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2 Fast friends. Welcome to the Cali game corners
Pokémon. Welcome to the second featuring
ever Jacob Director's Cut Talkback.
I don't know what we're calling, it's one of.
Those title work in progress. Title work in progress.
Yeah, I'm not alone. I'm joined by Squids and Garbie
and Honeybee, but not Gracche. Gracche has a headache so will
not be joining us. My name is and I'm the game man.
Let's Yeah, let's see what happens.
I know that this is where we meet Cookie and we're.
Is this early? And this is.
Where? Sam, I think.
Is the first catch. Yeah, cookies the 1st.
The very end of this episode is when we the Four.
Of you are kind of. Still determined.
Quacko Packo. Kind of a lot of.
Oh yeah. It might have been here.
Yeah, this. Attack from Yeah, see this one
or the next one as you. Because we, we go by like you
call us the Schmidt pack and then Quacko gets like a crit or
something. I'm like, we should be the
Quacko Packo. Yeah, I guess we'll find out
what. Packo's sick further.
Notice how iconic that was to be the Quacko Packo.
I mean, that's the entire identity.
Pretty fun. close to Kmart, run by Kay.
He also has had a pretty traumatic day.
He lost his friend Pablo de Picchu.
And so they rise out of hiding from behind their booth with the
face of defiance and and solemn duty.
He he declares to the public. Pablo, we've, we've been through
a lot today, but the people in Pokémon need us more than ever.
And he hands Pablo to copper wires and Pablo makes a cheer
and sparks up his cheeks since current through these wires.
And there's a tiny little dinky neon open sign on the counter
that lights up. It seems like he's open for
business and he's he's trying to help people who need goods from
from Kmart. Other merchants, unlike Kay and
Pablo, are beginning to tear down out of fear and exhaustion.
What would you like to do? I would probably go check on my
grandparents. OK, the booth is a little ways
away, so you're going to start making movement.
I will check in with everyone else's actions first.
I think I. Want to do something in a
similar vein but they're probably a ways away.
I was going to look for the people from my company to see if
they're around. If everyone's OK, sure.
Do you go to the hotel? I just said last time we talked
about this was like, post all the kidnapping stuff.
Yeah, because I think the hotel's a bit OK, OK.
Yep. OK, yeah, this is like right
after all the. Yeah, right after it happened,
yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's been a while
for us, but for your characters, it's basically just ended.
The police are just kind of rounding things.
Up. Thanks Rich.
In the past explaining the same exact question.
Do you guys remember how long of a gap we had between playing
session one and session 2? Would the hotel have a phone?
I don't. I feel like it was like, well.
It was probably a it was it because it feels like it's
probably been a little longer. Was it like maybe two weeks
instead of one week because you're trying to play weekly or
something? Maybe.
Who knows? Feel like hotel complaining
about how it was really soon. Yeah, it might have just been a
week, who knows? There is a way to find out.
If we really dig through the Discord, we can probably find it
at this hotel. There's two people now instead
of 10, and that's the first dice roll edit right there.
That was where I was like, I'm going to put in dice roll the
deaf who are either trying to get rooms because they can't be.
And I'm not going to be as vocally of a hater of myself
this time, but understand every time I open my mouth, I am going
to be. Got it.
I can't wait to crap on myself the whole time.
Forms like maps and brochures and pamphlets.
And they're all being your biggest hater trying.
To figure out what the. It's actually kind of ideal I
think now. That they say haters are your
motivators, so your own motivation, it's pretty good.
Go home. If they're from far away, you
hear some people discussing well, like, yeah, this was my
solution to which is the forcing the party to stick together was
you can't leave. So there's.
Probably you're trapped losers. Other better travel together.
Probably. What else are you gonna do?
There's probably other things you can do, but it just seemed
easy and simple and it just works.
I don't know capable of making the.
Jerk like well and Caspes will stick together.
You're stuck. Plenty of tables do the silent
contract thing of like, well, we could leave, but we're playing a
game, you know? But it's fun to put it in the
street a little bit. I don't know.
Yeah, just kind of it's it's a hard one to paint though, You
know, it is are forced into each other.
It's like there's the social contract is there's nothing
wrong with that. The little silent contract above
table. Like, yeah, we're, we're going
to play as a party because we're all sitting at the same table
together, right? For saving but I literally
couldn't do this without him any kind of.
Gesture the relationships just build over time and that's what
becomes like more memorable but like the the background gym
thing to like get out of the territory became kind of like it
wasn't as important of an objective like doing the gyms
was like just something that we just wanted to do as players
anyway that. Level up, yeah.
Yeah, It was like, oh, this is like an easy way to like point
out like we're going to do combat now, like without it
being some kind of like life or death situation if.
If you're not, yeah. To be fair, actually that's a
great point. A lot of the Pacos combats, if
they wasn't in a gym, it was life or death.
That's kind of. Fun.
Yeah, we were literally. Yeah, exactly.
It was just like, Yep, if we're not in the safe space where we
could die like. And yet Elodie still wanted to
cheat at the rest Borough Gym can't believe.
It it. Has city names.
It has like 1 point of HP to get.
Quadrant to get torrent on grape juice.
Yeah, wanted to slap grape juice.
But that's like the same as like hitting your own Pokémon with
like a water move to proc. What's it called in VGC?
Like you know what I mean? Or like hitting yourself
intensely. Yeah, stuff like that, yeah.
Yeah, I mean. Steam and.
Yes and if it was in a life or death battle I would say go for
it. But it was a gym then.
I feel like you can't just slap your mom in a gym.
I don't know, it was a good hearted pack on Pat on the back.
Yeah, yeah. Tries to keep his lip firm and
then he just exhales in slap. Of encouragement.
Nothing wrong with that. And.
Again he gestures. To the like when football
players hit each other's butts, they're doing damage to get
their. For motivation.
Yeah, rock their stuff. That's totally the same.
Thing he's like, thanks, but I got Blaze now let's go.
Football players got Blaze, dude.
Yeah, crazy. And cookies, little chocolate
chip cookies. And he's like, here are the
cookies made these, They're so good.
I'm also getting to learn some of the phrases my brain defaults
to while improvising while listening to this, which I can
recognize I've been doing for years.
One of them is kind of gestures to.
It's something that I've said a lot.
When an NPC kind of gestures to something is that's my.
Everyone's got their public speaking phrases, man.
Yeah, it's funny. At least that one's kind of more
subtle. Yeah, they are not at their
booth. The the booth of berries is
almost devoid of them. There's not really any in there
and it seems like that their till where they were keeping all
their money is gone. Find a photograph.
Framed photograph. Their till.
They didn't end up being important at all, but I guess I
just didn't want you guys getting a lot of money.
They have. No, Yeah, you're just like, what
do you do? Avoid us getting money.
Yeah, probably. Quick rob the register.
The parents are The parents are gone.
Get them in the. Air, I would pause it as the DM
that I don't think NRG took the register.
I bet some scoundrel during the chaos probably took it.
