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episode. Welcome to the Cali Rex Game
Corners Pokémon DND campaign featuring Jacob as Schmidt with
his far fetched Quacko, Melissa as Cindy with her Vulpix Soul
Eater, Grace as Elodie with her millsery cabbage, and CJ as
Gimli with his rock and Rolla. Trevor.
My name is Rich and I'm the game Master and this is Dunsparce and
Grandpa. Our aerial shot zooms in through
the roof of the Weather Institute, and there we find our
four heroes standing in an office with an open box that
used to be full of Pokémon that came from the Alola region.
There are a couple slightly startled Weather Institute
workers and one grunt Alexander tied up in the corner.
What do you do? It's.
Our next step from here, we have to take Alexander to the police
station, right? I thought we were going to
leave. Them with the Are they already
here? Oh yeah, we were leaving.
The. Cops here.
Right we were. We were leaving.
We were about. To leave.
Because they're gonna call. The cops for us, 'cause we're
already like kind of questionable, like they believed
us, but we're still like. Yeah, like, wow, we looted that
house same day, huh? They don't know we looted the
house before. They can find out if they see us
again. I guess I mean it's just T it's.
The looting a house. I don't think they took exact
measurements of the T. What a level with you they.
Don't have a before to compare it to.
Yeah, they were just like, wow, this barrel seemed slightly more
empty than the other barrels. I mean, they stole some tea.
How do they know it was maybe a guy?
Maybe we should just leave then. Yeah, that's fine.
We well, they offered a way for us to sneak out right?
If I remember correctly from last session.
I think they just said they would call after we left, yeah.
OK, well then then yes, yes, there.
OK, yeah, let let's bounce. We're probably we were took on a
mission to investigate with them, correct.
Well the mag, I think it was the magma hideout.
I guess it's a part of the recap.
Dragon Pass. Yeah, we got to check Jagged
Pass. Can I check for that on my map?
Yeah, you can take a look. I you're, you have a map, so I'm
not going to make you roll for it.
You can see that's to the north of Marvel and pretty much due
West from where you are. There's a little mountain that's
labeled Jagged Pass, or I suppose.
No, the trail up to the mountain is labeled Jagged Pass in the
mountain, which is actually a volcano, is labeled Mount
Chimney. At the foot of it to the South
is Lava Ridge Town. Apparently they have been losing
their geothermal energy, which has been affecting commerce and
tourism. One of the workers here
suggested that the torkel that Gimli has might have something
to do with this. I I guess we have to start
making our way that way because there's really nothing else
pending. Let's go outside and get Sam,
because Sam's been chilling outside.
All right. Limping on one leg.
OK, guys, where you been?
She generally is limping. As you all step outside, you
notice that it is a drizzling lightly.
If you turn your attention back to the direction you came over
the bridge, you can you can see your fellow Oma worker now
standing up to her hips in water of the river being refilled.
And she's still pickaxing away at the riverbed saying I got
more, I got more. And it seems like she's on a
mission to get as many fossils as she possibly can.
As you walk outside in the rain, you see that Sam is actually
taking a little snooze. She's leaning her back up
against the wall of the Weather Institute and Frostbite is
actually out and about. Make an appearance, and he's
standing guard. He notices you walk, walk up and
say. Should we try to wake Sam up?
Yeah, I should probably wake her up, yeah.
I yell very loudly of. Course, what do you yell?
It's like, hey. The police are coming.
We got to go. Sam bolts awake, and she's,
like, in the state of sleepy delirium where she's like, yeah,
of course, right, We got to go. OK, come on, guys.
And she stands up, but she's moving very slowly, and she's
still half asleep. Frostbite doesn't seem so
startled. And he's just kind of looking at
you like, excuse me. Now that you're out here, where
are you going? So you came from 4 Tree, which
is to the north. There's pretty much only one way
to go. That is South.
But this is this route, very similar to Route 120, which took
you to Forge Tree, is a very long jungle route.
They're about the same length, but Run 120 is a lot more
straightforward. It has like a pretty clear path.
This route is very wooded, very grassy, very zig zaggy.
So as it stands, you can take a stroll into very tall grasses
that go up to about the height of LED, or you could walk down a
rocky path that follows the river.
I'm just afraid someone's going to get lost in the grass like me
or yeah, 'cause. It's always.
Safer to follow the river, so. Probably, yeah.
OK, we can go that way. We have like an injured person
with us on like a rocky terrain. Oh.
Yeah, that's true. It can be carried.
But then that's putting two people at risk.
OK, you're going to carry them. Yeah.
Yeah, Cindy's got it. Do you want to roll for that
these you? Actually be roll for that.
Please make sure I'll give it a try.
OK, yeah, roll a little strength.
I got a 10. Yeah, you, you walk over to Sam
and you say here we go. And you grab her by her waist
and you hoist her up and she's she's bigger than you and she's
she's pretty heavy. And unfortunately, she.
Says. She says, Cindy, I don't think
this is going to work. Thank you though.
OK, Sam says I, I could probably take this rocky path if that's
what you're all thinking. It might just take me a little
bit longer if you wouldn't mind just waiting for me, making sure
I don't fall. I'll stay there to try to catch
just in case. Yeah, since you're a little
stronger than I am. A little bit.
Only a little. It was a good attempt, all
right. Great, out of curiosity, do you
all have Pokémon walking with you as Frostbite is?
And if so, which ones? I'm choosing not to because a
lot of my Pokémon are buildable to the river as it were so.
Quacko is out at all times. Yeah, I got cabbage out, but
that's it. It's Patricia, just like
chilling on your head still. I recalled Patricia, right?
I think so. I think I'm going to.
Keep that. Yeah, I do.
So yeah, Yeah. Great.
Solely would probably be out. I'm going to make all of the
people make a Dexterity check for walking down the rocky
slope. My actual favorite because.
Like. Dexterity 19.
OK, Dex monster. OK, 22, that's 15.
OK, 11 and well, that's a natural 19, so that's a crit for
Coco. That's not an attack girl
though. Yeah, if if you're not using
your leak, then it doesn't. It's.
Still. A.
Unless you want. Do you want to?
I don't. I don't need to because it's
like a dirty 22. Yeah, yeah.
But I think it'd be funny if, like Quacko was using the leak
as like a walking stick. You're going.
To have to describe it then, and how and how that makes it a crit
too. It doesn't OK.
It does. Just thought it was funny.
No, that's great. Yeah, that's good.
We'll keep it. You guys are amazed as Quacko is
so nimble and dextrous and hopping from Little Rock to
Little Rock with his leak. Sorry, his sword AKA his walking
stick AKA his leak. It looks amazing.
You all managed to walk down the rocky wall without stumbling.
You find yourself a little bit further down the path, starting
to rain a little bit harder, and I will need Gimli to make a
perception check. That one you don't notice
anything. As is noted it the sun isn't
out, so the sun can't be in your eyes, but the heck, it's rain in
your eyes. You look around and then just
like big old water in. Your eyes, there's so much
water. You want my hat on?
Yeah, we'll just keep going down the path.
In that case. You can see a little ways down
the route there's a house. It's got a little chimney.
It's across a bridge that crosses the water.
Next to the bridge you can see very precarious white beams that
stretch across the river, and they don't seem to serve any
particular purpose, but they're very interestingly placed.
Something to take note as you continue down the route.
