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.
The last we left the party, we all found ourselves in a very
peculiar situation with the reveal of an evil force known as
Team Neo Rocket Galactic. They were sieging Maville City
with a strange mystical creature that was clad in armor.
It was just throwing Pokémon, just with extreme ease.
It shot a flag on over the horizon into Slateport City, and
it cut down the statue of May in half.
The last thing that happened was that Cindy noticed that the
stone that she's been carrying with her started to glow a
pinkish color, and she pulled it out of her back to investigate.
The creature telepathically stated the Atlas Stone and fired
a psychic blast towards her. At this moment, the party hears
a familiar voice no. And out leaps a dark black and
pink BLOB in front of Cindy, and it intercepts the blast.
Sam. No, you turn your head to the
left and who do you see but a woman in a Navy blue power suit
with long pink hair. She has sent out Frostbite the
Sneasel. It's a little bit bigger than a
Sneasel. It has a little bit more pink to
it. To intercept the psychic blast,
she says, hurry, you have to get out of here and telepathically
you all hear you dare interfere. What do you do?
Put the stone in my backpack. OK.
Where, Where are we going guys? Where are we going?
We're still kind of like an initiative, so careful with your
like you guys can perhaps do like one thing at a time right
now can. We rehash like what the state of
the battlefield looks like. Sure.
Can we also rehash because I don't think Schmidt realizes
that, that everyone else is there.
OK, I thought. Aren't they all still in uniform
as well? They're in uniform, but I
thought the consensus was that when you witnessed the combo
attack that was named Cacophony, you realized that it was LED and
the gang. OK, I don't know if it.
We didn't establish that. That was established here.
I thought we discussed it all. If you want to go with that, we
can like roll a perception for it, or we can just say that
Schmidt doesn't know this. Or hearing the Atlas stone might
make him think like, Oh yeah, Cindy has a stone, Yeah.
Schmidt definitely heard that in his head for sure.
You're so the battlefield, the center is where the statue is.
That's all broken on the left of the statue.
Like just let the left of it is like Schmidt and Quacko and
whatever other Pokémon he has out above.
Schmidt is where there's a blimp and it's starting to billow
smoke and bats gradually and there are ropes that are
repelling down from and it seems like maybe people are going to
drop down soon. In front of this circle is a
collapsed Enyo and a Gardevoir, and Rada's agron is dueling A
blazekin and losing. And Rada is like tending to and
Yo, who's collapsed. And then just to the right of
the circle in the middle of the courtyard is the strange
floating mystical creature and the rest of the party.
And now Sam and Frostbite. So if you want names of like the
directions of like, figuring out where you're at, to the north is
Route 111. To the east is Route 118 that
will cross the river and go back towards your stronghold, so to
speak, which is Cindy's grandparents house.
But the South is Route 110, which is where Hoopa's brick
house is, but it's also currently where a ton of team
energy members are. And then to the West is Route
117, which you haven't been to before, but it leads towards
burden turf we're. Currently not in a position to
go West very easily. That would be the most difficult
for for you. Not possible.
I feel like the most logical decision would be go back to
Cindy's grandparents house if we can leave.
Because that's. How it makes sense?
Do we still have Pokémon at the Battle Institute or whatever?
I thought you just like distinctly went there and we
just went there to pick them up. Like I thought you went and
picked them up like when you went off on your own.
I wasn't sure if that was the case.
And then we like, we definitely just picked them up.
Well, you didn't pick them up The the the the gym Bros just
kind of tossed them outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But we went, we went specifically there to pick up
our guys. So we have everybody.
Real quick, actually, Cindy, what's in your inventory?
A few premier balls, a four tree ball, super potions, 2 super
repels and I believe one revive because I used one.
You should have well for one the.
Atlas Aries. Oh yeah.
And you should also have 12 strangers pokey balls.
Oh yeah, I did grab those. Yeah.
So just be sure to write those down, OK?
I'm not suggesting you use them, but I'm thinking like it's
important that you know that those are on your person you.
Have them and then you're just walking around for the rest of
time with strangers. Pokeballs.
Yeah, isn't there also like some amulet that you're hiding from
the rest of the party? I saw it so not.
Yeah, my necklace. Well, yeah, that could probably
go on your inventory too. I'm wearing it.
It's in your inventory. I have an initiative from last
session. This has been a lot of
discussion for a moment where the the Sneasel evolution
intercepted the psychic move in front of Cindy and now
everyone's just kind of staring at each other and Sam said to
run. So what's the plan?
I guess we start running towards my grandparents house.
At this moment where Frostbite intercepted the psychic blast,
the smoke and bats flying out of the blimp start to move towards
group and they are making disorienting screeches and
there's a lot of chaos happening as this creature fired this
blast and as Frostbite was sent out of the ball.
There's kind of like a moment of jarring silence, you know, And
there's like a really dramatic thing that happens in action
scene. Everyone's attention kind of
turns and Schmidt definitely notices Symetra in her really
good looking power suit and then like notices Frostbite and then
notices the party that is dressed in bad guy clothing.
If you were to walk towards the party or run or dash or whatever
you want, I don't think you'd be inhibited because the only
people in your way. You probably have to dodge the
brawl between Blaziken and Agron, but Radha is distracted
with Enya right now so you could definitely like run past them.
Didn't I just helping him the Blaziken?
You did. OK.
They're dueling the Blaziken is winning.
