The next time you met him, you
saw him was like pretty fucked up actually.
It was not good. The ninja kids, right?
Ninja kids, the ninja. Kids where he sludge bombed
Schmidt directly, not the Pokémon.
Yeah, and Key Lime kind of committing a war crime by
tracing Travis, Yeah. Man, it was cool trying to get
back to their parents. Yeah, no, it was.
I liked it. It was a really cool moment.
The tick tock you made for that scene was so funny.
It's like, are we free to go? Yeah, but we can't go.
No. No.
Yeah. Are we being kidnapped?
It was, yeah. So can we leave?
No. Are we being kidnapped?
No. It was so.
Good. It was perfect, Yeah.
Dwelling that's been carved. That's the beauty of TTRBGS is
like, you know, everyone else's. You could have traced wonder
guard, but no, you took arena trap and excellent.
Some fun stuff happened I guess. We'll all just.
Head out. Sure, I guess we're a.
Party. Now shut the fuck up.
Abode. I guess we're a party now.
You're. Going to be telling yourself to
shut up quite a bit I'm afraid. God.
Well, guys, I guess we're some kind of team or something.
You take a perception check. It's so anime protagonist, I
love it. Yeah, pretty funny, foremost.
You all notice. Something what anime wasn't
watching during this time It. Sounds like it could be miles
away, but you. All I think I was re watching
very very faint Naruto sound. Of like a spring, just
repeatedly just like Boing Boing boing this .0.
My God, this. Point, yeah.
This point don't I get like definitely the future from this
point. Yes, you also.
I thought this point was going to like come back.
Failed the role so bad. So with.
An orange puppy dog. Yeah.
So we're the only thing we haven't played is the finale.
So I might have talked about it already, but I I learned a
valuable lesson regarding this point is that I thought that
having a premonition would be a cool feature.
But as so happens with T RPG, you guys managed to skip the
major boss fight that this was alluding to, which was the
camera up in the volcano because Meryl Cheap got a crit.
And I was like, there's no way I can justify that Meryl Cheap
fails to get the plate. Like I just couldn't do it.
And I was like, well, that premonition's gone.
And so I tried to kind of repair it because you guys went to a
fortune teller but a grandpa. And it was like, oh, you avoided
a terrible fate. But I didn't want to get too
specific. But now that we're like done
with the campaign, I will say yes.
This point was the camera up. The boss fight, that didn't
happen. That was the premonition I
haven't seen. That that's crazy.
But that I also like the idea that like you can have a
premonition and like you can do something about.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
So just in case you guys were hoping for a payoff for that, it
just didn't happen because Meryl Cheap's a goat, so.
Yeah, we're just too good. Yeah.
And then they were never heard from again.
That's. Not.
True at all. Don't.
OK, yeah, there's the MPC. This is a real MPC on the route
too. Gentleman Walter, he tells you
that Calvin was full of shit. He just looks at you and he
looks at his sketchbook and he's like, oh, I really thought that
was a good drawing. I thought, I thought that they
would know. And he says magic.
Bargo are halfway down the road, OK.
He's he's an old man. So he's just, he's like trying
to make small talk. He's like, are you enjoying the
festival? Well, is he Yoda?
He goes until. He Yoda enjoy festival you are.
Yeah, something like that. Yes, Amogus joke episode 1
Amogus Oh yeah Among Us is like huge.
At that time, Oh yeah, we were playing it every Friday.
He does not. Actually do that this.
I remember that. Yeah, he.
He's wearing a suit. He's.
Like in really fancy clothes. It seems like he just wanted to
get away from the hubbub for a bit.
Seems like he's a little overwhelmed.
He's just like an old guy with a cane.
And he's accompanied by a little orange dog that's at his side,
sitting happily. He's just kind of staring off
into the. I think that's the trainer's
time. No, Growlith isn't in Hoen.
What are you out there? I don't know.
So you're all what was that? Our stuff was stolen.
They're. Getting away and you're.
Just going to strike up a conversation, yeah.
Walter turns over to Schmidt and.
He says it was just polite to introduce myself to strangers.
I, you know, we're all here having a great time with
artists. Stuff was.
Stolen. What an asshole.
Yeah. It's good.
It's. Good, it's good.
He shakes his face in. Discontent and he's like, fine,
be beyond with you. And he turns around and he he
kneels and he pets his dog and his dog kind of Yep.
And he's just not even paying. Richie, I'm sorry you had to
deal with me. Dog, it was fine.
It turned out great. I didn't even consider it like
kind of a dealing thing. I was, this is my first time DM
ING, so I also was just kind of go with the flow.
It seems to be. I think we both ended up
improving a lot by the end of it.
So I think I think it was worth it.
