Welcome to the Cali Rex game Corners Pokémon DND campaign
featuring Jacob as Schmidt with his far fetched quacko, Melissa
as Cindy with her Vulpix Soul Eater, Grace as Elodie with her
millsery cabbage, and CJ as Gimli with his rug and Rolla
Trevor. My name is Rich and I'm the game
master and this is done Sparse and Grandpa.
As our story begins, you can see a royal blue sky with not a
cloud insight. A warm, salty breeze gently
buffets your face as you make out a vast ocean that is just as
blue as the sunny summer sky, meeting the golden sandy beach
to the east and cliffs to the South.
The sounds of seagull Pokémon squawking and waves crashing
harmonize with the busy murmurs of city folk preparing for a
historic festival in the cultural capital of the Hoenn
region. Welcome to Lily Cove City's 50th
annual summer festival. Dozens upon dozens of wooden
booths line the increasingly populous city streets.
Chime echoes rattle in the ocean winds, giving what would be an
otherwise normal summer day an exciting, hypnotic, otherworldly
ambiance. Merchants from all over the
world have come to peddle their wares to the cosmopolitan
enthusiasts atop these cobblestone walkways and plazas.
From delectable based goods to hand sewn clothing and Pokémon
accessories to rare regional geodes and jewelry, vacationers
and investors from all over the world gather here in celebration
of Lily Cove City's rich cultural history and to make or
spend some money as well. Children gather around carnival
games in hopes of winning giant plush pokey dolls among other
prizes. Excitement bubbles around the
stands selling your common Fair festival food, seen as it is
nearly lunchtime and other crowds are forming around 2
stages in the front of the contest spectacular hall where a
Pokémon band are performing music in harmony with the
demonstration of awe inspiring skills by world renowned
professional battlers. Some booths are fully open and
ready for business, while others are still steadily setting up.
You all have just entered town, be it by harbor or on foot.
Where would you like to go? I'm.
Definitely coming off the harbor based on where I am from so got
my bags all with me. I think my invitation had me
going to some hotel, correct? At the Lily Cove Harbor, a
gentleman reaches out towards you and says, ticket please.
What does this gentleman see? My character is a a 411 bald,
fully bearded man. His beard's up in a braid
currently because that's how he keeps it neat and tidy.
He has his pair of go goggles. He always looks like he's ready
to be on the job even when he's not.
I have my my overalls, just a plain white shirt to go right
under them, nice thick steel toed boots.
Even though I'm on vacation, my full bag of looks like almost
hiker style backpack like we've seen like the hiker trainers
that they look like they have that full style.
And again, even though I'm clearly supposed to be here on
vacation, I look like I'm ready to like go dig a hole somewhere.
And she just kind of, I guess feels uncomfortable, sort of out
of sorts because I don't look like I'm a vacation type of
person. Yeah, the the the Ticketmaster
here at the harbor claims your ticket.
He tears it. He kind of looks you up and down
and he thinks to himself, like, is is this man here to to work
or is he here on vacation? I don't understand with this
outfit but but come along is. I'm excited to relax.
Is does Gimli have a friend with him?
Gimli does. Gimli has a small rock and Rolla
named Trevor. He's just, he kind of just rolls
like waddles along wherever he goes.
We, you know, I usually try to what if he's lagging him by a
little bit, we'll pick him up and just take him with us, like
grip him by the hand like so I can always just grab him and
take him with me if he's falling lagging by.
But Trevor's my little buddy. He he's actually visibly very
excited to be here rather than being like, uncomfortable, like
he's definitely ready to relax. Is he bobbling by your feet or
do you? Are you carrying him currently?
He'll be bobbling by my feet, OK?
Excellent. So yeah, where where's Gimli
trying to go right now? Because I was told to relax and
my wife wouldn't let me carry my bag everywhere I go.
So I think Gimli wants to be on the way to where he's supposed
to be staying. Yes.
Might be a might have a representative there.
So I'm probably going to go to the OMA to the TO their
representative, like locate them to see if I can check in my
stuff somewhere because my wife wouldn't let me go on with my
bag even though I insisted that I needed to keep it for reasons.
Sure all. Right, she would freak out at me
for it. So you're going to walk around
and look for an old Co worker, perhaps someone who you would
recognize absolutely. All right, who?
Who else came by ship? I believe I did.
All right, I'm assuming you're also coming from Liliko Harbor,
perhaps on the same ship that Gimli did.
Yeah, maybe not. As the Ticketmaster says.
A ticket, please, And claims your ticket.
What is the character that he sees in front of him?
5 foot 11, very well groomed young adult male.
It's like he's a little cut. Like you can tell he works out,
but he doesn't look particularly strong, if that makes sense.
Like he's tone, but he's not really like like he's not going
to get a fight anytime soon. He is wearing a kind of a nicer
like button up shirt, but one of the like it's buttoned up like
acceptable amount of like buttons undone at the top.
And then it's one more past that to where you can see like a
little too much of his chest. Yeah, I know you're talking
about. And then just wearing that, just
wearing some nice slacks with some with some nice moccasins.
Moccasins. Yeah, I love that.
Awesome. That's him and he has his Far
fetched following him. Far Fetched is very excited to
see everybody. Quacko's just like walking up
and talking to everyone they can.
Great Quacko is like. And then I'm just like, forfeit,
get over here, don't talk to strangers.
He, he's Cantonian, right? Yes.
OK, again, this, this Ticketmaster is like we've got a
rowdy, interesting, cosmopolitan group of people coming today.
The eye and you up and down open shirt makes sense, but
moccasin's on the beach very strange tears your ticket lets
you inside it's. Comfortable on my feet.
Sir, do you say this out loud? Because he wasn't.
He wasn't speaking. Out.
All right, excellent, excellent. He's on the job so he won't he
won't make any reaction, but he kind of eyes you side eyes you
as he says next. I also.
Side eye him. Where does Schmidt and Quacko
feel like going first on their vacation?
Probably check into the hotel first.
You set on your way to the Cove Lily Motel.
As you do that, who else is arriving?
Are they coming by ship? Are they coming by some other
means? I'm probably coming in by by
ship here. OK, same story goes to you as
you depart from your ship from the Kalos region.
What does the Ticketmaster see before him?
Average height girl, early 20s. She's got freckles and like
caramel brown hair just above her shoulders.
She's wearing like this like pink dress and she's got like a
little brown apron and she looks very well put together.
Probably smells pretty good, like a bakery or something.
Definitely looks like, you know, she could be working at a bakery
and then she probably has well mill Surrey.
Probably chilling with her, probably sipping a juice box or
something. What's What's this Mill Surrey's
name? Cabbage.
Excellent.
Ticketmaster sees Elodie and cabbage and is like finally
someone looks like they're ready to vacation.
Tears your ticket and lets you out into the salty, warm ocean
air. Where would you like to go?
Probably. Are there any like snacks
around? Is there like a like a little
snack stand I could stop at? Yeah, there's all sorts of food
booths. It's a kind of depends on which
one you're going for. There's there's ones like local
specialties, there's ones from other regions that have come to
show what they've got. There's like some kids running
in a lemonade stand. There's all sorts of stuff.
Definitely going for some local specialties.
Local specialties, Sure. Yeah, you, you set your eyes on
a, on a booth that is up towards where the department store is,
despite the fact that it's currently closed in recognition
of the festival that says Lily Cove, Lily Cakes.
And as you're walking up there, we have one more friend that we
need to check in with who's probably the only one who came
on foot. She's walking over from Route
121, and she's greeted by a different Ticketmaster.
Who says ticket, please. Who does she see?
Sure, almost looks like a kid, but so where?
She's 18. Red reddish orangish hair,
wearing a yellow shirt that says that's Lithbro on it.
Just kind of bumming around. I would think she would probably
be checking in like with her grandparents as well and helping
them set up with their stand. So she's like going in with her
grandparents and helping set up with the berries that they would
be selling. Sure.
Yeah, you managed to rendezvous with your grandparents, helping
them carry some stuff. Their names are Goji and Asahi,
and they have their farm a couple routes over.
You took the ferry over from around Mount Pyre and you are
joined by their carnivine friend named Poppy, and you are helping
them carry their goods to get set up with their Berry stand.
Let's check back in with our friend Gimli.
So Gimli is approaching a man who he recognizes from his work
in the mines at Sino. Gimli, I'm going to give you
this opportunity if you'd like. What?
What's his name? What's his name?
Cletus. Cletus.
Excellent. So yeah, you see, Cletus, your
buddy from OMA or the Orbero Mining Association, he's running
a booth. Actually, he's, he's brought
some wares from your old job. He's he's selling some rocks,
gems and geodes. And he's got his Mac cargo Carl.
And Carl's sitting there behind the booth.
He's eating like what looks like just raw chunks of earth and
dirt and he's swallowing them. And then through a hole in his
shell, he's spitting out like pure gems and geodes.
Cletus sees you and says hey Gimli, good to see you my man.
Oi Cletus Gimli, good to see your friend.
He. He.
He embraces you make a Constitution safe.
Oh man, to see if he squeezes me all right.
Oof, it's 7. Seven.
OK, yeah. So you squeeze each other
actually a pretty similar amount.
