Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Cindy, a young Vagabond from the Hohen region
with pyromaniac tendencies, Gimli, a stocky Burley miner
from Sino looking for his lost son, Elody, an enthusiastic
foodie and Baker from Carlos, and Schmidt, an enigmatic man
from Johto with a duck. My name is Rich and I'm the game
Master and this is Dunsparse and Grandpa.
Well, at the end of the last session, we concluded with Cindy
telling a little bedtime story to her Pokémon and guarding the
dozen gross cupcakes inside the Pokémon Center hostel.
Elodie and Emily approached Schmidt in the.
Casino, Did they actually leave? Oh, Oh, yeah, yeah.
That's what yeah, we left off like we.
Left off the approach. OK, Yep, they've approached and
that's just where we'll pick up balls in your court.
I continue to gamble. OK.
Another gambling episode from Schmidt.
The entire rest of the the camp 8 is just from a gambling.
It's like NPM, yeah. Cindy is currently sleeping in a
puddle, puddle, puddle of all the Pokémon.
Everybody's Pokémon. They're just big pile.
Everybody's gonna come back and be like, what?
What happened here? Like when you have a little kid
in bed with like all the stuffed animals they own.
That is Cindy, except they're all Pokémon.
OK, so we're pretty much outside with the this giant order of
cupcakes, right? No, I think the cupcakes are.
The cupcakes are with Cindy. OK.
Oh, right. We left them with you.
Were inside just watching Schmidt gamble.
He's just kind. Of oh, we haven't even talked to
him yet. Yeah, we should probably like
talk to him. We.
Should probably like, yeah, let's like conversate with.
Him What's? What's going on?
Paul Schmidt doing Voltur flip. Yeah, yeah.
He he just has like, like his eyes are like bloodshot and he's
just like, he looks like he wants to stop, but like
something is compelling him to keep going.
He hasn't. Eaten in like at least 14 hours.
Yeah, my God. Yeah.
Oh yeah, 'cause you didn't buy a chili dog, right?
No, he's not a chili dog, but he gave it to the rats, so.
Yeah. He he is in a state.
He's just running on alcohol, right?
Like vodka tonics or something. Oh no.
It was a Crown Royal. We got to snap him out of it.
Yeah, we got to. We got to get him out of here, I
think. But have you eaten today?
Schmidt ignores you. Oh no.
Just continues to keep gambling. Oh no.
He can't convince him. Use your charms.
Use. My charms At this point I'm
looking at Pokémon moves. Hold on.
Didn't you leave all of your? Yeah.
Who did you bring for bedtime? Yeah, you left.
All your buck one at bedtime. I only left grape juice.
I think I brought the other two with me.
Yeah, I brought Boldor so. Schmidt has a -1 in strength.
Just throwing that out there. I.
Said charm him, I'll pry him off like I'll do it.
Schmidt is like like nails like in the table like not wanting to
go and begin without him to like drunk him out we go.
I rolled the four so and that's -1 so a three.
Yeah, I rolled. Not great, but better than that.
Lower than your modifier. Yeah, it is my my +5 strength
modifier. You.
Could have rolled A1 and. Still did it, yeah.
So yeah, clearly Schmidt is struggling with an addiction,
and Gimli doesn't even have to just very gingerly just kind of
pulls him away and and Schmidt pulled back, but he's tired and
just only has alcohol in his blood and is just full of
flashing lights and flipping cards and exploding boltorps.
Schmidt, have you eaten today? You look terrible.
No, I have to go back. No, no, you don't you.
Don't understand I can win big. That's pretty good there, buddy.
Good go. I only got to level 5, there's
another level. Oh, you didn't hear?
That is actually the last level. Yeah, it's crazy.
No, I know there's a level 6. It's there.
No, that's a lie. Yeah, I.
Got to go back, guys. Nope, we got to go.
You've been here for hours. OK, if you really want to try
and breakthrough, you can make strength checks, but they'll be
consecutively more and more disadvantageous.
Nah, OK. And where?
Where's the game gonna go now? I guess we'll drag him back to
the Pokémon Center, right we? Should probably get him
something to eat. We could, yeah.
Would they have like stuff to eat at the Pokémon Center 0?
Yeah, they're like a cafeteria that probably works.
Yeah, cafeteria food it is. Yeah.
I think once Schmidt like gets out of like eyesight of the the
the casino, like he just kind of goes catatonic.
Like it finally like gets to him.
Just. Carrying.
His. Body just carrying his lifeless
body, yeah. Make make an intelligent save
11. Yeah, you're like out of it.
You're kind of realizing what just happened and your body is
hating you right now. It's a it's a pretty quiet
evening again. It's like 11:00 PM You make it
to the Pokémon Center. There's like a snack bar and the
cafeteria isn't serving any food, but they have like little
boxed up sandwiches and there's like a vending machine.
Want a sandwich there? Oh, he's unconscious.
We should get him something. He's the unconscious.
Man, no. It doesn't mean unconscious, it
just means he's like zoned out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he's not going to respond to me.
I think he's. Starting to like, it's like
starting to wash over. He'd be a light or something.
Protein. He he, he like, nibbles on the
sandwich lightly a little bit and he's like, I can't believe
how I let this happen to me again.
I thought I had control over it. You knew that you had a gambling
addiction and you still went to the casino?
Yeah. We didn't have a gambling
addiction, but. I thought it'd be fine.
I thought I had control over it. The signs like were a little
clear, like, Oh no, are party members missing?
I I'm gonna go gamble like you guys like didn't pick up on
them. Only noted for a few days.
Like it could just be like, hey, what's the party it up like?
I don't know. It's not like we've like, we've
really like we've sown some bonds, but like, how long has it
been a week we've. Buried 2 dead bodies.
