Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Cindy, a young Vagabond from the Hohen region
with pyromaniac tendencies, Gimli, a stocky Burley miner
from Sino looking for his lost son, Elody, an enthusiastic
foodie and Baker from Carlos, and Schmidt, an enigmatic man
from Johto with a duck. My name is Rich and I'm the game
Master and this is Dunsparse and Grandpa.
We return to the Quacko Paco on Route 114 at the foot of Meteor
Falls. There, at the base of a mountain
whose soil and rocks are slightly brightly colored
compared to the surrounding scenery, there are sizable
craters all over the ascent, all over the landscape.
There are Pokémon milling about. There are hikers milling about,
seems like there's a little bit of foot traffic.
Can I just 'cause we haven't checked in a minute, I'd like to
check in with the party and like what Pokémon they have,
following them and if they are doing anything in particular
while they are journeying. If they're like drinking a
water, looking at a map, I don't know, give me some flavor.
I do have my boy Trevor out. Obviously default right now.
He's marching. Climbing.
Yeah, we we March well together. Need my boy hiking just in case
something's happening. So cool.
Good old tremor sense. Nice.
Making sure we're taking swigs. I got gherkins in my hand.
Still got the half pound of gherkins.
Just chilling. Yeah, I think we've used two of
them, right? Yeah.
Nice. Is Bean out and about?
Yeah, being, being. I have a marching along too.
Actually. He's not in my pouch.
He's holding his bone now. They got it back.
Yeah. Nice.
He's a big, strong lad. Now he can.
He can March. Yeah, I rolled a dice.
He enjoys it. Nice.
He is in fact, a baby. But like now he feels like a
toddler. Like now he's like, I can do
things, you know, so. Yeah, he has his he has his
Tommy Pickles screwdriver as type of thing going on with the
bone club. Exactly.
Gave him back to after they took the gourd away.
So. Yep, that's being is doing
great. Who's next?
Elodie's probably holding cabbage now because cabbage is
not the fastest. Cabbage is just chilling and
then probably got aubergine in the basket, probably peeking
out. Probably got it open right now,
yeah. For clarity, just to make sure,
what species is aubergine? A Purloin.
Correct purloin that hatched from the egg, in case anyone
forgot. Cool.
I think cabbage being held cabbage enjoys this.
Cabbage is used to just floating around but now that she has more
mass about her it feels good to be hugged.
So if she likes being home, is she wearing?
Sunglasses. Yeah, probably just one pair,
right? Now one pair right?
Now understood right, This is the difference between work and
play is the number of sunglasses you wear.
Exactly. Brew.
Cindy Schmidt. Cindy has a larvestar just
vibing in her halfway hanging out of her bag.
Larvestar is. A Larvesta True OK still has not
been captured yet. I think that's true for Bean and
Aubergine, right? Bean's been captured.
Oh, just kidding. Correct.
So that's also true for Aubergine then?
Yes, Aubergine has not been captured.
OK, go on with the Cindy True. Probably should do that soon, I
imagine Solely is out, Solely the Nine Tails is out, and
everybody else is on their pokey balls with Jack-in-the-box and
Fang newly added to the party. Fang the species is what?
Bagon. True, one of the newest party
members. Very cool.
Schmidt, what does your travel decision look like?
And bringing up the rear, as leaders tend to do.
Yeah, Schmidt is just walking around.
He's got Quacko with him. Kwaka's probably on foot walking
around next to him. Yeah, that's probably the only
one who's out, and then Schmidt's probably sipping on
some moo moo milk. Great, got to get that energy
for the hike. Yep, Yep.
Last but not least, the party is joined by their favorite
additional character, Sam Symetra.
She is being followed by her Weevil Frostbite and she is
holding in her arms her new friend.
This feel. This feel is looking at her and
the party and its mouth is just open and a big smile and it's
flippers are dangling loosely. Just enjoying the just being
around people. It's just never seen these
people before. It's just having a great time.
You do the hike. I need a constitution check from
LED. Epic A10.
Ten OK Ellie is beginning to sober up from her experiences
with Archie at Miss Mr. Mimosas. She is feeling dehydrated.
She probably needs to get some water soon.
Cool. Everyone else hiking just fine.
Is there anything particular that you want to make checks for
on this little walk up the slope?
Are you guys just trying to press forward till you get to
the top? I think we're pressing.
I'm personally pressing forward for sure, OK.
Yeah, I think press forward. OK, great.
The party arrives at after, we'll say 4045 minutes, they
arrive at a little plateau. It's not necessarily the top of
Meteor Falls, but it is an area that seems like has a lot of
foot traffic. And there is a cart.
There's a man and a cart that is standing at like a door shaped
cave entrance. And he sees the group
approaching. He hears their footsteps and he
starts waving. The front of the cart is tied to
a bowl Pokémon that has a big head of curly hair.
He's waving at you guys. Wave back.
Great. As you approach, he gets
excited. He says, hey, trainers, come
here. We approach.
OK, sure. Anyone would not approach.
Everyone's involved. Great.
You you get to his cart and it's full of like goodies that you
would see at a Pokémon Mart. He says, hi, my name is Wes.
I came here from Unova to sell goodies to trainers who need
them while they're out on the road.
If you're going to meet your falls and you aren't stocked up
on supplies, you might want to. There's scary powerful Pokémon
in there. And he kind of waves his hand to
his cart and there's lots of like potions and pokie balls,
just your standard marked goods. And his little Buffalo that is
pulling the cart let's out a little huff.
Is anybody interested in making any purchases before they enter
this dungeon, so to speak? Yeah, I would love to know his
inventory. Yeah, it's all the classic fares
you see at a Pokémon. You got your potions, you got a
few revives, you got all sorts of pokey balls, and you have
some healing items as well, like awakening and paralyzed heel and
full heel and stuff like that. He has another like specialty
section of the cart that he's decorated with like ribbons and
lace and stuff. And it seems like they are like
souvenirs from a different place.
He has a little chest that has ice packs on it and there's like
what looks to be a picture of ice cream and there's like a
little T-shirt that says welcome to UNIVO on it.
Just basically there's a little, he's a little box of like Unovan
souvenirs, essentially. That's a walk of the universe in
the honestly outstanding move. Yep.
You can tell too, that his outfit is like, not
traditionally like hoen. It's probably a little too heavy
for how warm it is. He's wearing like a black and
red flannel shirt. He's got jeans and like kind of
cowboyish boots, and he's got kind of ruffled blonde hair.
He has a bit of an accent, we'll say.
I would like to purchase 5 great balls. 5 great balls are yours
as you say that to Wes, he says because I'm traveling and I got
to make some sort of a profit. I I everything's marked up by 5
pokey dollars. That's still OK with you?
Sure, OK. So if I got to redo my math.
Sorry, you could just add 25 to it.
OK. 275 correct? Yeah, OK. 275 exchange with Wes
and he gives you 5 great balls, he says.
Thanks for your business partner.
Yeah, partner. Yeah.
Schmidt is not enthusiastic, and
West takes it to heart a little bit because he tries to be peppy
as a salesman, but it just didn't work here.
So he winces a little, but he keeps his smile.
Does he have anything in the way of jackets?
How about you roll roll D20? OK, I really want the like
Salanda Letterman jacket. I got a 7 you.
