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.
After a harrowing encounter at the Trick House with Hoopa on
Route 110, Cindy Gimley and Elodie sluggishly pulled their
lime green wagon named Cradley Flyer towards the commercial
harbour town of Slateport City with a concussed Schmidt, a
check for Elodie worth over $1000, and an unusual silent
pink friend in tow. It is early evening, about 6:00
PM, and you approach the outskirts of Slateport City.
What do you do? I think we have to take Smith to
the hospital. Medical care.
You're just going to enter the town and look for some sort of
medical building I. Think so, yeah.
OK, someone one person give me a perception rule to see if you
can find it. Can I make 1A disadvantage?
Yes, I. Will love that I count.
As our one. Though, no, I rolled a 15 but I
rolled A7 on the second one. OK.
And I got a 13. Schmidt's currently concussed,
kind of lifts his head out of the wagon, and he's still pretty
horizontal to the ground, but he sees a sign as you enter the
city, and he reads it as the people where port and Pokémon
cross nature with paths. Elodie, searching around, does
not find a hospital. She does see the classic
iconography of a Pokémon Center. I guess they might have medical
care there. Or they would be able to direct
us to a hospital. True.
Exactly. They're probably very
knowledgeable. OK, I vote we go to the Pokémon
Center. Sounds good.
OK, you all enter Slayport City. You've entered the domain.
It is a nice little quiet commercial town.
There's a salty sea breeze. It's quite pleasant.
The stones in the pathway are marbled and pretty, alternating
like Gray and blue and pinkish. Looks very, very nice.
You can see a beach to the South with actual sand.
And you approach the Pokémon Center.
Did you enter? Yes.
You've clearly made a scene. It is a little strange.
The three of you look a little worn out, beat up.
You have like, food particles in your hair and your clothes.
You all enter the Pokémon Center and you Nurse Joy just
immediately has your attention and she says, Oh my, what
happened here? It's a very long yeah.
I. Really.
I don't think we could explain it, but we do need help for this
man. I point at the mime junior and I
say can someone get this dog? Yeah, so the mime junior looks
down at Schmidt and let's let off a little frowny face and
slightly jumps off of the wagon. It's not very heavy, it only
weighs like maybe 15 lbs or so, Nurse Joy says.
What's wrong with him? Why is he in a wagon?
He is. He is very much concostious.
She says, Oh no, Oh my goodness. OK, well, thankfully our
establishment is connected to the main hospital, so we can
just take him in through here. Calls over to some additional
nurses and they they reach towards the wagon and Nurse Roy
looks at all of you and she says, do you mind if we just
just take this for now? Yeah.
I don't have a problem with. That he says thank you, this
saves US time that we don't have to go get a stretcher.
And it's it's good. It's good.
So then the nurses. Professional Hospital.
They they pull Schmidt away through double doors that
connect to a different part of the building where there is in
fact a person. Human hospital.
You're now in the Pokémon Center.
It's evening time. Schmidt has been pulled away.
What are you doing now? Are our Pokémon healed?
Because that would be a good time to get everybody to full
health. Yeah, they're, they're not
healed. You, you are here.
You might as well do that if you'd like.
I'm assuming like in my head cannon, I'm imagining that
Quacko is like standing guard by Schmidt and is like not allowing
anyone who's not professional and even professionals, he's
like a little wary. Do you agree with this?
Yeah, that was my question was do my Pokémon get healed?
Yeah, we'll see. They probably will.
They collect all of your Pokémon.
Bean is the only one who's not in a Pokémon at that point who
gets handed over cuz you know, Schmidt is in a different place
and they find your name on file. It says Schmidt Pack and they
say great, well we'll call out Schmidt Pack when all of your
Pokémon are fully healed. Please feel free to roam out the
Pokémon Center to have a little rest.
Do whatever you like. Cool.
It's a little quiet in this Pokémon Center.
The town is like reasonably big, but in general there's just not
like a whole lot of activity this evening.
There's a old couple who's sitting at a table, looks like
they're playing a card game of some sort.
And there's a couple young trainers who are waiting for
their Pokémon to be healed standing around.
I want to go strike up a conversation with the old couple
to see what card game they're playing.
OK, yeah, there's a couple of ladies.
They're, they're very squinty and wrinkly and there's, they're
holding red and white cards and they say, oh, hello, young man,
would you care for a game? Adrian, I would love one.
Haven't played cards in a while. What are you all playing?
This one we call Aplin Toss. Would you like to join us?
I would love to, can you explain me the rules I never played?
Yes. So we have dice and we do not
have cards. So you will be playing a dice
game. Of course you are going to roll
AD 20 against two other D 20s and if you roll the highest, you
win. OK, Sick.
OK, so so do that. Three.
OK, one of them got a four, one of them got a 15.
The one of the women says Applin used astonish and then she
reveals her hand and it's like a really cool Applin that's very
ornate. It's golden colored.
The one that you pulled is like moldy and it's like got some
bugs all over it. And then the other one next to
you is like just has a bite taken out of it.
And then she says he, he and she.
She grabs your cards and she puts them in a stack like a
prize pile. OK.
And she says, would you like to play again?
Sure. OK, great.
Do it again. Yep, I got a nine.
OK, the first one who just won got a three and then the second
lady this time got a 14. And she said aplin, you stroll
out and then she like flicks her card towards the other woman.
And then they go, Oh no. And she claims your card and the
other one's card and she puts them into her stack and she says
you're, you're quite good at this.
She says have you been to the Mafil City Game Corner?
I I've ripped somebody out of it before, but I haven't been there
myself personally now. They kind of murmur to each
other. They're like, RIP, RIP someone
out. What?
What does that? Mean it's hard to explain.
It's hard to explain, but regardless, I'm having fun with
this. This is a great game.
They say very well, I want to check in with some other people
because you're you're playing the card game.
So let's see what's LED doing. I think I'll walk up to the
youngsters, OK and be like, hi, are you I?
How do you do fellow kids? Are you guys from Slateport?
Are you trying to deceive them as a fellow kid?
Because you could roll for that if you.
Want I wasn't, but now that that is a prospect.
Sounds kind of fun, sure. OK.
Yeah, you can roll a deception or probably performance because
you're like doing that thing that's like how you do fellow
kids and. Exactly, Yeah.
It's not your music band shirt. 14.
OK, they're like, hey, we haven't seen you before.
Did you come here for the B Boy Show?
The B boy show? No.
What is that? You don't know about the B Boy
show. And then the other kid says
yeah, sleep. Port City's famous for their
break dancers. Oh, that sounds amazing.
They're. Going to be starting in just
half an hour out in the bazaar, you should check it out.
Oh, the bazaar. What's what's in?
What's the in the bazaar? They say, yeah, from here, huh?
It's just outside the doors of the Pokémon Center.
There's this cobblestone walkway.
There's all these little merchants, they're open all the
time. It's, you know, back when we had
this is too intelligent for them to say I was going to be like
back when we had international commerce, we had all sorts of
merchants, but they wouldn't talk about that.
So we had that international train.
Yeah, very. I, I think they would say
something like ever since they stopped the ships from the other
countries, there's been a lot less people around here.
But there's still a lot of fun in business and it's great time
break dancing. Yeah.
And then they have to have each other.
That's. Again, very cool.
Yeah. OK.
Is there like a gym in this town or anything?
They look at each other and they say the closest one is in
Mahville City. Or if you got a boat or you're a
good swimmer, you could go to Duford.
Cool, awesome. Thank you for your time.
Enjoy your stay at the Pokémon Center.
They say they're a little confused.
They say you do like, like when your waiter brings you your food
and says enjoy your meal. And it like doesn't say yeah.
And they they're, they're too hyped up over the B boy thing to
really be concerned over like the confusion of what just
transpired. And then the the nurse gestures
over to them and gives them their Pokeballs and then they
send out their Pokémon. One of them has a little flying
bat and then the other one has a little purple snake.
And then they leave the Pokémon Center.
Schmidt yes, you've been listed onto a bed.
You got all these doctors and nurses in these, in this white
room. They're poking at you and
they're asking you questions. And they're doing that thing
where they like wave a flashlight in front of your eyes
and they're tracking your eye movement, asking all these
questions and, and they're saying what what happened to
you? Was this a Pokémon attack?
How do I explain this? So we met this mythical Pokémon
Hoopa that can teleport us with portals.
So that flew him rings that he has on his hands.
And then he took me back to my home in Joto and then he
teleported me back and he threw a bunch of fish at me.
And then after he threw a bunch of fish at me, he threw some
other stuff that I don't remember because I started
grabbing the fish and then I threw them back at him.
He threw I forgot what he hit me with but then I got knocked out.
But then I was revived by aromatherapy from my Baker
friend who also has a pop Leo for some reason, and there was a
mime junior that was very rude and sat on me and now I'm here.
There's someone who has a stethoscope to your chest as
they're listening. You say this and they say OK.
Yeah, You know, that makes a lot of sense.
We're so glad you're here. We'll get you taken care of
right away. You should.
This shouldn't take too long. We'll be in and out.
And then they signal over to a nurse who has a Chancey, and
Chancey can treat more than just Pokémon.
Chancey is holding like a a case that is full of little medical
tools and like pill bottles and just all the sorts of stuff that
the doctors might need. They the doctor asks, How are
you with Neil Schmidt? You know, all right.
They say OK going in and then they shove an IV into your arm.
Schmidt screams. OK.
And then you start to feel like a little drowsy as you're being
filled with vitamins and fluids and they are taking care of you.
They're injecting you with not only hydration but medication as
well. Cindy, what are you doing?
Bye then what else is happening at the the Pokémon Center cause?
The. Kids left.
Yeah, you, you witnessed LED approach a couple kids and like,
be really cool with them and then kind of scare them off.
And then you also witnessed Gimli approach a couple of
ladies and play cards with them. He's having a great time.
And Schmidt was dragged off into another room to be helped
operated on Who knows all. Right, I'll stroll on over and
ask about the the card game. Sure, Gimli, Roll AD 20.