Right. There's a lot that's happened
that it's like, you know what? I don't want to look for
anybody. I just want to gamble and it's
like I. That's valid, but you should
probably have. A.
Yeah, not if you have a gambling edition.
You probably should have brought someone with you to like.
I brought Quacko. Yeah.
I feel like Quacko disabled. Yeah, Bacco is an enabler.
Bacco is an enabler. Unless there's any other like
activities you want to do or conversations you want to have,
you're welcome to just go to bed.
I'm definitely wanting to go to bed.
I think at this point I'm going. To.
Go back passes out very easily. OK, Schmidt, he.
Probably doesn't even make it to a bed.
It's probably like in whatever chair like couch he's on.
He just kind of, I was going to say like Schmidt definitely has
a complex with like the hostels where like there's two of you
and he probably wants the top bunk, but I'm not even sure if
he can get up there. You can make it a disadvantaged
strength check if you want, but. Disadvantaged already -1.
Yeah, so you can roll twice and take the lower one.
That is a 2. Yeah, you can't do it.
You got to take the bottom mug this time.
Oh yeah, it's Gimme. Top, top, top bump baby.
With that being said, it's in the morning now.
Oh, make dice roll. Sure. 93. 93 Is anyone else
awake? Schmidt probably rolls out of
bed a little later. He's probably feeling a little
down on himself, too. Gimli.
You observe the egg. It's it's wiggling.
It's wiggling. You can hear like a little bit
of like sounds coming from it, little like chirps.
Is it time finally? I'm looking forward to this.
This egg that you found in the riverbed on the route between
Fort Tree and Monville. Your Co worker Alyssa told you
to carve into an ancient sedimentary rock and there you
found a strange egg and it seems like it's ready to hatch it.
You see a crack formula on the top, it stretches down across
the middle and with a brilliant flash of light the egg shatters
and out pokes a little green head on a little bipedal body, a
little firmly bodied dude. He's got like a little marking
on his eye. Got a red belly.
He looks directly at Gimli and goes.
I mean, I know what it is, but should I roll intelligence to
see if I can identify it? Yeah, do it. 12.
Yeah, yeah, that is probably sufficient for Ginley to know
that this is in fact a rock and ground type Pokémon and it is a
baby. This thing is like small.
It is very nice. I'm very glad this role was for
that, but I rolled just to see and I got an AT 1 so.
Yeah, I. Don't know what it is now.
He's looking at this thing. He's like, Oh my God.
That's a Pokémon. Waking up is.
This like a would this be a history check if it's a ancient
Pokémon or? I would without context, I would
give Schmidt an intelligence check with advantage an.
Intelligence check with advantage OK 16 + 218.
Schmidt, as a Joto native, recognizes this as a Larvitar.
OK. I like totally forgot how far I
was parked ground. I roll out of bed and like half
like trying not to vomit, my mouth being like oh cool
Larvatar you got there. Larvatar has features that are a
little menacing. You know, it's got a horn.
It's got like a little like a chunky body and like a somewhat
spiky tail. But this one is so small and so
cute and so innocent. It doesn't really look all that
threatening. You can fit it in your hands if
you cut them together and it is hardly a foot tall.
It is kind of heavy for its size, but it is very cute and
very small, and it's just staring at Gimli.
Oh, I want to pick up the little buddy.
You do that. Aw, he's he's, he's like happy,
but also confused. Like I'm, I am alive.
This is a world. Yeah, I don't know what to do
with him. Like name him.
Yeah, what are you going to name him?
Bean, yeah. Cindy wakes up trying to chime
in. Perfect baby boy Bean.
Baby boy. Bean, or Triple B for short.
Yeah, he's there. And he's just like kind of
poking around, just like looking all over the place.
He's like making like baby dinosaur noises.
It's it's it's really cute. It's great.
He is like level 0 if that exists.
He is, he is very. He is absolute baby.
Yeah, like. This is a literal baby.
It's not like the like a Lapras hatching out of an egg.
You know there's like this, right?
The child. I would not recommend battling
with it. Like no.
No, we're vibing. He he is Togepi status right
now. We're just going to carry him
around. Yeah, great.
Let him sit on my head. Great, great, great, great.
So the day is has begun. You know, it's like 7 AM, 8:00
AM, the game is all back together for the first time in a
while. Well, what's the goal here?
So you think we got to do something with these cupcakes?
Yeah, we should probably bring these cupcakes to their
destination. To be fair, we are really low on
funds too, so we could probably use it.
Yes, we are low on funds, yeah. Plural we, yes.
Yeah, we all of us. Yep, from the note it says that
it's on Route 110 and from what I recall that is north.
Use your map S you silly goose Elody with the Jesus intuition
to pull out the map that the only map that the party has that
is in her possession. She.
Pulls it out and looks and says uh huh, it's to the South Route
110. Genius situation.
Definitely. I would have never thought of it
smart. Does Cindy or Schmidt have any
qualms with this plan to head South?
I. Probably just realized that
there's a ton of cupcakes. Yeah, he hasn't seen them.
Like holy shit, that's a lot of cupcakes I didn't think.
He. Was even know what's going on?
I'm not going to explain. No, you're too busy gambling.
You got to catch up, bud. We also probably should figure
out how we're going to get it there.
Somebody said something about perhaps a rope and trolley
situation. Maybe we should stop by the
thrift store and somebody could help lend me some cash for that
or something are. We looking to that system, I
think, yeah. We have Pokémon.
Do you think that they can carry almost 2000 cupcakes?
£300. What Gimme like gimmes Pokémon
could? We have done it, yeah.