Oh yeah, the the, not the. Lawyers.
What's the name of? The bell sprout.
The family bell sprout. Pumpkin.
Excellent.
What in month and day is Cindy's birthday?
September something. All right, you got it, 16.
Well, I didn't at the time. I didn't have a date picked up.
Oh, I thought you did. Oh, that's my sister's birthday
taking it. And smile.
Yeah. Holding up.
No, but I I said September and I think Richie, you gave me like
you're like, how do you feel about the 16th?
I'm like, sure, yeah. Yeah, literally.
My sister's very funny. My real birthday is in September
as well. That's why I was like, well,
September, it's a big deal. I just needed a combination lock
code so I wanna know where it seems like all their.
Stuff is just. Removed as well as they are
great. Cool, I probably panic all the
audio quality is. It's crazy.
Yeah, yeah. It's different.
Yeah, it is. So different.
Some new friends. Some of.
You my voice sounds like super cringey.
Well, it sounds. Like, you're like, funny what a
little bit of money does. Yeah.
And. Then you're like okay, now what
do I do and go find, Well I think I was also like, so I have
a headset with like a built in mic and that's what I was using
at this time. Yeah.
It sounds like your microphone is like a good distance away
from you. Yeah, which is funny.
No, it's like a headset. Like attached like microphone
attached. It's the classic Caddy headset,
right? Yeah, Hell yeah.
That I haven't been wearing the cat ears on and it's starting to
go. One of my ears is like cutting
in and out with sound, so I need to get a new one.
That was a pretty cheap headset though, so it's pretty
understandable. And they?
Kind of those are Razor headset, right they.
Had their heads. Down.
No. No.
Some cheap ass Amazon headset. Gotcha.
With silicone cat ears that you can take off.
The redhead guy says. We we've been.
Searching the actually now I'll have a Razor headset.
Get a Barracuda permit. Was fine.
But I don't have the microphone plugged in the second part of
this, we just have standing mics, so I I.
Thought like the standard cat ear headset was a razor one but
they are just thinking. Don't ask me why, I know that.
Razor has a cat ear headset, they just also make cheap ones
say. Oh hey, game we have.
This is very good feedback for the the listeners.
Yeah, it's what it's all about. We.
Don't know. That's just it.
We don't know. And and they gesture to the
booth, and they say all like goods.
Are yeah, the Razor Cat of your headset $100 We.
Don't. Know there's no jeez, the
cracking kitten V twos. Probably the daddy wants.
To wear the commotion. The.
Red haired one. Hey anyone said I was looking.
Around you. Want the you want the ectoplasma
looking cat ear headset because it's like green and black.
Oh damn. I like my pink one.
I know it's the razor colors I forgot.
You got two people to look for. Well, I know that we're all in
this together. We're all gonna be stuck here
for. A while they do have a pink one,
actually. With the friends at the motel
and it seems like. We like, yeah, why would they
here until alienate the female population, you know, pink tags.
They they have a, they have a pink, they have a pink and white
one, but they also have a white and pink one.
Then that is fine, but I I know that you're on a bit of a
mission so we. Don't great director's
commentary guys. Here we go, I'm sending this.
Link. Hell yeah.
OK. Great.
No near all. Here's just like a normal
session where we just just. Descend each other.
Yeah, there's the link so that Jacob can also pick up a set for
himself. Honestly.
I'm gonna Oh, thank you. I wasn't eating.
In touch with these. That's a new headphones.
Yeah, yeah. Schmidt, I need you to make
another perception check. Of course the pink and white
ones are more expensive 8 The other one's on sale anyway.
Sorry, what's? At the hotel you see a police
officer and a majestic, beautiful arcanine that's very
similar to the one that you saved from the the thief's
hideout. Similar.
It could be the same one. Perhaps.
But I really thought when we were doing the Return to Marvel
City arc that that was the first time we saw a police arcanine.
I totally forgot that there was one at the very beginning one.
Of them you, there was one before.
It's. More when we were in fore tree
too, right? Was there?
Oh, probably, yeah. Of sadness, yeah.
Rage. We always doing police dogs for
sure. Yeah, I think whenever they
rolled up to us and we were at the witch's Hut.
Yeah, I don't know who it is. It's a woman who has like,
explosive, huge red hair that kind of spans out in all
directions like a Maple Leaf. She has like an air about her.
Like she's a very important who's this character?
And they're having some sort of quiet conversation and they're
and the police are kind of important person whose hair is
red and explodes out like a Maple Leaf.
Yeah. You see a very stressed out
Sydney, a very Flannery. It's Flannery.
Sword Bird. Hell.
Yeah, I play sword bird. I'm freaking.
Out. Why is he here?
Oh my God. Charisma.
The party reunites. I grab things.
So so has anyone noticed that there's like people missing?
Schmidt communicates Jim Bad challenge.
OK. And he's like, we got to get out
of here. I'm I'm going to take on the,
the, the lead. Never in my life that I think
I'd be a Pokémon trainer, but here I am.
Here we are. That's fine.
And as you say that you see. It's good, yeah, said that
pretty early on. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Yeah, like never in my life I thought I'd be a Pokémon
trainer. Trainers.
In a very here we are are just so spearheaded and simple and
they're just like 24 tree, 24 tree and they're just gonna
marching on to Route 121. You've all gathered and there's
6 cookies. I don't know.
I'm just saying I don't know. Good cookie suggestion.
You all just went through a lot. Does anyone want a cookie?
Classicality moves take. The cookie and quietly munchers
on you to pick up Howdy Face. Does anyone else?
I'm all right, love. Thank you though.
What kind of cookies? Yeah, chocolate chip.
Chocolate is bad for my complexion.
Classic. True, didn't you?
Get inspiration for this. I think so.
You made me chirp. I'll give you the first
inspiration. Yeah, I I know much inspiration.
That's too bad, but hilarious. Yeah, it was really good.
OK, it's role-playing in character, and that's what I
asked for, so thank you. Yeah.
What an insane thing to say. In a good way.
I love it. It's totally.
Crazy. I think it's funny because it's
like I pressed and asked a question about the cookies.
First it. Wasn't just cookies.
Oh, chocolate can't do it. Yeah, it probably wasn't going
to have it either way, but. Yeah, you would have said the
same thing. Actually.
Vanilla is bad for my complexion.
Sugar terrible for my complexion that's.
Awesome. Like they got taken.
I might still want to check their farm.
Oh, I see your microphone is on the other side of the room, dog.
Yeah, you might be wearing the headset and then the mic is like
on your webcam or something. Yeah.
Oh, it's a laptop mic logic. Yeah.
Graphically, the farm is very It could.
Have been physically no the the headset has like a microphone
attack, yeah. But right now, but escort can
still store whatever. Yeah, they just kind of choose.
Picked a different. Input.
It was my computer mic, though you would hear much more of CJ
because we were in the same, I think we were still in the same
room. Depends on how good Discord
Compressor was back in 2021. Go to four, yeah, go South, and
then you'll be at the crux. That's crazy to think it's been
like so long. So long 4.
