Somewhere in Unova, a young girl nestles into the crook of her
grandfather's elbow. Snuggled together in bed, they
ignore the gentle snoring of the fluffy brown villa pup at their
feet as they flip through a grand.
Book of fairy tales. Which story would you like to
hear tonight, Little 1? He asks.
Perhaps the small but mighty Victini, or Chaldeo and The
Three Musketeers? Or how about Maldoetta and the
Red Shoes? I know that's your favorite pop
pop. I've heard all of these stories
before. I want a new story.
With a chuckle and a glimmer in his eye, he turns to a section
of the book where the parchment is thinner and older.
Instead of words, the page reveals A sprawling map, not of
UNIVA as she knows it, but of the land that came before.
It seems both familiar and strange.
I know this one already. Oh, but you haven't truly
experienced the whole story. The grandfather takes an ornate
music box off her night stand. It's brass edges dulled by time
and it's lid carved with swirling shapes that seem to
shift in the dim light if stared out for too long.
He winds it up with a slow, deliberate motion, filling the
air with a simple chime. As it plays, the little girl
swears she can hear singing start to accompany it.
Let me show you what really happened 3000 years ago in the
Kingdom of the Veil. Soaring through the sunny skies
of the capital city of the Kingdom of the Veil, a white
Pokémon winds around one of the sandstone turrets of its
majestic castle. This castle, as you all know, is
home to King Harmonia himself and his royal family.
Tensions have been high throughout the Kingdom as of
late, despite the truce that King Harmonia and his elder
brother called years ago. This truce split the Kingdom in
two, much like how the original dragon was split into Reshiram,
who now resides in the other side of the Kingdom, and Zekrom,
who belongs to the younger King Harmonia.
Here in this Kingdom, the bird Pokémon known as Wingle flaps
its cerulean striped wings as it glides downwards towards
charming stone buildings. Clutched in its yellow claws is
a sealed roll of parchment. Wingle descends into the
cobblestone streets of the capital city, weaving between
bustling townspeople and working Pokémon.
Below. A lumbering scallopede
transports a load of goods haphazardly tied to its back,
the pile nearly the height of its tall fuchenac.
At a food stall, A torquel heats a pan of vegetables from
underneath, fire blasting from its shell, slowing its journey
to consider a stand full of delicious smelling baked goods.
Wingle shakes its head and continues on its journey, taking
it to a tower on the outskirts of town.
With a domed roof and stained glass windows, the observatory
boasts a massive telescope pointing towards the sky.
Wingle flies through the entrance and into the main
Chamber of the observatory, onto the desk of Daisy, the
astronomer beside her, slumbering.
Glammy O Karma Richie, would you please describe what your
character looks like for us? Absolutely.
Daisy is a young woman whose most defining characteristic
above all else is that she looks very tired.
As an astronomer, it's easy to assume that she's completely
nocturnal, using the hours when everyone else is asleep to use
her celestial instruments to gaze into the heavens and
attempt to unravel the mysteries hidden among the stars.
She's dressed in an arguably oversized and elaborate deep
purple coat with billowing sleeves and deep pockets at her
sides that are overflowing with jangling scientific tools,
trinkets and baibles. Underneath, she is wearing a
relatively plain woven tunic tucked into loose fitting black
pants and fairly high worn brown leather boots that lace up her
legs halfway to her knees. Her generously freckled
complexion matches her pillow tossed shoulder length, curly
and frazzled scarlet red hair, contrasted by her seemingly
empty blue Gray irises that twinkle in the same fashion as
the myriad constellations in the night sky.
Her glam meow, Karma, is a cat. This glammy how seems much more
naturally adjusted to the nocturnal lifestyle and carries
about an air of vanity and confidence.
Her whiskers are well maintained, Gray and white fur
quite evidently lovingly self groomed, her claws trimmed in
her long Helix tail bouncing with a noble sway as she
daintily bounds across the floor, investigating any and all
points of interest that may serve her evidently noble
pursuits. Amazing.
I love it. The Wingle looks up at you on
the desk, clutching this sealed roll of parchment, and then
starts to Peck at the desk in front of you.
It's kind of like shuffling around if you have any, like
papers on the desk. Looks like it's kind of like
looking for something. Oh, Daisy will be alarmed and
try to move any valuable instruments, perhaps a
telescope, out of the way of the window and shoo.
What are you doing? Get out of here, Let's leave.
No. And tries to shoo the Wingle
away. It paws back like the classic
Wingo that was really bad. Imagine it was really good.
That's perfect, amazing and kind of tilts its head at you and
then shakes its claw holding the parchment.
Daisy will take note of it and begrudgingly grasp it away and
say, fine now will you leave? It returns to pecking at the
desk. Daisy will.
And then looks back up at you. Yeah, Daisy will turn to the
sleepy glammy out Karma and say, won't you do something about
this? This birds get in the way of all
my research. I suppose that Daisy will relent
and eventually open up the parchment and see what's going
on. I will read to you the contents
of this parchment, as well as let you know that up until this
point, there's been an organization that has been
working against the kind of tensions between the two sides
of the Kingdom that are seeming to be leading towards war.
This organization has just been doing odd jobs here and there
trying to stop this from happening as they know it would
be bad for all the inhabitants of the Kingdom.
You've been in contact with an anonymous person before in
regards to this and you know that there was going to be a
large job coming up, so you figure this might be in relation
to that. Especially because the seal on
the parchment, there's the Insignia of this group, which is
a sword with its blade pointing downwards and a ribbon wrapped
around it. So I will read the contents of
the letter for you. Today is the day of the Castles
Vulcarona Festival and the perfect opportunity to complete
our job. King Harmonia and his son will
be out of the castle participating in the hunt in
preparation for tonight's feast, and the castle's doors are open
to the public for tours. We will use this opportunity to
steal the arcane sheet music. As you know, the Prince intends
to use this music to force the Pokémon of the Kingdom of the
Veil to war with the other side of the Kingdom.
We cannot allow this to happen, it would mean devastation for
Pokémon and people alike. Through reconnaissance, we have
gathered that the sheet music is held in the King's private
chambers on the top floor of the castle.
However, it's locked behind a door with six keyholes,
requiring one key hidden on each floor of the castle, save for
the final floor. You will not be working alone.
Meet the others in Liberty Alley outside the castle at noon.
Inside the castle, those bearing our Insignia will insist in this
task as well. The King and his hunting party
will return at any moment, so be vigilant, stay safe, and good
luck. You finish reading this letter.
What is your general response? So Daisy has like done
communications with this organization before.
This isn't like super new, right?
No. OK, yeah, Daisy will roll up the
parchment and tuck it in one of her big pockets and stand up and
stretch and say, well, all right, Karma, looks like we got
a job, let's go and we'll start to head out as requested.
Amazing. Above the observatory, we catch
sight of a round brown bird Pokémon with big red eyes and
one leg poo. Toot flaps his little wings as
it approaches the shopping district, passing Timbers,
girders, and con holders, hefting stone and lumber to a
new construction site as it beelines for a potions shop
called the Tortured Potions Department.