I. Believe it was not for long
distance. It was just gimmly carried it.
It wasn't the I did. That was me, and me and Boldor
carried it. Right, right, right, right.
It's slow, but it works. It would.
It would take a while. Yeah, that's the big thing with
it. And we would definitely be
occupied. I don't know what hazards await
us on one dead that I'm going to carry this.
We do monstrous cupcakes. But if we made like some kind of
trolley system, I think I think we'd be, I'd be able to hoist
like turtle and boulder to it and then create like a wagons
type of scenario. OK, we can we can look into like
rope and wagon situation. So there's a number of
storefronts in Marvel City. Most of them are just starting
to open their doors. I don't, I mean the cycle shop
probably they have like, I don't know tires, but the.
Incense place sounds crazy. Oh yeah.
Incense place. Yeah, we've you.
Can go to the incense place we. Have a lot to go.
Go ahead. I'm not going back there.
No, no, LED. That sounds like something
that'll be like right up here, Ally.
Remind me if we've been to Tmart yet?
Right. We should go to Tamar.
They probably have something. Or be able to tackle into a
discount because of. Exactly, Yeah.
Tell them about Pablo. Yeah, there's.
Also a cycle shop, maybe they have something, I don't know,
larger on wheels. That's what I was thinking we
could get. Bikes we could.
Just get bikes like a bike and a wagon, yeah?
It sounds expensive. Maybe we stop at Tamar first and
then maybe we can go to cycle. Where's the Tamar?
And then we'll go to the cycle shop.
Sounds good. The Bien heads to Tamar.
During their walk they see that the sun is rising.
They stand out into the open courtyard that is Champion
Circle, which again is where the big old statue of Champion May
is. There's a bunch of pigeons that
are eating bread off of the ground.
Someone must have left it there for them.
And you make your way to Tamar. This version of the family
marketplace is definitely the most modernized.
All the signs on the windows and doors and on the shelving,
they're all digital. They're all on screens.
There seems to be a gentleman behind the counter who's just
vibing, having a great time. He's looking at a little
portable communication device akin to a smartphone, but
probably not quite there, maybe like a poking NAV or something.
And he's got a little orange rodent friend with cute little
cheeks, and it's got its little tail hooked up into the bottom
of this device, seems to be powering it or charging it or
something. He doesn't seem to notice you
come in, but a little bell on the door goes.
I was just going to explain the whole situation to him and then
to see what they recommend do. You have any flavor for that or
you just want to do that? Just.
Do that. OK, so this gentleman, you can
see his name tag now. But now that he stops slouching
over the little name tag, it says Tay.
He says, oh, yeah, welcome to the Tamart.
And then he listens to what you have to say.
He says, huh, So you're telling me you got a lot of cupcakes?
It's very heavy. You got to move it somewhere.
You're looking for some wheels or something?
Yeah, something like that. He says, OK, let me see what I
got and let me do a roll here. Yeah, he he has some pretty
decent merchandise. The store is pretty big.
It's a bit of a emporium. He finds a whole bunch of rope.
He finds some like bungee cords. He finds a wagon.
It's a pretty good wagon. It's actually red in color.
It's very nostalgic looking. However, it's the the, the the
size of it isn't. It's a little too small for the
cup case. You could put the box on top of
the wagon. It's still roll, but it doesn't
fit in snugly. Well, we have roped I I also
have bungee cords. Yeah, that's true.
You do. I'd purchased bungee cords at
the last time, so I do have bungee cords that we can strap
it down, yeah. He pulls out.
And I also feel like having a wagon would just be beneficial
at some point, like cart or the Pokémon around.
We can price out the wagon. We have all the material to like
secure it so. If we ever run into Sam again.
True. How much for the wagon?
He looks at the price tag and he says this is going to be 150.
You know your little, your little Pokémon there.
He's really cute. He reminds me of that little
Pichu that we saved back in Lily Cove.
Oh, there was a guy, Kay, You might know him.
His Pichu got stolen and he was so distraught and we we saved
the Picchu and he was so cute and you know, it just it
reminded me Elody, how? Much money do you have on you?
We don't need to talk about that $6.
As Elody describes the story, you see a full range of emotions
go across Steve's face. You see the acknowledgement that
like, oh, yeah, I know who lives in Lily Cove.
Yeah, that in Pablo the Picchu. And then he's like, Pablo was
gone, and he got so scared his jaw dropped, his eyes begin to
water. And then you tell the part of
the story where you rescued Pablo and returned him to his
owner. And you see Tay crying visible
tears with a a slight smile on his face.
And he wipes tears away from his eyes.
He says, Oh my goodness, no one told me.
I'm so glad that Pablo's OK. You, you 4, are heroes.
Heroes, I say. Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you.
Are you do you, are you trying to get something out of this
guy? I'm assuming?
Yeah. OK then.
You're going to do you have $5? Do I have $5?
Yes. OK.
I have 145 left. We can just buy it that we're.
Having. Enough.
You just have enough money. Yeah.
Oh. I was just hoping to get a
discount, so that's all that discount, that's all.
Can I roll for for persuasion for a discount?
Yeah, you can do that. Then.
Live his Life, OK? It's OK, he loves.
Pablo, it's fine. He loves.
Yeah, it's worth it. Yeah, that is a like 24.
OK, yeah, yeah, he's he's, he's convinced.
He says for for heroes like you, I I would do anything, anything
including. And then he takes the price tag
and puts a Sharpie slash through, he says, half off.
Oh, thank you so much. Affect your quarterly earnings.
He says 75 would be plenty and he also gestures to the glass
case that is at the counter where he works.
And he says also we got a new shipment of these bad boys and
there are a whole bunch of pokey balls that are multi colored.
