Hello everyone, before we get started today I just wanted to
touch on an idea that the party and I had.
So before we got to Marvel City throughout the week we decided
that we do a little text based role-playing experiment where
each character would just send me some ideas of things they
wanted to do in Marvel and we do some rolling off screen and just
see what happened. It turned out to not be a very
good experiment. However, the start of this
episode begins under the context that everyone spent like 2 hours
in Marvel just doing things that they wanted to do.
Nothing super crazy happened, so if there's anything important,
we'll definitely be going over it.
But just so you know, the start of this episode begins with the
context that everyone was kind of doing their own thing and
they're just getting back together.
As a side note, since I'm here, I want to address that.
If all of you haven't listened to all the way through the end
of all of the episodes besides episode 1, there's little treats
and blooper reel stuck in there for you.
So you may want to go back and check all those out.
That's enough for me. I hope you enjoyed today's
episode of Dutch Spars and Grandpa.
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 Meyer
from Sino looking for his lost son, Ellaby, an enthusiastic
foodie and Baker from Carlos, and Schmidt, an enigmatic man
from Joto with a duck. My name is Rich and I'm the game
master and this is Dunsparce and Grandpa.
Our beloved party spent a couple of hours attending to personal
errands in Hoen's capital city, Marvel.
Marvel is a bustling metropolis with towering skyscrapers and
people of all different varieties from all over the
globe. Many people relocate here in
attempts to make it big, so to speak.
Whether they are involved in battling technology, commerce,
or culture, the Marvel natives are typically brash and private.
There's only so much time in the day, and they have no time for a
stranger like you unless you're trying to buy something.
Wild Pokémon here are quite different from the ones found in
the neighboring routes. Mechanical Pokémon, Pokémon who
feed upon electricity or garbage, small and resilient
Pokémon like birds or small mammals all thrive in this
cosmopolitan city and can be seen going about their business
during the day. You all have agreed to meet back
up in front of a monument downtown after gallivanting off
on your personal errands, and possibly explore more of the
city as a group. It's apparently a rush hour
right now, and you hardly manage to start finding each other in a
crowd of busy people and Pokémon.
People of all backgrounds and occupations are rushing past you
as you begin to gather at the monument.
Let's all, just like Cher, what we're up to.
Let's start with Gimli. So Gimli went to the nature
museum if. You could sum it up in
character. What would you say to summarize?
From what I saw, basically it suggested that all of the
continents were at some point together.
So it seems like really all these Pokémon in these different
countries could somehow be related, which was pretty
interesting from. And then I looked at geology
just to see if I can figure out about this egg because I don't
know anything about it right now till it hatches.
But it seems like there was some interesting things that were
possibly kept underground due to some geological dating or some
Bumbojo. I don't know the words to it,
but I think it just means that this egg is old.
Great. Schmidt, what did you get?
What did you get up to? Schmidt bought a coin case and
is waiting outside the casino like a child at Chuck E Cheese,
waiting for it to open. OK.
And Cindy, what were you doing? Cindy went to the church with
Elodie to ask some questions about, I guess, the church.
And so you've all gathered here and you're all sharing your
stories, checking in with one another, and oh wait, what's
this? Where's Ellity?
She hasn't met. Back up with us.
What could she be? We were supposed to meet now.
Well, it is rush hour. So.
You got stuck in traffic. All that, all that pedestrian
traffic. She was with one of you last,
right? I was with her and then we went
separate ways after we left the church.
Do you know where she went off to?
Nope. Oh great.
So we don't know where to look. Yeah, checks out with being on
the suss list though. Where do we think she would have
ended up? I mean, looking at the list of
things we can do, we can probably narrow it down.
Is there like AI don't know food?
That she does. We've had the pancakes.
We know she likes to cook good food.
Maybe she's looking into some kind of dining.
But if she found Sam, we haven't found Sam.
Yet that's true. If we're if we're going on the
hunch that Ellie will look for like cooking stuff,
confectionery. That's that's baking, right?
I'm not, I'm not too familiar, but like, I, I think that's
baking right. It's an idiot.
Sounds right man. I I'm just going on a hunch.
I'm not sure. I think, I think my wife has
visited a confection area too in the time.
So I I think that's why she goes sometimes for some good.
So I think we could check that out.
Great. Is that where you want?
To she's also oh. No, Say it, say it.
I was. Going to say she's also an
adult. Then you can take care of
herself. Right.
I'm just saying casino's going to open pretty soon.
So you rather gamble than fuck no friend.
I mean, she'd be eyed a strong independent woman don't need.
Notion, right? You're welcome to also like,
make checks. Well, out of character.
Does anyone want to roll an insight check?
Because we can definitely try. Insight or perception or
investigation? Insight your perception.
Yeah, I would. Any of those?
How are you? Insight Just see if like, I
don't know, there's like an omen of like this is a bad thing.
Yeah, you can totally incite the situation I.
Will definitely insight situation.
I would like to insight the situation.
I'm added it. This night the space off was.
11. 16 Finley. I had 9.
OK, it's a really busy time of day.
There's like a chance that she could be late.
But you also know her. Like you've gotten to know each
other pretty well over these past couple of days and you know
her to be responsible and punctual.
No, we did leave the church. And she didn't say where she was
going. I guess not.
Do you want to explore your memory banks?
Yeah, you could. You could roll history. 16.
You understood that Elodie had some interest in going to tasty
places and smelly places. We could try the confectionery
or was it the incenses is smelly, right?
We can try both of those, I think.
Yeah, Do you? We can divide and conquer this
because there's three things on our plate right now, right?
There's the confectionery, there's the aroma place.
There's the. Casino there's.
The Casino Schmidt, I think you want to take the Casino I.
Mean I mean if I have to. I mean, if you must you, you
could go, go I'll. Go to the smelly smells.
OK. I I thought confectionaries was
a good idea so I'll head over there.
OK, it's quite frantic currently.
There's people running all over the place that's kind of bright
in the sky. It's hard to make anything out.
I'll need perception checks for you guys to make sure you're
going to the right places. I was going to say, could Cindy
roll like survival because she can like duck and weave?
I I don't think it's that desperate.
I saw the desert. Yeah.
I was like, I was, I was like, if I, if you say yes to that, I
will definitely take I. Had AI rolled a 19 but that's a
3020. I have a 17 SO.
OK, I'm. Rolling for what?
Like a perception to make sure that they're like going because
like they don't have a map LED has all that information.
So they're just trying to proceed if they're going to the
right place. And are you, are you going to
the casino? Yes.
I rolled 1/6 though so maybe not.
Yeah. OK.
So, so you obviously came from the casino.
So like, you have an idea of like, where you're going, but
you keep like, bumping into people and they're like, hey,
out of my way and just the same things to you because they're
all in a rush and you're kind of stumbling around like lost and
confused. You're you haven't made much
progress. Cindy and Gimli realizing the
stuff that Elodie enjoys, you start to follow your nose.
The scent that is picked up by Gimli is a very sweet scent.
You would understand that. Hey, this smells like something
sweet. Could be candy.
I don't know. I'm going to go check it out.
Cindy, you you detect pleasant floral aroma could be incenses.
Sounds something like you might want to go to.
Are you going to go check it out?
Yes. OK, I am going to do a pull
aside with LED and I'm going to be right back.
OK LED. Your memory is kind of hazy,
you're pretty disoriented, but the last thing that you remember
is that your shiny Mudkip grape juice was just screaming and a
sleepy pink floral Pokémon attacked you with the smoke.
You open your eyes and you see complete darkness everywhere
around you. You feel like you're floating as
if you're suspended on a string or just floating in the air.
Give me a perception check. 6. OK, pick a direction up, down,
left, right. Left.
OK, as you look around yourself, it's just complete darkness.
It's like you're in a black room and there's just like you can't
feel the ground. You turn your head to the left
and your eyes are bombarded by a super bright white light.
It's like the brightest light that you've ever seen, like a
spotlight, just like directly into your eyeballs and your
reflexes compel. You close your eyes and turn
away. You're very confused about how
everything could be so dark despite this incredibly bright
light in this room. We're going to check back in on
this in a minute, Cindy. You're following this pleasant
planty aroma, thinking this is probably where where LED might
be, and you find yourself falling your nose up to a little
shop built into the side of a very large commercial building
adjacent to the city center. It's a lovely little boutique
with flowers bursting out of vases in the windows, and
there's a sign above the door that reads Roses Gardens.
Oh, I guess it smells like flowers.
It does. I guess I look for Elodie.
For only a perception. 7. 7 Yeah.
You peer inside. It's a really small shop.
There's like 3 or 4 people in there.
It looks like LED is not here. Gimli, you follow your nose.
Of course. To something that smells very
pleasant, Very, very sweet. A little bit more like edible,
perhaps, than flowers. Upon following this trail, you
arrive at a cart outside of the Marvel TV headquarters.
You see the back of a young woman with brown hair about the
size of Elodie. She's shuffling around in front
of this cart, and there's a little Pokémon by the cart.
It's like a medium blue Pokémon that has its eyes closed.
It's got like a bulbous flower on its head and it's drooling a
sweet nectar. Can I yell out to the woman to
see if it's Elodie? What do you say?
Thank you. The woman turns around and you
see her face and she says, welcome to Gerba's Gurkins.
My name's Gerba. Care for a gurkin?
They're hydrating in sweet, great for beating the heat, a
real hot weather treat. And the cart is just full of
like, tiny little cucumbers. She wants to sell you a Gurkin.
OK. This is in fact not Ellie, this
is Gerba. Yes, yes, I I gathered that.
Well, that was an excellent pitch, I must say.
I will take you up on that, Gherkin, but I do have a
question. She says, of course, what can I
do for you? Have you seen a woman about your
height? Proceeds to describe LED because
I'm forgetting key features. I just want to know if you've
seen her passing by at any point.
I'm. Gonna do a roll, he says.
I see a lot of people like that. I don't really know, I'm sorry,
but I can definitely get you some gherkins.
