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.
It is Fall Arbor Town. It is about midday.
It's about noon. Cindy and Gimli are separately
but arguably within earshot of one another, training their
Pokémon in the forest that is slightly to the northwest of
Fall Arbor Town. And Schmidt and Ality,
unbeknownst to each other, are having a good old time at Mr.
Mimosa's downtown fall Arbor town.
Elodie found herself at Mr. Mimosas after the gym challenge
because it sounded like a fun or otherwise cool place to go, and
she managed to. She might be having too good of
a time. She she has rendezvous with some
old friends that were made the day prior.
Archie and Maxi she may have in fact crashed their brunch date
that they were having. She's been enjoying some hand
squeezed mimosas with her friend Archie and Maxie is kind of
sulking to himself. At the next stool over.
Archie turns over to Elodie and says wait wait wait wait, have
you heard this one? OK, OK, OK.
If if a Sharpedo had feet, what would he use to count his steps?
What would he? What would he use?
Maxie, Maxie, do you know? And Maxie looks over and he
sighs and he says a sharp edometer.
And Archie goes and he's just cracking up, fist slamming the
table. Mimosas are splashing all over
the place, maybe a little bit splashes up on LED.
And they're having a a rousing, excellent good time.
I'm going to ask for a perception from Schmidt.
That is 17. 17 The raucous laughter that comes as a result
of this sharp edometer joke. Schmidt moments after something
intriguing catches his eye outside that he doesn't have
time to ask Sam about. He turns around to the sound of
Archie cackling and notices a familiar figure next to him
being Elody, who seems like she may have had maybe a little too
much to drink. Does he have any sort of
response to that? Does he try and ignore what he
saw? Because he's with Sam, right?
I think he would nod to Sam if Sam did not notice.
He would make Sam aware, be like, hey, is that Elody over
there? Is Sam aware?
Yes, she is. She squints a little bit and she
turns her head to the other side of the restaurant.
She says. Yeah, looks like.
Looks like. Same to me.
It looks like she's with those two guys from yesterday.
Oh, yeah. Should we go over there or just
leave them alone? They look like they're having a
time. We can.
We can leave them be. She says OK, and she continues
to sit across from you and enjoy her mimosa.
As described before, this restaurant is mostly staffed by
Mr. Minds. They're wearing little aprons
and they got big old hands. And the ones with the biggest
hands are in the back on the other side of the counter.
And they are just demolishing these oranges into into
collection crafts. It's insane how well they can
squeeze them. On the opposite side of town,
out in the woods, Gimli is training with his team and he
notices something strange as they are moving rocks around,
hitting trees, pulling up grass, just being rowdy Gimli Pokémon
in general. Bean takes a moment and he
stares at the XP gord in his hands and he shows emotion.
He gets angry and he throws it on the ground and he looks up at
Gimli with a furrowed brow. All.
Right, buddy, you don't want it. Bean shakes his head fervently.
He's done with that. That's fine, I'll take it back,
bud. You don't have to be so mean
about it, though. He starts tapping on Gimli's
calf that's about as tall as he reaches, and looking at Gimli.
He's expecting something from Gimli.
Does he want his club back? Maybe.
You can roll forward or just like give it back.
I was like, oh, you want this back body?
Here you go. As you hand it to him, he he
jumps and grabs it and he holds it tight and then he is more
calm like before. It seems like all of Gimli's
party is experiencing a pretty significant little little level
up, a little level up pretty close by, a little ways to the
South. Cindy's doing much the same.
I kind of want Cindy to just roll a General Dexterity check
for like her party's sake at the moment.
That's a 7. That's a seven.
OK. Gimli pretty immediately clearly
notices the scent of smoke. There is a part of this forest
that is getting a little toasty, a little Cindy.
Considering it's like midday in the late summer, it might be
good for him to investigate what is going on perhaps.
They certainly will. OK, the scent of smoke is almost
iconic to Cindy at this point as Gimli charges over to intercept
whatever Cindy action is happening.
So these Pokémon are doing great.
They're doing much the same as Gimli's, but in their own Cindy
fashion. They're mostly just identifying
shrubs and lighting them on fire.
Larvastar, unlike Gimli's Larvitar beam, is actually not
entirely done with the XP cord. They they don't mind holding on
to it at the moment, but Cindy is just kind of smiling and
giving commands to her team as they just liked various
scratches and brushes on fire. We will say that Gimli intercept
the scene. Cindy, why are you lighting
things on fire? It gets strong do.
You have a means to put out the fire when you're done.
Can like smog put out a fire by like taking the the oxygen away
from the fire? That's a pretty creative idea
Izzy can try for sure. Do you want to make that
attempt? Pretending in front of Gimli
that I know exactly what I'm doing and that I'm 100% sure
this is gonna work, yes. OK.
I'm gonna try. Just give me a dex for Izzy, see
if Izzy can figure it out. And it's a 5.
It's a five. Yeah, Izzy just heard her
trainer be like, we're lighting stuff on fire and is is just
given a new command and just kind of targets the wrong the
wrong organ in their body. And instead of creating smog to
put the fire out, they just breathe more fire.
It's just there's just more fire and smoke.
It was not successful. That's fine.
All right, well, I'm, I'm going to try.
I'm going to put out this fire. I'm going to use Trevor and Mud
slap onto the fire. OK.
You probably don't need to roll for that, I think.
I think Trevor. Yeah, I don't think so.
Yeah, I think Trevor just does destroyed it.
Anyways, yeah, you're fine. Trevor gets to work in cleaning
up the mess that Cindy's team is making, and the two party
members come to the realization that probably everyone is done
with the gym challenges and it might be time to group back up
in town. I'm kind of forcing that on you
unless you have a different plan.
No, that's fine with me. OK.
I would like to at least, if not on the way back to town, like
not too far out of the way, like try and pick some berries.
Sure. Yeah, give me a give me a nature
check on your way back, see if you catch any.
That is a dirty 21. Nice.
Well done. Yeah.
You identify 3 citrus berries, 3 lumberries, 1 haban Berry HABAN.
Cindy and Gimli arrive in town, and they notice that there seems
to be a lot of foot traffic in one little corner.
That's kind of by Sleigh Mart. It's around brunch time.
Everyone's getting brunch at Mr. Mimosas.
I'm just going to say because Cindy is tuned into these kinds
of things, she notices in the quiet front window art.
She sees Schmidt and Sam enjoying some freshly squeezed
mimosas together through the. Window I like flap Gimli gently
on the arm like look look, it's and Sam.
Yeah, seem like they're having a good time, are.
Are they on a date? Maybe they could be Are you
trying to just watch them or? Can I wave through the window?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The no promises that they'll
notice, but you can. I wave.
Schmidt If Schmidt noticed Cindy, would he pretend he's
not? To how far away are they?
I'm going to say they're like about 30 feet because they're
out in the street, but they're just not like in the restaurant
and Cindy's just waving through the window.
OK, so Schmidt's feeling kind of cornered right now because LD is
on one side, yeah, and you're on the other.
It's like some shit's about to go down, isn't it?
I'm going to see if Sam notices. She totally does.
She turns her head and she says look, it's it's Cindy and Gimli.
And like Sam, waves back to Cindy and smiles.
Yeah, Schmidt, let's like, hey. And then like when he's sure
sure Sam isn't looking at her, he just lets out of like what
the fuck are you doing here? That we can't hear through the
glass, but but sure. I'm sure you could like, see his
face. Let me see if I do hold on.
I do, yes, very much so. I got an 11.
On do you like? Do you like save?
The I just did a dice. I did AD 20.
I didn't even add anything to it.
For what? What were you I this is we
noticed. No, no, no.
No see if we noticed Schmidt being like, No, cut it out.
Can we do like an opposed check so like my intimidation versus
their? Sure, Perception.
Yeah, that sounds like fun. I mean, I already have my role
so my perception was a 22. OK, yeah, OK.
Without a shadow of it. I create the Intimidation
Natural 20. I think they're on a date.
I think we should leave them alone.
That's why I was thinking, but I was thinking that general.
But he decided to sneer at us. I don't know.
Meanwhile, in Mr. Mimosa's, Archie smacks Ality on the back,
and he seems like he's telling a story, he says.
And I told Shelly that if she doesn't get that spiel out of my
office, I'm a gonna kill hauler right off the ship, right off
the poop deck. And Maxi interjects and he says,
I don't think you ever said that, Archie.
He says nonsense. Shelly and I always had that
kind of rapport, if you know what I'm talking about.
And he's is like hitting Elodie maybe a little too hard as he's
telling this story. Do you, do you have anything?
What would you say if someone was telling you a story like
that and you were Elodie and you were drunk?
She's probably just still laughing, probably wincing from
being attacked by this large man, but mostly laughing.
OK. And any any thoughts or flavour
on what cabbage might be doing in this moment?
Cabbage. Cabbage is probably chilling.