Agron has like a. I thought the Blaziken had like
the Agron penned or something. Yeah, they're, yeah, it's it's a
bad situation for Agron for sure.
OK, Anyways, we're an initiative, so maybe we should
just do one thing at a time. If Sam just went, then let's
actually, yeah, let's start. With Schmidt, I just realized
everyone's there. Sam just did a thing.
Yeah. Side note, is Sam's leg still
broken? No, she's fine.
Her leg wasn't they looking like.
It's been a while. We we definitely like has it
been a while 'cause I feel like it's just been non-stop bullshit
since. Yeah, I'm not.
I don't think I have a timetable on what, Yeah.
I I want to say it's been like a week because you got to remember
you spent like 2 full days at Sydney's grandparents and then
you. Did we part before then or did
we part after that? You part.
You parted right before then, Yeah.
You spent a while there and then you spent a day in Marvel and
then you spent who knows how long in the Trick House and then
you went to Slate Port and then you went to New Model.
So yeah, it's probably. It's been at least a week.
It's a crazy. Week actually, even without the
other stuff in between like. Yeah, who do I have out with me?
I know it's Quacko. I feel like we like sent
everyone out. I think I'd sent everyone out,
but I think I recalled Jessica. That sounds correct.
I think I'm going to recall everyone OK, and then with my
dexterous speed, I'm going to run and grab Quacko and then
just keep running. OK.
West, I guess, with everyone else.
That would be East. East.
Correct. OK, you get an extra tile of
movement. So actually before anyone can do
anything, you can basically run right up to the party.
You're like in between Metra and everyone else.
Nice. I'm like the flash.
Does anyone have any quick things to say to their lost
companion? We're going, Schmidt.
You're Oh my gosh, yeah, you're. So much chaos.
What's with the new digs, guys? It's such do I?
You. Know I need to, yeah.
I'm calling the police. We're we're not team energy.
There's no. Crimes.
I don't believe you 'cause you're wearing the uniform.
I don't know if the police can help us here anyway.
Right. I don't think I've seen the
police. I think the police are myth.
While you guys are debating, there's like a a pretty large
explosion around your shoulder. It's the baddie's turn real
quick. This strange creature is like
you will not interfere. They put out their hand and
Symetra slightly levitates off the ground like she's being
forced choked. This concerns Frostbite and he
like starts to run towards the armored creature.
Also at this point people are repelling out of the Zeppelin
and they are wearing classic energy uniform.
They're wearing the visors and something else happens.
You hear like a searing scream of what sounds like a jet coming
from the West right over your heads.
And then all of a sudden I have nowhere.
A figure atop A redded and white Pokémon that kind of looks like
a plane goes up floating above the fallen statue and fires a
pulse of arcane energy towards the blimp.
Let's see if it does anything. It does not.
There is a a force field. There's a barrier that prevents
it from making contact. close behind come three additional
people running up from the South.
There is a skinny man with green hair running up with a bipedal
Pokémon that looks similar to Gardivore but more masculine.
Coming from the West is a trainer who has explosive red
hair. Might have been at the festival.
Someone might recognize her potentially.
And behind her, she has a is a camel and it's just stomping
around and it's like seems very heavy.
Coming in from the north is a young woman in in like a floral
gown and accompanying her is a spooky ghost with very big
hands. And they seem very determined to
put a stop to whatever is happening here.
The government finally shows up. Perhaps it seems like Radha is
dealing with Enyo. He seems less intimidating, and
he has, like, concern on his face.
You can even tell from the 30 feet away that you are that he's
upset. Something's not quite right.
There's also just a whole bunch of people in this courtyard are
setting up their Pokémon in defense.
At first, they were kind of on the side of the, you know, of
the insurrectionist. There's a lot of Pokémon being
sent out. But also simultaneously, as the
people descend from blimps, you see an eerie sight.
You see black beams of light extending from their hands and
they're darting towards certain Pokémon.
I'm going to make some rolls here.
OK, so from the distance you can't tell, but it seems like
some Pokémon are being stolen. There is keen focus being drawn
on B BS partner Pokémon. Does it connect?
It does not, thank goodness. So yeah, while these energy
grunts are are descending from this blimp, they are shooting
out beams of like dark purple spooky light.
And it seems like a couple Pokémon are being abducted.
The audience. That's the baddest turn, Ality.
Sam seems like she's kind of in trouble here.
She did tell us to leave. She stay though.
What did you say? Do we stay?
Well, it seems like help has arrived, so it's a little less
hopeless. Yeah, but it also seems like
that, you know, people still trying to get or people are
still getting hurt. Is.
Is this an argument to stay or an argument against staying?
I'm confused. This is an argument to stay
because we can prevent people from getting.
Hurt. I'm kind of feeling like
staying, yeah. I I would agree typically but it
seems like they really want this stone and it seems like if we
stay we do more harm than good. Like isn't us leaving getting
them to go after us anyway and preventing more harm if they're
going after us? I have an idea.
OK. But it's always a bad idea when
it comes to D&D. Yes.
No, no, don't say it, party. You're.
Going to split the party Gimli and fuck up spacing right now
and. They.
Bail, I feel like Gimli would be the best defender that.
Would probably be true, yeah. And then me and Elodie stay and
we agreed to rendezvous back at Cindy's grandparents house.
I can agree. I can agree.