They're predominantly black and they're white on the bottom and
then they have little strips of silver and yellow on them.
That is very cool. Unfortunately I am low on funds
so I will have to pass do what do they do?
Just I cannot do you know? Oh yeah, let me see if he does
know. It isn't fully sure, he says.
So these, these are model city balls.
I understand that they have certain effects on certain type
of Pokémon. I'm not sure it has to do with
catching them or like if a Pokémon is in them.
They have added effects. I don't know, but they're really
cool looking. They look very luxurious.
So who's paying for the wagon? Well, it's certainly his.
I mean, it's been. Interjected, I mean.
Cindy, $75.00 to me, please. Yes, OK.
Mark it on your sheet and you, Cindy, are the proud owner of a
little red wagon. What's the brand of those wagons
again, Radio Flyer? Radio Flyer.
We can come up with a better
name, I think. Give me a second retcon.
Retcon. It's a green wagon and it's a
Cradley Flyer. Cradley Flyer, OK.
Yeah, I love it. Very cool and it has like on the
back of it has like little pink streamers.
Cute. Nice.
Very, very Cindy. Very, Cindy.
You make the sale. I'm.
Assuming. Yes.
Oh yeah, I'm assuming we don't have the cupcakes currently with
us because to carry them there would be ridiculous.
Yeah, we can. We can just say that you can
pick them up. It should be a problem.
So I was going to say like Cindy will carry her Pokémon in the
wagon until we get back to the where the cupcakes are.
Excellent remind you or remind me who you have with you.
You only have three, right? You put.
Solely Jack and Cookie. OK, great.
Yeah. You make the transaction and
immediately Cindy's like, this is so cute I can't resist.
And she puts solely in and sends out Jack and Cookie and they all
just kind of Nestle under the wagon.
They've been cuddling. They're really cozy to each
other. And it's great because like 2 of
them are furry and one of them is goopy, but like, they all
just get along. Like it's fun goopy you make
the. Psycho, it's your turn now.
And then I take pick up Quacko and I put Quacko in the wagon as
well. OK, Do you think Cindy's game is
tolerant of this? I don't know.
Does Cindy's? Game tolerant of this.
Yeah, we can. I was going to say, we could
probably roll. We could.
The simplest thing we just put to have Quacko make a charisma
check. OK, Quacko, I'm sorry you're not
very careful. Cripples are so bad tonight.
That is a four. The four, yeah, there's not like
there's not really enough room in the wagon for Quacko.
Like there easily could be like but but Cookie is just like all
slopped out, just like taking up so much space and Quacko's kind
of getting shoved off. I pick Quacko back up and I'll
just carry him. I'll be like one day, it'll be
your time. Tay says thank you for the
purchase. Is there anything else I may
interest you in? We have lots of goods here for
trainers, we have lots of articles of clothing.
We have pretty much anything you could want.
Let me know I'm here. I think I'm fine.
I think everyone else is a little broke.
Just a little bit. If that's the case, you may exit
and begin your trek. Is that what we'd like to do?
OK, yeah, you are all walking back past the Champion Circle.
You head to the Pokémon Center and pick up those goods, and as
you are leaving Marvel City heading to Routes Route 110.
Schmidt, give me a perception check.
Wow. No, no.
Oh, perception. What is that?
No, that's. A dirty 20.
It's a dirty 20. Yeah.
There's just a a building that
is like standing out to you. You don't, like, feel like you
need to go there or nothing, but it's like a really elegant black
building with gold trim. And at the top of it, you
recognize a logo that is familiar to what you saw in
Goldenrod City, your hometown, when business people came over
on the bullet train from Saffron City.
That logo is the logo of Silfco. And you're like, huh, oh, that's
a Silfco building. That's kind of cool.
I didn't realize they had those here in Highland.
Yeah, fascinating. Yeah, it's a nice little, little
event. So you head down towards around
1:10 and you're greeted by an intersection to your left.
There's a gateway that seems to lead to a funky white bridge
where there's all sorts of people doing activities on
wheeled vehicles. There's people who are roller
skating, there's people on bicycles.
They're just doing good old physical recreation.
All of them are wearing helmets because they're all very safe.
And there's a few Pokémon going around too.
There's a body of water. It's like a Bay of some sort or
just a part of the river. And there's lots of little
islands. Some of them have like little
mini parks on them. And then way off to the side,
there's one with like a really unfriendly looking Gray metallic
building. And then to your right is a
grassy path that loops under this cycling road.
And that is where the sign route one to 10 points down to.
Well, I. How sweet the grassy path take.
The grassy path, yeah. Grassy path, we're all on board
with grassy path. Yeah.
OK, so I'm assuming. Out of bicycle.
I'm assuming that the wagon is empty besides the box of
cupcakes, correct? Yes.
OK. Is it only one box of cupcakes?
Yes, it's a huge box though. OK, like how huge it has in my
head it was like. Cartoonishly big.
Yeah, it's cartoonishly big. It has over 2000 cupcakes in it,
so it's OK. The pallets, like the the
containers that the cupcakes go in are.
Let's see how I want to like, visualize this.
So now it's big. It's wider than it is tall, but
it's still like 2 feet, like tall.
It's like 2 feet thick. And then it's like really wide.
It's like really long. It does not fit on the wagon,
but the wagon does pull it. My head it was like. 6 feet
tall. OK, it's not that big.
It's probably 6 feet across. It's probably like about 6 feet
wide. It's like 5, five feet wide.
OK, it's very big. It's the biggest box of cupcakes
that anyone's ever seen. It's sealed very well, too.
You March on down the road. Let me see who hasn't done a
roll yet. Cindy, give me a roll.
It's D20. That is a six.