Oh yeah, we go. All right.
This is my time dead. You actually win this one.
Incredible. So one of the ladies gets a 7.
She has a pretty decent Aplin. It's it's a Ruby red color, but
it is not high enough to be a particularly good card.
The other one gets a four or no. It's the same one she had
before. It's got a bite taken out of it
and yours is great. It's it's kind of flying.
It's depicted in a scene where like it fell out of a tree, but
it caught like a tailwind and now it's like floating in the
air. It's a really nice little
portrait. Oh, applet, you sucker punch.
And then you sucker punch the old ladies.
No, you. Don't do that.
Yeah. And then you take all the cards
and like what it seems to be like when you win, you like
there's a deck of like 50 or so cards.
And then as you play cards, you make a stack.
But then the next person who wins takes the whole stack.
And this one just happened to be like the last hand for everyone.
So you end up with the entire stack.
So you, Gimli, have won this game.
The two old ladies say, Oh my goodness, what a talented young
player. And they dote on you a gift.
They're going to give Gimli a lava cookie.
And they will say we recently took a dip at the Hot Springs
and leverage before the volcano stopped creating heat.
We picked this up last time we were there.
We hope you enjoy it. Oh, I've heard about these.
My wife talks about them all the time.
They say oh. You guys so much.
They say, oh, you have a wife. She must be very lucky.
Oh, I'm the lucky one, really. They pack up their cards and
they say, well, we hope to see you again soon and.
Thank you so much for the game. And they they leave the Pokémon
Center. Now it's just you guys in there.
Important question for the DM. Yes, I have an answer.
Where is the MIME junior? The Mime Junior is just standing
in the corner of the Pokémon Center, vibing.
He is. He's the Blair Witching.
He's like, he's like finger tutting.
He's like dancing with his noodly hands.
He's like. He's like he's just staring into
the corner. He's dancing.
Cindy walks over to dance with him.
OK, roller performance. Oh no 18 + 2 dirty 20 let's.
Go. Yeah, you're moving.
My junior is ecstatic. It's really interesting because
he's like shuffling his tiny little circular feet, you know,
like, you know, hardly even see them.
He just looks like a top, kind of.
But as he moves, he doesn't make any sound.
He is completely soundless. And he looks up at Cindy and he
lets off a really big smile. And he's, it's like a dance
party again. It's like 2 dance parties in one
day. I don't know what's going on
with dance parties, but there's a little grooving happening.
It's almost rhythmic, the way that the like the medical
machines are like beeping and stuff.
And in fact, a new chime goes off, You hear a Bing Bing, and
then a nurse comes up and she says generally from the Schmidt
pack we would like to see with the desk.
Oh, OK. And she says, I, well, I don't
know if I want to say this is bad news.
I don't know if this is something you're aware of, but
let me start. You're, you're Pokémon.
We don't have him registered. You have a little Larvitar.
What? What's his name?
Bing. OK, I don't know what the best
way to explain this to you, so I think I'll just have you see for
yourself. And she hands you a little
stethoscope. Do you put it in OK?
Yes. OK, you see Beam on like a
little Pokémon like table, like when you're going to waiting
room at a, at a doctor's office or something.
And he's just kind of saying vacantly.
And he looks at you, gets a big smile, and she says please,
please listen to his pulse. OK.
You put the stethoscope to his chest and there is no pulse.
What I I don't hear anything. She says, right, by all of our
calculations, all of our medical instruments, he should not be
alive. What?
You haven't gone into Pokémon Center before, have you?
No, he just hatched recently actually.
He had so he's a baby. Yeah.
I we don't think this is of any concern if he's been okay so
far, but please keep a close eye on him.
This is not something I've ever seen before.
Yeah, I I certainly will. This is crazy.
I mean, never heard of such a thing.
And obviously you guys haven't either.
You're the professionals, so. She says besides this concerning
information, he's all healed up and he's all ready to go.
In fact, here's here's all your pokeballs and she she she gives
you the rest of your pokeballs. She hands you Bean and she also
says, well, since you're here also the rest of your parties
Pokémon are all healed. So if you wouldn't mind taking
those with you as well? Oh yeah, of course, of course.
OK, she says. Please take care of Bean.
Yeah, I'll do my best. Great.
And then she she dismisses you back to the rest of the party.
All right. Cool, Schmidt.
Yeah, It's been like 15 minutes and you're brought awake.
It's your little disoriented, Your vision's kind of blurry,
but you don't have a pounding migraine anymore.
You have a little bandage on your arm from where there was an
IV. And then a doctor or a nurse
comes over to you and he says here's your prescription.
There's four of these. You're just going to take these
once every evening for the next 4 days and then you should be
fine. Cool.
And then thank you, doctor. He says you're very welcome.
And then he says, as per tradition, we just, you were
just in and out, but we got to do this real quick.
And he gestures to a wheelchair, and he asks that you sit in it.
Sick. Can I do wheelies?
Is you asking are you just going to try?
I'm asking because I'm assuming he's carrying me out and I would
like him to actually be performing the wheelies.
Role of persuasion. I've been a while since that's
charisma. OK.
So no bonus and that's in that one?
OK. He's like no.
And if you do, you will be banned from our hospital, OK.
And he pushes you out to your friends.
You were all reunited at the front of the Pokémon Center.
All of your Pokémon are fully healed.
Gimli is has hold of all of them.
It seems like while you were being worked on Schmidt, they
had taken care of Quacko and all the other Pokémon and their
pokeballs. The the party's all reunited and
they have a little mime with them as well.
I asked Mime if he wants to ride in the wagon as we continue our.
Journey I I, I like Crouch down to mime and I look at him and I
scold at him and I'm like, who are you?
What are you doing? Let's see, Mime kind of just
ignore Schmidt because he's been seeing some really weird stuff
out of Schmidt lately. And he listens to Cindy and he
lets out a big smile and he jumps in the wagon and he just
sits there, pops down, arms spread out.
Great. Well, we made a friend, guys.
Huge, big arms are heavy, yeah. Now what do you guys do?
It's now like 6:37 PM. Should we try and find somewhere
to clean up? Because I think we're all
covered in food, and I would. Like they're still like hostels
at this Pokémon Center. Yeah, there, there's this one.
Has one. Upstairs so we could just chill
for the night. Yeah, you could just check in
for the night. Big rest and clean up.
Yeah, absolutely. They have showers and
everything. They have laundry.
You can do all that. Yeah.
I'm just going to keep being talked with me for a little bit.
We're good. OK.
Yeah, walk around, put it back in my overalls.
Everyone else is packed away though.
Cool. You do that.
You check in at the nurses stand.
You get all checked into that. Before you head upstairs, the
doors of the Pokémon Center burst open.
No one walks in, but a little dark colored bird flops in.
It flies towards Gimli and it drops off a little letter and
then it perches and it is very exhausted and very out of
breath. Oh done, got a letter.
I'm assuming you want to read it.
Who it's? From who is it from?
You'll find out. You don't have to read out loud
if you don't want, but you can if you want.
You don't have to read it. It's.
A letter from my wife. Yeah, I need Gimli to make a
perception check, of course. 16. OK, you and Schmidt particularly
recognize this male bird. It's not a common male bird.
It's a mercrow, and everyone recognizes it from the male
place at forgery because Mercros are often employed in mailing
services. This one is like really beat up.
Like it's got like a little hole in its wing, little gash, and
it's really out of breath and it looks exhausted.
It's just like standing on the ground, just like panting.
You OK, little buddy? You want to stay at the Pokémon
Center? It just goes.
I guess I didn't notice that. Yeah, he squawks at you, but
it's just pooped. It's just exhausted and.
It's something happened, bud, Like I'm reading the letter, but
you look a little rough. I appreciate it, but are you all
right? He is definitely not all right,
and he starts kind of like weekly flopping over towards the
nurse's station to try and get detention of Nurse Joy, but he's
a. Little too short I was.
About to say yeah, I'll, I was going to go pick him up but
yeah, be there for the assist. OK, yes, There you go.
Nurse Joy sees the mercrow and sees he's got like one of those
little male insignias on his second hat and says, Oh my, you,
you've been through a lot of trouble to get here, haven't
you? And they take him away and they
hopefully are helping him get better.
They have a special procedure for like government service
Pokémon where it's like they're all established to get that
taken care of. You're welcome to check in and
get your long rest, unless there's anything else you want
to do before that. I think a long rest is good.
Yeah, a long rest is. Good.
The other two. Yeah, I'm down.
OK, cool. You do that.
You have a great long rest. Nothing particularly eventful
happens in the hostel. You all clean up.
There's no crazy dreams or anything.
You guys just get a good sleep. Schmidt is not going to die,
which is great. The medication he's been given
makes him a little nauseous, but it's fine.
Big fan of that. Yeah, not dying.
Yeah, it's very important. And then you wake up, you all
wake up a little early because you went to bed really early,
but like you were exhausted. So it's fair.
It's like 6:00 AM in state Port City.
I heard there's a bizarre that sells things potentially if we
want to go there. Cool.
Or we could get out of here. It changes.
True, actually. Are there time zones in Helen?
Oh, I also have to cash my check.
I will. I don't think there's time zones
in Helen. I don't think it's big enough.
Maybe like over in Evergrand City, where the Pokémon League
is, it might be like an hour ahead, but like, yeah.
I was actually curious about like time zones back to Sino
because I was looking to see if I can find a phone to call my
wife now that I got the letter from her so.
OK. There's definitely time zones
you would probably rolled roll intelligence.
I am big gum, yes I am. I'm too dumb to know about time
zones. That is a a natural one.
I got a 2. Oh, man.
OK, yeah, it's a lot. But you don't know what it is,
right? I should.
Probably wait to call my wife. She might still be in bed.
I don't know what time it is over there.
Find somewhere to cash this check so that we all have some
money and then maybe we can go to the bazaar.
I think that's a good idea. Awesome.
Cool beats. I mean, I guess could ask at the
Pokémon Center if there's anywhere because I don't want to
get lost. Sure.