Because I have like 1/2 of HP. Yeah, 1/2 of an HP.
Definitely get Cindy out of. Here, let's split up gang.
Not a gun. You heard the leader.
You go with Fred, you take Velma Mansion.
Got it. So what does this mean for elegy
this term then? Yeah, that's a good question
that I need to figure out. So the it's the armored Pokémon
that is sort of force choking. Say I'm here.
That's what it looks like. I can I don't feel like I can
hurt badly I. Was like, are you getting
choked? Yeah, no, I'm also getting force
choked. Would it be like illegal to go
for another cacophony? Not at all.
Can I do one that's directed at the armored Pokémon?
Sure is like a attempt to disorient it.
Yeah, why not that? Is that what you want to do?
Yes, that's what I want to do. OK, what?
We just rolled like a bunch of D 20s last time, right?
Yeah, it was like 5. Yeah, just just do that and tell
me your results. OK, OK.
The way that two of them were ones.
OK, I'm going to type them in chat.
OK And then do the math. The weirdest roles in my entire
life. Very.
Strange. Yeah.
OK, that's interesting. Yeah, it's definitely not as
good as the last one, but. No, it's.
It's something then do me. Just roll 37.
Just roll just one more to 20. The last one was a 12.
LED gathers up her Mons and they now with a new addition, grape
juice being twice as big and a brilliant shade of pinkish
purple. They all just make some
beautiful music and they put on a show.
Cabbage does the little dazzling gleamed light show.
It's incredible. This greatly disorients the
incoming bats. They completely clear out of
this eastern side of the courtyard.
This is focused on the strange armored creature.
The armored creature takes what might be like a percent of a
point of damage and it is slightly distracted and it drops
Sam. Sam falls to her knees briefly
and it looks like it's kind of hard for her to get up because
she's wearing super awesome heels, and Frostbite rushes to
her side and she kind of coughs out.
I'm not kidding. You got to get out of here.
But we're worried about you, Sam.
I'll be fine, just go. But you're in a power suit.
She's like, exactly. The creature in armor who is
psychically powered is slightly astonished, but is just kind of
taken aback for a second. We'll probably take another
action soon, I guess. Aladi, you could still, you
could move, you could ask questions, you can talk to Sam
some more, I guess. But.
Oh, OK, sure. Sam, do you even know what this
is? I've never seen anything like
this before, but I know that we're in danger.
They won't stop until they get that stone.
You got to get that out of here. Yes, we are planning on getting
that out of here, but we also want to make sure everybody else
is safe. She kind of looks around at the
chaos and the hundreds of people that are out here that are like
fighting and she says, do you really think this is your
responsibility? Do you think it's yours?
No, but I look out for my friends always.
And we look out for our friends, so we're going to look out for
you. She gives Elodie a nod, and she
says all right. Yeah, we all go.
Maybe like make an athletics check for a dash because you
can't freely dash. I'm assuming you want a dash.
If you can, yeah, make a make an Athletics check your DC.
There's like explosions and chaos and people are running and
screaming. Make ADC 16 Athletics check.
So 15 OK, no. That's close enough.
You're not gonna, like, suffer. You probably instead of going 60
feet, you're gonna go like 55, Finley.
O22. Yeah, OK.
Yeah, you guys are fine. Cindy is a little encumbered by
how heavy her bag is with these 12 pokeballs, but she seems like
fine. It's out of order, but this
thing doesn't care. It.
This Arbor creature is going to fire off another psychic blast
at range towards Cindy. Let's see if it connects.
I'm so sorry. It definitely does.
I'm going to give Frostbite a potential chance to intercept
it. Oh, natural 20.
Hell yeah. OK.
Let's go frostbite. So, so the psychic type move
that was heading towards City got a natural 18 and Frostbite
got a natural 20 at the intercept.
That is very good. Yeah.
Another blast comes out of the three fingered hand, out of the
armored creature and Frostbite jumps into it and just seems to
completely absorb it, like it has completely no effect on
Frostbite at all. It's Sam's term.
She sees that Schmidt and Ality are still here, and she says,
well, if you're going to stay and fight, that's why I'm going
to do too. She doesn't have Frostbite do
anything because Frostbite just did something.
Frostbite can can. Frostbite's crazy fast.
He can do one more thing. Sam is going to instruct
Frostbite to go for a night slash.
Let's see how that works. It barely connects 10 damage.
Yeah, this thing is unfaced. It just.
It's not like I'd even notice. It just looks visibly upset that
Cindy's getting away. Schmidt, what are you doing?
I would like to provoke the big scary thing.
OK, what is your means of doing so?
So I just recalled everybody and I have Quacko in my arms because
me and Quacko can act independently, right?
Yes. Can I like while carrying
quacko? Like go to flank the big scary
creature and then quacko? Like how far away am I from this
thing? Like 15 feet, pretty close 15.
Feet. OK, I could probably just flank
that by myself. I think I'll do that.
I'll flank that by myself and then have Quacko hit him with a
knock off. OK, I like that plan.
Before you do that, I need Quacko to make a Dexterity say.
Come on, man. No, it wasn't that one.
Quacko may not remember, but in the last session before removing
Guardavar from the fight, Guardavar laid eyes on Quacko in
a very spooky, mysterious way. This happened to be Future Site
and Quacko takes 12 points of psychic damage.
Oh fuck, I don't think Quacko took a hit last time, did he?
Probably not. I don't think he did.