And like, I don't neither of you were really prepared to give
such a good hug. But so you're both like a little
older than you think you are in your little window and like,
it's so good to see you. We've been missing you over at
the mines. How is your your your journey
going? Well, I'm still looking for me,
boy. What was his name?
Jamblo Jombley. Oh, we call him Old Jimmy, but
you know the full name Gimbley. It's a family name of.
Course, of course, of course. Well, I'm so glad that Gemma
convinced you to take some time off and and come see us here in
Lily Cove. Yeah, you know the wife, she
always wants me to take some time off, but I'm a working man.
Of course I'll try to relax for her, but you know, can't take
the work out of the minus. Oh, absolutely not.
And then Carl kind of like burps at you.
It's like that bunch of lava comes out.
Oh, good to see you there, little boy.
Carl. Or yeah, so you're looking for a
place to sit down your bags. I think so, yeah.
My wife would kill me if she found out I was carrying my bags
around. All right, the me and a couple
other lads have checked in at the The Cove Lily Motel just to
the South over there if you want to drop off your stuff.
Well, I guess I'll be heading over and greet the lads then.
All right, we'll see you in a bit.
Bye. Schmidt.
OK, so Schmidt goes to. I'm assuming it's the same
motel. Close, Lily.
Sure. Just just going to check in.
Yeah, just checks in. Like checks in, goes to the room
and immediately changes. OK, great.
Like he's out of his St. moccasins and he changes into
what he calls his like, beach party boy outfit.
So it's just like like some nice flip flops, like Gucci flip
flops, some cargo shorts and then like a shirt, like a like a
flower pattern shirt, but they it's like one more button is
undone. The the last shirt heels
weren't. After you get that all taken
care of, is there any particular destination at this little
festival that you think Schmidt and Quacko would like to go see?
Schmidt wants to go to the beach to look at the ladies.
Oh, great. Yeah.
So you saunter on down to the beach and as you're walking over
there, well, we'll check in with you later, you're noticing the
the booth that is closest over to the beach.
There's seems to be some sort of game.
There's a bunch of kids and they're like throwing all these
discs at, at these painters. And they're they're shouting and
screaming and having a great time.
And you're heading off to to the sunny sands.
Elodie approaches. She follows her nose and
cabbage. The military does quite the
same, just kind of letting it go where it where it's taking them.
And there's there's this booth, it's very elaborate.
It's got this nice kind of white oak wooden color to the wood.
And then there's a couple in there and there's a man who's
saying Lily Cove, Lily cakes. Come get your Lily cakes.
You won't want over. You don't want to miss it.
Come try it. It's delicious.
You're going to have the time of your life.
I'm definitely going to approach and ask for a Lily cake.
Great. This man says hello little lady.
That'll be 10 bucks. Yeah.
OK. I'll, I'll spend $10 on that.
All right, sure, you make these changes, he says.
Another happy customer before you've even tried it.
So do you get one for for cabbage as well?
Are you going to share it? We'll share it.
We'll share it for sure. OK, great.
Yeah, You you take a little nibble and it tastes like lime.
It is very good. But you have a hunch that
they're kind of just jacking up prices because it's like a
festival and they can get away with it.
Do you have your sights set on anything else?
Anything you can. Imagine after that, probably go
check in in the hotel too. OK, to Cindy and the her her
Berry peddling grandparents and Poppy the carnivine.
So they're setting up and Goji, your grandfather says, oh Cindy,
it's it's so good to see you. I hope you've been learning a
lot while you're away. She lies and says, yeah, me and
Soli are doing so good, winning so many battles.
It's it's just been great. Oh, that's so good, Cindy.
We're so proud of you, your grandmother Asai says.
Have you collected any badges? I I don't think we're quite
strong enough for gyms yet, but like other trainers, we've been
doing so good. And you Soli is level 1 and has
not won a single battle. So I I feel like Soli is playing
along with the gig and just like let's out a puff of smoke and
goes like, yes, we're the strongest.
Yeah, we're so strong. Excellent.
Asahi pulls out like a big like container, a big glass, like it
almost looks like a blender, but there's no blender base.
It's just a big, big cup essentially.
And she starts shoveling a bunch of berries into Carnivines mouth
and Carnivine starts chewing them up and then very delicately
and almost mystically just pours them out of the side of its
mouth And boom, there's like a giant serving of smoothies
inside of this glass. Goji gets on a little step
ladder and puts a sign up and he says, fresh Berry juice,
smoothies from the hoe and Berry masters.
It looks like the setup's going really well.
Goji turns over to Cindy and says, you know, you don't have
to wait here with us. You you're welcome to go explore
and play some games or whatever kids these days like to do.
So I politely ask my grandparents for some fun money
for the day because I am poor. Of course.
Hold on.
Let me. Oh, nice.
Yeah, Goji gives you $300. Oh my God.
He's like, go have fun, Cindy. We're so glad you're here.
He just didn't even look. He just like reached into his
wallet and just grabbed a bunch of bills.
Like he didn't care how much he gave you.
He loves you. Is there?
So I take it and just kind of look around, see what's.
Sure, a booth that's close to you that's selling like what
seems to be funnel cakes. There's a game that's your
classic throw the ping pong balls into the the fish bowls,
but there's no fish in the bowls.
They have like little fake fish, but they're definitely prizes
there. There's like a arm wrestling
booth where like there's just a cardi who's like really swollen
one arm and he's like, come on, wrestle me win tokens.
Those are those are the ones that are immediately close.
But if you have something in mind, you could probably wander
around and go find it. I feel like she would probably
have been to the festival a few times, so she might end up like
wandering like the outskirts, like around everything to see if
anything's new from the previous year or like towards the beach
is just to kind of be like out of like the busy, busy area.
Yeah, we'll, we'll send her on her on her way over to Gimli,
who's now entering the hotel. And you're, you're looking for
your friends, your your old work buddies.
Yeah, you are greeted by between, like, 5:00 and 8:00.
Burly, Husky gentlemen who look very similar to you.
Do they all have beards? They all, for some reason, took
their pickaxes here. And they say Ghibli like, like
in the big course. And they're so excited to see
you. They just, they just dogpile
you. They're so.
Oh. Look at the men.
And they say, how long has it been, Gimli?
We haven't seen you in ages. Years and years.
I've been down on the mines for so long, couldn't tell you and.
Then they they look at you smiling and then their smile
kind of turns into like a sideways half smile and they're
like, we're we're sure that Jim Lee's just fine.
We we know you'll find him soon. Oh, I'm sure I raised the
resilient lad. I know he's around here.
So, so they are all, you know, you're all having a, a time
together and they say, would you like to get a drink here at the
here at the motel? Oh, you know I would.
All right, great. Let's go for a drink with the
lads. There's there's like a little
Tavern bar inside the motel and the, the lot of you pile up and
you know, just like 6 or 7 big burly miner sit on the bar.
You crowd up the whole thing. There's people there that were
like there, there was a couple that was like hanging out, but
they get pushed aside by these giant men who were like, Nope,
these are our seats now. And the barman is like, welcome,
welcome. What can I get for you all?
What you order? What's the trick of choice of
this town? He kind of eyes every everyone
who sat at the bar up and down and he's like, well, we got all
sorts of fun little fruity things that we do for the
summer, but I feel like y'all are interested in some ale.
And he right, raises an eyebrow in question.
Absolutely slams fist. OK, Yeah, he he just, Yeah, he,
he pours a bunch of ale for everyone.
We'll, we'll make you make another Constitution check.
This one's pretty easy. Not get.
Drunk. Yeah, cool.
Yeah, You, you enjoy your air with your buddies.
You're catching up. They're talking about the times
and the minds. One of the guys that you
remember from last time lost his arm, and he's telling you about
how I got caught under a rock and he didn't even feel
anything. But he was there.
His buddy was like, dude, you were there for like 12 days.
He's like, I don't know. It wasn't a problem at all.
I shrugged it off. It wasn't.
A big deal. And you're having a rousing good
time with the lads. Schmidt, you're down on the
beach. There's a couple of guys that
laying down in the sand. They they got a couple crab
looking Pokémon that are like also on their backs and they're
wearing sunglasses. All all four of them are wearing
sunglasses. The two lads, the two crabs,
they're just, they're just roasted in the sun.
They are, one might say red is lobsters, crabs included.
And they're like, hey man, where are you from?
The crabs are on the people's backs.
Or like like there's two towels, right?
And then there's two guys, they're lying on their backs
towards the sun and they're all sunburned.
They're wearing sunglasses. And then like to the right of
them are just two crab Pokémon that are wearing sunglasses and
their bellies are up. And they're also just.
Roasted crabs were laying on them.
It would interrupt their tan lines.
No, no, no, they're all it's they're all lined up like
sardines. It's good priorities.
Yeah, man. Just flew into town.
What's what does Schmidt want to do?
He's probably looking for Food First.
OK? Like, yeah.
Anything good like grill around here?
He's like, yeah, there. There's a kebab grill booth
that's over there down by the museum.
I'd recommend you check it out. It's pretty good.
They got some tiny mushrooms, put them on a stick, grill them
up. Delicious.