Good point. Yeah, There is like a hostile
concierge who is there and he says, yeah, a bank.
Absolutely. And he looks over at La He's
like, you seem like the type who'd carry a map.
And he hands you a small map of Slate Port.
Thank you, I do carry a map. I appreciate that.
Cool. It's a fairly detailed map
because it's of a relatively small city and it's not that
small. It's smaller than Marvel, but
it's maybe like, you know, the third or fourth biggest in
Hoven, which isn't a fairly is anyways, too much detail about
the size of the cities in Hoven. You everything's pretty clearly
labeled. You see all the stuff.
There's a bizarre with all these different businesses that are
directly to the South of where you are.
There's a Pokémon fan club, whatever that is.
There's a couple different like there's a shipyard and then
there's two different ports. There's one to the north that is
labeled a Sleep Port Harbor and then there's one to the South on
the beach that's called Sand Port Harbor.
There's a bank, there's the lighthouse is pointed out as
like a special tourist destination.
So we will, we will go to the bank, I think.
Cool. You go to the bank, there's a
bunch of people in suits, there's some machokes wearing
sunglasses that are standing at the door.
I guess walk up to a teller and ask if I can cash my check.
You do that and it happens. I I'm not going to role play
that because it's super. Straightforward, but.
Yeah, you get $1100 in Pokémon cash.
Very cool. OK, cool, let's distribute this.
Are you actually splitting it up amongst everyone very
generously? Yeah, I'm going to split it four
ways. So we would each get 275.
Wow, someones got a caring party member.
Would you look at that? Neato.
Kind of. Cool.
So yeah, you can add that to your character sheet.
Well, we all did it together so. I was wondering if you were
gonna prorate Gimli because he stayed live longer to help you
deliver them, but I don't think that's necessary.
Yeah, I guess. But yeah, I mean, it wasn't like
Schmidt's or Cindy's fault that they died.
That's true. That's true.
Smith threw head first into the lake.
And Cindy did kind of get that in the snake, so maybe.
Cindy's fault. I wanted to pet a Viper and
died. As you finish up your business
at the bank and you very discreetly exchange funds
amongst one another. It's early morning.
That's like port city. The salty breeze is so nice and
reminiscent of Lily Cove. It's slightly less floral here
and like a little bit more. This is like a harbor where like
beefy, sweaty sailors work. So it's kind of got a bit more
of the grit kind of sense of of like a Oceanside city, you know
what I'm saying? There are a lots of places where
ships could be docked. You can see out into the ocean.
The sound of the waves is really nice.
There's a lot of like docks in places where ships can anchor,
but there's not many. You you can tell that there's
room for like dozens, but as of currently there's only like two
or three large cargo ships. And then over to the West
there's a bustling little marketplace, and to the South
there's the beach. Cool, 1st order of business.
Is the mime junior still following us?
Yep. And it's just very silently
following you guys around. Cool.
Can I roll inside on it? Sure, that's soft wisdom.
Which is? So that's a 17.
OK, yeah, this thing is definitely got a goofy spirit.
It does not seem like it has any malicious intent.
It seems like he just kind of goes with the flow.
So he has no reason to follow us.
He's no reason not to follow you either.
Cool, I'm a fight it. What?
Describe your fighting of mime, Junior.
I pull out, I'm going to go with Patricia and we're going to have
a Pokémon battle. OK, just roll initiative or just
one six. OK, I also got a six.
What's your dexterity? I'm sure, I'm sure it's higher
than my juniors, actually. So yeah, you can go first.
OK, cool. I'm going to start off with a
good old fashioned dragon dance. OK, you do that.
You don't have to roll anything for that, right?
It happens now, but now that you've mastered it, you can do
it. Cool.
Patricia starts flapping her wings vigorously and is powered
up with arcane energy. Mime Junior kind of gets the
sense of what's going on and waves his hands together in a
goofy way, and a little psychic wall goes in front of his body.
It's it's back to you. So he has a little wall in front
of him, right? Yeah, one might describe it as a
barrier. Right, right, right, right,
right. My mind barriers don't block
sound based moves. OK, so I'm going to hit him with
a disarming voice. OK, you don't need to roll for
that. Yeah.
OK, the sound waves connect face through the wall and have
absolutely no effect on Mime Junior.
Other people in the party. You're welcome to like, do other
things if you'd like. Or you can just watch this one
V1 as it happens. That's also totally fine.
What are we doing? It's.
Like a good role too. Question what the heck we're
doing? Why did we fighting the little
by Vive guy? Look, he sat on me.
I've got a vendetta. I got to get some stuff out
right. Are you going to like, catch
him? No, probably not.
You're just going to injure this innocent Pokémon, OK?
We haven't left the Pokémon Center yet.
You have. This is the bank.
You're outside of the bank, but. Yeah, that's true.
That's that's fine. You can still say we're.
Kind of spaced out and we were just like, oh we are at the
best. It's just, it's really
unnecessary. Like as they're all asking
Schmidt what why he's doing this, what you're.
Questioning me what I'm doing when this thing is following us
for no reason. What?
OK, He seems fine. Like there's you're fighting him
for no reason. Does a 14 break Patricia's armor
class? The Little Mime waves his hands
around and beams of psychic energy launch out towards
Patricia, dealing 6 psychic damage.
Cool cool, just so unnecessary barriers up.
There's no possible way to like flank him, right?
Could we use the movement speed to like go around him or?
If you, Schmidt, intend to fight, I'm junior, you can flank
him. OK.
But there's no way for Patricia to not alone, OK?
You could have sneak attacked I guess, but you didn't describe
it as such. So that's not a sneak attack
anymore. Like now that you're in a
combat, you can't. Sneak, sneak attack.
I wanted it to be like he knows what's coming.
OK, I'll just hit him with the sink.
OK, roll it or no, I'm saving. Yeah, OK.
That's 8. Once again, the sound waves pass
through the barrier cleanly, connect with MIME Junior's head,
and do absolutely nothing. What are you?
Doing did mime Junior. Crazy.
Is it not weird that sound things don't work on him at all?
No. It's not actually.
Do you not know what my junior's ability?
No, I've never used my junior in a game.
He is so Oh my guy has earbuffs on.
Oh no, he's got your Earpods in. He can't hear us.
Oh my God. This has somewhat gathered the
attention of passerby's. They're just kind of like, oh,
right, let's go a little battle, let's see it.
And like there's, you know, there's like four or five people
just like staying around watching wild.
The little mime junior is going to get a little devilish and
glean in his eyes and he will run towards Patricia and he's
going to tickle Patricia. You need to make a concert.
Watch Junior. Of DC-11.
Pretty easy. Earl, 12, so barely.
OK, yeah, nothing happens, but Patricia does let a little
giggle because she's being tickled, all right?
You should sing again. I can't.
You know what?
That's a great idea. I'm going to sing with the beak
and go for a Peck. Sing with the beak.
Awesome. Yeah, roll, roll the hit.
OK, OK, well I rolled the 19. OK, so it doesn't matter.
You hit. OK, what's your name?
One D 6 + 3 and I double that because of Dragon Dance SO1D6
plus 628. Eight.
OK, Mime Junior gets smacked in the face with a beak.
He lets out his mouth like he's screaming, but no sound comes
out. Any peanut gallery actions
before Mime Junior makes another attack?
You got this body. Keep it up, Bob Junior.
You're talking to my junior? What?
Keep it up, buddy. And I was like, who's he talking
to? There's.
No support from my friends, all right.
This. I already think this is
unnecessary. There's now about a dozen or so
onlookers, and some of them like.
Yeah, yeah. And.
They're like, really excited. I'm gonna, I'm gonna start
organizing like a betting ring, like I'm gonna accept I'm just
kidding. I'm not doing.
You could if you want, but OK. Yeah, one of them's like, my
money's on the little fluffy bird.
I don't know. So this one seems pretty, pretty
good against sound based attacks and the one that is pretty good
against sound based attacks swirls his hands around and a
little psychic blast comes out with a natural 20.
Oh, that's a critical hit. OK, haven't I haven't rolled a
crit in a while. I'm glad it's right now.
So. Yeah, it's great.
Yeah. You choose this.
Yeah, you literally signed up for this for no reason and then
you're like I can't believe this is happening to me.
And then through 2 sound attacks and a soundproof Pokémon.
You deserve this. With a critical hit, Patricia
takes 16 points of psychic damage and is now confused.
Oh. My.
God, let's go, dude. So here's what's going to
happen. I'm going to recall Patricia.
It's Quacko time. OK, that is an action switching
your Pokémon. It's like in the Pokémon games.
OK, understandable. So he's going to roll another
confusion into the new target and he gets a 5.
So unfortunately the little psychic blast is right, right
over Quacko. Like, oof, Yeah, he's a little
too overconfident. Yeah, little results, but.
There's some size in the crowd. They're like, oh.
I know it's a little early during the day but I'm mad so
it's duck finals time. Oh my God.
Dude, you're going to kill this thing, OK, Yeah.
Roll roll Dexterity. Mine got a total of 13.
Quarko also got a total of 13. You have a higher deck score, so
you will win. Your deck score is higher than
12 right? Like it's.
Yeah, it's 16. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, OK. So yeah, you get your free
critical hit. Remind me how this works?
Is it like an attack I pick or? Yeah, yeah, you will pick an
attack and success additional attack that always creates.
OK yeah. Fury attack.
Yeah. Roll how many times you hit?
Roll AD 4I do want to know that I hit 4 times.
OK then. Or it's D 4 + 1, so I hit five
times. Yes.
You are going to KO Mime Junior. Would you like to describe how
you do it, Quacko? Channeling my anger from trainer
to Pokémon just starts beating him with the leak just.
My God. OK, my junior falls to 0, HPN
collapses, the audience cheers, they go yay.
And then they just kind of stand around to wait and they're like
that. Is that a wild Pokémon?
It's like. He runs in, scoops up Mime
Junior and puts him in the wagon.