As it flies through the window, it gains sight of Clara The
Alchemist, hard at work on a new batch of potions alongside her
partner Yamper. Charlie, Kira, will you please
describe yourself for us? So Claire is a young 20
something woman with Hazel eyes and disheveled, curly strawberry
blonde hair. Her head is always in the clouds
with an expression to match. You'll often catch her dozing
off, daydreaming about the next time she can get her hands on
some rare plants to brew into a tincture or a tea.
She's seldom seen with other people, choosing only to
interact with the patrons of the apothecary she works at or her
trusted Yammer, Charlie. She lost her parents to disease
at a very young age and seeks to find a treatment for all people
in Pokémon alike, no matter the means.
She Dons a long, flowy white dress held together by hand sewn
floral corset. Her windblown hair is held back
by satin green ribbons to keep it out of her face as she tends
to her bruise. And on the rare occasions where
she does venture out, a heavy brown traveling coat hangs by
the door, ready to be thrown on at a moment's notice in case of
unsavory people paying her visit.
Amazing, I love it. The hoot hoot drops onto the
counter in front of Clara and yawns very obviously, clearly
not used to being awake during the daytime and kind of just
drops the parchment in front of you saying it is.
It only has 1 foot to stand on. Both Claire and Charlie look up
from what they were doing, whatever they were up to,
probably brewing some potions, and they just kind of stare at
the hoot hoot for a little bit. Clara will give Charlie a look
and then he'll go trot over and sniff at the hoot hoot and
whatever he was holding and Clara will say is it safe and
Charlie will bark once meaning that it is safe.
So Clara will go retrieve what the Hoot Hoot was holding.
If you unfurl the parchment, you will find the contents to be the
same as I previously described in the letter to Daisy.
Clara will read it herbal, sigh, and say well I guess they need
us again Charlie, and who are we to say no?
Just outside the potions shop, another bird Pokémon that seems
to have never fully broken out of its shell flaps its short,
dull brown wings and pecks of the ground before approaching a
figure lurking in the shadows outside of the alchemy shop,
interrupting the thief. Bonnie, in the middle of a job
with her partner Servine Clyde the Volabee, tilts its little
pink bald head up at her, brandishing a similar parchment.
Melissa, will you please describe yourself for us?
I'm going to be so real with you.
I don't have anything as eloquent as Richie and Kira
have. Anything is perfect.
Yeah, no, I feel dramatically underprepared for those two.
Yeah. So the reference I pulled is
from I don't even know her name. In Legends Arseus there's the
three sisters that are thieves. So that's kind of the the
reference I'm going with. So Bonnie is lurking outside the
alchemy shop. She's got 2 like pigtail kind of
bubbly ponytails, clothes. That's good.
It's good to wear clothes. I'm so.
Sorry, I was expecting like a potato sack they were wearing so
I'm glad you said clothes. They're like nothing too fancy
so she looks like she blends into the crowd.
Very neutral clothing wise, but like good enough that she could
like disappear into the crowd at a moment.
Notice the little Willoughby inches closer to Bonnie and kind
of like brushes her leg with the parchment trying to give it to
her. I.
Take it as if I'm stealing it from this Willoughby.
It pretends to look offended and inside this world of parchment
once again you find a similar messaging that the other two
have received. If you have any response to
this. I love stealing things.
Amazing. Before we continue on, are you
going to continue on your job or have now focused on this new
proposition? How much time is it until noon
for to do the meet up? You've probably.
Got about an hour or so. I definitely finished the job.
Amazing. It's whatever you want it to be.
It's it's very much giving Mr. Incredible.
Yeah, I've got time. Yeah.
I've got time. You are outside a potion's shop,
which you can steal from, or you can choose another place to
attempt to steal from if you'd like.
Yeah, let's, let's steal from the potion.
Amazing. Literally what the fuck?
If you're going to try to sneak in, do you have a method of
sneaking in to the potion's shop to complete your job?
I wonder if it's more like I'm acting as a patron of the shop
and then like shoplifting. Amazing 5 finger discount.
Five finger discount. Amazing.
Perfect. So Clara, you here A chime as
the door opens and this previously described young woman
wearing clothes walks into the apothecary.
Yeah, upon hearing the chimes, Clara and Charlie will abandon
the letter that they were looking at a little bit annoyed,
and put on their little customer service face and say hello.
Welcome to the tortured potions department.
What can I? What can I do for you today?
My servant has this nasty cough. Do you have anything?
Yeah, sure. Here come a little closer.
Let me take a look at him. You said a nasty cough, Karen.
Karen and Charlie are closer and closer to this mysterious young
woman and her allegedly 6 Irvine.
Charlie can. You can, Clyde.
Charlie, can you, you know, go sniff, collide and see what
might be ailing him so we can get him properly treated?
Charlie will hit her pot over to Sirvine to sniff.
OK, let's see. I guess this would be a medicine
check from Charlie. And then if Servine, if Glybus
Servine actually is sick, I don't know if that would be a
deception from him if he isn't trying to hide the fact that
he's sick from. If he goes for the cough, sounds
like a performance check. Oh, performance, yes, absolutely
performance. Check if he if he goes for the
cough. I mean, performance and
deception are both charisma. I don't have proficiency in
either of those so OK. My Christmas plus zero.
However, I rolled a 19 on the dye.
OK, amazing. For my.
Amazing. And how was and what was Charlie
the Emperor's medicine role? I believe that would just be
custom based. Charlie rolled a 12, but he's
stupid so it's actually an 11. So, yeah, I mean, from what you
can tell from Charlie, I mean, this, this Irvine is sick.
That was a pretty convincing cough.
Sounds sounds like it might be tuberculosis honestly.
Not tennis. Get that checked out.
Not snake tuberculosis. Not.
Snake tuberculosis Can snakes get tuberculosis?
Is is that real? It is now.
Yeah, now it is. Yeah, the snake TB gets
everybody at some point. Not the snake TB.
Clara will immediately her whole demeanor shift.
She was a really suspicious at first, she's a very suspicious
person. But upon seeing this poor, sad,
sickly Servine, she will perk up and she's going to run over to
all of her potions she already has stored and kind of go
through. Oh, this one will be perfect.
It has some echinacea and some turmeric.
Here you go, Clyde, and she will offer you a potion to drink.
So while she's like sifting through and looking at potions,
can I just like, put anything in my pocket?
Go ahead and I don't care what it is.
Just anything sleight of hand. Yeah, roll a sleight of hand.
23. OK, yeah, I believe that will be
Clara's passive perception as you are able to swipe a healing
potion from the nearby shelf. So if you wanna add that to your
inventory, that will heal 2 D 4 + 2.
Also you don't have to go so hard because I rolled A1 for
perception and I'm -1 so. Yeah, yeah, it just no clue
whatsoever. My store is empty now like.
That's cool. Where did Bonnie go?
It's like in Skyrim, everything. It's like in Skyrim when you
Crouch right in front of someone and they're like, where should
they go? Where'd they go?
Slept their servide here. I don't even see them.
Never beating the dumb blonde allocation.
Does Clyde the Servine take the healing or I guess the potion
that Clara offered? We can't hurt, right?
Probably have let's have Clyde make a Constitution saving throw
anyways, just to see how he how he takes his medicine. 88 OK, so
there's no I'll effects, but it didn't taste very good.