That sounds good. I look at Quacko to make sure
because mostly just getting food for Quacko, like that's his
concern. And it's like Quacko, do you
want to get some kebabs and Quacko?
I don't know. Yeah, Quacko quacks
enthusiastically, like it's time to eat.
Cool, we will head down and get some kebabs.
Where? Were you headed?
You were just going into the checking the stuff out.
Yeah, in the hotel. Oh yes, yes, you went to check
into the hotel and the the host there asks what's your name?
Elodie. All right, let me check your
reservation. And he types away at a keyboard.
He says, Oh yes, yes, room for one.
You are on the 2nd floor. Here's your key card hands your
key card. And as I, we hope you enjoy your
time here. Mercy.
Let let me know if you have any questions.
OK. Thank you.
Great. Yeah, I'm just going to go put
my stuff in my room. OK cool, are you pulling a
Schmidt and have a fancy outfit change?
You're already pretty dressed for the vacation I feel like.
Yeah, probably not going to change much.
Just just getting settled in. That's good.
Cool.
So we got some friends in the Kovuli Motel.
Cindy is out exploring. Did you decide where you'd like
to go? Not really.
OK, she's just vibing, wandering around, looking how she can
spend her money as effectively as possible because again, she's
pretty broke. I mean, now she has money, but
she still doesn't want to like, blow it because that'll probably
carry her through the next year until the next, the time her
grandparents give her money. Sure.
The most crowded booth that you can tell right now, it's got a
bunch of people your age, older, younger, all sorts of people
gathered around and they say, come on, come all, throw your
ball into the cup and you could win a fabulous prize today, a
special golden magic carp. And he holds a big golden fish
up in there goes Corp. It's just kind of like hates
being not in the water. And he says, sink two in a row
and you can win this magic carp. And that is where your attention
is drawn to. Do you want to give it a shot?
Absolutely. Well, there happened someone
just got discouraged and gave up because they they just
completely failed, couldn't land a single ping pong ball.
And he says step right up, messy.
Would you like to give it a try? Yeah, let's do it.
You can buy as many balls as you'd like.
They are going to be $10 each. I'll start with two because I
have to get two in a row. OK, you need to roll me two
Dexterity checks. Me.
My Dexterity, Yes. OK, that's not all.
You could have solely try one if you want.
Solely is worse. No, I got a six.
For one, and that was the other one.
Are you just rolling one right now?
That was one and then the other one is a 16.
All right, your first one goes totally wide and, and the vendor
kind of looks at you and is like, can you throw?
Like, do you know what you're doing?
And that kind of, I don't, I, I don't think that's, that sits
well with Cindy. And so Cindy throws another one
and and it bonks around on on the little, the little fish
bowls, but it doesn't seem to sink.
He says, nice try. Would you like to buy some more?
I guess he'll do two more all. Right, you buy two more. 40.
Yeah, you can. You can.
I need to be careful with my money.
Oh, gambling. Yeah, that's shiny magic carp.
Yeah, if you want to roll those real quick, you're welcome to.
Oh, that one. That. 1.
Yeah, you threw it and it bounced off the side of the
booth and it just like Eated itself.
It's just it's out of there. And then I got a 10.
Then you got a 10, so it just bounced around and he's like,
you know, you're going to have to go find that lost ball or
else you're going to owe me an extra 5 bucks.
I sent SO later to go get it and give up.
OK, great. Our unlikely friends seem to be
gathering closer and closer together.
Very interesting, very peculiar. Gimli, roll me AD 6.
You. Got a four?
OK, roll ME4D20 and they're all individual constitution checks.
I got a 14. I don't know, I'm sorry.
I got AI, forgot my modifier. I got an 18, a 22, a six and a
13. OK, great.
Yeah, you've had a total of 5 beers with the lads and you're
starting to feel a little tipsy. Certain checks that you decide
to make might incur disadvantage, but you're having
a great time. You're chatting it up, you're
slatting backs, slapping backs, you're just you're you're having
a good time with the boys. It seems to you as you look out
the window that it's really starting to pack up.
There's there's a battle that's finishing up and in front of the
contest hall and the. The live band is playing and
they're taking a break and people are getting really
excited. It seems like coming up soon,
there's going to be a really big battle between some, some pretty
esteemed battlers. We're we're going to move a
little bit faster. Now, Schmidt, you came in to get
some grub, right? Yep.
All right. He says ho in style kebabs.
Come get your ho in style kebabs.
There's a Paris there who's like cutting up a bunch of
vegetables. And he says they're only 8 pokey
dollars each. Cool, I'll get 2/1 for me, one
for Quacko. With lightning speed, the Paris.
I'll give them both to Quacko. Both to quacko.
Awesome. Yeah, Schmidt needs to watch his
figure. With lightning speed, the Paris
switches from prep and then just like smacks some kebabs onto the
grill and like forces them down with its pincers.
And it's like, it's like squealing because it's kind of
hot. But this is its job.
It's really good at it. And then like only 20 seconds
later, you have like perfectly grilled kebabs and you you hand
over 16 pokey dollars to the to the people running the booth and
they say, please enjoy, Sir. And you're giving the both to
Quacko? Yes, All right.
Are you going to take his leak or is he just going to hold all
three of them? He he'll probably hold all three
of them. OK, great.
Imagine he has like a like a tuft of feathers where like he
keeps his leak like behind him. OK, cool.
You know, like in like around his tail or whatever.
And then so he'll like tuck his leak back there and then he'll
just have both Kapops. They fit very naturally and like
his elite can't. We'll check in with Elite.
Elite, what are you doing? I'll probably just go and like
go walk around the booths and see if there's any like
interesting like ingredients or anything to look at.
Yeah, you walk by and the one that catches your eye, they have
a Unovan flag on their booth selling mixed spices from the
outskirts of Castelli City and the desert resort that smells
really good, really rich, lots of spicy, savory.
Catches your eye to go check it out.
Yeah, I'll check it out. They say, they say.
Hello Young 1:00 We we come here from the the Unova region.
Would you like to try some of our delicacies?
Are are you giving out samples? Yes, in fact, we are.
And they hand you like what looks like a little pita bread
and it has a paste that's smeared on it.
It's it's like a it's like a brown paste and it's almost
sizzling in the summer heat. It looks very good.
I will give some of it to cabbage and also eat some of it
myself. OK, roll cabbage.
A Constitution check. Oh goodness.
So 9. This paste is delicious.
It is very spicy. Cabbage is more or less made of
milk, and this milk is good at satiating spices, but isn't
great at handling spices when they're ingested.
Have cabbage roll AD 4. Oh, no, cabbage.
Oh, cabbage. No taking damage.
I got it too. OK, so cabbage takes one damage
from the spice and looks at you like how could you do this to
me? I'm.
So. Sorry, we make sweets and so, so
cabbage kind of turns around and like side eyes you like how, how
dare you, you try and it's delicious.
It's great. You can handle it just fine.
But but for a creature made of milk, it's it's a little
intense. Yeah, you know, I probably
should have that. Then yeah, the unit and sales
people are so like they say. So what do you think?
And they like, try not to look at cabbage.
It's, it's pretty good. Thank you.
Would you like to? I just kind of like walk away
quickly? OK, as you're walking away,
they're like, would you like to buy a bag of of Curry powder?
And you, you just aren't even paying attention.
Yeah, no, I'm, I'm other. OK, we're going to check in
again with Cindy. Are you still trying the the
game? Nah, Nah, you gave up on the
game. No.
OK. Did did you return the ball?
Do I need to roll for solely to find it?
Yeah, you do. OK, what do I need to roll?
Just AD 20, you know what you're looking for.
So we're going to say it's investigation. 17 with no
anything so. Yeah, you find the ping pong
ball, do you? Are you going to have solely
hand it back to the vendor? Are you going to take it from
Solely's mouth? Soly can take it.
She's a she's a big bull bull pick.
She can handle it. Have Soly make a Dexterity check
13 OK, Soly launches it up and it ricochets off the wall and it
manages to sink into one of the bowls.
As as Soly returns the ball, the vendor says, oh, there's one,
there's one. Are you going to keep trying?
And he noticed that you're trying to leave.
Well, we didn't pay for that 1, so no.
OK. He's like, Oh well, yeah, you're
right, I shouldn't have given you that opportunity.
OK, next. And then he he ushers the the
next person and you can get back in line.
Or you could try and go somewhere else.
I should probably start wandering around again, just
seeing what else is there, seeing what people have to sell.
OK, we have drunk Gimli in the Tavern, Not drunk, a little
tipsy. He's hanging out with his
friends. He's he's a few beers deep for
sure. We have Schmidt and Quacko
enjoying some kebabs. They're strolling around having
a great time. Elodie had some Curry.
Cabbage is a little disgruntled by how spicy the Curry was.
And then Cindy, not quite having succeeded in winning the shiny
Magic car prize, is still cruising around the booths.
All of you seem to have gathered towards the center of the town
right now. You're like, in this crux that's
between the contest hall, some sort of fan club, the motel and
the Pokémon Center. And all of you hear a very
upsetting scream of a young man who says, Pablo, no, what do you
all do? We are not taking turns anymore.
You are all acting together. Boy, all was that.