You get to a point of jungle. Have a bicycle?
Does anyone have a bicycle? I pull my bicycle out of my
apron. No, I'm just going.
What's going to do some sick 360 tricks in these white beams?
Maybe some other day you see as on the path you didn't take, the
tall grasses seem to merge into thick jungle.
Peering into the thick jungles, you see a very interesting group
of people. You see three people.
They're dressed in classic expedition uniforms and they
have a little frog Pokémon with them, and they're all looking
very intensely into the jungle, and one of them is scribbling
notes. Should we try and talk to them?
Anybody. Do we need to?
No, but they they could be nice. I think so in case of like
navigation, you know, maybe they could help us out with that.
OK. Sounds good.
I'm going to call over to them. Hi.
One of them turns around and goes.
No, stop. You don't know what you're
doing. Come here, come here.
Look at this. I'm going to cautiously
approach. Roll a stealth OK?
Oh, No 7. Yeah, as you walk, try to
stealthily walk over, you fumble a little bit and one of these
three people goes, whoa, OK, OK, you're not getting any closer.
And they say, do you have any idea what's going on right now?
As in the weather. They hand you some binoculars
and they point in in a direction and they say, look, look at
this. Do you hold the binoculars to
your face? Yeah, I'll do that.
You can't tell is anything out of the ordinary.
They're peering through a break in the trees and there's a
little Creek and a little waterfall and there's a rock at
the bottom of the waterfall and there's a little 4 legged
amphibian of some sort. It's standing there.
It's got external gills that are orange and it's pink in color.
And they say, do you understand what we're looking at right now?
It's a Pokémon, right? It's not just any Pokémon that
my stranger is a shiny Mudkip and what they're pointing at it,
and they seem very, very excited.
Sorry, not not very not very proper be I'm Chris, this is
Raven and this is Josh, and we came from very far away to find
a shiny Pokémon. He looks down to the ground
where his Pokémon friend is and they say, and this, this guy's
doughnut. What you see before you is a
little frog looking Pokémon. It has a bulb on its back and
it's slightly yellow in color. He's got his vines stretched out
and there are doughnuts dangling from them.
He looks up at you all and he goes Balva and he stretches his
vines towards you. Do you take a doughnut?
Sure. Yeah, I'll take a doughnut.
Cool, he offers them to everyone.
Perhaps would be awful for walking.
I'll take a doughnut. OK, everyone except for Schmidt
gleefully takes a doughnut. What flavor did you pick?
What were the options? Straight and narrow, so probably
glazed. Glazed.
Yeah. I mean, there were lots of
options. He uses all sorts of doughnuts
on his vines. We.
Have strassen cream. Yep, there was it.
Was raining. Cream on his vines.
Yeah, it's just raining. They're a little moist.
But are they? Like.
Soggy doughnuts. They're not soggy, it's just
lightly raining, you know, it's not too bad.
I want soggy Bulbasaur doughnuts, yeah.
Yeah, yummy. Doughnut is so, so very
delighted that you took some of his doughnuts, Raven says.
Well, we didn't actually come here for for this shiny.
We heard a rumor of something very strange, something very
unusual. We have a liaison in Fore Tree
who told us about a mysterious silver fox Pokémon that it's
never been seen before. Josh pipes up and he says we
don't have any examples of silver fox Pokémon in our
records, so we thought this might be a brand new discovery,
like a an ultra shiny. Chris says, you know, ultra
shinies don't exist. We're trying to get to the
bottom of this. I think it's a nine tails
Ravens. Like no, 9 tails isn't that
color. I think it's a feeble and Josh
says, I think it's an ultra shiny and they start bickering
over it a little bit. They're going to roll a stealth
for their discussion. Oh, and they Chris failed.
Yeah, they're just shouting. And Elodie can see through the
binoculars that Mudkip has run away.
Yeah, I said. Mudkip has run away.
They notice this and they say Oh no.
No, no, no, this isn't. What we wanted, come back,
please come back and it just seems to no avail.
Very sad especially. Tonight, yeah.
Can I like try and use tweet scent with cabbage to like lure
it back? Absolutely.
What do you think Mudkip likes? Fish.
Fish smell. Is that a sweet scent?
I guess I don't know. Sweet buttkin That sweet scatter
just works either way, right? Like do you smell like to cater
to the butt? Fish in the morning.
Yeah, you can just make whatever you want.
Yeah, it's going to be fish smell, but like a good fish
smell. You can a good scary.
Everybody. Yeah, roll it.
OK, OK. Oh my goodness, that was an
AT20. Oh my goodness.
Cabbage, despite being a Baker's Pokémon who's familiar with
sweets, has this innate knowledge of rank fish smells
for some reason. But it's not a rank fish smell.
It's the smell. It's the nice smell of fish.
In the morning, as Schmidt described, you can see from
under the waterfall a little pinkish purple head poke out and
give a sniff to the air. It seems like it hasn't fully
left yet. The the three adventurers,
Chris, Josh and Raven, they turn their attention back and they
say, oh, it's back, it's back, it's back.
And Chris says this is incredible.
Should we try to catch it? Yeah.
Did one of you want to catch it? Nobody wants to.
I'll catch it if nobody else wants to.
You'll have to roll another stealth to get closer.
OK. All right.
As you volunteer, Chris says, wow, you're actually going to
try? None of us are very good at
catching Pokémon. We just, we just look at them.
That's that's valid. That's understandable.
Do my stealth roll. I got a 17.
OK, yeah, you sneak up pretty close.
This thing is being, like, very cautious.
It is enamored with cabbage's sweet scent, but it doesn't
really want to leave the waterfall.
You're going to have one chance to either throw a ball or do a
thing, but this thing is not going to battle you, so you have
to be very creative. Yeah, so it's under a waterfall.
Yeah, it's poking his head out from like a little Creek
waterfall. You have some doughnut.
If you didn't eat it yet, you do have.
I probably have a little bit of doughnut left.
Sanderi offering the the food capture advice.
It works every time. If.
You're Yeah, I'm going to. One, you do have a bird with
sing. But I mean, would I be able to
like, do I have time to like take it out of its ball and try
and sing? If you're lucky.
I'm lucky, I think. I think I'm going to go for the
doughnut Strat very, very carefully.
Try to offer it a doughnut. OK, a little bit of a doughnut.
How for cookie, how do you do so I'm?
Going to Crouch down and make myself as small as possible.
Does it like it? I mean, I guess since I've been
stealthy, it doesn't know that I'm there.
Actually, I'm going to give the bit of doughnut to Cabbage and
tell Cabbage to bring it over because I feel like it would be
more willing to talk to Cabbage. Good thinking.
I feel like. No, that's pretty good.
Have cabbage roll. We'll just give it a charisma
check because this isn't performance, but it's just like
being charismatic. So yeah, let's see that 17.
That's sufficient to approach the mud Kip cabbage floats over.
Still still kind of drizzling shiny.
Mudkip looks up and goes and Cabbage offers it a little bit
of doughnut while still smelling like fish.
So basically Mudkip has scored like a fish flavored doughnut.
What more good you? Want it's perfect.
It's even a little moist from the rain.
It's like everything a Mudkip would want in the world.
What's your next course of action?
I am going to try and catch it OK with I'll just use a premier
ball I think. I will disclose the DC to you
because this is a one and only chance.
