Hello and welcome to the first ever Quacko Paco Halloween
special episode featuring Schmidt, an easily frightened
superstitious man from Joto, Elody, an all too sweet and
overly innocent women from the Kalos region, Gimli, a stubborn
man from Sino who is beginning to show his old age, and a
Cindy, a young and completely reckless ball of destruction
from Hoenn. Be aware that some of what you
may hear may include frightening situations and descriptions of
the macabre. You have been warned.
The Quacko Paco is on their classic Quacko Paco adventures.
They're traveling down a route. It's got a well trodden path.
It's a sunny day, the grass is green and the tailo are chirping
in the sky when suddenly Schmidt's personal phone that he
received from his lawyer friend Clementine Sawyer starts
raining. Does he answer?
It sure. He picks it up and he hears
Schmidt. My boy, it's me.
Clementine Sawyer, you Remember Me?
Yeah, man, how's it going? He says I'm doing great.
Listen, I saw what you guys did in Loveridge.
That was exceptional. You saved the whole day in town.
Everyone's talking about you guys.
It's incredible. You are some great a adventures
if I say so myself. Yep, that was fairly recent and
fresh on my memory. He says because we're such good
friends, I got to ask you a favor, All right?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Go for it, brother.
Says I need you to go investigate a house where a
double homicide took place. This sounds like pretty classic
Quacko Packo business I think you guys can handle.
This. Yeah, that's something we
normally do. Yeah, we're totally.
Yeah. Let me talk to the gang about
it. You know, normally we don't do
anything that's like below a triple homicide, you know?
But since you're a friend, yeah, we'll go check it out for you.
He says no, no, no, not, not recently.
I was supposed to go out there a few years ago shortly after the
crime occurred, but I got caught up in other business.
This place has been abandoned ever since, so you've got
nothing to worry about. I just got a new lead that the
scene of that crime may have more hints about the status of
the culprit, who has been missing for a couple years now,
and it's a big priority of my office in Maudville PD to find
out what happened to the suspect.
Will you take it? Sure, he says.
Great, I'll give you some Intel. Rumor has it that this place was
inhabited by a recently engaged happy couple, Desiree and Luke.
They moved in expecting to get married just a month later, but
after one day, the couple never left the house again.
When family and friends went to investigate where their beloved
nuptial couple was, reports say they were scared off from
investigating by evil spirits and haunting music, and the
front door was impossible to open a break.
When MPD finally got around to investigating, there was no
trace of the couple. Kids in the neighborhood say
that they still see Luke through the windows pacing about.
He then then describes to you where it is in geographically
north of Marvel. And if you turn about, you'll
see it's it's right in front of you.
The address that he describes to you is just it's right there.
There's a two-story house. It's got a staircase that's all
wooden and has posts that are kind of creaky and cobwebby.
And there's two giant windows in the front that lead to big rooms
on either side of a foyer. And they have this weird kind of
creepy old house tinted out kind of feel to him.
And Clementine Sawyer says, oh, perfect, you're already there.
All right, have fun. And he hangs.
Up. OK, Hey.
Guys, I think we're having fun. So there's this.
Go on. So wild.
That's my time. I was like, it's just so wild.
Like oh what I heard it's like. Azual, what you doing?
Yeah. Oh, you're out.
You're the. Normal day in Ohio it's.
True. Normal day in Helen.
True. Normal day in Hoen.
It's it seems like the moment you turn to face this house,
this beautiful sunny day is just no longer a beautiful sunny day.
You feel like in the distance you can hear children crying,
the sky gets overcast, There's Mercro cawing.
It just is just bad news all of a sudden the moment that you see
this house. So it's what's inside my mind.
It's now outside my mind. Great.
Yeah, probably. For sure sick.
This. Is.
Classic cartoon Haunted Mansion on the hill with the
thunderstorm. Yep, Yep, exactly.
So sick. Then the theme song kicks in.
It's like Scooby Dooby Doo we. Get to be the meddling kids,
guys. Let's go.
Yes. I'm a meddling.