So he's coughing more now. And they're like actual real
coughs. So it's actually a little bit
more convincing what's going on here.
Oh dear, I'm so sorry about the taste, I'm still trying to
perfect it. Well, because of that adverse
reaction, I won't charge you. I just hope you have a wonderful
rest of your day. Thank you.
I really appreciate it. You sure?
Of course. Yeah, just come back and see me
the next time poor Claude gets sick.
Absolutely will do. We'll be back.
I slink out. Amazing.
As Bonnie slinks out of the apothecary, we will follow yet
another flying Pokémon taking to the skies.
This one is Gray with a heart-shaped marking on its
belly, but it carries the same parchment as the birds before.
Along this pit of's journey, it passes a go goat carrying a cart
of wheat in from the fields to the market.
As Pitov nears its destination, a quiet Guild building near the
outskirts of town, the occupant inside senses its approach
before it even enters. Pitov enters the Aura Guardian
Guild house directly into the room of Achilles and his Rabambi
Starlight, who sparkles distinctly in the sunlight,
interrupting their meditations. Garbi, will you please describe
yourself for us? Of course.
Achilles has slicked back dirty blonde hair with the face of a
yakuza gangster with dark eyes that carry a striking presence.
He's average height but carries himself with broad shoulders and
a good posture. He basically comes around like
he means business and you feel that in his presence.
He wears a brown mustard, like a brown mustard colored scarf to
match his partner Rabambi, and he wears a white Ore guardian
style looking suit with a yellow collared shirt, again to match
the color palette of his partner with a dark blue pin that's a
symbol of the Ore guardians. He has traditional aura guardian
like kind of light armor sort of set up with brown mustard
shoulder pads they all seem to have.
And then he carries A scepter that all the aura guardians
carry, which appears to have like a crystal ball structure to
help like channel his aura. His partner Bombi as well, even
though where Bombi is the normally a little sweet guy has
a scar over left eye and also has a small headband bearing the
aura guardian sigil as well to match the pin that Achilles has.
Otherwise standard bomb be built from head to tiny toe.
They are always floating near Achilles, ready to just feeling
like they're communicating off of each other through just their
mere presence and aura. Amazing.
Epidov will approach you, and you can tell from its presence
that he's just a little guy. He's just come to hang out and
offer you this parchment letter, which we'll offer to you as it
flies into the meditation room. A Starlight.
I think we got a job. Amazing.
If you take the parchment from the pit of you will read.
That carries the same messaging the others have as well, if you
have any response to that. And then yeah, king of this
sudden and yeah, can't allow water happen.
I oh, without working alone. I never work alone.
I got my my pal here. Yeah, King is Hun party.
I I I got it. I got it.
Perfect if that is all for
readying to go on the job. We will follow our final bird
Pokémon who is a round blue, black and yellow Pokémon which
flies back towards the castle. It passes 3 pairs of Red Gorilla
Pokémon steadfastly standing guard outside the castle.
These Dharmanatan's eyes follow rickety as it approaches the
night training grounds just outside the castle, bringing its
message directly to the Night Steven as he trains with his
Ponyta Romeo. Jacob, will you describe
yourself for us? Stephen is a kind of older, like
middle age kind of gentleman. He's been around the block a
couple times and you can tell by his body weight and frame that
he's spent a lot of his nights in the Tavern.
He's got a, he's got a couple of couple of beers wrapped around
his belly, you know, and he's wearing just a very simple
peasant farmer clothes with nights breastplate that doesn't
fit quite right on account of the aforementioned belly.
He's just kind of sitting there in a stack of hay with his
partner Romeo just right there next to him.
Amazing. The rookie will approach.
It looks kind of noble, like it looks like it's kind of staring
at the other Pokémon that are training in this kind of
training grounds with a little bit of envy.
It looks like maybe it it wants to join the Knights one day as
it approaches you and offers you his parchment.
Yeah, he'll take the apartment, read it, and then he'll put one
of his hands on his head and he'll say, God Dang it, Romeo,
you forgot to remind me that we had to finish this job.
Hold on, We got to get you saddled up now.
Amazing. It's a kill.
God damn it, Bobby.
Damn it Bobby, as a propane and propane accessories.
I don't know why they picked me from this job.
I don't know a Ding Dang thing about music.
As as you carry on with this outburst, one of the Knights
who's kind of been loitering nearby will be like, hey Steven,
what is that? You got a letter I.
Got a request from a job? Yeah, I got to get going.
Oh, that's crazy. What kind of job is it?
I don't know, something with some Ding Dang music that I
don't know nothing about. I didn't know you were a
musician. I'm not anyways good talking to
you. Good luck.
That's amazing. I would like to all of the
points. All of the Knights are southern
now. It's Canon.
I'm sorry. I would like to point out so
like he will suit up Romeo with he has some armor made out of
Toros leather. So he'll suit him up and then he
will continue to ride Ponyta. I would like to remind the party
is 3 feet tall. So it is a three foot tall horse
carrying a six foot tall large man and he's just kind of clip
popping away. That's absolutely perfect.
It's. Skipping adult riding tricycle
energy. Exactly as you pass by the exit
of the Knights training Guard, the captain of the guard who is
kind of an overseeing activities here, Captain Amarillo will kind
of take a look at you and offer a Knights salute and say,
Steven, how's your training going?
Says it's going good, Amarillo. I'm about to head out on a job
right now. Excellent.
We must remain vigilant. At any moment, combat could
begin. Good to always be right.
Vigilance is my middle name, Sir.
And then he like imagine he has like a like a Armory kind of
brazer. And then he like, salutes
himself so hard. He kind of like whacks himself
with his arm and it looks like a little thing and.
It's like Captain Amarillo will briefly sigh and then just be
like, well, best of luck with your training.
And then he will salute again and say, for the glory of the
Kingdom of the Veil. With the glory of the Kingdom of
the vote. Amazing.
And then just start clip clapping away, Romeo.
Clip clapping away. I love it.
The Ponyta Romeo will take you to a little tucked away alley
which was the aforementioned meeting place where all of you
will be gathering and upon approach you will see these for
aforementioned describe people as well as to newcomers who have
not been described yet. One of them is kind of a a
skinny looking guy with blonde hair pulled artfully into a
little low ponytail. And he's dressed very stylishly
and kind of a little green embroidered brocade shirt.
And beside him, he has a little white fox Pokémon who is wearing
a little red cloak, which is really cute and has like fur
lined along it. And beside them as well, there
is a young woman who looks to be the opposite of the other
person. She looks very not well kept.
Perhaps she just crawled out of a pile of leaves in the forest.
She's like covered in like debris from the forest and is
carrying a rope with her and she's wearing like a black
tattered cloak. And beside her she has a little
black bird Pokémon who appears to be wearing little hat as you
all gather together. Does anyone have any reactions
or introductions to make Claire right?
Yes. Clara definitely recognizes
Bonnie and thinks that they're going to be best friends, so
she's going to go over and to start badgering Bonnie like, oh
hi, it's so good to see you again.
How's Clyde? Oh gosh, I'm so sorry about
earlier and kind of just talk her ear off.
And he's just, like, not to go long.
Like, thank you so much. Yeah, this has been great.