Yeah. OK, you do that.
The crowd is like, Oh no more battles and you just have to
like push people aside as you run back to the Pokémon center.
They see oh back so soon and then they see my junior and they
say Oh my, we'll get him patched up right away.
And they take him back for literally like 2 minutes and
they bring him back and he's fine.
He he's just sitting there smiling on on the on the
counter. He's fine.
Always. OK.
That was fun.
You settled your differences. Are we good?
I haven't. Settled shit.
Why is it still following us? It says in the Pokémon Center,
Are we being here? Insight on it Earl the 17 and I
didn't get shit. Well, probably because there
isn't anything. He's just a guy.
He's. So happy to be with us, we're
fun. We're a good group of people and
he knows that, right? He's just.
It's just if you're done with him, I'm sure like there's a
I'm, I'm sure there's a way you could tell him to leave.
I'm like. I'm cool with him.
Totally fine with him, just by the way I asked him to come
along in the wagon. Who's in the mood for some
shopping? Let's.
Do some shopping. Pulling into the bizarre with my
junior in the wagon. I feel like that's why you did
like, a, like a sitcom Stinger. Like, it was like, OK, that was
weird. Let's do some shopping.
There's like some music. It's like, and then you guys go
shopping. Welcome to the bizarre.
It's now like 7:00 AM. So the early risers are still
not about. There's not many kids, but
there's some. There's some adults, early
risers and the people who work there and what not.
You see an herb shop, you see a clothing shop, you see what
looks like a little medicine Mart.
You see a sign that's in a font that is very familiar.
It says Clay Mart, and there's also a little stand that says
Todd's Vitamins. Can imagine we all might want to
stop by the clay Mart. Yeah, Oh, yeah, let's go to Clay
Mart. I wanna see, wanna see what the
what the Mark family has going on.
Cool you guys, the Martins. The Martins, Yeah.
You guys go to Clay Mart. Who's leading the way to Clay
Mart? I can lead the way I'm.
Gonna say Elodie should with her charisma to get us some
discounts. Roll the perception.
Cool beans feel. Like we brought people every
time they come into a store. I got an 18. 18 Clay is not at
the Mart. He's not standing there.
There's a bunch of goods it seems like, like no one's
stealing. No one's really watching though.
However, with your 18, you hear the sounds of B boy beats and
you can identify an individual in baggy clothes and it's sick.
Snap back in the center of the bazaar with his B boy gang.
Doing some break dancing and there's four other Pokémon that
are just like spinning around on the ground doing all sorts of
little tricks and stuff and it looks like the Slate Port City B
boys are having a performance. There's 4/4 dudes in their
classic B boy tire and one of them looks a lot like Shay Slash
Tay Slash Kay. And then the other three are
just, you know, they're they're homies, They're friends.
They are friends with Clay from Claymart.
And there's four Pokémon. They are like brownish, like
they kind of look like toys and they're just spinning.
Get lost. I mean, if you guys want to
watch the B boys, we can watch the B Boys.
And break dance away. Yeah, So he notices that like,
while he's spinning, he has a pretty good perception.
He witnesses as a group of people go up to his his his
merchant booth, and he realizes that they were probably trying
to buy something. He's like, hold on, guys.
I, I I got to get up for a second.
And he stands up and one of the little spinning ball toys moves
out of the way and a little red rodent stands up and hops behind
him. And he says, sorry, sorry, I I
didn't see you coming. Welcome to Clay Mart.
What can I do for you? So you'll break that's that's
pretty good. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, there's a lot of downtime out here in the
bazaars. So I'd, I like to meet up with
with the with the B boys when I can.
What can I get for you as you look around at his wares?
This is probably the most extensive wares outside of the
Marvel City, one that you've seen.
There's a lot of stuff. There's a whole variety of
pokeballs, There's a bunch of healing items, there's a bunch
of items that you might want to use in battle.
There's looks like assortment of gems and rocks and like weird
Pokémon parts. There's a whole bunch of
berries. What?
Are you looking for does he have any like does he have any like
candies or anything like? That he does, as a matter of
fact. Are you going to ask A?
Catalog list of every item in the store.
Catalog list. OK, Yeah.
He's got potions, Super potions, hyper potions, antidotes,
paralyzed heels, burn heels, ice heels, awakenings, full heels,
revives ethers. He's got a bunch of different
candies. They're called bitey candy,
quick candy, health candy, smart candy, tough candy, courage
candy. He has regular candy bars,
freshwater soda pops, Berry juice, lemonades, and moo moo
milks. He has pokey balls, Great balls,
ultra balls, nest balls, level balls, timer balls, luxury
balls, repeat balls. You want me to keep going like
he's he's got everything? No.
No, no, no, keep going. OK, Yeah.
Netball, dive ball, dusk ball, moon ball, heel ball, quick
ball. He has.
Let's see, I'm going to roll for this one.
He has one heavy ball. He has X attack, X defense.
He's all the X items, some unlabeled stones.
There's like a reddish one. There's a greenish one.
There's a dark Obsidian colored one.
There's a yellow one. There's a blue one.
There's one that kind of looks like the sun.
There's a glimmering green one. There's a dark translucent
purple one. There's looks like a scale of a
Pokémon. There's like a Fang of a
Pokémon. Oh, don't I need a stone to
evolve solely? Do any of these stones look
evolving? Potentially if you want to
check, you could ask or roll a check.
I will ask Shay. Shay.
Clay. Clay I will ask Clay I'll send
out solely and be like hey so I heard I need a stone.
He says, Oh yeah, that's a that's a Vulpix.
We love those. Yeah, for that you'll need a
Firestone. And he gestures over to the
stone cabinet. I'm.
Afraid to ask, but how much? He says these guys go for 400
apiece. Oh, no.
OK. Do you?
Do layaway Clay does clay. Claymark does not do layaway,
unfortunately. Wow, what a sham.
And and no returns either. It's a all sales are final.
I think I have enough, yeah. Oh yeah, it was just me and you.
Know because I I, I, I'm poor and I don't spend ridiculously.
Yeah, you're, you're a penny pincher.
You're poor. Yeah, that's sweet.
I mean, if you want, if you want to buy it like I'm not going to,
I'm not going to stop you. We're doing it OK, getting the
stone. Subtract 400.
You have a Firestone. You don't have to use it right
now if you don't want, but you could up to you just straight.
Slap it on there like yeah, OK baby.
Or or like ask like solely. I got a stone for you.
Do you want it now? Roller Persuasion.
Am I handling? No, that's a little more
personal. You're not like having solely do
an attack. You're checking with solely like
on a personal level. 14. Souli kind of looks quizzically
at the stone is like, yeah, OK. Totally evolving.
Do you want her to OK you Yeah a very unceremoniously in a in a
classic Cindy fashion, Cindy gives the Firestone to Soul
Eater the Vulpix and Soul Eater is encapsulated in a glowing
white light get drawing the attention of the B boys.
They they stop doing their dancing.
The music just record scratches to a stop and everyone witnesses
as Soli's form glows white, grows larger, sprouts additional
tails, and in front of you all you have a beautiful, golden,
lovely, luscious 9 tails. Hey.
To win, baby, let's go. Yeah, you're $400.00 out in the
pocket. But Soli approaches Cindy, goes
in for an embrace, is now about the same size as Cindy, if not
taller. The Tufts on 9 tails, his head
definitely sprout out a little bit, and the tails are just so
beautiful and warm. And you, you give you solely
your little hug. Cool.
I don't think anyone's going to buy anything quite as cool as
that, but you're more than welcome to try.
Candies again. The candies, yeah, yeah, they
are called Mighty Candy, Quick Candy, Health Candy, Smart
Candy, Tough Candy and Courage Candy.
And they also have candy. That sounds like Let's Go
candies. Maybe.
Yeah, unfortunately don't think that those are going to evolve
cabbage. So not the kind of candies I'm
looking for. No.
I'm just looking up the candies. Do you remember what?
What's that? There's also cabbage.
Anything to evolve them and spin.
Well that's The thing is like I can try but how much are the
candies? They are 100 each.
That seems expensive for something that might not work.
I have the cabbage spin with them before I buy them and then
if it works I'll buy it. No, I'm just kidding.
Does. Clay, have any special edition
balls? He does.
As a matter of fact, I'm assuming you just ask him like,
hey, you got any special balls? And he says, yeah, Deez Nuts.
No, he says. Yeah, Right now my special
inventory, I'm particularly fond of this heavy ball that's going
to cost you 130. OK, he says.
I've also got some luxury balls, timer balls, level balls.
We got a lot of special inventory here because, you
know, this is a big commercial harbor, so we get a hold of a
lot of really cool stuff. I think I'll make a purchase for
the heavy ball. Actually.
Buy for 130, sure. You do that.
I would like to purchase three quick candies.
Three quick candies. Yep.
OK. Yeah, you do that.
Cool. I would like to bring out
Jessica. OK.
I would like to give Jessica one of the candies.
OK. And then I would like to have
Jessica go throw down with the beat boys.
Jessica consumes a quick candy and frolics over to the to the B
boys. They they're slowly starting
back up because they were a little shocked by the evolution
of nine tails. They start grooving and moving
and Jessica naturally also starts grooving and moving.
She is copying the break dancing movements and as she does so she
is kicking up little Tufts of dirt and sand from the beach.
Do you encourage her to keep dancing?
Yeah, roll a performance. That's a 15.
OK, that's sufficient. In a dramatic little flip, a
cloud of sand distorts the view of Jessica.
And on the other side, after a quick blue flash of light, you
have a new form of Auricoria. It's feathers are adorned in
such a way that it looks like it's wearing a snap back.
And it's feathers are kind of like loose and baggy.
And it's feet have changed in color.
They're now brilliantly colored and it like they are a little
poofy, like they'd be really good at kicking up dirt.
Oh hell yeah. Jessica looks like a Schmidt and
gives like a look that just emanates coolness.
Oh yeah, Schmidt gives Jessica that look back.