Yeah, yeah, he's definitely alive.
OK so just out of nowhere he just feels psychic shock and it
sucks but he's ready for a knock off if that's what you want to
roll. Yeah, I'm still doing math on HP
and that's a crit because I'm flanking, right?
If you don't pass a stealth check, you'll provoke an attack
of opportunity when you're trying to move behind something
that. Cool, I'm going to do that.
OK, make a stealth check 13. It's definitely not fully
successful, but also not fully terrible either.
So I'm trying to think he's got his eyes on you and he's
suspicious of you and he might attack you.
Schmidt next turn. Yeah, 35 Can I make an argument
that the armor is a held item? It is not a held item, but it
has lost a little bit of its integrity.
Is not gone. With almost lightning speed, in
a blink of an instant, this creature floats right on up into
melee range of Schmidt and he places a three fingered hand on
Schmidt's head. Make a Wisdom saving throw.
My rolls are garbage tonight it's A7.
Schmidt falls unconscious. Cool.
LED, What are you doing? Oh, no.
Yeah, Schmidt is unconscious. More decisions.
So I know, I know we said we'd stay and fight.
But Schmidt appears to be unconscious.
Yeah, that is correct. That's correct, right?
Also looming above him is the armored creature.
Right, Right. Yeah.
So dragging his unconscious body away might be an issue.
Fun. There might be a way to do it.
I don't want to say it's impossible.
I have I I feel like the best course of action here might be
to try go for another cacophony to try and draw its attention
away, and then try any blink Schmidt's body.
Sure, it's just it's. Just feel like that's what I'm
going to do. It's a mega concert.
I think just as a warning, I think something of this regard
should have three PP. So I'm going to give it three
PP. So this is the last time you can
do this. Be clear, Schmidt, you're not
like on death saves, like you actually have full HP.
You were just your brain is not on right now.
OK, I figured it was something weird.
Yeah. Yeah, better than last time, but
still A1, which I'm glad. At least I'm getting him out of
the way. OK, Yeah.
I'm doing. That's 56 I think.
Yeah. Is it designed for distraction
or is it designed for what? Yeah, distraction.
OK, I'm going to roll a save for this floaty, spooky creature.
Whatever it is. It was a 19, so I'm going to say
that he does not take damage, but his attention does turn
towards the group. The bats really want nothing to
do with this. And let me do another roll.
Three more rolls, actually. Yeah, cool.
One of these powerful looking trainers that came in a little
bit late sees what's going on over here and he starts to run
up from the southern end. He is like pale and lanky, and
he is joined by a Pokémon that looks like carnivore, but it's
not. And he starts running up to you
all. Wally.
He's. Not going to.
Necessarily beat up with you, but he's on his way and you
might have locked eyes perhaps, but he's running.
Cool. Locked eyes.
That means we have to battle. Great.
Yeah, I was just going to try and like get Schmidt's body,
like out of the way. Oh sure, sleight of hand.
Just make a dex check basically. OK.
Cool, I don't want to give you advantage but I'm going to give
you a + 8 bonus because your Pokémon are very distracting.
Oh, sick. OK, All right.
So with that +8 that's 23. Oh wait, I didn't add my decks,
but I don't think that's. Fine, it doesn't matter.
Yeah, you managed to run up and since you are pulling him, you
can only move him like 15 feet. Not too far, but he's he's more
if you're looking at the silly map thing, he's like at the
steps at this point, the the second tier of steps and Sam and
Frostbite are like in front of you guys and Wally is running on
it. You have him.
He's he's warm to the touch, not like feverish, but not like
cold. Cindy, you're running.
Are you still running? Yeah.
OK, I can kind of, I'm going to take you guys out of initiative
as far as turns you 2, but like you're moving as a unit, if that
makes sense. Yeah.
You are at the river that connects Marvel City to Route
118. The bridge that was damaged
seems to have been rebuilt with like rickety planks.
It exists. There is a bridge, but it you're
going to have to make a check to cross it.
Are you prepared to do so? Yes, yes.
OK, it is going to be ADC 16 Dexterity check.
Depending on how hard you fail will depend on what the outcome
is. Oh no. 14.
OK. 7. Seven OK, Gimli runs up onto
this rickety ass bridge and his foot slips through one of the
planks. He kind of like falls in a
really awkward way that is very uncomfortable and he takes 2
points of damage as a wood plank breaks under his knee.
Cindy Cindy. Cindy just like basically falls
through. She is not in the water, but her
feet are and she's dangling from the bridge.
I will give Gimli a reaction to try and scoop her up.
Yep. OK, just make ADC 10 dexterity
safe. 11. OK, OK.
Yeah. You guys are on the bridge.
You're not quite across yet, but it doesn't look like anyone's
going to stop you necessarily. OK, OK.
Gimli is with anything you or I guess both of you, Was there
something else you want to do besides cross the bridge or you
just trying to get out of there? They're trying to get out so.
OK, Yeah. As you're pulling Cindy up, you
do notice a yellow fin sticking out of the water.
It's Sam's turn. She notices the pale boy running
up and she's like, you got to help us.
And he doesn't even respond. He just kind of smiles and nods.
He's like Glade now. And the Glade leaps into the air
and goes for a flurry of fists into the strange creature.