Got a 7? You describe that you're looking
for a jacket of some sort. And he says, let me see what I
got. And he goes to his like, Univa
section and he finds like a leather biker jacket that looks
about your size. And on the back, there's a
picture of a Pokémon that looks like a dessert.
It looks like ice cream and has text above and below it that
says the Castelia City. Cool, guys.
Whoa. The gang jacket.
That's so sick, though, Wes knots his head and he says if by
gang you mean motorcycle gang, yes.
That's awesome. Would you like the ice cream
cone? Cool guys Jacket.
How much is it? It will be for you. 85 pokey
dollars. Yeah, let's do it.
Transaction sold. Cindy gets a biker jacket with a
Vanillaite that says Castelli City.
Cool, guys. Very cool.
Good. Good temperature differential
with the rest of your outfits. You know, you have all these
fire themes and now you have a cool theme.
It's good. I think it's funny because
they'll look like Cindy's in a gang when she's like the
opposite of that. Are we not a gang?
Not a. Biker gay.
I think we're 1 motorcycle away from like beating up people in
an alley. Maybe you are.
Does this man happen to sell motorcycles?
Oh, I just so happened to have some on the car.
You can roll AD 20. It's.
Like a build your own motorcycle kit.
I'm doing that. OK, it's going to be hard.
I got an 11. OK, he says.
No, I'm sorry. I don't have anything by the
means of vehicles. He he says feel free.
No, he says, I, I have some replacement wheels for my wagon.
If you're trying to make something happen, I I could part
with those. No, no, that's OK.
Didn't we have a wagon? What happened to that?
We did have a Radio Flyer wagon that was from the cupcakes.
I think you left it at New Marvel.
Yeah, that's fair. Oh.
Yeah, you let me bring it new marvel.
I remember we carried Schmidt with it back to.
We did. Yeah, but I know.
Probably, I think we left in sleep port.
Yeah, probably. Something came up.
Was it only needed to get across the river with the bridge
broken? No.
No, it was after that mime junior bullshit.
I I would imagine. The park still don't live down.
I think we did leave in New Marvel 'cause it was before that
that we rolled Schmidt there from his concussion with Mime
Junior. His concussion was from Hoopa
though. Right, right.
But I think new Marvel stuff happened after.
Hoopa. It was after Hoopa, right?
But we never had the cart in new Marvel just.
Because we left it on shore. Just because it's funny, I want
to imagine that this wagon discussion is happening out loud
between the party and Wes is just kind of looking at you guys
like waiting for a purchase and you guys are like, where do we
leave the wagon? If we leave that wagon.
Yeah, there's an OOPA. Like an OOPA talking about.
No, remember we were attacked by that 8 foot giant.
Guide is Agron. We intended to be new team
energy. Yeah, I think we lost it when we
jumped into that portal and like.
No, no, no. It was when we were fighting the
giant Cyborg Pokémon, I think. Yeah.
No, you're right. You're right.
I think we all spec.
Sam. Sam's nodding and saying and.
This all happened. And Wes is like looking
concerned. He's like, who am I selling to?
We definitely didn't have it during the volcanic eruption.
So we didn't. True, we didn't.
Lose it before. Then we yeah, when we saved the
town from the volcano. Yeah, that checks out because we
know. When we saw the giant obelisk in
the middle of the. Desert.
Yeah. Oh, in the desert, right?
Yeah. Didn't you throw up or
something? Yeah, it was not great.
We. Did throw up and then we fought
the ninja kids. Yeah.
Yeah, they set me on fire. God, yeah, they did it and not
Sydney. Yeah.
This is the flashback montage episode.
This is the. This is the recap episode.
Yeah, remember. We did that and you're just in
front. Of the shop.
Oh my God. Oh but oh right, you're still
here. I'll take 3 great balls.
Wes says OK, I'm, I'm sorry, I don't have a wagon.
Oh. No, that's all right.
That's all right. He says have to figure.
Out where ours says. That'll be 165.
And he holds out a bag of great balls.
His hands are shaking a little bit.
Spoms are sweaty, yeah. Could I get Do you have any
water? He looks at you and he kind of
assesses, well, I'm going to roll.
Yeah. He's like, oh shit, she needs
water. And he's like, yeah, I've I've
got some fresh water here. You can just have a bottle.
And he he gets. Oh, thank you so much.
That will that will be quenchy for you.
Good call the. Quenchy is.
Ellie, you want a Gherkin got these This is a hydrate you up
to. Yeah, sure, I can take a
Gherkin. You chomp into the Gherkin.
It is again. It's like a weird kind of
pickle. It's like a funny stout
cucumber. It is so full of water it's
insane. It's like a if if a gusher like
the candy was just a vegetable instead and it is was full of
water. It is more quenching than the
straight water is because it has that kind of nice cucumber Y
flavor. Use code quacko packo at Gerber
Gherkins to get 15% off yogurt gherkins.
Anyways, we're in front of the West and his bouffant and we're
we're making transactions. Does does does he have full
heels? He does.
What are the price on this? It is going to be 30.
OK, I'll take five of those. You do that, I'm sorry, they're
marked up. Each one is 35 because he has
the right standard price. How much does that cost you?
35 * 5. 175. 175 pokey dollars, her some full heels.
Good call. Anything else?
Could I get one of those ice creams?
He says absolutely. And he opens up this little
chest. And Elodie's familiar with this
treat. She knows it's pretty far away
from Carlos across the pond, as they say.
But this is a Castelia City Castelia cone.
It's not like a fresh, like, what am I thinking?
Is it like the Turkish ice cream merchants kind of that just,
like, do the silly tricks and stuff?
He's not scooping ice cream pudding in a cone.
It's like, in a package. But it's better than, like, the
ones you get at the gas station where you slide open the freezer
and you just like the, like, the strawberry shortcakes and stuff.
It's like, right. It's like a luxury version of
that. And it says, yeah, UNIVA
Castelia City Castelia cone. And it costs you 15.
Nice. Any other purchases?
I'm good for sure. OK, I am good.
Cindy. What's the one that's on the
jacket? It's a vanillite.
It's like a. Little OK, the little one it's.
The small one, yeah, it's pretty cute.
Sam looks over the wares and she's holding her little round
friend and as she approaches the the cart the little round friend
begins to clap as a seal does and it kind of disturbs Bouffant
and it hoffs. But thankfully Wes is there to
calm it down and he says Calfro that's enough and Calfro calms
down a little bit and Sam looks at everything she says I think
I'm good and she rejoins the party.
Wes says well thank you all for your business.
If you're going into your falls I wish you the best of luck.
As I said it's pretty scary in there.
I've already seen some trainers go in and come back out.
They were too scared, they couldn't handle it.
It will be all right. For everything we've been
through, I think we can handle it since he heard most of
everything we went through. Yeah, Wes, Notsa said.
He's like, I I bet you trainers could handle it.
Best of luck to you. And he gives you a little
salute. Do you enter me to your faults?
Of course, yes. Yes, you do that.
Welcome. You are in a surprisingly vast
and complex and surprisingly vertical cave system.
As you walk out to your left you see a three tiered river
waterfalls from about 60 feet above.
You started off on a higher floor of The Cave and it winds
down and there's a bridge that leads to your left to access a
different part of the land and the water crashes with another
waterfall below that another 40 feet down.