Your DC to break is 15 do. I get any bonuses?
That's with your bonuses. It's with my bonuses, yes.
Great. OK, got to make it a good roll
15. Right on it.
Are you kidding? Yeah, I'm not even kidding.
Oh my goodness. Amazing.
Incredible. Yeah, Elodie throws out her
premier ball. It's floats up above Mudkip,
who's happily munching on a fishy, soggy doughnut, just as
nature intended, and with three shakes it, Dean's closed and you
have a shiny Mudkip. That's crazy.
I'm so happy. It's like pink, which is like my
color. I did not expect that to
actually happen. That's kind of crazy.
I didn't either. I was just like, I kind of want
a shiny. The group who you approached and
as you turn around, you can see that they're all wearing
T-shirts that say Shiny Gang. They just pop off.
They're like, no way, no way. Let me see it, let me see it.
Oh, that's so incredible. And Donut is going blah blah
blah and it's like throwing Donuts everywhere.
Yeah, it's the cutest little guy.
I think I'm going to name it. I guess it's more of a purple
than a pink actually, because I was going to say strawberry, but
maybe grape? As you're holding this premier
ball with your freshly caught friend, all of your pokey balls
begin to shake. What do you do?
Well, I saw this happen with Cindy, right?
That she had to send a Pokémon to the PC.
Will I have to go all the way back to the Weather Institute?
I guess that would probably be to get to get to APC.
How do I send poker? That's the closest one, no?
Like it. If you pick 1, it gets sent.
Oh, just like automatically like I don't have to go to APC.
Yeah, it just sits. Like, remember, like when Ash's
crab, he got sent and he was like, what happened?
It just gets teleported? Yeah.
Unfortunately, I think I'm going to have to send Blueberry.
All right, you touch Blueberry's Pokeball and your little Swablu
friend gets heated into cyberspace.
And now you have. A muttkip.
Very cool, the shiny gang says. I'm so glad we saw that.
Made the trip out here worth it. Even though we're stuck here.
That's amazing, Chris says. That is really, really cool.
If you hear anything about the silver fox let us know.
Raven says. There were reports that the
silver fox was coming into fore tree and it was just decimating
the local zig Zagoo and wildlife.
So that piqued our interest in the news headlines and we came
out here to try and find it and we think it's on this route.
If you see anything, let us know, we'll be here.
OK, yeah, we'll, we'll let you know.
Great. Thank you for pointing out the
the shiny mud kit. They said thank you for catching
it. We, we're just amazed.
It's now about 8:00 PM. It's starting to rain a little
bit harder and you're at the bridge that crosses the river.
There's a couple people just like kind of hanging out on the
bridge and there's a house. Can I get Schmidt to roll a
Perception? That is a crip.
The house that is ahead of you across the bridge, it's noisy.
Something's going on and it just sounds like it's squawking.
It sounds like there's so much squawking coming from that
house. It's not particularly chaotic.
The lights are on. Like it doesn't look like it's a
dangerous situation, but it's just loud.
It's a loud house. Is it like a like a like a
witch's kind of sparking? Is it another witch's house?
It is suspicious in a comedic sense.
It's not suspicious in like a creepy sense.
OK guys, I've looked at this house and I think it's the size
of witches, but there is some birdie shenanigans going on.
I think we should check it out. Sounds good to me.
We've already met one witch and we survived.
OK. Let's see also, while we're on
the subject, I just want to say I called it the which was SUS.
I called it. I just that's I haven't got to
rub that in your faces yet. I called it.
OK, just wanted to get that off my chest.
Thank you for he was still good. You head on down.
And that's why you stole from her, right?
You head on down to the house, you're up at the door and you
walk up to the door and it's very noisy.
What Schmidt heard is absolutely true.
There is just squawking. There's squawking.
Are you going to do anything about it?
I knock on the door. You knock on the door and you
hear a voice say, oh, coming. You wait a couple seconds and
someone runs up. They say, oh, my goodness,
you're out here in the rain. What are you doing?
Get in here. Hurry.
And the sound of squawking is very loud.
I guess we should go in. OK, you all enter and it's a
pretty nice dwelling. It's well lit, it's well
furnished. And there's two people, they're
standing there and they have like at least 12 wingles in the
house. And they're just.
Crack, crack, crack. Just non-stop and they're just
kind of like shouting over it. They say welcome in, welcome in.
Can I get you something to drink?
I'll. Be do you have any tea?
Do they? Do you have any lime flavored
lacroix it? All tastes the same anyway.
There's two people, a man and a woman in there.
And the woman says, yeah, we we've got some Lacroix.
And the man says, yeah, I got some tea right here.
And he pulls out a little box of tea and the woman goes to the
fridge and gets out of Lacroix. And she says, please have a
seat, you must be drenched. And she runs out into a
different room and she brings out some towels.
The man comes over with your drinks.
And he says, welcome to our house.
I know it's a little noisy. My name is Key.
I'm so glad that you're all here.
I don't know what travelers like you are doing in the rain at
like 9:00 PM. But if you need to take a break
here, you're more than welcome to.
It's a little crazy out there right now.
The woman comes back out and she says, yes, yes, yes.
We're we need to get you out of the rain.
You're going to catch a cold. There's been a lot of people
showing a lot of interest on this route now that the rain has
come back. There's all these rumors about,
like Pokémon being strange, and there's the classic silver fox
rumor. We were just talking to the,
what was their name? The, the, the shiny band, the
the sparkly boys. Shiny gang.
That's right.
Yeah.
They, they stopped by here earlier because they they heard
the commotion. They want to see what all our
birds are about. And several of the birds after
this woman references them, they just squawk at her.
Yeah, that's what actually Drew said.
I'm very curious. She says, Oh yes, yes, yes,
people. People love our birds as I don't
think anyone can love them more than we do.
And she gives a smile to Key, and Key says, Oh yes,
especially, Especially Denzel. He's my favorite.
And upon hearing his name, Denzel goes and flies over to
Key and perches on his shoulder and starts squawking joyously.
It's crazy. Like you're all sitting at the
table and birds are just flying around.
There's like a dozen of them. They're unstoppable.
Startling. Yeah.
I'm a fan of this bird action going on.
I'd sell that to them. I'm like, I'm a fan of you, you
and your birds. They say yes, yes.
What was that? It's like a like a Pokémon camp
where you know, they're like, I like tell Quacko to go join in
and like just start flying around with them.
Oh yeah yeah, great. Have Quacko roll like a charisma
check. A charisma check?
Yeah. Are they going to bully Quacko?
1414 that's great. You you, you set Quacko out to
to fly around with the Wingle and they treat him as one of
their own. They're all flying around and
Quacko even starts squawking, kind of like the way that a
Wingle squawks. The the woman comes over and she
says well welcome, my name is Mel.
And she says, well, we started with just two and then we just
couldn't stop. More just kept coming.
And then they started having babies and we had to raise the
eggs. We can't say no to that.
And now we just have so many Wingle.
It's such a blessing. Oh, it's nice to meet you.
I'm Melody, and this is Gimli and Schmidt and Cindy.
Pleasure to meet you. They say it's so good to meet
all of you, whatever you're doing, wherever you're going.
I'm glad you stopped here. It's getting late and you're
about halfway through Route 119. What?
