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Welcome to the Cali Rex Game Corners Pokémon D&D 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, Elodie, 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 Dunsparce and Grandpa.
Where last we left the pack up. They found themselves traveling
through Petalburg Woods in the middle of Route 104.
After coming out the other side of the spooky forest, they found
themselves with a new friend being Bud the Talking Toad
School captured by Gimli. With Cindy unconscious due to
chewing on an unsuspecting more lol.
The gang locates the nearest urgent care in Pedalburg City at
about 10:00 PM. They enter the automatic doors
of the facility and are greeted by a tired, reluctant
receptionist. They say hello.
How may I help you? Oh God, she's got to die.
Rolled a performance or a deception or something I.
Think it's performance. Yeah, one of those.
Gosh, gotta die. As based off charisma, which I
have none of. So that's a flat.
True. Are you?
Does this imply your new passive?
I'm wondering. This is just me being a piece of
shit, so I'm just like no, OK. The receptionist kind of gauges
the group and how Schmidt appears to be the only one who's
panicked, and they decide that this is not a total truth.
The receptionist looks at everyone, and particularly
noticing Cindy says someone looks a little sleepy.
What happened here? Mushrooms.
You know how it is with mushrooms.
You see the case into a mushroom problems.
The receptionist nods and they say, yeah, mushroom problems.
That's basically all we know here.
We'll take care of her. Come on.
The receptionist presses some buttons on like a a
communication device and there's like a poo poo.
And then in a moment, there is a large pink, round, eggish
looking Pokémon that is pushing a stretcher.
And it says Chancey in a very kind of iconic kind of way.
And it also has a very, very, very wide brimmed stethoscope
around its neck or in its ears. You can't really tell where its
neck ends and its head begins, but it is around its body and it
kind of pushes the stretcher up to Gimli as if to request that
something or someone be placed upon it.
Yeah, I'll play Cindy down on it.
OK, you do that immediately. This chance of pushing the
stretcher takes the the what you call it the part of the
stethoscope that actually stethoscopes.
Stethoscope sizes. I don't know.
Doing great. It does a thing, and it places
it upon Cindie's chest and looks this chance.
He looks very, very focused and then kind of turns to the Packo
and and, and gives a little nod and says chancy and then pushes
the stretcher away behind some doors and the receptionist says
it'll just be a minute, you know?
I'd love to imagine that that chance he just took Cindy in the
back started double slapping. Maybe.
Like, and I also love the implications that this chance
he's not a nurse like the normal ones are.
It's like Doctor Chancey. Doctor Chancey This chancey went
got a degree brother. Yeah, yeah, the receptionist,
which is Nurse Joy. And then you have Doctor
Chancey. That's the way of the world.
When the receptionist said it'll be just a minute, they weren't
lying. A couple minutes later Cindy
comes out groggy but surviving and the receptionist says that
after looking at the screen at their desk says looks like
classic case of moral sporing. Happens to a lot of people.
Got to be careful with the mushrooms, especially in
Petalburg woods. We have all sorts of varieties
of them. It's a spooky woods on its own,
but you definitely don't want to be taking too many risks if you
can avoid it. This will run you 75 Pokémon
dollars please. Just like a true urgent care.
OK, Cindy, I hate capitalism. These are spoiled by Pokémon
centers. How many?
75? Yeah, that's fine.
My. Socialist utopia of Pokémon
centers is it's disappearing. Yeah, the receptionist collects
and says. Is there anything else I can do
for you all? Should we ask if they've had a
not so recent head trauma patient brought in by a Buffalo
exam? I mean, we might as well.
Yeah, while we're here. Sure, right.
True. What do you ask?
That. Just that, yeah, that's fine,
that this receptionist will make a roll, They will say.
That's oddly specific. Most of our most of our recent
injuries are due to similar situations as your friend here
involving poisonings or or being forced to sleep due to
mischievous Pokémon, but we even had a serious trauma in in in a
few days. So I'm not I'm not quite sure if
that's exactly what you're looking for, but regardless, due
to certain ethical codes, unless you are distinctly family
members, actually wouldn't provide that information
anyways. Yes, laws and stuff.