She's I think I said last time, she's probably like chilling
with the mimes, like checking out there and how they're making
the mimosas. Yeah, that's probably what she's
doing. OK, have have cabbage roll a
little charisma check for vibing with her fellow fairy friends.
7. Seven.
Okay, yeah, she's like communicating in a fairy way to
a mime worker that seems a little busy, but he enjoys the
conversation regardless. And he kind of is doing funny
mind things with his hands as he speaks to cabbage.
And when it seems like, and the cabbage makes some cabbage
sounds like whatever kind of mystical fairy sounds cabbage
makes, I'm not quite sure. And then mimics the little mime
hand pattern that the Mr. Mime is doing and he just kind of
shakes his head and continues to squeeze some oranges as these
mimes are doing. So Archie, as he was telling the
story and smacking Ality, he he squints his eyes and he looks at
the other corner of the restaurant and he grabs a pair
of tiny binoculars from inside his deep V-neck and he puts them
up to his face. And he says, is is that is that
the boy Schmidt from the other day?
And, and, and Symetra. Yeah, yeah.
That, that woman, we we spoke to her before Maxie, didn't we?
And Maxie says, oh, well, yeah, I believe you're correct.
He says, we got to go say hi. And he immediately jumps out of
his seat and rushes over to the table that Schmidt and Sam are
AT. And Maxie just kind of stands up
and walks very slowly across the restaurant.
Archie actually rolling almost knocks over a mime who was
carrying mimosas to a table of different patrons as he charges
forward and he sticks out his large, muscular hand to both Sam
and Schmidt. And he says, Remember Me?
I'm I'm Archie Archibald, you know, that guy that you talked
to the other day and you know, the, the, the team Aqua
business, you know, all that stuff's in the past, but so good
to see you again. What are you all up to?
And he's he's his breath smells like champagne.
Hi, how are you doing? He says, what's that, boy?
I couldn't hear your son. And he's like shouting, like
right in your face. He like as the the hand is like
offered to him. Schmidt like pinches like a
finger and like starts to shake it like that.
Like a Princess. It's just like the, you know,
like he doesn't want to shake the whole hand, so he's like
just pinching one of Archie's fingers and just like shaking
the hand up and down. Yeah, one of Archie's fingers is
about the size of two of Schmidt's anyways, so it
probably it works out. And he kind of nods and
acknowledges that that's where Schmidt's at.
He says, all right. And he reaches for handshake
from Sam and and she gives him a a full one, but he probably like
Yanks her shoulder a little bit too hard and and he says, you
guys got the window seat? I always like this one.
I mean, I always like being really close to the mimes.
That's where the booze is at. But like, I also want to be
right up front. We can people watch out here and
look. And then he looks outside and he
sees the other friends that are just kind of standing and
watching and have not come inside.
And he says, wait a second. I thought you were all together.
Why, why, why are they coming? Come on.
And he's like gesturing with his giant hand.
He's swinging it over his shoulder, like trying to get
your two friends to come inside because he is clearly oblivious
that Schmidt was trying to get some private time.
Sam is laughing. She's she thinks it's silly.
Cindy and Gimli, you see, who is unmistakably Archie from the day
before beckoning you to enter Mr. Mimosas.
Do you do so? Absolutely.
Yes. Elodie, do you chase down Archie
and say hi to Schmidt and Sam, or are you going to keep Maxie
company while he kind of lingers behind?
I'll probably linger with Maxie at this point.
OK, yeah. Maxie got up to like, follow
Archie, but then when he saw he almost knocked a mime over, he
kind of turned back around and he occupied Archie's seat that
he left behind that was next to you.
So now he's sitting next to you. And he says I'm.
I'm so sorry for his behavior. Sometimes, you know, I have a
lot of fun, but it it can get a little out of control, No?
Great, a good time. You know Mimosas is awesome.
He says at least the jokes are funny, and he takes a sip of his
Mr. Mimosa awkwardly. He has.
He's been nursing a single one this whole time.
Based on the evaluation that we made at the end of your gym
session, you've had a couple, but you have no food in your
system, just a note for the next several minutes.
Hours of playtime because you are you rolled a natural one on
your con save. You are essentially poisoned
because you have consumed alcohol.
So while you will not experience damage over time, your all of
your checks and anything you do is at disadvantage for the time
being. Just as.
Awesome, Very great. Cindy and Gimli enter.
Where do they go? Can we try to like, get Archie
back towards the bar so Sam and Schmidt can still have like a
semblance of? I think it's just out the window
by this point. Yeah, you can absolutely attempt
to to do that if you, since you recognize from Schmidt's glare
before that, that is absolutely something you may do.
Archie, where's where's Maxie at?
Did you bring Maxie here? Or to say hi to him.
Archie turns to Gimli, and his eyes turn to stars as he's like,
right man of my life, where is he?
And he, like it's all excited. He spins his arms around.
Yeah, let's go to. Him.
Let's go. Let's go find him.
Almost smacks right in the same face as he stands up and spins
around. But he does not, and he pulls
out his tiny binoculars again and he surveys the restaurant.
And then he finds Maxi sitting next to LD and he points, he
says there he is. And he just kind of charges
forward, ignoring anyone who may be in his path.
Do you follow? Yes, and I give Schmid a thumbs
up as I walk. I was gonna say, Cindy does the
same thing. OK, perfect group.
Thumbs up goes Schmidt's way. He gives like a like a, like a
what's the word I'm looking for? Like a like a like a cringy
smile. Yeah.
I know it's just like he's actively cringing and then he
also like throws a thumbs up back.
Yeah, you do that. And as Archie charges over, you
notice that Maxi's there as well, and Maxi seems a lot more
under control. So once again, Schmidt and Sam
have some privacy. Before I rope in the other three
into any sort of conversation, I would like to know is there
anything you want to talk to Sam about?
I know we got a little bit of that before, but is there any
kind of questions you want to ask?
And if there is, I want to consider that we can because of
distance. I'm happy to deafen or remove
the other party members for these private personal
questions. It could just be something you
think about too while the other role planes happening and you
can just kind of cut me off and say that you want that to
happen. Hold on and then I'll get back
to you. OK, yeah.
Archie runs over and immediately bear hugs Maxie and lifts him
out of his seat. And he says, there he is.
And Maxie says you were gone for less than 30 seconds.
And he's just kind of he, he can't help but smile a little
bit because this is exactly what he signed up for.
Is this kind of affection Elodie actually roll a disadvantage
perception? Got it.
I got a nine. A nine.
You notice Gimli come up you don't notice Cindy even though
she's right there, but you see that some party members have
returned to you. Archie puts Maxi down and.
Would be like, Oh my God, Kimberly, what are you doing
here? But that's the same thing to
you. What's going on?
Just having my Moses. Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah, you don't have to roll anything.
Ality is clearly pretty drunk. Yeah, reasonable for like,
reasonable for like 1:00 AM going to bed after a night out
on the town. A little excessive for like noon
at a brunch place. Noon.
Yeah, she's. She's kind of.
But you know, she's having a good time.
That's what matters. Archie puts Maxi down and he
looks at the three of you and he says, I understood you were
going to challenge the gym that moved here.
How did that go for all of you that.
Was very. Amazing.
How many mimosas have you had? A few It's not a crime.
Oh yes, of course. Archie heard like the answer to
Maxi's question and he only cared about what Elodie said.
He said Amazing what happened. You got to tell me all about it.
I'm so excited. I love battles, ah.
Well, cabbage was awesome. She's an Al Kremi now and she
did so well and I'm so proud of her and and grape juice too.
She's, she's a ground type now. So she, she did really well
against all the electric types and, and even Key Lime did a
good job. I'm so proud of all of them and
that we won and I I have two badges now and yeah.
Archie. Archie.
Oh, that's perfect. But you made that mistake.
Archie puts his giant hands on either side of your face and he
gets really close to your left cheek and he says is grape juice
a marsh stomp? I love Marsh Stomp and he gives
you a little Peck on the cheek and he pulls away.
This man is everything. He has to be protected.
Everything Everywhere, all at once.
It's true. Maxi being the reasonable type,
a cerebral type, wanting to actually have a a good
conversation that doesn't get completely distracted by Marsh
Stomps asks the the three of you one of that you've beaten the
gym successfully. Congratulations, by the way,
what do you intend to do next? Well, we originally set out here
to go to Media Falls, so I think we're going to start making our
way out there pretty soon so as we can get LD in all sorted at
some point. Archie says what do you mean
she's doing great and gives her another hearty slap on the back.
Yes, great in the head for sure, but the five motor skills might
be lacking. Elodie, do you need food?
Yeah, I, I brought. I'm pretty hungry.
We we should probably eat something I love.
Do they? I love food.
That's just the. Summary of Elodie?
Dude, that's just like. Food is so good.
Maybe your character 3 words. Yeah, I love.
Food, it's so good. What do?
What do they serve aside from mimosas?
It's kind of your classic brunch fare.
They've got like sweet breakfast, they got savory
breakfast, they got sandwiches. Want the Oreo Blast pancakes?
They do have sweet pancakes. I'm not sure if they'd be Oreos.