What's your plan? Probably sleep if if they will
allow us to sleep here or. Yeah.
Find a place. Mel says yeah, this is kind of
the only place for a couple miles.
So if you would like to stay here, you're more than welcome
to. We got extra beds.
However, I do have to give a fair warning.
When travelers stay with us, sometimes they aren't able to
sleep very well because because of our friends here and again
you. This conversation is happening
over the constant incessance walking of sea birds.
I had to sleep in the mines a couple times so I don't think
this will be too bad. They also say we're also because
of our prime location and because there's so many
travellers coming through. We may be able to part with a
couple tents if you prefer to stay away from the noise.
The the birds sound like a beautiful melody to me.
And I think I'll be fine. OK, I'll, I'll stay inside.
I think I'll be fine. Cindy Mumble something to be
effective. Well, it's already past my
bedtime so I need to sleep. Sam says, I just took a little
nap, so I'm probably going to be wired for a while, but if
everyone's going to stay here, I'll stay with them.
Mel and Key say excellent, we love having guests.
Please make yourselves as comfortable as you can and you
settle into this little lodge that's in the middle of Route
119. Traditionally, this is like our
first little overnight thing as a gang.
If you were camping, if you were outside, it would be wise to
sleep in shifts. I don't want to say that you
shouldn't necessarily, but you can kind of assume that this is
a safer place unless you're SUS of these people.
So I would just have you all discuss if you think you need to
do something like that. I'm.
Not SUS of these people. OK.
I'm like, well Schmidt, you were right about the witch.
Are you SUS of these people? Birds man cannot be SUS.
It's just like mathematically impossible.
Bird Gang. Bird Gang?
That's right. Sam isn't delighted, but again,
she just took a nap and she said I have a lot of projects to work
on so I can stay up for a while no problem.
Are there any activities that you'd like to do with your
partner Pokémon before you turn in for the night?
I do want to bring out all my mom's so we can really good
acquaintance, especially with our new friend Lebowski.
Yeah, and in classic D&D this is what they call free time.
And you might want to do some like pre bedtime pep talk or
like training or anything that you want to be doing with your
partners. Now is a great time to do it.
So Gimli, what are you doing with your mom's?
Well me and me and Trevor usually do a catch and release
exercise where I just pick him up and throw him in the air like
a little baby. So want to see if my other folks
are down for that as well. OK, so you're going to just
like, play catch with yourself with all of your Pokémon?
Yeah, OK, I'll have you roll a deck check for each of them.
While you're rolling those, does anyone else have a course of
action they want to do? I will send out all of my birds
and have them be birds with the birds.
It's just a bird extravaganza. I'll.
Just try I I rolled all three, so I'll just put each of them.
Yeah, they're pretty good. Just give me like 1 charisma
check, one more charisma check, Schmidt.
It's a sex. OK, Too many birds.
Yeah, a couple of your birds are getting like, a little too
enthusiastic. And the winkles are like, that's
not exactly how we roll. We do like a steady burn.
You got to keep the energy steady.
You can't just, like, go crazy whenever you want.
And you just hear a bunch of squawks and you're you can see
that Oracoria is looking a little embarrassed.
But besides that, they're having a blast.
Gimling is basically juggling his Pokémon.
It's it's. Pretty.
It's kind of a marvel. It's.
It's kind of incredible. It's like in the mix.
Yeah, Rock'n'roll and Geodude are like, perfect for juggling,
but like, Torkle's like, not that easy to juggle.
What's up, Cindy? I was saying Cindy would
probably have everybody come out and just like make a snuggle
pile because I mean, Soley and Jack are pretty snuggly.
That's great. Try and snuggle with as well.
No, no, that's excellent. Snuggle in.
Yeah, you all identify your bed and you say no need to train,
we're just going to get nice and cozy.
And you make a little color pile with your two fiery quadrupeds
and your one gooey dragon snail and it is so cozy and so great.
And is Ality going to do any sort of pep talk, training,
etcetera? I was going to let them have
some tea, like we all just, you know, share some tea and just I
know that Cabbage is meeting 2 new Pokémon.
So I'm going to reassure her that she's, I still love her,
you know? Yeah, just try and get like the
the three of them to get to know each other.
I'm just kind of chit chatting except none of us speak the same
language. Yeah, it's really funny.
You're just talking very confidently to your team.
And Cabbage is making boop boop, boop sounds.
And your new Mudkip friend is just going Kip, Kip, just like
repeatedly over and over again. Who was your last one?
You sent Swablu home. So you have Pablo and Pablo's
just clapping just, like in rhythm with all the squawks in
the room. And you're just all, you're
sitting there sipping your tea like, yes, great.
Of course. Yes.
And, and just like this complete cacophony, I will require all of
the people to make a pretty generous constitution check so
that they can actually get some sleep.
I can offer Schmidt advantage because he's a bird guy.
So I rolled a three and Cindy has a -2 constitution, so I got
a. A dirty. 1.
OK, well, what about everyone else?
I rolled a 18 and I have a + 2 constitution, so that's a dirty
20. OK, I got a 10, so halfway
between yeah, I got. 14. OK, as I said, the check was was
pretty, was pretty generous. Cindy is having a real hard time
getting to sleep. These birds just won't stop.
Mel and Key, just like when it's time for bed, they just turn in.
It's like, you know, they, they live with this all the time.
Cindy, all your friends are sleeping pretty soundly, but you
just can't seem to do it. Maybe you're too hot from your
fire types. Maybe it's just too noisy.
Maybe something's on your mind. Role of perception. 16.
You feel compelled to check the door.
Oh, OK, OK, check the door. Yes.
Did you get out of bed and do this?
Yeah. OK, I'm sorry friends, but this
is pull aside time and we'll be back.
Oh. Sandy.
OK. You open the door and you can
see out into the darkness. It's like 1:00 AM and you hear
the sound of a familiar voice say please, please help.
How familiar. You can roll a history. 9.
It's a voice of someone you heard in the last day.
OK, doesn't really give you the heebie jeebies, but you are
confused. So I'll go I guess Spring solely
with me so solely can see dark vision and help me see with some
fire magic. OK, role of perception for
solely. Wisdom.
Oh, OK, 14. Solely sees something and she
looks at you like she's worried but not like scared but worried.
OK, so I approach the the voice. OK.
As you approach the voice, in the light of the moon, you can
see a figure that is kind of slumped on the ground in a in a
sitting position. They are a silver color and they
glimmer in the moonlight. They are in the shape of like a
bipedal fox. They have a huge tuft of fur on
their head, almost like a mane, and at the tip, at the tip of
it, it is red. One of their arms is dangling
limp and the other one is holding something close to its
body. It says, Cindy, come here.
Do you come closer? Yeah.
OK, you recognize this voice to be the voice of the witch, this
this fox with the voice of the witch, you can see in their
eyes, it is the same eyes as the witch from forgery.
She says please listen to me. I I don't have much time left.
You, you and your friends. There's there's a great
potential within you take this and she holds out her arm and
there's like a a square rock in her arm.
Do you take it? Yeah.
She says guard this with your life.
They'll, they'll be looking for it.
They're they're already looking for it.
They, they wounded me in my effort to protect it.
If, if they find it, there's no telling what sort of terror
they'll wreak on this world. You must listen to me and listen
carefully. Seek out the aspects, relieve
them of their duty, learn their power.