Cool. And Jessica keeps dancing with
the with the with the B boys. I would like to also give a
quick candy to Quacko. OK, You do that.
Hey, yo. What was your name again?
Name's Clay. Clay.
Appreciate you, buddy. What do these do again?
They have something to do with the Pokémon stats.
They give temporary bonuses. Temporary bonuses.
OK, OK, OK, cool, cool. Cool, Ginley, you bought the
heavy ball LED you. Have you bought anything?
No. You have to compete with an
evolution in a form change. So I'm just.
Like, I know, I know, like. How's it get better than that?
That's the thing, if I could find something that I was
confident could evolve like. Feeding cabbage random things to
see if it changes. You can just put a me in a candy
bar and try that I. Don't know you have regular
candy bars. I was on the list.
There is a regular candy bar, yeah.
How much for the candy bar? 15.
Sure, I will pay 15 for the candy bar, give it to cabbage
and have and spin her around. OK, you do that.
Cabbage is holding this candy bar and looking at it like
candy, you know, And you spin cabbage.
You give me like a Dex check. Right Dex check for cabbage.
Yes, 17. OK, yeah, You spin cabbage
around and the cabbage's bilk kind of starts like frothing up
in a bit. And it's she seems very excited,
But there is, at the end of the day, no significant change.
OK, Yeah, you did your best cabbage.
We'll fight. We'll find it.
Don't worry. We'll find something to evolve
you. Cabbage was confused because
cabbage isn't disappointing. Cabbage is like I got a candy
bar like this is great this. Is sick.
Like what are you? What are you sad about?
I don't have a character sheet for Oracoria, but you can do it
manually right now if you'd like.
Squids. Yeah, it's a ground type.
If you didn't figure that out. Ground flying.
Oh hell yeah. And yeah, I'm sure you're stoked
on that. Oh.
Man, no, it's happening. It's landorous, Yeah.
Just plug in the stats for Landers.
Right now, no. It gets intimidated.
No, it doesn't. It still is Dancer.
All that's changed is that PEC has become Revelation Dance.
That's the name of the move. I didn't make that up.
That's the actual or choreo move.
And the attack bonus is +7 and the damage is 2 D 10 + 4 round.
It's very good, yeah. That's potent ball.
Is there any like massive with it or?
No, it's just, it's just good. And remember you have the dancer
ability. So like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sure you've already
strategized that with another one of your Pokémon, so it's
fine. Oh wait.
Oh shit, I hadn't. But then yeah, OK.
Maybe I shouldn't have said that, but you would have figured
it out eventually anyways. Yeah, I would have.
But yeah, all of your stats are the same, you just have a new
move and you're ground type. Sick.
Someone might actually take on the Marvel City gym.
I don't know. It looks like if you asked
Jessica to fly, she probably couldn't.
Her feathers are very heavy. Yeah, she's grounded now that's
funny. She had she had big feet that
look like sneakers. So cool.
That's really funny. Cloud shoe, Jessica.
Yeah. Cool, It's like 7:30 AM at the
Slayport Bazaar. You guys doing anything?
There's some other shops you didn't go to.
You spent all your money at Claymart.
Yeah, all of it. I.
Mean not. Me.
Let's go, let's spend. Some money like I'm still good.
His little red mouse Pokémon, just like, saw some really silly
things happen, saw a very legitimate, very cool evolution,
saw a very interesting form change that no one's ever seen
before, and then saw a little military spinning with a candy
bar. And Plussle is just like, this
is a this is a good group of people, Claymart says.
Can I help you out with anything else?
Oh, think we're good, right? I'm good.
Cool, have any clothing? Clay says not really, I've got
like assorted scarves and belts. But there is France fine fashion
just down the way. And he gestures South.
Cool. Appreciate you.
We'll hit that up next. Awesome.
Yeah, let's go France. Fine fashion.
Another shopping. Season 2 outfit change.
Yeah, I'm assuming we're just vibing, like I don't, I don't
think Cindy would want to like put solely away.
I think they're just like hanging out, right?
Oh yeah, yeah, you guys are all very impressed.
Solely is very beautiful and. He's also wearing her new or not
new new but like new hoodie that says that's lip row just like
her tank top but it's a hoodie. Oh, great.
Yeah, it's the one. You got the thrift store, Right?
Right. Right.
Yeah. And then Oracorio Jessica takes
a break from the dancing and kind of struts alongside Schmidt
and Quacker. Very.
They're kind of always dancing, kind of like hip on top, you
know? You know, the Hip on Top's idle
animation, sword and shield. It's kind of what Jessica's
always doing. Hell yeah.
Welcome to Fran's Fine Fashion. You see a a young woman, she's
wearing very fluffy clothing and she has a pink sheep Pokémon in
front of her who is just smiling and banging and she is plucking
wool off of its back and knitting.
And she says, welcome, what can I get for you?
Like AT shirt, but it's like a like a like AV neck, you know,
but like maybe like a little bit like like lower than, you know,
like a like a deep V, you know what I mean?
She she says I might. What color are you looking for?
It's like a Gray. OK.
Like a douchey. White roll AD 20.
Roll AD 20. Yeah, that's a three.
God dammit, I can never find. It's a 3.
Well, I mean, what's funny about this booth that you're at is
that there's like no inventory. Like there's a couple mannequins
that are dressed, but there's like no clothing.
She turns around. She's like, I, I think I can get
that to work. And she grabs her belt and sends
out a Pokémon. It's a large spooky spider.
It's big and pinkish red. It turns around and shoots silk
at her, and she very rapidly swings her sewing needles around
and she grabs a little pot that has some colored water in it,
spins it on it. And about two minutes later, you
got a T-shirt that's Schmidt's sized, that is not Gray.
It's not douchey white. the V isn't quite as deep as you'd
like it to be, but it's pretty good.
And it's like a sky blue color. He says.
This is this is the best color I could get for you.
OK, I'm content. He says she says.
It's going to cost you 30 SEC. I'll pay the lady.
Great. Well, if we're doing season
alpha changes. How yeah do it?
I could easily keep this simple because your boy needs a new
undershirt. You could make it cool though.
I could. What would I do here?
Chainmail. Chainmail undershirt.
Do it. Familiar with the chainmail all
right. OK, overalls.
That would be ridiculous. I don't know if Fran can do
that. Yes, I can.
Can Fran even do just AJ Bell's shirt?
Like what? Well, I'm thinking you guys can
think about if you want to do alpha stuff.
Can I get like a cardigan? Sure, describe.
It like a pink cardigan, maybe like a floral pattern.
OK, roll AD 20 for your. Description amazing.
Yes dog, I got a 19. Sure.
Yeah. Fran, like, is immediately
picking up what you're putting down.
She eyes you over and is like, well, this woman's pretty
fashionable. So I, I think I know what to
make for her. And she crafts some sort of
polyester out of some material that she has in combination with
Flaffy's wool, and she applies some dye to it.
And it's exactly what you asked for.
And then she says every custom work is going to be 30 pokey
dollars. Amazing, I will pay that right.
I kind of want so like normally I have my pickaxe like strapped
to like a backpack, but I kind of want like a new set of like
tan or like beige overalls with like an actual latch on the back
to like hook my pickaxe into. OK.
So maybe not like denim, maybe you're looking for like canvas
or something. Right, like canvas.
Yeah. OK, yeah, Roller do 20.
Yeah, 15. Yeah, that's pretty good.
Gosh, how would she produce this?
I she has up up in like a little rafter at the top of the booth.
There is 3 different little blue quadrupedal bugs and they work
really hard together to produce very rapidly A khaki colored
fabric that Fran Grocer sewing needles around.
Goes over to a sewing machine actually and takes gets that
taken care of really quickly because this is very thick
fabric. And a couple minutes later you
got some overalls. She'll take 30 pokey dollars
from you. Excellent.
They're nothing special. They don't quite have quite as
many pockets as you'd like, but they'll definitely get the job
done. Right.
Cindy's just vibing with solely in her hoodie.
Cool. Yeah, you you are feeling quite
warm. Your cheeks are a little rosy,
but because of your passive and because of your background, you
aren't bothered. You're not like sweating, but
you're very comfortable and warm.
I've missed the the sea breeze, Grant says.
Well, thank you so much. You're welcome to come back at
any time. Appreciate it.
Thank you so much. Cool, let's see Schmidt, give me
a perception check. Perception.
Cool that one. That one, Yeah.
You don't say anything. Well, you know what?
You know what you see on top of your head?
Mime Junior. He's wearing a new hat.
Swear to God I'm going to fist fight him now.
He picked up a hat from Fran and it's really cute.
It's like the same as the head he's wearing, but it's blue.
It's like the same color blue. It's like.
How did you pay for it? Maybe he didn't pay for it.
You will never know. You didn't perceive well enough.
Get. Right, I'm junior you.
Want them off my head. Yeah, you can try.
What's that role? Strength?
Probably dex because you're swatting.
Dex Yeah. Dex Yeah, OK, 13.
OK, yeah, you, you, you connect with him, not harshly.
It's like, not like the total of your of your hand.
But he gets the picture and he hops off.
He falls to the ground silently. Little guy.
Cindy picks him up and gently puts him in the wagon.
OK, yeah, he loves it. He's got a big beaming smile.
Is anybody else's Pokémon ride a ride in the wagon or we all just
I? Don't think you want Pokémon
riding in the wagon? Can I put grape juice in the
wagon? Absolutely.
Grape juice is in the wagon. Yeah, Grape juice is having a
really good time alongside my junior.
Bean bean just in my new set of. Overalls yeah Bean.
Bean is pretty stoic as usual. No particular emotions coming
out of Bean, but is happy to be with Gimli.
What's on the docket now, friends?
You're pretty close to the beach.
If you want to take a little beach trip, you could get there.
You're relatively close to the lighthouse.
You could turn around and you could find your way to the fan
club. There's a museum.
You could go to the harbor, or you could just go back to
Marvel. You could go to Duford.
The world's your oyster. You can do whatever you want.