Stefan will address the group and he will say then you all
know a Dang thing about music because I feel completely lost
here. Daisy will respond and she will
say I'm not a musician but I could go for a lullaby right now
as she's like half hunched over. Let's have a big yawn.
It looks like she's about to fall asleep because noon is her
midnight, but Karma the cat seems to be doing perfectly fine
and gives off a very pompous energy as she trots forward to
meet with the rest of the gang. They will also kind of just look
at stuff in and say I don't think we should talk about that
like in public and kind of just glare at him.
Oh, right, that's probably pretty smart.
She'll just sigh and. I'll look at Romeo and I'll be
like Romeo. I need you to remind me not to
talk about music in public. Amazing, the man that has yet to
be introduced will say, oh God, this is such an interesting
group of people that they've gathered together for this.
I'm Dean by the way, and this is my partner Olivia.
And he will point to his Alolan full pics companion wearing the
cute little cloak. Hello fired Wave.
Howdy. Amazing, and you all are.
My name's Stefan and this here is my partner, Romeo.
Charm. I'm Daisy and this is Karma.
Karma is a cat. So true.
I'm Clara and this is Charlie, and although she's smiling at
everybody, she doesn't trust anybody except for Bonnie.
I'm Bonnie. This is Clyde.
Big thumbs up. Press is just I'm Achilles and
this is Starlight. And I'm Stefan, and this is my
partner, Romeo. We need to enroll initiative for
introduction. We said this is Starlight that I
mess up. Dean will kind of shake his head
at all of this, pinching the bridge of his nose between his
fingers. And the final person, the woman
who has joined you all will say, I'm Dorothea and this is my
partner Peter. He's a Mercro.
She'll pointer her little micro friend Peter and she'll say,
well, seems like we've got more people than I thought would be
gathered here. Probably a best for a couple of
us to stand guard and make sure that we can warn the others.
If the Prince and his hunting party get back, Dean will kind
of like be he's like looking at his leg nails and he's like, I
think that's an excellent idea And I volunteer.
I think that that sounds like the most noble position.
And then Dorothea will say, yeah, honestly, I mean, I can't
see you being much help with this kind of job, but we're
going to need a way to alert the others.
So I think I should stay behind as well.
Mirko here, my my buddy Peter can fly up to the windows and
let you guys know if they're returning.
And so you guys can have warning.
Good plan, I see no issues with that.
Yeah, that seems fine to me. Great, that's settled then.
I do have a couple berries here if you ever need healing or
anything. You're welcome to come back down
and and get some from me at any time while you guys are in
there, but you're going to have to be quick about it for sure.
And then Dean will say, and I would like to offer my services
as well. I will happily lend you some
clothing if you happen to need a disguise of any sort at any
point during your adventures. I'm a disguise.
I don't want to. Disguise into, but that's
promising. Yes, of course.
I not sure either what he would be needing to disguise into, but
it might be necessary for a job of this sort.
Could you make me look like this guy and Daisy points at Stefan?
Do you have any disguises for plus size men?
I haven't. I'm big and tall.
I have a range of sizes that I work with.
I think it might take some effort, but it's possible. 10-4
And then he'll salute himself and I'll like Ding himself with
his God Dang it. I do it every time.
Well, if we'll be going to the castle, it's best if we disguise
ourselves as people who work in the castle so to not draw
attention to ourselves. Although some people.
Open to the public like there's a tour open to the public so we
can be the public. As well, Yes, today is the full
Corona festival and plenty of people will be allowed into the
castle. Shouldn't be an issue to get in
at all. Well, it's never really been a
better opportunity. We can just charge in.
We're invited, basically. I think that's a good plan.
Best of luck to you guys. We'll we'll be keeping vigilant.
Make sure to let you guys know if anything changes out here.
I don't think we'll let you down, Chief.
Will you guys begin to making your way towards the castle?
Is. Amazing.
So as you guys approach the grand castle of the capital
city, it's a large kind of rectangular sandstone building
with two turrets on either side on like the left and right sides
of it. And as aforementioned, there are
three pairs of Dharmanatans standing guard outside who are
kind of just watching you guys as you walk by.
But as it is the day of a festival, they don't really do
anything about that. There are two guards standing
outside of the large wooden door.
The one of them begins to just kind of like stand up a little
bit straighter, tried to get a little bit more presentable as
you guys approach. And then he he says to his
companion, Look live Booker. We've got visitors.
And then the other one who didn't truly try to clean
himself up at all. He's just kind of like standing
there with a slump is just like, but business brings you all to
the castle. Are you here for the Folk Corona
Festival? All right, which one of us is
charismatic? OK, I.
Promise you it's not, but I'm. Stupid.
I'm not charismatic and I'm stupid.
I have a + 2 to charisma. Yeah, I have a + 2 to riz as
well. Amazing.
We're not lying, we are here for the tour of during the festival.
Yeah. Do you tell them you're not
lying? I'm.
Not lying. I'm not gonna lie.
I mean. You're lying.
Definitely. I am very excited for the tour
of the castle. Dude, I've been looking forward
to seeing this castle all day. Clara will wrap her hair on her
finger and say I've always wanted to see how the Royals
live and then bat her eyelashes at the guards.
Amazing. How about we don't?
You know we'll never be Royals. We don't live.
That kind of life just say for us.
We crave a different kind of buzz.
And then RIP off the buzzes. Let's do like a group charisma
check. So I think that would be that
would be everybody who who contributed to that.
So. Does the Lord lyrics count as
contribute the Lord? Yeah, why not?
Honestly, of course, Everybody, apparently.
I got an 18, OK so 21. 11. Do I?
Get I got a. Bonus.
You get +2. You get +2 unless you have it as
a proficiency, like if you have it.
Like what special special it'd? Be like what kind of check is
this persuasion? Persuasion, right?
Or charisma? Yeah.
Yeah, I was just making it a general charisma, but if you
wanna do like a deception or persuasion, you're welcome to
Yeah, if you. Have deception, I get more
pluses. Yeah, sure, go for it.
Deception gives me a + 5 to my 4, so 9.
I got a 18 on the die and I'm plus one.
Amazing, I mean all together this this group of people you've
convinced the guards that you probably need no harm here and
the one who looks a little bit more put together looks at you
all and nods and says excellent. You will certainly enjoy the
festivities within today. I must ask, however, before you
enter to relinquish any weapons and if anybody and.
No problem. No problem.
Make sure I get this back. This is standard issue stuff
from my Guild. I need to get this back.
OK, They'll they'll ring my neck if I don't get this freaking
thing back. OK, I lost it before.
I don't want to lose it again. Do you understand me?
Of course you get it. I would never dream of of losing
it all right? I got to tell you, bud, you got
to loosen up a little bit. Your aura's kind of like a
little thrown off right now and I really need you to just like
calm down. I know you're God, I get it, but
you just got to got to loosen up.
We're here for a party. We're here for a good time, you
know what I'm saying? He will take a deep breath and
let it out and be like. There you go.
Yeah, I, I, I really feel. It now yours changing a little
bit? Yeah.
You're doing good. No, this is good.
You're doing a great job. By the way, this is a good, good
situation you have here. You're doing great.
No, I get it. Yeah.