Very cool. Yes.
I thought we were playing a fantasy game.
We're playing real life. I know this just became real
life. You charged me 75 for urgent
care. I'm.
Gonna have to pay my taxes soon, yeah.
And I will insight on him to see if he's giving us like all the
information. Yeah, not gonna be amazing, but.
Seemed pretty truthful. He was like, I don't know, but
no laws. And it's like, OK, yeah. 15,
yeah. What are you trying to gain from
this insight? Like, I don't know.
I don't know how many days it's been since Sam would have come
in because he was like, we haven't had anything in the past
couple days. Yeah.
So. It's, I don't know, it's been.
Going to suss him out. It's been what, 2 days I think
since the event and it seems like this person isn't holding
withholding that information necessarily based on their role.
They are reporting accurately to the best of their knowledge.
So you haven't seen any buff Alakazam's fellow kind of beat
up? They're going to make a role and
they say that sounds very distinct.
I have not. However, Once Upon a time we did
have a resident. We had a doctor resident another
another chancy species Pokémon and they they were incredibly
buff and it was quite impressive to see.
However, I never in my life have I seen a buff Alakazam A.
Buff chancy like a chancy with AB.
So she's not here at this urgent care.
Is there like somewhere that Cindy would know is like the big
hospital of the area? Yeah, roll, roll wisdom.
I got a Nat 20. A Nat 20 on your wisdom, That's
very good. Cindy realizes that because
she's a hoe and native and she's been all over the largest
cities, have the most established quality care for
people and Pokémon just in general.
So that leaves really like three options.
That leaves Marvel City, that leaves Lily Cove City, and that
leaves Mossadeep City. Whether or not it's true that
Sam is hospitalized or is at any of these locations, those are
like the hospitals where if you got hurt somewhere and the
hospital, like in Petalburg for example, couldn't handle you,
they would send you out there either via helicopter or a
special Pokémon. I do relay this information to
the group. It's like I don't think Sam's
injuries would have her sent here.
She has probably would have taken her somewhere bigger.
The party receives this information.
That's fair. Yeah, makes sense.
You are in this kind of sterile waiting room.
There's this kind of weird grungy but kind of wipe down
looking chairs and tables and stuff.
It's dark outside, there's St. lights, but yeah, it's like
night time. What is next for the party?
Shall I sleep at the Pokémon Center for the night or check
out the nightlife? Are we really nightlife people?
Is there Pedalburg? Nightlife maybe, Yeah.
What the fuck happens? When I think about Pedalburg, I
don't think I think about the the nightlife.
Pedalburg nightlife is my kind of nightlife that's.
True, it's just cottage core nightlife.
You can truly investigate if you want.
I mean, you're going to go outside, so like.
Go and catch some fireflies at a bonfire kind of nightlife.
Yeah, if Gimli would give me like a straight D20 rule, we can
see what's actually going on tonight. 11. 11 OK, that's
something. There is a particular
establishment on the southern side of town that kind of seems
like just a humble, humble little building.
And there are kind of lights judging out of the windows.
You can't quite see what the sign is on it because it is dark
out. It is not well lit.
It's a little far away, but there is fairly loud party music
with your like, boom, boom, boom, boom kind of thing.
And every now and then there is the sound of like a crash, like
boom and the objects scattering, and there's sounds of laughter
from inside. And that is apparently the only
particularly active thing that is happening at 10:00 PM in
Petalburg City, which by the way, does call itself a city,
not particularly city like. That sounds like fine.
Can we go I. Mean I'm on board, man.
You can if you like. Cindy is wide awake because she
already had her nap. Yeah, you were sleeping the
whole time to like, I'm there to party.
Great. Yeah, You may, in fact, enter as
you approach, you see? Yeah.
As you get closer to the sign, you're able to read it.
It is, says Pedalburg Lanes. And what you're approaching is,
in fact, a bowling alley. It is a very small, There are
only four lanes inside. However, it is very quaint and
nice and the music is way too loud for the fact that there is
like 6 people in here and they are all like just family groups.
And they seem kind of sleepy, like they've been out too late.