For when the time of reckoning arrives, Pokémon, people, the
the whole world will need you, lest we face a reset and and
take this with you. And she reaches into her main
and pulls out a little golden pendant.
Do you take it? I will take the pendant.
Rola investigation. Oh no, I got a four.
That is 2 concentric circles and the top the the outermost circle
is broken on the top and the bottom.
There are 4 emeralds inlaid in the corners that spike out.
Zoe says keep it close for luck and for protection.
Don't let them win. Don't let.
And then she goes quiet and her eyes close.
Oh no. What do you do?
Well, is the pendant on like a a chain?
It's on a chain, yeah. Necklace.
So I'll put that on and kind of like tuck it into my shirt and
put the rock in my backpack that I assume I'm still wearing,
assuming it fits. Yeah, it does.
It slides and it's like the size of a book.
OK, that's cool. I guess I would probably go back
inside because it's still raining.
Or can I bring her? Can I take her with me or is she
like OK? She seems that OK.
You can roll a medicine and see how OK she is.
Medicine. Wisdom 12.
You are pretty confident that she is not alive.
OK, can I go tell my friends to come see her or something?
You can if you want. So make everybody up.
I I think so I might not tell them everything, but I'll be
like. So I found Zoe.
OK, yeah, let's go back into the main room then.
OK, OK, so I come in and wake everybody up.
OK. OK.
I mean, except for the people who are hosting us.
I try not to wake them up, OK? I don't want to bother them.
You're. Going to have to stealth that
it's just dex. Just dex.
It's an easy check, but you still have to do it.
I got a 19. Yeah, that's plenty.
When I need, when I need it. So I found Zoe.
I also found the silver fox problem.
Was it Kabu? It's Zoe.
Zoe was the witch, right? Yes.
I need to put that in parentheses on my list.
Yeah, the SUS list. And she's outside and I think
she's dead. Oh.
Oh my God. So if you guys would kindly
follow me. Yeah, OK.
Sure. OK.
You all, yeah, you all quietly March outside, and it's very
dark. But in the moonlight, you can
see the form of a bipedal fox. It is silver in color.
It has a big tuft of hair on its head that's red at the tip and
it's lying on the ground. And why do you think this is
Zoe? She told me it was her and
called me by name because she remembered who I was.
And yeah. What else did this talking?
Fox say she gave me some like rock and said that they're
looking for it and yeah, do. You have the rock.
Yeah, it's in my backpack. The bad guys can't find it.
It's. A lot of photo taking, I'm
sorry. How do you think I feel?
It's. A lot.
Should we yeah, take her inside? I I feel like we should I vote
towards taking her inside. That was what I was thinking but
I don't think I'm strong enough. So help.
I mean, I I could probably pick her up, but it's kind of a lot
of sorry. I guess but but like.
But like did but do you Sorry. Still trying to process this so
I don't know it appearing as a fox.
Yeah, Did she explain that whole thing?
Nope. Oh.
No. Right, OK.
How did she die? She said they injured her trying
to get the. Rock.
OK, I'm gonna approach her. Can I like check if she's still
alive? Yeah, you can roll a Medicine I.
Do. 19. She's dead.
Not only is she dead, but she is very badly wounded.
She has a big old gnash in her head and one of her arms is just
completely limp. Oh God, can I like check like
how like this happened and I guess like what kind of like
weapon or. Let's do investigation because
insight is more like a feeling, but like you're looking at the
wounds and you're trying to suss it out, so let's invest.
You're at investigation and all, right.
This is the investigation since I'm proficient in that.
Yeah, you absolutely may. So is that advantage?
Yeah, so you have advantage and you can use the proficiency
bonus that Schmidt has. So plus I'm.
Also proficient, so this is going to be a really good.
Goal doesn't matter. OK, actually.
I got a 5 twice so my intelligence is +2 so 7 plus
Schmidt +2 is 11. OK, you can see from her broken
arm that it was a blunt force trauma, but her head wound, you
just have no idea what caused that.
OK, right guys? She's dead.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I told you that, but OK, Yeah, I just, I
just wanted to double check. Well.
I mean, you're on the list so we have to double check.
OK. I disagree with bringing the
body inside. I don't want to bother these
nice people. This is true, but she said that
the evil people were after her, and if the evil people show up
here and see her dead body outside of these nice people's
house, then I feel like that's going to be a little bit more
suspicious. We prepare a preparial.
I believe we have a digging man in our midst.
Oh, I dig. Can you do a 6 by 6?
Yeah. Absolutely.
Cool. Dig a hole.
DND is fucking crazy you guys. What?
Of all the things that happened, I did not expect this at all.
OK, yeah, give me give me a dig check.
Where are you going to where are you going to dig this hole?
I. Don't know where are we going to
scout up the ground. You can roll a perception.
It is dark, so it might be kind of hard, but I'll describe
what's around you. If you get a good role.
Yeah, let's. See 18. 18 Yeah.
So this house is tucked like into the riverbank and on the
east side of it is just like thick jungle.
Actually I. Don't want to get a proficiency
so I guess it's a dirty 20. Yeah, you're currently standing
in like kind of a path in front of you is to the South and
there's just a bunch of tall grasses and like some some
scattered trees. But to your left, AKA the east,
is thick canopy, thick jungle. Not like you can't go in there,
but it's just very heavily wooded.
It's. Just heavily wooded.
I think it'd be harder to find the body in.
The, I mean, I I probably should go with two, the canopy jungle
with that we can get a proper burial going though.
Yeah, we'll say something. It would be less rainy.
We'll we'll bury her with her teeth.
Oh, we have the tea. I'll pour it over a grave.
It's fine. Can the tea bring her back to
life? Yo, let's try it.
Anything can happen. Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.
I got to throw it down with
ditching tea in the hole. That's fine.
Let's let's go. Let's go dig her back in the
wooded area. OK, fine, fine, fine.
We'll we'll bury her or. Whatever.
OK, so how are you going to set up this grave?
What are you doing? Well, digging A6 by 6.
OK as. As you do.
Yeah, so give me just yeah, give me an athletics for the quality
of the hole in one. Yeah, you do it and it's a yeah,
it's a six foot grave all. Right, that's that's what the
corpse said. Who is carrying the corpse?
I I. Will carry roll a investigation,
history or religion, your choice. 11.
You have. No bonuses so.
Yeah, you get the hunch that this is the what the the Shiny
gang was looking for, and based on her injuries, I guess other
people were looking for to her too.
It is, in fact, a Pokémon that looks like a fox.
Is it bipedal or quadruped? It's bipedal.
Only Cindy would have known that, but yes, OK.
We didn't see her standing up, she said.
She said she described it as bipedal.
I'm pretty sure at the beginning.
Yeah, OK. Pick her up and lower in though.
All right, describe your ceremony, everyone.
Please, I'm just like the undertaker over here, just like
slowly sending her in, but people want to start saying some
words. We didn't know you long, and I
think that's kind of better because we wouldn't have been in
trouble. All right, let's dump the body
and go. You made delicious tea and you
were Oh, by the way, the. Tea in the grave.
Let's have to hold on. We gotta put her in the craft
first. And you?
Yeah, I really don't have anything else.
Yeah. So let me.
Protect the rock with my life. What was her partner's name?
Casey. It was Casey.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, Casey.