No, you're doing great. That's I really appreciate that.
I hope you guys have a lot of fun in there today.
OK, we. Gotta have a great time, and
especially you. You're holding it down.
I trust you. You're doing great.
Thank you. And with that, they will open
the gates to the castle, and you're welcome to enter.
Wahoo Woo Containment Breach Hacker voice first step
complete. All right, all right, all right,
gang, we're in. We did it.
Good job it. Was all I needed to do right
get. In Yeah, you just said you guys.
Yeah, you're in. You're done.
Welcome. Thanks.
Thanks for participating guys. What's this?
Oh, can we talk about the music now?
Was this I heard about music? Not talking about the freaking
music. Guy, I don't.
I don't know you. Aren't supposed to talk about
music in public? Wait, are we in public right
now? We're in the castle.
Is this public? It's open to the public to.
The public. Yeah, but does it count as
public? If it's open to it?
How does that work? What are the dynamics is this
still, does this not become private property if like it, it
doesn't stop being private property if it's open to the
public like it's still somebody's property.
So it's not really a public place like even if there is
public here, right? You should come back to my my
potion shop after this. I have a few things that I want
to try on you. I don't know.
Thoughts. I I don't know you too well yet,
but we can talk about it later, all right?
I'm sure we'll become great friends sooner than later.
Can can we get, can we get Daisy to maybe look around the
perception perhaps, but also if anything seems like particularly
iconographic as far as like historically relevant or even
like a holy symbol or anything. Absolutely.
I can roll a perception for me. Can Stefan also make a
perception check? Except he realizes that this is
a festival and he is looking for a pint of beer.
Absolutely yes. That is a 15 perception.
That is A2 perception. Amazing.
OK, yeah, let me let me read in what you guys see here.
You enter into a grand, extravagant room with a
massively tall ceiling painted with beautiful murals.
Tall Corinthian pillars line the walls and three huge black
chandeliers reminiscent of a certain Pokémon hang from the
ceiling. The walls are lined with more
painstakingly painted murals depicting great heroes and
leviathan Pokémon. There are two doors on either
side wall and then one massive, ornate beautiful door directly
in front of you with intricate gold molding.
Throughout this entrance hall you see the fluttering wings of
bug type Pokémon catching and reflecting the light that
streams through the front windows, creating an ethereal
effect as light scatters across the tiled floor.
There are Beautiful by Masquerade, Dust Talks,
Butterfree, and Vivian all fluttering throughout the air
here. There's some people loitering
about, marveling at the Pokémon and looking at the paintings,
which you, Daisy, will notice. There's a couple different
legendary Pokémon groups depicted here, kind of weaving
through the clouds. In the ceiling mural is a green
Serpentine Pokémon, which you will know is Ray Quasa.
And then on either wall you can see a large blue leviathan
Pokémon among cresting waves being Kyogre and then on the
other wall a large I guess lizard like Pokémon with red
kind of rough skin being a grout on you.
See a couple more depictions as well.
There seems to be some dog looking Pokémon and some other
Pokémon that are on all fours as well.
You also see one figure standing among the crowd kind of talking
very excitedly to people is a child who looks to be probably
no older than 12 years old, but you're not quite sure what his
exact age is. And he's wearing an outfit that
is like the love child of a medieval troubadour outfit and a
Boy Scout uniform. He's got like the little like
Puffy pantaloons and he's wearing tights, but like on top
he's got like kind of a shirt with a collar and the little
handkerchief that like Boy Scouts wear.
And he's got like a big sash with badges all over it.
And most of the badges are seemingly related to bug type
Pokémon or like the little butterfly type Pokémon.
And as soon as he sees you all, he immediately starts making his
way towards you. I.
Don't have the energy for a child right now.
Can someone else take care of this?
Stephen? Maybe.
I'll handle him. What kind of Ding Dang festival
doesn't have any beer? Yeah, there's there's no beer
insight. Yeah, yeah, perfect.
Amazing. I.
Think we should allow Stephen near a child?
The child will look at you and be like beer.
This isn't a beer festival. This is the Vulcarona Festival
and it's like celebrating butterfly Pokémon, which are the
most amazing Pokémon in the entire world.
Boy, I don't like your attitude. Take it.
I'm going to push Stefan away from the child.
Stefan, let's go. Maybe there's beer over here,
buddy. Let's go over this way.
That boy ain't right. No, no.
That boy might be away from the beer.
Let's go over that way, yeah? Well I can tell you where like
the drinks and stuff are. I am like here to offer like
tours and stuff. You're a tour kid, yeah.
I'm the tour guide for the castle.
Of a map of the castle. I don't have a map, but I do
have I have it all memorized. So like I can like take you on
the tour and like show you where everything is because they won't
let you go alone. Is it like the whole thing?
I'm I'm Timmy by the way, and this and this.
And he points to his shoulder where you see a small Pokémon on
his shoulder. It appears to be buggish in
nature, some sort of larva Pokémon with a little pill
shaped black body and translucent black spikes along
its back. And each of the spikes is a
little red dot and it has a little beady red eyes.
And he says, and this is my buddy Snom.
He's my best friend in the whole world.
The black snom. The snom is menacing.
Snom is dirty. Don't say that.
He is actually very clean. He's actually super awesome and
there he actually one day he will evolve into a frost moth
and I think that's really cool. Wow, that's so.
Crazy he's your best friend. How come he ain't got a name?
That's actually a really good question.
I should give him a name, shouldn't I?
What do you think I should name him?
Ted. Ted, Lord.
Lord. Lord with an E.
Specifically, yeah, yeah, of course.
I myself. What was that?
Vegeta, I'm more of a. Vegeta.
Oh, Vegeta. OK.
'Cause I said Goku. Right.
Yeah, Yeah, OK. You guys caught up on BBZ?
That's pretty good. Yeah, the.
The Oh, that's. Isn't it, Isn't that like that
one newsletter that like they people distribute and it's about
like the dragon type Pokémon and stuff?
That's so cool. Yeah, we read about it all the
time. Yeah, Dragon.
Ball Z so. Quite the Zale.
Rest in peace, the Kira Toriyama.
Oh no. That guy, Oh my God.
Can I roll a nature on the bug creature?
Sure. Go ahead.
I've rolled a floor. His name the the child will say,
OK, I think I'll name him Vegeta.
That actually is my favorite distributed work, so I think I
will name it after that. So this is Vidasnam, this is
David. His name is.
Vegeta, savia vegeta. Great job guys.
That's a 24 on the nature. OK, so how to explain this in
terms? Of your character.
This actually is not an unusual Snom.
If you've seen Snom before, they actually do look pretty similar
to this. You know them to be Dark Bug
Pokémon and that they do in fact involved in Defrost Moth.
And maybe you have, yeah, maybe you have some sort of
premonition that one day they will become Ice Bug Pokémon.
But today they are. That's.
Fun. Medieval Snob.
Medieval snob. Emphasis on evil for.
The Dark ages, so I'm saying. Or a check is it?
Is the snob evil? I need to know?
You can go ahead roll inside I guess.
No, we're just no. I would think that this is a
very like Gray area sort. Of we are not bad guys, we're
just honor vigilante shit. OK, that's what I'm.