It's. It's.
It's 5 pokey dollars for half pound gurikens.
Oh, I'll definitely take you upon that.
You make that exchange and you have a nice little compostable
bag full of tiny green like Pickled cucumber things.
I pop one in my mouth to taste the flavor.
OK, you do that. It is incredibly refreshing.
It's like, it's like if a watermelon was mixed with a
cucumber, basically. That's fun.
Yeah, Grace has to be dying while she's muted.
Great. You look down at the little blue
Pokémon and it has a name tag. It says George.
Oh, it's. George the Gloom, Yeah.
He's just having a nap and you can tell now that you're
standing here. This is what you were smelling.
Was was George the gloom? Your Gloom produces a lovely
scent. That's good, that's good for
advertising. I like it.
She says all part of the plan. It's.
Very smart, very small. Good gurkins too.
Schmidt, you want to roll again to see if you can make it to the
casino. Sure, well, let me roll again to
see if I can make it to the casino.
I rolled worse than last night. Dude, you're like, you're kind
of getting lost like this is bad.
I don't know if you. Should go to the casino look.
It's, it's luck. It's really, really busy.
And you keep, like, getting knocked around and knocked
around, and you find, like, a staircase that seems kind of
regal and royal, like, like perhaps maybe this is a place of
gambling. And it goes downstairs instead
of upstairs. And you're like, oh, yeah,
whatever, This isn't a big deal. And you hear the sound of a
subway car. It seems like you're, like,
pretty close to the subway right now.
I'm going to go check back in with LED real quick.
How are you doing? I'm.
Good. They're having fun trying to
find you. I need you.
I need you to make another perception.
Roll okey doke. Oh my God.
Nat 1, Nat one. Uh, oh, well, it's awful.
It's like so, so dark. It's so strange.
Do you attempt to do anything else besides look?
Like what? What does your instinct say for
you to do right now? Yell out.
OK, I'm not going to make your role for that.
You attempt to yell out and no sound comes out.
You cannot make a sound. However, your straining draws
the attention of a friend. You turn your head to the right
and you see a friendly, familiar face, and boy, are you glad to
see her. It's Cabbage.
Cabbage looks at you in a very loving and determined way, and
despite your confusion and worry, she looks fine.
In fact, she looks excellent. In fact, she appears healthier
than you've ever seen her. She looks so good, in fact, that
she is radiating an aura around her body.
What color is it? Oh, I get to the side.
Yes. Let's go with pink.
OK, that is what you see. I'm going to go back to the
group. So we found two places that are
smelly, but they are not the places where LED is.
We can get more checks and we can get more checks for Schmidt
to go to the casino. Let's just start with the Gimli.
I was still looking ahead to the confectionery so.
Roll that to. Try to get there.
Yes, 11. OK, you don't detect the scent
of sweets, but instead you detect like an overwhelming
scent. It's hard to describe.
It's like a lot of scents put together.
It's it's not necessarily like a chocolate or like sweet or candy
scent, but you think if you follow it, you're going to go
somewhere smelly. Do you follow it?
I will follow it, yeah. OK, Cindy, give me a perception
check. A smell check perhaps?
7. Seven, you can't like pinpoint
any particular scent. There's like a, there's a
distinction happening. There's like the city smog and
then there's just like this cacophony of smells that is
isn't city smog. It's just like maybe perfume or
something. You intend to follow it.
Yeah. OK.
Go away from City Dog. OK, you do that Schmidt.
You are looking for the casino and you like found yourself in
the subway. Roll me something.
Do you want to maybe check for a schedule or like hop on a train
or just go back out the way you can?
Or like a map, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tell me what you want to do and then roll for it.
We'll look for like a city map or like something I can see to
tell where I am in relation to the casino.
OK. What kind of role is?
This just yeah, wisdom rule is it be like precision.
Wisdom something, Yeah. So 18. 18 that's pretty good
yeah. You find a subway map, it has
all the, it's like all the underground roads, so to speak,
and they zigzag and weave in all sorts of directions and they're
color-coded. You are currently on the blue
route and you can see it's labeled like points of interest
for each destination. On the green route, it says
Marvel City Game Corner, and it's like it's like 2 trains
away. OK, you get the idea that it is
northeast of your location. Cool, do I deem it would be
faster to get out and walk there or am I taking the train?
So here's the thing, if you go out and walk, you face the
threat of getting lost again, right?
Where if you take the train, it's going to be pretty direct,
but it just might take longer. It's train time.
OK, cool. You do that.
You wait for the next train. Give me one more.
Just like AD 20, 1010. OK, You go down to a bench to
wait for the train that'll connect you to the Green Line,
which is how you need to get to the game Corner.
And as you're sitting, a little purple rat goes up to your feet
and goes. You don't have to do anything
with it, but it's, it's, it's something that's happening to
you currently. I would recognize this as a
rattata, correct? Yeah.
He's not bothering me. I'm not bothering.
Him. Yeah.
He's just looking at you. He's like he's expecting
something. Reviving OK, I don't think I.
Have anything at all? Great cool Cindy and Gimli.
You're following your noses and you managed to cross paths with
each other. You there are only so many
scents available to you, and you are both tracked down.
This one kind of loud scent, so to speak, and you find
yourselves on the inside of Igor's incredible incenses.
You intend to check it out. Absolutely.
You walk inside and you see quite the sight.
You see a chunky man behind the counter with a sleepy pink
floral Pokémon that is like spouting smoke out of its head.
And the interesting thing about these things is that they are
asleep. Also, as you walk in, you are
just bombarded with scents. There's just so much going on in
this room. You look down and you see a
sleeping shiny Mudkip. You see a sleeping Millsery and
you see a sleeping melody. Do I have anything to tie over
my face? Because I feel like my survival
instincts are kicking in because I've been in the mines before.
Like in this situation it feels very similar where I'm like if I
inhale this, I feel like I might pass out like which is
concerning to me. How is anybody?
Immune to that. I feel like I I probably have
some kind of cloth to tie over my face or something.
You. Have your hat.
I do have my hat, Yeah, Kelly, try to take my hat and make it
like a pseudo gas mask because I feel like I'm going to fall
asleep otherwise. Yeah, that's awesome role of
survival. Dirty 21.
Yeah, I mean, you don't know if what you're breathing is
currently dangerous, but like, man, do you feel safe?
This fabric is doing its job. The hat that you got is.
While it is secondhand, it is a pretty good hat.
Nice. Love my hat.
OK, I do have the label as amazing sun hat, my inventory.
So OK, I, I guess we're going to try to wake Elodie because I,
I'm curious as to what is happening.
OK, what do you do to wake her? I mean, I'm pretty like pretty
straightforward. It got a rugged guys, but I'm
probably just trying to shake her awake.
OK, you do that, and I'm going to do pull aside one more time
with Elodie. You're still in this freaky dark
floaty room. Give me another perception
check. Dirty 20.
Shoes up or down I think. I'm going to go up.
OK, you look up from your position and you see solid
ground. It looks like a beach, but like
a really weird beach. It's sandy, but the sand looks
like all washed out, like it's from a black and white
photograph. There are footprints in the
sand, but there isn't any water nearby.
All around you, it looks like someone's been digging, like big
holes in the beach, but there aren't any sand castles
anywhere. There's people in the distance.
They're really far away and it's impossible to make out, but it
looks like they're just like standing there, like whoever or
whatever they are. You may look in one final place
and you don't have to roll. You can look down or you can
look at your hands. I'm going to look at my hands, I
think. OK, you look at your hands and
you see 2 little star shaped objects.
They're two different colors. What colors are they?
Let's. Go with brown and blue.
OK, that happens and now we can return LED to the other room.
LED, LED LED. Oh, you got to wake up.
Oh my gosh. Girl, what happened?
Oh, my goodness. Oh my gosh.
Wow. Hi, guys.
What are you guys? What are you?
What are you guys doing here? We went to our meeting place and
you didn't show up, so we went looking for you.
How? How long has it been?
DM How long has it been? It's been.
Like, well, when did you get here?
And we went. How many minutes ago did we
meet? Right, it's probably.
Been like enough to get across town.
It's been like 45 minutes probably.
OK. Oh, OK.
Wow. Because you're usually pretty
punctual, so. Yeah, thank you for looking for
me. Yeah, I I decided to come to
this incense shop and the as you can see, this old man, or I
assume is the owner and his Pokémon were asleep and I tried
to get grape juice to wake them up, but when grape juice woke
them up, Musharna I I guess it's something and and now I'm.
Here it's true. The man and the Pokémon on the
bench. That or the counter that you
assume is a Musharna based on Elodie's description.
They're still sleeping. Grape juice and cabbage still
asleep. Yes, they are.
They're snoozing, can I try and wake them up?
Yeah, you don't have to roll for that.
If you just touch them, they'll be like, oh, Elodie.
And then they'll they'll come back too.
Yeah, I got worried 'cause I was like, wait, fumes, they're
asleep. And I put my hat on like a gas
mask. Well that's that's smart 'cause
I'm assuming whatever came out of Musharna is what made me fall
asleep. I'm hesitant to try and wake
them again, although I am very interested in purchasing some
instance. Their prices could you just like
leave some money? Yeah.
Are there prices on these? Like, yeah, pretty much
everything is labeled except for like the make your own potpourri
thing. That is not labeled.
There's just like barrels of like herbs and dried things and
maybe like animal bones or something.
You can't really tell just in buckets.
And those aren't priced for anything.
But there's like candles, there's incense sticks, there's
wax melts, there's like all sorts of stuff that is smelly
that has price tags on it. OK.
So what did you do to try to wake them?
Before. I.
Had grape juice. He was uproar and Musharna woke
up. It did something and then grape
juice started coughing is the last thing that I remember.
That sounds familiar. I think one of our Pokémon does
that. Maybe it was like, maybe it was
like yawn or something. Maybe it could have been.
Feel like I've done it so many times that like it seems very
familiar. Does anyone intend to do some
shopping? Are they interested in these
incenses? There's a handful that are on
like a display shelf, like pretty close to the door that
appear to be like what they're trying to peddle specifically.