Sure. Casey's looking forward to
seeing you very soon. Gently lowers the blue grave.
close the grave up. Take my tea out, pour it over
the grave for the homie. And then I think we're done.
Are we? The bad guys I don't.
Think so? This was a good thing.
To do in 24 hours, we've like been chased by the police, we
stole tea, we tied a guy up, now we're getting rid of a body.
We were stopping people that were hurting other people,
right? We didn't hurt Zoe.
Weren't necessarily, yeah, hurting anyone.
They were just kind of in a house.
No, they they were hurting the workers at the weather.
They were visibly Oh, I thought the OK, I'm I'm back in Fortree.
Nevermind. Oh, what happened in Fortree?
It's her house. Break in, yeah.
OK, did that. I broke in two.
Really hung up on this tea thing.
We poured it out for the homie. I don't even have the tea
anymore. It's locked on right now.
Go back inside. Let's just go back inside and
let's talk about this stone when we get inside, yeah?
All. Right.
Oh, now we have a stone. Yep, Yep, just the stone fine.
It's. Fine.
Stone is going on the SUS list. It's Geez, said some words about
the stone. OK, let's just.
Talk about it. Let's.
OK, y'all go back inside. Absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
Did you did you intend to wake up Sam?
Because we didn't go over that. Oh yeah, I forgot.
I keep forgetting about Sam. Sam was.
Still up? Well, yeah, Sam, I mean Sam was
wired, but. Sam was wired, but at midnight
she ended up falling asleep. OK, I guess we'll wake her up
when we get back. OK.
I roll her. Stealth was too good.
I didn't wake Sam up. Yes, yes, that's what we'll go
with. So you do.
You go to Sam's bed and you shake her a week.
OK, Sam. Sam, we need your help.
What? OK.
And she rolls out of bed. So remember Zoe?
Where are you guys talking? I don't know.
OK, probably somewhere away from where the other people are
sleeping. OK, she says.
Yeah, yeah, she's the witch who was not a witch.
Yeah, I remember her. Yeah, well, she's she's dead.
Excuse me, We buried her. You did what?
What is going on? And she raises her voice a
little bit. She gave me this rock, I pulled
the rock out and she said some words and all I remember is seek
out the aspects. She she says.
There was a whole thing. It got The Who.
Sam says clearly there's something we need to talk about.
Team energy is after this rock. This is what they broke into our
house for. This eeks Sam's attention a
little bit. Do you wish to like, investigate
the rock? Or let her investigate it.
Or all of us investigate it. Like I just kind of took it and
shoved it in my bag and I'm like, now we're finally going
over it. Yeah, the five of us gathered in
a dimly lit, hostile style bedroom watch as Cindy pulls out
like a book sized slab of earth from her bag.
It's dimly lit, but there's some patterns on it.
In two corners of it there are beautiful brilliant diamonds.
I roll like history to see if I like recognize this pattern.
It's like any sort of like regional map.
Or absolutely, you guys can make whatever checks you want.
I am proficient but I rolled a three so that's a 5.
That's a five. Yeah, you're not.
It's a little. Freaked out right now.
Yeah, Schmidt is not entirely sure what's going on with this
all. Right, Cindy's going to roll
investigation. I got an 18 + 2 + 1, so a dirty
21. Great.
This has a very strange energy coming from it.
The diamonds that are in the corners are ridiculously
vibrant. It's very dark in your room, but
like, they're so prismatic, they're almost shedding light.
You can feel that the top left corner is a little coarse, Maybe
the part of it's been broken. It's incredibly smooth.
It's like the smoothest rock you've ever felt.
It has a nice heft to it, but again, it's not impossibly hard
to carry. It's about the size of a large
book. And yeah, I think that's what
you gained from the investigation.
OK, run this by me again. Tell me everything about this
rock. Are you asking me or?
Cindy. I'm asking Cindy.
OK. #3 on the SUS list. She handed it to me, saying that
this is what they were after and that we needed to protect it,
and then she died. Do we still have that that NRG
cube? When did energy come into play
in that conversation? She said that they were after
her because she has this rock like this is what they were
looking for and that they can't get it because it would like end
the world or some something to that effect.
OK, so. Something small.
Yeah, this startle Sam. And, and Sam looks at this and
she's like, what is this? What does it do?
No idea. The energy can't can't get it.
That's that's all I know. I say we bury it.
No, they'll fine. They could get.
It yeah, they could get it then. I'll keep it in my bag solely.
Is like really good at fighting now.
It's fine. Do you put it away now?
Do you do any more evaluations on it?
If no one else wants to look at it, I'll put it back in my
backpack. I was just going to say if we
have the energy cube, maybe we could put them together, see if
they have any sort of reaction. Right, playing with the enemies
toys, that's a good idea. You're welcome to try, Peter.
You're right. I'm sure that won't send some
kind of signal out to the world. I don't know.
I think I'm going to do it anyways.
OK, you grasp the energy cube and you place it next to this
stone tablet. Nothing happens, See?
Nothing happened. Everything's fine, Schmidt.
They show up because they know we have it.
So do we all go back to sleep? I don't think I can.
I don't think. You can, yeah.
Sam shares the same. Sentiment corpse.
Cindy is very tired because she got no sleep.
Cindy, if you want to sleep, you can.
Expect the rock into my backpack and sleep on top of my backpack.
OK, give me a pretty easy Constitution check.
Fall asleep because you're exhausted, but your brain is
also like racing. Yeah.
That one. Oh my gosh.
No, not yet. Cindy, you can't.
I just. Swear and cry.
You cry, I just cry. You also incur a point of
exhaustion. Certain things are going to be a
lot harder for you to do today. Your past two days have been
awful. Can I just say that real quick?
Like Cindy particularly has been getting so unlucky.
Yeah, her grandparents are still missing.
Yes, that's the big take away. Sam says I guess the whole
reason y'all are heading down here, right?
We have a lot of things, but yeah, that's one of them.
Sam says, well, if we're not going to sleep, I'm not opposed
to marching out and just getting on our way.
But if you'd rather wait till morning, I totally understand.
We. Should probably leave like a
note or something. Right.
I was about to say, let's leave a note.
Just say like, thank you for your hospitality.
We totally didn't bury a dead body in your yard.
It's not right that part. Let's not do it.
You, your winkle, are great. You find some some stationary
and a pen, and you're at the kitchen table.
What are you writing exactly? Please let.
Cindy write this Cindy as delirious as it slept.
Schmidt will write. It will be.
Hello fellow bird lovers. Something came up.
We had to leave in the middle of the night.
Thank you for your generous hospitality, Bird Gang for life.
Excellent. Perfect.
You write the note, you put it on the table.
It's about 1:00 AM. All right.
I think we hit the road. It's.
Going to move on. OK.
Is it still raining? It's drizzling, it's not raining
very hard. It's kind of a mist almost.
Really dark. It's quite dark.
Well, it's a, it's a almost a full moon.
It's what, a waxing gibbous or something?
I'm not sure what that is. I send out Patricia and use her
as a hat. Perfect.
She's enjoying the little little spray and she's a very warm hat.
Let's have Gimli make AD 20 roll.
Oh my God, 55 as you're walking, you slightly trip on a route.
Make it exterior check. Not 20.
Not 20, it's nothing. You do a pirouette and a little
jump and you lay it on your feet and it's so cool.