Think we're going to go investigate font out what's
going on over there. All right.
You're going to head towards it. Absolutely.
OK. I feel like Cindy heads towards
it, but like, not like I'm running to go help more to like
see what's going on from a safe distance.
OK, but but Solly's eagerly galloping up.
I don't know why Solly gallops, but Solly is is is on there.
Like screw you, I'm going anyway 'cause she's sassy and doesn't
care what? Cindy.
Yeah, 'cause Cindy. 'S a bed screen great.
It probably just follows. I'm assuming it's like a crowd
that's like gathering around it. So he probably just follows the
crowd over there. OK, sure.
Sure not. Necessarily.
Are are you compelled to see what the hubbub is about?
Yeah, I'll probably just like check in with like Kevin.
He'd be like, yo, like did you, did you hear that?
And then like, we'll probably go check it out.
OK, so as you all kind of gather around this this commotion, you
see a young man, probably in his late teens, early 20s.
He has all these objects and boxes that seem to be general
like convenience goods for trainers.
He has got like all these lights that he has equipped to the
front of his booth, but they aren't turning on.
And he just says again, Pablo, where'd you go?
I need you. He's he's like very upset.
He's rummaging through his boxes.
He's like doing the thing where he did pokes his head around and
he he puts his his hand in like a salute over his eyes to to
block out the sun a little bit And he's he's trying to find
something or someone. Oi friend, are you looking for
someone? Yes, my, my precious Pablo.
He's gone missing. I literally cannot start the
shop without him. I I need you to find him for me.
He's about this big and he holds up his hands to be like about a
foot and and he's yellow and he has really cute little black
ears and a tiny black tail and adorable pink cheeks.
Please, please find him. Oh, he's a Pokémon then?
Yes, he's he's my cherished Pichu.
OK. Understandable.
If, if, if you find you gotta find him and anyone who finds
him, I'll, I'll, I'll reward you handsomely, I promise.
And Cindy roll investigation for sorry sees.
Gimli and says oh homeless man and then walks the other way.
Oh no. But Cindy probably would have
heard like a reward for finding this Pokémon.
So Cindy's like I can look for a Pichu.
Sure. OK, so so so you agree to to
this? Yeah, so at least look.
Around like. Like I guess would that be
investigation or would that be like perception or?
Something sure that would be, We're going to say perception.
We got a 15 OK for perception.
Yeah, you see a very peculiar set of footprints that lead
towards the direction you came from, Route One 121.
And it seems like currently stalking this path is a man in a
Hawaiian shirt and a duck holding kebabs, and they look
very sketchy. I guess I would ask them like
hey have you seen a a Picchu name was Pablo.
Pablo, Yeah. He's disgusted by her fashion,
First off. The T-shirt.
That says yeah, and just like the whole combo.
With the. Jean shorts.
He probably like, he probably like doesn't really scoff, but
like makes a face like A and then he's like, Oh yeah, the guy
at the booth was looking for a peachy.
I haven't seen anything. Come on Quacko, let's go.
LED What do you think of this commotion?
Yeah, I'm gonna like ask the guy like is is there anything I can
help you with while you don't have your Pichu?
Oh that, that's so nice of you sweetie.
But honestly, I just, I really need Pablo.
I can't do this without Pablo. And he starts to cry a little
bit. He's oh Pablo, please come back.
He said I I would look for it myself but but I can't leave my
booth. All my goods are here.
So I really need your help. Please.
Oh, OK, I'll I'll help. OK, great.
Yeah, I'll, I'll help. Look around.
You going to give a roll? Yeah, I'll do that.
Question for the DM. Yeah, there's Schmidt.
Hear him cry. Yeah.
OK, Schmidt starts to feel a little bit.
This is an investigation. Right, it's perception because
we we're looking for clues, but we don't really know what yet.
I got a dirty 20. Yeah, Dirty 20.
Great. So you notice that there are in
fact, some strange footprints that actually don't belong to
Schmidt and Quacko, who you haven't formally met yet.
However, you also noticed something a little more
problematic. Your cherished favorite whisk is
no longer with you. In fact, if all of you take a
moment, now realizing, wait, this Peach is kind of missing.
That's, that's an interesting thing, Cindy.
You look in your pocket, your Berry pouch from your parents
nowhere to be seen. Quacko, happily munching on his
kebabs, seems to realize his leak is gone, and then Lee
reaches over his his back in like a fighting pose to wield
his pick axe, and his pick axe is nowhere to be seen.
What? You got drunk at a bar?
That makes sense. No, let's.
Not get the concerning footprints that was found by
Cindy lead outwards towards Route 121.
They are two small person looking footprints and then a
number that you can't really count of just like tiptoe
footprints perhaps definitely from a Pokémon but you've no
idea what kind of Pokémon. Well, Cindy Full eats and
follows the footprints. All right.
Yeah, do the same. We charge into battle.
Great. I want to find.
I want to find my pickaxe. Yeah, I'm probably going to.
Follow seems clear it's that way.
I'm going to go find my pickaxe and maybe this P22.
Schmidt, you're the last one. What do you think?
Yeah. Did I see the footprints or am I
still just like like just noticing the leak is gone?
You absolutely like turned that way when you were like a
homeless person. You were like walking that
direction. But you noticed when Cindy
approached that there are in fact peculiar footprints that
are leading out the way. And then Quacko's leak is gone.
So. OK, I look at Quacko and I'm
like, how could you lose your leak?
And he kind of shrugs and quacks and looks you.
He's like, I got these kebabs. I mean, I wasn't paying
attention. Hey, OK, OK, that's my fault.
That's on me. And then so I take the kebabs
off him, like one at each hand and I'm like fly off and go like
see if you can get ahead of me. And then I run off towards there
and I sent Quacko ahead of me. Quacko flies up ahead, flies in
front of these so far unmet travelers that are all on the
same mission. Enters route one 121 kind of
scans around the area, notices up in the air.
There's a bunch of hot pip that are floating on the breeze.
They're smiling and just kind of cheering to themselves.
They're like me just in the wind.
Quacko observes this winding path of like kind of pointless
and excessive fencing in front of you.
It seems to be like segmenting areas of grass.
And there's some people milling about.
There's a large building. It's got a sign on it that says
closed. There's a there's a Arbor to the
South of port of some sort. Not as big as the one in Lily
Cove, but it seems like there's there's a Bay this to the South
of where you are and can't seem to find any further evidence
besides the footprints that are just headed in this direction.
He he flies back down to you and kind of reports this with a
series of quacks and pointing. Continue on just running with
two kebabs, one any chance? Perfect.
It's like dual blades or something.
The four of you, or I guess the eight of you, are off.
You're running towards Route 121.
You're leaving the festival directly in your path, on either
side of the fence that blocks your way.
There's like a kid, and he's a he's in a blue T-shirt.
He's wearing tan shorts. He has a red backwards baseball
cap. And he looks at Schmidt straight
in the eyes. And he says, you locked eyes
with me. That means we have to battle.
I push the kid and I keep running.
Give me a strength check. And that's a 1, so you.
You go to push this kid and he is like a wall.
He is not moving. He's like, I'm not messing with
you, Mr. you locked eyes with me, so we have to battle.
I guess diplomacy. I try to reason with them.
I'm like, look, kid, we got some stuff stolen from us.
I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll double back and battle you
on my way back, OK? I got to chase down these people
right now. That'll be a persuasion.
OK, 13. 13 it's not quite enough.
This kid, this is like his truth.
This is all he knows that if if you lock eyes with someone,
there's it's it's happening, it's going down and he's he says
no more messing around. I choose you Tim.
And he throws his his netball and there is just this little
fuzzy purple bug and it's very round and it goes and it just
stares at Quacko. And it's like dancing, like,
like not dancing. But it's, it's moving like an
idol pose of a character in a fighting game.
You know, it's just ready to scrap, all right.
There's no way I can. There's no way around it.
Let's battle. You failed to strength check too
like a an 8 year old kid. So Schmidt.
As he sends out his beloved Tim, he eyes all of you and he's
like, I think I can take on all of you.
So this is this is an invitation for all of you.
Troll initiative. Despite the fact that this is a
4V1, Tim and his his trainer Calvin seem to not be
intimidated by you at all. Amazing.
He's not going first, but he is well and prepared and Schmidt
gets to go first because, in fact, he was the one that was
originally challenged. Schmidt has like, like, he's
like rubbing his head with like his head in his hands.
He's just like. Not his kebab hands.
Kebab pants. Yeah, he probably dropped the
kebabs by this point. OK, for sure.
But he's just like, I guess we have to battle now.
Schmidt doesn't battle much so it's just like Quacko use Peck
or whatever, I don't care. Great, Roll me a roll me a Peck.
I rolled to 3 so it's a 3 + 3. All right, Quacko swoops in, has
had enough of this kids bullshit and goes to PEC Tim, this little
purple fuzzy bug, and Tim just dodges out of the way like he
saw it from the future, like knew what was happening.
Calvin goes, nice job Tim. And then in that goes, and it's
now Cindy's turn, all right. Use Ember.
If he possibly could, he buries his hands, his head further in
his hands. Yeah, shame is a free action.
Yeah. Cindy uses Ember.