But there's also just like. If you want something that's
smelly, you can find it here. Do they say like anything about
what they do? Like, I guess we had to roll
like a perception of that or something.
Yeah. OK, now I'll, I'll roll
perception because I want to. I'm just curious.
Sure. I got a 18. 18 cool.
These are their names. They're full Lex luck, odd, pure
rock, row C and wave. And you don't have you don't
know like their descriptions are very like abstract.
They're like water type Pokémon really enjoy this scent but they
don't have anything like specifics.
A1 says rock on them. What's the price?
The price is 15. 15 I will definitely take the rock in
sense. OK.
Do you waken this employee? This place is called.
Egor's, but he's wearing a name tag that says Peter.
OK, I think I'm a little nervous.
Based on the description of that, I'm probably just gonna
put the money down. OK.
Maybe even at its place. So just like they go and just
like take the incense with me. Indiana Jones situation.
Yeah. Are they all, are they all like
priced the same or do we have like a price list?
All of these ones that are listed are 15.
OK, this one but. I think I will take AC incense.
Sure, that'll also be 15 if you do that.
I will do that. No, I will do the same thing
where I leave the money in its place.
OK, and he's just here for the vibes.
OK, you're vibing, Schmidt. Yes, Hey, you're.
Waiting on this train. Yeah, he's my Rattata friend.
You, you got on the train, you're on it.
Rattata followed you, just staring at you with big old rat
eyes, looking at you expectantly.
Buddy, I don't have any food, I'm sorry.
He goes I'd. Feed you if I had some, I just
don't have anything. Yeah, he's, he's not giving up.
The the subway is not super crowded.
There's a couple like business people on there, but you're,
you're taking it. Do you have any points of
interest in the subway or you're just going to wait to arrive at
the casino? We're just going to wait to
arrive at that. Maybe like keep an eye out for
like AI don't know like a hot dog stand or something.
I mean, you are underground, but yeah, we can we can trigger that
perception if you want to roll to like hot dog intuition.
Or hot dog intuition, Yes. Got a roll for that hot dog
Intuition. I think it was where every hot
dog is. I can detect every hot dog
within a 10 mile radius. Good sense for hot dogs.
Yeah, you get the sense that if you get off on the stop before
the one that you should, you're going to get to a really good
hot dog stand. You just feel it.
Cool, I'd do that. OK, you do that.
Man can't find a casino? A man getting tracked on the hot
dogs man. Yeah, you, you walk out of the
subway exit and you're clearly on like a different part of
town. And there's just like a pretty
young looking kid running a little hot dog booth.
It's got little white, yellow and red stripes on like an
umbrella where the guy is standing.
And then there's just like, you know, a grill and like a little
portable fridge with, like, drinks in it.
I don't know. Do you approach?
Yeah. OK.
There's a boy. Yeah.
And then I look at the rotata who's still following me, and I
say, what do you want on it? The the Rotata is like going
like like it can't really like see like what is available.
OK, I'll pick him up. OK, you pick up the rotata and
the rotata looks at the chili topping and then looks at the
hot dogs and gets very excited and starts wiggling.
OK cool, can I have one hot dog with chili?
Yeah, the worker is like, you just touched a rattata.
Like, please stand away from the cart.
Thank you. And he's he's.
Adorable. And he starts preparing your
order and he says this will this will be 7 pokey dollars please
cool. I throw the money at him from a
distance because apparently he's afraid to touch.
Me. Great, he still like tries to
hand the hot dog to you because he doesn't want to throw it at
you. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll reach out
and meet him halfway. OK, you have a chili dog.
Cool, put it on the ground. OK, he.
Could have thrown it. Rattata is overjoyed and goes
I'm not knocked up and just starts eating this chili dog.
Cool. Later, man, I got to go gamble.
OK the rattata and then I leave. Rattata gives you 1 little look
like thank you and then just keeps eating the chili dog on
the ground and you walk towards the casino.
The rest of the game you're in the incense shop.
You did some shopping. Where are you going to go from
here? You finally reunited.
Schmidt went to the casino to look for you and so we could
probably move home, Adam, unless you want to go gamble.
I I wasn't particularly interested.
I figured. So I personally wanted to go to
the Battle Institute but I wanted to check in with all
y'all first before. Yeah, I'm definitely, I'm
interested in going to the Battle Institute.
Yeah, I feel like I'm always interested in research.
Plus I can ask about the boy, see if he stopped in.
I think that's a good idea. Cindy, do you?
Do you want to go? Over sure.
OK. Great, everyone's on board.
You go to leave the incense shop, Peter and Musharna still
haven't woken up and the streets have calmed down a little bit.
For all this chaos, it seems like whether it was a lunch rush
or people are getting off work, it's not quite as busy.
So you can pretty easily navigate your way to the Battle
Institute. Schmidt yes, you made to the
Game Corner. It's there's lights and it's so
showy and it's like, clearly they have a lot of money.
You walk up the stairs and you enter the Game corner.
It's it's not too busy. Like clearly there's a tons of
game tables. There are tons of slots.
Like there's potential for a lot of people to be in here.
There's like a ballroom. It's crazy.
It's just not very busy. There's some like seniors and
they're playing slots and there's like a couple drunk guys
who are playing poker. What interests you?
How? How do you want to gamble right
now? Let's hit the slots first.
OK. This is a little warm up, yeah.
OK, we'll get to your game. After some Battle Institute
stuff, you the three of you make it to the Battle Institute.
It is an interesting place. The word institute would suggest
it would be kind of academic, but if anything, it's kind of
like a CD gym if anything. I don't mean like a Pokémon gym,
I mean like a like a workout gym.
You go in and there's like, there's all sorts of trainers,
but all the employees are just like super jacked dudes wearing
tank tops. And there's like welcome to the
Battle Institute. And there's a guy who's behind
the counter that has a blender and a company to this guy is a
Pokémon that is like of the same size.
There you ripped, there you blew.
And he goes. Oh, he goes.
Yeah, that's the sound that he makes.
OK. Oh, I wasn't really expecting a
gym, but also I could see what's on being here, so maybe I should
ask what's on Quite the big boy. So you ask him.
Yeah, yeah, you do you. What are you saying?
So we're stopping in and obviously we're, we're trainers
and we do want to get some training in.
But have you seen a man about, I mean, for his age, he's pretty
young, 65, probably maybe about £300, pretty built, worked,
worked in the mines and stuff. Not, not quite a beer, but got a
little scruff to him. Has a a Jew dude from Kento sort
of just hanging out with his buddy.
Or maybe it's a graveler by now, I don't know.
But I don't know if you've seen a man like that coming through
these pots. He does a role and this guy, he
looks around, he goes, no, I, I ain't seen anybody looking like
that. What can I help you with today?
I mean, I I got rock Pokémon here, they're pretty tough, but
you guys seem like you do some pretty intense training and my
boys here and and toy, of course she's she's a sassy one.
She and my gang could could use a little bit of I guess like
toughness insight, little little training because we've been
training out in the wilderness. But I mean, you guys are hard
wired here, so. The guy says, well, you've come
to the right place, this is perfect.
We got everything a trainer could need.
We can get you through some rigorous physical activity or we
also sell vitamin shakes and we also have special items that you
can use in battle. Oh, and the blue poke come
behind the counter goes. Like it's me.
Is it a fog? Harm.
It's. Like it's cries just a frog.
Well, I'm definitely interested in your training.
Like what do you have in mind? Then I just bring my Pokémon out
and I'm I assume this guy's some kind of personal trainer it
seems like, so he could probably evaluate my Mons.
Yeah, he more or less is a personal trainer.
He takes a look at your Pokémon and give me a second.
He takes particular interest in Lebowski.
He takes a look at your olden Geodude.
He's like, oh, look at this thing, It's got mad muscles and
he like points to it and you know, it's like it's a rock with
arms. It's not like it doesn't, it
doesn't like bulging biceps. But he's like, I, I got an idea.
You throw this thing on the bench press real quick, don't
you? Would you do that for me?
Oh, absolutely. Go on Lebowski.
Let's give this a go. Cool the trainer like fits some
weights, suits, finds some suitable dumbbells for Lebowski,
and if you want a roll of strength for some bench presses,
you're more than welcome. To let me see 12.
Yeah, Lebowski benches some weights.
It's kind of it's kind of impressive.
He's like, he's not taken aback bite.
He's like, yeah, you know, like he's just, he's like, it makes.
Sense to him he's just the dude yeah, he's.
Just the dude, he's he's going for it.
It's he struggles a little bit more than you would have liked,
but he manages to do it. And the trainer says very good,
very good. Heads up, I think we can make
this guy really strong. But if we want to keep this
going, we're going to have to get a contract.
OK, So what? What's the contract look like?
It's just it's a day training. We'll keep them until probably
about 7:00 PM and we pay by the hour for the rest of the day.
It's looking like it'll be 80 pokey dollars.
OK, I mean, small price to pay to make my boy stronger, so I'll
do it. And he hands you a little piece
of paper, and he strikes you to sign it and hand over payment.
Absolutely hand it. Over he looks over at Sandy
Nelliti and he says hey you, you look like trainers.
You need some training done today too.
Or maybe buy one over battle items.
What are you? What are you selling for battle
items? He gestures to a case in front
of the counter and he says, oh, we got all sorts of stuff.
And it is true, there is a whole variety of like wristbands, arm
bands, anklets, scarves and then all sorts of things that are in
little bottles, little like drinkable bottles.
They are labeled with such names such as protein, iron, calcium,
carbose, zinc. What did they do?
He says they do all sorts of stuff.
It's incredible. See see this one right here and
he points like a little blue scarf.
He says this thing will make your Pokémon super fast.
It's crazy. He says.
He says you, you see this little this little sash right here and
he looks at it and he points a little red and brown sash.