Since you're waiting for clothes, it's now much closer to
8. The bazaar is getting a little
bit more crowded. There's all sorts of people
around here. You can tell that these
merchants are like slightly overstabbed.
It seems like they were maybe used to having more customers,
but for one reason or another they are just not as busy as
they used to be. And that would be kind of crazy
if it was because there was no international travel.
Yeah, wouldn't that be weird? What other establishments are
there? Yeah, you guys went to the bank.
There is a place called the Pokémon Fan Club.
There is a lighthouse that LED's map has signified as like a
really popular tourist destination.
There is a shipyard, which is not the same as a harbor.
There's two different harbors. There is one at the northwest
that seems to stretch out towards very rocky, tidy
currents. There's one to the South on the
beach that seems like it might head towards Duford, and there's
some residential areas. There's a Pokémon contest hall
as well. And into the north is where you
came from, and to the South is the beach.
So. Is there a battle institute?
There is not or. You're looking for a right of
learning, right? Yeah.
Yeah, there's not one here. I could do contests though.
Is everyone looking super cute? Never.
Do you say? Do you say this out loud?
Yes. Solely looks fairy Solely is
less cute and more pretty now. So maybe you'd put solely in a
in a beauty contest, but could also do a cute contest.
I mean, I guess we could get money from a contest, but other
than that I don't as much as I think it would be fun.
You're just always the hustle and grind set, huh?
I mean, this I like, I don't know, like what, Why?
Why would we do a contest? Why not?
That's a real. Question.
Yeah. Why?
Do not think cabbage is cute enough.
No, I think cabbage is definitely cute enough to win a
contest. I.
Mean there's only one way to find out, right?
Yeah, I mean, I'm down. I mean, I'm, I'm down to go.
If people want to go, I'm probably not gonna participate,
but I'm pretty sure people are down.
We'll go. OK, sure.
You guys enter the contest hall, automatic doors slide open and
you find yourselves in a very like pink and yellow and red
room. It seems to be like the
reception ticketing check in area.
To your right, you see a bunch of like little, not little.
They're quite large, like floor blenders, culinary devices where
there's people hanging around. They're like throwing berries in
a blender. It looks very interesting.
On the walls there are portraits of of trainers in Pokémon who
have won previous competitions. And there is a woman standing
behind the desk with blue hair. She is not dealing with you
right now. She's talking to a customer in
front of her. A very tall, very slender, very
imposing looking person is asking some questions at the
front. They're accompanied by a
Pokémon. Do you just wish to wait in
line? Do you wish to blend some
berries? What is your action here?
Well, Pokémon. Roll AD 20 and then add
intelligence. It's I rolled a three, so you
can either add +1 or +2 for intelligence or wisdom.
I don't think it makes that you do a difference.
Yeah, they're with the Pokémon. You've never seen it before.
It's about person size and it like doesn't really look like it
has feet and it's arms are very WAVY.
That's kind of all you can tell about it.
It looks pretty weird. It's a very strange looking
Pokémon. And I try to see what the
Pokémon is. Sure.
I rolled. A12 You are not familiar with
the species of Pokémon, but it like really strangely reminds
you of like potentially a water type, but you know it's not
water type but it looks like it would be a water type.
You overhear the conversation, this woman in dark clothing,
long black hair, pretty tall, again, pretty imposing.
She has a very sweet voice and you hear her having a
conversation with the woman at the desk.
You couldn't really make out much of the conversation, but
the woman says, OK, yeah, that's understandable.
I hope you have a great rest of your day.
And the receptionist says, OK, you too.
And she turns around and her and her Pokémon start to stroll out.
Can I get an intelligence check from Elodie?
14. You are not familiar with the
Pokémon exactly. You know it's pre evolution.
It's pre evolution's name is Inke.
You lock eyes with this and it is very disturbing.
It has a very gross face and you don't trust it but.
And she leaves the building with her friend.
Yeah, I will ask the receptionist.
Hi, we heard this is a contest hall.
We've never participated in a contest.
How does that work? It says, hey, welcome.
As of right now, we actually can't be holding contests where
there's a electricity problem. The Marvel City Volt switches
down, so we only get so much power to the city right now and
they've decided that's most important for domestic trade out
of this Lakeport harbor. But I can get you started.
I can get you a pokey block case if you'd like.
And if you're first time contest users, you'll actually have to
start the circuit inverting turf.
That's where the beginners rank is.
Would you like some pokey block cases?
Yeah, sure. She says great, and she says
would all four of you like 1? Yeah.
Sure. Sure.
OK, she gives you all. OK, block case, she says.
Yeah, I'm really sorry. I've been trying to.
I've been explaining that to people all day.
The government has their own priorities with where it gets
power and whatnot. So we're just closed for right
now. But you're welcome to blend
berries. That doesn't take too much
electricity. We're going to marvel.
I mean, I'm going to go back to Marvel because I don't think
there's no source in sleep board anymore.
Yeah, I really don't have much else in sleep port that I want
to do either. Yeah, you all leave the
building. Can I get a perception check
from Cindy as you head north? 3.
Yeah, you don't notice anything in particular.
Yeah, as you're all heading north, you have to stop and wait
for a little bit because there's a group of Pokémon.
There's four quadrupedal metal looking little Dino Pokémon and
they're carting a very large piece of cargo between them.
There's a very, very large plank container that is has it
strapped on top of it, a very large propeller.
They can barely squeeze through the city streets and they are
slowly crawling towards the harbor.
You just have to give them a few minutes and then you're able to
walk past them. It seems like they have cargo
that's destined for a ship. You're now back on the previous
route. What was that number again?
Route 110. You're back on Route 110.
You look, you have to cross the trick house because that's right
at the crux of where you'd go back to Montville City.
It looks different. Instead of a big, round golden
door, there's like a rickety old wooden door.
And it's pretty clear that no one's there.
It is probably an abandoned home.
You are at a crossroads where you could go in a building that
looks like it's connected to the cycling road, or you could take
the grassy path and you'll probably encounter, you know,
some trainers or while Pokémon. It's going to be hard to avoid.
Oh, you don't have? Bikes, right?
Yep, sounds like grass. You're out.
OK, I'll pile into the wagon. I don't think that would work
and. Then who's going to pull the
wagon? I'm.
Going to request Schmidt to roll AD 20 or your routine 1/10/18.
As you're walking, you come across 2 little dog Pokémon and
they're going and they're barking at what looks to be like
a large, lumpy red rock on the ground as Schmidt.
As you get close, one of them turns and growls at you.
It seems like they're very busy doing something very important
involving this red rock. What do you do?
Are they trying to fight or? It seems like they're busy with
something. OK, they're busy with something.
I'll sleep and be. OK, do you attempt to try and
pass them? Sure.
OK, roll a stealth, which you should be pretty good at.
Oh, that's plus tax. Oh yeah, that's a dirty 20.
OK, yeah, You are able to just kind of like nimbly get past
them if you wish to pass this. Every, every trainer is going to
have to make a stealth check because these dogs are trying
not to let anyone pass. But Schmidt is just very sneaky.
Do I have disadvantage with the wagon?
Whoever's pulling the wagon, if it's not Gimli, has
disadvantage. Can I try and like investigate
like what the weird red rock thing is?
Absolutely. I got a 15.
OK, You can between these two dogs that are barking at this
rock and trying to figure out what's on it, what's on the
inside of it or something. One of the dogs is like gnawing
on this rock. There's like a few holes in it
and you can peer inside one of these holes and you see a little
yellow face and it looks very scared and sad.
I'm assuming they're harassing the shuckle.
It's appears to be the case because otherwise why would it
be hiding from them? Yeah, I want to help the
Shuckle. He's a little homie.
I mean, there's always the cabbage scent distraction
tactic. I was going to say, since I
sneaked past them, would I technically be flanking them?
Uh huh. Like I sneaked past them, right?
Yeah, absolutely. So I would be like behind them.
Yes, you are definitely fitting that archetype of D&D character
for sure. So if I did like a like a sneak
attack. Absolutely.
Product my passive crit Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. I'm a crit that.
OK, on on one of the doggos. Yeah.
OK, 22. Yeah, Jessica's very powerful
now, and I didn't explain this to you, but it seems like this
attack could be described as super effective as this new
ground type. Oracorio does a little groove
and the dog just gets heated. One of these dogs just gets
completely obliterated. Off the.
Planet. So like Jessica kind of does
like a little earth bending thing with this and a little
platform of earth rises up from the path that you're walking on
and this little, poor little dog gets heeded into the Bay and
just you hear a little splash in the distance.
That's awesome. The other dog sees this happen
and attempts to run away, gonna make a check to see if it can
possibly even do that when it's being surrounded.
It cannot. It gets backed into a corner
against the fence and is growling but is also whimpering.
Move out of the way, let him run away.
OK, yeah, if you let the dog go run away, he will certainly,
definitely try to do that. Do you?
Do you invite him to run West or north?
You came from the West, OK. West probably.
Towards the West, because we're going the other way.
OK, yeah, you do that and he scurries off.
Just very, very scared. His friend is gone.
Had to. Approach the little chuckle boy.
Yeah, A. Chuckle in the wagon, you.
You approach this red rock and it seems like there's a whole
bunch of noodles inside. Yeah, hello.
Hello little friend. It pokes out a little head.
It's a really basic face, literally like a :), and it goes
good. Buddy, how's it going?
You want some lava cookie? The.
Head of the lava cookie I got. OK, how he's.
Doing. He puts in his mouth and his
eyes get really big. He's like, and he tucks in his
neck really quickly back into the rock, but the cookie's too
wide for the hole, so he has to like, push it three times.
You know, it's like, and then, and then the cookie breaks a
little bit and then he goes back into a shell and he's, you hear
little like goopy munching sounds.
You ought to come with us a little bad.
I got this little heavy ball for you.
He he pokes his head out and he looks at you like more Cookie.
He doesn't say that, but yeah, you would imagine that he would
say that. He just says bowl, bowl.