Good learning experience for both of us.
Perhaps into this wall and there's no lighting, so you're
just kind of stumbling around in the dark.
It's all I can see. Sully can see.
True 30 feet in the. Dark.
OK. Which if it's a hideout.
That might be the whole hideout. So Sully doesn't mind at.
All Sully notices something and maybe let's out like a little
Yip, but the the subtitles. Cannot.
Get solely right for the life of it, it's fine they they never
will get stuff like that. Right, but it's fine.
It's also short. For sole leader and that's like
a whole separate. It's for people, as the Spotify
comments know. We see so many spellings of
solely. Some of them are like SOLEI,
which I actually think is kind of cool because that's like
solar vibes. But yeah, but that's not.
The intention it is in fact. Sole leader and he flees towards
the ceiling and then the lights flash on and you hear like a
voice that sounds like it's gone through some sort of effect or
like a megaphone or like a DJ booth or something and it's yeah
why did you have a voice changer I he.
Stole it, probably. Like how are you going to fall
for a? Trap in a cave.
You're homeless, You should know caves like the back of.
Oh yeah, Gimli is homeless. Oh yeah, this.
Is the 4th 1. Running up this campaign and.
We've just been talking over it. That's crazy.
Homeless. Yes.
Homeless man? God, yeah.
I think you're supposed to hate you at the beginning.
I think that's, I think it's, it's OK, Don't worry.
About it, it's fine. It's in the past shells back.
I should be out somebody on the the Reddit was like.
Does Schmidt get better? And I was like.
Yeah. Although that.
One president. Video where?
He's like, no, you have to watch this.
This character gets so much better.
Yes, you feel like that's Schmidt.
That's literally. Schmidt Yes, buddy, there's a.
There's a big old crab and there's.
A figure, a pretty small one, a little bit bigger than Calvin,
who seems to be dressed in very dark clothing and hiding his
face. And he has some sort of like
device attached to his face that makes his voice a lot more.
Yeah, this is a loose end. I never tied up.
It's like, what the fuck is this kid doing?
They just, I don't know, He's. We can just say.
He's his own. Kind of villain, I guess.
We're not organized at all. Oh, is this the first time we do
friendly fire? Maybe time for fire?
We got 2 A2. To.
Hit the net. OK.
You don't hit the net, but you do.
Singe Gimli Gimli Roll of Deep no.
Immediately friendly fire. Yeah, it's I want to burn the
net so he can escape 2 damage. Yeah.
Yeah, you're going to take Gimli.
Got caught? No, he was the only one who
didn't get caught in the net. In Granite Cave right corner.
There's just mounds in mounds. Or was it Schmidt?
No, I think only Schmidt. I think only Schmidt got.
Caught it was a deck slave so that makes sense.
OK, at the top of 1, you guys haven't fallen to neck traps
very often. I think there was just two times
this this boy and this large crab.
Say, who dares enter Alfie's base without permission?
Alfie, are you old? Enough to have a secret base and
be kidnapping. Pokémon.
The accent's. Already gone, by the way.
Yeah, it's already. Already I love how there's an
age limit to. Be kidnapping poke Yeah,
Potentially be kidnapping poke. This, This was the start of LED
versus. Children, Yeah, the LE versus
children. Get.
Out of here. Are you old enough, kid?
Like the wrestling before they all knew.
Cindy was a child. Yeah, I mean, she was her.
Lie was worth 2 years, right? Not a whole lot.
Still a child regardless. Four years?
She's 18. Well.
Well, that's my funniest thing. We never.
Didn't assume you weren't weren't a child like you, just
you had this built in your head like they think I'm some kind of
grown up and kept playing it out as such.
I don't think anyone was convinced you were some kind of,
but you were all shocked that. She was 14 and not like, I think
16 was like, I guess it's like, yeah, you're obviously younger
than you're saying over there, I think.
It was cute and good. And.
I think there's a big difference between 14 and. 16 when you're
when you're that age, I don't know.
I I teach. Both age groups so.
They're not that far apart. Another 18.
What is it for stuff? It's very.
On brand for Sydney. Princess Age.
It's very on. Brand for Cindy to be like they.
Don't know my. Secret and then they like know
her secret, you know it's like and everyone.
Everyone knew her. Secret.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just.
Good like. Setting up the character, I
think this. Might be kind of noisy then
another decks OK +2. But I did give you.
Deception expertise because of that, right, I think deception
proficiency. I think I still only have
proficiency. Got it.
I have expertise in survival, which is so funny, you know,
prominent around the world. And yeah, that was really funny
actually. I like to think of Cindy
Survival set. More as like, dumb luck, I
think. Yeah, it feels like that, yeah.