He says, do you give this to your Pokémon while they're and
they're wearing it? They will never be one hit Kod,
it's awesome. LED is like totally out of her
depth here. Yeah, I'm gonna also take out my
Pokémon and be like, do you think any of of these Pokémon
could use some training? Which ones do you have on you
right now It. Should be bubble gum.
Cabbage and grape juice. Cabbage and grape juice, Yes,
sorry. Yeah, that's all good.
The only one that catches any attention from this trainer is
grape juice. Just.
Oh, I love mud Kips. Why is that one pink?
Oh, it's a shiny. It's very exciting.
This guy gets like little stars in his eyes and he goes, oh
that's so cool, can I hold him? Sure, but please be careful.
OK, he goes to pick up grape juice and he's not careful
because he rolled A6. So he's he's kind of like he's
kind of squeezing grape juice and grape juice goes and he's
like, oh, this thing's so cool, we got to work out little buddy.
And he says, I'll, I'll, I'll give you a discount if we do
some training with this guy. Oh, sure, yeah.
He says, all right, so there's all sorts of ways we can train
him. We can put him on the treadmill.
We can get him to lift some weights.
We didn't get him to, like, push some tires around you.
You have any ideas or should just leave it up to the best
trainer Carl? Yeah, we should leave it up to
Carl. He.
Says to Carl. He says great, I'm Carl, so
that's perfect. And he sets let get down on the
counter. And he says, well, we're going
to keep him about the same length as as this little Rocky
guy over here. So I promise I'll give you a
discount. So we're going to say 65 pokey
dollars. Sounds good to me.
Great. Yeah, he does that.
You, you signed the contract, you hand him some money.
And Cindy. So Cindy let out her Pokémon,
which she has Jack solely, and Cookie.
We'll ask if anyone here would be ready for training.
OK. Carl takes a look at Jack solely
and Cookie. He seems the most interested in
Jack. He looks at Jack.
He says. Oh this, this Kitty looks pretty
spicy if you ask me. I'd be happy to train you here
if you're interested. You can train Spacey Jack do.
You have any preference in our training regimen or should we
just do it Carl style? Carl style all the way.
This is great. Let's see.
And he does. He pulls out a calculator even
though he clearly doesn't need it, and he says that'll be 80
pokey dollars. Cool, you do that.
Hey, pay the monies. Carl says.
Sounds great. Thanks for your business.
We'll see you later around like 7:00 or 8:00 PM.
And he scoops up grape juice and Jack in his arms and like a
little too tight and they they kind of squeal and they walk off
towards like the gym. We'll be back later, guys.
You can. You can see Lebowski in the
corner of your eye and he's he's still doing bench presses.
He's kind of having a good time. Good.
For. Him great Schmidt yes, you're at
the slots. I'm trying to devise a way to
get this to work and I have a pretty good idea so. 31-D Sixes.
No, kind of I. Guess I won't get the seven.
So. So here's the thing.
So you can spend more money for better odds.
And so here's how this is going to work.
You're going to roll three different dice, right?
You can roll either AD4AD6 or AD 8.
So and rolling a smaller dice will increase your odds, if that
makes sense. So AD 8 is going to be the least
likely. So for each slot roll of AD 8,
we're going to say that's going to be, let's just keep it
simple, 1020 and 30. So it'll cost you 10 pokey
dollars to roll 3D eight. It'll cost you 20 pokey dollars
to roll 3D6. It'll cost you 30 pokey dollars
to roll 3D four. If you get 2 of the same number,
you get a refund. And if you get 3 of the same
number, then you get a jackpot so to speak, and you'll get
double the money that you put in.
Go bigger, go home. OK, so you're going to spend 30
and get the D4 rolls? Yep, roll 3D four.
Tell me what your results are 123123 no money.
Go for it again. Oh, I got 2 fours you.
Got 2 fours? You get 30 back, Roll again.
Two twos. All right, we get a 30 back.
OK, roll again. Cool cool 2 ones OK OK OK, we're
doing all right two fours OK OK so like a pity system where it's
like eventually. It'll give me maybe I'm we're
going to do a 2 twos OK, two twos, another full refund and
I'm going to give you one more for right now, OK, OK, 2 fours,
2 fours OK, so you're only out 30.
I don't think you made anything you just broke even the rest of
them so we can do more slots. We can do a different game, but
I just want to check in with the other part of the group now, OK?
OK, cool. Cindy, Elodie and Gimli get the
feeling that like, Schmidt's probably whatever he's doing,
he's probably having fun, and that's all that matters.
Where you want to go now? In the meantime, while our
monster training, what, what time is it?
Like, do we just know? Yeah, it's like, it's like
between lunch and dinner time, it's like.
OK, because it's 7, so yeah, yeah.
OK. OK.
That seems reasonable.
So a couple hours. I mean, we have a couple hours
to kill. Do is there somewhere you all
want to go? I had a couple ideas.
Something that occurred to me is that the bridge was broken when
we tried to get into Mavo and we still kind of don't really know
why. I don't know, it could just have
fallen apart and not be for any sinister reasons.
But do we want to like report that?
Yeah, maybe. Like 'cause I.
Don't know, it's up to you guys. OK, then we can head off 'cause
I, I wanted to report Cletus missing, said he wanted to
report grandparents missing and then we could talk about the
bridge. So I think that's a good idea.
You all walk over in that direction.
You have no problem getting there.
And connected to the police station is what appears to be
Marvel City Hall. And in front of City Hall, it
appears like there's some sort of event going on.
There's several dozen people. They're all standing in front of
a person at a podium. You.
It seems to be like a politician.
Perhaps someone's spouting off a bunch of big words.
You can't quite make them out from where you are.
If you want to listen more, you could like make a perception
check, but people are gathered around and they're listening
intently to a person at a podium.
They're gathered on a podium. OK, you.
Don't, but you don't have to interact with it if you don't
want to. But it is something that's I.
Mean I was going to, I was going to roll perception on it.
OK, Does anyone else want to do that as well?
Sure. Yeah, I can roll those.
Up on that I got a 21. I got a dirty to money.
OK, you know what's happening, you guys.
You guys can definitely like see this.
The person at the podium is giving a speech.
They have a symbol on the podium and on flags behind them that is
like a decorated little E. The woman at the podium is
saying something about being unhappy with the model
government, she says. It's been days after the
terrorist attack in the Lee Cove, and we've had no action,
no appearance from May, all the citizens left in the dark.
We can't let the government do this to us.
It's time for a revolution. It's time for us to stand up and
take control. We don't know when this
organization is going to make another attack.
It could happen right here in Moville City.
And all the people are like, being like, yeah, yeah, this
isn't fair. Where's the representation?
And they're all just like getting all riled up in front of
City Hall. Oh my.
Oh, he's. Responsive.
Oh, unsightly. Yes, it's pretty out here.
US French hate revolutions, yes. I'll go get the guillotine,
it'll be fine. This, this crowd isn't quite
like ready for like armed civil unrest, but they're mad, you
know, they're, they're, they're upset, they're upset that their
government isn't really telling them what's going on.
I mean, we're like pretty far into the crowd, right?
You're kind of removed from it because like you're going to the
police station, which is connected to City Hall, and
they're in like the front steps of City Hall.
Is there anyone nearby that I can ask?
Like who that is 'cause I don't know what the heck this lady is
doing. Like what?
What's the E like? Anything like that?
You. Could yeah, you just tap on
someone's shoulder. Yeah, just like ask them, like,
hey, what? What's going on here?
Is this person? Yeah, You tap on the shoulder of
a woman. She's holding up a homemade sign
that says we need information now.
And then there's someone next to her who has a sign that says
keep Hoen safe. She turns over to you, and she
says this woman's name is Eleanor.
She's a model native. And she's really speaking to a
lot of things that we're worried about.
Hoen's been peaceful for 15 years, No team awkward, Team
Magma messing around with us. And then all of a sudden this
group comes out of nowhere and they're fully forced and they
have dozens of members and they attack Lily Cove City in one of
our most important days of the year.
And the government may they have nothing to say for it.
Nothing. And she is very upset.
I'll see. And and this Eleanor woman,
like, is she a part of a group or something?
Well, she's a Marvel, Marvel native.
She's she's been working for a while.
I think she's like a secretary for a politician or something.
I I actually don't know. I probably should.
And the guy next to her is like, yeah, this is a little
embarrassing. But she she says really
important things and really validating things and and we
want we want a revolution now. And it almost times up perfectly
with the speech that Eleanor's giving was like, we need a
revolution now. And it's like an echo do.
We know who is. Cindy can roll a history.
Yeah, it's like. Well, Cindy's dumb.
Oh, apparently not dumb today. Well, Cindy?
'S stupid. Cindy got a 19 so.
Flash of brilliance, Cindy. Personally knows I'm just
kidding. So the Hoenn government, it's
it's a Republic. It's like a, it's a Democratic
Republic. It's split into four States and
Marvel is the capital. The four states are named just
like 1234, like they're just quadrants.
They're not very absolutely named.
They have different governors being a hoe in resident Cindy,
like you know, she's she's not like the most wise in that she
doesn't care that much about politics, but she she's aware of
the government system that takes place here.
Let me. You know, like side note to
that, 'cause I'm like thinking of Mobil from like the games and
then thinking of this Mobil feels like so completely
different as you say that the capital is like, oh, OK, that
makes sense that it's built up like it is now.
So the novel city is the capital for a couple of reasons.
One, 'cause it's just very industrious and has a lot of
money. It's also the source of a lot of
power for the region. And like not just political
power, but like electrical power, like electrical power.
And it's just it's prime location.
It's really close to Slate Port, which is a is a hub.
For it's like that center of the country.
It's that center. So if like if you saw an LDS
map, there's a it's split into quadrants as I described, and
the Elite 4 governs the quadrants the.
Northeast quadrant. Is governed by Flannery.
The northwest quadrant is governed by Stephen.
The southwest quadrant is governed by Phoebe.
The SE quadrant is governed by wall-e, the Champion.
Her name is May and she is like the governor of Marvel and she
is the governor of the entire region.