Years. Yeah, go with that.
Pretty crazy I. Would know.
I thought it I knew it'd be more than one.
I didn't think it'd be more than two, but I guess it's 4, so
that's fine. I am notorious, That's fine.
No, I meant that seriously, the tone was bad.
But no, I am notorious for underestimating gaming
durations. For sure.
Yeah, most of the things, yeah. Oh, we didn't do one shot.
Takes 4 sessions. All right, I'm pretty, pretty
bad at that. That's been a problem for
everyone running one shots though.
Like it was just a matter of like not understanding how long
combat actually takes. Is.
Really the problem that stems from if you want to stock up.
On combat's gonna take three sessions minimum, typically,
depending on the size. Like just is yeah, unless it's
like actually like a super quick encounter like they're, they're
gonna take a while cuz. Or if you P6 hour sessions
right? So they're like a.
Little, right, Right. Yeah.
I think that's what most people use sessions yeah for one shots
cuz it's usually like that's what you're doing yeah for.
The third time on the only accessible path out of Lily
Cove, which is Route 100. When you do it in birds of like
2, you just triple the amount of time everything takes.
Like that's all it is. You saw a bunch of.
Just assume everything takes six hours and then.
No longer flying. Around, if you break into two,
it's three sessions. It's an.
It's an easy assumption, we learned.
Yeah. It took us several years to
figure that out, but we're not at.
The festival who are coming eastward to determine what was
happening. Yeah, I managed to make the NRG
1A2 shot, but like it was just two combats basically.
There's like no puzzles, there's very little RP.
Like if it's just like 2 little combats, we're given five
premier balls. You are on if you'd like.
But also the like desert one shot we did like the puzzle.
One of the puzzles took us like forever.
Yeah. Which one was that?
Evie's yellow call or. Oh, in the one shot, yeah.
Evie's yellow forever we. Just.
I was like, Rich is going to drop us after that one.
We're like this group can't do nothing.
It was legit at 45 minutes. It's so sad that I've never
recorded that because holy shit dude.
You'll never forget that Riddle. Now though, what you do see?
No. I've already forgotten it.
This is kind. Of no you.
Haven't yeah the solution to it. I know the solution.
Yeah, you're. Looking at my gosh, you're
trying. To put it out for the listeners
or like Patreon or something. It's like post it be like.
I'll figure it out right away. It's fine.
I guess OK, it seems like a. Little We're too dumb.
It's fine and so it makes us entertaining.
We. Were pretending in character.
We just couldn't do it. We we we'd like dropped the RP
at one point we were actually like just talking to.
Each other like all right, all right, gag, no more RP, lock in.
We've literally started going through like the National
Pokedex in order. Like, does it fit this Pokémon?
How about this one? What about this one?
Roll a Pokémon handling.
Took us forever. I think diplomacy would.
Be this is the second. Never in my life, I've said.
Yeah, that's just Schmidt's energy.
He's like, I've never wanted to. Do this So yeah, 14. 15 what did
what Pokémon handling are you Oh is it is this for?
Cookie This is cookie cookie. Away from.
You so it tilts up but you don't know it's a gumi yet.
You just see a rub rock, a little purple BLOB with like
adorable little green cheeks looks up at you and goes blah
and it's a bubble in your face. It's not a painful.
Bubble, but it's just a. Watery goopy bubble slides up to
your face and pop like that and then it falls back under the
rock. Very sweet.
People on it, how do I catch it? You could do it several
different ways. You could try and talk to it and
persuade it. You could maybe give it
something that it wants. I showed you guys the encounter
table for this route, right? Fall at it.
Yes, I think you did. Yeah, yeah.
I think I sent it to the discord as well.
OK, I feel like yeah, goomy on. My cookie really slowly.
I didn't. I mean, I thought it was equally
as likely as any other encounters, but I definitely
didn't think I would give it a homebrew evolution for sure at
this point. That was that was about to be my
question. Like how far in advance did you
know about the homebrews? Like, not at all.
Well, that's a lie. Bean I knew for sure, but bean
was like kind of set up to be that way.
The rest of them, Nope, did not know.
Just takes. It from your hand the OR choreo
pretty early on on your. Hand Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I had
a feeling I was like, well how is it going to change forms and
like can we do something creative or interesting with it?
So I had Liz draw me that really basic looking bird and yeah,
that's pretty cool. One point higher than the health
catch DC. You my favorite was break
dancing Landrus so. Yeah, is there more cookies in
there? It was perfect for that point in
the game too. Bops it's face against the
center of the premier ball. And did you have caught
yourself? Agumi Wahoo.
Are you going to name it? Yeah.
My goodness. Cookie.
Very sweet. Cookie very sweet your your new
entourage later on, you guys, I mostly give you like a session
to come up with the name with the cookie, but I put you on the
spot there probably, Yeah. So, Celine?
Doesn't just fed it a cookie? It does, yeah.
Send it out and say everyone meet my new friend or what's
your what's your plan? I probably would walk out and be
like, that was easy. I made a friend.
What'd you get? A cookie called.
Cookie. Very classic.
It is likely that Cindy would not know what it is and that LED
would. I'm assuming that LED would
inform Cindy of what? They did not have a Pokedex.
Pokedexes are expensive and yeah, you don't have them, but
you do have regional knowledge. So while this is happening, you
see 22 young trainers. They look like ace trainers.
They're 22 ladies in their late teens, maybe early 20s.
One has blonde hair, one is black hair.
And they have sporty little trainer hats on.
And they're they're kind of marching on.
They're like this place was a bus.
Let's go back to fore tree. And the blonde haired one says,
yeah, I I guess we missed all the fun, huh?
I'm going to go to the right of learning and hopefully teach my
buddy. Here's some new moves.
And she has. She has the right of learning.
Green and yellow dog. What the heck is that?
That's not Canon. She's like hey, that's right
buddy. I'm thinking about maybe we can
teach you fire fame or something.
And the dog barks and Glee and they continue marching down the
route you are now like. You said green and yellow dog.
Yeah, what Pokémon is that? Electric.
Yeah. What?
Were you picturing? My brain was caught up on my
electric. Yeah, the little one is green.
Shit, I'm bad at this real life. The subtitle's censored.
You can take yourself. They'll pick.
Up. That's fine.
Pretty good actually. Roll first.
Roll Charisma. Roll for your.
Pick up line, yeah. Roll for pick up.
Line because that'll help you determine like what you say. 9.
You go up to these 222 girls who admittedly look really cute and
really strong. Like they they.
I've completely forgotten about this entire interaction.
Me too. This is the beginning of
Schmidt's date. Like pick up.
Charisma. Dating an arc yeah, they keep.
Arcing down the road. Yeah, that sounds about.
He'd laid it down on Winona pretty early, too.
Yeah, that sounds about right. I.
Don't know. Yeah.
That's true, you did lock it in with Winona.