It's probably 150 foot tall cave.
You might be wondering, well isn't it dark?
Can we see anything? And the answer is yes.
There are impressive round holes in the ceiling of Meteor Falls.
They're very far up, but it is apparent that this is a common
place for meteors to fall from the sky and crash down into this
mountain. You can see all around you there
are little craters. Some of them seem kind of fresh.
Some of them seem very old, and they're dusty.
And they're the same color as the rock around you.
Again, this rock is like a strangely brighter color.
It makes you wonder if this rock is even a type of rock that is
native to Hoenn in the first place.
Interesting. You can hear the sounds of
Pokémon all around you. There is squealing of bats.
You can hear roars of monsters that echo from deep inside.
There are a couple trainers milling about.
There's they're sitting on the other side of the bridge looking
at the water on the shore. But do you have a feeling that
this place is potentially dangerous and potentially
lively? You also have the feeling that
there's a couple branching paths you can go down here.
We are in meteor faults. It seems like this is not the
deepest part of The Cave. It seems like people might
travel this for exercise or to access, like the other side of
the mountain perhaps. But this is what you see, all
right. How do we proceed?
Gang, Sam says, well, we are looking for something, right?
People live in this cave. Doesn't look like anyone's
living around here. Maybe they're either further in.
Yeah, maybe it's further up. We came in Route 114, right?
Yeah. And good adventures go left.
There's. No left.
And then we. Also.
Made the point of Sam. This is your side quest anyways,
correct? Right.
Where do you vote We should go? Sam laughs and scratches her
head and she says side quest. I'm not sure what you mean by
that, but yes, I, I was curious about this.
She says, well, I know over there, and she points directly
to the southeast. She says, I know that that's a
path that leads to Restboro. So if we're going to go deeper
into this cave, I don't think we go that way.
She says. I think it makes the most sense
for us to either go north or follow the water.
I'm not really sure where the Draconids live, so I suppose we
either got to just track it out ourselves or maybe ask around.
OK, are there people to in which to ask?
Yes, coincidentally, on the map I gave you, there's a couple
trainers that are just hanging out.
They're sitting down and they're just looking at the water and
they have some Pokémon with them.
They have a serpent Pokémon that is purple and they also have a
strange looking yellow Pokémon that has a really long snout.
Just two. Two masculine figures.
And and we're looking for, what are we looking for?
What are you looking for? Sam people.
Yeah, Sam, if you ask the party in general, she will say this
Millennium Festival takes place at Draconid Village, which is
inside be your fall somewhere. But I they're they're
historically in Holland. They keep to themselves and they
try to keep outsiders out. But they're inviting people in
this year. So we're going to go check it
out. We can.
Ask the trainers. Maybe they do.
Let's. Let's see.
Let's do that. Well, you approach them and
they're just kind of sitting on the on the ledge.
They're just throwing pebbles into the water and they're
having a chat amongst themselves.
What do you do? Who wants to approach them?
Hi. Yeah, there we go.
Cindy says hi and they turn around and they say, oh hi,
how's it going? What are your trainers up to?
They were looking for the dragon in the village.
These two trainers and their Pokémon seem to laugh at you,
they say. For one, there's no way you can
get that deep in this cave 2 Have you heard about the
monsters that are here? They'll eat you alive.
The other person says, yeah, I heard a story about a big pink
Pokémon with a giant mouth, and it screamed so loud my friend
went deaf. And the other guy says, that guy
wasn't your friend, that was just some stranger.
He says, all strangers are my friends, and I'm scared of big
scary Pokémon with big mouths. And they're just kind of
bantering and bickering. The first guy who spoke up said,
I heard a rumor that you got to follow the stream backwards.
You got to be like a Basculin swim upstream.
OK. Follow the path.
Yeah, that gets us upstream. Also.
Also we we've almost died like 4 times in the past two weeks so I
don't think the giant monsters are really concerning.
The trainers. I think we are bigger, scarier
monsters than they are. The trainers laugh again.
They just don't believe you. They're not convinced.
The guy with the funny looking yellow Pokémon with a long nose
says, hey, while you're here, you want to buy some gems.
And he holds out his jacket like a like a street vendor and he's
got a lot a bunch of little like gems that are like laced onto
his jacket and he wants to sell them to you.
I've. Already turned off from buying
anything from him. Then he came to me like some
weird flashy streets and we. Have gems we.
Have gems we need to sell? Are they?
Interested in buying gems? The man says why would I be
buying gems? No, I need you to buy my gems.
And his little yellow Pokémon turns to you and wiggles his
fingers in a very suspicious way and he's like Jai reading back
and forth with his wiggly fingers and his snout just
bouncing around and it's very disturbing image.
Just figured out. What that Pokémon is?
Yeah, I don't like that. No, I don't trust your gems.
The guy says well teach their own good luck in the meteor
falls and he kind of turns around and throws a rock in the
pond. You're just throwing rocks in
the river for fun. Like he says, you gotta skip
them. He says.
We're waiting it out. We're figuring some trainers are
going to come along and and beat those monsters.
So we're just going to wait for them and then we're going to run
inside and then we're going to see if the dragon is want to buy
any of our gems. That's a big play.
That's a long time. He nods his head.
He says Yep, that's the big plan.
And then the other guy with the snake Pokémon says I bet the
people that live here never ever seen gems like these before.
OK, well we're going to go beat the big bad monsters.
Later, nerds, we're not going to help you.
We're going to purposely go around the monsters, so you
still have to fight them. Bye they.
Say whatever, losers, get me. What's our marching order?
I think it would be, yeah. It was gimmly in the front and
Schmidt in the bag for sure. I don't know where everyone else
falls in place there. But.
I imagine that as we're walking like Cindy's like sticking her
tongue out like at them as the like, she's being pushed by
whoever's behind her to keep walking.
OK, perfect. I want a perception from Cindy.
OK, it's a four. It's a four.
OK, cool. Cindy doesn't notice a thing.
Perfect. OK.
So I'm assuming that we're walking past them and maybe
heading upstream, correct? Yes.
OK, Yeah. We will say for this part of the
journey, no surprises. Again, it's pretty well lit.
There is sunlight filtering through the roof.
It's probably the sun is setting right.
So it's probably like close to like 5:00 PM currently.
And it's casting a nice yellow tinge on the eastern side of The
Cave because the sunsets in the West.
I had to remember that. It is very nice.
You you March forwards and then you get to the point where
you're pretty close to the waterfall.
There is a cave entrance that you climb around to get to, or
you can ascend the wall and go up to where the water is falling
from. I'm assuming you want to enter
one of these two ways perhaps, but maybe have a different plan.
What's your plan? Only we had somebody who could
fly us to the top of the waterfall.
We also have water Pokémon I make.
The promises can you? Just leave us stranded.
It's fine. I'm.
Just thinking how many Pokémon I have that can carry a person.
Well, because I do well on rough terrain, because I have bonuses
for that, at least no penalties from rough terrain.
Cindy does great on any sort of survival check, which would be
involving probably climbing and doing that kind of stuff, so.
Are they survivable, that is? Survivable.
I think it's a three Pokémon that can carry people, so me,
Sam and Elodie I think I could take care of.