Especially in post. Yeah, all right, stuff.
Works out. You know how much stuff works.
Out Quacko takes you. Just wake up.
At the Pokémon Saturday. And everything's.
Fine with bubbles and he says if you're going to try and.
Take my stuff. You're going to have to fight me
first. Doesn't seem like this guy's
going to let you go without a fight.
You're welcome to roll initiative, or if you want to
try and skill your way out of it, you're also welcome to, but
you're going to have to come up with some checks.
For me, Gimli is still suspended on the ceiling and I sleight of
hand to. See if I.
Can grab. My Berry pouch.
And maybe the Pichu you'll have to stealth first to get.
Over there and now he's very intense.
So it might be it's a high check you're welcome to, but.
Yeah, I mean. There's also already some action
over there because he just attacked Quacko, so it's pretty
much impossible, but you can try.
Yeah, no, I got a 544. Got a four Yeah, you try to go
over there and. Then this crab snaps a giant
pincer in your face. Doesn't attack you, but it's
kind of just like, don't even think about it kind of thing.
I'm not very effective then kind of a lot of.
Content this episode. But OK, bye thinking about.
It I mean you do this whole. Mission and then return, right
And then terrorist. Attack.
Yeah, the terrorist. Attack, but I have to.
Like. Don't.
Well, no, I think it. Ends after that.
Even, right, because you you catch cookie, don't you?
Or is that episode 2 you want Trevor to do?
But it might not happen. That's episode 2, I think.
I guess we'll find out. Yeah.
It was definitely. After got it.
We're bad. We're unexperienced adventures.
We're. Not even adventures.
Really. Also basically children, yeah.
Well, I've never. Battled so yeah, it has also
never battled all. Right.
Good insight there buddy. This voice changer?
Says Drew. Go for a bubble.
And he goes for a bubble in like Alfie's The Kid and Drew's.
The yeah my my notes say otherwise.
But I might have switched them up and just went for it.
No, I might have accidentally just botched it and then
continued. They popped, they might sting.
Nervous 'cause he also said like who dares enters Alfie?
'S hideout. I was like, Alfie, why would the
crab have a whole hideout? Yeah, I think I botched it and
switched it. Deal with this.
Crane, that's what happened. That's fine.
Yeah, First of all, I'm just. Going to be.
Like kid. Like where are your parents?
Are Ellie versus children? Letting.
This. Go.
It's like, yeah it. Should not doing this stuff.
Kids should not be on their Rd. Where's?
Where's your parents? Like, very threateningly, right?
Yeah. Like how you said crab this
episode Crab. With the how much?
I've said crab. Just you've always said crab.
Crab every time. Yeah, I mean, I'm.
Also paying homage. To boarding party again with
that which I do in the 1st 20 episodes in the in the outro as
well. I shout them out just because it
was what made me want to do this.
So they had a they have a Paris in their campaign and that they
are often talking about how it's a crab.
So we're not going anywhere pal. I ended.
Up adopting that as. A little tribute, but you're
also welcome to free yourself. Or you can try to do both, but
one of them is probably going to suck.
Maybe not the right. Well, I was like, I was
wondering. If if I try to like find a
weakness to the net using like survival, would that be a
possible thing I could do? Yes.
And you could do that and then
it would depend on what you find.
You might get a bonus to your role, but that will consume your
concentration and Trevor won't be able to act OK even.
No bonus actions or anything. Just full concentration we
could. As a favor, I could let him try
and improvise an attack if if that is your course of action,
but it probably won't work. Yeah, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna actually just. Yeah, try to find a weakness in
this net. OK, so you ever do survival?
See what happens 17 There definitely was some.
Growing pains of the combat. Too, Huh?
Yeah. I mean, I think we feel like
I'll go. Ahead in that one.
Go on. Yeah, go ahead you.
You. I was.
It's just. We really were going into this
without like a solid plan, like, yeah, we're using 5 E and like
parts of Pokémon 5 E, but like, we were just going for it.
And I I like, after four years, I think it's in a pretty good
spot, but we're still updating it.
Chances are we're going to record the finale and change the
rule, you know, like, but yeah, in the beginning here it's a
little rough, but I think that's also fine 'cause it's all level
1 and we're, we're figuring it all out.
So yeah, I feel like combat now, like.
It goes so much more fluidly, Yeah.
And that's also like, we all kind of like fall into roles
later. We have Schmidt.
Schmidt and Quacko are currently behind.
I also feel like it makes sense early on.
To like not be able to do like an action and do a Pokémon
thing. And then like as the we get
better as trainers, we're able to do more.
Like I feel like, 'cause we, we've kind.
Of. It's like, oh, it makes sense to
be able to do like two things. Yeah, that's also.