There are orichorios. They're like little cookies that
have. Oreos.
That have like little bird shapes.
Yes. They're they're chocolate
sandwich cookies. Absolutely.
I did Cindy's in. You're ordering a round of of
Auricorio pancakes. At least for Cindy's ordering
them for herself, self, not around, just for herself.
Cool. Although it's just like, do you
need food? OK, I'm going to get something
from me. Also a Cindy move right there.
Could order some. I'm going to get these pancakes.
How did teenager move honestly? Archie says, well, Meteor Falls
is pretty close, so it's a bit of a treacherous journey.
You might want to go ahead of time.
I mean, that's not that's up to you.
All depends on how good of hikers you are.
I. Mean, I know I'm pretty good.
I do worry about the others sometimes though.
I'm such a good hiker. Is Cindy drunk?
No, she's just naive. It's fine.
The pancakes come and Archie gets a little invested in trying
to have some semblance of a reasonable conversation.
And he says, yeah, there was. There's something, there's a big
thing happening soon. It's it's because, and he thinks
forbidden. He points to the ceiling.
He says it's because there's this once every 100 years meteor
shower that's happening tomorrow.
That's what is. That's so cool.
He says. I know it's so pretty.
You're going to have to see it. I mean, that's why you were
here, right? Right.
Definitely. He says, oh, I'm going to go up
on the roof, Maxi and I'm going to get I'm going to go in in in
my special cabinet and get those bottles I've been saving up.
And I'm going to go up on the roof and grab a blanket and, and
get get chompy out and we're just going to watch the stars
fall. And Maxi laughs and he says,
that actually does sound quite pleasant.
I will gladly join you on that. The Oreo pancakes arrive ore
Oreo pancakes. The the mime comes up and kind
of scans around. He's trying to figure out who to
hand them to. He doesn't know who they're for.
There's five of you. The pancakes, yes.
Yeah, the pancakes. Yes.
The mime sees Cindy's reaction and understands and answered the
the plate of pancakes. They are stacked 4 high and
there's a little ore Oreo cookie right on the top and they are
little oracorio bits all over. Not oracorio IO oracorio IO.
Let's be clear, this is a vegetarian dish.
You may eat it, I suppose, if you wish, or you don't have to
make any rules for that, but I'm assuming you do.
I'll start eating it and I'm like Elodie, Elodie, you got it.
You got to try this. Yeah, Do you want, you want
something to eat? I'll order something real quick.
Definitely need to get something and get.
Something I try to give Elodie a bite of my my pancakes.
OK. I'm definitely eating those
pancakes OK Probably start crying as soon as I do all.
Right, we're going to get another stack of those pancakes
for Aladi. Do you guys have like a farmer's
breakfast? I definitely need something
filling in our training this morning.
Mime gives a gives a big nod and he kind of gives you a little
big mime hand thumbs up and he he runs back to the kitchen and
he is doing some mime sign language to a mime who was
working in the kitchen. You've only seen one human
worker here and it and it is seems to be an individual who is
like giving checks to people. It seems like all the food
service is being done by mimes. Very impressive.
Doing such a good job. There's no need to, you know,
let time pass unless you all want to ask questions.
Start to your maxi, potentially anything you want to bring up to
them now that you're in a more casual environment, not in their
home. Do you have any burning
questions? You can, you can.
You may say no. I just want to ask because I
don't want to dominate this RP space.
If any of you have any ideas at all of things you want to be
doing at the moment, please let me know.
I mean. I'm just looking to eat so.
Yeah, I think Cindy's traumatized enough.
She doesn't want to pry. Understood.
Fair enough. Yeah, the breakfast comes it's
for Gimli. It's your classic like eggs and
meat and toast kind of thing. It's just it's it's great.
It's classic and it's pretty Dang good.
The food here is very serviceable definitely at least
7 out of 10. The the mimosas are the
specialty but that the food is not bad at all.
Con check for LED at disadvantage still.
Got you when you roll a natural 20 but you are at disadvantage.
True. Just roll a second Natural 20,
yeah? Easy, easy.
Just on. That the overbearing sweetness
of the pancakes does not make elderly sick, which is very good
and might be helping her condition a little bit.
They are generally much sweeter than like what Ellie
professional sweets Baker would prepare.
They're a little over the top because like, they're syrup and
cookies, like it's a lot. But she, she is drunk and it's
great, so she cannot complain. It's great for Cindy because
Cindy is a child, so she loves how sweet it is.
You enjoying your brunch? Archie keeps telling stories
about his time out on the sea, experiences with his, his Co
workers. You've, you've identified 2
names that he keeps bringing up. Apparently these are his best
friends. They are Shelly and Matthew.
He always, he often finds himself saying Matt.
And then he corrects himself. He says no, excuse me, Matthew.
He wants to make it very clear that he, he's clearly having a
hard time remembering to call him by that name.
Maxie doesn't get a chance to really say much in this
conversation, but he is kind of he's smiling.
He he enjoys the company, but Archie's just kind of talking a
lot about being out in the sea, his Pokémon friends.
He loves a sharp pita. He loves a little Carvana that
he has back at home, and he is glad that he lived somewhere
that is pretty close to the ocean.
After some time, you all finish your meals and Maxi looks maybe
like a little bit antsy. Maxi kind of taps Arch in the
shoulder and he says, I feel like we should check it out.
Edward. He likes to get outside and get
his head stuck in the fence as usual.
We should probably, we should probably go, go take care of
him. And Archie says Edward's so
resilient. He'll be fine.
You don't need to worry about him.
Besides, he's got his Carvana buddy to help him out.
And Maxie says, I don't know, I'd much rather go and take a
take a look at him, make sure he's doing OK.
And Archie says, sorry, I think you would you look at me like
that. I just can't say no.
And he says, all right, let's go in a like a very cavalier voice.
And he starts rushing out the door to go check on Edward.
And Maxie says, OK, OK. And he leaves 50 pokey dollars
on the counter where you're all sitting.
And he says, I'm so sorry, but I he's gets unstoppable like this.
So I'm going to go chase him down.
Have a good day, have fun. I'm in your falls.
And he runs after Archie out the door.
The food comes, you all enjoy it.
Does anyone besides LED have any libations?
I'm going to take that as a no. Cindy's not allowed.
That's true. I mean, yeah, you're not.
I was going to say like, you know, this is DND, you can try
and finagle something if you really want to, but.
Well, I was going to, if Archie was still around, ask Archie,
who was drunk to give me a drink.
Oh, he so was. He so was.
That's too bad that that that you didn't bring that up.
Yeah. Maybe next time.
That's fine. Cindy should absolutely not have
a drink. No, no, no.
I think it would be fun. Is Elodie going to order Cindy a
drink? Is she?
No, no, I don't think she would. Yeah, I didn't think so.
Just a reminder that alcohol is flammable, yeah?
Let's go Orange juice is not so 5050 is not too bad.
It's probably a bit diluted. I don't think you can.
Like the most. And like champagne.
Itself is not super high proof anyways, but in general, yes the
bill comes. The total for the three of you
at the counter where Archie and Maxi were sitting and your meals
comes out to good old 88 pokey dollars and actually left 50,
which is more than what he and Archie consumed, but you are
welcome to use that as you wish I'll.
Just put down the other 50 for you guys.
OK, you're going to include the tip for the mimes?
Yes, that that it's including the tip you had bumped.
Into like 100 total perfect. It is paid very good.
Ality is working on her last drink server, checks in on
Schmidt and Sam, a human server, and they say everything going
OK, do you want more to drink? I think last session Schmidt had
switched to water because he saw something that he thought was
weird. That's correct.
So, yeah, Schmidt's like, no, no, no, I'm fine, OK.
And I'll just finish whatever. I forgot what food he ordered.
I don't think he did order food. OK.
And Sam reading the environment, she says no, I'm good.
And yeah, she's she's just having water at the moment as
well. What is next for the party?
We all sit and fangirl from the bar.
OK. This is about to say to Sam was
like Schmidt turns and was like, I'm sorry, they kind of crashed
our fun. Sam says no, I don't mind.
And I mean, it makes sense. You all finish your gym
challenges, right? So makes sense.
She says. That reminds me if, if we want
to get to Meteor Falls in time, we should probably get going.
It's it's a bit of a dangerous path, I think.
I think getting out there a day ahead, it would be a good call
for us. But of course, that's up to you.
Yeah, I'd probably be a good call.
I guess I'll go rally the troops.
Yeah, she doesn't say anything. Then Schmidt gets up and starts
to walk over there. Cool, you do that.
Does the party have any sort of like reaction to your arrival
that isn't genuine? I'm curious in fact.
I don't know if though Elodie did see you I think.
I guess I'm asking does the party have anything they any way
they react to Schmidt arriving? What?
Was your date it? Was your date.
Oh, OK, sorry. That was a we got to go in
there, right? That's what I heard.
Yes. Does the party heed the call?
Are they not done with Elodie and her mimosas?