Is so like he's like a ballerina or something.
He's like so coordinated I. Don't know where it comes from,
I'm not normally like this. You turn around and you see that
the route you tripped over is attached to a little yellow bulb
that is sticking its head out of the ground and it's having a
snooze. Oh.
You work it. Out.
Yes. Do we?
Let's see. Good.
Nope, this thing snoozes. Didn't even notice it's firmly
rooted. Susan, Yeah.
Since he's upset, this is getting more sleep than she did.
Jealousy. Jealousy is a bonus action.
Yes, it sure is. Does anyone know what this what
this is that we just tripped out?
Well, I tripped out. No, Nope.
No one seems to care. They're all a little disturbed,
I guess. Yeah.
Just moving on the I'm. Guessing a buddy or something.
Seems like a buddy I don't know. Maybe say a?
Yellow Bull. All right, Surskit or something,
I'm sure. A Surskit.
I don't it's yellow. OK, let's just.
That's a little green thing coming out of its head.
She made us still disturbed by the body that we just buried.
Blood buried just. We left her with her teeth just
like she would have wanted. That was our little travel
encounter. You've been walking for a while.
It's now about 2:30 AM. And as you turn your head to the
right, the a a thick canopy of jungle trees dip out of the way.
It seems like this is where the forest line ends.
And you can see the bright, bright lights of Maudville City.
It's to the West. Sam says, well, this is my stop.
This isn't where I'm heading. If you're going to the Berry
farm, that's going to be that way.
And she points to your left and she says you're welcome to come
with me now. Or if you all want to check on
Cindy's grandparents, you can meet me in Marvel.
I'll be there. My, my workplace is there.
And she hands you. Well, actually, here we go.
Have Schmidt and Cindy roll unopposed to D20.
Yep. With no stat.
Just roll AD 20. And it's opposed.
I'm sorry. It wasn't Cindy, it was LED.
My bad. OK, it doesn't matter.
I'll roll the one. OK, in that case, well, actually
no, you should still. Roll what's?
The you should still roll. You should still.
Roll. I'll still roll.
Yeah, 14. OK, great.
Before Sam leaves, she reaches out her hand and she says,
Elodie, I got something for you. Do you take it?
Oh yeah, OK, they could. Cool.
She hands you like a little robo sculpture of cabbage.
It's got it's like made of metal and it has little springs that
are attached to little balls like where the goopy milk floats
around and it's really cute. And on the bottom it says Sam.
And along with that, she hands you a business card and she
says, I'll leave this with you for now.
And I hope that I get to see you all again in Marvel when you
head there. Thank you, I'm going to give her
a hug before she goes, OK? Are you sure you're going to be
OK by yourself? Rolled for.
The we could roll the hug. Do you want to OK rolling the
hug? Look, I rolled for.
A. Or hits.
Just roll a straight to 20, OK? A9.
Sam got a 14 L and he's probably a little sleepy or a little
tired. It's it's a, it's a, it's a nice
hug. And Sam says I'll see you all
later and waves at you and hobbles along to a very sturdy
looking wooden bridge over a fast flowing river.
And right after that river is Marvel City.
So does everyone want to come with me to the Berry farm super
quick? Yeah, I'll come with.
Sure. OK, the Berry farm is quite
close. You're not for it at all.
Cindy's very familiar with this area.
Cindy is familiar with how this place looks, but the rest of you
haven't been here before. It's quite impressive.
As you look to your left on this route in this quiet moonlit
night, there are several dozen rows of Berry trees.
They all have different colored berries on them.
They're all various shapes. But the major take away is that
they are all incredibly healthy looking and the berries are
massively plump and they look delicious.
There's all sorts of varieties on one side of this Berry farm.
There's a small shed, it looks like for maintenance perhaps
for, you know, when you're gardening and actually taking
care of the crops. And then on the other side is a
dwelling. Cindy probably books it to the
dwelling. OK, roll your first perception I
with disadvantage because you're exhausted. 7. 7 Nothing looks
particularly out of the ordinary except for the mailbox.
As you walk up you can see that the mailbox lid is open and it
is pretty Dang full. The letter on top that you
happen to notice is the one that you wrote from the Four Tree
City Postal Service. It arrived here in a day and no
one has touched it. Cindy is sad.
Yes, maybe they just haven't checked their mail yet.
I'm sure it's fine. They literally farm every day.
They they check the mail when they they take care of the
berries. Cindy probably would grab the
mail and bring it inside. OK.
So you all go inside. Yeah.
OK, I need Cindy to make another disadvantaged perception check.
5. Five these.
Are sad rules. Yeah, they are sad rules for a
sad time. Something's not entirely right.
You can tell what the way that things are set down.
Someone's been here who hasn't been here before.
Can anyone else rule perception? Yeah, they could.
Sure, I think everyone should roll by this point.
Yeah, you. Can working on a kidnapping?
Probably. I got a 10 SO. 15. 15 OK, You
can tell that the state of this house where you are right now is
kind of a foyer. There's a kitchen to the left.
There's a dining room table. There's a living room with a
comfy looking couch. You can tell that it's been
ruffled through. A couple of the cabinets are
open. There's a bookcase where some of
the books aren't like fully slotted in.
There's a little part of the rug, like it's a wooden planks
on the floor, right? It's a hardwood floor, but
there's a rug that's been shifted to the side and there's
like a little latch sticking out from under the ground.
It doesn't look like a couple of old people were just hanging out
here yesterday. Cindy, do your grandparents have
a basement? This particular basement Cindy
might not have known about, so you can roll history.
I got a two. You got a 2 + 1.
I got a three. Yeah, you.
You've had no idea. I have.
No idea. Yeah, I think the the latch
might lead to it good too. Is everyone want to go and see
if there is a basement? Probably just full of berries
like. OK, I'm gonna go in or.
Like very booty stuff. OK, I'll go and try and lift the
latch. OK.
Yeah, you lift the latch and there's a little wooden
staircase that descends slightly downwards.
Not like super deep, not like the spooky horror movie
basement. But there is in fact, a
basement. Cindy will probably lead the way
just to because it's her house, even though she doesn't didn't
know this basement existed. This basement is strange.
It doesn't. At least this part that you can
see doesn't appear to have any capability of storage.
It is basically a hallway. It's about 20 feet down, and at
the end of it there seems to be some sort of mural or
inscription on a thin part of the wall.
The closer you walk to that part of the wall, there are vines
sticking out from the wall. Do you go investigate this far
wall in this hallway in the basement behind this wall is the
source of these vines. There's thorny vines coming out
from here. There's elaborate inscriptions
on this wall that you've never seen before that looks like a
foreign language. And then in the center of it
there is a slot that is like, how do I describe it?
There's a part of the wall that's sticking out and around
that is a master lock. And there's there's three dials
on it that have numbers. Make a arcana check. 15.
Your backpack is glowing. Love that.
Is it the rock? Do I take out the rock?
Yeah, yeah. You take out the rock and the
the diamonds on it are emitting a light, a soft green light.
What? What's on the?
Lock. Again, it's a metal lock.
It seems very very sturdy and on the bottom of it there are three
number dials. Cindy, is there like a three
numbers that have any significance to your
grandparents like? Your birthday or.
Something. Yeah, maybe we can try that.
Cindy puts in her birthday to see if that is the.