We got an 8. An 8 that's unfortunately does
not connect. Calvin shouts to Tim.
He's like Timmy Tim dodge it. And then Tim's like and like
jumps and just dodges the ember and it's you're starting to
worry like, OK, this kids like kind of full of it.
But like, maybe he's on to something like this.
A little scary. LED's turn.
Yeah, we're going to use draining KISS.
Very cool, let's see it. Yeah, we got a 12.
OK dude, is that natural or did was that what you added?
That's what I added. OK, yeah, cabbage.
The military kind of floats in for a for a sinister smooch.
And once again, Calvin is like, damn, touch it.
And then Tim goes and just barely gets out of the way.
Calvins confidence is skyrocketing.
He's like I always knew I could take on 4 trainers at once.
And he says Tim use tackle and he goes to tackle the Pokémon
who was recently attacked him which was cabbage 3.
It's cabbage. You know, I don't think it does.
So Calvin makes this command for Tim and Tim makes his classic
battle kite and dives towards cabbage and cabbage just kind of
floats out of the way and Calvin says oh we'll get him next time
Tim. And Tim goes breathe and enjoy
and fighting spirit. Up next is Gimli and Trevor.
On each other, we'll go in with a tackle 17 can't.
Believe the homeless man followed me from the beach.
Do you say that out loud? Yeah, OK.
I'm not going to make any rules or anything, that's that's up to
Ginley to decide. Regardless, this tackle hits, so
what's the damage? Is a total of 2 damage.
Nice. Yeah.
So yeah, what was that? And then I was going to harden
right afterwards, but I guess you describe that.
Sure is. Is that a?
That's a bonus action, right? Yeah, it's a bonus action.
Yeah, cool. Yeah, so Trevor the Rock and
Rolla seems, you know, somehow saw, I don't know how it has
eyes, but it can tell that all the other Pokémon missed their
attacks. And it he thinks no more of this
nonsense, and he catches Tim the Venonat in the middle of its
victory dance from dodging all these attacks and feels a nice
little blow to it. We're going to cycle background
on initiative up to Schmidt and Quacko.
Tim and Calvin are like, otherwise preoccupied with
everyone else, right? More or less what are you
planning? Just dip and continue on down
the road. Yeah, you can try.
You are in like a narrow like fenced area because this route
for some reason has random fences on it.
You can, you can roll probably just Dexterity.
I'm thinking stealth makes sense.
Well, that was a 20. OK.
And that was a 5. OK, who got the 20?
I'll give it to Quacko. OK.
I feel like Schmidt getting A5 there makes more sense.
Yeah, Calvin noticed. That, but it's hold on, hold on,
hold on. Yeah, that's what I rolled.
I didn't have the modifiers. Oh.
OK, if it's less than 10 it won't matter.
So it's 5 + 7 seven. Calvin looks over to He's like,
given up already. Oh, am I OK?
He's. I didn't want to fight you in
the 1st place and then I keep trying to leave.
OK, he said. I told you the rules.
We lock eyes. We have to battle.
This is like his whole life. This is like.
Yeah, so Quacko can leave. He's not going to let you pass.
You already tried to push him. You can send Quacko on like a
mission and I guess escape initiative if you really want.
Yeah, I'll send Quacko on a mission.
What? Are you going to have Quacko do?
He's going to keep following the footprints, OK?
He's got to get that leak. Back OK I will let him escape
but he will provoke 1 attack of opportunity so 15.
Does that break armor class? Yeah, barely.
OK, Yeah. Oh, and a Max role so that
Rako's going to take 7 damage as he tries to fly away from Tim
Sandean solely all. Right, I'm going to have solely
try to ember again. Let's get it.
We got an 18. Yeah, that'll hit roll damage
and double the dice because it's super effective.
So we got a. Four and a one to five. 5 Great
Tim takes a massive Ember 18 to hit in the description.
At what point does Ember burn? 19 or 20?
OK, so close. Yeah, Tim, the ventinet takes a
terrible amount of damage and let's have a sad 3.
And Calvin says, Tim, you got this, I believe in you.
And then Ventinette goes blade and like looks up in like hope
and like kind of like gives anime eyes over to Calvin and
then turns around and faces you all again.
LED and Cabbage are up next. Can you finish off Tim?
Let's find out. We're going to go for a draining
kids again, A 13 no. 13 barely breaks the armor class of Tim
the Venninet. Wonderful.
Why don't you roll damage? It is resisted, but there's not
much HP left. So I got a 5.
Yeah, that is more than enough. Do you you like describing how
Kabbage wants to KO Tim the Venninet?
Kabbage is definitely just going to like grab its little fuzzy
face with both of her arms and just give a big ol smooch.
Very big old smooch. Like biggest smooch you've ever
seen. Great.
Going to suck the consciousness right out of it.
Awesome. Wait, I also will heal my one
point of damage from this right? Yes, you will.
Absolutely. Let's.
Go. The the life energy that you get
back is kind of warm because of the ember that Tim just took
your your mouth still tingles cabbage, but you aren't in pain
anymore, if that makes sense. Calvin says, Oh, I can't believe
you beat me. Tim return and then he faces you
all and he says that was really close you.
This isn't the last you'll see of me.
And like runs away into the grass.
I'm so looking forward to seeing Timmy.
At some point. I love the youngster storyline.
Do we just continue on this path?
Yeah, absolutely. OK, Quacko's already like a good
ways ahead, right? Yeah, Quacko's a ways ahead if
you would like him to try something.
If she looks, I guess it's. Just another perception check.
Sure, go for it. You're a little further down the
route, so you're welcome to to try it.
You notice that's like the northern part of this horizontal
route leads to another route. And it seems to be like really
hot over there. It seems like there's a jungle,
but they're kind of in the middle of a heat wave.
And then towards the South, again, there's a Bay and there's
a big mountain in the middle of this Bay around the dock to
where the ferry would pick people up.
There seems to be like a hole in the wall that is like a, it's
like a dwelling that's been carved into the stone on the
Cliff side. And it seems rather suspicious.
If everyone else is still like with me, sure, I'll communicate
that to them. Excellent.
And then I guess we'll all just head out.
Sure. I.
Guess we're at party now. Dustin in to the sketchy abode.
The sketchy Rd. You still have to navigate some
funky fencing I need. Let's see LED.
Got the KO so have LED make a perception check. 16. 16 Cool.
First and foremost, you all notice something a little
strange way off in the distance. It sounds like it could be miles
away, but you all hear, for some reason, you hear a very, very
faint sound of like a spring, just repeatedly, just like
boing, boing, boing, just like really far away.
And it's very ominous but also delightful in a weird way you
aren't quite sure. You also witness on the other
side of the fence, there's an old man.
He's wearing a suit. He has a hat, he has a cane.
He's hanging out with an orange puppy dog and he, he, he gives
you a look and he says why do you all look so concerned?
Have you seen a Pichu? It's a little yellow Pokémon.
It has black on its ears. He goes and he pulls out a
sketch pad and he like furiously sketches on it and he's he
reveals it to you. He says, you mean like this?
And give me a second to roll something.
It's literally like a circle with ears.
It's like, it's like not a good. One I was dude, I was so waiting
for him. Like he probably just so bad.
Exactly like that. He says.
It just leaves he's. Like he says, no, I I haven't
seen anything like that and. He's right.
He he looks to. To.
To where like you last battled Calvin and Tim and you can still
hear Calvin in the distance say, like me like you want, this is
not the last you'll see of me. And he says, did did that kid
tell you that thing that if you lock eyes with him, you have to
battle? Yeah.
OK, that's not true at all. Don't, don't he.
He says that to everyone. I think I'm I'm no real Pokémon
player, but I thought that wasn't a rule.
He, he just looks at you and he looks at his sketchbook and he's
like, oh, I really thought that was a good drawing.
I thought, I thought that they would know.
And he says me and. Claro are halfway down the road.
OK, he's, he's an old man. So he's just, he's like trying
to make small talk. He's like, are you enjoying the
festival? Well, it was pretty good until
our stuff got stolen. Oh no.
Out looking for it, yeah. There's a thief among us.
Suspicious is what he says. Yes.
And Mogus, this guy and the moon just pops out of the grass and
says SUS. It does not actually do that.
This man is he's wearing a suit. He's like in really fancy
clothes. It seems like he just wanted to
get away from the hubbub for a bit.
Seems like he was a little overwhelmed.
He's just like an old guy with a cane, and he's accompanied by a
little orange dog that's at his side, sitting happily.
He's just kind of staring off into the horizon.
He's just having a good time. So what brings you out here,
gentlemen? So you're what was that?
Our stuff was stolen. They're getting away and you're
just going to strike up a conversation.
Yeah, Walter turns over to Schmidt and he says it was just
polite to introduce myself to strangers.
I you know, we're all here having a great.
Time with the festival was stolen.
We got to get a move on, old man.
He he goes and kind of like shakes his face in in discontent
and he's like fine, be beyond with you.
And he turns around and he he kneels and he pets his dog and
his dog kind of and he's just not even paying attention to you
anymore. You make your way towards this
little hole in the wall. It is quite dark.