Kid who's Scooby? Quacko, obviously.
Forever. Yeah, Quacko is definitely
Scooby. Yeah.
Can Quacko talk this episode? Maybe, guys.
Yeah, yeah, he has to talk like Donald Duck.
I need crackle snackos. Crackle Snackos Okay, that's
crazy. As you turn about to face this
house, you're adventuring friend who you've been traveling with
for this adventure that you're having, Sinatra says.
But that's too spooky for me. I'll wait out here for you guys
to come back and if anything bad happens, just yell for me, OK?
No problem Sumetra. Gives a thumbs up and she says
you guys have fun. Canonically, where are we?
Are we in like in Hoen? Yeah.
Like, are we in Fall Harbor? Was this after timeline wise I
mean. Yes.
Correct.
You've been to Fall Harbor? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You are somewhere north of Marvel.
I will not specify where. Schmidt looks at Sam and then
like, squints at her. And it's like I thought we had
something. I'm going to roll to see if she
notices that at all. No, she doesn't.
She's she thought you were talking to yourself.
OK, great. Do you walk up to the spooky
house? That the Quacko Paco
traditionally generally enter houses of similar design and
quality for purposes related to their adventure.
Of course. So yeah.
Hear me out, we can just not do it.
But but spooky house it look cool.
You literally just agreed. Yeah, I think I'll never.
Go back you signed us up for. This.
Yeah, we're. Only as strong as our word.
Schmidt's phone begins to ring again.
OK. You pick it up.
Yeah. She met my boy.
It's me again, Clementine Sawyer.
By the way, if you don't do this, I'm going to charge you
for the amount of the legal stuff that you owe me from the
from the Johto court. That's going to be like 86,000
Pokémon dollars. OK, bye.
OK, I wish she LED with that. Man forgot.
It's like, totally understandable.
Yeah, yeah. He's like, oh, by the way, like
you can't refuse. OK.
So we have to do this. The Yeah.
All right. Is is gimbley in first?
Yes, I'm going to give it, for the first time ever, a nice
gentle knock on the door. OK, yeah, roll A roll a Wisdom
check. OK, possessed by the door.
Oh God. OK, 5.
Yeah, you knock on the door, you enter.
Does it open? It doesn't open on Sunday.
It doesn't open I mean. OK, I tried to open the door
then. OK, yeah, it's these those big
old vertical handles with the thing like where you open it
with your thumb, you press down, you know, it's got that lash.
Yes, it's on my front door. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. And you have no problem opening
it. It's pretty dark inside and you
are immediately hit with just dustiness, excessive dustiness.
But you don't have any necessarily visual, audio or
nasal stimuli. You don't smell anything.
I don't know what you nasal stimuli, I don't know what you'd
call that olfactory. There we go.
Olfactory stimuli. Look at me.
I know my words. Is dust flammable?
Yes, actually. I I just wanted to make sure
before I make stupid decisions. OK, Dang.
I wasn't. Leading.
With fire. Beforehand, yeah.
I wasn't leading with fire like that wasn't my original plan but
I'm like let me take this into account before I cause damage.
Of course, of course. But that does give us a good
option of if we see something and we want to set everything on
fire you. Just like very.
Easily thought just. Detonate the house.
We investigated. It's now Ashes.
Oh my God, a draft of these blow up the house.
Yeah. I'm glad that the party has
turned Cindy's weakness into his strength like they've all
acknowledged. Like, wait, this is a tool like
we have. Anyway, Gimli, do you enter?
Yes. Does everyone else enter?
Yeah, yes, OK, great. Schmidt brings up the absolute
rear. They're just way behind.
Refuses to walk in, Yeah. OK, man, he's never been.
To a quack goes there and he's like, come on, Rick, you got to
go for the. Stairs.
I don't know. I I don't know what to say to
this. We got refreshed, idiot.
Very rarely this is prop strategy as Dia.
Very rarely does he say no, right?
No, this is the this. Is the line.
This is too far. I, yeah, I, I don't, I will not
comment on the Scooby-doo quack a situation right now.