She is the representative. When there's like UN meeting so
to speak, between the Pokémon regions, it's May who goes and
makes an appearance. You know, like, let's go Wally.
That's pretty good for him. All right.
Anyways, so the the information that we're going for, for this
woman is that she is, what's the political word, not a lobbyist.
She's like a congresswoman. She's a congresswoman who
represents the southwestern sector that is governed for
Phoebe. So she's like Phoebe's cabinet,
basically. I think that's a good way of
putting it. That is a good way of putting
it. Yeah, that makes sense.
And who is the man? He's just some dude.
Maybe he's like the partner of the woman that Gimli's talking
to, but he's just, he's hold there holding the sign.
He's not important. I mean, maybe he is.
Ask him a question. They get to know him a little
bit if you want. Yeah, you want to strike up a
conversation with this? Dude, you go there and.
Like he doesn't know what's going on, somehow knows the in
internal workings of the government, but like.
It's pretty external workings. It's just like who the?
Leaders are This isn't very internal.
And and where they govern. And then you, like, recognize
Eleanor because she's causing them.
She understands her hoe in history.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. This isn't quite.
As deep 10 years schooling. Exactly.
Yeah, It's like a high school education's worth, basically.
They're like less than that. Like, you learn about your
country and your system of government, more or less.
And you're like, no, I, I know of them.
Like, it's not like, you know, like the political where they
follow the political companies. I could point to a person and be
like, you know, that was a, a president at some point.
Sure, Yeah. It's the same president.
A representative. A champion, if you will.
Are we still talking to this person?
No, you're just kind of like eavesdropping on the speech at
this point. And she's just saying, she's
just saying buzzwords like we have to stand up for our rights
and like we need to, we need transparency from the government
and they can't tax us if they don't fill us in on what's going
on. We need safety and all that
stuff. And the crowd is just like
they're they're all upset. I wonder what re election is?
Can Cindy roll to see if the E font is similar to the NRG font?
Yeah, sure, go for it. This is going to be terrible.
So +39. It's a font, yeah, it's.
Neat. That's definitely an E It'll
fuck yeah. Cool.
Gonna make more checks. You want to go to the police
station? What do you want?
To do I mean, I don't think there's much else for us to see
here so I. Want to go to the police?
Kind of want to go to the police.
Station Right Now reports. Talk about the bridge, see if
they know about it. Schmidt Yo, you're at the
casino. A cocktail waitress comes up to
you and she says you want a drink.
Oh, yeah, yeah. What do you want?
Crown Royal with Sprite. She says, all right, do you want
to keep open a tab or just this one drink for now?
Yeah, let's open a tab. OK, I.
Don't plan on leaving anytime soon.
She wanders off. What game do you want to play?
What else was there besides the slots?
There's like a blackjack, there's card games, there's a
roulette, there's slots. There's part of me wants you to
like pull out your DS and play Voltor Flip and if you like wait
and I'll give you money. And if you lose, like do you, do
you have that game on you? Because you could do that.
Do not have ADS. OK, that's that's too bad.
It's like Voltor Flip is kind of awesome actually.
Roulette. We'll roll AD 20 for this.
We'll just make it a 20 Dumbered roulette.
You could pick specific numbers, you could pick a range like or
you could pick evens or odds and it'll the more generic your bet
is, the less expensive it is, but the less payout you get.
And if you guess like 1 number, you get a huge payout.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're.
Going to put it all in black. All in black, so that's a 5050.
So let's just say evens or odds. And if you're paying all in
black, that's going to cost you, let's just say 30, 30 buy in
with the Saints evens. Damn, I got an 11.
OK, you're out 30. Do you want to go again?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What? What's your OH?
14 Same bet, Same bet. Same bet.
OK, so.
Every time I rolled the seven on the last crew let.
OK, so you'll that'll put you out another 30.
Yeah, yeah. OK.
So I hear some commotion about this Voltorp flip going on.
OK, Yeah. You want to play Voltorp Flip?
And wander over there, yeah. OK, I think this is how Voltorp
Flip is going to work. The buy in to play a game is
going to be 200. How?
How should we do this? I want it to be like a streak to
level 6 and it's a level. If you can beat level 6 without
losing once, I want to give a big jackpot.
You should break even at level 4.
OK. OK, SO50 a piece until level 4
and then have it be like exponential after that.
Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that.
So if you beat level 5, you'll get an extra 100, which will get
you to 300. And if you beat Level 6, we'll
just give you an extra 300 on top of that 'cause it's really
hard. Guessing I just clicked things
that I went. Yeah, no, that's risky.
Isn't it like minesweeper ish? Yeah, it's like Minesweeper,
like kind of more predictable, non casino gamers.
You're in the police station. What do you do?
Fill out a missing persons report.
Sure. Like forms or they're like
people. They're working.
Both there's like a stand with a whole bunch of forms for
different like crimes and then there's like people behind a
bulletproof glass. Little maybe not bulletproof
Pokémon proof. Let's say No, it's bulletproof.
Screw it, there's guns in this world.
It's it's bulletproof. And there's like people who are
like working and there's phones ringing and there's, there's
like cops walking around and stuff.
If you guys want to fill out forms I can go ask them about
the bridge are. You going to walk up to the
counter? Yes.
Role of perception, not 20. There is a series of posters by
the glass that say missing, please report all information.
And there's a lot of faces there and a lot of Pokémon too.
But out of those faces you see a guy that is like looks like
gamely, but maybe a little bit older.
You see a couple of old people. You see like a young sporty
looking trainer guy. You see the face of a Pokémon
with big red eyes and a big toothy smile, little purple
shadow looking Pokémon. And there's a couple other
Pokémon down the list and down the list.
Can I look closer at the one that looks like Gimli?
It says Cletus from from Orber. Does Gimli see a tour?
Is it just me? It's just you.
Why I I don't? I don't know if I would know if.
Well, you know I'm part of the mining association, right?
Yeah. So like he looks like a miner,
right He. Looks like, right?
Yeah, he's like. Do you notice?
Call his attention over to it. Yeah, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna be like, hey, Gimli, do you know this guy?
Wait, wait. That's Calidis.
They already know. It's like don't let the file
this missing persons report. I already know he's missing.
It's true. There's a poster that is like
people in Pokémon missing from Lily Cup City Summer Festival
and it has the dates of like whatever many days ago it was.
And there's just a big list and there's more than just Cletus
and Gojinasai. There's like probably like 5 or
6 people and then there's like 5 or 6 Pokémon.
Carnivine on the list of Pokémon.
In fact, yes. Not Poppy.
Yeah, Poppy is missing. Are there people at the desk who
I can ask for their attention? Yeah, there's a guy.
He's just like writing on a piece of paper.
Not really like paying attention to you, but you can get his
attention if you want. Yeah, I'll be like, Hi, I have a
question. He says Yep, what can I do for
you? So when we were coming into
town, there was like the bridge was like all broken.
If you guys were aware of that, do you know why?
He like rolls back into his chair and he's like, hey, Greg,
could you, could you get dispatch on that?
And that voice goes like, right away, Sir.
He's like, yeah, we'll check it out.
OK, cool. And he looks back on his desk
and keeps writing something. It seems like they're a little
busy. Phones are ringing all over the
place. And it seems like, based on,
well, yeah, roll, roll. Like an insight on this guy or
something. Sure.
Yeah. OK.
Just 10. You get the feeling that like,
the job that he's working isn't very glamorous and he gets a lot
of like, phony reports and stuff that just like, isn't really
worth the the city time, so to speak.
So he, you know, he does actually care about what you
said, but he doesn't have a lot of energy to be able to like,
oh, yes, we'll get to taken care of.
He's just like, yeah, OK, thank you.
Understandable. I'll be like, OK, have a good
day and good at all. Here's the decency to say yeah,
you too. OK, is there anything else you 2
wanted to do in here? You know, I just wanted to
follow them as a person's report, but apparently they've
already taken care of it. So I wonder if they have they
received any information about our missing people.
Maybe we can ask them. Yeah, we can ask them that.
I'll go back and be like, oh, we we have one more thing.
Is there any information about the missing people, specifically
Cletus, Goji, NSI and Poppy? The guy says, well, it depends
who's asking. Well, I work with Cletus at the
same association. We're actually work at the same
Bonnie facility. And Cindy here she is the
granddaughter of Go GSI. They own a Berry farm.
They make good berries. He says.
We haven't really been getting much information at all.
If, if you know these people, actually we wouldn't mind
conducting an interview with you if that's all right, so, so we
can get more details. That'll be totally fine.
Yep. OK.
We'll start with gamely. I'm not going to do a pull aside
for this. I don't think it's going to
matter enough. It's not like super crazy, but
it could have an influence. So the guy says he pulls you
into like a comfy room. It's not like an interrogation
room, but it's like private. There's no one else really
listening. And he says so.
When was the last place that you saw Cletus?
So, I mean, you guys know about the Lukov incident, obviously.
So that in the shuffle of the crowd, he was with us, with me
and my group at the hotel. But when it broke out, suddenly
I noticed he was missing from the area.
So we were at the hotel bar just commiserating as we were, and he
seemed to disappear. I, I don't know if he walked
away at some point before the crazy festivities, but he was
with us before the incident happened.
He's at the hotel we were staying.
He's scribbling notes in a notebook, says where were you at
the time of the attack? Were you with Cletus?
Well, like I said, I was with my entire body group at the time,
but Cletus was with us before the incident and then in the
chaos seemed to disappear. What kind of person is Cletus?
Do you think if if he's in a stressful situation he'd be
capable of defending himself? I I would say so, yeah.
He's one of those capable men I've ever worked with so.
He continues writing and he says.
Is there anything else you'd want to share about Cletus that
might help us find him? Like I said, he he's not the
type to normally wander off which so this was kind of
interesting that he just seemed to disappear.