And it does not connect at all. He leaps up and starts punching
like rapid, fast, you can't even see his fists and there is just
a pink wall that is in front of the strange creature and no
damage has been taken at all. Sam, seen an ample opportunity,
slowly begins to walk towards the South.
For some reason she has turned around and she's slightly
limping. It seems like when she was
choked she might have aggravated her bad leg and frostbite is
just kind of backpedaling and making sure that no one is
messing with her. At the same time the red haired
straw looking trainer gives an instruction to her camel and it
begins just erupting huge chunks of magba into the air and is
going to try to attack this limp.
Oh yeah, and one of them just connects.
Just just a big explosion and flames go up as on the top of
the Zeppelin, a big smoldering boulder settles and kind of
pokes a pretty big hole. You would imagine that like
something that's like this, like as a balloon would start like
zipping about, like, it was like a deflating balloon.
But it seems like it has an energy field that's kind of like
keeping it in place. This draws the attention of the
armored creature. Their face is kind of covered by
a metallic mask, but they're seeming a little more nervous
than they were before. At the same time, characters
from the blimp are shooting some beams out in the audience and
again are focusing meanly on the girl who's wearing the floral
print. A beam launches out and absorbs
her ghost friend and is retracted back up into the
blimp. Dust Noir is no more.
That is some action there. Schmidt.
You are out cold but you can play for Quacko.
I think Quacko's just going to retreat on instinct, OK?
Because thing in front of him is big scary.
That's true. That's true.
It's getting noisy. It's getting smoky.
It's getting pretty chaotic. There is screams and there are
people of energy and who are common populists who are just
running around. Is very, very chaotic.
Seems like this creature is unsatisfied with this current
situation. And he telepathically speaks to
everyone in range, which I don't think will.
Yeah, it'll include Gimli and Cindy, actually.
He says our work is not done here.
And he he covers himself in like a vibrant pink light as well as
the blimp and starts zooming in the air to the east.
He's moving at about triple the average person's running speed,
so like 90 feet. And the blimp isn't flying.
It's being dragged by like a psychic force.
And all the bats are following behind.
They are going overhead of Cindy and Gimli.
Do you do anything? We got to hide, right that
they're probably going towards us, right?
Who knows? It's assumed.
Yeah. Perception to see if there's
some place we can duck off to. Did we cross the bridge at this
point? Are we still on the bridge like
what it was the situation? We'll say that you're basically
off the bridge. You're like on the last few
steps when it happens, OK. So I will roll perception.
I want to see if there's any place we can duck and cover,
make sure we're all right. Now.
I got a four so I don't see anything.
Yeah, there's just like a I. Suggest we duck under the the
bridge as much as we can without getting wet.
Yeah, we can we. Can go.
Is there enough land under the bridge to do that?
Oh, like on the beach. Yeah.
Some stealths. Please.
Oh, no 05. Five.
Yeah, you can't really hide it all.
Your backpack is just too big. All the stuff in it, the
entourage of the blimp and the bats and the armored creature
are not currently interested. Or maybe they just don't notice.
They are zooming to the east very quickly and for now who
knows how long, but for now you are out of initiative.
Well, Schmidt is still unconscious.
Question Mark. Question mark.
It seems like if you like, slapped him, he'd probably wake
up. Then I shall slap him.
OK, roll a slap. Cool.
What the fuck? Is that like?
Yeah, you could say strength. Strength through dex.
Let's go with Dex. That's an 8.
Yeah, you slap him, but like maybe you misguide you like
didn't gauge it. Well, you hit him a little bit
too hard. Roll AD 4.
Oh, no, I'm sorry. Big damage incoming.
I got a 2. OK, yeah, she takes 2 damage.
You weren't going for a wake up slap like your your hand
instinctively went for the like you insulted me kind of slap.
So that's what that's what she made wigs up to.
Fucking ow I'm. Sorry, but the the the blink and
the armored thing have left. OK, cool.
Fucking ow. I'm sorry, should we, should we
go to meet up with Cindy and Gimli?
I guess. Is Sam like still like running
S? Is she an ear?
She's not running. She sat down and she's like
tending to relay and she's like and like Weevil is like blowing
on it with cold air. OK, I'm going to be like Sam,
are you good? Do you need anything from us
before we? Maybe tend to that real quick,
yeah. He says I'm fine, I'm fine.
I thought I was all good, but I didn't expect to fall like that.
And weevils like it's like breathing.
It's just like little frosty air is coming out of its mouth.
Her beautiful blue power suit is like a little torn up, no?
The power suit. It's kind of badass, but it's
also sad because like there's a fancy power suit.
As you look around, Marvels like kind of a wreck.
There's like a bunch of small fires that have started.
There's a couple buildings, like smaller buildings that have just
fallen over. Obviously the central courtyard
is just like flattened. There's like nothing going on
there. And people are screaming.
There's like, where's my Pokémon?
And like everyone's very upset. It is chaos.
As much as I'd love to stay and help with that, I don't feel
like there's really anything we can do about that.
Should we head out? You go EI don't think that
there's any chance necessarily for like encounters or anything
that's going on on this path. It's kind of that models noisy,
but the the kind of more rural path towards Cindy's
grandparents house is pretty quiet.
It seems like all the wide Pokémon have been disturbed by
the chaos and they're laying low without any issue.
The four of you return to the estate.
What? What do you want to do?
Also it's like it's like sunset like 8:00 PM at this point.
We like heal everybody with the berries and the stuff.