As Schmidt pulls up the absolute rear, he is the last one to go
through the door. And as he steps through, it
slams shut as if there's some sort of draft.
And Schmidt, with his ear close to the door, hears a series of
clicking and whirring like and then a little humming sound
like. And there, there's no handle on
the inside of the door. It seems like a series of locks
have activated and there's no way out.
So that is, that's what we're dealing with currently.
You have stepped into a foyer, a feature of a nice kind of modern
ish house that you may see in front of you is a large
staircase, probably about 20 or so steps up that leads to a
corridor at the top. There is a rug beneath you.
It looks all kind of tattered and torn up.
There is a there's just various receiving kind of furniture.
There's like a little red velvet chair with with gold, what would
you call it? Trim, gold trim.
To your left you can see a door that is slightly creaked open
and on the other side of it there seems to be a bookcase.
In that room, you're right, there is a closed door and in
front of you there's a staircase.
Above you there's a dusty old chandelier.
It seems like a there's like 1 little light on it that is
burning and it's just enough to give you just like 10 feet of
clear visibility. What does the party want to do?
Do I have cookie? Freak the fuck out first.
Are you checking like your inventory kind of thing?
Like your Pokémon? You're checking what Pokémon you
have, correct? I'm just making sure that like
this is after cookie evolved. Canonically, yes.
Are you looking to send her out? Yes, just to have a little more
light. OK, as you reach for your
pokeball, you go to send out cookie and your pokeball does
not work. There is no function.
The only Pokémon that are currently at your disposal are
your partner Pokémon who are already out being Quacko, the
Far Fetched Cabbage, the Owl, Creamy Trevor, the Bull Door,
and solely the Nine Tails. OK.
I guess this is the light we have guys for now.
What do you mean we can't? We can't eat Pokémon.
It's not possible. So what's happening?
I don't. Know cookie didn't come out.
Tries for turtle doesn't work right.
Correct. Yeah, Cool.
Great. Cookie wake up.
I don't like this cookie wake up.
Are you are you saying this out loud?
Sure, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Roller. Roller wisdom.
Oh, we go make friends, guys. You're a Kitty Kitty.
I have a Kitty Kitty situation.
Wisdom is a plus one. That's a three.
Yeah, that's great.
Love that. That's so sick.
What would the Quacko Packo like do?
Well, I guess we have nothing to do but explore so.
I mean good adventures. Can we?
We don't, we don't, we don't have to leave.
I'm just saying I would like the option.
I don't know, the handle's kind of gone and this seems like a
spooky place. I can only assume what happened.
All right, push forward. And adventures go left.
Are we going left? I'm so glad that caught on.
They do go left. We do be going left.
You enter a room that seems to
be some sort of study. There is a large oak table in
the center that faces outwards towards a large window.
One of large windows you saw in the front.
There is a large bookshelf full of books.
There is a quaint office chair that's a little dusty.
It's got a cobweb or two on it. On the center of the desk there
is a pen and a book that is closed.
It's kind of got like it's ornamented with like pink
thrills, kind of seems like a very, kind of a very feminine
book. There is a photograph, a framed
photograph on the desk as well. There's a poster on the wall
that's just like a map of Hoenn, and that's what you see.
Can I open the book? Sure, you pick up the book
first. Make a Christmas Eve. 9.
OK, great. Very good.
Christmas Eve, Cindy picks up this book and it seems to be
some sort of diary or journal or something.
On the front of it, in a cursive font, it says Desiree.
Do you wish to read it? Yeah.
OK, I will send you the text and you can read it out loud if
you'd like. I want to make one note before
you do so though, and that is it seems like there's on the first
page written in pen is someone's handwriting.
It looks a little vaguely feminine and there's a few words
that have been completely scribbled out with a new word
written on top. Here's the text you wanna you
wanna read it to our friends so. The bold is, the is the.
It's. It's.
Overwritten correct. Oh, oh, no.
OK, Hello, Diary. He.
He I feel like a school girl again.
I was bubbling over with excitement about the wedding and
my family said I should write it down so you can always remember
how you felt when you were in Lily Puppy love with Joseph.