Saying you get it. Are you guys here for like a a
job or something? No, why would you ever think
that? Wait.
We're a pin. We're for a.
Pin that has the. Insignia of the thing I will I
because you ask specifically, I will answer Yes, he does in fact
have the insignant. Are you in?
I'm in kid. He will say yes, I'm in on the
thing that we're doing the job. Are you guys here for the job?
I'm just here for a special tour of all six floors of this
castle. I don't know what kind of job
you're talking. About.
Wink wink nudge nudge, we are here for the tour.
That is so awesome. I'm so glad you guys are here.
I'm absolutely going to take you guys on the absolute best tour
ever and we're going to have so much fun.
Where you guys want to start? Want to start where the here is?
You guys can see the, the map of the floor right of the first
floor. OK, The top right is supposed to
be Oh my God, there's a map, so not bad.
The the top right is supposed to be the dining hall.
Timothy will say I can take you guys to the dining hall, but I
think they're still setting up for the feast tonight and
everything. But I we can check and see if
they have some beer for you if you want.
Hey Timothy, does does the Chapel have wine?
Oh yeah, they definitely have wine in there for sure.
Stefan, how do you feel about wine?
He's gonna say no. I.
Don't like fruit? I want it to be a little toxic
masculine, but not like that much, yeah.
It's a delicate balance. Yeah.
Isn't it religious since it's religious wine?
Yeah, or you could be like super religious.
Yeah, we could be like. I don't the one of the the
covenant no Kira. Arceus is wine in vain.
Who? Who is the Jesus of the Pokémon
ethos like? OK so Pokémon Jesus is not
Arceus because Arceus is God. Who is Arceus is?
God forsaken, would it be me? Son.
Would it be mew? Oh yeah, you.
Have the. Rule.
It is mew. As an Aura guardian, you should
have seen the movie about it. So true.
What's a movie? It's related to DBZI think.
Yeah, I just read the works of Akira Toriyama in the books.
Yeah, this is the books that they just.
Rest in peace my homie. By the way, Paul went out for
him. I'll take it back.
I did actually see the Broly movie when it came out in
theaters. I've forgotten about that.
Yeah, the theater where the guy stands in the front with the
flip book, those are so cool. They put on, they put on like
shows and stuff. They're.
Shadow puppet stuff. Yeah, they do.
Like they shows and stuff. Yeah, duh.
What did you guys think I was talking about?
All right, Lil Timmy, do you think we can have a better
chance of getting drunk if we go to the Chapel or the barracks or
the dining hall? Excuse me.
My goodness. Well, I think there's definitely
wine in the Chapel and there might be beer in the dining
hall. So it's like really up to you
guys. Definitely versus might be.
I'm on guys, if I'm on guilt duty, I can't be like drinking,
you know, like I'm on the job and.
You don't have to drink. But I want to.
You can have like a sip. I.
Drinking responsibly on the job. In a Chapel in front of a child.
And if listen, listen, if we can't find you anything good,
I'll brew something real special for you.
But we need to get this job done, OK?
Yeah, Timmy is. This potion.
More of your brews than anything that this boy would buy from me.
I'm there is one. Alcoholic potions in your shop.
I can make anything. Regrets not getting an alcoholic
potion. I love how in any universe your
character is just trying to get drunk.
You know well like Art reflects life I.
Guess yeah to be. We're indecisive.
Could you just lead us somewhere?
OK, that sounds good. I actually heard this is my
favorite saying of all time that they told me is that good
adventure is always good left. So I think I'm going to do that.
And I think we should go to the Chapel.
Oh yeah. That is a good idea, yeah.
Where did? You shoot.
That, yeah. It came to me in a vision.
That's the best thing you said all day, boy.
You're the Chapel. Amazing.
And you guys will make your way over to the Chapel, which is a
similarly high ceilinged room with massive mosaic stained
glass windows on the far wall depicting a figure known as the
Almighty Sinno in the middle of a triangle surrounded by some
circular symbols that you might you might or might not be aware
of what they represent. There are rows of pews leading
to a raised platform at the back with a offering table on it, as
well as a podium and two figures, one in red robes and
one in blue robes, who seem to be arguing about something as
you enter. These are people not like an
illustration. No, sorry.
Yes, they are people. Those guys are giving off some
bad vibes. Can I sneaky listen to what
they're arguing about? Sure, give me a perception,
Chuck. I'm not good.
I don't think I'm good at those 12.
OK, they're speaking rather loudly.
It didn't. It does not take much to be able
to overhear their conversation as the one in blue robes, he's
kind of got red hair with a receding hairline.
It's kind of like longer in the back says no, no, you are simply
wrong. The almighty Sunil gave us time
so that we may traverse it and develop technology and that is
what truly evolves us as humanity.
And the other man who is dressed in red, he has black hair and
really strong eyebrows. He will say I simply refuse to
believe this. The almighty Suno gave us space
so that we may explore it's beautiful nature.
Nature itself is what belongs to evolution, and that is what we
should attribute it to A. Discussion of the.
Ages. No loss does.
So if someone can distract those guys.
I got it. Clara can.
Go. OK, great.
Let's walk. Me too.
Hey, see you guys, gentlemen, Gentlemen.
OK all. Right.
So while while he's up to up to that.
Yeah. Clara has a + 6 in both Arcana
and Investigation, so she kind of wants to peruse.
Take a look around, see if there's any anything out of
place that might be containing, I don't know, a key or
something. Yeah, go ahead and roll an
investigation. OK, an 8 so 8 + 6.
OK, wait, 1414 not the worst. OK, so you do see on the
offering table near the front of the room, there is a variety of
things you see bundles of wheat, bottles of wine, a variety of
offerings perhaps made to the legendary Pokémon.
You're not quite sure. You see something that might be
a little shiny, could be a key. You'll you might have to get a
little closer to tell if you guys are approaching the back of
the Chapel here, do you? Want me to take the shiny thing?
I totally want you to take the shiny thing.
Sick. Amazing.
Take the shiny thing. Yeah, let's first let's see.
So people are running distraction, right.
So maybe as as you guys are kind of approaching the back of the
room, OK, perfect those just to see how well the distraction
goes before we can get to the dealing of the object.
Yeah, that's nothing. As you guys approach the back of
the room, the stages will turn and be like we have newcomers.
Perhaps you can join in our philosophical discussion.
Gentlemen, I come here. I have quite the proficiency in
history, religion, even the arcana.
So I kind of have a good understanding here.
What's your dynamics and what you're talking about here?
Here's my. HP class and my armor class.
I, I've studied a lot of this kind of stuff within my, my
field of expertise and I, I got a level with you.
I would say they kind of gave us both, don't you think?
The technology does actually fuel the exploration?
The time gives to the space as the space gives to the time.
The one in the blue robes will shake his head and be like I
simply do not think it is possible.
Time is far superior and that is of course what the almighty Sino
would have gifted us with. Our technology, our tools that
we create are what lead us to being better as a society and
evolving. Right.
But the tools that you get from that thing also help us with the
space aspect. So we could kind of get a little
bit of both going. And don't you think it's kind of
like this whole entire system working together?
The great creator would have really wanted us to have every
tool to our access and not just one of the other being better.
Rudos or the Sorry, I gave away his name.