I feel like I had to with Winona, like it was the flying
type Jimmy. It's like you like birds, I like
birds. We should hook up.
And 100 sessions later, she's going to help you out.
So it's true. Oh.
My God hook up during the boss. BAT Oh my God, Yeah, that's a
good use of action economy for sure.
Voice dictating story. Schmidt like a Nosebleed and
looks like. What like River and Beckett 2.0?
Just. Kidding.
Retroactive. That didn't happen.
I think we keep on keeping on, right?
Sure. I've never said that in my life.
Keep on keeping on. Not IRL.
It's like man, just got to keep on keeping on dude.
You never just Let's get you through a tough shift.
It does sound like a Schmidt thing.
I I keep on. Keeping on, man.
His corporate office job that's probably like on a poster in the
break room or something. Just.
Got to grind it out, you know, got to the grind set the
Grussell the. Grussell yeah, Mcavage doesn't
say that, but it sounds like it's like, imagine if I had
introduced Pokémon talking at that point and never dropped it.
I'm just like. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm good,
everybody. But we lost the cookies.
Oh God. No.
Good, they just slow us down anyways.
As the cookie slows you down, yes, that's excellent.
That's hilarious. As as your military floats up to
check on you, it gets sucker punched.
Whatever you tripped on is now upset that you tripped on it.
Oh no, there is. What was this?
This is still landed I think. No, really, this is Izzy.
Yeah, let. Me see, dealing just five damage
OK, that cut down from. Resistance.
Is it actually a sucker? It's not actually a sucker
punch, I'm just describing it's. It's a more simple attack, but
is it is it is he already tripping on the yeah, I didn't
little brown. No, you seem to it's a bug
disturbed this little hiding. It's a nakeda and it has its
wings open. It's flaring them.
It's hissing at you. Yeah.
Oh I'm I'm. I'm sorry y'all didn't want to
catch that Makes sense. Need a trip on you.
Imagine if y'all had like a key people.
Imagine if y'all had a yeah or. Remember that one encounter that
we had with ninjas and shed ninja that we just kind of blew
the fuck up? Yeah.
And then Cindy has a shed in just still, right?
Or did you turn that in this this little bug of the ground?
Think I still have them. Hell yeah, Maybe he's coming
handy. Who knows?
Chinja Atrubbish. I'm just collecting Pokémon that
are not mine. Yeah, cookies.
And there's what? There's like three of them on
the ground, right? Because of yeah, there's three
were left. And starts munching on one and
it is loving it. She's having such a great time.
Yeah. Can I try and investigate what
it is? Yeah, go for it.
Why are my rolls so high today? That is a 21.
We never said that shit again, ever.
Ever that was it. It was done.
What it is, you know, it's a bug type, But your friend Cindy
keeps up and says, Oh, I know that's that's an Ankita.
Really putting a lot of emphasis on the regional.
Yeah, Ankita. Because.
You know, it's like bug. Yeah, I don't know what to say.
I was trying it out. I don't know.
I think I'm just going to leave this guy be.
No offense to the Nakeda. Yeah, that's fair.
That's fair. Nakeda is very offended.
So does everyone that's Cindy's medical doesn't.
Actually, I actually thought the same thing I just said.
I was about to say it too. I.
Was like holy shit, Oh my God, I'm it's like that's me.
Imagine that holy. This one, I have a feeling that
we'll be doing that a lot as we listen back to these.
It's just so much. You'll be reacting in exactly
the same way that you. Yeah, I was like, oh shit, guys,
I'm not witty. I just it's consistent.
And but like Cindy's response to like, not liking bugs is drawn
from Misty, who is like my inspiration for the character.
She also does not like bugs, right?
I'm not. I'm like OK.
That is correct, Yep. She ended up liking Butter Free
and yeah. Yeah, I and Cindy ended up
liking Larvesta. Yeah, so rainiest.
Route in the region and during the growth it's just raining
for. Months.
Yeah. One bug is not growth.
It's. Growth, it's growth.
Just sit down here and hopefully it cools off soon.
So did you guys have any theories about the drought on
Route 121 before you figured out the cause?
You think we have a fucking brain cell, dude?
I mean, like any guesses or like you're just like, oh, it's hot.
And that's just. The time, yeah, we're just like,
Yep, nothing to see here. And then fails perception check
and keeps walking. That is the Packer.
Like, I know you want us to have this intrigue because you're
like, oh, what? What could it be?
It's like we have zero brain size.
No thought you said it's hot. I'm like cool it is hot sounds.
Good man, it sure is hot for some reason.
Oh. Man.
Wow that sucks. That's awesome.
It's like when it's raining outside.
I don't ask why it's raining. No, it's because we should.
Because as people who have all played the game, even you, like
we walked through that area and it's like, it's supposed to be
raining. Terrific.
I set up those NPCS to literally do that in front of the party.
You'd be like, why isn't it raining?
It's supposed to be raining. So I was hoping that that would
do it, but I guess that's fine. I was.
I was discovering the expectations of the Packo at
that. Point.
Yeah, the subtle hints. It was like, Nope, don't even
think about it. Feud.
Over territory. Are is that the autism they're
not picking up on hints and social kids or the underlying
meaning of the and there's a sign.
That says Route 120 and appended to the sign.
Someone has posted a note and it's laminated.
I forgot this note. Any credible research regarding?
Spontaneous OH for the on Route 1. 20.
Yeah, this is what sent us to the Weather Institute.
Right, right Pokémon recently captured on Route 120.
You got a really thunk us on the head with like this kind of
stuff. I forgot that I did this, and
I'm glad I did. A little incentive, right?
When you have balls to catch stuff, I think that's great.
Good job, me. Hell yeah, a bunch of.
Pokémon that are like hanging out in, that's a good first
round, you know, which is now a puddle and then there's a path
straight ahead. As long as the encounters are
fun, it's really exposed. Which not to is a shitty
encounter that runs on. Everyone hates not.
To it was not not to itself, it was just a lot of trees.
We still have the PTSD from the one shot I feel like.
Oh, true, properly. Harvest berries and would want
to. It was like before you touch
anything and kind of show them how it's done.
OK, sure. Passed away.
Let me show you how to pick berries off this Bush, guys,
because this. Is just true.
It's very difficult. It's just something that you do,
Gimli, how do you do you pay attention to this?
Yes, Role intelligence. 19 yeah, actually 18 might as well, but
that's fine. You absorb that information.
You've managed to find 5 delicious berries, this little
Berry tree that is that We're looking at this pond.
Thankfully you have Cindy with you, so Cindy will have no
problem identifying that three of them.
Can anyone? Probably not, but I'm going to
ask. Can anyone visualize this exact
pond on this exact route like I can fire?
Type trainer. I'd probably want to see if
there are any fire type Pokémon. On this if I can.
Get some money for. There's an NPC there who also
hands out berries I believe. If I'm remembering correctly
it's just the southwestern corner of the route.
Second one I got a little little lake.
Interpreted like right there next to for here Reggie Steel.