Like, oh. We've also gotten better as like
in game as trainers, Yeah, I think at the point where we
solidified. That you can do 2 actions per
turn was like around the time in a regular campaign where you'd
get extra attack on your character.
So I think it, I think it worked out.
I think, you know, level 5:00-ish characters in D and D5
E will have multiple things to do on their turn and level ones
just do one thing. So I think it checks out.
Alfie says it wasn't intentional to do it that way, but that's
just how it turned out. It seems like he his face has
slipped on his voice change for a little bit and Drew takes a
takes a Peck to the face. This this big old crab seems to
recoil a little bit. Took a little bit of damage
there. Very nicely done Crabe.
Well, my only move is crabe. Your only.
Move well. My only move that does damage.
Classic, yes. It's the only one that matters.
So. That never changed.
Like I said, Cindy has. Not changed.
At all. My only move is ever.
It's the only thing I. Can do your only move while I
mean it's the. Only move that does damage.
That's the only one that actually matters, dude.
You did fall in love with one status move, so I.
Think that was a success? Baby dolla.
Baby dolla increase the damage. Yeah.
And I only keep that because. I have 5 moves on solely games.
Yeah, keep that too, like a free.
Free. I guess we'll tail.
Whip Alright, I have to make. I guess we'll tail.
Whip. With.
Sadness. The pain, Yeah, the pain of.
Using a status move is kring. Me.
That's awesome. One attack on foe for the
duration. Of the, I guess, encounter, and
I believe that applies to everyone, yeah.
So that's pretty neat. You.
Me. Trying to convince.
You that it's a good effect. No status, honey.
It's. Fine, that's awesome and.
Then it gets kind of. Confused and.
Flustered and like, isn't that cool?
You did that for. Everyone.
Yeah, yeah, that's LD's job, to help everyone that's not.
My job? Yeah.
Like as part of my term. And like, get out of the.
Way of a possible future hit. You can move.
You could move to back. Up.
You are currently back up a little bit like not so.
Far away that I can't do anything but like farther away
to, like, not be the center of attention.
Sure. Yeah, you were at 10 feet you
can move up to. 30 feet away if you'd like. 30 feet is going to
put you outside of the The Cave. 20 feet would like put you at
the door drew this crab of unidentified species is going to
attempt to go for a vice grip into quacko, changing the
direction that it is facing nine hit quacko.
Nope. All right, Drew, the crab
sucking us smacks. It's it's.
Crab. In the direction of I
definitely. Melted, huh?
Just. A little bit too much crab.
Alfie and Drew are both looking quite frustrated at this moment.
Alfie, Alfie, Andrew. That makes.
Crab sounds think we're going to go for.
Another draining. Kiss all.
Right, everyone who is not Quacko.
Has advantage cuz you are now flanking.
Nice, nice. 12 advantage and plus one and 11:00 Nice.
We'll go. With the 12, yeah you hit roll
your damage. And it's super effective.
Super effective. It is nice this.
Is a dark type crab 13. That's a big hit, cabbage.
The Mill Street. Floats over to the crab.
Did we did a smooth? Did I edit out because it
doesn't see it. I must have edited out our
damage rolls and it seems to drain some life forces a
significant amount. I was curious how we if we
treated 2 perfectives in the same see.
So I keep all the stutters and shit but I ended up the yeah
that's crazy attack. These are these are very
interesting. Editing choices.
Yeah, no, that's that's too much math.
No one's listed to that. I think that was my logic.
I was like, no one wants to hear numbers.
In a TTRPG they so do. Yeah, seems.
To glance off, yeah. As we just like big number to go
up the that's. So funny, you know?
Yeah, people, probably. Want to know what super
effective means? Because I'm like, oh, that's
super effective. It does 13 damage.
And we don't know, like, why that's so funny.
Cold. That's crazy, Yeah.
Well. Learning for everyone.
I do think I want to do like some kind.
Of perception of my surroundings to see if there's some creative
way I can use oh here we go Trevor for something.
But I just want to like get a better observation of my
surroundings. Sure, absolutely.
Go for it, the 20. 1. You you look at this cave and
rice. No dice sounds yet.
It's it's kind of fun little punctuation for the recording,
IMO. I think it helps listening for
your brain to just be like, oh, what number?
If it was legitimately, yeah, like, oh, there's something
happening, like. It's also the clickety clack.
It just tickles the dopamine. That's the brain.
Totally. I totally agree.
Stuff in. It like it seems like a breaker
box or something and there are two lights overhead on the
ceiling. There's one directly above you
and then there's one further down into the room where all the
items are. There might have been a time I
was doing it for damage rolls as well, which is a little
overkill, but I like it for like rolls to hit saves, big checks,
etcetera. I think it's a good tool.