Yeah, absolutely. You also like it.
It functions as like a Pokémon Center, too.
So it's like, I'm assuming you guys want a long rest here.
Like you can just do that. It's like you don't need to
necessarily eat the berries. You can still eat some food.
But I think if your guys's plan is just to stay here for the
night, you should be fine. Yeah.
Schmidt would like to ask the party what the fuck happened.
So we tell Schmidt things that happened after he left and the
whole ordeal and catch him up on everything.
Do you what? What were you up to while we
were? Yeah, just did a quick little
gym challenge, you know. OK.
Did you win? Did you?
Win. So what else did you guys get up
to? Oh.
No. You know also might have got in
a little bit of legal trouble. You don't happen to know a good
lawyer offhand, do you? I rolled to see if I know a
lawyer. No, just.
Not even knowledge check. Do I know a lawyer?
As you're all chatting, you are joined by Pumpkin, the Victory
Bill. A.
A a young Oddish and a sunken. Oh.
They're just hanging out. They're just happy to see you,
especially Pumpkin. The other two are like, oh,
there's people cool, but Pumpkin's like, thrilled.
Oh, can I check? One of the pokey balls that I
took was one that was familiar. I wanna I guess open it and
check it, see what it is. I need an intelligence check to
see after all this chaos, if you still remember which ball you
took out because you also took it out in the darkness.
So it's just like an intelligence check. 16.
Hey, yeah, that's enough. Yeah.
You pull out a A ball and it's the one that you remember
looking at while you were stuck in that sword unit on the top of
the building, and you send it out and it is a toga tick.
It floats around and it gleefully goes and like, it
dingles, dingles it like, makes shimmering sounds.
I guess that's a Dingle now. Yeah.
And it just. It looks happy but also
confused. This isn't what I thought it was
going to be. As you say that, it goes and
smiles at you. Can I open all the balls and see
what's in them? If you really want to, yeah.
I just want to know what we have at our disposal until we get
them to their owners. Sure, roll 3-D20.
We'll have you like randomly generate three of them.
How's that? OK, A1.
OK, that's. Going to be good and a 16.
Cool. In a stroke of genius, Cindy's
like, why don't I just open all these balls at the same time?
And the remaining 11 balls, three of them were opened up in
the storage unit outcomes a cute little green dragonfly, which
also seems familiar to all of you.
It buzzes around the room gleefully, a Moody little blue
rabbit rhino. You also have.
You also recognize that from the storage unit.
The last one that you recognize is a completely digital looking
duck. It's all polygonal and it looks
very funny. The next ball you open is a kind
of a butterfly that seems like it would dwell on the surface of
a pond and if it arranges wings in the proper way, it would look
like a menacing face. It flies around with the
dragonfly. The 7th pokeball you open is a
little purple scorpion and it is very skittish and it hides under
a nearby table. The 8th Pokémon is a very wide,
incredibly wide manta ray that just kind of like fills up the
whole room and just plops on the kitchen table and now it's all
wet and sticky. The the 10th Pokémon that comes
out is like is basically a dandelion ploof and it just is
like floating around like Leafly with the internal air condition
system like how it's set up and it's just like floating
precariously towards a fan that's spinning on the ceiling.
Next up comes is like a badger porcupine kind of thing but it's
quills are made of fire and it is just standing on the ground
and it is creating a lot of smoke because it is very
stressed it doesn't know what's going on.
The 11th Pokémon that comes out of the ball looks like a mantis
made of rock and it is standing very imposingly and it is
holding 2 giant blade hands and it clings them together in a man
in a menacing way. Your natural one is the last
ball to open and it immediately fills the room and it plops its
head through the 2nd floor and through the roof.
A large chunk of the house is partially destroyed.
You have released an Onyx into the house.
Jesus Christ. And now there's just chaos as a
dozen Pokémon are stressed and confused and flying around and
there's smoke and a a jump bluff is about to hit the fan and
there's an Onyx that is poking its head out of the roof.
And this is not a good situation.
You need to figure out what's going on right now.
Why should I start returning all of them?
Yeah. I think that would be wise.
I return them and try to like label them with like label tape
so I know what's in what ball do you remember?
You got to roll an intelligence check on that because that's a
you don't. Do Oh no, you just.
Open them all. At once I got a 7 for
intelligence. Yeah.
You're kind of just kind of have to guess at this point.
I'll just return the ball and it'll be fine.
OK, you gotta remember which balls go to which Pokémon
though. Is the.
Problem. You can't just return them all.
That's not how this works. Like you can't just like open
the ball and be like return. And whatever, you can aim the
beam towards a Pokémon, but if it's the wrong Pokémon, it won't
recall, it'll just deflect. Oh no.
The. Party is.
Welcome to help too. I'd like to help, OK?
Schmidt's going to find like a bedroom on like the opposite end
of where this is going. I just like create like a little
walk away. Yeah, just kind of like take a
nap. The closest room that is not
infected by this chaos is not a bedroom, but it's like the
library study. Cool.
That's where we go. OK, that's.
Fine, let's go vibe in the library, you guys.
Figured, let's see, I'll have each of you roll AD 10 and you
were shooting for a low number. Sure.
Right, I'll think about that when I roll it.
Oh yeah, sorry. LED and Cindy.
LED and Cindy 2 Nice nice nice nice.
I got a 5. OK, yeah, so it takes you 7
minutes to return all these Pokémon?