That's the better question. Isn't it?
It carries Elodie out of here. All right.
Elodie might be able to walk. I mean, does she want to try?
OK, it's roll the walk. Yeah, it's.
Yeah. It's not too hard.
How? How plastered was she?
She rolled A1 on her con save. She's she's, she's bad, she's
doing bad. It's down, bad, horrendous.
Yeah, seriously. It'd be really bad trying to
hike up a mountain. She'll be fine.
It's fine. It's OK.
Everything is fine. It's an easy check, but yes, you
do have to roll to walk. All right, all right.
Disadvantage. Yes.
I've rolled A-15. I don't know what this is for.
That is sufficient. OK, cool.
Yeah, Ality, of course, a little stumbly, but she's able to stand
and walk. And granted that the terrain is
normal, she will not trip. She's, she's doing OK.
It seems like Sam is adjusting some papers out of her bag over
at the table and she's doing so kind of hurriedly because she
sees you're all about to leave and she put something on the
table and she gets up and she goes to join you all, He says.
Hi everyone. I hope your gym challenges went
well. Yes.
Yes, she says.
Great. So affirmative.
Wow, a mime in the back says yes.
Not true. Not true.
An Archie like 1,000,000 miles down the road goes yes.
He probably does, honestly. So the five of you stand in a
little huddle at the end of the restaurant that's closest to the
Mimosa Bar. What's what's next for you?
Do we have our shit on us or do we need to get our shit from the
bed and breakfast? If I mean As for a time save,
you're more than welcome to just have it on you.
Like either way, we're not going to RP grabbing your belongings
from the bed and breakfast. You have your things about you.
If you want to change your party members or something, that's a
different story, but. No, I'm good.
Yeah, that's all. Excellent.
Absolutely. You exit Mr. Mimosas, and I'm
going to verify that the intention is to head westward
towards Route 114, is that correct?
See. OK, you do so the the parties
marching along. It's about 1:00 PM.
It's little breezy. You're As you walk, you find
forests to your North and South. There are tall mountains that
are to the north that seem very rocky and kind of scattered and
littered with little indentations on them.
You find yourself moving through more farmland.
There seems to be different crop than the Experience gourds with
Gretel on the route prior to Fall Arbor, but it seems like
this is a good territory for farming.
Obviously because of the volcanic soil from Mount Chimney
that is now pretty much directly to your S, there's a straight
walking path that goes through the middle of the farm.
It's not like you're intruding, that just happens to be how it
is built. There's a couple of homes that
are scattered against the foot of the mountain.
It's a pretty, It's an overcast day, but it still feels kind of
bright. It's one of those bright
overcasts. It's a little windy.
As you March forward, you hear the sound of running water.
You have found yourself on Route 114.
It is a mountain path into your S.
You can see a very tall, kind of ominous looking mountain.
There seems to be a series of cave cave systems.
You can see little holes in the sides that Pokémon or people
have burrowed and there are large craters that you can see
from a distance. There is a bridge in front of
you that crosses a running river.
There are fishermen that are standing on the bridge.
They're doing some fishing. And among these fishermen is a
group of three familiar ish looking people.
Who might they be? It's too far away to tell.
Will you investigate? Shiny gang, Shiny gang.
Shiny Gang. Perhaps that's.
Such a Reed. I really hope it is, because
that's such a Reed. OK, Do we do we go on the bridge
and trust Cindy's instincts? OK, You walk away.
You walk past bringing up the rear fair.
You walk past. There's a couple different guys
they're in wearing like red and white clothing and they're
sitting on little stools and they have fishing rods and
they're just kind of and eagerly looking into the water.
And as you approach this three, this group of three perhaps
familiar people, you see none other than Chris, Josh and
Raven. It is the shiny gang.
Let's. Go.
They are joined by Donut, the previously known Bulbasaur, now
an IV sword. Donut notices you first and he
goes, man. He throws his vines up in the
air and there are Donuts on the vines and he offers them to you
immediately. Do you receive a donut?
Absolutely. Absolutely.
No. The synergy on the party dude,
that's crazy. It's bad for Schmidt's
complexion, like it's good geese for episode 1.
True, true, true. As Donut makes the commotion and
hands don't Donuts to the ladies.
Chris, Josh and Raven turn around and they say, whoa, it's
the quacko Paco. Hey guys, good to see you.
How's it going? How?
Do you say, are you gay? How's it going?
Chris. Says 0.
Chris says, good, huh? Wow, yeah, it's good to see you.
We, we saw the news of what happened in Lapa Ridge.
You guys are heroes. We we we saw your faces and we
were like, we know them, we know them.
Josh says, yeah, that was that was really impressive.
I don't even know how you end up in that sort of situation, but
you're all clearly very strong trainers.
Yes, it was totally by happenstance and not a fault at
all. Yep, it's completely random.
It just happens sometimes. Crazy.
That's never happened to you before?
I feel like that's a pretty common occurrence.
That's not. The party here, dude, is like
insane that you're all like, yeah, and because you're all
doing the same thing, they're definitely rolling insight on
that. They roll pretty poorly.
So they're like, wow, yeah, you know, like, yeah, you would
never. How how could you even cause
something like that to happen? That's wild.
That's insane, right? Absolutely.
Yeah, they they totally didn't. They totally believed you.
That's crazy. See, Raven says.
The last time we saw you, we were looking for a specific
shiny, but we just couldn't find it.
Were you able to find it? The Silver Fox No.
Elodie starts crying. Now guys, she's not shiny, she's
just old. Are you sure you're not drunk?
That's shiny. She's just old I.
Stand by that. Yeah, that's fine.
I feel like that's. Something Cindy would It's like,
how else do you describe Zoe? Like we know what it is.
We know who. I you're like, she wasn't shiny,
she was old. So like they're like, yeah, I
guess we did find your heart. You're just going to.
Feel very. Safe about it.
She died in front of you. Yep, that's why she didn't go
into detail. She's just, she wasn't shiny,
she's just old. Great.
We buried her. Did you say that?
Oh my God. Oh my God.
Cindy did. You say that.
Does she? That's your.
Decision sorry we were at a bar earlier and I think she she
slipped a little bit while we weren't looking I.
I might have, honestly, I need to know for the sake of the
plot. Do you say that?
Guys, should I? Did you say that?
Yes, Tella, we buried her. What?
This is your decision to make. I I think we'll leave it at she
wasn't shiny, she's just old. OK, well we'll leave it at that
that and if they try, we'll explain details if needed.
That is a reasonable RP decision.
Yeah. Chris kind of looks at you
quizzically, and he says, what? And Josh says, oh, so you you
did find her? I thought she was a myth.
Raven says no, I told you she's real.
And she's real. Chris has kind of taken aback,
he says. That's insane.
We, we spent so long looking and we did find that shiny Mudkip.
But by the way, how? How's that little guy doing?
Grape juice. I'm going to take out grape
juice. I'm assuming Elodie stops crying
at this point. Yeah.
Just. Stops crying Grape.
Juice just snap 180. Grape juice appears grape juice
looks as great as ever as always nice and hearty just helped earn
a gym bed and the shiny gain all kind of bunch up and they like
say wow, it evolved and they are all very excited and Raven says
it's that's awesome that it it kept its color when it evolved.
That's so cool. And marsh Chomp is enjoying the
attention. Chris says, well, if the silver
fox Israel, we'll have to go back and see if we can find them
because apparently you did. But anyways, we're happy we ran
into you. We're here for a couple reasons.
For one, we heard a theory that fishermen tend to get lots of
shinies because they always fish in the same spot and that there
might there might be have something to do with with
finding shiny Pokémon. So we're very interested.
So we went to one of the most iconic fishing spots on Red
11114 here. This is a very popular river,
Josh says. Additionally, there's a rumor
that on nights of meteor showers, more shiny Pokémon
appear. And furthermore, there's a
waterfall here, and there's rumors about Dragons living
inside the waterfall. So we're trying to find a shiny
dragon. So we're trying to get advice
from these fishermen. And we got our own rods.
And they all kind of like point at their sides.
And it's true, they have they have some fishing rods and they
say, I can't help but but say Elody with with your shiny luck,
I really want to see you hook a Pokémon.
We got to see what it is. Do you want to do that for us?
Yeah. I could show Do you know to do
this? Can we we position someone next
to LD so she doesn't fall in? Yeah, I'll be right back.
I used to do this to my boy. I can help you.
Like missing a fishing back in the day.
This bridges does not have any OSHA safety.
It is just like a log bridge. There's no railings or anything.
They hand LD a rod. It has a little bait on it with
a pokey wall and Raven says we have more if everyone wants to
give it a shot. We don't have a lot of bait, but
we have enough for each of you to give it one go.
Absolutely. I'm from Conor Lav.
I've done a lot of fishing. Great.
Does Schmitz do it as well? No, probably not.
He's going to watch. Yeah, that's the the city boy.
Golden rod is golden rod. I was going.
To say it's technically on a coast, but he does.