You're marching down the grass and out of nowhere a man in a
suit wearing sunglasses says please step out of the way just
for, for just a moment. Do you comply?
Yeah, great. You can see behind him there's a
group of three other men in suits and sunglasses, and
they're walking with with great importance.
And they have formed a perimeter around an object, a person, a
figure, something. And they're moving very, very,
like proudly through the route. They're marching and they're
marching. Could I get a perception check
from Gimli? Who's pulling the wagon?
16 Oh, I'm sorry, 18. As you are the one with the
wagon, you notice a set of eyes on you or from your direction,
and that set of eyes is coming from a creature, a bipedal
creature that is in the middle of all these men.
The eyes are big and green and you can tell that has detected
something. You simply let them pass I.
Want to stop them? Does.
Anyone have any Pokémon out too? Clock of his out.
OK. I'm carrying bean and I have
bold or. Give me a charisma check from
cabbage. 16. Cabbage had a good night's sleep
and cabbage is laying off a really nice aroma.
Very, very pleasant, very appetizing when this man in the
suit and sunglasses push you to the side to make room for this
party with this creature and these three other people.
He left an opening in the perimeter, and the creature in
the middle jumps out towards cabbage.
It has a beak. It is a gape, and it wants to
swallow cabbage. It's a blue bird with big green
eyes. And the people walking around
the birds say no, Mr. President, don't do that.
Oh my God. And this Bluebird is attempting
to eat cabbage. You may make checks, or you may
roll initiative to fight it. What do you want to do?
I'm sorry. I'm dying.
Hold on. Mr. President.
Mr. President, the 1st. Check that you.
The first check I will need is a dexterity check from cabbage.
Yeah, I. Will while that's going on some
Schmidt is like business savvy, right?
Can I roll like a history to see if I know any companies that
have a cram rant as the president?
Yeah, absolutely. Like, I'm not shocked that it
happened at some point, but I'm really shocked.
But it's just the casually on Route 110, Mr. President.
No, Mr. President, 1515. Yeah, you know that there's like
some organization, you can't recall the name right now, but
there's an organization in the food industry that runs all of
their decisions through a waterfowl.
Cabbage got a 19 by the way. OK.
Cabbage narrowly dodges out of the gape of this crime rat, and
he goes blap, blap and just Cabbage smells so good.
Cabbage has got to eat it. And the guards are like, no, Mr.
President, get back. And they're like reaching for
him, but but he's just so frantic.
They just can't do it. I'm so sorry, Mr. President.
It is apparent that this crime rant has a little like tie on.
I thought he'd be full on like suit.
No, he's not wearing a suit. He's also fly around, but yeah.
It's just like a like a bow tie or like a like a tie tie.
It's a tie, tie. He's a business.
Friend flapping around in the. The the guard who like pulled
you guys over was like, Dang it, this is exactly why we were
assigned this outfit. Help me, boys.
And they are like trying to to grab Mr. President, but they
like just, you know, he's flopping away.
They just can't get him and he's just trying to eat cabbage.
OK, well we can't let them meet our friend.
Can I like grab cabbage and just kind of hold?
Yeah, absolutely close. To me, like don't eat cabbage.
It's a duck battle time duck battle.
Duck, duck. Saddle, I don't know if
initiative's like really appropriate.
We can just like make checks and like maybe a kind of like a
skill challenge like all of you guys can like do one thing to
see if you can stop this crime rant basically Quacko.
Have Quacko fly over there with. His leak in both.
His like feet claws and then like trying to like get in
between cabbage and the cream, right And then push him back
with the leak. OK, sure.
Like. Maybe like he in his mouth, like
he tries to take a bite and then quacko like swoops in there and
puts the leak in his mouth and is like trying to push him back.
OK, yeah, that's getting a Dexterity check for that.
Well, good thing Quacko is a Dexterity monster.
I got a crit. OK.
I was very worried because if you did poorly, your leak was
going to go away. So I'm glad.
I'm glad you did that. Yeah.
With the crit, you, it's Quacko realizes, oh, this is like water
bird versus water bird. Like here we go and jumps up and
puts his body between Premarin and cabbage.
Mr. President looks startled, goes blap blap and is shocked.
That's such such a common folk would dare to get in the needs
of Mr. President. He still evades the grasp of of
the bodyguards. So there's a few more actions
you got to take. It's the we didn't did we tie
down the the what's it called the the cupcakes?
Are they just vibing in the wagon like on top?
I was under the assumption that we were going to tie them down,
so I. Was going to roar.
That's fair. That was like, I saw a rope, but
I'm like, I guess I can't use that right now.
Roar is a Christmas save for me, correct?
I have to make a Wisdom save. And the DC is 12.
Yes, and I get 11. So, Mr. President, it's
startled. This crime rant is frightened
and is forced to only move away from Soli, who is.
Going to position herself right in front of cabbage.
OK, fair. Mr. President is terrified but
is also hungry. So he's at a kind of a dilemma
and he's just flying in circles going blah, blah, blah, blah,
just above you guys. And as it is a skill challenge
and there have been two successful attempts at repelling
Kremlin, I will just need one more successful check and
perhaps the guards will be able to finally grab Mr. President,
bring him to safety. Could throw sand at them and.
Try to blind them, I think. The best thing I can say, yeah,
I think so, yeah. I'm just going to hit, try to
get a sand attack on them. Dexterity safe for me.
Con. Con safe.
Krameron passes. Krameron gets 17.
No Dang. Sand gets flopped in the air,
but Krameron is just flapping so vigorously.
Doesn't matter. Going a little crazy.