So here I am. I know Joseph is excited too.
He can't stop smiling. We've been moving into our new
place and Oh my goodness, it's simply our dream home.
There's even a whole study for us to work in and Joseph claimed
the downstairs space as a music studio.
I'm so excited I get to start this journey with Joseph.
The love of my life Manny and Dell are settling in nicely too.
I've never known my neck trick and Adele Caddy to get along so
well until Joseph and I started dating.
OK, that's enough for now. There's so much to unpack, but I
can't wait to get back to this diary.
Much love. That is the first page.
If you turn the pages to the other pages, the first several
after this first page are blank. And then the last 15 or so pages
of the diary features the word Luke, written very gently and
then crossed out with the word Joseph over and over and over
again. Sounds like somebody was
jealous. What's up?
Were we told Luke it was Desiree and Luke were the couple?
It was definitely Luke, is what I have in my notes that I
actually took. Impressive.
It's Joseph. Probably part of the mystery
that we're resolving. Sounds like a super chill dude.
Yeah, dude is like. Honestly, a dude named Joseph
definitely is not capable of double homicide.
They're true. But like, I don't know, it's a
question I was like with. That guy, yeah.
Yeah. But the way that like a few
pages later for a bunch of pages she kept writing like Luke and
it was crossed out. So I wonder if it has like a
magical ghosty property where like whatever it is is crossing
it out as she was writing or something similar.
Yeah, but it could be Joseph doing it 'cause like, he, he,
he's a party man. He slams mimosa.
Yeah. Yeah.
Go on a Bender and then mark out
all of your ex's current boyfriend's name in their diary
and replace it with your own. Every Oh dude that.
Sounds. All the time.
That big, big green flag, honestly.
From where you picked up the diary, you can see a little
framed photo of a happy young couple.
They are embracing each other in front of the house.
The house looks quite a bit different.
It looks like it has a fresh coat of paint on it.
They're smiling and waving to the camera.
Luke is holding out a peace sign and standing beside them is A
and a Dell Caddy. Cute.
We don't know anything that
happened to the Monetric and the Dell Caddy.
You have not been given any information.
That's so sad and I hope they're still alive.
Or doing OK elsewhere. True.
Not here. It seems like this is a place
where perhaps Desiree liked to spend her time or maybe she
worked or who knows. But it has it has it's, it's
pretty nice and tidy for the most part, despite the fact
that's really dusty and there's like cobwebs and stuff, but.
They like it seems like they just moved in like not much has
happened they. Correct.
Describe the room again. Are there any like wardrobes or
closets or something? No, there's shelving.
It seems like there's a little spot next to her desk where she
just has like some some trinkets laying about.
Like it seems like there's some some medals from some sort of
athletic competition. There's a map of home on the
wall. There's a big bookcase behind
the desk and the desk faces outwards out front.
And in front of the desk there is a little cat bed.
I'm going to try something. Yeah.
Here, Kitty. Is there a pen nearby the book?
There is. I open it up to a blank page,
after all, where Luke has been written and then crossed out and
written and crossed out. OK, Open up to a blank page and
I write Luke. OK.
Like leave the book open and watch.
OK, you do that. Nothing happens.
I don't think we're.
It's a lot. Yeah.
I think it's a ghost. I think it's just a chill dude.
Yeah, I think it's a very, very relaxed, chill, not creepy guy.
Honestly I'd smoke with him. Like I don't even smoke.
Like that. Yeah.
But like, you know, social smoking, Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. As that is said, the group gets
a slight inhalation of cigarette spoke.
Real. In their nostrils, yes.
Classic Joseph. Classic Joseph the.
Nasal. Stimuli if.
You will yo, we got a nasal. Stimuli.
What an absolute cool guy it's. About damn time do you get a
nasal stimuli? Come on.
Can we use our expert noses to sniff out where the cigarette
smell is coming from? Yeah.
If I'm known for anything, I scent.
Yeah, Schmidt, give me, give me AD 20 and add add wisdom, I
guess. Survival.