Explaining it to Kira when she first started was she had a hard
time, which is fair because she didn't have any experience with
TTRPG. She's like, where do I do the
dice sounds? And I was like on attack rolls
and checks and she just, it was hard, you know?
Yeah, that's on the ground that make you spin.
In circles. But now she's a pro.
But. There are pads on the Oh yeah,
absolutely. You aren't sure what they do.
Oh nice. Nice.
We, we stand. Kira, let's play the first. 5
notes. In Megalomania, you have to
walk. On.
The first. But oh right, it's a secret.
Base so it has like the music notes.
Did you guys ever want to do a secret base?
Because I never offered that to you.
Sure. Are you?
I think we had like our base. With the Berry farm, yeah, but
it wasn't secret. It was a public.
Base yeah, you can give me, I mean two intimidation checks.
I guess it's just an iconic feature of Hoenn and I'm one.
I just want to know if I deprived you guys of that or
not. No.
So I never even. Did it when I played.
Emerald like making a secret video.
What do you say it? Can't be too good because you're
over 11, but yeah, yeah, I did enjoy the the.
Plushies though that. You could get to put in the
base. I just like having the plushies.
Yeah, he. No, I collect them in real life
at all. Yeah, that's right.
Quacko just quacks like a vicious, terrible, ominous
quack. It's like so demoralizing.
It's the worst and and Quacko was proficient and intimidation.
Yeah, that such a small little duck could be.
Did we start? With that or did we add that I.
Think we started. With that this turn.
So that's cool. That's pretty dramatic.
But it isn't. Very sicy in fact, a crit.
So. Let's go for another tail whip
from. The back of the room?
Sure drew the crot on got 12. But ties favored the attacker,
so you get another. That is not how that works.
That. Is and you're still flanking, so
it's advantage. Well, wild.
OK, no, it would. Be meets it.
Beats it. OK so that is how that works.
I just used the wrong terminology there because it was
a save it. Wasn't that my?
Berry pad wasn't that. Roll the hip dirty. 20 Let's go.
Yeah. You.
You see your stuff for sure. It's it's in a pretty similar
spot to where Quaco found the leak.
And you also, well, I like that spelling of Quaco, Quaco kind of
the double C bacho, Bacho stay in the back.
But now that I've. Located it.
I'm like. OK, cool.
Sure. Yeah, it would be dangerous to
cross this. Crap.
Alfie was very intimidated by a duck.
Or not Alfie, but Drew. So Alfie's trying to give
commands to Drew the crowd on Andrew.
I definitely switched it up. That's funny, taking it the best
way that the crab can and is kind of paralyzed in fear,
thankfully to Quacko. So back to Elody.
I, I think I'm going to go ahead and do a, a, a.
Good old training kiss. Great cabbage didn't have a
whole. Lot of options at this level,
huh? Oh geez, yeah, OK, quick
training kiss. Let's.
Go Yeah. This is the.
First time she smooched something to death.
Yeah, probably is. I think so.
Probably. Yeah, perfective.
Anti crit so you're going to. Whatever your maximum role is,
you're going to add 8 + 2 D 8 plus whatever your bonus is.
That's confusing. How you?
Kiss the scrap to death. Yeah, once again, totally just.
Going to grab that little crab, give it a big smooch.
Yeah. I don't know how else I was like
this is a kick in, but how can I imagine it is like?
DBZ style teleporting around the crab, rapid fire kisses.
Wait, yes. That's perfect. 1/2 nervous.
Yes. Rapid fire kisses.
Perfect. You see?
Exactly. That there seems to be like an
aura that's glowing around cabbage, like, and you could
swear that you're in the distance.
Someone going like, charge it up.
That's me. I'm doing that.
Yeah. OK.
So yeah, that's sick. And little cracks of lightning
coming off, yes. Absolutely.
And this crab? Faints.
It's eyes turn into exes and it sinks to the ground and Alfie is
thoroughly upset. He rips off his mask and you see
a kid probably no longer younger than Calvin, probably about the
same age, maybe a little bit older.
And he says, I can't believe you came here and ran into my secret
base and beat up Drew. And I'm so upset.
I'm just going to leave. And he just runs out the base
And he recalls crawled up into the Pokeball.
Quite an elegant resolution to that.
I'm going to go I. Know, I guess I didn't he.
Like jump into the. Water.
Yeah, he did. Yeah, I feel like we should be
responsible for. This child I.
Hope he drowns Luke. No, what the fuck?
It's probably OK. I hope he drowned.
That's. Crazy once small.
Child that. Was roaming the lands so you all
are in this cave. There's all this.