He didn't even see his name yet. The one in the red robes, we'll
say. I think.
I mean what you are saying is that the MID Sino gave us all
the tools we need in the form of nature, correct?
There is no need for technology. Well, no, because he made us and
we made technology, and therefore it all comes from
nature itself. Then too, the technology comes
from what you're talking about too, because we're part of it.
Gentlemen, hear me out. What if there was like a fucked
up freaky third thing? Now we'll.
Talk more, and if you connect the dots so to speak, you might
find out that there might be some other element at play which
might make both of your theories true, but also introduce a
fucked up third thing. That's true.
Stefan will turn to and he'll say, son, do you understand a
Ding Ding word that they're saying?
Timmy will look back up at you and shake his head and be like,
no, I don't understand any of it.
Me neither. Timmy only knows map.
Timmy knows butterfly Pokémon and castle and that's it.
The the the blue robed individual will say and what are
you proposing This third thing is?
Well, to really grasp the intensity of it, I would ask you
to preface third thing with fucked up.
I think that really gives it the characteristic that it needs.
But if you examine the stars and you you start to put together
the constellations, what you might fail to notice, that is,
what actually makes the constellations have any value is
the space between them, the void, the emptiness.
And perhaps it is that element of absence that gives the
counterbalance to both of your theories supporting each other
rather than working against each other in opposition to this
third force that is yet to be described.
I love this woman. She's spitting well.
She's spitting, so to speak. Can I do my sneaky sneaky?
Yeah. Absolutely.
You may roll a stealth check with Advantage 19.
Amazing. Yes, the others have done a
wonderful job of distracting these two in this philosophical
discussion, and they're very engaged in this discussion.
They do not notice at all as you kind of nonchalantly approach
the offering table and swipe the shiny object, which if you take
a gander at it, does in fact. It is in fact a key with a
little ribbon on it with A1 and you plucked it from tucked
within some bushels of wheat. Staple.
Well, that was easy. Yeah, I was wondering, it just
came from a like a wheat pile. Yeah, it was just like it was
just tucked in there. Yep.
Got it. OK, cool, Daisy.
Daisy will try and catch to see if the the the thieves have
conducted their work. And we'll just point at the
sages and just say just think about it, Give you something to
think about, you know, Have a good day.
Gentlemen, broaden your horizons.
Have a good day, Pleasure. They look drag up.
Satan a little bit. Hold on.
Stop. Wait, wait, wait.
They immediately just start arguing against amongst
themselves like well if the almighty Sido is this then what
could Satan be? Or I guess not Satan but what
could evil be? Absence.
Wait. What is the space between?
What is this? What is an evil fucked up thing?
Yes, exactly. As you all hastily exit and
return to the entrance hall to me, we'll look at all of you and
be like, so did you get like? Did you get a thing?
Did you get the we could in? Fact.
Get a thing. That is so totally awesome.
That means that means we could probably go up to the second
floor right and we can get a drink for our friends.
That's so true. We should like totally go to the
dining hall first, just. A quick little pit stop.
Grab a drink, you know. Amazing.
Need fuel for the road? Of course, as you guys make your
way to the dining hall, you will find a room with a shorter
ceiling than the other rooms that you have been in, with more
stained glass windows and a massive fireplace along the far
wall above it, hanging the Harmonia coat of arms.
There are long wooden tables covered in white cotton
tablecloths forming like a rectangular shape around the
room, with the one at the the northern wall being the most
extravagant, covered in like foliage and candles and all
sorts of things. Around the room, different
people and Pokémon are flitting about, setting places and
getting things ready for the feast tonight.
You see some purple Pokémon with little some of them have up
pointing horns, some of them have down pointing horns and
they have like white accents. These Indeedy are carrying
little trays back and forth with glasses and silverware and
things, helping out the people as they are preparing for the
feast. Timmy will say, look around a
little bit and be like, I don't think that they've set out any
beer or anything yet, but that actually, now that I think about
it, that actually might be upstairs in the kitchen and the
pantry. We could probably go get that up
here. I don't know if you want to
bother these people as they're all like getting ready for the
feasts and everything. This is a tragedy of Greek
proportions. I think they're still going to
be like a beer and stuff upstairs probably.
They're probably just like, it's just like, not out yet.
Yeah, let's go upstairs. Two birds, one stone.
OK. P dubs 1.
Stone stone journey P dubs 1 stone journal just throw a stone
journal just a. Big power spot guy.
No, they're already dead. Timothy will nod and start
leading you guys towards the staircase.
So the staircase is in the like turret that is along the side of
the building. It's like a winding spiral
staircase with light filtering in onto the sand colored stone
steps. And as you ascend, you notice
that there is somebody on patrol here.
It's a little Pokémon that is round and light blue and teal
colored with little swirly markings on it and yellow eyes
at it as it is marching, defending its castle.
And Timothy or Timmy will point it out to all of you and say, Oh
yeah, these guys are on guard on all of the floors of on the
staircases of the castle. I named this one, I call him
Stuart and he's like my friend and he waves at and the the
little go let and he says hi Stuart and the go let just does
not acknowledge him at all. Just keeps going about his job.
But it does let you all pass with no issue.
As Timmy continues. I think the ones on the higher
floors are like bigger and stronger ones, but this one is
like a little guy. But yeah, he's just a like a
little. Guy like a funny little guy,
yeah. Who would win in a fight, Stuart
or Vegeta? I have Vegeta absolutely would
win. That's not even like a question.
He has like the type advantage cuz he's like a dark type and
this guy's like a ghost type so. He's right about that.
Yeah. He knows his type chart pretty
well. I do.
I do know my type chart for most of the ones.
Anyways, we can keep going to the kitchen now and then he will
continue taking you to the second floor and I will move us
to the map of the second floor. You'll notice really the only
rooms that are accessible on the 2nd floor are the kitchen and
pantry. The barracks are technically
accessible as well, but most of the other rooms take up two
floors because they have such high ceilings.
So you kind of exit straight into the kitchen, which is a
large stone room with alcoves kind of dug into the sides of
the walls with massive fires and things burning in them.
These are like the stoves and ovens that they are using.
There's a variety of tables across the floor here with
Pokémon working at them making meals.
You see a red Pokémon with kind of a roundhead and tentacles and
in each of its tentacles it's holding knives as it's like
chopping up like potatoes and vegetables and things.
And beside it you can see a kind of dark teal ish cat like
Pokémon with a feather sticking out of its ear, quickly chopping
carrots with its claws like with a quickness that you are very
impressed by. You also see nearby a tall blue
Pokémon with little 3 little feathers sticking out of either
side of its neck and beauty little eyes.
It's kind of got like a shell along its back and a tail and
it's got this big wok and it's got a bunch of rice in it and
it's like, you know, flipping the rice, frying it very with
much enthusiasm. And then in the center of the
kitchen, the largest Pokémon there is a very rotund teal
Pokémon with a beige belly and face, and he's wearing a chef's
hat and apron, and he seems to be overseeing operations in the
kitchen. That guy's giving chef energy
for sure. Giving Chef.
Yeah, it's his aura. It's his aura.
Timmy, Timmy's like like the pantries over here.