Survival had. My die roller in sheets up and
prepared. It's a three on the die, so I
don't think my modifier is relevant.
No, it's not relevant. Yeah, but you can smell
cigarette smoke for sure. It's coming from a place,
certainly. I I conveyed.
Somewhere, yeah. It it has been conveyed.
And solely maybe sniff it out better.
Sure, it'll give. Solely a little smoke coming
from Yeah. Come on.
Solely be wise. 1414 Yeah solely uses her schnoz to determine
that it is coming from across the hallway.
So. Are we going to go to that room?
So we go left again. Investigate or we can
systematically pull every book in this bookcase looking for a
secret passageway. Honestly, that's looking kind of
like a good idea. Yeah, let's pull on some books.
I'm down. OK, who?
Who all is playing on the books? Systematically, everyone.
Everyone. Everyone gets a shelf.
OK, I think just because it was
his idea, we'll say that Schmidt went for the poll.
As Schmidt pulls on the book kind of high up on the shelf
because he's the tallest party member, he pulls on one book and
immediately, seemingly impossibly, every single book
falls out of the bookshelf and falls super hard around our
party and onto the ground. And everyone needs to make
Dexterity safe. Oh no, for sure.
For sure, for sure. We've anchored the books.
Oh no, I'm for my ballerina moves. 18-8.
Dirty 21. Nice.
The ladies, Elodie and Cindy, take eight points of book damage
as they are pelted. Book Damage by.
By the falling books, not a single book remains on the shelf
and they all splay open. Every single one has had their
spine removed and they are all filled with the word Luke
scribbled over with Joseph. Jesus Christ, another chill move
from Joseph. Yeah, you know what?
That seems very chill. This is a dude who's secure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's had a, he's had a.
He's a hobby. Really.
Like honestly. Yeah, he's a hobby at this
point. Yeah, some people play games,
some people do music. He he finds the word Luke and
scribbles it out and replaces it with his name.
I. Wonder if these are published?
Great. Well, nothing to see here.
Time to go across the hall. Yeah, I guess that didn't work
all right. Books.
That was every single. Book that was like 30 or so
books. Is there anything left on the
shelf? To be revealed?
Yeah, make a wisdom check. Wisdom check.
That is a natural 2.
Natural. 2. Yeah, we can.
We can work with this. Schmidt is convinced that this
bookcase must be hiding something.
There's something in there. So he peers inside.
And then from deep within the wood sprouts out a face with a
tongue sticking out and silly, goofy looking eyes.
And it goes blah and it looks at Schmidt.
However, this is quite peculiar because what I've just described
is not perceived by Gimli, Cindy or Elodie.
There is a little small, about a foot and a half, 2 foot tall
pink bipedal creature that is just locked eyes with Schmidt
and it's got his tongue sticking out.
I see Quacko attack. OK.
And it's a it's A1V1 thing. What are you having Quacko do?
Classic. Hit it with the sword.
OK. Quacko looks up at Schmidt and
is not sure about what he is hitting with the sword.
OK, no one else sees this. No one sees this little.
Absolutely, I'm speaking. To I'm sorry, sorry, sorry,
sorry, sorry. Yeah, yeah.
Sees what? What he's?
This little absolute goblin right here.
This little pink little goblin. Why are you talking about quacko
like? That it's.
Quacko's not pink, get it right? And.
I'm, I'm pointing to the shelf. I'm like, there is this goblin
right here staring. You asking if his name is
Joseph? You know what?
I didn't? I turned to the goblin and I
asked him. Is your name Joseph?
He turns his face around really like slowly so his back is
facing you, and then he quickly spins back around and uses his
fingers to open his eyes wide and he goes blah.
What do you say? You know, my goblin ease is a
bit rusty, but to me it sounded like you said blah.
Interesting. Well, he might not be.
Just yet she totally believes him, just like she did in the
desert. It's like you, you see that
tower and Cindy's like, no, but I believe you.
Like I'm sure it's there. At this point I've seen some
stuff, so there's definitely something there I don't know.