Do you remember what those numbers are?
It's like 916, so 916. Yeah, yeah, it's 916.
You reach your hands to the lock and you dial in 916 and it
clicks open. OK.
Do you remove the lock? Please say love me.
Stay with love. Me, unlike my parents, open the
open the lock. OK, Yeah.
You remove the lock and this wall with these inscriptions on
it that you've never seen before slides open.
It slides to the right into the this hallway basement, and there
is a large dark room in front of you.
It smells of fresh earth, and there are vines and flowers and
all sorts of foliage all over the room.
It's very dark. It's kind of hard to see.
Be a bad idea to request some light from solely.
I was about to say can solely like make little fire sure
light. Yeah.
Where are you? Have you all like entered this
area? Yeah.
OK, Yeah. Yeah have solely make some sort
of check survival just make it like AI don't know wisdom.
Wisdom 15. And for a moment, this room is
illuminated. It stretches very deeply into
the farm. The way that this basement is
positioned, like this hallway took you underneath where all
the berries are stationed. And you can see on the ceiling,
massive tree roots stretching down into this room.
The walls have lots and lots of shelves on them, but the shelves
are completely overtaken by vines as solely spits out this
flame. It lands on the opposite wall
and it starts to smolder a little bit and you hear a
screech. Vines stretch out from all
around you, from underneath your feet, and they seal up the door
where you came in. Fire's still burning.
Can we put the fire? Out.
Yeah, the fire's still burning. Like the burning on the plant or
whatever. Yeah, it's on the wall, but the
wall is plant. Cindy guys tries to blow it out.
OK, roll of survival. You have expertise.
So you can. I'm really good at that.
Yeah. All right, 19.
OK, yeah, you, you put the fire out, but all of you with your
feet on the ground in this basement dwelling, you can feel
the ground moving underneath you.
It seems it's entirely compassed in vines.
You hear another very spooky screech coming from the far
wall. Nope, Nope.
Nope. Nope.
Nope, Nope, Nope. Well.
With the our experience with screeches, you have birds.
Should be for me. We're kind of locked in, so you
can't really Nope your way under this one board.
This is this is a fellow. Point the book is or the the
rock is is still glowing. Yeah, it's going brighter and
it's almost vibrating. And I get all the way, like, can
I hold it up to the wall? Sure.
That's screeching. Yeah, you can do that.
Wall have have rock. You hold up the rock to the wall
and it is an emitting the light. From this light that is
reflecting, you can see that the entire far wall, which is
basically under the shed, it's past where you are.
You're currently underground where all the Berry trees are
against the far wall where you're holding This is
underneath the the shed. That is where they keep all the
gardening tools and stuff implanted.
It seems like this is the source of all the vines.
There is a large yellow flower just embedded into the wall.
It is about 9 feet tall and like 4 feet across and at the top of
it there's a giant leaf and earn.
Underneath this leaf there is a toothed mouth that points
upwards. 2 eyes under the mouth look at you and you need to make
a dexterity check as vines try and grab your feet. 9. 9 Cindy
Sharp vines prod into your ankles and pull you to the
ground. You start to bleed a little bit
and you take one damage. Do I know what this if it's a
Pokémon what it is? Roll something.
You could roll a history. 13 + 114.
You look into the eyes that are stationed underneath its mouth
and they are familiar to you. Hello friend.
It doesn't respond. Can I roll history please?
Sure, Dang it, my rolls tonight. Well, if you've come to some
realization as a character like, I think you could share it.
I don't think it's as a character though, it's just as a
person, because I don't think I know all of the I don't think
Schmidt knows about all of the lore of this person.
OK. I can't do anything.
Anyone going to make some sort of check?
Roll, I suppose to check what it is.
Sure. So that's history, right?
It would be history for you. It'd be like an information for
you. Right, which I'm good at.
Yeah, Love. You can't quite sort it out.
It's it's funny in your brain, this yellow plant that is
massive and stuck into the far wall of this basement that is
underneath the farm. It looks somewhat similar to
what Gimli tripped on just a couple hours ago.
If only I had figured out what that was.
I've put it all. Together hurts so much.
But you knew what like the other Pokémon was what, didn't you?
No, I didn't roll for it. Oh, never mind.
Galactic Squids as a person knew who it was, but not Schmidt, too
freaked out by the. Gimli, Rola.
Dexterity. Check 1818 OK Vines.
It's just incredible. Vines reach up from the ground
and attempt to pull you to the ground from your feet.
Your steady boots keep you on top and you stop on some vines.
The ground beneath all of you is starting to move more and more
rapidly, and vines off of the walls are starting to stretch in
your direction. Has Cynthia made a role to
identify what this thing is? Made a history check and
recognized its eyes. Did I give my point of
inspiration to get advantage on that?
Yeah, yeah, you could do that. Yeah, I'll give my inspiration
for denying a cookie. I want, I want like an RP
element of it. So do you think that there's any
way that Schmidt could, like, lead her on kind of to what
Squids is thinking? Just kind of like freaking out
like this thing is in your house, you're sure you have
absolutely no idea what this thing is.
A little sillier, maybe? You can roll again with
advantage. With my scolding.
Yeah, I give. Sorry, not with my.
Point of inspiration. You wouldn't have advantage, you
would have. You would have normal and then
you would get AD 8 on top of it to help you with the roll.
OK, we'll roll the 17. OK, that's fine.
So your grandparents keep a lot of Pokémon on the farm?
There's a lot of them that help out with crops and you know,
tend to the berries, make sure they grow properly, and your
berries are rated the best in the region, maybe even the world
for a good reason because your grandparents have managed this
for years and years and it has been so gosh Dang successful.
You take another glance into the eyes of this monster that is
just implanted into the wall with vines all around you, and
you realize that this is a Pokémon that you know very
dearly, but you've never seen it in this kind of state.
This is your gift Bellsprout as a child named Pumpkin.
Its eyes are familiar, but its body is entirely unfamiliar.
It seems to be very unhappy and very defensive.
Vines reach up from the ground again, and this time they target
Schmidt and LED. I need dex checks from.
Both of you knew it. Yeah.
Yeah, 2. 1313. 5. Wait, OK, you got a five?
Yeah. OK, Schmidt, You take two points
of piercing damage as these thorns wrap into your ankles and
they knock you to the ground. You are now prone, LED gets
whipped by thorny vines, takes three points of piercing damage,
but it's not not prone. The vines around you continue to
arrive faster and faster. I'll.
Give it to me. Make a like a Pokémon handling
This is a very high check. Nope.
You speak out to Pumpkin, and Pumpkin is looks at you, and
fear and anger enters its eyes, and it pulls you tighter to the
ground. I.
Don't. Know what to do?
Oh, can I still speak? Yeah.
It's scrapping time. I don't know if we can get out
of here. Quacko, it's it's time.
We're we're fighting not. A pumpkin.
Quacko hit him with a Peck. Don't need to roll for this is
combat. Don't need to roll for
initiative. I'm not going to make you roll
because this is where we're going to call it.
Oh. God, oh.
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Great. Like has an aneurysm.
Do you want to roll for that aneurysm?
Sure. What am I rolling?
D20. I rolled the 17.
Great. Yeah, you're fine.
You're OK. You have like a headache, but
you're not dead. So that's great.
It's. Not yeah, it's not the actual
proper aneurysm.