But they are enjoying some sodas, they're enjoying some
some fried dough and French fries.
And they're just doing some bowling.
And there's a greasy looking teenager who's working the door
and he says, oh, a new group. Can I get you some shoes?
You guys want to do some bowling?
Yes, absolutely. No.
You ate bowling shoes. They don't look good on you.
Yeah, OK. And practically, it throws her
shoes at the kid. OK, great.
Like take my shoes. I want bowling shoes.
Bowling and boots on. Yeah, if you, if you guys want
to do some fucking bowling, it'll it's going to cost you For
adults, if the care was 75, this is going to cost you 15 Pokémon
dollars each. If you wish to do so, no.
Problem dog. No child fee for Cindy.
Oh, true, true. Cindy is young.
Their child policy is 12 and under.
But Cindy is welcome to to try and convince you absolutely may.
I got a natural role of 19 with my plus 5 modifier.
I think I did OK. Not only does this kid believe
you, but this kid also is like 13 years old and he thinks that
you're cute and he gives you the nicest looking shoes.
He gives you your any kind of bowling shoes that you want
actually. So if you have a design in mind,
he will reward you with them. He wants like flames on the
side. Oh yeah, of course.
Yeah, he actually give this to you without even asking.
Yeah, flaming, flaming bowling shoes.
Without question. He says these shoes are lit bro.
Yes, he does in fact say that that is correct.
Like if it wasn't, if he wasn't described as a greasy kid, I
don't think it would be as weird.
He's got greasy hair and he's got acne and he's just an
awkward teenager, you know, just let him, let him be, let him be
weird. But Timothy is is on his name
tag if you were wondering. But if you don't want.
To Timothy. You thank him and T blushes and
he says oh you're welcome, have fun.
What is the child rate for? Oh yeah, it is 6 pokey dollars.
Yeah, yeah. Big old discount.
That's a huge discount. What the heck?
Yeah, pretty good. Are the rest of you going to try
and lie about it? No, I, no, I am.
I'm clearly 40. There's a senior discount.
Like I'm 12. No, no, I'm not that old.
My fraud's too big. The thing with Petalburg is that
it's all basically children and old people.
Like there's not many I. Guess everyone's on their
Pokémon journey, right? That's how that works.
Or they, I mean you would probably assume based on the
cities that you've been to that they, they commute to either
Russboro or Montville. That makes sense, actually,
yeah. Petalburg is just kind of a
little residential kind of family town on the CE.
People go there to retire. There are things to do, but it's
like you know, anyways, bowling I this particular attraction,
sorry to peel back the curtain a little bit, but this particular
attraction I generated from a table, so I didn't know you guys
would actually be doing this. However, I did find DND bowling
let's. So we're going to do it.
Whoever gets the best score is going to receive a prize of some
sort that will be determined as as you guys bowl.
This is pretty straightforward. So we're going to do Pokémon
Bowling World, we're going to say has five rounds, just to
keep it simple, keep it straight.
I have advantage due to my previous bowling.
Experience you absolutely do that was a session 0 attribute
we gave you and you never used it.
So let's let's freaking do it. Let me get my notebook for
keeping track of bowling scores. I literally, I'm serious.
I have no idea this is what we'd be doing, but I'm very happy
that. Slice of life episode.
All right, expect the expect. Yeah, no, that, yeah, that's,
that was me typing into Google bowling DND.
So yeah, let's do it. Just one more little flavor
description again. There's like disco lights and
stuff going on and there's some families.
There's one lane open and the four of you get it.
There's some people with their Pokémon out.
There's one kid who has kind of, oh, you've seen this book come
up before, so I won't just describe it.
They have a Bulbasaur. The only other Bulbasaur that
you've seen was a shiny one. This one is normally colored and
it's kind of grooving. It's got its vines out and it
seems like it's the most awake out of everyone in the family
and it's kind of dancing to the to the funny disco bowling alley
music. You pick the lane all the way on
the right because that is the open one.
Now, here's another question too.
Are we doing teams or are you going individually?
Oh, individually, I got to smoke these clowns.
OK, that's fine. So here's how bowling and doing.
That out loud? Yes.