Schmidt would have participated. But it's very metropolis, yeah.
Yeah, that's fair. I don't think he would have
either. Sam takes the opportunity to
give it a go herself because she thinks why not.
Sounds like fun and shiny Pokémon are interesting so.
If Sam doesn't, then Schmidt like, kind of like, stand next,
stands next to her and like, encourages her own.
OK, that's so. Cute.
Stupid so hard. Great, everyone give me two D20
rolls. You do need to say them out loud
because I want the listeners to know, but also maybe pop in the
voice to text. 13. I got 2 elevens.
OK. 1412. Am I rolling as well?
Or same as I guess, unless you want to just.
Cuz do you want? To roll 4/11/11. 1712.
Good year. Good roles.
Team. 1712 was a good yeah. I don't know what.
Happened 1712. Now I want to know.
Great. Cindy's line goes out, she casts
it because of this raging river. It seems like there's probably a
lot of life in it, probably a lot of water type Pokémon, and
the fishermen seem to be doing well that are on this bridge.
So after not much time passes, probably about one minute, Cindy
gets a bite. She needs to make a deck save to
reel it in. Oh.
No, that's a four. A4 Cindy pulls and tugs and she
she spins the reel and right as whatever she's caught is about
to break the water, the hook breaks loose and it swims away.
Tragedy L DS up. I was going to say, does that
not count as a survivability skill for advantage?
Not advantage, you would get your proficient.
Oh, you have expertise? Pioneer advantage on skill
checks having to do with survivability.
It's not, so I guess fishing is. Survival it.
Is it is? Yeah.
Roll advantage. You get to roll again.
Oh please. You've convinced me.
The 10. To 10.
OK, all things considered, as
right as the hook is about to slip, it stays in and Cindy
reels up a jellyfish Pokémon. It is blue, it has little
tentacles on the front and has red orbs of of Jelly in its
head. And it looks angry at Cindy.
No. What does Cindy do?
Oh no. What does Cindy always do?
I. Don't want to kill a fire Hello
Kitty? There is.
Oh. Yeah, that is a.
Very on fire. Even though Cindy is like
disgusted by this thing because even though it's like not a bug,
it's still very something Cindy doesn't.
Not a fan of. Uh huh.
She's like trying to pretend that she's a fan.
It's like, hey buddy, how's it going?
It is not well. Roll Chrisma.
I got about handlings of +3 so
that is a 16. 16 Tentacle changes its face from I'm going
to kill you to please return me to the water.
He's not shiny, he's just normal.
His orbs are red and the shiny game do not seem particularly
impressed all. Right like cool, have fun, bye
bye and I just like let him go a tentacool bye bye.
You do that, he splashes into the water, and then you can see
him kind of move like the way that a jellyfish does, very
undulantly, back to the point into the depths where you cannot
see that tentacle anymore. LED using those two rules has
generated a catch on her line, however.
What's good? She's a little tipsy.
She has to make a disadvantaged Dexterity check to reel it in.
Yeah, one of them was a Gnat 1 so.
OK yeah, Elodie on her line, she realizes I got 1 and she starts
to pull on it and it pulls back and it pulls her off the bridge.
I will allow each party member one reaction to try and catch
her if they so wish. OK.
What do I do? I add anything to it.
Strength or decks? Yeah, that will be a 19 on
strength. OK, yeah, right.
Yeah, Gimli. Gimli was prepared for this.
His dad instincts kick in and he manages to grab LED before she
gets pulled in. I do need Ellie to make one more
disadvantage dex trick. Got you.
Hope you slip out of my hands. I.
Swear I got. Yo, it was a six and a nine.
Let's go 9 No. It would be 6 though, right?
Yeah, but my dex, my dex is +3. Got it, got it, got it.
Yeah, yeah. LED almost drops the rod she was
loaned, but she does not and it is still pulling.
So there's potential for Gimli to kind of take over this.
He has one hand on Elodie's leg and he has one hand on the rod
that he was holding. What?
What does Gimli do in this situation?
Elodie is being pulled by something strong.
Yeah, let someone take my rod. I got a lift her up.
It's rough. OK.
Any volunteers? I'll grab the rod since I'm
done, I can hand mine back to the the shiny guys.
Great, and hold Gimli's rod. OK, you do that.
Gimli is now reeling in fish from the rod that LED is holding
as she was thrown off the bridge.
So make a make a strength check for that, yeah. 3020. 3020 Yeah,
impressive. Yeah, you yank LED back to the
bridge, and coming out of the water, connected to the other
end of the rod, you see a fairly large, fairly noodle like
Pokémon. It has a stupid little blue face
and it's got like little whiskers on it and it splashes
back into the waters trying to swim away, but it's still
hooked. However, LD is safely on the
bridge and you can potentially take the rod from her if you
wish you. Want me to realism?
It's it's your body. OK.
Yeah, great. I'll.
Take care of it. One more, one more dice roll for
you, but it's going to add your decks.
I know it's not high 1515. That is going to be sufficient.
Gimley pulls on the line and he spins the reel and he pulls up
again like a little Loach kind of Pokémon.
It's squirming and it is it looks like it's pretty big for
its species. You don't have a good gauge.
I mean, you've probably seen these in Sino you could probably
roll for because they're a native to Sino.
It's a bar boat. What more do you want?
It's a little bar boat. The shiny game does not
particularly react to it. It seems frustrated.
It has it's powerful. It's large and powerful.
All right, little guy. It's just kind of squirming and
making flopping sounds as it does so.
Well, buddy, you could go back or you could get in the ball,
Your choice. It's you can roll for that the
Charisma or Pokémon handling. See the reaction.
Yep, Charisma was a 21. Great Barboch is not opposed to
the idea of getting in the ball. It likes Guinea's authority.
It was not fond of Elodie's weakness, but being held on the
on the line by Gimli, it's it's, it seems, appease I'm.
Like a big control friend, no worries is a permeable.
Great, he smacks it with his lochi body.
And because he's been thoroughly convinced you caught a barboach.
Congratulations. Noodle.
A noodle for sure. Pokey ball, wiggle wiggle.
I'm not sure who you have on you.
I will send the barboach back for right now OK?
Very good. We'll just go to Sam's here with
Schmidt. I will roll the dex check for
Sam, but I'm going to use the encounter generation that
Schmidt got. OK, She passes.
She's pulling on the line. She has a hook.
It's coming up. She's she's yanking on it.
Something's going to pop out of the water.
What's it going to be? Whatever it is, it's incredibly
round. It's incredibly blue.
She Yanks it onto the Woodbridge and it rolls around a bit and
then it flops and it stares at her in a very cute way.
It is a very spherical spiel and it is looking at her with like,
pleady little eyes. And she says, oh, that thing's
pretty cute. Yeah, you want to catch it?
He says that, I don't know, Frostbite's a bit of a handful.
I'm not sure if I could, if I could raise something like that.
It's just kind of flopping around.
It doesn't even mind that as a hook in its mouth.
It's just kind of looking at it. Just like bleeding.
Yeah, yeah, it kind of is, yeah. It's oblivious to it, though.
It's just like, oh, look, these people.
It's, it's doesn't look, it doesn't look very smart.
You can conclude I. Think it'd be worth it?
I think you should try it. She says OK and I'll.
I'll I'll back you up. He says, all right, well, we'll
give it a shot. And she goes into her bag and
she pulls out a regular standard Pokeball and she says here goes
nothing. She rolls it.
Let's see what happens. It encapsulates the Spiel.
It wiggles once and it wiggles twice and Spiel comes out.
It was not successful. Spiel looks up at Sam and with
its little puppy dog eyes and the hook in his mouth and it
kind of sits back on his back flippers and just claps twice
and it keeps looking at Sam. And she says, I knew it.
I knew that wouldn't work. Yeah.
Usually got a weaken on 1st. He says how am I supposed to
weaken this thing? Just look at it.
You do that or you convince them.
That's all. Yeah, this is true.
He says OK. Got to make that charisma check
on me. Right.
Can we be friends? That's how it goes.
Friendship all the way. Cookies also work.
Cookies do work. Wait, do I have cookies?
That's how I got cookie. Thought she'll have Donuts.
We do have Donuts, right? Yeah, give him.
Give him a donut. She says, OK, OK, blue, little
blue round friend, do you do you want to be captured by me?
Is what she says. She rolls for it and she feeds
the doughnut to the to the little seal and it's just kind
of vibing. No thoughts had empty literally
just kind of staring at her. And she says, OK, we'll, we'll
try that again. And she gets a regular Pokeball
out of her bag and she just kind of taps to this feel.
This time it wiggles once and twice and three times, and it
closes. Same.
Has a spiel. Very cool.
Oh yeah. Let's go.
That's awesome. She holds up the pokey while she
says, huh, I did it, I guess, She says, I think I'm an ice
trainer now. And she kind of like scratches
the back of her head because she realizes she has two ice types.
Yeah, I guess you do have two ice types.
Do you have? 3 She says no, I have two OK.
OK. All right.