I'm going to roll for the for the guards this time next check
and they get a four. So they have not caught Kramer
and Kramer. It is still very, very
frightened. Actually, Kramer is going to
make a role at disadvantage to try and nom cabbage.
Here we go. He are old too, so he's not
going to work. He goes in to to to get a taste
of that delicious scrumptious floaty milk and the replies his
beak opens it up wide and then he gets so scared of solely he
has to turn around. It's too much.
It's too much for Mr. President. Does Cabbage's espionage kit
have a laser pointer? Yes it does.
Oh man. I'm going to pull out a laser
pointer and try and distract Cramerant with it.
Do you think I'm going to try it?
Who? Who's doing it?
Me LED is doing. It and what is LED trying to do
with it? To get Cramerant away from
cabbage first of all, and second of all more towards like the
guards. OK, excellent.
So where are you pointing it? Like at the ground, OK, where
like the like starting like sort of by myself wear cabbages
because I assume that's where Kramer is trying.
So like, that's where it's like a tension would be and then like
moving towards the like guys in the suits.
OK, yeah, great. Give me a dex check. 7.
OK, let me make an opposition to that with wisdom, OK?
You're not 19. Yeah.
And Ellie pulls out the laser pointer to like, look, I got it
and points it at the ground. And Kramer just doesn't notice.
The laser pointer doesn't smell like anything, so why would
Kramer care? Kramer wants to eat.
True going. To make another check for the
guards real quick. Hopefully they can do it this
time. They can't.
This Kramer, it's on a rampage. Crime Rant is going to take this
opportunity to attempt to eat cabbage again at disadvantage 17
and three. You're so lucky, OK.
Let's go disadvantage. What's Schmidt's?
Playing let's just try like, I don't know, get Quacko on the
other side of cream rant puts on cream rant in the guards to try
to like pincer maneuver. Maybe like slow down cream rant
just to where like the guards can grab them.
OK, give it a shot. Probably just dex that 12.
Well, is that natural or is that with your modifiers?
That's with our modifiers. Hey, gonna give the guards
another chance with advantage. Try and catch this unstoppable
crammer Ant. Their first roll's A1, the
second roll's a crit. OK, great.
Wow, so. You really just ran the gambit,
yeah? That was the whole range there.
Quacko jumps up in the sky and decides this is enough and goes
to like stop crime rate or like smack it or like push it in the
direction of the guards and doesn't quite connect, but it
does alter the course of Kramer's flight pattern for one
of his bodyguards to grab. And he says it's OK Mr.
President, I got you. And Kamaran is just struggling
in his arms, beak reaching out towards cabbage going Brack
Brack brack. And the guy who pulled you aside
said, I'm so sorry. This is, this is exactly why we
have to protect Mr. President at all times.
He's he's a little uncontrollable.
So I, I do sincerely apologize. We'll, we'll be on our way.
And there's you have nothing else to say or do to this band
of four men in suits and a hungry Cramerant named Mr.
President. Then you are welcome to continue
on the route. Also maybe like Kev Quacko
position himself and put some Cramerant and the cupcakes.
OK sure. So he doesn't try to sneak away
and do. Some elbow door do the same.
He's like, oh. OK, yes, as as the group walks
off, you can hear the fading sound of Cramerant going just
really desperately trying to escape the arms of his actors
but just cannot. You wonder how such a instinct
driven creature can be the leader of some sort of food food
distribution company. Like, it's kind of insane.
But that is indeed Mr. President.
You make your way down the route with no other problems.
No, nothing else was strange. There are patches of grass if
you wish to like meet a new friend, but if not, you're
welcome to just continue on down to the end of Route 111.
I am all for keeping moving. I don't know are there any
flying type friends? It could be you have to roll on
the encounter table and see what you get.
OK, am I making any kind of specific?
No, it's just like a RAW D20. It's a RAW D20.
I have AI, have a graph, not really a graph.
I have like a thing that will Earl the 14, the 14 hold on one
second, not really making any sort of commotion.
But as you're walking around, you see a little Bush and just
plopped right on top of the Bush.
Is a funny looking Pokémon. He's got exaggeratedly long
limbs. He's white and whitish brown in
color. He has a really tired face, and
he looks directly at Schmidt and just waves one of his hands
really slow as you walk by. Oh, it's back.
You way back. No, it's OK.
This little whitish brown dude on top of this Bush turns his
head towards you. His neck has like a super huge
swivel, you can turn it super far apparently.
And as you walk past him, he just lets out a huge grin, just
like. Yeah, yeah, that's a vibe I'll.
Throw some finger snaps at him as we're walking away.
Oh, give me a charisma check. Oh no, I didn't realize I'd had
to check for finger snaps. It could be really good. 1414,
Yeah. Schmidt does a little Papa and
Slakov really slowly just drops his jaw wide open, his eyes go
big, and he's just like, gives you a slothy thumbs up.
Not a bird, but definitely an interesting encounter for a
route. Anything else you want to do?
Nah. OK, great.
With those, with those two very dramatically different energy
encounters. You make it towards the southern
part of Route 110. If you continued further down
South, you can see the shore, you see the ocean.
There's a few more tallish buildings, not nearly as tall as
Mallville, but you can tell that there's a city down here.
If you continue going straight, you can see a little nature,
your kind of route. There's a lot of people just
hanging out doing their thing. There's a forest and then
there's a river. And then to your right, to your
right, you see a very, very interesting house.
It's outside exterior is kind of like ramshackly.
It's not that impressive looking.
It's like the roof is Askew. The windows are like kind of
half broken and dark. And then there is a in
contradiction to this description.
There is a beautiful ornate door.
It is like a velvety purple color and it has gold on the
edges. However, it's not a regularly
shaped door. It is a perfect circle.