Is he friendly? Shaped.
Puntable. Is this creature quite puntable?
OK, it's. A good size if.
I Is it? Is it corporeal?
Could I reach out and grab it? You haven't tried.
OK, can I reach out and grab it? Yeah, make a dex check.
Oh, that's pretty low 11. Yeah, you're able to nab him
just by like a little black wing that's on his back and he's kind
of squirming and riding. He's going.
I I toss him and line him up for a punt.
OK, what direction are you punting him?
Is there a window in this room or?
There is, it is like one of those like reinforced metal
grate windows, but there's a window.
Gotcha, so can't punt him through the window.
You could. Try out the door of the study
into the entryway. You know, then he'd get into the
into the rest of the house and fuck with us later.
For clarity, the party sees Schmidt's hand outstretched,
holding something, but sees no imp and hears no noise.
Just a random direction that's not the door.
Random direction that's not the door.
Yeah, you can roll me a punt. Strength.
Why not? Yeah.
Signature Schmidt kick. Oh wait, that was actually
strength is 0. That's 17. 17 Not bad.
Schmidt kicks this invisible friend or foe undetermined, and
he flies into the wall above the door and poofs and there's like
a little pink confetti that only Schmidt can see that falls to
the ground. She exploded in confetti.
Well, I guess she did pretty good then.
So is he a pinata? I guess yeah, maybe he was a
pinata for sure. Oh, spooky pinata.
OK all. Right so well.
With our lives, I guess. OK.
So after we looked at all this handwriting, I think we're
pretty much done here, right? Yeah, question.
Does Cindy leave the diary behind or take it?
Probably put it back where it was.
OK. Maybe still open to the page
that, like Luke, was written just to see if anything
happened. OK, the moment that you put it
down, you're a voice in your ear.
It's a woman's voice. And and it says where, where,
where, just over and over and over again.
And then it fades away after about 15 times.
Cindy just had a moment. It's fine.
Does the party want to continue? Yeah, sure.
OK, Well, as as the party steps forward, Schmidt notices the
sound of footsteps behind him. Not about it.
Does he take a look or what is his?
Point I'm gonna turn around with a, with a, with a kick, with
like a Sidewinder. OK.
I'm all about the the the kicks today, yeah.
Your way through. Schmidt didn't quite make eye
contact with whatever is following him, but he kicked it.
And then immediately to his right, in the corner of the room
where the hoe and map is, he sees another explosion of pink
confetti. Oh, he's just extra fucking with
me right now, OK. The party walks the back into
the foyer, the light at the top of the chandelier is starting to
flicker, and on the 2nd floor the whole party can passively
hear the sound of four legged Pokémon pet footsteps pattering.
Here, Kitty. Kitty Kitty, Kitty, Kitty.
Is is has that said out loud? Absolutely.
Of course. OK.
Always. Now that we know that, there's
possibly Kitty Kitty. Roll a Charisma.
It's a 5. It's.
A5. My rolls have been garbage
today. Cindy's voice echoes through the
hallowed chambers. Here, Kitty, Kitty, here Kitty,
Kitty. And it just fades out.
The trail of smoke has become ever more clear.
It is becoming more powerful as you walk across the hall.
The cigarette smoke. Reminds me of my youth.
Yeah, that's about to say the same thing.
Mods be dear old dad. Modsville Pulp.
Ice cubes in a glass. Yeah, we should check out that
room, I think. OK.
Is it the shut door or like yes it's is there another room?
There's a second room downstairs that is directly across from the
study that it seems like you were trying to enter with the
door closed, is that correct? Is this the music room that was
mentioned in the whatever? I feel like it was.
It's a downstairs. That's where we're going.
It's downstairs, right? You are downstairs.
OK. So it seems weird that she would
say downstairs when she is downstairs.
Well, it might be like a basement, yeah.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Usually where they put like a
studio like that anyway if it's like a music room.
So we're not going to the music studio.
Not yet. OK, now that's going to be where
a big boss fight is. It'll be fine.
I don't want the OK. Are you entering this room?