I see you, Sam. Might not think much of that,
but I see what you're, I see what you're doing all.
Right, that's one. That's one of the list that's.
1. What a nice type.
Cindy is holding Gimli's rod from before and she gets a tug
on the line that Gimli had, so she is going to roll Dexterity
for this last fishing encounter. 15 is still with this with
advantage, sorry. Plus dex that is a 16.
OK. My other role was a four, so
yes. OK, that's a fun one.
That's good. Cindy clearly has a a catch.
However, the tug of this one is noticeably different.
Rather than feeling like something that's like swimming
away, it feels like she almost just hooked like a rock or
something. Does she in fact reel it in?
Yes, OK, she'll try. She does that.
There is no struggle at all. She she pulls up what's is
clearly not a fish. She pulls up a small little
bipedal looking Pokémon. It's got 2 legs and two hands.
It is a shade of blue in color and has ridges on its head, and
it is clearly drowned. It clearly is unconscious and
whether it is dead or alive may take some research from the
party. There is a Pokémon that is not
well that is on the end of her line.
Oh no. I'm going to rush over to it and
check if it's alive. Ality, you are still drunk, so
you roll. It I am still drunk.
OK, is. This a medicine and do you know
like CPR? Is that a survivability skill?
Yeah, sure, I think resuscitation could be, but what
does Ality get? I rolled A flipping one again a
flipping one. How do you do that?
Elodie kneels down to touch this little blue creature and she
puts her hand on it and she immediately turns to the party
and she says they're dead because she has no idea.
Cindy starts. Definitely crying again chest.
Compression. OK, chest compressions on this
little dude. If there's a chest to compress.
Yeah, yeah, as you turn this Pokémon over, you get a better
look at it again. It's like bipedal.
It's got stocky. It's kind of built like
Larvitar. It's kind of built like being a
little bit. It has ridges, that hard stone,
like ridges on its head that kind of looks like a mullet.
And you give it chest compressions.
Give me a survival check. Plus 6/18. 18 you press on its
chest repeatedly for about 30 seconds or so.
The shiny gain is very invested. They say, Oh my gosh, this thing
OK and they they press on its chest and they press on its
chest or Cindy does and it coughs out some water.
It goes and as it does so there's a tiny little bit of
like embers that come out as well.
And it quickly stands up and it looks at Cindy and it just bares
its mouth and it's got 2 little things on the on its lower part
of its jaw and it goes and it's very, very mad at Cindy for
clearly endangering it. You.
OK, buddy. World Charisma.
Nat 20. Wow.
Quisco Baby. Yeah, that's.
Nice. It's messed up, yeah.
This little 2 foot tall little beast lowers its head and begins
to charge towards a threat and then Cindy asks if this buddy's
OK and it looks up at Cindy with kind of pleading eyes and just
kind of sits down on its fat little butt and just looks like
it's crying. As it looks up at Cindy with the
very, very kind question that was asked to it, it kind of came
to terms that it just had a near death experience and that this
strange human might have saved it.
I give him a hug. I still don't know what it is.
I give him a hug. You do that as you hold his
body, you realize he is very heavy.
He is 2 feet tall. You could not lift him if you
tried. He is.
He's a stocky lad. I'm just hugging him.
Yeah, you do that. You also confirmed that his head
is very hard. You might describe it as a rock
head. You draw the attention of a
fisherman, turns around and he says, well, I've heard about
this, and I've never fished one up, but this is true.
You see that waterfall over there?
And he points over to a Cliff, and he's kind of addressing
everyone who's not Cindy. You do, in fact, see a
waterfall. Yeah, it is there, He says.
There's a story that's there's this Pokémon.
I've never seen it before, but there's a type of Pokémon that
wishes so fervently that it could fly that it jumps off that
Cliff over there, and there's all these indentations in the
ground on at the other side of the Cliff.
But sometimes they get overzealous and they jump into
the water and with their tiny limbs they can't swim.
I think that's what you pulled up right there.
You are embracing this little bag on and it is crying in
Cindy's arms. It's a crying moment.
Everyone's just observing the the crying.
ALDI, of course, crying again. Oh.
Yeah, Aldi's bawling. Just witnessed the miracle of
Cindy bringing a Pokémon back to life because that's what she
believes. To happen?
Yep, absolutely. It was dead, I swear it.
Was dead. I chat, I know it was dead.
I asked the Bagon if he wants to be my friend and hold out a
premier ball. OK, no question he does it.
I'm sorry. You, you, you crit the charisma
check and you turned a vicious dragon into a pleasant little
little lad or lass. We haven't rolled for gender
yet. He taps his firm head into the
ball and it feels like it's going to break.
It seems like most of his weight is on his head and he they just,
there's no wiggles or anything. You just, you just have one it.
It just happens. Congratulations.
Neat. My balls do start wiggle wiggle.
You got a wiggle, Wiggle. What are you doing?
Although I'm wiggle, wiggle no. I just finally have everybody
here. Larva Star is not caught yet.
Let me assess my party. Let's send Jack to the box.
Jack the Jack the Tour Cat goes back.
Jack the Tour Cat, yes. Jack-in-the-box.
True, the shiny game is very impressed.
They said wow, great catches and they're like applauding and they
say but we didn't find any shinies.
I thought for sure LED would get one.
Next time for sure. LED role of perception.
Got you. Disadvantage.
Yeah. You're still drunk.
Always. 24/7 Never. Stop never stopping.
Never stop, never stopping. Problem. 10. 10 I'm assuming
you're on your knees because you were crying, right?
Yes, I am on the grass for sure. As you as you're facing
downwards and in your drunken state you swear for a moment
that's below you in the water, you see a series of sparkles and
a pink shape move quickly through the river.
No, but you. Can't do this to me.
Who knows, who knows what to make?
You may live in the river, who knows if what L if what LED saw
is actually there. Regardless, LED is going to gasp
and excitedly points in the water and say shiny.
We're gonna be like, yeah, sure, we get her some water so she
gets so warm up. There's water everywhere here,
Shred. Don't drink.
That one drink the like the bottled.
Water, the shiny game observes. And they said, I'm just, I bet
the legends are true. I bet there is one, but we'll
just have to keep trying, right gang?
And they all say yeah. And Donut goes meh and throws
Donuts around. They politely ask for some rods
back because you borrowed them. Do you?
Do you return them? Yes, yes.
Great, they said. I'm assuming that you're here
for this Millennium Festival that's happening in Draconid
Village, right? And Sam wanted to come and see
it. They say, yeah, it's a big
event. I think you'll be glad that you
went too, Raven says. I know, I know a little bit
about the Dracon. It's they're, they're native to
Hoenn and they're usually pretty exclusionary, but over the past
ten years or so they've been inviting tourism, which is very
interesting. Josh says, yeah, it seems like a
real change. I'm I'm not sure what triggered
it. Maybe you'll be able to find out
more. Chris says you got to be
careful. A lot of powerful Pokémon reside
in Meteor Falls. It's a bit of a hike to get up
there. So.
So best wishes to you. Thank you and good.
Luck to you guys. They say thanks, finding shinies
is all about luck and Chris gives you a thumbs up and
there's a twinkle in his eye as he winks at you.
Thumbs up back. Great.
Excellent. They pull out their stools and
they start fishing. Do you continue across the
bridge? Absolutely.
Yeah. Cool.
Good little fishing encounter Before you encounter the other
side of the bridge. It's a pretty long 1.
You notice that there's a Riverside house and there is a
woman on a ladder bounced kind of precariously and she is
painting over a symbol on the north facing side of the house
that she's leaning up against. Can I get history from Cindy?
The Aqua logo. OK, yeah, you don't have to
roll. Someone has.
Someone has vandalized this person's house, apparently with
the Team Aqua logo, which is. Kind of.
I wonder who could have done that?
Kind of interesting. Do you?
Do you interact with this situation whatsoever?
I don't know what to say to like not sound suspicious.
Cindy sounding suspicious? Never, dude.
You don't have to say anything, but yeah.
We could ask if she needs help painting her house.
Do you do so? Sure, Cynthia will go and be
like hey, do you need any help? She is guilty.
Yeah. The woman you observe, she is
wearing like, a green or Forest Green dress.
And she has, like, gingery hair. She's wearing glasses.
She has a slim build, like, as if she doesn't get outside very
much. And her skin is very fair.
And she is clearly not super balanced on this ladder.
And she hears someone shouting at her.
And she says, oh, hi, yeah, don't worry about it.
I got this taken care of. And she turns back around to
finish painting over the vandalism.
And she starts to slip. She's going to fall out of this
ladder. No.
Can I hold the ladder steady? You can.
Or is that not? Help.
It might be possible. Yeah, try it.
Give me give me a dex to see if you know what.
You're doing? Yeah, totally.
Wow, can I send a bird to help? Yeah, send a bird you.
Probably should. What bird do you pick?
I'm going to flex on the party and I'm going to use my new
Talon Flame. OOP.
OOP, Meryl Cheap screeches out of the pokeball for the first
time. None of you knew it was coming.