Yes, it's South of that, Yeah. As you kind of tilt your gaze
over the horizon, you don't know.
There's a reason I chose Hoen, and I've said it a lot, but it's
because I just have a very vivid childhood formation brain across
the ground, thoughts and visions of the region.
So I knew that I could improvise pretty much anything because of
how much time I spent in there. In the entirety of Gen. 4, I
never got Diamond or Pearl. And so I was like playing
Emerald the whole time. I just kept playing it and
restarting it and playing it and just, I played that game a lot.
So wants to eat cabbage. I'm grabbing cabbage out of the
air and holding it supposed to. Be the lizard is not a fan of
this and it hisses at you it. Seems.
Oh, here's Izzy. Yeah.
Yeah, this is. Izzy It was attracted to
cabbage's sweet scent. Because I kind of started.
OK. Solely, which is how you attract
towners in the game. It also makes particular sense
for Izzy being like the pheromone lizard.
You know that cabbage would be like, oh, something smells good,
Pokeball. Yeah, that, that's cool.
We'll, we'll OK, we'll deal with that.
Great. Up first is this little dark
lizard. It is clawing to get a cabbage
because it just smells so tasty. It goes for crazy that Cindy got
the first two catches right before anyone else.
Yeah, like in the same episode. Right out the gate, yeah.
This early is so wild. And Gimli didn't get any until
after forgery, right? Yeah.
So the. 1st. One my first one was turtle.
Oh turtle, right? Was that before the gym or no?
That was before the gym. Maybe because it was the turtle?
Before we got to the city proper, I think right next.
Pokémon to attack. I thought we backtracked too.
I didn't remember backtrack too. But I don't remember
unidentified. Who knows, We'll find out we're.
Listening. It was before the gyms for sure.
I think it's. Either way, Trevor's got a
goaded match up so I'm. Presuming so, if I hit it with a
fire move, I might not kill it. So I'm going to Ember OK?
Or solely's going to Ember? You have an advantage, so.
Sandy's going to Ember. Hell yeah.
Ember, I don't know. Does it?
I don't know. What did I say?
Oh nerd, figured out yourself. Yeah, I think it was like, we
love Schmidt. Yeah.
I've gotten one or two comments in like the first dozen or so
episodes on Spotify that are like, does Schmidt get better?
That's so funny. It's pretty funny.
And I don't usually spoil it, but the answer to that is yes,
definitely a little more potent than.
Anything but that's on the Reddit too.
Like somebody's like, I love the campaign, but I don't know that
is out of the way. It's it's I think it's well
played IMO. I think it's a good quite as
tasty. It's good.
It leaves a lot for development and makes more impactful
storytelling. Exude a purple smoke out of its
flank. It's going to request that
solely make a constitution safe. One of my favorite recent
Spotify comments. Not about this episode.
It was about the Reggie rock poison puzzle.
It's just straight up like a actually, it was like, well, you
put Rock as the type that is drawn into a Pokémon that is of
every type, but technically freeze dry is too.
So you should have included that reality.
What do you do? And I was like, hell yeah, dude,
that's awesome. You have to.
Move on. Hey, you got that Picking up
the. Gun there we go for it.
I love that that that's great. 18.
Yeah, that hits. Yeah, the celandit takes big hit
from the very sweet, sweet smelling ality.
Not ality cabbage. I know you.
Just smell so good dude. I've been doing that looks at
this thing, this catches. It a little bit, but also like I
did the same thing where I'm like I'm going to use Ember.
I mean Sully is going to use. It's the the shift from like D&D
to Pokémon D&D, right? Yep.
Totally. Yeah, totally.
Because it's still like my action is.
Yeah. This character using this like
what's that a? Nice little.
Using the. Mail.
I'll be curious to see when we start implementing the two.
The extra attack vibe because I definitely didn't intend it to
be like D and D5. E level 5 vibes because a lot of
classes at level 5 in 5 E get extra attack and this meal isn't
worth the trouble. I just forget when we
implemented that poison damage and slammed it, probably just
when we were ready. I don't know, it just made
sense. No, because it's like we had
the. I mean, it's not gone cuz I
think it was initially like 1 action, one movement per like
Pokémon, yeah and then we started getting like 3 Pokémon
and we're like we got to put a cap on this, yeah.
Yeah, so it's like there's no way you can do all this in six
seconds. Yeah, that was the logic, yeah.
Is this landed? Which direction is it running?
It's running N is. It like running away from us or?
Yeah. So you came over from the West
and you're starting to head north and this thing came from
the north and is running back north.
I will try to bowl rock and. Roll in front of it's good path
bowling won't be mentioned again for quite a while.
True, it is in. My lore that we do bowling.
You can add. Your the lore drop they're
bowling do advantage real twice. But also like vague lore like it
is in my lore that we do bowl what like.
It's true. I.
Wrote it in. Session zero it was.
It was established in bowl. I wrote 3 paragraphs.
One of them about bowling. Still trying to.
Get away. It doesn't stop and it's it's
tracks, but it's a little startled.
It's like why did this rock just roll in front of me?
It's still mobbing. The next time it has its turn,
it will be gone. I'll jump in this initiative,
yeah. We're just going to roll because
we're not going to roll because it gets back to its turn.
Hello True. Hello.
Hello, grouchy Lizzie. Lizzie doesn't miss.
Yeah, how you doing all the damage?
I'm feeling a little better. That's good.
We're we're listening to episode 2, This thing.
Is very nice, so. To speak, it's actually
bleeding, but it is oozing like a little purple liquid and we're
meeting Izzy out of it for the first time We.
Already met cookie, yeah. Izzy's oozing to be.
Able to, yeah. Classic Izzy move, honestly.
Should have been oozy honestly. 9.
You throw the ball deanomizing laser, he catches this little
slant he's trying. To make a getaway, oh
deanimizing laser. Yeah, stop it.
I think I took that from a boarding party.
Isn't the slander in the Pokeball job?
That's what it is, right? Deanimizing laser just once, but
just. It never came up again, I don't
think. Probably not and it Dean's
closed, you caught yourself a slander.
The DC was 9. I think that thing was low HP.
The DC? Exactly.
Yeah, it was. You said it was bloodied HP.
Yeah, it had four. OK, I need you to flip a coin.
I go up to Quacko 5 and I'm like Quacko MVP.
Do you look for I-5? Yeah, you can roll for decks if
you want, but you don't have. To sick, sick.
I want to roll for a high five. OK, you can.
Roll both of your characters. Cindy, I remember this because I
made a Mario Party reference. Woohoo.
OK, how does? That have an effect.
I gave you much better odds on females to land it than the
games. Yeah, you said flip a coin.
Yeah. Other than 9010, holy moly.
Well, Quacko and Schmidt get a 14th.
Cool. Yeah, Great.
High 5. Let's go.
Greatest. High 5 He's ever delivered, do
you? Have an idea, did I get like?
$3 from it, like Mario Party. No, you know, and this money.