OK, how heavy is Chuckle Chuckle?
Pretty heavy. Probably not.
You could pick him up. Oh yeah, let me try to pick him
up, OK. Roll of Strength. 23, yeah.
OK. You've handled so many rocks of
approximately the size, you know with confidence that this is
roughly 45 lbs, correct? Yeah.
Neat. So what do you say, body order?
You want to go on a little Jerry with us?
You seem pretty cool, He goes. I think I'm just going to
attempt to just like, coach them into the ball.
OK, roll your D20 and I will apply my secret to math.
A 17. That'll do it.
OK, cool. Yeah.
You hold out the heavy ball and this Shuckle bops it, and he
goes in and the ball wiggles once, twice and three times.
And the heavy ball look shut. You've caught yourself a
Shuckle. Me.
I do not have a page fully ready, but I must tell you.
I must tell you, the way that these stats turn out, man, it's
funny. Your armor class at level 5 is
22. What?
The fuck? Jesus Christ.
Thinking guard split, it gets what it gets.
I'm not going to promise it can do lots of damage, but hurting
it is going to be can. We get a chancy.
Can we get a chancey in you? It's time for a chancey.
Give them a chance. Come.
On Gimli has one Pokémon not in a pokie ball, but the rest of
his pokie balls begin to wiggle OK.
I'll be sending Lebowski to the PC.
OK, you touched Lebowski's pokie ball and he eats into
cyberspace. Great.
That is your encounter for this route.
You find your way back to Marvel.
So you welcome back everyone. Welcome back to Marvel.
I I like, we could go through journey stuff, tripping on
twigs, but I think, I think just two hours later, you guys make
it back and it's like noon on a weekday.
It's a bit of a lunch rush. People are moving around.
You're pretty familiar with this place by now.
Yeah, you are pretty central. Either you're by a big
commercial district, you're by, you're pretty close to the gym,
you're pretty close to the Pokémon Center.
The the casino would be a bit out of the way.
What do you want to do? Let's go to the gym.
Not like the the the. Battle Institute.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, OK. Yeah, yeah.
Is is everyone else joining Schmidt for this?
Sure. OK.
Yeah, sure, why not? Yeah, you enter the balance too
as a party and you recognize the guy from what, 2 days ago?
Hasn't been that long. Hey, welcome back everyone.
So good to have you. You ready for another workout?
I'd love to see that Mudkip again.
That Mudkip would not love to see you, unfortunately.
Do you say this to him? Sure, why not?
OK, he's a he's a little sad. He's like, well, I love that
little guy. Anyways, what can I do you for
another workout everyone? Except what was the?
What was the price on that again?
He says, well, today we're, we're doing a special actually.
So I've he references his his pricing chart and he says if, if
it's a previous customer, we can offer it for just 50 pokey
dollars depending on the regimen.
I am not a previous customer, So what would pricing be for me?
That would be 80 for you, Sir. All righty, let's do it.
Who are you having trained at the gym?
Patricia. Patricia, great.
You sent out Patricia and this guy says, oh, I got to get Carl
to look at this one. Carl come here.
And then a super swole dude comes up.
He's wearing like a tank top that doesn't fit on his pecs.
He's like, that thing is so fluffy and he picks up Patricia
and he says this is amazing, we will train now.
And he turns around and takes Patricia away.
People trained up. Anyone else?
I will be sending total in. OK, Total hasn't seen this place
before, Total. Total has.
The feeling goes like a Torkel does, you know?
And the guy working behind the counter says, oh, I I love these
guys. You can find a whole bunch of
these just up north at the Fiery Path, I think it's called.
Yeah, yeah. Some of our crew likes to work
out there because it gets so hot.
Come here, little buddy. And he scoops up Toidel and
takes Toidel over to a treadmill.
Nice. Yeah, I think I'll I'll drop off
bubble gum. OK, bubble gum gets dropped off.
Bubble gum might have heard some stories about this from grape
juice. Maybe not.
Seems seems maybe like ready to take on a challenge.
You know what I'm saying? Seems seems like right ready for
some action. The the, the Jim Bros scoop up
bubble gum and say, oh, look at this guy looks like a clown.
And everyone just kind of chuckles and they take bubble
gum away. Do they say how long it's going
to take? They say come come back in two
hours. OK.
As you leave the Battle Institute, you are facing S
because that's the way you came and you're noticing another
event is starting to pop up. Eleanor once again is making
another speech to the people. This time there's a lot more
people outside of City Hall and they're getting pretty riled up.
There are a lot of citizens that are climbing atop the Champions
Court statue of Bay, and they aren't necessarily vandalizing
or anything, but they're being kind of rowdy and they're like
cheering on to the speech. And it's the same rhetoric as
before. Eleanor is like, this is
ridiculous. How long is it going to take for
us to get some representation from our government?
Our major facilities have been without power for several days
now. There's been chaos all over the
region. Furthermore, there's been
reports of similar attacks in other regions.
What's going on? We need answers right now and
there's no answers. May has done nothing.
The Elite 4 has done nothing. This is a disgrace and
everyone's like they're all really upset.
LED specifically make up perception.
Check first. OK, OK, 3.
Three. OK, nothing.
It's a it's an event, it's another rally.
It's a little people are starting to get worried because
ever since this Lily Cove, it's been like A at least a week,
right? Ever since the Lily Cove City
terrorist attack, there's just been nothing.
And you few aren't the only people who are stuck in Hoenn,
right? Like there's a lot of other
people who are stuck in Hoenn and give them to make a
perception check. I also got a three.
OK, yeah, yeah, you guys are it. It's a, it's a crowd of people.
You're not really saying anything.
Like you're getting the gist, but you're not saying anything
in particular. People are upset and it kind of
makes you feel like maybe you should be upset too.
To your right, you see chubby, very silly looking old guy in a
wheelchair. He's got huge laugh lines,
wrinkly laugh lines, and he's got crazy electrified white
hair. And despite his laugh lines, he
looks kind of sad. Oh.
Hey, what's wrong, old man? No, just kidding.
Old man. Cindy, make another perception
check all. Right, let's perceive 4.
I got you guys to make roles, and you're just not doing roles.
This is tragic. Yeah.
You don't know who this guy is. That's fine.
Yep, a little bit of chaos around lunchtime in Marvel City.
Man, wish we could do something about that unfortunately.
Well, they said the power thing was down in Marvel City, so
that's why I thought we could fix the power.
Yeah, let's just fix all of the power in Marvel.
I think we can do that. US 4.
Are you guys, are you guys having this conversation?
Yes. Of course.
Absolutely. Because Cindy's ridiculous.
Yeah. The man why don't we?
Just fix the power. Like the old man in the
wheelchair, he like, looks over at you, he says.
Would you guys really do that? I look at him straight faced.
Absolutely, he. He he wheels over to you in his
wheelchair. He says, great to meet you.
My name is Watson. I'm hoping you guys are
trainers. You could say that, yeah.
He says perfect. And he reaches behind his
wheelchair into a little pocket and he pulls out a comically
large key. He says, take this to New
Mahville, you got to fix the Volt switch and also here.
And he hands you like a comically small book with tiny
print. He says you're going to need
this when you get in there. Good luck.
Wait, wait, wait. What is new Mahville?
He says. You came up here from sleep
Port, didn't you? Yes, he says.
Out in the water there's like an old abandoned industrial
building. Well, it's not really abandoned.
That's where we keep all of our power supply.
You got to get in there and flip the Volt.
Switch Why aren't there city officials doing this?
Watson says this is normally my responsibility, but I I can't
really get there lately. Any gestures to his bad legs?
Oh, sorry, he. Says no, it's not your fault,
it's just nature of the trade. But I do need some help and no
one seems to be willing to do it.
They'd rather be activists or something.
So I need your help all right. Let's go to the lab.
OK, are you actually, are you actually doing that?
Absolutely OK, he says. Once you guys got it fixed, come
by the Marvel City gym and then he, he, he's, he's laughing.
And if you wrote his laugh in text, it would say wah ha ha ha.
Because he is giddy. His frown has been turned to a
smile because he finally found someone who's willing to help
him. Oh.
Good. This is the most.
Honestly, out of all The Avengers we had right now, this
is becoming the most like Pokémon.
One where it's just like, you know, it can just thrust it into
it. You're like, what is happening?
Because it's the actual quest from appropriate sapphire.
Fix the thing, Lego. What?
Oh. Yeah, I mean holding the
comically large key. Are you holding it?
Who's holding it? Cindy.
OK, make a perception check. Oh, no 11.
Somehow, between the time that Watson handed it to you, Mime
Junior has found a way to dangle from the tip of it.
Cute. How does he do this?
Oh, you're so cute. Buddy, it seems like he's like
made for these. He hears Cindy's sweet voice
asking if you'd like to come with and he lets out a huge
smile. It literally looks like a colon
D emoticon. It's like what his face looks
like right now. He's awesome.
We have an extra helper. This is great.
This is going to be so great. Come on guys.
No problems will arise. Certainly be no issues.
No issues to. Pretend she knows where she's
going and purposely goes the wrong direction.
Not purposely, but like goes the wrong direction.
It's like, not that way. As you're all discussing that's
there could possibly be no issues for this.
This is fine and you're going towards where Watson told you.
You can see the mobile in front of you, but it's on the other
side of the lake. Yeah.
No, I don't think we thought about that part of the equation.
How do we get to this place? Look at mine junior and I'm like
you. Got any ideas Putty?
Wow. Mime Junior kind of like puts
his nudely appendix to his face and does like the thinking kind
of emotion, and he then he shrugs.
Genius you. Can't mime a boat.
Right now. Mime a boat.
I don't know. Are you asking him to do so?
Yes. Roll AD 20.
Oh. No.
My. God no. 19.
Oh my God. MIME Junior leaps out into the
the right on the shore and like waves his hands around and then
just jumps into the water and he's like sitting on like a
little seat. You can't see it, but he's
sitting on something. He's not going in the water.
That is so cool. I'm gonna like, feel around to
see if I can like touch the boat, OK?