OK, so like take the climbing path and then like the three of
us will fly up or? Yeah.
Actually, Cindy's probably pretty bad at athletics.
That's true. You have athletics bonus.
Athletics is +1 but if I if the advantage does kick in for
survivability. I mean advantage is advantage.
How high is it like that we would have to climb?
45 to 65 feet. How far do you think I'll say
50? I'll say 50.
There's no point in making a range.
How far do you think Lasagna's like psychic power range would
be? You never tested it, have you?
No. Oh wow, that's so funny.
So lasagna actually doesn't even need to do that, because lasagna
can just climb at up to 90° at 10 feet per move.
That is a crustal feature. That is correct.
Yeah, that is a crustal feature, and I think crustal's pretty
big. Now.
It would require probably a strength athletics check, but
has athletics is +7, so it's pretty good.
Yeah, we can. I can probably climb myself and
then do Cindy get carried by lasagna up the wall side I feel
like easily. I feel like dealing with
climbing walls and like hard terrain is something that
usually happens in like the second session for DND
campaigns. So I'm glad we're here at like
session 45 or whatever, being like, yeah, tough wall to climb,
how are we going to do it? Yeah, I don't know.
Like Cindy would want to try to climb it herself first before
OK. So I'll bring I'll bring lasagna
out as sort of like an anchor, okay, to be able to catch
anybody from falling while they just go up because they could
just do it. So they don't need to like check
to climb those things because they're not going anywhere.
Ridiculous. Sure.
Yeah, like a psychic netting. I like that.
Yeah. Cindy, go for it.
Give me athletics. See if you just climb the
Rockwall. With the survivability.
It's not really survival. Yeah, it's not really survival.
Yeah. Like I I would consider hiking
but I think scaling a wall is like different.
Yeah, that's just athletics. I mean, I have to roll for.
Up to 16 so. I survival role would be how
much damage you take after you fall.
Yeah, I guess it'd. Be mitigating your fall for
sure. Yeah, Cindy does pretty well.
Cindy climbs adjacent to the waterfall, just to the left side
of it. She's climbing, she's climbing.
She's getting her feet in the right little holes.
Very impressive. Solely watches from below and
she gets about 2/3 of the way up and her arms are kind of tired.
She's not in danger of falling, but she like needs to kind of
chill for a second. So she's just hanging on as a
rock climber does. I got a 17 on Gimli so. 17 on
Gimli, I think Gimli is able to scale it and can reach out of
hand and help Cindy get further to the top and you get, we'll
say that you too with your teamwork have scaled the 50 foot
waterfall wall. Nice.
Oh no, solely's at the bottom. Can I return solely from the top
of the waterfall? Yes, yeah, you can just do it.
Usually from that range. It requires A dex check because
solely's not moving and wants to be returned.
I think that's fine. OK, OK, what check am I needing
to make? Up to you.
Do you want to go via water? Do you want to climb?
Do you have some other method? I'm yolking my friends with my
birds. OK, which bird Parentheses S?
Patricia Merrill, Cheap and Skarmory.
OK, Yeah, they can all probably carry one creature.
I'll tell you, you could carry probably multiple, but the rest
can probably carry 1. So by your friends, like there's
you and then you're going to say Elodie and Sam as well.
Yes. OK.
Yeah, based on that load, I'm going to say you do that.
I don't think that there's any particular challenge to it.
You just find out. Cool.
Kind of funny that two of your party members put in some
effort, put in some sweat to climb it and then she was just
like you. Like just goes up to the top.
Good stuff. Cool.
You find yourselves at the top of where the waterfalls rushing
down and you see more of the river and The Cave continues
onwards to the north. It is increasingly dark.
There's still holes in the ceiling, but the combination of
night beginning to fall and they're just being less holes.
It is. You don't have a great
visibility. You can see probably roughly 30
feet in front of you and then it gets pretty dark.
There is land where you are on the left side of the river, and
then there's also land clearly on the right side of the river.
I'm going to have Cindy give me a perception check.
OK, another 4. Another 4 Cindy is not very
perceptive. Cindy.
However, since it's getting
dark, I do want to let cookie out because cookie emits some
light. That'll help us just see a
little bit better. I love that.
That's great. That's awesome.
You send out Cookie immediately after you do, there's kind of a
warm glow that extends your vision radius to be almost
normal. Still about 50 feet out.
It's gets kind of dim. It's hard to see, but it's a
little bit better once Cookie comes out, Five or six
fluttering, screaming bats fly overhead and fly past you, but
it is a little spooky, little disorienting.
It seems like the glow of Cookie attracted them or something.
Who knows? Also, as Cookie comes out, she
illuminates to your left the Stonewall, and there you can see
strange markings that are engraved in the wall.
Strange marking. Can we read it?
You can see if it's readable, you can do an analysis.
Yeah, Oh yes, an analysis check. Yes, this is investigation.
Investigation. Since you, was there any way I
could finagle my? 8.
Proficiency in history. Maybe, maybe.
Yeah, sure. Role investigation and then just
add your history bonus. Why not?
OK, Oh well, the rolls of two on the dice.
OK, it doesn't. Yeah, there are.
I'll, I'll give you something. So the left wall at that, the
one that you can see is covered probably like 30 feet high in
like, intricate engravings. It's either a darker stone or a
black paint. You haven't rolled well enough
to know for sure are drawing designs.
You don't think it's text? There's just lots and lots of
shapes. The most common shapes tend to
be circles that have lines pointing out from them and then
connects to other circles. That seems to be like the trend.
That's a little design pattern that seems favorable here.
You would assume that these are not made by a Pokémon, but they
could be. Seems like an artistic vision of
a person, but who knows? Good for that.
Yeah, March forward into The Cave.
Sam, does this mean anything to you?
Points at the wall. Doesn't mean anything to Sam.
She's going to look at it. She wrote pretty OK.
She said, yeah, you see this quite a bit in textbooks about
the history of the Hohen region. This is, this is an artistic
style from a very old period, I want to say a few thousand years
ago. I would imagine that the ancient
Dracon, it's put these inscriptions here and they might
mean something. That might represent something.
But as far as what that is, I don't know.
Bird word. Again, there's a variety of
geometric shapes, and they're all kind of connected by
straight lines, but predominantly circles.
They seem to like circles continuing into The Cave.
Hollow in the river. All on the river.
You do that. It is easier potentially to
follow the sound than it is the vision, because as cookies glow
is very helpful. Less and less holes in the
ceiling appear and it gets dark and it's kind of got that dank
kind of smell. And again, you can hear roars of
Pokémon from deep within. Identifying them might be a
different challenge, but it is getting gradually spookier and
spookier as you travel along. The drawings on the left wall
become more ornate and the path that you were walking seems far
less traveled and somewhat rocky.
Elodie, give me a Dexterity check.
Got you. I got A7.
A7 Elodie trips and no, it hurts.
It doesn't feel like she kicked a regular rock, she kicked like
a a heavy ass rock. She turns around to see what she
tripped on and the party all sees a little a little guy.
He's just a little guy. There's a.
Little. Guy.
There's a little guy. Metallic little looking guy.
He's on all fours. He looks like he's made of metal
and he's got little holes in his metal and he's got big beady
eyes and he looks at LD and he looks like he might cry.