It seems to be like almost someone like carved out like a
small house or one might describe as like a secret base
perhaps into this wall and there's no lighting, so you're
just kind of stumbling around in the dark.
So we can see. So we can see true. 30 feet in
the dark. OK.
Which if it's a hideout, that might be the whole hideout.
So Sully doesn't mind at all. Sully notices something and
maybe let's out like a little Yip, but I'll need the rest of
you to make a Dexterity check or if you have some other plan.
I've got a 17 of the Dexterity check.
OK. Is this for people or for
Pokémon dex check or both? It's for people.
You can OK. I got A7.
I got a 14. 15. All of you succeed except for
Gimli. And Gimli gets swept up in a net
trap and he flings towards the ceiling.
And then the lights flash on and you hear like a voice that
sounds like it's gone through some sort of effect or like a
megaphone or like a DJ booth or something.
And it says, who goes there? I start to make fun of Gimli.
Like how are you going to fall for a trap in a cave?
You're homeless, you should know caves like the back of your
hand. Oh, I'm not homeless.
What are you? What are you talking to me all
this time about homeless? Yes, homeless man.
I'm not homeless. I'm just gonna yell back to the
voice who who are? You, the voice yells back.
I should be asking who are you? And then you hear like some what
sounds like knives clamping together repeatedly and in your
direction. It's like like they're, they're
getting closer. And you hear or no, the lights
flashed on. You see a big old crab.
There's a there's a big old crab.
And there's a figure, a pretty small one, a little bit bigger
than Calvin, who seems to be dressed in very dark clothing
and hiding his face. And he has some sort of like
device attached to his face that makes his voice a lot more epic.
And. Suddenly use Amber on the ropes
of the net trap to release Gimli.
Absolutely. We're all going to die.
Time for fire. Oh no.
OK, we got a 2. A2.
It hit the net. OK, you don't hit the net, but
you do singe Gimli. Gimli roll AD 4.
I'm sorry, we got a 2, take two damage, Yeah.
Yeah, you're going to take two damage.
You notice that like in either, this is kind of like a
rectangular room and then either back corner, there's just mounds
and mounds of stuff. There's all sorts of stuff
there. And most notably, at the top of
one of the mounds, there is a bound up Picchu who is crying
this this boy and this large crab.
Say, who dares enter Alfie's base without permission?
Alfie. Are you old enough to have a
secret base and be kidnapping Pokémon?
He he his face is covered with like masking, but he kind of
like shuffles in his feet and he's like, who are how old are
you? You, you, you can't tell me what
to do, mom. And then he like is like he's he
kind of steps back and he's like, no, I didn't mean to say
that. Leave.
Get out of here. Do I see?
Like the rest of our stuff or is it just the Picchu?
You can try and look. Yeah, sure, I'll make a
perception check. Yeah.
I got to RIP open this netting by the way, because clearly the
ember wasn't going to work, so I'm going to try to do that.
You don't have your pickaxe. There's probably no other
implement you can do. What?
What means? Do you wish to open this net?
My hands. Frank manhandle it.
Give me a strap. Oh.
No, I was also a 3020 on the Perception 30. 20 later only got
11. 11 Yeah, you don't break free of the netting.
And Schmidt, you do in fact, see Quackos leak.
It is pretty close to the Picchu in this pile of just like stuff
that you're assuming does not belong to Alfie.
OK, I just casually walk over there and grab it.
OK, you can attempt to. You have to roll the stuff.
I would attempt to casually walk over there and grab it.
I don't think he's trying to beat that was another 19.
What is it for? Stealth.
Dexterity. Yeah, you definitely do it.
Now give me another Dexterity check for removing the leak from
the pile. He hasn't noticed you get over
there cuz you're a stealthy lad, but this might be kind of noisy.
Then another dex OK +29. 9 All right you Quacko manages to
secure his leak from the rubbish stick but this grabs Alfie's
attention and he says no you are not going to take what is
rightfully mine and he asks his crab, his unidentified crab to
use a bubble attack and does an 18 hit Quacko.
Yes. All right.
Quacko, why are you taking so much damage?
Quacko takes 4 water damage, gets barrage with bubbles, and
he says if you're going to try and take my stuff, you're going
to have to fight me first. Doesn't seem like this guy's
going to let you go without a fight.
You're welcome to roll initiative, or if you want to
try and skill your way out of it you're also welcome to, but
you're going to have to come up with some checks.
For me, Gimli is still suspended on the ceiling.
An isolative hand to see if I can grab my Berry pouch and
maybe the Pichu. You'll have to stealth first to
get over there and now he's very intense, so it might be it's a
high check. You're welcome to.
But yeah, I mean, there's also already some action over there
because he just attacks Quacko. So it's pretty much impossible,
but you can try. Yeah, no, I got a 544, got a
four. Yeah, you try to go over there
and then this crabs snaps a giant pincer in your face.
Doesn't attack you, but it's kind of just like, don't even
think about it kind of thing. I'm not very effective against
that so I'll probably roll initiative but OK vibe.
If I think if one of you is, it'd be wise if you all did
heard this crab. But I have to like, don't I have
to consume an action or something?
It would be. An action we can you can try an
intuit something that you want Trevor to do, but it might not
happen. You could tell that tired of
getting? Bodied by like actual children.
Because we're level 1. We're bad.
We're unexperienced adventures. We're not even adventures.
Really. Also basically children.
Yeah, well. I've never battled, so yeah.
Has also never battled. All right, Alfie with his voice
changer says Drew go for a bubble and he goes for a bubble
into solely. No.
Does a 11 hit solely? No.
OK, the bubbles fly around solely.
They look like when they pop they might sting or hurt or
something, but solely manages to dexterously dodge out of the
way. It is now L DS turn to deal with
this crab. First of all, I'm just going to
be like kid like where are your parents are like?
He kind of cowers back again and with his voice turn just like,
don't ask me about my parents. And then his crab collapse its
pincers at you. Like, like, very threateningly.
I will attack the the crab with the with the draining kiss.
All right, roll it. 9. OK and 9 does not break this
crab's armor class goes to smooch this crab and the crab
says Nope and pinces at the direction of cabbage not making
contact but having it keep away and he says not the crab but
Alfie says this is your last chance to leave.
We're not. We're not.
We're not going anywhere, Pill. All right, you're in the net.
You're welcome to give. An order, but you're also
welcome to free yourself. Or you can try to do both, but
one of them is probably going to suck.
Maybe not the. Right, well I was like, I was
wondering if if I try to like find a weakness in the net using
like survival, would that be a possible thing I could do?
Yes, yes, and you could do that and then it would depend on what
you find. You might get a bonus to your
role, but that will consume your concentration and Trevor won't
be able to act. OK, even no bonus actions or
anything. Just full concentration we could
as a favor. I could let him try and
improvise an attack if if that is your course of action, but it
probably won't work. Yeah, I'm going to I'm going to
actually just yeah, try to find a weakness in this net.
OK, so you ever. Do survival see what happens?
17. OK, yeah, you find a weakness,
add 10 to your next strength role, which you can do now if
you want. In that 20.
You, you for yourself from the net, and you'd like basically do
an incredible backflip to land back on your feet.
Kind of shuttle myself doing that way.
Absolutely. I'm like, how did I do?
It's just one of those things that like, you know, you're
tipsy and it just kind of works. Trevor cannot take an action
because you startle him via his tremor sense because you made
like a small little shutter in The Cave and now he's spooked.
He's like, is there an enemy behind me?
You know so. Sorry friend, I was trying to
land. So sorry buddy.
Excellent. We have Schmidt.
Schmidt and Quacko are currently behind this crowd on and
therefore have advantage on their attack if they decide.
Advantage. You are flanking actually.
Yeah, that's flanking. OK, it was.
Hard for you to get in that position, but now you're in a
good position. 9 + 3 does 12 hit?
No, I have advantage you. Have advantage from your role in
then. Oh, oh, that's a dirty 21.
Yeah, no. What was your natural role?
18, so 18 + 3. OK, I was thinking you have your
leak equipped so if you got a 19 you would crit.
Oh yeah, now. But almost so close.
But yeah, roll your roll your attack or sorry, roll your
damage. Alfie says Drew dodge it and it
seems like he his face has slipped on his voice change a
little bit and Drew takes a takes a Peck to the face.
This this big old crab seems to recoil a little bit.
Took a little bit of damage there.
Very nicely done. Well, my only move is Ember.
Your only move. Well, my only move that does
damage it. Always needs to do damage
though. Yes, yes, of course.
Tail whip's useless. It's fine.
What tail whip? Oh, is that damage?
No, it doesn't. It weaken them for like, you
know, we have two physical factors.
Saving. Through, yeah, for like everyone
else that's trying to hit it, that's not a difference between
physical and special, right? They might source off of
different stats, but no, it's pretty condensed in this this
homebrew so so. Leer helps increase the damage
that you get. Yeah, yeah.
Status move I guess. In this homebrew are generally
better than status moves in the games, so keep that in mind.
I guess we'll tail whip. All right, I have to make a
Charisma save. Is that what it is?
Drew the Crab fails its check. So what happens?
Plus one attack on foe for the duration of the I guess
encounter. And I believe that applies to
everyone. Yeah.