Talon Flame the the the new fully vault fire flying type
screeches out of the ball and charges towards this mysterious
woman and blinding speed goes immediately up to her back and
then immediately just halts, holds the wings out like
spoilers, and then gently uses her talents to prop this one
back on the ladder. It's very impressive.
It all happened in a split second.
I also got an 18 for ladder. Ladder stabilization.
Oh OK yeah, town flame is much faster than Cindy.
That's a good out of context quote.
I think Cindy runs over and tries to stabilize the ladder.
She doesn't have much weight to her, but she it does help.
She does help. This woman says whoa, wow.
Thank you trainers. I didn't really expect that.
I'm sorry I, I, I'm not good at this kind of thing.
I, I just, someone came by my house and, and they, they
vandalize it. I don't know why I put a weird
symbol here. I, it took me like a whole week
to get the strength to go to the store and fall over and get
paint that's the same color as my house.
The first time I got it, it wasn't the same color and I was
just such a mess. She's just rambling.
She is clearly not super socially capable perhaps, but
she's still really grateful to you all for, for helping her.
She says, I, I got, I got to take a breather after that when
I thought I was going to die. And she she just like sits down
for a second at the bottom of the ladder and she says, are are
you all from around here? We've been travelling quite far.
She says how far, where, Where are you from?
Well, we're all from all over the place but gathered at Hoenn,
kind of stuck here, so we're travelling around together.
It's been fun. I think Sydney is the only local
SO. I grew up at the Berry Masters
house. This woman's eyes kind of light
up and she says trainers from from far away.
Hold on. I never do this.
Would you come inside with me for a moment?
Hi, My name is Lynette. Hi.
What's all your names? I'm Ality.
Don't mind. That I'm Cindy.
OK, bye. I'm Schmidt.
This is Meryl. Cheap.
She sees Meryl Cheap and she says 0 and she gives a quick
little bow very awkwardly and she's like, thank you for saving
me. Does Meryl cheap have any
response to that? It's.
Sort of like acknowledgement, yeah.
OK, a classic bird acknowledgement.
Bird up, you know. Yeah, bird up.
Inside do you do you want some of my lads to come out and help
finish painting your house? They're very good at chores.
She says, Oh my goodness, that would be so helpful.
Could could they do that? What kind of Pokémon do you
have? Send out lasagna sends out
lasagna. Has psychic abilities.
Picks up a bunch of paintbrushes.
It's true. Does the party know about this?
Does the describe this real quick please?
So this is just the Flux episode.
Yeah, so I'll send Lasagna out. Lasagna comes out is actually a
crustal with a giant gemstone like Prism on top of him and he
actually gained psychic abilities because of it.
So yeah, he has he has just crazy mental capabilities and is
super smart, like kind of raising up to probably not
Alakazam levels, but definitely cadaver levels of brain power.
So it's not actually stupid. Yes, this.
Is a unique form of Crestle that is exactly as we described.
It has it can immediately detail, it can without
instruction, it can determine what's going on, why it was
called out, and it immediately starts using its mind or its
shell or something to manipulate the painting tools that Lynette
left on the ground. Thanks buddy, have at it.
Lynette says wow I didn't know Crossel could look like that.
She says OK everyone come in please let me do something for
you. Does everyone enter her home?
Absolutely. OK, you immediately notice that
this is it. It's the interior design is
something special. There are there are boxes
everywhere. They're just full of stuff, full
of computer parts, full of papers.
She has four computers in the middle of her living room that
are just kind of all set up there.
They're connected with cables. Clearly something is being
worked on. And then her walls are just
lined with Pokémon plushes, just so many of them.
And you can tell this is kind of like a little one bedroom house.
If you peek around the corner, she has a bedroom and you can
see a bed, but the bed is entirely covered in Pokémon
plushes. It seems like there's little
like ramen cups everywhere. There's a pot of coffee that's
flowing over. And she says, sorry, it's, it's
a little cluttered, but I, I wanted to, I wanted you guys in
here. I got something interesting.
But she says first, and she runs over to her kitchen sink and she
gets a tall glass and she's like, oh, and she rinses it out
because it's got like a little bit of soda in it.
And she fills it with water. And she runs over to LD and she
says here, I think you need this.
Oh, thank you. That's very kind to do.
It's fresh water but it does taste a little bit like cola
because she was drinking cola out of that glass.
But I'm not sure if LD cares. I don't think she cares.
She says, I know, I know it's weird to invite you in like
this, but I've been working on a project and I thought the
trainers from far away, this is like the perfect way to test it.
So let me just show you. She rummages through a box and
there's like cables all over the place and, and she's she's
pulling them out and there's like a little spark, there's a
ZAP and she says out because it's just such a mess, such a
tangle of cables. And she pulls out a peculiar
mechanical looking Gray slate that is a circular indentation.
I would describe it as concave in the middle of it and it's
like a couple of buttons on the front.
She says. This has been a little personal
product of mine and I've been wanting to test it for a while.
Little known fact, I've been working with Bill from the Canto
region for a long time. We work on the Pokémon storage
system. If you're trainers, you must use
it right. Definitely.
Yeah, yeah. She says this is a little
experimental. I know that it is entirely safe
to use. I'm just not sure the
consistencies of it because, well, I just, I don't get out
very much. So what this is this is, I call
it the Pokémon box link. And trainers should
hypothetically be able to access their box from anywhere and be
able to exchange Pokémon with it.
I've been I've been looking for someone to test this out but I'm
just not very social and I was hoping maybe you could do me
this favor. Definitely.
Absolutely. She says great, I, I, I can't,
gosh, this is so great. I, I, I wish I could repay you
somehow, but and I just don't. I, I, I don't have a whole lot.
She's just kind of standing there awkwardly because she's
very awkward. Me too, sister.
I get it. So we have the thing.
Very cool are. We going to try it.
Yeah, does anyone want to try it?
Lynette says. I'm sure it works, but yeah,
please, by all means give it a try.
She she points to like a little RFID interface at the front.
She says put your trainer card there and it'll automatically
link with your box. Who's doing it?
I'll, I'll give it a go, OK. You put your trainer card on it
and it gives off a little beep and then a little hologram from
the middle concave area shows the Pokémon in your box.
It shows the first one. It shows Barboach.
It shows a little hologram image of it.
She says you press that button on the left if you want to
withdraw that. You press the button on the
right if you want to cycle through it.
I mean cycle to. Lebowski.
OK, You cycle to Lebowski. It shows a little hologram of
her old and Geodude, and she says, is that the one that you
want? Yeah.
He says, great, Press that green button.
There's a little green button pressing.
She says OK, now you have to put one of your pokeballs that you
want to return to swap out into the box in this little concave
area. I don't.
You know what I'll give. I'll give Toy a little break.
She's been hard at work. Great.
You put Toto's ball in the little area and then after a
moment it kind of vibrates and then it disappears into
cyberspace and then reforming it's place is Lebowski's
Pokeball. Seems like the transfer has been
successful. Noise.
Lynette kind of claps her hands anxiously and excitedly.
She says, yay, I knew it worked, I gave it tests, but no, this is
great. This is great if you have any
concerns about like your Pokémon safety, I know I I've done this.
This is the most important part of this research.
Nothing bad will happen. My only concern is that
depending on how adventurous you trainers are, it might not work
in certain places. But that's exactly why I want
you to have it. So if you ever have any issues,
just as you know you, you can send me a message.
If you use the box system from a computer, you can, there's a
little place where you can contact me and just ask a
Pokémon Center attendant. They'll help you out and they're
not Just let me know when it doesn't work.
And yeah, yeah, she's everything Nervous and excited and just an
interesting woman. This is very cool, thank you.
She says thank you and and for painting my house.
I I wonder how that's going. She she doesn't really know how
to, like, end a conversation, kind of.
I'll go check on my boy I'm. Sure, he's not a sister.
It's just that's the me too sister.
I just I get it. He says, oh, great, awesome.
Yeah, OK. And kind of marks back outside.
I guess roll for lasagna just because it's fun and
interesting. I'm curious.
What type of role? Just let's do intelligence
because this is like a human task and they're using their
intelligence to manipulate things with psychic powers.
3020. 3020, Lo and behold, lasagna has actually repainted
the whole house and it looks like way better than it did
before and all sorts of like, weather and damage and stuff.
There were some loose tiles on the roof that have been
repaired. And Lynette is like, what?
This is amazing. That only took, like, a minute.
She crap, rave, crap rave. Yeah, she cannot believe it.
She says I'm going to have to custom order a plush of this
guy. And she like, looks at it and
she like looks like she wants to touch it, but she's scared to
touch it. Oh, go ahead, he's safe.
She says OK, and she reaches out her hand to like, touch the
shell and she's very nervous. And Lasagna is looking
expectantly, knowing Lasagna can fully interpret the situation.
Lasagna is like, yes, this girl is nervous and doesn't want to
touch me. And so he steps forward a little
bit, depresses shell into her hand and she says so cool.