So I was more concerned about it than anything else, but it was
it was definitely out of character for him to be missing
from the group. You can use writing and he says,
OK, very well, I think that's all of our questions unless
there's any other information you want to provide, if you can
think of anything, you're welcome to stop by the the
office anytime of. Course, I appreciate your time,
right? He pulls aside Cindy and does
the same sort of thing. He asks, Were you with your
grandparents at the time of the incident?
I was not. I was with them just before or
not just beforehand, but earlier that day.
I'm helping them set up their Berry stand at the festival.
And then when I went to check on them after the attack, they were
not there and their stop, their stand looked abandoned.
They've been around for for quite a while.
Do you think they're like athletically capable in a
dangerous situation? Honestly, I don't know.
I've learned a lot about them, a lot of things that I didn't know
previously. So I who knows?
They could be, they could not be.
I'm going to have this fella roll an insight check.
He, Kurt failed. He just kind of looks at you and
he's like, OK, this girl's kind of weird.
He he says so that he pulled out a picture and he says this
Carnivine, does this look familiar to you?
Yeah, that's Poppy. That's the the family carnivine.
He says so they were together at the time of the incident.
Yes. OK, good, good information for
us, the officer says. Is there any other details you'd
like to provide? Not that I can think of, I'm
just worried about them because they're old.
The officer says, yeah, we're, we're worried about them, too.
If there's nothing else to say, he will escort you out of the
office. Schmidt, how's it going?
Well, so this is the I failed immediately on like the game
after Edu. You, you let me go on my own and
I've just been kind of playing it on my own.
Let's just see if you can get to level 6, OK, If you can, when
there's a good point in our discussion, just like interject
if you're having fun with this, if you don't want to switch
games. Yeah, I'm having stuff.
Like actually having fun with this?
No, yeah, this game slaps. Just let me know if you get to
level 6 and we'll figure out from there based on like how
long it took you. Don't worry about, I mean, maybe
worry about spending because the longer it takes, the more I'm
going to charge you if you don't get there.
Right, Right. But yeah, just keep that in
mind. Also, your drink comes the
cocktail, which just drops it off.
It's it's pretty good. It's a It's a nice little blue
color. Crown Royals, usually Brown.
OK. It's a nice little brown color.
Do you have do you have a Pokémon with you?
Yeah, Quacko, of course. OK, Quacko's just vibing.
Everyone else is in their ball. Yeah, yeah.
OK, great. Have fun.
The regular game. Where you off to?
Do we know what time it is? Just like the time we spend the
police station was, It seemed like a little lengthy with the
interview, so. Yeah, yeah, it probably was.
Let's say it's like around 5:00. Are you all hungry?
I was just about that. Yeah, we can go somewhere and
eat. I've been wanting to try out the
restaurants in town. Yeah, that would that would be,
that would be great. Let's let's go have dinner while
while we wait for Schmidt and go pick up a Pokémon afterwards, I
guess. Any place you wanted to try?
I did want to try the fine dining, I just don't feel like
it'd be a good idea without Schmidt.
Maybe we can try that later. OK, if you guys are looking for
like a certain cuisine equivalent that might exist in
the Pokémon world that I don't have written, just say it and
it'll we'll make a roll and see if it exists basically and to
what extent it exists. So you have a little bit of RP
flexibility over the world right now, is what I'm trying to say.
OK. Cindy wants something that's
like Chick-fil-A priced as far as like kind of fast food, but
like nice fast food. OK.
Mostly because she doesn't want to break the bank.
McDonald's sparse. McDonald's sparse It's.
Just a hair better than that. OK.
We could probably try like the cafe maybe or I don't know if
you have other ideas. I mean big dunspots probably has
a solid mikma champ Mikma. Champ.
The the big Mikma champ. Oh man, Cindy, if you want you
can roll for like a slightly more upscale fast food.
Am I just rolling AD 20 and hoping for the best?
Yeah, it'll be a straight D20 roll. 9.
You go to, so you managed to find it's a fast food place.
It's might be better than McDonald's sparse.
You aren't really sure. It's like it's got two colors
going on. It's like white and purple.
And there is so-called a drive through.
There are people that are like riding large Pokémon through a
window where they're being handed meals on trays.
You can see in front of you in the line, there's like a guy
who's on a big old rock snake and he goes up to like a little
a little window with the menu. He's like, yeah, can I get a #4
extra, extra fries, you know, etcetera.
There's someone who's in front of him who's riding like a big
dog, big dog looking Pokémon. It's got a long fluffy beard.
The big sign on the wall outside says Nito Rinin out.
Let's. Go Nito I I don't know, I've
heard, I've heard Nito Rinin out.
It's a little overrated. It's.
Delicious. I'm in.
I'm in or out. Will you server mute?
Melody again. That was kind of pleasant,
wasn't it? So what is the equivalent of
their double double? It's the it's, it's the great,
great, OK. It's the great.
You guys can go inside or you can do the drive through, but a
Pokémon is required for the drive through.
It doesn't say anything about it being rideable, but it does say
you need to be on one. That's not gonna work for me.
How big is boldor in comparison to me?
I actually don't know the size. You're pretty small.
Yeah, I am small. Yeah, you, you could probably if
you made a deck check, you could balance on Boulder, but you
would not be moving fast right at all.
True. True.
Well, how fast is the drive through line moving?
Realistically, it's pretty. Slow it's it's it's like dinner
time and all these business people in suits are like I
could. Go inside.
Riding their. Electric types inside.
Yeah, you guys can just go inside too.
That's fine. Yeah, we can.
We can go inside, OK. What do they have in the the the
the nuggie? As classic Neo written in and
out fashion, their menu is very simple.
They have burgers that you can change the like the sizes of
they have one quote secret sauce that's really just Thousand
Island dressing and there's not not really that secret.
And they have fries and they have milkshakes and like, that's
it. Milkshake.
Milkshake and a big enough burger to share with my friends
that are here with me, which is not Jack.
So for me, I'll be getting the great grate with the Pokémon
stall fries and and I think Bodo also wants a great grate and
Toyota was a little a little sassy, little picky and just
wants fries. So a little basket.
OK so you could just make that like 2 great grates with fries
basically. And then I'll be getting like,
yeah. OK, Ality.
Yeah, I will. We would have burger and a big
old milkshake so that me and cabbage and bubble gum can all
share it and some fries for the three of us to share as well.
Yeah, these workers, they all look kind of burnt out, but
like, do you get the sense that they get like pretty decent
benefits as far as fast food goes?
Like they're probably truly like, kind of OK, like better
than McDonald's bars for. Sure.
They're wearing white and purple outfits and they're all wearing
like funny purple hats that have like a horn on them.
And yeah, they charge everyone. So Cindy's meal is going to come
out to 12, Gimli's meal is going to come out to 20, and Allergy's
meal is going to come out to, I think maybe also 12, maybe 10,
let's just say 11. So take notes of that.
You do see a sign that's like certified Joto Mill tank and if
Schmidt were with you could tell you all about it.
But you all know that there's a reputation about Joto Miltank
being like the best. Do we all sit down and eat our
Nido ridden out? Yeah, great.
Taste the joto milk, the milk as I said my milkshake.
Oh, yeah, it's in the milkshake. True.
It's the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is it milk? Cabbage milkshake.
No, it's like a dessert. It's fine.
It's it's not cannibalism, it's fine.
It's not. It's not cannibalism.
Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it's not made
out of the same milk. It's a different kind of.
Milk. This is different milk.
You're a milk. Monster milk comes from
different animals. It's true.
Cabbage milk this is. You just said it.
Kevin, Kevin, this is very silly.
Milk the cabbage. This is incredibly silly.
I'm so glad. OK, how are you doing?
You having fun? Yeah, I'm at Level 3 you.
Don't want to change games? No.
OK, The cocktail waitress comes up to you and she sees that your
drink is done. She says like, would you like
another? You want something else?
Yes, please. Same thing.
Another yes, sorry, your tab stays open so the gang enjoys
their fast food. I'm not going to make you make a
con save or anything because it's not particularly dubious.
It's pretty decent. It's now closer to like 6:00 PM.
Are you going to go? Do we know how roughly how far
away we are from the gym? Because we can just like, make
that time travel and go check in with her armands.
Yeah, you're wait to the like the Battle Institute or the
Pokémon Gym. The the Institute.
It's like 20 minutes, OK, You could probably make a stop along
the way if you wanted. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Like we work our way back but like probably stop along the way
for something. Yeah.
Do we? We could stop back into the
thrift store, see if they have any new clothes besides.
I mean, I probably won't be buying anything because funds
are a little tight. Yeah, no, it's OK.
I'm with I'll. I'll just use my charm.
I I can. You get this, you get, you get
some. Classic party barred, honestly,
Like, oh, we're out of money. Like, it's OK.
I'll just flirt. It's fine.
Like, that's always what happens if we go into the Angels of
Peace thrift store. Sure.
OK, You guys, you go there and the employees, they notice Cindy
like hey, welcome back. You guys to get any new stock?
They said new things in my size. They said, Ah, sorry, not, not
till next week, but we'll keep we'll keep our eyes out for you,
for the for the merch that all the products say.
That's lit bro. I want something similar but not
the same. What are you guys looking for?
I don't. Know clothing?
We came to the right place for clothing.
You want a hoodie that says that's lip row and match mine?
It's a thrift store, so there's like a whole bunch of stuff.
There's all sorts of stuff and beyond clothing too.
There's just like little pieces of furniture.
There's like antiques, there's books, there's.
You'll want to buy a couch. You could buy a couch if you
wanted, absolutely. What would we do with it?
Then we'll always have a couch to sleep on.
Carry the couch. This does just hang out like
what we do with the gods. It is like, well, what's up?
It's like what? We carry it back to the mansion
across the bridge that doesn't exist.
I think we're. Mentally broken.
I think something happened. Something.
Happened. I was looking for something
practical like is there any like umbrellas or something?
Yeah, make. A Rule 13.
Yeah, there's like an outdoor section and there's like gloves,
there's hiking boots, there's umbrellas, there's scarves,
there's, you know, all sorts of stuff.