So that's pretty neat. You watch as solely kind of
turns around and and flaps its its six tails at the crab and
the crab kind of looks at it and then gets kind of confused and
flustered and takes a step back. It's like and a successful tail
whip. Very nicely done.
Can solely also kind of like as part of my turn like get out of
the way of a possible future hit?
You can move. You could move to back up you
are currently. Back up a little bit, like not
so far away that I can't do anything, but like farther away
to like not be the center of attention.
Sure. Yeah, you were at 10 feet.
You can move up to 30 feet away if you'd like. 30 feet's gonna
put you outside of the The Cave. 20 feet would like put you at
the door. Drew, This crab of unidentified
species is going to attempt to go for a vice grip into Quacko,
changing the direction that it is facing.
Nine hit Quacko. Oh all right Drew.
The crab smacks its its claws in the direction of Quacko and
unfortunately does not connect. Alfie and Drew are both looking
quite frustrated at this moment. Alfie said we'll get them next
time and the crab makes crab sounds.
I think we're going to go for another draining kiss.
All right, everyone who is not Quacko has advantage because you
are now flanking. Nice.
Nice. 12:00 and 11:00. Nice.
We'll go with the 12. Yeah, you hit, roll your damage
and it's super effective. It is.
This is a dark type crab, 13. That's a big hit, cabbage.
The military floats over to the crab, gives it a smooch on its
cheek because it doesn't see it coming, because it's facing
Quacko and seems to drain some life force, a significant amount
of life force out of this crab. The crab, if it had an HP bar,
would definitely be in the yellow.
I guess I'm just looking to go for a tackle here.
Nine other than that. 9 unfortunately will not connect
Trevor charges into the crab and it's carapace on the back.
It just Trevor struck it at just the wrong spot, seems to glance
off. Is there anything else you want
to do? I, I want to encourage you all
to, you know, use maybe in place of an action or just as bonus
action, maybe trying to interact with your surroundings.
And I'll let you know what it won't, won't work.
I do think I want to do like some kind of perception of my
surroundings to see if there's some creative way I can use
Trevor for something, but I just wanted like get a better
observation of my surrounding. Sure, absolutely.
Go for it. The 21.
You, you look at the inside of this cave and or I should I say
the secret base, It's it's kind of adorned in a silly way.
There's like a carpet that you all are battling on.
It has a picture of a marrow on it.
You don't know if that's stolen or if if it's legitimately
purchased or not. There's a poster of a Viper on
the wall. There seems to be a box on the
wall to your left that has a bunch of electronic stuff in it,
like it seems like a breaker box or something.
And there are two lights overhead on the ceiling.
There's one directly above you and then there's one further
down into the room where all the items are being kept.
There's only one door out as you can see to the best of your
knowledge, but it just seems like there's some sort of tunnel
that's about croissant sized that's in the back of the room
that leads somewhere. Are we all fighting on the
carpet? Yeah, you're all on the carpet
right now. OK, Interesting.
It's got a really cute marrow on it.
It's great. Yeah.
Are there pads on the ground that make you spin in circles?
No, but there are pads on the ground with music notes on them.
You aren't sure what they do. Oh.
Nice, I like to play the first five notes in Megalomania You.
Have to walk on them first, but yeah, we'll move on to Schmidt
and Quacko then. Can I yell at this kid and tell
him to back off and go home? Sure.
Are you? There's Quacko yelling.
I yell, but I tell Quacko to yell at him as well.
OK, Yeah, you can give me two intimidation checks.
I'm going to give Quacko the crit because that will be funny.
And Schmidt rolled an 11 with this plus zero so.
Great, Schmidt kind of yells at. Do you want to describe how you
yelled? You what?
What do you say? It can't be.
Too good because you're old eleven, but.
Yeah, yeah. I basically make fun of him
telling him like go back home like mom called for dinner.
OK, he doesn't seem to care about what you said at all, but
Quacko just quacks like a vicious, terrible, ominous
quack. It's like so demoralizing.
It's the worst and drew the Krodon seems to recoil from it.
Just unbelievable that such a small little duck could make
such a fearsome battle cry and he'll have to skip his turn.
So that's that's a pretty dramatic, but it isn't very
spicy. In fact, a crit so.
Let's go for another tail whip from the back of the room.
Sure drew the Krodon got 12, but ties favored the attacker so you
get another bonus to hit Stacks up to 5 right?
Yep. So we're +2 right now, yeah.
And you're still flanking, so it's advantage too.
Wild. OK, Everyone or everyone that is
in Quacko, because he's facing Quacko right now.
He's on the other side of him. I guess I'll look for my Berry
pouch. Oh, dirty 20.
Let's go. Yeah, you, you see your stuff
for sure. It's it's in a pretty similar
spot to where Quacko found the leak.
And you also notice the whisk and the pickaxe.
They're all just kind of the freshest items that have
appeared in this pile of loot. I still kind of stay in the
back, but now that I've located it I'm like OK cool, sure.
Yeah, it would be dangerous to cross this crap.
Alfie was very intimidated by a duck.
Or not Alfie, but Drew. So Alfie's trying to give
commands to Drew, the crowd on, and Drew's just shaking his
head. Nope, shaking it the best way
that the crap can and is kind of paralyzed in fear, thankfully to
Quacko. So back to Elodie.
I, I think I'm going to go ahead and do a, a, a good old training
kiss. Great.
I think she. Oh, oh, not 20.
Oh geez. Let's go.
Yeah, so you, yeah, it probably is.
Let's just see how much damage you deal.
It's super effective and a crit. So you're going to add whatever
your maximum role is. You're going to add 8 + 2 D 8
plus whatever your bonus is. Do you want to describe how you
kiss the scrap to death? Yeah, once again, totally.
Just going to grab that little crab, give it a big smooch.
Yeah, I don't know how else. I was like this is a cannon but
how can I imagine it is like DBZ style teleporting around the
crab and they get rapid fire kisses.
Wait, yes, that's perfect. OK, Rapid.
Fire kisses. Perfect.
You see exactly that. There seems to be like an aura
that's glowing around cabbage like and you could swear that
you're in the distance, someone going like charging up.
That's me. I'm doing that.
Yeah. OK.
So yeah, LED is just shouting and.
Little cracks of lightning going off, yes.
Absolutely. And this crab faints.
Its eyes turn into exes and it sinks into the ground, and Alfie
is thoroughly upset. He rips off his mask and you see
a kid probably no longer younger than Calvin, probably about the
same age, maybe a little bit older.
And he says, I can't believe you came here and ran into my secret
base and beat up Drew. And I'm so upset.
I'm just going to leave. And he just runs out the base.
And he recalls, crowd up into the pokey ball.
And he just jumps into the Bay and starts swimming.
Kid don't. OK.
I feel like we should be responsible for this child.
I hope he drowns. No, don't say that.
He does have a crab, so he's probably OK.
He kind of feels for him as a once small child that was
roaming the lands. So you all are in this cave,
there's all this items that don't belong to you, and there
is a crying Pichu that seems to have hope in its eyes.
I'm gonna go straight for the Pichu I think, and try and
disentangle it. You you pick up a peachu.
Not sure whether or not this is in fact Pablo, but it is a
peachu. It is all bound in ropes.
Can I try and unbind it first? Can I say Pablo and like see if
I get a response? As you say, Pablo's ears perk
up, then it's cheeks. A little spark, a little bit
goes, but it's mouth is covered up with rope and you can't
really. Oh no, it's a baby.
It's a baby. Yeah, you can make a dex check
to try and unrope. It perfect 17.
Great. Yeah, the ropes come off.
You can tell that they were, they were too tight.
They weren't. They weren't very cozy.
Pablo is so happy to be freed and he jumps into your arms and
he's now crying tears of joy. I'm going to tuck him into my
little apron. All of you locate your items.
You found the whisk, you found the pickaxe, you found the Berry
pasta, and you found the leek, and now you got Pablo in an
apron. What's your What's your game
plan does? Anything else look like freshly
stolen, like from other people that might be at the festival
that we could like bring back and give to the hotel lost and
found or something? You can give a freshly stolen
look, See. OK what what check is that to
perception? Oh dirty 20/30/20 yeah.
The 19 + 1 so. You find a blue pokey ball that
has a sigil on it. That who found the Cindy?
Cindy. Cindy immediately recognizes
this as a police Pokémon. OK.
Just stealing Pokémon from the police.
What the hell? So I I grabbed that to it's.
Like an actual D Gen. What the heck?
Just to bring back to bring it to like the hotel lost and found
or try and find the owner. Sure, of course.
I would also like to go to the police to report everything that
has happened. Sure.
Yeah, so we'll bring the Pokémon back to the police.
We all leave in the base. Absolutely.
Yeah, sounds good. Yeah, you head back down the
path of Route 121, Calvin's number to be seen.
It seems like Walter the the Gentleman took off, but you do
hear a much, much louder Boing Boing off in the grass.
No, I'm not too interested. I got that thing I'm looking for
as well. We got stuff to do, yeah.
Yeah, I think we're kind of out of here.
I'm a little tipsy and tired, I don't know if you heard.