Yeah, why not? Yeah, sure.
Open the door and it's immediately clear to you that
this is a room or a hobbyist who enjoys music.
This is music studio. There is a whole bunch of
instruments. Some of them are covered in like
a white sheet. There's a piano in the center of
the room that seems like a pretty nice, pretty expensive
piano. Has the lid open currently.
There is a series of stools. There's a little couch, there's
a whole bunch of instruments, there's guitars, there's
mandolins, there's basses, there's there's strange
instruments, there's drums, there's all sorts of musical
instruments. And on the far wall there is a
very, very large mirror that reflects towards the outside.
It's on the northern wall. This is window faces South, so
it faces outside. There is an ashtray on a stool
next to the piano with a cigarette in it that is
currently smoking. Well, I can ask you.
Right. Cabbage.
Look at some tunes for us dawg. Is Cabbage going to play the
piano? Yes, Cabbage does not know how
to play the piano. I was.
Going to say Cindy down to play like Mary had a little lamb with
one finger on the piano. Is Cabbage and Cindy going to
have a duet or something? Are they going to play at the
piano? Absolutely yes.
OK, give give me charisma checks for both of them.
Oh. My God my roles have been
terrible. That's an 8.
Is this? Performance or just charisma?
It's. Performance.
Oh my God I have to do so much math right now 23. 23 Great.
The intention to do a piano duet was not super clear to Cindy.
So she just kind of started trying to do whatever she was
trying to do on the piano. Alkermi is Cabbage is not a
trained pianist, but she has a decent concept of melody.
So she's just kind of hitting the keys, but it's it's in
they're diatonic. They, they sound kind of OK and
so you're just kind of punking away.
Some of the keys are not as in good condition as the other
ones. I should say more the, the
structure, the mechanism that makes the hammers hit the
strings isn't functioning as there's some dead keys.
They kind of just clank and they, they play some music for a
little bit. Is there a particular kind of
tune you think cabbage would play?
Preferably public access and copyrighted.
That's a good question. You don't have to have any
answer. OK, great.
Yeah, That's certainly not copyrighted by Warner Brothers.
Absolutely not. Yeah, Cabbage plays this little
tune. It doesn't play it well.
She is just a Pokémon, after all.
But she does that at the cadence of the melody.
Right as it ends, the lid of the piano slam shut in a startling
fashion, and it echoes through the room.
And all of the other instruments that are on the walls and kind
of laying about just kind of rumble a little bit.
It draws your attention to I need a roll Gimli.
Give me a Give me a wisdom check.
Dirty 20. Dirty 20.
Nice. Yep, the the the Sonic resonance
from the piano lit shutting and just the chaos of noise that was
ejected from the piano causes the mirror to kind of vibrate in
a way that draws Gimli's attention.
And he sees right below the mirror there is a classic Quacko
Paco enemy, a safe. Classic, classic, classic.
This one is not a combination lock.
OK, the same cabbage. Check your spy kit for a lock
picking kit. We'll say, yeah, Cabbage has, of
course she has some lock picking stuff.
It didn't come with the spy kit. It somehow ended up in there.
Cabbage found it or made it or something.
But she does in fact have lock picking stuff.
Do you want her to make an attempt?
Absolutely. OK, give her a dex check.
Make sure you put your sunglasses on.
Oh yeah, she put the sunglasses on.
OK, give her a disadvantage on her dex check.
What? No way. 88 Yeah, great.
She she sticks the lock pick in and she feels like, you know,
she her face looks very confident.
She's got a ton sticking out. And then the lock pick snaps and
a spooky ghostly face sticks its head out of the safe and licks
her on her face, dealing a total of 18 points of ghost type
damage. Whoa.
Oh no. And then it slinks back into the
safe. The safe might not be so
friendly. The safe is a lot meaner than
the other safe, I'm not going to lie.
Like the other safe was a pain to get into, but like this one's
me. Yeah, honestly, kind of.
I didn't want to see what was in there anyway.
The party notices that there's truly a lot of instruments
around here. Whoever the musician was who
lived here was either quite skilled or they were a collector
because there's just instruments of all sorts of families here.