Does anyone want everything OK? I'm just here for vibes.
Can we put the bumpers? On pull out my bowling glove
from my bag. Oh.
My God, they're all shaking. Schmidt is like already eyeing
the bowling balls, like trying to like find the one that feels
the perfect way. Are there bumpers as an
available bowling option? There are bumpers available.
They are patterned like some Vipers which that.
Is lit. Oh, they're patterned like
kitties. Yeah, I love kitties.
You're welcome to play with them, or you play with them like
just with Cindy, that is. I have too much pride for that.
I can't have bumpers. OK.
Do you want to keep it fair for everyone and tell Cindy no, or
do you let Cindy play with bumpers?
Oh, she can have the handicap. OK great, in that case, oh wait,
I can math this out perfectly. Then we will begin bowling 5
rounds. Let's get an order I guess.
Roll initiative. Perfect.
That's so funny. 17. 17 Okay. 1819.
No. Way.
Where's the OH? Cindy is so funny.
Okay, ALDI. Schmidt, Gimley, Cindy, get
ready to bowl. The balls are all in different
sizes, and they're all patterned like pokey balls.
Who would have thought? That's crazy.
The lightest ones are all pokey balls, and then they go up and
scale through to catch intensity.
The heaviest ones are master balls.
Very fun, Very, very cool little design for this place.
All of the bowling pins are shaped in such a way that look
vaguely familiar, like a Pokémon.
In fact, a Pokémon that Elodie was thinking about just earlier
today in the museum gift shop, they look and Cindy might
recognize them. Cindy, make a intelligence
check. Intelligence.
That's in that one. Cindy knows nothing.
If anyone knows anything about
these pokemons, Elodie, they look like God.
How do you describe them? Bowling pin form, half of them
are white with blue features and half of them are white with red
features. And if this makes any sense at
all, one of the like, all the blue pins look weirdly like a
masculine kind of bird and all of the red pins look like a kind
of feminine kind of bird. Are you picking up what I'm
putting down here? I get what you're talking about.
Great. I don't understand if you.
Knew I'm still lost. Yeah, I will go.
I will just slow down this time. So all the bowling pins, how
many bowling pins are there? Actually, I should know this 10.
So in each rack, five of the bowling pins are blue.
And for some reason, I mean they're white with blue
features. And in fact, they have an
additional feature in the middle of them.
There is a symbol. Is it a triangle?
Yes. So in the middle of the white
pins with blue features, there's a red triangle in the center of
it. And in the middle of the red
pins of the white pins with red features, there's a blue
triangle in the middle of it. They look really like birds, if
birds were bowling pins. And the blue one has strangely A
masculine vibe and the red one has strangely A feminine vibe.
That is, that is the description.
Is. It is it Latios and Latios?
The bowling pins are based on Latios and Latios.
Great. I could have just said that, but
I wanted. To I wanted to go backwards.
OK, I'll explain it again. So the bowling pins, they're all
white. No, I'm not.
Explaining it OK Oh White. I just want, I just think that
would be cute, OK. And they're vaguely bowling pin
shaped and they're home and related, so we're doing it.
Anyways, first initiative order we have LED.
So here's how this is going to go.
You can use strength or decks, whichever is higher.
And if you're proficient in bowling in, I think that would
just be yeah, we would. We're only giving proficiency to
to give me at this point. I think advantage might be a bit
too much. So we're going to give you a
proficiency bonus and everyone else chooses their strength or
decks. It's pretty straightforward.
Roll B20 one through 12 is a straight miss except Cindy.
Cindy will not miss because bumpers.
I have actually gotten a gutter ball with bumpers on in real
life so it is possible. OK, just putting that out there.
No. That that does make the math
worse, unfortunately, because like we can.
No it doesn't if we get. In that one I can just call.
One, that one, Yep, Yep, that works.
That totally works. And then 13 through 21, which is
your dirty role, not your natural role, will determine how
many. Or I guess technically 22 will
determine how many pins you knock in one go.
It may be impossible without a Nat 20 to knock all the pins if
your strength or decks is not high enough, but I think
everyone has enough strength or decks to make that happen.