Oh, it's OK, little guy. I'm OK.
Give me a charisma check, OK? You're good at that.
You should be good at. That I got AI got A7.
You got a 7. The little guy looks right in
Aldi's eyes as she's trying to console him, and he begins to
cry. Tears start flowing out and he
opens his mouth and he goes. It's like really loud and kind
of piercing. It sounds kind of shrieking
actually. Like it's like it, it sounds
like feedback from a microphone almost kind of kind of hurts
your ears. I need con checks from all the
people protecting against a metal sound.
I'm on fire today baby. I got a four. 14.
OK. 13. OK 12 OK so only Elody
experiences deafness. Elody cannot hear.
For how long we will find out. I think it makes sense because
she's right next to this but her ears are just ringing.
Those of you who can hear and Elody on the ground cuz her
hands are there. The ground begins to tremble
just a little bit at 1st, and then in a regular pace, boom
boom boom boom, louder and louder.
Something is quickly approaching your destination.
It'll be here in a matter of seconds.
Does the party do anything about it?
OK, this is Mama Bear we're assuming.
Yeah, probably. What was the baby?
I'm missing Aaron. That was my guess.
OK, so big baby. They've already dealt with one
of. These.
Yeah, we've dealt with one of these before.
Did. You defeat.
It. No, we ran away.
We did not do well at all. Well, you know, it's not a
favorable match up for me. You know what?
I didn't deal with it before. It's fair, yeah.
You know what? We didn't have Schmidt.
And Schmidt can easily, single handedly handle it.
Yeah, sure. There will be no issues.
Is it? Is it steel to that?
No, we stand our ground if it starts detecting.
We still we. Go fire.
No, it's going to be neutral. Normally it is, because it's
rock. Yeah.
So it's stealing rock. Rock OK, so the party all agrees
to prepare themselves and stand their ground.
Yep. Yes, great.
Charging forwards. Sorry, what'd you say?
I was going to say I'm going to preemptively get Jessica out.
OK. I like that.
Yeah, just Jessica. It's the field.
Yeah, I'll have Trevor and Lebowski out ready to go.
OK, you do that. I We'll also preemptively swap
cabbage for grape juice. OK, you did not hear the
footsteps, but you felt them because you were.
On the. Ground you do that.
He is out. You get your parties all
assembled is solely still out. No, she went to her ball right.
Yeah, Solely's returned cookies out and larva stars in my
backpack. Sam kind of nudges Frostbite
forward. Frostbite seems like fake
confidence, and she covers her little round spiel's eyes and
she kind of steps back. The the booming gets louder and
you all tremble as you are in fact greeted by what you can
assume is Mama Agron, standing at just about 20 feet tall,
looking down at you. She leans forwards directly
above Elodie's head and roars. And if Elodie wasn't already
deaf, she's definitely deaf now. And she takes a step backwards
and she swings her body and she prepares to swing her tail.
Roll initiative if you're fighting.
All righty. Bump, bump, bump, bump.
Bump. Bump.
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump.
The modifier for initiative. It's your next mod, Dex Dex.
OK. Who's hired Dex between LED and
Sydney? Mine is +1 OK.
Yeah, mine's hire. Nice and clustered.
I like that. Look at you guys.
Wow. Sam gets 13.
Sam, what the heck? And why don't you mess it up?
The hostile creatures, I won't call them baddies.
They do get 19. That is unlucky for you guys,
That's pretty bad. Mama Agron swings her Iron Tail
at anyone within 20 feet of her, and if she's right on LED, I'm
going to say that's the whole party.
All right, but I want everyone to make a dexterity check for
the incoming Iron Tail. I will just preemptively say it
is DC-13. That 20 baby.
Excellent. OK.
So Cindy takes no damage at all from it.
Oh, this is not a it is a save, but we're this is a melee
attack. It's just hitting multiple
people. So if you if you pass, you will
not take damage. OK.
I did not pass. OK.
Is this Pokémon 2 or just people?
Doesn't make any sense. Yeah, it's it should be
everything. Right, needs a roll for.
I pass on all of them and Trevor crit.
Nice. Oh no cookie cookie got what's
it? Is it dex or con?
It's Dex. Cookie did not pass.
OK. I also failed.
OK, great. Because we have so many crits, I
would like to extend it to any person or Pokémon who crit.
They are welcome to acrobatically jump onto the tail
and hold on to it. Just want to throw that out
there. Lebowski's Oh wait, Lebowski
didn't crit, but Trevor. Did and he'll do it hold?
On to that agron. Yes, we will say that's using
some power of mass or or magnetism or something.
Trevor is going to be able to do it.
We will not question it, and Sidney wants to do it too.
Absolutely awesome. Cindy's going to be on there.
Great. So anyone who passed takes no
damage. Any Pokémon who failed is taking
26 steel type damage. Any person who failed is taking
13 damage and they are being knocked back to the edge of like
where the waterfall is. You're not going to fall off the
Cliff at this point, but you are being knocked back.
I'm not going to make, I'm not going to knock you prone, but
you are going to go flying. Cookies resistant to steel,
correct? What is the damage just.
Have it so make it 13. Bad at math?
What was the damage again for Pokémon?
26 Yikes. She's angry.
She seems upset, yeah. We made her baby cry.
We did do that. Yeah, LED did a very.
We didn't do anything. I'm sorry.
Well, now Cindy's on the tail. This is going to be so good.
Cindy and Trevor hold on to Mama Agron's tail and spin around,
and it seems like she doesn't notice that they're there.
Perfect. This big rock and metal
dinosaur, after swinging her tail, stands in front of her
little baby boy and stomps and roars yet again.
She's very big again. If if if any listener needs
assistance in picturing, she is basically just AT Rex with a
tail that drags and she's wearing metal armor and she's
made of rock. Very intimidating, imposing
that. Again.
The party has dealt with one before, but not a wild one.
But that's better or worse. That's to find out.
Is maternal rage enough to cause some serious damage?
We'll find out. It is still the hostile's turns
because Mama went but baby didn't.
Baby is going to look at the 30 feet away where people are
knocked over and it's going to look at Cookie.
It's going to fire off a little mud slap.
Shooting off a mud slap at Cookie gets a 5.
Does not hit. Cookie dodges it.
Or just it's more likely that baby's aim is pretty bad.
So just a little pile of mud lands near Cookie.
It is now Sam's turn. Sam got walloped by the tail, as
did little baby little baby Spiel.
Spiel's doing OK and if anything, Spiel looks kind of
bad. Spiel looks kind of enraged.
Sam looks down and she says crusher, you ready to do this?
And Spiel collapse its little flippers and hops onto the
ground and it looks freaking determined, like this thing was
so cute before and it looks like angry as heck.
Sam says. Sam says.
Well, I'm, I'm not sure about battling, but I'm good with ice
types. So use ice ball and Crusher
fires off a little ball from its mouth, a tiny one at first.
It will see if it can connect with Big Momma Agron.
I don't know why I gave it MPC, such a complicated move, but I
think it's fine. It's like Spiel's signature
move. First we just rolled a hip.
We roll a three. That's so sad.
OK, Crusher hits the field for the first time.