Items that don't belong to you. And there is a crying Pichu that
seems to have hope in its eyes. I'm gonna what a description.
Pichu, Yeah. Yeah, I.
Disentangle. It.
You you pick up a Pichu. Not sure whether or not this is
in fact Pablo, but it is a Pichu.
It is all bound in ropes. Can I try and unbind?
It you can first can I say Pablo and like see if I get a response
as you say, Pablo's ears perk up then.
It's cheeks, a little spark, a little bit it goes, but it's
mouth is covered up with. Rope.
And you can't really. Oh no.
It's a. Thing.
What was I typing dude? Yeah, you're going.
At that keyboard. What the hell?
Holy ropes come off. You can tell that's crazy.
They were. They were too tight.
They were, they were very cozy. Pablo is so happy to be freed
and he jumps into your arms and he's now crying tears of joy.
I'm going to. Tuck him into my little apron.
All of you locate your items. You found the whisk, you found
the pickaxe, you found the Berry patch, and you found the leek,
and now you got Pablo in an apron.
What's your what's your game plan?
Does anything else look like? Freshly stolen like from other
people that might be at the festival that we could like
bring back and give to the hotel lost and found or something.
You can give a freshly stolen look.
See. OK, what?
What check is that? To perception.
Oh. 30/20/30. 20, yeah. The 19 + 1 so.
You find. A blue pokey ball that has a
sigil on it. That Who found the Cindy, Cindy,
Cindy immediately. Recognizes this.
As. A police Pokémon?
I don't remember this. OK, well, it's.
Just stealing Pokémon I think. We returned it.
Immediately, did you OK. OK, so I grabbed.
That because. It's gonna.
Actually be Jen? What the heck?
Just to bring back to bring. It to like the hotel lost and
found or try and find the owner? Sure, of course I would also.
Like to. Go to the police to report
everything that has happened. Sure, Yeah, so we'll bring the
Pokémon. Back to the police.
We all leave in the base, absolutely all.
Right. Sounds good.
Yeah, you head back. Down the path of route. 121
Calvin's nowhere to be seen. It seems like Walter the the
gentleman took off, but you do hear a much, much louder Boing.
Boing, Yes, in the grass. Premonition time.
No, I'm not too interested. I got that thing I'm looking for
as well. Yeah, it's tough to do.
Yeah, Yeah, I. Think we're kind of out of here.
I'm a little sexy. I don't.
Know if you heard that stuff stolen?
There's been this homeless guy. Following me we're all walking
back into Lily killed your K and.
All of these things, not the homeless man and you.
Walk up to Schmidt is a. Concern with LED or Cindy, but
the homeless man is it has an X on the sign of the booth and it
says Kay Hyphen Mart and it seems like the guy who's running
the Mart classic Kmart. Classic Kmart.
And. That's also stolen from boarding
party, but all of their shopkeeps were K rather than the
rhyming scheme shed some more tears of joy.
He's like I'm I think, if I'm remembering correctly.
Please let me reward you all So please add to your inventory
five premier balls. He's decided to reward you with
some some of the most premier of pokeballs and and he asks all of
you. Thank you so much.
What are your names? Is there anything else I can get
for you? Well, I'm Gimli.
Hello, yes, my. Name is Schmidt.
I would like the reward. Let's fucking go, Schmidt.
Oh. I'm professional.
He gets better, I swear it's true.
He does big number. OK, Yeah.
K. Of the.
Kmart looks at you and he's like, I, I gave you those
premier polls, but I mean, I I'd be, if you would like something
in particular, please speak up. But yeah, I have to still run a
business, so I'm not just this was an actual.
Confusion on my part? Yeah, part on not putting two
and two together. That the No, I said it the
reward. Oh yeah.
Got it. OK, seems in character, so
that's fine. Yeah, it's.
Cindy introduces herself. Hi, I'm Cindy.
Great to meet you, Cindy. And and who was this one who
had? Pablo in the apron.
It was great development. Cindy introduce herself.
Hi, I'm Sydney. Yes, of course it isn't.
Cindy was introduced. Pause.
It was awesome. To to, to myself.
Myself and my cousins all serving you.
The department stores closed, but still confirmed cousins.
Confirmed relationship in episode 1.
They're all cousins. Hope you come by.
I will tell my family of your heroism and be sure that they
treat you nicely wherever they may see you.
Thank you, thank you so much. It seems like the festival has
gotten a lot, lot, a lot more crowded.
The pervasive boinning from Route 121 seems to have snuck up
behind you. You all turn around and you see
a Pokémon and I need you all to make an intelligence check.
Just raw intelligence role, just the humans.
Perfect. I am dumb as bricks.
Let's go. I don't know anything about
nothing. The lamb.
I got a dirty 20. OK, I say.