Do you invisible boat do you like What does Elodie think?
Does she think that like he's? Playing there's an invisible
boat or. Does he think, does she think
there's a boat? Well, I guess, yeah.
I mean, I don't think she actually believes there's going
to be an invisible boat, but I think she's going to try
anyways. OK, roll me a conviction check
with advantage. What is a conviction?
I just made it up. Just roll D20.
OK, I got a 2. You got a 2 and.
OK. Yeah, Elodie's like sweet a
boat, OK, for sure. This is totally a thing and
like. Did you roll it twice?
You have advantage with advantage, yeah.
Oh, I have advantage. No, I did not roll it twice.
OK, I roll it in. I roll again.
I got a four. You got a four.
OK, like, I'm, I don't know about this.
Like, this is funny that the mime is doing this, but it's got
to be a prank, right? And she steps towards the boat
and she falls in the water. She is wet.
Oh, no, no, it's not particularly deep.
But her new cardigan is all, like, damp and it's got a little
bit of mud on it. It's not great.
The mime looks shocked. My junior's like, you know, if
he could speak, it'd say what? Why didn't you just get in the
boat? What are you doing?
Yeah. It's a lot of times you get to
climb in this imaginary boat. Starting to share?
Schmidt's did. Roll roll this conviction check.
Ella, do you want to jump him later?
No, no. I'm considering.
It double fives. Yeah, double fives.
Yeah, Gimli was like, well, you know, maybe LED just didn't get
in there right or something. But yeah, the Gimli also falls
into the water a little bit and his he lands on his knees and
his overalls get a little muddy. And my junior is like waving his
arms like he can't speak, but it's like get in the boat.
Here's an idea, maybe he's a psychic type and he's just
floating there with the psychic type powers.
Cindy got an 18 and. There's no boat.
OK, Cindy steps onto the invisible boat and sits there
with my junior. What the fuck?
My God. It's actually a boat, OK.
Well, you literally need it here.
Believe. I want to believe in the boat.
Let's let's try again, OK? And oh good, an 18.
OK. Yeah, great.
Gimley also finds his way onto the boat.
He steps in the exact same place that he went before, but this
time he actually steps on like a strangely silent, invisible
solid surface. Do you take the wagon with you?
Yeah. OK.
It's empty, right? Yeah.
They just have the wagon, OK? Just curing a lot empty way.
Elodie and Schmidt have seen this.
They get a + 10 to their roles. OK, I gave myself disadvantage
because I'm not about the horseshit.
OK. Yeah, that's fair.
With the plus 10, that's 18. Though, so you get on the boat.
I got a natural 20. OK, yeah, sad, sad crit.
Everyone makes their way under the boat.
It's a little cramped. You kind of got to squish up
next to each other, but it's not that bad.
And you're all sitting on an invisible boat.
However, it is not moving. You are on the short.
Can I take out grape juice? Sure.
I guess the only water type move I have is Whirlpool.
Interesting. Overwhelm.
Yeah, use it. Like can I like have that?
You won't use it as like a little propeller on the back of
the boat. Sure, rather than like rolling
the attack, I'll have you roll a a nature or or grape juice just
because like it's something that they would be able to intuit
probably. My God, it's a 2.
Oh, no, I was gonna say you could add a modifier, but no,
you're not doing anything. Yeah.
So grape juice is like, OK, use my moves, I can do that.
And makes a small Whirlpool. And you guys are just kind of
spinning in place now very slowly.
Grape juice? Oh my God, what am I going to do
with you? Anybody else have any ideas?
Mime Junior is like throwing his hands around like can we figure
this out? It's your boat, how do you not
know how to? Mike, can we like start the
boat? Is there like a motor on it or
I? Hate this thing.
You said start the boat. Yeah.
Is there like a motor on it or is it like a rowboat or?
My junior looks at you like maybe just kind of shrugs.
Can I feel around for some oars? Sure.
Can I take mine junior and use it as an or?
You can try Oh, he's. Making.
The boat Swiss is later making the boat wall fall in.
How low? Like how high are we above the
water? Could we like reach our arms
down to the water level and paddle us with our hands?
Yes, not from a sitting position, but if you like laid
on your stomach you could paddle the water pretty reasonably.
You're not super high up. It's it's like a canoe, kinda.
OK. So we all gonna hand row did.
The feel round like not work out.
LED could roll. OK, All right.
You know what? I'm.
Getting Patricia. Yeah.
They're back at the gym. They're at the Battle Institute.
So how long did they stay there? I guess we're just OK.
Yeah, we're we're going without like specific Pokémon guys, by
the way, if we were. Yeah, 'cause mom has Aquajet, so
that could probably work, but. OK, yeah, if you, yeah, they're
that the balance, dude. So you can't do that.
Yeah, exactly. I was going to ask if we should
stop and get them, but I was like if we think that there's
not going to be any problems then.
The Whirlpool is like slowing down a little bit.
You're you're still spinning, but not very fast.
I also got a phone. I'm going to have my ore check.
OK, no. Whacko go to the back of the
boat and just give it a big whack with the.
Leak OK. Just to propel it forward.
From standing on the boat. OK, roll a strength with
advantage with a very high DC. You roll twice though, but it's
going to be hard. Check it's 18.
OK, that is unfortunately not high enough.
Quacko smacks the boat from sanding on top of it and it
stops spinning, but it and it moves a little ways off the
shore, but there's not enough momentum to get it like really
deep into the lake or the Bay. So are we paddling with our
hands or what? If we did it again, no, my rolls
are trash. We're not doing it again.
OK, so. Do we do we roll for the the
paddles so that don't work out? Yeah, she didn't find it.
Yeah, I was not able to find them.
I was like. I don't know why I missed that.
OK, my junior's looking expectant like well.
All right, let's. Cindy starts paddling with her.
Yeah. All right, OK, OK.
I need you to pick sides. Team A and Team BI need 2 of you
on each team and I need to get strength rules from you.
Oh. No.
We should probably like try to it out.
So like Gimli and Schmidt on opposite sides, right?
And I? Don't think Schmidt is as strong
as you think he is. No, I also.
Think. And I honestly you could do me
on one side and then you 3 on the other.
I'm I'm not sure the train scores, but I think LED might
have a stronger score than Schmidt.
I'm not sure but. Baker Arms.
Yeah, I could easily paddle one side probably and.
Then what else? Paddle?
You got a 16. OK, well are you team A or team?
BI don't know. Wait, you just rolled like?
That's kind of in character for Cindy, so I'm.
Just like I'm just paddling. She's just going in the three
months. Yeah, Cindy starts paddling and
it it kind of makes a movement, but it's it's swerving to the
right for sure. OK, if it's swerving to the
right that. She's team A, she's on the left.
OK, so yeah, I'll, I'll just take the right side and start.
OK, so strength. Roll the 14.
OK. Actually no.
I rolled the 13 OK. Yeah, I rolled a 15.
OK, Ality. I rolled A3 and I guess I'll do
on the left side if there's enough room.
You know what that works? Sure.
Well, yeah, you know what? That's perfect Byam Junior
starts applauding, but Hit clapping his hands together
makes no sound as the boat's starting to move.
And it's moving at a pretty decent clip.
You should get there in like just 5 minutes off at the
island. You are coming up to the
abandoned building that is so described as New Marvel, which
is very strange because it's not even a city.
It's just like a little metal building.
It looks abandoned, like it's like, wow, they really took care
of the new place. Yeah, and the boats coming up
there as you're washing up on the shore.
Can I get a perception check from Schmidt?
That's a nine. That's good enough, because what
you're looking at is familiar and it's pretty clear on this
otherwise uneventful shore. There is a pretty much
unconscious little dog that's on the shore.
Oh no. And yeah, you've made it the the
invisible boat. You can feel it strike the the
shallow and you're welcome to step out if you'd like.
Can I check the little dog for signs of life or do we know it's
just knocked out? You could check you'd make a
medicine check. So that's a 10.
OK, it's alive. It's not in good shape, but
it'll probably bounce back. Maybe on the way back we can
bring it to the Pokémon Center. That's exactly what I was
thinking, but for right now it'll have to be fine.
He was literally bullying chuckle.
He's still a Pokémon, yeah. Plus, I don't know, Chuckle
could be a deviant. I don't have his sheet yet.
Do you approach the door? There's a comically large
keyhole in this store. Yeah.
We have a comic large key. We do.
Cindy comically holds the comically large key up in the
air above her head. Cindy's kind of like a small
person too, right? Right.
So it's like even more comical, yes.
Right. Does Cindy insert it?
Yes. Great, as opposed to the the key
room in the trick house, this key is a perfect fit and you're
able to rotate it and rather than the door swinging open, it
seems like you've triggered A mechanism and you hear like a
like a whirring and the door slides sideways to reveal a
descending staircase. OK, it is wide enough for the
four of you to walk down a side by side.
You all, you all descend into the darkness.
Yeah. As you do so, you find yourself
in like a very like rusty metal, dimly lit, looks like a
labyrinth. There's like a hallway in front
of you goes left and then you can tell it branches in two
different directions. To your right there's a hallway
and it branches in two different directions.
And before you, you hear the sound of rolling and it gets
louder and louder and louder. And then all of a sudden, in
front of the game, there is a large ball and it starts
glowing. And that's where we'll call the
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Every other people wasn't free, Marshall.
Not the beat boys, the Bieber. All I could think about, man,
you keep saying. Get lost in your rock'n'roll and
drift away. Just.
Break dancing. You guys are ruining the world
building right now. OK, yeah, you know what?
Yeah. They're just like break dancing
to, like, Boomer, like classic rock.
It's fine. Like what?
Like Margaritaville? Yeah.
Sure, why not? We'll just collaborative
storytelling. You love it.
I'll go read over here. It's just dead spinning.
I can't. I can't.
I wasn't interested in the B boys before, but now that
they're dancing to boomer classic rock, I kind of want to
know what's up. It's.
Like wow, this is quite the genre.