If you guys wanted to like look for beer and stuff, we could
probably just like grab some. I don't think I'll even notice.
Stefan's gonna say, well it's about Dang time, and then he'll
start walking towards the pantry.
Amazing. You will find a room filled with
it's gonna let it go. Sorry.
Yeah, that's fine. With all sorts of ingredients
and drinks. Timmy will immediately take you
over to the Badoo light bottles, which you are welcome to take
one if you would like. Do you have any regular Badoo?
Just tastes like water. There is in fact a Badoo regular
Badoo as well all. Right.
He'll take a can, he'll crack it, and then I'll just take like
a tiny little sip out of it and then I'll just kind of hold it.
He just wants to hold it. That's amazing.
Tibby would be like, OK, we can probably go back to the kitchen
now. Before we leave the pantry, can
we just roll a little, a little investigation?
Yeah, go ahead. 12 and then am I +6?
Yes, so 18. OK.
Are you searching just the pantry or the kitchen as well?
I'm searching the pantry just before we head back to the
kitchen. OK.
Yeah. I mean, you find the pantry to
be very well stocked. Anything you wanted to make, you
could probably find the ingredients for it.
But unfortunately you do not find any sort of key or anything
in here. OK.
Are there any like berries or
something we could snag for the road just in case?
Sure. Yeah.
I will allow some Berry snaggage if you would like you make grab
let's say 2 citrus berries and they will be the same healing as
like a a normal potion. So like 2 D 4 + 2 I believe was
our calculation for that. Perfect.
Yeah, you guys are all gathered up in the kitchen.
Is anybody inspecting, looking for anything about in the
kitchen? A perception check perhaps?
Anybody want to make a perception and been looking
around? Yeah, absolutely.
Anybody at all you guys look? Anybody wouldn't look percepted.
What is the A9 looks to get me? So as you're looking around, you
will notice that all of the little alcoves filled with the
ovens are currently in use. Pokémon taking things in and out
of them they're currently on, except for one of them sort of
towards the back of the room, does not appear to be on.
Is there what's going on with that one over there?
Go yeah, follow through on that. OK.
Yeah. Are you approaching that
particular oven? Yeah, who?
Who, who, who and his beer. So will Timmy and say hold my
beer while I go look at this? Sounds good to me, Will like he
kind of. Doesn't really know what to do
with this beer. He's never held it before.
He kind of sniffs it a little bit and then makes a face as you
make your way over to this other oven that is not in use.
As you step closer to it, you notice that it's kind of an
interesting oven. Inside of it, there's like a
little latcher door, but you can see a little bit through the
door and you see something glinting within, although you're
not sure what it is. Is it like reachable with my
hand? You can.
Try to open the door if you'd like, Sure.
OK, roll a strength check for me.
Oh, I'm pretty good. I crit, so that's a. 23 amazing.
OK. So yeah, that you are able to.
It takes a bit of elbow grease to pop open this door here.
Seems like you're kind of forcing it open.
Like maybe there was another contraption that was intended to
open this door, but you were able to jar it open and grab the
item inside, which is in fact another key with a ribbon
attached to it And the number 2 on that ruin.
Well, would you look at that? Where are we storing the keys?
He'll tuck it in his breastplate.
And then it'll land in his breastplate with like a.
Ding, as you were. Going other one yes, as you were
going over to the. Oven were you trying?
To be like nonchalant about it? Or were you just kind of like
stealthy at all or just going over?
I don't think Steven understands the concept of nonchalant.
Amazing. He does.
He goes cold. The.
Head chef Snorlax. Will have kind of Lombard after
you as you went to this oven and upon seeing you wrench open the
door and grab the key, he will get a little red in the face and
kind of put his hands on his hips a little bit and shake his
head. And then kind of as you step
away, it'll go over to the mechanism for the oven and turn
it on and fire will start to burst from it.
And then as you had like grabbed it, the door had closed and then
now it will pop open again. And then he'll the the Snorlax
would kind of like shake his head again and then go back to
leading the baking and cooking festivities of the other
Pokémon. There was something blocking the
door. I opened it up for you.
This snorlax will cross its. Arms and point to the the fire
now raging in the oven. I think.
What? Isn't that what they're saying?
This Snorlax will. Just shrug.
Well, have a nice day Timmy, Hand me my beer.
OK, and Timmy will hand you your.
I love this guy, dude. That looks like another little
sip for the beer. I mean, I like.
The polite sips that we have. Going on, I thought you would be
like a. Shotgunner.
Just a little sip. If that is all, then Timmy will
say. Oh, so were you able to get to
the key on this floor? Sure did.
And then he'll pat his breastplate and he'll make like
a jingly like a. Dinga dinga, dinga, Ding Ding
kind of sound. Stop that.
Don't talk about music and don't talk about.
Keys. Oh God, the list just kept
skating longer. Romeo and then his pony top.
That's probably been like. Tracking dirt everywhere.
Throughout this castle, like you got to remind me, don't talk.
About music and don't talk. About keys and then Romeo will
make like a like a horse noise like a amazing Timmy will look
at Clara. And be like, you seem like
really smart. Those are like probably really
good rules, so we should probably follow.
Thank you. I, I do agree that is awesome.
OK. Do we think it's time to go up
to? The third floor now, I mean.
Wait, little Timmy. All right.
Let's do it and he will take you.
Back to the staircase, passing yet another little golet on
patrol as you guys make your way to the third floor.
The third floor being kind of just one massive hallway with
two doors on either side of the door on the left leading to the
ballroom and the door on the right leading to the library.
And from within the library you can access some studies and
Timothy will say, do you guys want to go to like the ballroom
or the library? The library on the suggested
like the the good adventurers go.
Left. That's sage advice.
It's true, truly. Age-old adage.
So the library. That.
Seems like a good place to put a.
Key. OK, let's.
Do it and he will. Take you guys, talk about
cheese. I'm a hypocrite.
Dang it Romeo, you forgot to. Remind me?
Amazing as he will take. You guys into the library?
It is much more quiet in here, especially compared to the chaos
of the floor below. In the kitchen it's a darker
room, not as many windows. It's got two major sections of
books. On the left side you have the
fiction section and the right side has the non fiction
section. There's a couple like desks and
tables strewn about the room and at the back of the room there is
a large plaque. Reading knowledge is truth,
innovation is ideals. They must be pulled together to
show the full picture. And as you guys are taking in
this lovely calm library, that is where.
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And under table I don't really. Remember everything that you
said I can give you? Yeah, it's fun.
I love table under the. Table.
Hey, hey. Meet me down here, I have no
idea. What you're talking about?
OK, I'll meet you under the table.
I'll give you the clip. Hey.
Meet me down there, yeah. Multiple Alright, Grace and I
are going under the. Table right now.
OK, OK, cool. Stefan, how do you feel about
wine? That's a Sissy.
Drink for sissies. Actually, I don't feel good
about saying. That cut that out.
Yeah, that was crazy. I can't believe seven died.
Pour one out, Tim. Timmy.
Pours out the beer. I'm just kidding.
Not my beer. When will he return from the?
War. It's never actually returned.
He came. Back a different man.
I miss my squids. Tails.
That's why he trances sorrow. And beer.
And Badoo. Amit Romeo.