There is a doorknob that is gold on it.
It seems like this is the address that LED was given to
drop off this package. Well, it looks like this is the
house, so we should probably stop by and knock on the door.
Yeah, let's do it. OK, who's knocking?
I'll knock, all right. OK.
Yeah, that makes more sense. LED.
Is technically your job. Knocks on the door and there's a
little click and you hear a voice on the inside say, oh,
come in. OK, I have your cupcakes.
Do you want me to do anything? You just bring them in.
The voice says Oh yes my cupcakes, please bring them in
immediately. Oh and the door like slowly
swings open. Do you enter?
Yeah. Might as well I guess.
OK, yeah, This large purple and gold door swivels on its side
and you enter a home that seems pretty normal.
There's not really anything going crazy going on.
There's like some cabinets or some cupboards in the back, left
and right corners. On the on the left and right
corners closest to you, there's some nice flowering plants in
pots. And in the middle of the room,
there's a table with four seats. It's surprisingly a really,
really small room compared to the exterior of this house.
It's quite strange. And as you enter, there's a.
There's no one inside. Hello, I I where do you want me
to put the cupcakes? Do we need someone to sign off
on this for the delivery? I'm assuming.
Let me check the. Note the note.
Seems to suggest that the the policy for Ellie's company is
that for a delivery of this magnitude you definitely need to
like get it handed off in person for sure.
Hello, you need a signature for these cupcakes, are you here?
There's no one in the room, huh? As Schmidt shouts, the door
behind you closes and you get the feeling that you're being
watched. Being watched, yeah.
So like a like a sparkle on like inside a cabinet or under a
table that we notice. Yeah, you're welcome to roll a
perception. Yeah.
Perception 2. Eight.
OK, Big 8. Yeah, my perception was 9.
OK, let me roll 3. OK.
Cindy. Pop off.
Wisdom Plus 1/12. OK, you can't tell exactly
where, but Cindy is able to detect a little glimmer of light
in the center of this room. Like, oh, that's weird, let's
check it out. Yeah, you look under the table.
Yeah, there's nothing under the table.
The cushions which? Cushion.
Well, there's four of us. You all want to check each
cushion, yes? OK.
Yes, you all lift up the cushions from each table or from
each chair. You all lift up the cushions
from the chairs, and as Schmidt pulls the cushion up from his
chair, a very tall, very springy jack-in-the-box springs up.
It's Gray. Fuck you.
It's Gray in color. The jack-in-the-box is
portraying a figure who has like, an ashy black Gray skin
tone, and they have pink hair and they have giant gold
earrings. And there's a loud cackle coming
from all directions in the room. And then it begins to speak.
It says, come one, come all, come variety of all creatures.
To my perplexing hall of eccentric features.
Remove all your fear. There's only fun found here.
Confirm your whereabouts. That's right, it's the trick
house. Deep inside, I am waiting for
the suites that you provide. Before you can find me a secret,
I must confide. A powerful treasure is within my
possession. One that will aid in your
journey's progression. Some tricks are tame and some
may be lethal. The solutions required are not
for ordinary people. Rest assured, you won't die if
you fall into my traps. That is, unless all of you
collapse. So give it a shot.
Decode all my games. The reward I can grant you will
make you proclaim. I'm so glad we did this.
We found fortunes in Glee. It may cost you your life, but
you got that for free and the room goes dark.
We just want a signature do. You want cupcakes or not?
Who's good at forgery? Who's forging the signature?
Yeah, the lights go back on and you're in the same exact room
you were in before. As you turn around, there is no
door, there's a giant clock, and there's a note on the center of
the table. I am going to pick up the note
and read it. OK, the note says this.
You can find me on a face frequently I'm in a vase.
I'd be precise to a calculator, yet to one of you I'd be much
greater. OK I'm thinking clock face but
the vase part threw me off. Then what else do you put in a
vase beside? Like flowers?
Water for the flowers. Water for the.
Can I get a Dexterity check from Gimli?
Sure. Gimli, the graceful ballerina.
14. 14 yeah, that's pretty good as like, so you're all looking
at this like, puzzle like you're reading this message, you're
trying to figure it out. Gimli steps forward and he
notices that one of the tiles in the room like depresses a little
bit. He goes.
Oh. Well, that's not good at all.
Nobody move you. Can find me on a vase.
Frequently I'm in a vase. But boulder with tremor sense
tell which tiles are loose tiles.
Sure. I'm just.
No, that's a good idea. If you'd like to try again, you
can roll like a, let's say, a nature check.
Just got 20s eighteen. 18 You guys seen the Avatar the Last
Airbender? Of course.
When when like toff like does her like kind of tremor sense
thing and like the the the screen turns like black and
there's just outlines. That's like how she senses
stuff. That's exactly what Trevor sees.
Trevor just sees like a a seismic interpretation of the
room and notices that it's not just that one tile that's loose,
but like most of the objects in the room are able to be
depressed a little bit. They're most surfaces are
basically buttons. So I'm guessing we have to press
the button of whatever the answer to the puzzle is.
What if we press all of them at the same time?
Uh. Oh.
Let's not do that. That sounds like how many?
Buttons were there again, there's a lot.
There's like at least 30, just like most of the objects are,
buttons are. They are they labeled in any?
Particular way? Nope, they're just household
objects. But the door you came in is now
a giant clock the size of the wall.
Cool. Is there are there numbers on
the clock or is it just like clock hands?
There are, yeah. There's like 12.
Numbers on the clock. Yeah, there are 12 numbers on
the clock and. It's actually more than that if
you consider the ones and zeros the separate numbers for 10/11.
Yeah. And there's normally like a,
like a, like a, like a, like a dozen roses in a vase.