The field of battle fires off a little icicle ball from its
mouth. It flies through the air,
impacts into Mama Agron's chest and just splits and nothing
happens. And Sam says you did your best,
we'll get it next time. And Seal claps.
It is now Schmidt Stern. All righty, we're going to start
this off with a good old strong revelation dance into Mama.
Crit Nice. Huge.
Oh God. So remember, as always, get your
super effective base damage. So double your dice and then
whatever that maximum is, is how you start and then you roll
normal super effective damage. This is going to be a lot. 46
ground type damage. Excellent.
That's a very good hit, especially on a Pokémon that
seems like it's very hard to hit.
Jessica does a little bit of it's her classic break dancing
moves and Pillars of Earth climb out of the ground one by one
ascending boom, boom, boom, and then right underneath Mama
Agron. Mama Agron gets launched into
the ceiling and the horns on her metallic helmet pierces two
holes through the roof and light from the the night sky begins
filtering through. She falls back to the ground and
there's a bit of a tremor. Very impactful attack.
She writes herself back up and she's ready to take the next
hit. Very good.
Schmidt, anything else for you because you're using one
Pokémon. I have two actually.
Quacko is out. Great.
It's like a double battle. You can definitely give a
command, you're fine. It only gets weird if Schmidt
also wants to do something, so as long as you're just giving
commands, you can use another Pokémon.
And I'm not even doing too much, it's just a knock off.
Yes, that's a roll to hit. Yep.
So whatever it was, I didn't make it.
OK. Well, I don't know, 13 doesn't
the ARM class right? Unfortunately, it does not.
Quacko charges forward, inspired by Jessica's attack, and swings
his leak in a sinister fashion, and Mama Agron seems entirely
unaffected. It just glances off.
Little Ting sound comes off of her metal plate, and Quacko
backs up. I believe that will be it from
Schmidt. Unless Schmidt wants to do a
flavor thing, that is. That is it.
OK Gimli, you're up. Trevor is on Mama Agron.
Know what I can do with that? Because I do want to.
I do want to use mudslap, but I'm wondering if I can do it in
a weird way based on my position.
Actually, they might draw the attention of her because I can't
mudslap her right in the face, but I can draw attention to her
tail, which I don't know if I want to do because Cindy's
there. That's a little.
Concerning we don't do a whole lot of combat in this campaign.
I will say at this current state for Trevor and for Cindy, Agron
is flanked. Use that knowledge how you will.
That just gives me like advantage right to hit.
Correct on melee attacks. Gimli, I have an idea.
What's your idea? Little risky, but if Schmidt is
attacking someone that's flanked it's a guaranteed crit so maybe
you could redirect aggro. That's what I was thinking of
doing and I was going to do something annoying and buff
myself with Iron defense. So then attention's drawn to me
'cause I can get myself 6 AC and resistance all damage excel.
Unless it's super effective, it goes to neutral.
Wait, we since we were flanking wouldn't Schmidt's have attacks
have already been? No, we're.
Flanking Schmidt has to be cranking.
OK. Cranking we're.
Flanking. No.
Yes, correct. If their back is turned, you are
flanking. You are at their backs, so
therefore you are flanking them. Right.
That's what I'm saying, redirect attention.
So Schmidt will be. But Cindy's attached to there
too. I I have a feeling sailing
Cindy's going to do something to draw aggro anyways.
That's a fairpoint that. That's fair.
I I. Think I might, I might, I might
make Trevor into a wall for Cindy to be behind or near and
while Cindy draws aggro, because I think that makes more sense.
I'm a little concerned if that's going to work, but so yeah, I
think Trevor's going to hang on to the tail, try to reap like
get make sure it's near Sydney to help protect her and then
iron defense on the staying on the back of the tail so that
that just happens. So plus if AC resist the damage,
yeah. Iron defense happens.
Boldor tightens his rocky carapace, and he prepares to do
something else. What is it?
Well, that's his. That's his actual Oh.
Just kidding, yeah. It's not a, that's not a bonus
action, it's an action. Yeah, that is just an action.
It's not hard. Trevor Iron defenses and
prepares for the next opportunity he has in battle.
Yeah. I can also harden so. +6 AC is
actually kind of busted on top of harden.
Yeah, you don't get to attack. OK, that I'm I'm glad I did
that. So that's +8 AC total.
No, Harden does not give AC. Harden does damage taken.
I'm so dumb. OK yes, moral of the story,
Trevor becomes very firm. Trevor is like impenetrable.
Giman is able to get this command and it doesn't distract
Mama Agron. She doesn't understand English
Common, so Trevor does so. Then we have Lebowski out.
Lebowski's going to start setting up.
He's going to rock Polish. Love it.
Excellent rock Polish. Yep, it's additional 2 AC and
additional speed. So he is a zoomy boy for the
next two turns. Excellent.
Yeah, everyone witnesses as Lebowski.
The lolan Geodude hasn't seen combat in a hot minute, sharpens
the stones on his body. It seems like he can move more
nimbly, and it seems like he may be harder to hit.
And I believe that's it for Nimley, unless you want flavour.
No, that's it. OK, ALDI, you're up.
Let's go. OK, Elodie is going to yell,
probably way too loud because she's deaf right now for grape
juice to go for a mud bomb. Excellent.
Onto the agron. Let's see it.
I have rolled a 15. 15 total. Yes. 15 does not break the armor
class of Mama Agron. Grape juice fires off a bomb of
mud, summons it with its hands. Kind of like a Hadouken shoots
it out impacts with Mama Agron's armor to no effect.
We're going to have grape juice now do a little screech in an
act of Elodie's party time to give Jessica some sense
piration. And can we just review party
time for the listeners? Yes, so I can give any Pokémon
in the party D8 to use whenever they should please, and I have 4
uses of that prolonged rest, so I have to get rid of more of
them. And you're giving it to Jessica?
And did you say it was? It was explicitly scent based.
Oh I just cause it's called senspiration.
Oh, OK, Who? Who was?
Doing that, I don't necessarily know how grape juice could make
something scent based. True.
I was gonna say like, she probably just like screeches
like a victory, not a victory screech, probably like a rage
screech, like bat the battle, Yeah.
Yeah, bad breath. Combination 'cause it's a bit of
a roar, right? Yeah, an inspiring shout and a
bit of stinky breath inspires Jessica.
Very cool. ALDI is probably trying to gain
her bearings and get up since she has just been yeated.
Yeah, she yeah. She got screeched at, still
can't hear her ears are rating and then she got yeated by an
iron tail. Very not fun.
OK, Cindy. So I originally the first thing
I was thinking, it's like, yeah, I'll have Cookie do dragon
breath. I'm not going to do that because
I am on Agron and I would also be hit by my own attack if I did
that. It's also resistant.
Yeah, Agron also resist dragon breath as you did learn
previously, that's steel resist dragon, which we.
Thought that's also rock. Yeah, well, rock doesn't change.
Rock is neutral. To Dragon.
So it would still be resistant. All right, anyway, Cindy's gonna
focus all of her energy on discreetly climbing Agron's back
to try to get, like, up by her shoulders.
Yeah, and that's gonna require 2 checks or well, OK, here's the
thing. That's my whole turn, like my
whole turn is doing. I'm not have gonna have cookie
do anything I. Think OK.
That kind of ruins our plan. Yeah, yeah, That does completely
defeat the purpose of what I just did.