That I got an 18, I got a. 12 OK plus.
So I. Got a 14. 14 all right.
Everyone who isn't Cindy, this is like the cutest thing you've
ever. Seen.
This is like a a it's a pig on a spring and it's holding a ball
on its head. It is so cute like I like
spoink. It's cute.
It's a little broken right now. You're what is this?
I agree. I can't believe it.
Cindy, you did. I put music here incredibly hot,
like as if like you were in a furnace.
Like incredibly I did. It's.
Not well balanced. Out of nowhere, yeah.
The surroundings of the festival.
You dip away, cut to blackness and you find yourself in a large
room without lighting, and there's this massive array of
glass tubing lining the walls in the ceiling.
There's a strange 4 legged figure against the far wall of
the room and it's just collapsed and exhaustion, maybe close to
death. What's the four legged figure?
That's a glowing flame. Oh, is it the camera app?
Yeah, the flame. Turns its form to Wow.
I'm sorry that that sounds like a camera.
Up that we encounter later, yeah, you hear a familiar voice
say. 4 legged figures of here. As they told you, sorry.
And that's the intro track, wasn't it?
Yeah. You try to run, but you just
can't move. You're completely.
Paralyzed in fear, roll AD 6/2. Did you have that commissioned
or did you steal that from? Somewhere or no?
I had it commissioned as. I have a friend back from
California who does their breakthrough was doing
soundtrack like dubstep for European parkour videos.
They like got commissions. For that, it was really.
Cool. I was sick.
Yeah. Yeah.
So it was like. Custom made so that it would
like swell with the video of people doing parkour.
And she ended up being open for commissions.
And I said, hey, could you do something for the podcast at
some point. But all of a sudden she started
with trap music. So there's a bit of a trap vibe
to it, but I don't mind that. I think it's fun based on this
terrible emotional experience she's just had that this this
point has triggered in her mind. The Pokémon band has stopped
playing and the sounds of people in Pokémon telling about have
have just completely stopped. And this is not a vision.
Everyone directs their gaze upwards to where the sun used to
be and there is a large aircraft that's so much drama right at
the beginning. Blimp looking vehicle open and
smoke comes a billion out of chambers on the sides and hordes
of bats come flying out in a in a frenzy.
People in dark clothing wearing unusual machinery over their
eyes rappel down on long ropes and they have pokeballs at their
belts. So fun fact, there's a there's a
voice that what I meant by visor originally was like Geordie
Laforge from Star Trek the professional, like a thing, an
ocular device, but grace made fan art and gave them visors
like the caps and I was like, you know what, that's better.
So that is what became but you can tell in the description that
I meant it to be like an ocular thing, orienting and annoying.
It seems to be just that makes a lot of sense.
It's too. Late now in retrospect to
probably try and hide I I. Think it's awesome.
I think it's great. Yeah, I feel like Visor fits
like the. Pokémon evil teams the goofy
live. Yeah, totally, totally.
I was taking it too too serious, I think.
Looking fervently for you. They're bad.
The people who advise your. Cockle.
Yeah. Yeah, I should describe this.
It's funny to like the other word.
Like golf things? Golf bus it it fits the
goofiness. That's in the Pokémon.
Which is very goofy, Yeah. What's?
Everyone else doing. That's heading down a crowd.
Sounds like a. Thing.
Yeah, freaking out. Definitely scooping up Trevor in
my hand. Like I don't like Schmidt's and
like. Schmidt's with AZ who?
Has who has the? Police.
Pokeball. Make sure 'cause he knows.
Quackos hurt. So he'd probably, I think Cindy
has. The police pokeball.
OK, the police Pokeball. Starts to like make a siren out
of it and it opens itself and standing in front of you is a
big orange dog much like the one that Walter had but not
belonging to Walter. It's bigger and it looks back
and like doesn't recognize you, but it kind of gives you a glare
like, all right, I got to I got to do something here.
And it just stands in front of you and it lets out a howl.
And you notice all around you there's all these people who
seem like police of some sort and they're running around with
their various Pokémon. The two professional battlers on
the stage are have turned their battling not from show and now
to protecting people. I would like Schmidt to make a
history check by. Would Schmidt make this check 23
get you what you need. Yeah, it does.
OK, I guess I reveal one of these battlers I was putting on
a show is. Is Morty from the?
Ecritique gym and he was battling lore lore lore.
He's he's a little. Bit older from from his years of
prime. He's probably in his late 40s
but he's still a healthy looking man.
He's adorned with these jewelry or like emblems that seem to
they're familiar to you. So at this point.
Had you already? Has his gangard throwing blobs
of had the spooky Schmidt? Is the lurekeeper the zoo thing
planned? No, definitely not.