Oh Lord, thankfully the first one that you get is the Onyx.
But like your house still as a whole from top to bottom, like
it's, it's not great. It'll literally bit anything and
you just like. Yeah, you managed to get all the
other ones where they're supposed to go.
Jump Pluff did get a little hurt by the fan.
Jump Pluff. Took five points of fan damage.
Jump Pluff. Is what's in your hands, Cindy?
But you may just get everyone else into their balls and the
house is in a in bad shape. Like besides the hole, it's just
like really smoky and it looks like Kubu tops kind of cut up
the couch a little bit. Kubu tops.
It could have. Been worse.
It's like the sitcom. We need to fix the roof pumpkin.
You wanna help? Have any house roof fixing
expertise? Pumpkin looks like for a moment
looks very determined and eager to help, but then looks at Cindy
like how am I supposed to help? Find wood and roof shingles.
Pumpkin nods and darks outside and the audition the sun can
follow. Perfect.
It's a little cold. The house and some of the lights
don't work. Yeah, it's a little drafty.
Slight draft. A little draft.
Based on operations you want. To crack open.
I wanted to know what was in them.
Yeah, You know, we do that next time outside.
Outside. It's on the farm like you have a
farm. Every group needs their wild
card, OK? It's my grandparents house, OK?
How do you spend your night? What do I need to roll to fix
the roof? It's not going to be a single
roll. If you want to kind of think
about like how am I going to fix the roof?
Maybe like make an intelligence check.
If you want to go and like harvest wood with pumpkin,
probably a strength. If you want to go and like
actually climb up the house and like the hammer things, it's
probably going to be a combination of like decks and
strength, just like how do you want to go about this?
Yeah. Do you want to ask for help?
Like, do you? Probably walk into the library.
Gimli, you're strong. Do you want to help fix the the
roof? It's also not just the roof,
it's also the second floor. One of the bedrooms just has a
hole in the room. You open them up on the 1st
floor so they went through the 2nd floor into the roof.
I know, but I figure the roof will fix the draft.
We could walk around a hole in the floor more than you know.
If it rains, it rains into the house.
It's supposed that's true. Cindy the pragmat, the
pragmatist, right? I also think, like before that
happened while we're in the library, Schmidt tells Gimli.
The thing? Which thing?
Give it to me maybe, but I don't.
There's a couple things the. Enable.
Thing or wait, no, I could you could literally tell him the
thing and I could deafen the other people have a how about
that? Oh I was going to just DM it to
him. I kind of want to hear it
because we also need it on the recording.
OK OK OK, so you know how I have 4 Pokémon right now?
Yeah. Yeah, Quaco doesn't have a
Pokeball because he was my roommate's Pokémon and he just
kind of left an abandoned Quaco and now there was a subpoena for
me to return Quaco or get fined $40,000.
What? In Goldenrod, I have to go to
court in Goldenrod and I'm trapped here.
Oh, that's crazy. OK, She didn't find you a
lawyer. We.
We need Quacko. He's he's the symbol of the
squad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh. My God.
Is that your discussion? Is there more you want to
exchange? I think that's the discussion.
Say Cindy walks in, then OK. Yeah, yeah.
We'll figure this out, Yeah. OK.
Cindy, did you need anything? Aren't.
You you're strong enough to nail some wood into the ceiling.
Yes, yes, of course. Make roof.
I am let's exit the library to make some phone calls.
Oh no. Oh, don't worry, we got a roof
to fix. It's no big deal.
Oh no, I thought the roof to fix was a big deal.
It is. It's the only big deal.
Let's go. I would love like a deception or
insight, but I don't I think you guys have role played it so it's
fine roof fixing. Yeah, sure.
What? What are you doing Roof?
Fixing. What are all of you guys doing?
Because like, I feel like LED. Wants.
To do something different maybe, I don't know.
Yeah, I really don't think I'm going to be any help with roof
fixing. Going to go gather materials and
nothing about the things that I heard.
Making me increasingly worried seeing Gimli's reaction.
I'm not going to go in the library.
OK, Cindy. Skips along to the song.
Just blissfully ignorant. Great.
So I guess. I'll help with the roof.
OK, everyone's just on roof duty.
I guess the first step is, do you intend to like salvage the
wood that broke or do you want to go get some fresh wood?
Like what's the plan? Well, I'm assuming pumpkin went
to go get what whatever materials like we need wood and
roof shingles and pumpkin just like meandered off so.
Yeah, Pumpkin's like in the woods.
You can. You can see that his big old
leaves kind of poking around. In the woods.
Yeah. Yeah.
Oh good. Let's describe this backyard.
Then. There's like a dozen plots of
Berry trees. They seem to be doing well,
probably not as well as when you first arrived, but there's
berries like it's cool. There's a shed that's in the
corner. Who knows what's in it?
Cindy does. And then there's you're just
surrounded by forest that is like part of the four tree
forest. I know it's in the shed.
Sure. May I have a roll of history?
OK, 15. 15 Yeah. It's a tool shed.
You haven't been in there since you were a kid, but you remember
looking at the bottom shelves and there was like bags of
fertilizer and you saw an axe on the wall.
Great, I opened the shed for my friends.
Cool. You've opened the shed.
You're all in the shed. It's a shed, Cindy.
Make a perception based on what I just told.
I rolled in that one. OK, never mind.