From Bro do you want this? Guy if it was with a meowth yes
high 5 you would like. Webbed Feet is funny while he's,
you know, like Mario Party. Yeah.
One of the. Switch one super Yeah super.
You and their partner would high 5.
Yeah. You get money, Yeah.
So when they connect with your hand, they let out a really
resonant snap and it kind of echoes throughout the route.
It's pretty epic. The snap seems to turn since you
all just got this huge auditory information you seem to notice
in return. Maybe it's been happening this
whole time, maybe you just noticed it because of the snap.
But a little ways off down the route, you hear what sounds like
someone's shouting in rhythm, and after they shout, there's a
little clap. They're like, oh, I forgot about
him. Dude, we.
Got to check that out. Are you running up there?
Not Mary. We got to check it out.
Fuel for a second. OK.
Very bittersweet. I mean, yeah.
I. Would ask again.
I have the exact same reaction. God feels.
The poisoning. For God, you and you are on the
same page. It's crazy.
This is the. Kind of thing.
It's. Like your thief making a self
check. It's like, all right, like
whatever. So yeah, you find the Pecha
Berry, and Gimli can remove it from his inventory and feed
Solely and Solely's Cure to poison still has all of its
damage though. You have 3 pokemons, Cindy,
that's pretty cool. You're pretty strong.
Anyways. So what you see is a guy, he's
probably in his late teens, early 20s, like.
A look at it cry. Yeah, he's not wearing a.
Shirt kind of slow kind. Of muscular, he's got like
blue-green hair and it's spiked up.
It's almost like it's gelled up, but it's probably just a sweat
and he's standing like a power. I also I had no idea what his
fate was either until it happened.
So he punches one of them, very sad, and then he retracts and he
punches the other one out and as.
He's doing that, He's saying, like power go.
Fight, win, power. Power.
He was so powerful. He was words of affirmation.
He's like, he was so powerful. This was an homage to dungeons
and daddies, Serpentine creatures.
They're blue one. They're all the characters are
dads. And one of them has twins, Lark
and Sparrow, and they do they're you meet them and they're
punching trees and they're doing shit like that.
When he says like power fight the snake goes like man, man.
And they're like doing it. And it's like a call and
response. Like it's almost musical, like
you could you could dance to it. And it seems like they're
undergoing some sort of some sort of training.
I'm going to just be like, hello, what what are, what are
you doing? OK, I'm going to grab Elodie and
be like, he looks very busy, let's keep going.
Solely is. Probably, I imagine, if we just
never talked to him. Yeah, that's true.
So. He knows his commotion, but he
turns his head. But he's still like.
I feel like he still would have come back but.
He isn't, yeah. Probably, yeah.
I mean cuz he's so powerful. There's a reason that I plugged
him in early cuz I wanted a new win straight kid and he keeps
pushing and I thought it would be.
Funny, I didn't. I don't think I realized that it
was a new Windstreke kid. I thought it was supposed to be
the one that was in Victory Rd. No, it was a new one.
Vince in Pokémon combat and he kicked No.
No, no, no, no, no. We're just passing through You,
you you keep doing what you're doing, bud.
You're doing a great. Job if you did battle and his
team sucked, it was Thunder wave and rap like that's all it was.
Team with two Dratini it would have been.
I didn't realize. Yeah, Rap, Thunder, wave power,
power. Yeah, it would have been that.
Oh, and he also had a bit where he would announce the wrong
move. He would say use Thunder wave
and then they use rap. That was going to be his thing.
Pretty funny. His blue snakes and says.
Power. And then his snakes grew up.
They did. That's true.
The snakes are like there and they're like just destroying
trees, like. I thought they were Pride and
Prejudice, but he just keeps saying Pride over and over
again. Yeah, I was probably looking at
my notes and trying to improvise words.
Are you taking the? Were they Pride and Prejudice by
this point, or did that come later?
No, they were. OK.
Riverbank Path like one of the more developed NPC's early on
for sure. It's a little cramped the the
trees aren't quite as full of life because it hasn't rained in
months, so they're kind of drooped over.
You'd walk like 2 by two. Do you meet him again?
Until meteor falls, I don't remember how to.
Walk but we met him see him outside of the of a gym
somewhere. Yeah, Quacko, have a hard time.
Like we definitely see him again in like again, brief experience
and then because. All the trees are dying.
Meteor falls, we take. The river Faint path because I
don't want to get jumped again. Do you think the heat will
affect us? I don't want to get jumped
again. How to personally see if?
Everyone just buttons their sharp 1 button like it'll cool
you off and we'll. Be.
It's pretty good. So funny.
Yeah. One of them's a fire trainer, so
I think she's fine. All.
Right, we can take the liver. Just because they like fire
doesn't they don't get hot. She screams from the distance.
Yes, it sounds like. Cross the rooms to the corner.
Dried up, it's just a little Creek and you see all sorts of.
Were we using the same might? No.
I feel like we were just in the same room, in the same.
Room. We were in the same room, yeah.
So we had to like do some like weird microphone balancing and
stuff. It was really bad.
We didn't have any soundproofing like it.
It was just horrible. Another woman.
Horrible setup. In her early 20s, she's a long
Who is this? And it's.
Whoa, whoa, she is dressed. When you had that art Commission
to Sam, I was like, well, if I saw that picture at the time, I
would have known she was useful. Well, she she.
Didn't have villain hair in my head in my head cannon.
Is it villain hair? 3 little floating closet.
And. They're pecking at her.
Maybe it's villain hair, who knows?
It it gives villain energy can. We help you, ma'am.
I. Didn't say damsel in distress,
you did. Oh man, do you like to ask?
If she's OK. What did Schmidt do?
Schmack it with an aerial lace, but the one that's closest to.
Smack it that's. Like bothering her, sure.
I also not something guy said ever.
The one that is Schmack. Yeah, Schmack.
You were just in the character like you were you're playing
Schmidt. This is also like, I don't know,
COVID. I was in a weird spot.
Yeah. True, absolutely.
I forgot that like we started this still in like.
Performance lockdown, yeah. I would like to ask we're.
So good at performance. Unit 7 Grouche and Squids this
is There are three swablu here. Two of them were caught.
Can you? Can either of you give me lore
about the third Swablu that got away?
Oh God, swatted by like those leak seems.
To. Be he went to train on the
mountains, still being pestered by which because he needed to
become stronger on his own, that is.
Flea. Because his entire family was
taken from him. Attention.
Very sad. We're gonna have to.
The big bad evil guy is the third swab, Blue Schmidt.
All this time on the. Lady, he's just gonna Yolo a
pokeball at it, OK? Like I'm gonna catch this first
try, OK? Yeah, go for it.
He wants to make a good impression on the lady.
The lady. That's an 8.
Play day there. Any modifiers on that?
Yeah. You're you're I have a hidden 1
based on HP but also your Pokémon handling, which you
should be proficient in naturally, so you gotta press 2.
Yeah, you. Throw the ball so 11.