You noticed when did that come up?
I think that came up when I was like trying to add more flavor
to why Sam wanted to go to Meteor Falls.
I was like, there has to be something else that goes on
there. And I think that's where that
came up. So it didn't happen for quite a
while. I remember at the very beginning
of the. Campaign you're you were like
also you're proficient in history.
No reason just add a history proficient.
I was copying Pokémon 5 E and that's A.
Bonus that they gave to Joe Towins.
OK. Let me Gengar being.
Captured Artemis protocol anyone?
Right I can do that? That was a plan from.
The beginning for sure. A. 6A6 OK, yeah, you don't you.
Don't notice. Much but there you know you're
still in front of Kay's booth and Kay is carrying Pablo he's
like no, not again, not again Team Magma and team Aqua.
They they disappeared decades ago.
Who who is this? Who would do this to our
festival? You all notice as the police
are. Reuniting with their.
Arcanines one of them runs up to Cindy and says oh wow, thanks,
thanks for finding my partner and just takes the ball from
your hands and she seems very she's having like an emotional
breakdown it's. Fine, Cindy's just like sobbing,
but but this? This officer.
Seems very calm and, you know, takes the Pokeball and says
thank you very much. I give it to her.
Is this Elodie's first? Is this the formative moment
that's all cops are? Boyfriends.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's like in his.
Moment. Of wow, they're saving the day,
she says. Everything's Todd.
Cops are. Kind of hot along, you notice.
These weird beams. These black.
Deanomizing lasers, picking up other Pokémon from the crowd.
Let me get a check from Gimli. Just a perception check, not 20.
Great. As.
A Sinoin you haven't been paying.
Attention to roles? Was that the first snatch?
Money. No, because, well, draining kiss
crit to get the KO. On though.
Oh, right, right, the drift. Loom.
And get sucked away and you notice a trainer who is trying
to fight off a lawn Morty's side who has a miss mages and this
mages. Also this was supposed to be a
big hint that the only pass I mean Pokémon being stolen were
ghost types. Suck it up are ghosts and then,
and then we. Just didn't pay attention.
To that at all. It was supposed to be vague and
hard to. Notice, I think, yeah, it's just
one of the things that you like. Like this is.
The first episode, yeah, that's true.
No, that's. That's.
Ironically, that's something that's better for listeners than
actual like, totally gamers, because if you're in the.
Moment you're not going. To notice and it's like, hey,
it's only ghosts. That they're taking up it's.
Like I don't know what the fuck they're doing.
There's a blimp in the sky they're backing with a Pokémon.
Like you're not thinking about too much and will.
I don't think that ever got confirmed to the Paco until they
were in Reggie Rock's chamber, right?
OK, We are still yeah that they're taking.
So that took like 3 years until further to the result.
All ocean and air travel by harbor or Pokémon in the Hoen.
And this was my solution to keeping you guys in Hoen because
I was like, if they're just here for vacation, they're going to
want to go home. What if there's a travel embargo
session tonight? Got them.
How can you leave with the travel?
Embargo. And I didn't.
Say an outro. I just played the music.
What did you guys think? What's your reaction?
Oh yeah. There.
Is a blooper. Just kidding.
Is there no there? Isn't that's just over?
Over. We're not gonna do fast.
Friends yet? Yeah, we're not there yet.
Yeah. What are your thoughts?
Yeah. It felt like new.
Player experiences. Some of us over explained our
characters to depth without letting the storytelling be
natural. We definitely felt like we were
tripping over ourselves sometimes, but you could feel
like the new the new party, new player energy before we got
really comfortable. And it's cool to see, honestly.
That's like, that was so many years ago.
Yeah, the the newbie. Energy is very.
Visceral for all of us. We're all like, yeah, like
everything, man that's cute. It's good.
Anyone else have any comments or anything?
No, OK, I don't really listen to like the episodes.
Cuz I don't like hearing my own voice.
That's very common, yes. Yeah, I took.
What I It wasn't until like. I was editing my Twitch fonts
that I got used to my own voice, so I totally get that.
Sure. Yeah, Similar.
Yeah, similar vibe. Yeah, this got me.
Used to it? Yeah, it's hard to get used to.
Cool. So we'll do.
This as frequently as we're able and if we don't always have all
of us, then that's fine. It will always at least be me.
Unless you guys want to like solo your own gym challenges.
That'd be funny. But still, we'll TPD on those
gym challenges. So we'll do episode 2 next.
So I will say whoever is listening, thank you for
listening. Does anyone have any final
messages for the listeners? Stay beautiful.
Perfect. Yeah, Stay classy.
Right, so true. Stay beautiful.
We will see you on the next one. Goodbye.