Cindy opens the door and says Shed.
I think it's got tools. Well, I I don't know anything
about this. So because I do know about
tools, has both a dad with major dad energy and also a minor, I
think I know my way around some tools.
Cool, yeah great. You find a wood cutting axe
which is different from your pickaxe would be great for
cutting down some trees. A.
Wood Well, let's let's get the chopping.
Does anyone else want anything out of the shed?
What else is in the shed? There's like bags of fertilizer.
There's like some cardboard boxes.
There's a there's a hole perhaps if someone wants to do some
tilling, there's a rake. There's yeah.
I think we got what we needed. Great, let's do it.
Then he grabs the rake. Perfect.
You never know. I'm ready to help like.
Exactly. Pumpkin is evaluating trees for
her trunk thickness. He's sticking his little little
probie tentacle that's on the back of his body into like the
pieces of of the tree and like evaluating them.
And he seems to have found a couple good ones, and he points
them out to you. Great.
I don't think Gimli needs to roll for this because he just
cuts and chops and he mostly digs, but it's the same motion,
let's be honest. So it's a little like Gimli's
instinct is to swing overhead rather than horizontally.
So the trees get cut in a very funny way, but it still gets the
job done. It still works.
Muscle memory I. And I there's no point to role
play this out too much. Make one roll.
Make one D20 roll. I'm not not even strength, just
the D20D20. 22. Oh, OK.
As yeah. So you get plenty of like, logs
that cut them or to make them into planks.
You're going to saw them, but they're going to get the job
done. The last tree that you chopped
down, something falls out of the top of it and bonks you on the
head. It is a bluish green fine cone.
Whoa, whoa. It looks up at you disturbed and
it starts vibrating a little bit.
Oh, oh, no, I know what this is. No, no, it's OK.
It's OK. It's OK.
Make a charisma check. Oh.
God. OK.
Is it going to self destruct? Oh yeah, got a 13.
That's good enough for this guy. He feels calmed by your presence
and he is still just like looking at you very tensely.
But he doesn't do anything because he literally like can't
move because he's, he's a pine cone.
He's just on the ground, just like looking at you.
I'm sorry buddy did not destroy your home.
Do you want to come inside? He does not respond.
I used the rake to get him into another tree.
Oh my gosh. Oh, that's so violent.
What do you know? Stop.
Oh, like like you like you place
him on like the the forks kind of and then lift the rake up.
Yeah, OK. Get him like up in a tree.
Yeah, I like that. That's a Dexterity check.
It might be kind of hard because like balancing that could be
tricky, but it could, it can be done.
So let's say 15 DC. 15. 3020 Let's.
Go Yeah, you do that. This little pine cone is elated.
He doesn't really make any sound, but he kind of makes a
humming sound that seems to be satisfaction.
And you were worried? I thought the rake was a good
idea. It could blow up if he gets
upset. Cool, I'm glad you brought that
rake. Yeah, that's very useful.
Let's say you have like 5 good sized logs from like medium
small sized trees. It's also like 10:00 PM.
That's why I figured getting the roof done in case it rains is
ideal. And then we could worry about
the the the middle floor. Work on a roof at night.
We could hurt ourselves. Nobody else does like midnight
outside of home outdoor projects.
No, no. Typically now, no.
OK. What would you meet?
OK. Is there like a tarp or
something we can make use of to cover up the hole for tonight so
we can work on it in the morning?
Kimberly finds a a largish blue tarp.
It is. He pulls it and it's like
slightly wedged into the woodwork that is in the shed.
It's like, strangely like tucked into the shed, but he manages to
get it. All right, I'm going to take
this upstairs. I found something going to cover
the hole for tonight, not work on the roof.
What's your means to secure it? I have 6 anchors in my
inventory. Anchors.
They do, yeah. Would like define anchors.
Like climbing anchors? Oh, OK, OK, OK.
Yeah, I was like, not tough. Nautical anchors, not naval
anchors, Yeah. Nautical, yeah.
I'm just going to put boat that I've been carrying around this
whole time. Yeah, that'd be wild.
Yeah, OK, yes, you do that. It's noticeably less drafty, but
it still looks really bad. Cindy let's all of her Pokémon
out. Not not the 12 other ones, just
my Pokémon out and tucks them all into bed.
Oh, very cute. And that also gets ready for
bed. Perfect.
I feel like Elodie's like a stress Baker, so maybe just like
stress bake something really quick and then go to bed?
What? Yeah, what are you stress
baking? I don't know, something easy.
Chocolate chip cookies or something.
Just cookies. OK, whatever.
Yeah. Yeah, we'll make a make a
performance check on that. Cool, cool, cool 16.
Yeah, pretty damn good cookies. The scent fills the house and
then gets sucked out of the hole in the roof, even with the tarp.
But like you, you can definitely smell it as it passes.
And it also warms the house a little bit, which is nice.
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Tuesday. Do we think Cindy is chaotic
good or chaotic neutral by this? I think it's neutral.
There's nothing good that happens.
It is. I mean, it's like, I feel like
it's good intentions behind it, but it's still, it's still just
like more chaos than good though.
Right. It's like, yeah, chaotic good is
the perception of that is different.
It's like you kind of just play by your own rules and have like
your own moral compass, whereas like this is just chaos.
Doing chaotic, chaotic, Yeah, it's like.
Chaotic, Chaotic. Pops into your head just like
here we go.