I told you. What my plan like my plan is to
ride this thing like an elephant.
I told you you. Guys have no idea what's gonna
happen, so let's just see if let's see if she even does it.
Because this I would make it require 2 rules, but because
you're doing stealth and movement can be dexterity based.
Just do a Dexterity check with differing degrees of succeeding
or failing based on your rule. It's in that one.
Oh God yeah, Cindy. Cindy moves up, attempts to
like, climb up the body of Mama Agron, and slips and falls.
This does directly draw Mama Agron's attention.
Cindy is prone, Agron turns around, and Cindy is Agron's
next target. Speaking of, it's Agron's turn
so well, it's. Nice knowing everybody.
Let's see how that goes. Goodbye, Cindy.
This is exactly what we wanted. This is fine.
There's the plan. Let's hope this goes lucky.
Mama Agron looks down at Cindy and charges her spiky head
forward into the ground into Cindy's fragile skinny body.
Can Cindy dodge it? The answer is no, it's not a
critical hit. But let's see exactly how she
gets hurt. Little spooky Cindy takes 30
points of damage as spikes do not Pierce her body, but her
chest gets pummelled and she feels a bit of snapping.
Yeah, Cindy's. Got 2 HP left guys.
Yeah. Oh no.
Just actions without realizing consequences.
That's what we're doing here. You are a child on.
Fire I do not. Care baby Aaron has a turn as
well. Is gonna shoot off a mud slap at
grape juice. Oh they actually hit this time?
Thanks. So Grape Juice is going to take
a grand total of 6 points of ground type damage and has a -1
on its next attack it tries to do.
If it's a based on a save then the target will have a plus one.
That is the hostile creatures turn.
It's now Sam's turn. Mama Agron's back is turned to
the majority of the players. Which in general is kind of a
good thing. If it wasn't that Cindy is close
to death, it would be kind of nice.
Sam says. Crusher, now's your chance.
Give him a water gun. And Crusher shoots out a blast
of water in attempts to hit Mama Agron and succeeds.
Some super effective damage coming in.
Don't forget you have advantage. Yeah.
A total of 20 points of water type damage.
Not bad at all. This is not sway, Mama Agron.
This is not a lot of damage for her, but it's nice.
Nice to get that added up. Schmidt, you're up.
Guaranteed crit revelation dance.
Let's go. It's true.
Can we discuss? Can you just read that passage
for the listeners in case they don't know about it?
Yes, Trainer path Level 2, It's Schmidt.
Time Attacks made with advantage by Schmidt on his Pokémon Level
3 or higher always crit. This includes sneak attacks and
flanking. Correct.
Awesome. Glad we get to see you in
action. Give us another crit revelation
dance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2/2/44
Excellent. No more.
Yes, 44. That sounds about right because
your last one was 46. So that's very, very good.
Once again, Jessica, seen how actually dangerous the situation
is, does a little breakdance some in stone in not stone, but
like ground pillars out of the ground, like an earth Bender
smashes them into agron. And let's just say for flavor,
it's a little bit different this time.
Three of them, one directly below her and two to the left
and right, smash into her all at the same time.
You can see chunks of her armor plating falling off and crashing
onto the ground. Very nicely done.
What else is Schmidt doing? Knock off because I think that's
the only non resisted move Quaco has.
Let's roll for it. This is with advantage or
autocrit. It's autocrit.
Oh, autocrit. Yeah.
Oh, sick. I don't need to roll for it.
OK, let's just roll the image. Agron will not be holding any
particular item, would they? We'll find out, but no, OK, the
answer's no, OK. Because you need that for damage
I. Realize I was going to say we'll
wait, but you need it for damage so. +4 that would be 17.
A big hit. Wait wait wait no I get the Max
damage plus. Plus the regular roll.
It's not super protective though, it's just neutral.
What's your formula for knock off?
OK formula for knock off is 2 D 8 + 4.
OK. So that's 22, correct.
That Max. No, that's 20.
That's 20. I'm done.
So 20 + 13.
Yes, that's your damage. Mama Agron kind of winces.
You can see her body kind of tremble a little bit.
She writes herself back up and she's still looking at Cindy,
but she's kind of running low on energy.
You can see, as baby Aaron charges to her feet, anything
else for Schmidt's term. Nope.
OK just going to hide my head in shame because I can't math.
You're fine. I don't think Schmidt would.
You can, but I Schmidt would know that math has a problem.
Gimli. Since my plan to protect Sydney
failed because she was too yeet, let's say, how can we approach
this? It's too bad I don't have
lasagna out because that would be important here.
I had an idea but I think it would take me too long to do,
mostly because if I bring lasagna out I can't do an action
right away, right? Well, that is if you bring
lasagna out, you can only do one other action because using
bringing them on out as a trainer action.
So from there a Pokémon, one Pokémon could do a thing.
If you send a Pokémon out, I think the Pokémon that you
switch out needs to wait to take an action.
I we can they can have a bonus action, but I think you I think
you can only give a command to one that is already out.
Yeah, it's not worth doing then. OK, I'll save that move for
later. OK, The maneuver that I'm
thinking of doing, I got to draw attention, but I can't do it
because Iron Defense is now down, because Iron Defense is
just for the turn. So I don't I can't think of a
way that would draw their attention as a bonus action to
go back to Iron. Defense.
Yeah, Trevor could roar to bring attention to the tail.
Yeah, even if you don't have the move, you can if if you can
flavor your thing into a check of some sort, we can make it
work. Mm.
Hmm. So this would be considered an
action, but can I like I know the armors like starting to chip
away. Can I use Trevor's like strength
to just like squeeze onto the tail now I'm gripping it?
Yeah, yeah, you absolutely can. And that's just a regular
action, yeah. Yeah.
So yeah, you have access to that.
OK, yeah, then we'll. What's the intent here?
Do you want to just hold on? I want.
To draw attention. Yeah, I want to draw attention
to him. OK, because you're doing it
physically, Just give me a strength check.
OK, that is an 19. OK, yeah, that is successful.
Mama Agron, looking to hopefully exterminate Cindy, changes her
mind because there's a creature on her tail that is causing a
lot of discomfort. She turns her attention to
Trevor. OK, I'm going to harden as a
bonus action. So when that do I roll the D8
now actually on Harden? Yeah, I do.
OK, yeah, it looks like I do. So that would be 9 damage
reduction if I get hit next turn.
And now Lebowski gets to go. We're going to start, we're
going to actually do a charge to prime our next big spark hit.
We'll come up with something from there.
So I'm going to charge that, boost my AC by two and my next
electric attack deals double damage.
So we're at 17 AC right now. So we're we're priming.
I don't know if somebody has the the strength capabilities to
launch my boy, but we're going to do some good.
Look for an electric cannonball combo coming up.
Epic. I'm good though.
OK, that's Gimli's turn. Audi you're.
OK. LED is going to try to run over
to where Cindy is. OK.
That should. Be pretty successful because of
what Gimli just did. I'm going to I still need you to
roll advantage decks plus advantage decks plus 5I like
this. I want it to potentially fail
because it could, but it's very unlikely, so let's get that
roll. OK, yeah, I got like a very high
number. I don't feel like doing math,
but I don't need to. Yeah, you're absolutely fine.