And she's just very excited. So how long ago did this like
graffiti situation happen? She said this is kind of
embarrassing but it happened about two weeks ago and I left
it up for like a week because I was too scared to leave the
house. So I only just got around to it
today. But thanks to you I got it done
really fast. No shame at all, it happens, I
was just curious. He says yeah, do.
Did you know anything about that symbol?
I don't recognize it. Just no recognition of the
symbol living in Helen. Yeah, OK.
He's a shut in, Yeah. Yeah, she's shot and she isn't.
I, I don't know that much about it, but like, I, I know that
it's like old, like older than me old, like super weird.
She says 0. Fatter.
Is it must be something historical then?
OK, that's interesting. I wonder who would put it there?
No clue. Kim Lee with the big sigh.
Lynette looks at the party and she awkwardly tries her best to
make eye contact with all of you and she like gets really stands
up straight like she's scared and she quickly waves and she
says OK bye and she starts to run back inside.
So you now have a Pokémon box link that should work most of
the time. Congratulations.
Guess we can like check the connection on that every so
often, yeah. It is the favor that she asked
so nice. Look what you get for helping
strangers as an adventuring party.
Who would have thought crazy. It is probably closer to like
two or three at this point. You've been doing a little bit
of adventure in it might be ideal to see how far you can get
before the sunsets perhaps. The route changes from the
Riverside, of course, provides the soil with plenty of water.
So you enter a part of the route where you see some trainers
training some athletes running up and down the rocky steps of
this area, and there is some tall grass that you have no
choice but to enter. Someone give me a rule.
I do want to, yeah. You know you can do it because I
have something else I'm looking for anyway, so you can.
Do it. That's a wisdom that's a plus.
One, that's a dirty Tony. Oh, cool.
As you marks forward to the tall grass, you're able to kind of
like skirt around. This is clearly full of life.
There's Pokémon everywhere. You can see up in the Rocky
Mountains, Pokémon that you all recognize a little swab blue are
nesting, and those seems like they're taking a snooze as you
walk up to approach the rocky steps that will get you towards
Meteor Falls. Not close enough, but pretty
much they are on the same mountain.
You see two very peculiar Pokémon.
They're staring each other down like they are in like a cowboy
Midwestern standoff, and they are looking at each other with
intense hatred. One of them, it is a Pokémon
that's you may in fact recognize.
It's quote UN quote killed Cindy a few days ago.
It is a purple and black serpent with long dangerous looking red
fangs and a blade on its tail. It is staring forward ahead at a
bipedal furry looking Pokémon with lawn sharp claws and a scar
like pattern on its body. They are both prepared to strike
at any moment. They are just standing there
menacingly blocking your path. What's that?
What are you saying? I was just quoting that he's
just standing there menacingly. Oh yes, yes, that they're both
doing that. They don't notice you yet
because they're so obsessed with each other in a bad way.
What was I was about to say? How cute.
Yeah. Kitty Kitty Mongoose.
Is this something Cindy does? Probably.
OK, Cindy. Says the the snake is the here
Kitty Kitty. That's true.
Cindy delivers her iconic line and it draws the attention of
both of these fierce and Pokémon.
The serpent lets out a very, very scary hiss, incredibly
terrifying. And the bipedal mammal Pokémon
turns to Cindy and growls and extends its claws from its hands
in her direction. And then as they acknowledge,
like they do kind of a double take where they see that both of
each other has turned away for a moment to intimidate a different
threat. Then they immediately turn back
in our head to head are just growling and hissing at each
other. This conflict must be resolved
somehow. Also, someone wants to make a
role that wasn't the encounter role and I'm curious as to what
that was. Oh, perception for nap spot
check. OK, Yeah, yeah, right in between
the two the. Perfect spot.
I did. I did roll a dirty 20 on the nap
spot. Check you did.
That's crazy. You see that just beyond this
pair of dueling Pokémon, there is like a little indent in the
wall that leads into like a tunnel that has above it there
is tiny. You can't see it that well.
In front of you can see a tunnel that is somehow lit through the
top, like there's holes in the ceiling or something, and it
looks like it forms like a little nook on the inside.
It looks pretty interesting, but you can't really evaluate it
until you can get past these guys.
Keep an eye out for those nappy spots.
OK, so we got to deal with the situation first before I can put
down the little snack. Do we have to deal with the
situation? Can go dealing with it.
Also, is going around it, so can't.
We just believe him be. Cindy says.
Aren't you both so cute? They really aren't.
Look at how cute and sharp they are.
Neither of them are. Do you just sharp?
Yes, but. They are.
Sharp. Both of them are sharp.
That's pretty good. It's very accurate.
Give me two independent Charisma checks, Cindy.
It's. Gonna be bad.
One's A10. One's A5.
OK, the serpent Pokémon. The survivor overhears Cindy's
words and is like somewhat invested in Cindy.
Whether it's a good way or a bad way yet to be determined.
The Zang Goose, I'll just say it out loud because we all know the
Zang Goose is does not care. The Zang Goose is so focused on
its enemy, on its enemy, that it sees an opportunity to strike as
survivor is distracted. It does so.
It slashes at the survivor right in this moment of weakness, and
the survivor hisses and slithers away because it's been struck.
The Zangoose kind of packed its claws together like it's
brushing off its hands, and it walks towards Cindy and holds
out an open palm with something in it.
Do you pick up the item it is handing you?
Absolutely. It is handing you what looks
like almost one of its own claws, but it's like a slightly
different color. It's clearly not attached to it.
It seems like it wants you to have it.
It does so, and it begins to scamper into the grass behind
you. Nice.
Is it a quick claw? I wonder.
Yeah, It's an item. It's D&D.
It's not a magical item, so you don't need to get it evaluated.
This is a razor Claw, a Pokémon that holds it.
It will evolve a certain species and otherwise it increases your
critical range by 1. So that is a useful item to
have, right. You move forward and you can see
that little indentation that was in in the rocky side of the
mountain and the rocky Cliff. Do you wish to investigate
again? I do, yeah.
Yeah. You peer inside and it's like,
it's true. There's like a little tunnel
path and opens into a circular area and through the roof there
are tiny pin holes that cause light to filter it in a very
very pleasant way. It is not particularly like
dusty. It is not particularly dank.
The air is nice and breathable. It seems like this could be a
pretty cool place to hang out. Perhaps this could be the
location of a potential secret base, so to speak it.
Could be a sick nappy spot. True.
Just. I think we should get nap lady
in. I I agree, I'm going to leave a
little Muncho snack from Muncho snack pouch in that spot.
Or in the spot. Yep.
OK, yeah, you do that just as a little reference.
Just want to throw this in there.
This route in the games has like so many good secret base spots.
Just wanna put that out there. If only some of us had secret
power. Yeah, I mean, it's probably
obtainable. You can probably find a way to
get it. You put the snack on the ground
and in a mere matter of like 6 seconds you hear plotting
footsteps like like almost at the speed of like a horse clip,
just just like running straight towards you.
And then yeah, Ellie's laughing. Rolodex check disadvantage.
Okay, oh, let's go 18. OK, Muncho.
The Munchlax charges into the room, detecting the the snack, a
drool slobbering out of its mouth, leaving a trail behind it
and it smacks directly into Elodie who is drunk and Elodie
spins like in a cartoon. The momentum spins her like a
ballerina and she regains her footing and she's very dizzy but
she does not fall over. It charges into the room and
immediately starts on the snack on the ground.
Muncho is so thrilled who comes in behind Muncho, but none of
them. Lucy, she's out of breath.
She has Muncho. You got to slow down.
And then she looks inside and she says, oh, hey, everyone,
You're, you're the Quacko Packo, right?
Yeah, yeah, I gave you Muncho's treat bag.
Yeah, it did. He says, well this looks.
Like a good spot, he. Says I got to say this looks
pretty nice. Looks pretty good.
Not going to know for sure until I have a little nap in it, but
this is looking pretty promising.
She pulls out like a foldable hammock from her her bag and she
pulls out some like spikes, some to that she can nail into the
wall to find securement for the hammock.
And she says, let me let me get this a shot.
And if it's if it's something particularly good, I'll I'll
come find you or you can just put a snack down tomorrow.
All right, that's reasonable. She says that and she gets her
hammock and she immediately falls asleep and you're all just
standing in this little tunnel and she's taking a nap and
Muncho is just trying to climb up in the hammock to nap on top
of her, but he can't reach it. I'll.
Pick him up. OK, put him.
You do that. He Pats his belly and falls
asleep on top of her just like spread eagle on his back and
they are just both snoring immediately.
That's just all they needed. The hike is before you.
Is there anything the party is like trying to get done before
they beacon their ascent? Awards the treacherous path that
is Meteor Falls? Don't think so.
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That's shiny. She's just old.
Same with Elizabeth, the rest in peace.
She's not shiny, she's just a holy shit.
So topical. Melissa's microphone is cutting
her off. She is wailing.
She is actually. That I ordered now.