You throw your one of your premier balls, but sure you
erase it off your sheet. I don't know if I was ever
consistent about throwing a ball, beam, dex, or Pokémon
handling. I feel like I flip-flopped on
that quite a bit. I will say now that it's over I
will reveal I was awful about keeping track of inventory of
what balls I had. Oh damn.
Like had or had not used one. More.
Oh I know, I like that old list. I loved keeping a spreadsheet.
I can't lie to you, it made it so much easier.
Nerd got a 19, sorry. Listen, you just had an awful
spreadsheet, so I don't want to hear this of you.
My spreadsheet is hey y'all trying?
To like it was just for one Pokémon.
It was crazy, Crazy take. This is a skill challenge.
Even my character, she is just atrocious.
So, so bad, Sandy. This one's.
Kind of on you, yeah. I guess we're gonna Ember.
All right, you're gonna ember the target that's in front of
her face. Yes.
OK, roll me decks. I got a four.
You singed this kind of young lady's cheek a little bit of
fire. I know she's why did you do
that? And she just kind of flails and
and. She starting my villain arc
lighting people on fire. Yeah, I guess this is the first
friendly fire, isn't it? Or did you do it in episode 1
already? She's patting the cheek.
No, I don't think so. No, didn't I hit I hate Gimli in
episode 1 in the net I'm like, I'm gonna try to burn the ropes.
Then in the net spotted and burn him.
Damn, pretty consistent then. Sweet.
Scent on it does an actual move. Would that give me like
advantage on like a like a catch roll?
Totally. OK, then I'm going to do that.
OK. What's the save?
Charisma and it's 12 all. Right, it works.
The little bird got us 7. It is.
So it's almost high on the sense that what scent did cabbage pick
for the sweet scent? Guys, I'm so annoying to my IRL
table whenever our Bard uses healing word or vicious mockery,
I'm like, what'd you say? What did you say?
And so I feel like this is also expressed in me asking what the
scent or flavor is for cabbage. 'S sweet scent, I don't think I
don't think that's annoying. Like I like the the aspect of
like you should say something. Yeah, it feels different when
I'm not the DM. It feels like I'm being a
badger, but. Oh wow, you're a player.
Yeah, that's. Fucking annoying.
Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah.
I was like DM that's a good prompt but.
One of my friends gave me like a like roll your own Shakespeare
insult card to use when I did vicious mockery because I played
a Bard at one point and I was constantly vicious mockery.
Like Tasha's Hideous Laughter were like my go to nice moves so
I was constantly throwing insults.
She she has a look of gratitude on her face, but she's also kind
of like I'm I like healing Word, especially because it suggests
that it would be one word that frame her intensely blue eyes.
Expedition outfits her car. Power like.
They must be full like. Second out of the back pocket.
Looks like she's got 2 pokey balls on her belt. 1 is a dusk
ball and 1 is a ball that you've never seen before.
Mysterious ball. Thanks I.
Don't know why they brought that up every opportunity you could.
What was in it? Who knows?
It's the heat. It's.
Just like holding the Pokeball, he's like I caught a Pokémon.
I've never got a Pokémon before. In my life, very sweet as well.
Starting moment with Patricia. Completely forgotten about the
woman he is trying to impress. Yeah, but my friends.
Call me Sam. What are you all doing here?
We're on our way to the Tree City gym.
What are what are you doing out here?
Oh yeah, I, I just came from there.
I'm, I'm out here trying to figure out what's, what's going
on with this heat wave. I, I describe myself as a, as a
bit of a problem solver and I can't really say no to
adventures like this. So I came down here and I, I
guess I got too close to the swab's nest or something.
I I think. I'll wait a fucking second,
Pokémon. Or aggravated.
Yeah. And she takes out a notebook and
she she starts scribbling some notes.
She says. Have you noticed anything
strange on? Besides, do you have a thought
on why Sam was on the route? Have the Pokémon, yeah.
Mine did. She make Torkel big big sad
Torkel. Well, that probably makes more
sense. What were you thinking in this?
Region. I was thinking like if she's
here to investigate it, I'm like how the fuck does she not know
she? Looks up from a notebook and she
says she definitely it's NRG. At this point she knows now I'm
just she exploring the region. She was definitely testing stuff
too. It's very possible that she made
Torkel like that as like a test and.
She. Put yeah, that makes more sense
then whoever my head was. The your your cannons are are
valid. My cannon intention for this was
that she did not personally like fuck with total.
Total escaped from the magma hideout and then once the
drought popped up here, NRG went to investigate to be like, hold
on, like is this where that turtle went and they went to go?
I've seen her house stop portal. She's not like the other house.
Is in for tree because. She's a good lady.
I kind of want to talk to her actually.
But if you have other cannons that is also valid because that
has never been expressly explained to the Packo in game.
So maybe she does. I just thought I'd check it out
for myself and I'm, I, I I found some some cool things.
That that's why I should want to go to the we know now I should
want to go to the witch's Hut because the witch has Yep.
The I take the at last stone. The Rock.
Wrong. Doing some reconnaissance, let
me introduce you. To you.
Oh my God, The whole witches had thing where it's like there's a
whole bunch of bones in the basement.
That's cool. Like, yeah.
I just decided on a whim that Schmidt hates witches.
I don't. There wasn't like something
planned that was just in the moment.
That's awesome. No, no witches.
Hairdo on its ear, that. Is done with.
That her pink hair. And she says this year's
Frostbite, and Frostbite looks at you and goes, and it seems
like a pretty happy little Pokémon.
That's a good Sneezel sound. I stand by it starts to soak,
and then she says, yeah, that's why I didn't.
Have that chappy she? Says we've mentioned this a
couple of times but like we did not hear most of the Pokémon
sounds. You may like discord and filter
it out. Yeah, Pokémon too, but he's a
bit ornery. And he's ornery.
It's like frostbite would go most.
Of the time he just. Does nothing right.
Yeah, I believe you the. Four tree.
This route's kind of dangerous. I'd be happy.
Are we'd hear like the first millisecond of it, it'd be like,
yeah, the Pokémon went great and.
That's it, yeah. Then you fill in the blanks with
your imagination, the bridge and.
You of course the distance. A sign that says this is a
clear. Way for a moment.
Afternoon. Gate.
But did we confirm whether Sneezle is male or female?
No, I never revealed it and that was asked on the discord today
as you're probably referencing. Come on.
Thankfully activity again. The sneezle in the thumbnail is
male, but I'm open to either. I don't really think it matters.
I don't. Sam might.
I mean, we'll listen. Sam might refer to sneezel with
a gendered pronoun, so we'll see.
Isn't that cute? And she draws, she pulls out her
notebook. The bridge that you meet Sam on
is Canon. It's the same bridge in Gen. 3
where you run into an invisible Kecleon and Steven approaches
you and gives you the Devon scope and.
Someone named Sam with a notebook who's drawing things
OK? Oh, you had the Samuel Oak
theory, right? Yeah.