Is there like a price tag on the umbrellas and the gloves?
Yeah, the it's at thrift store, so they're pretty cheap.
The umbrellas are four and the gloves are three.
I mean, I'll grab the umbrella because I think it's good for
safekeeping. We might need it for something.
OK. There's four umbrellas, roll AD
4. They're all the same price, but
I just kind of want to do this. 4.
Get a four. OK, it's a blue umbrella, and on
the top they're little bumps. They are the eyes of a Poly
whirl. Oh, I like it.
Can I? Like see if Like cabbage is
particularly interested in anything that they have for
sale. Sure.
Are you thinking like an accessory or like a, a, a a
piece of furniture? Like what do you think?
Yeah, I guess anything I don't know, maybe an accessory?
OK, yeah, roll, roll AD 20. 1515.
Is pretty good. OK Cabbage, for some reason,
takes interest to what appears to be a used children's
espionage set. It's like a combination between
like silly spy gadgets and like magic tricks.
There's like a pair of sunglasses.
There's like a pair of walkie talkies, there's a invisible ink
pen and like a notepad. All sorts of espionage related
things for kids to play with. That's amazing.
It's like it's $23. Oh, can.
I cabbage. Has expensive taste.
Roll A Roll a charisma check on cabbage. 11.
Cabbage, like, looks at you excitedly and, like, tries to
put on the sunglasses, but they don't, like, perfectly fit on
her head. And she's like, come on, Like,
buy it, Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna are there any
like workers around or can I like take it up to the front and
be like, look at how cute cabbage looks.
My little my little military cabbage looks with these
sunglasses on. I wish I had enough money to buy
this. Oh my gosh, yeah, the curse
might you jerk. 8. Oh, oh, they're like, Nah,
Missy, it's been a long day. You can't you can't get us like
that. You have to pay full price for
that thing. That's a collector's item.
How much money do you have? I have 29.
Do it. Spend the less of your money on
an espionage. Kit OK, I will do it.
I will have $6.00 left now. Perfect.
You just got to challenge the gym.
Just get $100, it's easy. Yeah, it's easy, right?
No, you're right. Right.
Yeah, I'll just the gym with the 2 water type Pokémon that I
have. Hey, who knows, maybe the gym
training will pay off and you'll get your crowd typing.
Yes please. That's all I'm hoping for.
I mean, you do have mud slap right?
Yeah, I do. I mean, that'll be really
helpful. It goes from weakness to not
immunity, just resistance, because we don't have
immunities, right? Do we have?
Immunities. We have immunities, yeah, yeah.
We don't have double weaknesses. Right, right, right.
OK. Yeah, yeah.
OK, it's broken. You pay it over and you get the
espionage kit. I'm need to do some research to
see specifically what's in there because it's been a while since
I saw one as a kid, but let me know I'll get that to you at
some point. Yeah, those walkie talkies going
to be so pog later they do some funny stuff with.
They're they're like kids sized walkie talkies.
Yeah. I I know it's perfect that
we'll, we'll use them for something they I'm.
Telling you they have a like blue and red like digital like
aesthetic to them. OK.
They might resemble Pokémon, but you probably don't know what it
is unless you roll for it. Might not matter to you.
Well. Let's go.
Yeah, I want to know. Roll probably plus.
Of mine, but that's. Fine. 55 it's not plus of
mining, but yeah, you don't know what it is.
I grace is guessing magnamite but I don't know.
It's not that easy, no. We'll move on from that Cindy
roll to see what it is. Yeah, fine.
Nat 20 it's what is it gone? It's Porygon.
There's my Nat 20 gone for the rest of the day.
It's Porygon Burr. Cindy, are you gonna buy
anything? I mean when I checked in to get
this hoodie there wasn't really anything else that I guess check
my fancy so she'll just be cozying up in her hoodie.
You all exit the thrift store. I'm assuming you're going to
make your way to the Battle Institute.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, sounds.
Good. On your way, you walk past what
is pretty similar to the Four Tree City gym, but it's the
Model City Gym and you see a couple of upset trainers and
they walk out of the front door and they're like, oh man.
And there's just kind of like mumble into themselves.
Do you interact with them or do anything?
I don't know, but I can't talk about the gym challenge.
I'm assuming that's why they were like, oh man, I mean, I
could perceive. I'll roll perception on them,
see if I can get it. Like notice anything about the
way they're acting? OK, I won't because I got a
nine. OK, yeah, they're, they're, they
seem like disappointed more than defeated.
And this was them exiting the gym, right?
Just yes, OK. The gym Gym, not the the.
Pokémon channel, yes, the Pokémon gym.
I mean, no, I don't think I want to interact with them.
OK, kind of kind of means business.
Got to go pick up my my friend. Do I mean do we know as
characters like what type the gym is?
I feel like we. I guess Cindy does.
I don't know if it necessarily needs to be an RP moment because
I feel like as trainers, you'd be like, hey, what types of gym?
Cindy and Cindy would be like, it's electric.
It would just be. Fine, we just know.
Yeah, I think I am going to like go and be like, hey look,
there's some trainers. Hey guys, how'd your how'd your
gym challenge go? They're, they're just kind of
the Bah humbug. They don't say Bah humbug.
They're they're. They're.
Not Ebony Scrooge. They say there, there's some
crazy old guy in there. He says that they can't take
challenges right now. I don't know what it's about.
It's something about Bolt switch.
I don't I don't understand. And they just are grumpy and
they're they're leaving. Bolt switch.
Not like a move or something. That's weird.
All right. Who else we should keep?
Going. Yeah.
OK, going to the Institute. It's about time.
It's about time to pick up your friends.
Nice. I need one more rule for each
Pokémon Lebowski, Grape Juice, and Jack.
That was 17. 17 OK. I got a 12.
I got a Nat 1 Nat one. Oh no.
Grape juice. Why?
What happened? OK, Geodude, let's get him
something really basic. He gets AD 4 of inspiration,
whatever he wants. Just on any role, he can just
put AD 4 on it. It can be after the role as well
as well. Make a note of that.
Carl brings out Lebowski. Lebowski goes like whatever
Geodude says and is just super had a great time.
Maybe they didn't gauge his strength correctly, maybe he
didn't really do a whole bunch of strength training, but he
just is like happy that he got a good workout.
If he had muscles, they would be, you know, nice and bulging,
but he is in just a rock. But he had fun because he is
nothing but arms and he used his arms and that's all he cares
about. So Lebowski stoked.
Remind me the role for Jack at. 17. 17 Cool Jack had a pretty
bang. Decent workout.
Carl doesn't really disclose to you what they exactly did.
We are going to be replacing the move growl with the move scary
face, which is in fact an upgrade, but we'll get on.
We'll get to that later. Cool, nice.
Jack looks a little more fierce. Looks like Jack had some fun.
Grape juice. My poor baby.
Grape juice. Grape juice had a terrible time.
Grape juice got so much attention from like sweaty gym
guys and just like was put through so many different tests
and trials, Grape juice and Mudkip is straight up not having
a good time for the next day. Mudkip gets disadvantage on
strength and dexterity saving throws basically at half HP just
permanently until the long wrist.
Mudkip did not gain anything from this at all.
OK. So that it was disadvantage did
you say on? Strength and Dexterity checks,
including like attacks that use strength and Dexterity.
So I think like Uproar might be like Charisma or something, in
which case you'd be fine. Yeah, but actually.
Oh no, it's strength decks. Whirlpool strength mud slap a
strength decks, uproar Strength decks.
Yeah, you're screwed. I'm sorry.
All of your attacks are disadvantaged.
You're going to have HP for we're going to say till long
rest. Oh, OK, so until we go to sleep
tonight. Let's go like 24.
Hours 20. 4 hours, 24 hours 7:00 PM Tomorrow Carl comes out with
all your Pokémon. He says we had such a good time
and the blue bulky Pokémon behind him goes and they hand
over your Pokémon and they look as how I just described. 2 of
them look great or good and one of them looks utterly defeated
and just like sore and weak. On grape juice.
I'm so sorry. There's no transaction to be
made, so unless you want to buy something.
Yeah, I certainly do not want to buy something.
Does that even cost $6? I'm just kidding.
That's all you have. You guys step outside.
The sun is starting to set. I need LED to make a check, a
perception check. Cool Beans 16. 16 That is good
enough LED you noticed, as in the sky a Carlos regional bird
Pokémon called Fletchender flies over and drops a little letter
into your lap. Aw.
It is in the voice text channel. You're welcome to read it to the
class if you'd like, or just keep it to yourself.
Up to you. I'm going to give you a moment
to read it though. It's from my my mom's.
And yeah, they're not super worried, which is good.
Yeah, that's the gist of it. The Fletchinger flops off and a
little ways in the distance behind the Fletchinger, you see
flying in the air what you can't describe as like a Caravan A4
Talon flames with ropes on their ankles.
And they're carrying a very, very large package towards you.
It is probably like 4 feet by 4 feet.
It's a cube now. It's more like a rectangle.
It's like it's like 4 feet by 6 feet.
It's like a cardboard box. And they plop it on the ground
in front of you all, and one of the Talon flames weirdly puts a
envelope in your hands LED. And this is what the envelope
says. This one you might want to read
to the class. OK, yeah, I'll read this one.
I heard you got stuck in Hoenn with all that terrace nonsense.
How wild. Sad.
You won't be back in the shop for a while, but ah say love
you. In fact, I found a way to keep
you busy while you're stuck over there.
We have a new customer who is apparently huge on our Swirl X
cupcakes. He's bulk ordered a dozen gross
of them. That's 1700 and 28 cupcakes.
Please take this parcel to their home on Route 110.
It should only be a couple days trip from Fore Tree where your
parents told me you were last at.
Once they receive their order, I'll have a nice paycheck headed
your way. My manager, Antoine.
And then it also has an address, name, address country.
OK, right. Yeah, this is H trick.
House 1. House 1 Route 1 tag.