Some of them are like put away neatly, and some of them are
just kind of strewn about the place.
And there is a single book that is sitting on the couch that
looks to be a rhyming dictionary.
I love rhyming. Rhymes with Joseph.
Cindy B Cindy is going to open up the rhyming dictionary to see
if Luke in this book has been crossed out and replaced with
Joseph in the rhyming dictionary.
Are you looking up the word Luke in the rhyming dictionary?
Yeah. Cindy turns through the pages
and she sees in like the handful, like dozen or so
instances. The word Luke is listed as a
rhyme, lost out and replaced with Joseph.
But other than that, the rhyming dictionary seems perfectly
regular. It might be a little old.
It seems like it's like a little outdated, doesn't have some
current slang, but it is a rhyming dictionary.
Classic Joseph behavior. You look at what is Joseph Rhyme
with? And it's.
It's like Duke. I don't think that's right, but
I don't think it's good. I think Cindy might put a pocket
this one. OK, yeah, that's a great idea.
As Cindy slips it into her bag. I need her to make a wisdom
safe. Please dice, it's a four.
It's a four, OK, it's. A4.
Cindy feels like something is like a haunting her, kind of.
Not necessarily like she doesn't feel in danger, but she feels
like something like somebody's watching her and judging her and
that if she does something wrong she might get punished.
Does that feeling go away when I take the book out of my bag?
No. OK, then.
I keep it in my bag. It's fine.
OK, great. Anything else does the Quacko
Packo want to do with this room? Well, we never.
Finished our business with the safe.
Did we? Nope.
No. You want to get licked by the
safe too. I don't really want.
To get licked, just for clarity. Does Cindy ask that question out
loud? Yes.
OK, that's fine. Continue.
OK. How how big is happening for?
A second, the safe is not very large.
It is smaller than the one that you saw at the NRG slash magma
hideout. Oh.
Yeah. And those those were like foot
safes too. So like.
Yeah, this one's pretty small. It seems very sturdy.
I this might just be semantics, can I instruct Quacko to knock
off the safe? Sure, yeah, you're welcome to do
that. It's a stationary object, so you
don't necessarily need to the hit quacko.
Do you want to do it? Yeah.
Quacko does it. He smacks the safe with his leak
in a knock off kind of fashion and nothing particularly
happens. Cool, I would thought that would
work like you know, I'd knock the the the safe off the the
Pokémon then we can open. It that would be interesting,
yeah. But I don't think it worked.
I'm going to pull out my axe. OK, I'm.
Going to take an axe to it. Sure, you're you're pickaxe,
right? No, I have a tree cutting axe.
Oh yeah, great. I.
Have an actual axe? Yeah.
Sure. And welcome to do that.
Are you? Do you cleave into it?
I do. OK, once again stationary
objects. No need to roll to hit it.
Gimli smashes his axe into it and it bounces off.
Seems it has done effectively 0 damage to this thing.
Nice, this thing's solid. Can I kindly ask the safe to
open? Hoping that maybe the Pokémon in
the safe will be like OK cool. Yeah, you're welcome.
To do so, try diplomacy. But what do you say?
You're Kitty Kitty. Kitty.
Kitty, Kitty, Kitty is what you say.
OK, maybe I'll like lead with that, but kind of be like, hey,
you want to open up the safe so we can see what's inside?
You want to be friends? OK, as the words leave your
mouth, Cindy feels that this haunting presence has judged her
and she feels like a cringe in her brain and she takes 1 HP of
damage. Please write that down.
Oh. No, no.
The cringe is real. Furthermore, her request to the
safe goes unnoticed. And we burn the safe.
You're going to anchor whatever is inside of it.
What metal do we think the safe is made out of?
I also feel like the dust is also very flammable, as is the
rest of the house. I just want to know what the
melting point of the safe is. The safe for clarity does have a
keyhole, just putting that out there.
Is there a key somewhere? We never looked for a key.
I'm going to look for a key. Hello, this is non spooky Rich
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