Yeah, if Carol was editing this, this entire shit would have been
cut out like Young. Professor, You think so?
A movie? Yeah.
Oh, yeah. OK.
Yeah, everybody, I was. Famously.
Has. Pink hair I was definitely.
Thinking about. That Carol would not have this
shit I didn't realize. That that's that's smart, I
guess. There's no Samuel.
Huh. Yeah, which episode is the one
we're at? Like during the thing?
I'm like character, she says. Do you have a mermaid towel?
A Little Mermaid towel. But I put it at the end it was
an outtake but. It's a bit.
That's really funny, my friend. Just called me Sam, but if you
can. Call me.
Oh, no, this one, I was in the bedroom while you were in the
office that we might have had to separate because I was folding
laundry. That's why I asked.
Oh. He's he's just chilling, Yeah.
That's the not to and your actions with this bird.
No, he's just chilling and a few hours.
That's good. We just.
Leave him. Nah, he's fine, dude.
It is. There are also plenty of like
encounters where it's like this Pokémon team, we're like cool
finger guns and walk away. That's.
Super valid. I mean, I'm seating them so that
you can choose right? So it's just it was just funny
more because boarding party did the exact same thing.
A big building in the center of town, which you can only assume
is a gym. Interestingly, all these
buildings I just described are in trees.
There seems to be like the whole city is on an elevated walkway,
like in the treetops. You climb up a ladder and then
everything is. I love the idea of Fortree as
like a first, first gym town because it's so iconic.
It's so characteristic. Yeah, their business.
I like it being like the enter to the adventure and Sam
gestures and she's like, welcome.
I'm assuming this is most of your first time here, she says.
Cindie's like, yeah, now I know all about this.
She says yeah. I've lost every battle in my
life at this point, but I've been all over the place.
I know about these tree houses for sure policy that if one of
you takes the challenge that you can't tell any other trainers
about what you saw in the gym until after they've done the
challenge. I'm not really sure exactly how
it works. I just have my my Sino badges
and she pulls out a little case and she has four badges from the
Sino region. She has Sino badges the whole
challenge yet, but I know they're pretty strict on it.
So just keep that in mind when when you take the challenge.
Can we stop it like the pokemons?
That might be a bit of AI did take it's slightly consistent.
Maybe she took a trip. But First things first, let's
get. I didn't I definitely didn't
have her lore fully set up here, but notably, we did canonize
that she was adopted by Giovanni as a child.
So this kind of suggests she had to have gone back to Sino to get
those badges, which isn't impossible.
I guess that that's pretty reasonable.
Welcome to the fortune Pokémon Center.
How may we help you? Can I get my my my military
healed please? Absolutely, and she takes your
Pokémon and she says anyone else like their Pokémon heal?
Can I give her all of mine? I hand her Quacko cuz Quacko
doesn't sit in a poker ball. OK, And then I also hand her the
poker ball. I'm like I just caught this
Pokémon today. And she says that's very great
all. Right, it did not condescending
tone at all. All good for you, sweetie.
Adult man, I just got this one today.
Dude I just caught this one today.
Oh wow are you like 4? Like what do we?
Obviously, the Schmidt pack, right?
No. There we go.
No, don't like. That we go with Schmidt pack for
a little bit and then somebody said Paco Paco and we were like,
oh, actually we're the cracko Paco.
Yeah, well, I'm not sure. I think Paco Paco does something
really cool. It's like, why are we the
Schmidt pack? We should be the Quacko PAC
because Paco is awesome. Like I think Quacko got a crit
on something. Yeah, talk about the town.
And I think it was during the the turtle fight.
Was it the twiddle fight? Or probably have a little.
Bit of time to go. Check.
So that's the first combat come. On RO Hield.
Right, major combat. Yeah, first boss.
The witch? Nope.
The witch. The Witch.
Go to the witch. The Witch.
There's a couple trainers who are in the Pokémon Center.
They're a bit younger than you are.
They seem like they're like they're teens, but they're like
13 and they they hear Schmidt murmuring the witch.
No, no, no, no. And one of the kids is like, I
know, right? She's so spooky.
And then the other kid speaks ever.
It's like, come on. She's so spooky.
Dude, she's so spooky. She's so spooky.
Right. People are mean to her for no
reason. You got to let some little kid
like, be braver than you. I mean, damn.
That's an awesome Schmidt poke. I think that's like very
effective way to do it. I.
Don't mess with Nope, Nope, Nope, no witch.
And then Schmidt becomes incredibly injured saving a kid.
Gosh, so much good stuff happening.
Honestly. Looks at Schmidt and says, are
you Schmidt? Schmidt terrified.
I I like How do you know my name?
I I heard you spouting some nonsense to the nurse when you
returning your Pokémon, are you? You're the Schmidt of the
Schmidt pack. Yes, yes I am.
And he just laughs that he just turns around.
Damn, those children are laughing.
Yeah. You're going to really let that
kid laugh at you. Damn, that's fucked up.
Later, the money. Shack, unlike children, don't
have an ego. I don't.
Care. Great response honestly.
Really. Sure.
Yeah. Definitely far.
Fetched cannot get wet because water like how ducks work is
like water just rolled off them. I've heard the city YouTube
video like the week before. That's awesome.
And then I walk away dramatically, even though I have
nowhere to go. That's can.
We leave behind and go to the witch's house that.
Is awesome. Yeah, I I think that's where
we'll call it. Thanks for tuning into.
This week's episode now Dunsparce.
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Tree. We have a link tree set up by
this point, yeah. That's crazy.
Pokémon D&D podcast on YouTube. To be fair, I think I had we
held on. Yeah, we'd like 5 or 6
recordings I think next Tuesday. Is this the mermaid towel bit?
Do you? Have a Little Mermaid towel.
You asking this? To classic the.
Like IRL, OK, I was like very confused.
I was. Like, yeah, I was in the
bedroom. I might not have even had my
headset at this point, I might have just been using my
microphone. Yeah.
So it was definitely the room like you were.
Just I was in the bedroom folding laundry while we were
playing 'cause I was folding laundry in this Little Mermaid
tile that I didn't buy was I was like, what is this?
Pretty funny that was the first of many outros and we wouldn't
do it for every episode, but for most for sure.
What'd you guys think? Any reactions that you didn't
already make? Listen to the episode.
Cindy caught so many freaking Pokémon.
Yeah, 2 right away actually. I forgot that she caught 2 right
away. Yeah.
Because she has come and caught it's.
About one episode, wasn't it? Yeah, both swab blue.
Yeah. And then Cindy caught 2.
And Gimli's nothing but also flying type Jim.
He'll be fine. I think I did a little sketch of
the trainers with their new Pokémon back when that happened.
Let me try and find it. I probably sent it but.
I don't think Izzy has a name yet.
No, I don't think so. Cookie was right away.
Yeah, I don't think I asked about Izzy, to be fair.
But Izzy's named after our real lizard, Izzy.
It's just a good name for a lizard.
Is he the Lizzie? Yeah.