Cool. So now you have a like a person
sized box with almost 2000 cupcakes in it that you're
responsible for. Oh God.
So good luck with that. How much is it going to cost to
have delivered to the House via the post office?
I was like, well, I feel like we it's intended that we hand
deliver it. Yeah, this is like now my job.
Yeah, yeah. It's not a post.
Like drop it off in the post office because they would have
just did that instead of shipping it to all the team.
I can I even lift this thing? You can try.
I'll try. OK, you give me give it a go I
guess. Oh God.
Oh, OK, that was a four.
It's a four, Yeah. You can't lift this thing.
Do. You want me to try to lift it?
If you would please, I'm so. Sorry, I'll give it a go 19.
Let me so the average cupcake weighs 80g and 80 * 1728 is
138,240 so that to pounds is 304 lbs.
So yeah, this thing, this thing is really heavy, but it's not
without, it's not impossible that Gimli could lift it because
Gimli's a strongest miner, so. I have a strongest miner, but
I'm also going to bring Trevor out and we're going to like prop
it up kind of like a A2 man cart job because we've done stuff
like this before. Yeah.
Get wheels for it. Yeah, we got to figure out a
long term solution for this because this is not going to
work I'm. Going to get some wheels and
we're going to get some rope and just like pull it.
Yeah, for now our our coffin carrying strategy is not too bad
so. The coffin.
Bowl cup in size. Too many funerals.
Using your coffin technique to carry around cupcakes, Yeah.
Yeah, to carry around cupcakes. Yeah, so we can get a card.
I think me and Trevor are just fine.
Great. OK, Schmidt, how how are you
doing? I'm getting kind of frustrated
man. Are you right?
Up to level 5. OK, so you broke even and you
earned some even yours. Not going to hit the jackpot
unless you get 6. No, I'm going to get you to
talk. To me, from level 4 to level 1
and I was like what the fuck? That's what they do in the game.
Yeah. Get on a streak.
It's about 7:30 PM in Marvel City.
How does the game want to close up their night?
This is a pretty wild day, so. Cindy's going to tell her
Pokémon bedtime stories. Just out in the middle of
Montville City. Can we go back to a place?
Maybe at the Pokey Center where we're likely sleeping and we
have. Hostels, they're staying in the
Pokey Center for sure with our, especially with our wallets the
way they are, we got to deliver this payload to get the
realities cupcake delivery. That's like the next mission
because we're broke. Great.
Make for yourself. Cindy's been penny pinching and
we're we're doing good. Checked out with big spend.
I have no money. Yeah, you, you have to get that
espionage skit. I had to.
Milsari is like holding it and
is so happy like with those. Cabbage looks so just like with
those sunglasses, yeah. Big sunglasses.
Don't using it on passerby. Yeah, you can see that she's
like holding one of the walkie talkies and she's just going
bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop.
And like, just like talking to no one and like looking at
people. When somebody answers, we're
gonna have a problem. Yeah, so, yeah, you guys, great.
You go to the Pokémon Center, you could heal your Pokémon.
The injuries that grape juice has can't really be healed by
Pokémon Center. They're they're, they're kind of
just. Like injuries, they're like
deep. Tissue injuries that.
Yeah. Stay home.
Exactly. So y'all are vibing.
You're in the hostel. You don't have Schmidt with you,
are you? Are you concerned?
Schmidt knows to show up here again, so I mean.
I mean, I'd I'd like to assist in the dropping off of the
package in a safe place, but then I don't know.
I'm interested in going and checking in on Schmidt.
Cindy can stay and read bedtime stories to all the Pokémon that
get left behind if anybody wants to leave anybody.
If we're delivering a package, though, you're trying to deliver
the package. Is that what you're saying?
No. I was just going to say keep it
here for the night and then we'll.
Figure out OK, yeah, we can drop it off there, OK.
I mean, I'll go with you to check out Schmidt because it's
not exactly late. So I'll leave Turtle and
Lebowski back and just bring Trevor with me to the casino
'cause they, they deserve a rest for their bedtime story.
Especially Lebowski's probably like like.
He's got muscly arms. They just, they just look like
muscles, I guess. I guess they're.
Not real. Yeah, I'll leave.
I'll leave them behind. And then we can, I can bring me
and Trevor. So.
Yeah, I'll leave grape juice. Yeah, we can, if we can leave
our Pokémon with Cindy to read bedtime stories, if that's what
she's doing. But then I'll take cabbage and
bubble gum with me. OK, great.
You do that, Schmidt. Yeah.
You finished your drink. Do you want another one?
Yes. OK.
It's going to go on your tab. You are going to start rolling
constitution. Make a constitution safe +21212.
OK, You're you're it's not going to impair your gaming.
You're a little tipsy, but like you're functional.
Gimli and Elodie, how do you tend to go to the casino?
You could go on foot. It probably wouldn't take you
too long. The night breeze is kind of
nice. Or you could take the subway.
It's public transportation. It's.
Always probably fast so we got to get them back soon so you.
See the same signs that Schmidt saw earlier?
You are on the red route, you just got to go to the green
route, and the green route will end at the game Corner.
Gimli, roll me AD 20 while you're waiting for the bus.
Well. You are waiting for the bus, it
hasn't arrived yet and you're next to a trash can.
And the trash can starts wiggling and you hear like.
I open the trash can. OK, you open the trash can and a
bag of trash jumps out. Make a Dexterity safe. 12.
A little bit of a little bit of stinky goop lands on your shirt.
It's not a whole lot, but it's a little gross and you look on the
ground and there's this Ascension trash bag that looks
up you and goes. Hi little buddy, How's it going
it? Lets out a sound that could be
described as like a burp or a fart, and then it starts walking
away. Just walks away, yeah.
It just starts wobbling. It's just like I'm done, all
right? Bye.
And now, now you're just like a little stinky.
Yeah, I just, I smell like stinky poo poo garbage.
I'm going to like. Yeah.
Stinky poo poo garbage I'm. Going to walk a little bit away
from Gimli. OK, good.
Yeah, that's fair. Stinky poo poo golbage.
I want to be like, wait, wait, wait, cabbage, could you eat a
sweet scent real quick? Yeah, well, yeah, it's like,
it's not really an attack because like Gimli isn't going
to try and save against it, just make it an advantage D20 rule.
Oh my goodness. OK, it's fine.
It's advantage 88. Yeah, the first one.
Wasn't.
One cabbage. Doesn't do a great job.
It literally just smells like like a middle schooler with Bo
who like just did a little spritz of Axe.
Like that's like what it smells like.
That's just smells like stinky poo poo garbage.
Cabbage just sprays axe smell long.
It was in the espionage kid, yeah.
Was used by some middle schooler for.
Spy stuff. Yeah, to disguise your scent or
something. Perfect.
It's like cabbage, I said. Sweet scent like it's not much.
It Cabbage just loves this espionage.
It's. Crazy.
Cabbage was made for spying. It's true.
Super super spy. I'm an international.
With a Gimli smelling kind of bad, you guys make it to the
casino. Do you look for Schmidt?
Yes. I will need perception checks
because it's kind of busy are. You freaking kidding me?
Another not one. I'm cursed tonight.
Yeah, I only got A7. Oh, Yikes.
It's pretty busy in here. There's a lot of people.
There's a lot of people that like, are Schmidt aged, you
know, like university students and like mid to late 20s who are
just trying to have a good time on a weekday night run again.
And there's also like a whole bunch of like old people too.
But yeah, it's, you're going to need some and take some work to
find them. Let me see, let's just say I
like, I don't there's no point in R peeing this, I don't really
think, unless you want to get a drink.
Let's just say it like it's 8:00 PM right now.
Let's just say it takes you like a whole hour to find him here.
OK. Yeah.
So you all wander around, you get some mean looks as people
are judging how bad Gimli smells and a couple of them like, oh,
that must be Schmidt. And then they because they turn
around to say homeless man and like, and again, he's like, I'm
homeless. But you do smell kind of you
smell like trash and like cheap clothes.
So just. Because I smell like stinky poo
poo garbage. I'm not homeless.
Eventually you find Schmidt and he's bent over at a table and
he's playing some silly card game and it's like little
digital animated cards. And you can tell that every now
and then he'll like as you approach, he flips over a card
and it like has a voltort face on it and it like makes an
explosion sound effect. And so it's like not again.
Oh shit. I just got off really loudly.
Yeah, OK. Oh oh, does he smell me
approach. Probably, yeah.
That's what tips him off. He's like, oh, he's the homeless
man. He's pretty focused.
I don't know if he wants to be distracted.
Just stare. Just how we're.
Just going to stare intently up I'm.
Still there to see what he how he's doing.
You guys could have time to like do a slots or something if you
wanted. I don't money.
But you imagine you could make some money this you could get,
you could get it back double. Grace literally can't bet on it.
It's 10/20/30. You could lend her $4.00 that.
That's OK. You know what?
No. Nah, I'm, I'm, I'm being a bad
influence to him. I was gonna say I'm about to
charm. Some of.
The people who worked here, your.
Chances. Dog, you could no.
The house always was. You could charm someone who's
gambling and take their money. That's what I was gonna do.
But like, that seems kind of evil, and at least not.
That is for sure evil, yeah. That is.
Oh yeah, for sure. That's like a given.
As our friends find Schmidt in the casino, Cindy is at the
Pokémon Center Hostel, taking care of the dozen gross cupcakes
in a box as well as reading bedtime stories.
They're the Pokémon friends. The conclusion of our story.
Will. Be Elodie and Gimli A stinky
Gimli lean over Schmidt as he's 3 drinks in gambling away at the
casino. He's been here for like 5 hours
at least, and the camera pans over to Cindy in the Pokémon
Center hostel, guarding a whole bunch of cupcakes and a few
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Can you believe that in our last session, we like, we're fighting
like a demon plant and buried a guy and now we're just, Schmidt
is alone and he's just gambling. And I literally have my DND
notes and I just wrote down a fast food order for everyone.
It's a little crazy. That's awesome.
It's a little wild, but.