I just got stuff stolen. There's been this homeless guy
following me. You were all walking back into
Lily Cove. You're carrying all of these
things. And you walk up to the shop.
You can now see on the top it is it has some text on the sign of
the booth and it says Kay Hyphen Mart.
And it seems like the guy who's running the Mart got a little
name tag. His name is Kay.
And he looks at you all and he says Pablo, my boy.
And Pablo leaps out of Ellie's apron and jumps into his arms.
And Pablo shed some more tears of joy.
He's like, I'm so glad they found you.
Please, please let me let me reward you all.
So please add to your inventory five premier balls.
He's decided to reward you with some, some of the most premier
of pokey balls. And, and he asks all of you,
thank you so much. What, what are your names?
Is there anything else I can get for you?
Well, I'm Gimli. Hello, yes, my name is Schmidt.
I would like the reward. OK, yeah, roll me a persuasion.
I rolled A4. Oh, I'm proficient in it.
Yep. So +26.
There you go. Big number.
OK, Yeah, K of the Kmart looks at you and he's like, I, I gave
you those premier polls, but I mean, I, I'd be, if you would
like something particular, please speak up.
But yeah, I I have to still run a business, so I'm not just
going to go away all my inventory here.
OK I had a brain fart on not putting two and two together
that the premier pulse was the reward.
It no, it seems in character, so that's fine.
Yeah, it's. Cindy introduces herself.
Hi, I'm Cindy. Great to meet you Cindy.
And and who is this one? Who had Pablo in the apron?
I'm Elodie. Welcome, welcome all of you.
My, my family recently acquired the, the rights to licensing for
all of the marts in the Hoenn region.
So I, I look forward to, to, to myself and my cousins all
serving you. The department stores closed,
but soon, soon they will have me working on the 5th floor when it
opens back up after the festival.
So I, I please hope you come by. I will tell my family of your
heroism and be sure that they treat you nicely wherever they
may see you. Thank you.
Thank you so much. It seems like the festival has
gotten a lot, lot, lot more crowded.
The pervasive boiling from Route 121 seems to have snuck up
behind you. You all turn around and you see
a Pokémon, and I need you all to make an intelligence check.
Just raw intelligence roll. Just the humans.
Perfect. I'm dumb as bricks.
Let's go. I don't know anything about
nothing. Intelligence.
I got a dirty 20. OK, I say that I got an 18.
I got a 12. OK.
Plus I got a 14. 14 All right, everyone who isn't Cindy, this
is like the cutest thing you've ever seen.
This is like a it's a pig on a spring and it's holding a ball
on its head. It is so cute, like even
Schmidt, your your boundaries are a little broken right now.
You're like, what is this pig? I can't believe it.
Cindy, you feel incredibly hot, like, as if like you were in a
furnace, like incredibly, uncomfortably hot, and you're
filled with just an overwhelming sense of dread.
The surroundings of the festival dip away, cut to blackness and
you find yourself in a large room without lighting, and
there's this massive array of glass tubing lining the walls in
the ceiling. There's a strange 4 legged
figure against the far wall of the room, and it's just
collapsed and exhaustion, maybe close to death.
It has a massive glowing flame standing in front of it.
The flame turns its form towards you and it has a face and it
gives you a nod. You hear a familiar voice to
say, come on, we have to get out of here, as they tug your arm
and pull you backwards, you try to run, but you you just can't
move. You're completely paralyzed in
fear. Roll AD 6. 2.
You take two points of psychic damage as this vision slips away
and you're just sweating and slowly looks up at you and lets
out like a comforting coup, as if to say what's wrong.
Sounds only a little terrifying. As this all happens, as Cindy
has a terrible, terrible psychic experience and you are ogling an
adorable pig, you have your new prizes in hand.
You have all your stolen items returned.
Alfie's nowhere to be found. Calvin might show up again at at
some point, but all of a sudden the sky goes dark and Cindy is
not having this based on this terrible emotional experience
she just had that this this point has triggered in her mind.
The Pokémon band has stopped playing and the sounds of people
in Pokémon telling about have have just completely stopped.
And this is not a vision. Everyone directs their gaze
upwards to where the sun used to be and there is a large aircraft
that seems to have blotted out the sun panels on the sides of
this blimp looking vehicle open and smoke comes billion out of
chambers on the sides and hordes of bats come flying out in a in
a frenzy. People in dark clothing wearing
unusual machinery over their eyes rappel down on lawn ropes
and they have pokey balls at their belts.
There's a there's a voice that blooms from the sky that says
remain calm, comply and no one gets hurt.
The professional battlers that were on their stage turned their
attention to this invasion and the Pokémon that were battling A
Gengar and Altaria positioned themselves in front of all the
trainers in the crowd to face the oncoming threat.
As the bats descend they are screeching and being very
disorienting and annoying and seems to be just causing panic
and a commotion. So what do you want to do?
Probably try and hide go back to my grandparents.
Sure, yeah, roll a stealth. Oh, no, no.
Yikes. Stealth is dex.
I got a 5. OK, you got a 5.
You're, you're looking fervently for your grandparents, the the
people who raised you. You are in such emotional
distress from being granted this vision that caused you actual
physical pain. And now there's this terrorist
attack happening on the festival you.
Are. So like, you're just panicking.
You just can't have it. What's everyone else doing?
That's heading down a crowd. Sounds like a yeah.
I'm freaking out. Definitely scooping up Trevor in
my hand like I do. Like Schmidt's and like who has
make sure everyone's OK? Who has the police?
Probably make sure because he knows Quackos hurt so he.
Probably. I think Cindy has the police
pokeball. OK, the police pokeball starts
to like make a siren out of it and it opens itself and standing
in front of you is a big orange dog, much like the one that
Walter had. But not belonging to Walter.
It's bigger. And it looks back and like
doesn't recognize you, but it kind of gives you a glare like,
all right, I got to I got to do something here.
And it just stands in front of you and it lets out a howl.
And you notice all around you there's all these people who
seem like police of some sort. And they're running around with
their various Pokémon. The two professional battlers on
the stage are have turned their battling not from show and now
to protecting people. I would like Schmidt to make a
history check. Does 23 get you what you need?
Yeah, it does. One of these battlers I was
putting on a show is is Morty from the Ecritique gym and he
was battling with his world famous Gengar.
He's he's a little bit older from from his years of prime.
He's probably in his late 40s, but he's still a healthy looking
man. He's adorned with these jewelry
or like emblems that seem to they're familiar to you as the
history and loan religion of the Jyoto region.
And he's has his gang guard throwing blobs of sludge and
spooky magic at these zoo bats and these people that are
rappelling down. You notice as all of this chaos
is happening, one of the people who is rappelling down, who is
advisor over your eyes, has a long pink ponytail coming out
from the back of their cap. And they throw out a ball from a
gloved hand. And this ball opens up.
It's a pokie ball as you recognize it, but the laser, the
deanimizing laser that's a part of it, is not red.
It is a dark, murky black and it shoots towards Morty's Gengar
and captures. It oh, oh, no.
Uh oh. Let me get Elodie to make a
perception check. Right, I can do that.
I got a six. A6 OK.
Yeah. You don't you don't notice much,
but there, you know, you're still in front of Kay's booth
and Kay's carrying Pablo. He's like, not again, not again.
Team Magma and Team Aqua, they they disappeared decades ago.
Who who is this? Who would do this to our
festival? You all notice as the police are
reuniting with their arcanines, one of them runs up to Cindy and
says, oh, wow, thanks. Thanks for finding my partner
and just takes the ball from your hands and she seems.
Very. She's having like an emotional
breakdown. It's fine.
Cindy's just like sobbing, but but this, this officer seems
very calm and, you know, takes the pokeball and says thank you.
Very much. I give it to her as best I can,
but again, still having an emotional breakdown.
Roll me a Dexterity check. 9. OK, yeah, it, it fumbles out of
your hands as she has to just catch it.
And she she gives you a wink. She, she, she says everything's
going to be OK. All right.
So there seems to be this this battle going on and people are
screaming and running around to panic.
You notice these black beams, these black deanomizing lasers
picking up other Pokémon from the crowd.
Let me get a check from Gimli. Just a perception check.
Nat 20. Great, as a Sonoan you see a
Pokémon that is familiar to you. 2 of them actually.
You notice a kid holding a drift loom.
The drift loom gets sucked away and you notice a trainer who is
trying to fight off a lawn Morty's side who has a mis mages
and the mis mages also is captured.
A few moments pass. I mean it's literally just one
minute but it feels like a lifetime.
The the people have repelled out from the blimp start climbing
back up or they don't climb back up the ropes but the ropes fall
in and the blimp attempts to to take off.
One of the trainers who is battling has an Altaria who goes
for an attack on the blimp does not seem to be able to Pierce
the armor on this thing. The blimp moves out of the way
of the sun and surprisingly fast seems to dart out of the sky.
A bunch of police get on the battling stage.
One of them has a megaphone and will ask everyone to please
remain calm, everything will be OK.
We are still trying to identify who caused this terrorist
attack. Until further notice, all ocean
and air travel by harbor or Pokémon in the Hohen region is
now prohibited until we can figure this out.
Thank you for your understanding.
And that's where we'll call our session tonight.