Dozen. Yeah. 12, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. And then we also have like a
Baker with us. So isn't a yeah, he just
doesn't. Oh.
My God, you're so smart. Yeah.
Do you guys you press the 12? Yes.
OK, LED places her hand, it's pretty close to the ceiling.
She has to like stand out her tip toes to hit it and it pushes
in and it goes clink. And the door that were the clock
that used to be a door opens to the outside, but it doesn't open
to the outside. It opens to another room.
Let's go. I.
Guess we'll go to the next room. Be on the point of just leaving
now, right? Well, we can't.
There's. No.
Door. The door that you came through
is no longer goes outside. Yeah, we're we're pinned here.
We're just going to get this signature my.
Money, the room throwing walls or something.
The room that you're in is a small and simple room consisting
of only one door on the opposite end.
It seems like the decoration in here is kind of circusy, like
they're stripes and they're like yellow and purple.
That seems to be the theme of of this houses yellow, like goldish
yellow and purple. Coincidentally enough, a
contraption that has like a metal Crameron at the top that
is hosted on a pole and it's mouth is open like in this pole.
And then there's a little pressure plate in front of it.
And then there's like like a place that is designated for
someone to stand. I was going to tremor sense
again. I got a 15.
OK. Fuck us with this bird.
You do the tremor sense and it looks like this pole has like a
little loose rock in it. It's like a little golden stone,
and if you apply pressure to the pressure plate, it'll shoot up
like into Crab Rant's mouth. Cindy says good day, Mr.
President, to the very clearly metal Cramerant.
Yeah, there's no response, OK, But it is, it is a funny
coincidence. Well, I I does someone want to
try standing on it? Gimli will do it.
Cool. You don't have to roll a check.
You stay on the plate and the little gold ball that's in the
pipe kind of goes up for a second and then it falls back
down to the ground. OK, I'm going to jump on.
Yeah, I'm going to run and jump onto the switch now.
OK, back up off of it, do a run and jump and land.
Yeah. Put a lot of force into.
It make a string check. That is a 16.
OK, yeah, that will be sufficient.
This little gold ball goes bloop and it goes into Kremlin's mouth
and you hear like a robotic black black.
And then the door at the far end of the room opens up.
Do you enter? Yep.
Who's who's pulling the wagon? Is Ganley still on wagon duty?
I will go back and pull the wagon, yes, OK.
Cindy pretends she's on wagon duty, but like, when he was
doing the jumping thing, she was just holding it like she's in
charge of the wagon, but she can't budget.
Yeah. OK, as you enter the next room
you can hear it. Before you can see it, there is
pounding techno music as you entered my kind of place.
Boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats.
The room is kind of dark and there are purple and yellow
tiles that are like flashing. They're limiting on the ground
and all throughout the room there are like little Pokémon.
There's dance, they're dancing, there's like a zigzagoon that's
like moving around. There's a Vigoroth that's like
slinging it's arms up and down like really happily.
There's like four or five Pokémon in here.
There's just grooving. There's a swallow in the corner
that's just kind of spinning, and there's a door on the other
end of the room. Tremor since gotten 11.
Not all the tiles in this room are the same, but you just can't
really tell, right? Does DDR exist in the Pokémon
world? Yeah, perhaps.
What are you asking I got to roll for?
It. Well, I don't know if you need
to roll for 'cause I don't know what you're what you're looking
for. Well, you said the tiles on the
floor are flashing, right? Yeah, they're flies.
They're alternating in purple and gold, and there's some black
ones too. And this is OK.
There's pounding techno music and everyone's just grooving.
You're on like a little platform before you actually step on the
colored tiles. I'm going to send out Jessica.
OK. And.
Just start dancing. We haven't actually like stepped
on any of these tiles or anything yet.
Right. No.
Like, we're still, like, in the doorway.
Yeah. We'll just like kind of dance
and like, kind of like me and Jessica are like going out
together and we're just kind of like dancing, like kind of
smooth forward, a little bit cool.
Give me Charisma checks for both of you.
Give an advantage for Jessica. Schmidt got an 11.
Jessica got a nine. OK, a nine with advantage.
Yeah, the other it was 8 and plus one to charisma and the
other role was a six. OK, as you step out on into the
room, you 2 are just kind of grooving.
You're grooving on the dance floor.
Schmidt's doing a good job. He's tweeting back and forth.
The swallow is spitting and goes, whoa, let's see.
Schmidt dancing that seems very excited, tries to clap its
hands, but it's very far apart on its body, so I can't quite do
that. Jessica is like a little nervous
and she, like, stumbles a little bit and she trips onto a tile
that, like, doesn't seem like it was ready for her.
Nothing that happens to her, but she's a little startled.
You. Might.
She might have to give it another try.
Jessica, the show must go on. 1313 is sufficient. 13 is all
right. With a little bit of
encouragement, Jessica the Oracorio hits the floor yet
again. And Schmidt and Oracorio are
Groovin and Movin and Vigoroth and Swalot and Zizgun turned
their attention and they're all so overjoyed.
They they cheer, they clap. And that is where we'll call the
session for now, in the middle of the Trick House.
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See you all next week I. Haven't got to ask you about
Canada yet. Yeah, it was a great time.
Did you try poutine? I did.
It was, I was, I was expecting something transcendent, like
something greater than the sum of its parts.
And it just tasted like the sum of its parts.
You know what I'm saying? It was good, but I didn't like
ascend into Heaven like I was expecting.
Did you? Then you didn't.
Put these nuts in your mouth all.
Right. Yeah, I think that's where you
messed up, Schmidt. That was the problem.
Is dead canonically. So.
You'll use this campaign session to make a new character.