LG is able to do that undetected.
Well, OK, yeah, fully undetected.
I was like do a roll for air on but no that you rolled high
enough or it shouldn't matter. Get send the inner crust ribs
out of you or destroyed spine. You can do you.
That's your movement. So you got more.
Are you thinking about it? What I was planning on doing, Do
we ever determine whether potions work on people?
Is it like they work? That's just not as effective.
The answer is no. Berries do that.
They work, but they're not as effective.
However, just a little bit of help from the DM.
You definitely have something that is kind of new to you that
can help Cindy. This could be a great reveal for
it too because I don't think the players are aware of it so.
I think I know what it is, but it would take me a while to do
it because I don't have her out right now.
Oh, I understand. OK, I think for now I'm just
going to try and like usher Cindy away from the agron
situation and actually, yeah, I will take I'll take out cabbage
and then would I still be able to have grape juice do
something? No, because.
You moved, right? All right then.
That'll be it then. OK, Cindy, you feel bad.
You've you. You are close to falling
unconscious. Mobility might be kind of hard
for you at the moment. What are you doing?
Am I far enough away from Agron to do like a ranged move and me
not be hit by it from cookie? That is very likely because you
are prone. Range attacks are to attacks
based on saves have disadvantage to hit Pokémon that are anything
that's prone. And yeah, basically it is
unlikely it's impossible. Cookie is on one side of Akron
and you're on the other, so. And Akron's huge.
Yeah, it's not gonna happen. OK, so it's not resistive, but
it's just like damage? Depends on the type of mood you
use. Flame Burst.
Yes, that is neutral damage. That's a.
Safe or? Is that a roll to hit?
It just says power 15. Then it just says any creature
within 5 feet of the targeted location.
So power 15 indicates. Indicates that that is the save,
that is the check. OK, so DC-15 deck.
OK, their decks is a number I won't say out loud.
They fail. They get a total of A5.
Is Aaron within that? Yeah, Yeah, Aaron is.
Too range as well, yeah. Let me rule for Aaron.
Aaron also fails. They both fail.
OK, so they take full damage of two D 8 + 512 + 5 is 17.
OK. They're both taking 17 damage.
Cookie, seeing that her trainer is in serious danger, let's off
a very seriously intentioned Flame Burst.
It connects into Mama Agron's metal plating and splashes onto
Baby Aeron. Mama Agron let's out a
distressed roar and closes her eyes and collapses with an
immense thud onto the ground, and Baby Aeron, as a result of
the splash damage, rolls over onto its back and its eyes turn
into XS and you may exit initiative.
My back hurts. Really.
No way. Crazy.
Yeah, it's crazy that you just make boneheaded moves to give me
heart attacks all the time. I'll give Cindy a wall to do
something annoying. I know what I'll do.
That's annoying. Climb the agron.
You almost died it. Could have been sick, but it was
a natural. One, it could have been so good.
OK. Right, my Agena.
Even though depending on how you reach to HP you could like be
mobile, I'm going to suggest that at the moment Cindy cannot
get up. She may need some help.
I am not here. We don't have the wagon.
I'm gonna have Cabbage use healing kiss on her.
Healing kiss. Can we describe her?
OK. Whoa.
It's like Draining Kiss but the opposite.
Instead of damage ruled, it's restored HP and it's only half
as effective on humans. That's what I was thinking was
half as effective on humans. You're fine.
Yeah, Roll. That's healing, Kiss.
I wrote 3 fours. That's crazy. 19 halved is.
We'll say because the ceiling will round up and we'll make a.
Ten round up to 10. Nice.
You get 10 HP my friend. Cabbage leans over Cindy and
gives her a smooch on the cheek. There's a little pink glow that
comes from the contact of Al Creamy's lips, and Cindy feels
her bones kind of like readjusting a little bit.
She is very sore, but she can breathe and she feels like she
can probably move out bait a little bit slower than usual.
And I'm still deaf. How many rounds is that combat?
3-4 Like 3? Regardless.
Yes you are. You are still deaf for like 30
seconds. I'd be chilling.
Yeah, roll me, Roll me an insight, Elodie.
Yeah, I got a 15. OK, that's good enough.
Elodie is smart enough to realize that she will not be
deaf forever. She will, she will recover, she
just has to wait a little bit longer.
She can sense that her hearing is already starting to come
back. So the Quacko Packo stands after
a pretty precarious situation with a completely exhausted
Agron and her child. Just kind of in The Cave.
Generally in The Cave, the party regroups.
They'll run up to each other. Any any courses of action here?
Any discussions to be had? What did we learn?
Not. A big scary Pokémon like an
elephant. That's really kid that's on
head. Because not everything you see
in the cartoons is real. Yeah, kiddo, you might have
died. I'm in pain.
That's a less. Pain is a lesson learned, child.
Do we? Have a running tally of like how
many almost deaths Cindy has caused.
Oh, Cindy's been knocked out. Before.
Yeah. This is the.
Second time you almost died to an agron, let alone just don't
know if. That is.
Agron But it's just never learns man, Just keeps keeps doing that
stuff. So has Schmidt been the only
collateral from Cindy's antics so far?
I believe. Yeah, surprisingly.
OK. I I'm shocked personally that
that that's been the case. I I didn't expect me to take too
much, but I'm surprised that Ality has been out of the way
most of Cindy's crap. Sam checks in with Cindy.
She says, are are you OK? I you you took a pretty powerful
attack there. I'm OK.
I'll be OK. She likely has some broken ribs.
We'll we'll figure that out. She's that torso feels like
Jelly. Oh God.
Sam, maybe a few of the more broken ribs.
Sam holds out her hand in attempts to like, get you up and
she says well come on I'll I'll help you up.
Do you accept? Yes.
OK, yeah, she lifts you up and she puts her your arm around her
shoulder. And Crusher, this feel is now
rolling along and his cheery disposition has returned.
But for a moment he looks like Fierce.
He looks like. Just rolling.
Yeah, I love that. Yeah.
It's the best, it's the best way for him to local mode.
He can't like flop very fast. Yes, field does roll.
That's like normal. What's the decision for the
party at this point? Press on.
OK. Jelly One wants to press on.
Sam looks back and let's just say the press on was said out
loud. She she says, Oh, yeah, it might
be hard to descend back down to the to The Cave and and who
knows how long it'll take for us to get back to town.
So if there really is a village of people that that might be our
best bet to just find it. I think so.
He sounds a little discouraged, but a little hopeful.
It's gotten increasingly dark. Who hasn't rolled in a while?
Cookie's still out. It's helping.
Cookie's helping the left wall that you're walking across the
river to your right continues forwards and the wall to your
left has ever the. Well, yeah.
Roll me, roll me investigation. Who hasn't rolled?
Gimli? Why not?
Sure. Investigation.
You know what's so funny? How consistently we're rolling
fours on these because that's what I got.
A4 So Gimli notices the the murals are still continuing.
They still scan span the whole wall, but as far as asserting if
there's any particular shapes or lettering or anything, he has no
idea. We press onwards, hoping that
there is not any or hopefully less danger ahead.
After the Quacko Paco gathers their senses, Elity regains her
hearing, Cindy surviving. They press forwards, deeper into
Meteor Falls, following the river to hopefully some sort of
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