I certainly do. Anyways, LED round one, please
roll 1D20 and then roll another one if you don't get a strike.
Perfect. OK, first one was a 10.
OK dirty 10 right? All these numbers with math yes
OK LED bowls into the gutter. Second bowl I'm.
A I'm a little nervous, guys, I'm not going to lie.
Sweaty hands, knees, weak arm, Spaghetti.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm really nervous.
That was in that one. Oh my God, Elodie's hands are so
sweaty. She bowls the ball and it rolls
into the other lane where the Bulbasaur family is.
Roll it again to see how many of their pins and knocks down.
Please be in that 20. It was a 12.
It was a 12A12 is also a miss. So it goes straight into their
gutter and they all kind of look at Elodie Judgingly and they are
a little upset and they're they're murmuring to themselves.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Elodie, have you been bowling
before? Do they have that in the Callos
region? We definitely have bowling in
Callos. Big old goose eggs for Elodie.
For Shame is up next. I guess I also should be asking
which balls are you choose? It's just like poke a great
ultra master. Yeah, I mean, everyone knows you
go to a bowling alley, the first thing you do is choose the ball
you're going to roll with the whole time.
That's just kind of how it. Goes yeah, Schmidt's already
been eyeing down his ball. Yeah, he's going to pick a nice
ultra ball. Love it, great, perfect.
You may roll 2D20, but start one at a time.
OK, that's a crit. That's a crit.
Schmidt immediately gets a strike.
Schmidt no longer bowls for this round because he has the total
Max total points. Well done.
Like goes up to Gimli, like puffs out of his chest.
Like what? What?
Pretty good, Gimli, it's your turn.
I pick up the master ball. I rolled.
I got a crit. She's right back.
What up LD's crying LD's in the corner right now.
Crying is a free. Action.
Cindy lowers the Saviper bumpers.
Cindy rolls AD 12 instead of AD 20.
And you, you may do so. OK.
'Cause my my drink or dex is +1 OK?
Yeah, it's it's fine. We'll just bumper it up.
I got an 8. You got an 8.
Cindy knocks down 7 pins. There are three remaining all.
Right. So roll again.
Another D12. Yep, I got a 12.
A12 all. My God, you got.
All all the remaining pins are knocked, so that is a spare for.
I get very high 5. Good job, Yeah.
Great, that is round one. The disco music is now turned to
like a kind of rock power ballad to think akin to like that
Aerosmith power ballad. What's that one called?
Don't wanna miss a thing like the Pokémon version of that is
playing so just so you. Need to make our own Pokémon
version of that now. I love it.
Oh, that's so good. Shut up, Grace.
That's too good. We got to make Aerodactyl Smith
shirts. Yeah, that's so funny.
OK, you'll notice that two lanes down there is like an awkward
teenage couple and they aren't really bowling.
They are kind of just cuddling and they like this song.
Let's do round two. Elodie's up first.
She's. Going to sigh as she walks over
12. 12 12 is the highest possible role you can have and
miss so that goes in the gutter. I'm so sorry.
OK, guys. It's OK, guys.
You're doing great. 3 for three, pretty good.
You got this. OK, 17.
OK. Yeah, that's pretty good.
LED ends up knocking 5 pins, there are 5 remaining and then
the rack re racks itself. It's interesting.
It doesn't seem like a mechanism.
You see lots of like little creature hands that like kind of
really swiftly, like just pick everything up really quickly and
then they go back into hiding like behind the wall.
I'd imagine just using it's like a Pokémon instead.
You know, they they got what they got.
Yeah. So, yeah, LED gets a good five
points for that one. Schmidt, you're up next.
This is just a straight D20 in a modifier.
Yep. Oh, I'm sorry, strength or
decks, whichever is higher strength.
The Decks mod. OK, I was about to say that I
could make an argument that this is a dexterous activity.
Yeah, it is. It's one of the other.
That would make it a 17. OK with a 17 you will knock 5
pins. You may roll again.
That one's A7. OK, 7 is a gutter.
I'm so sorry. Schmidt ties with LED for round
two. No, Gimli, you're up next.
First one is a 17. OK, you are also knocking 5 pins
as seventeens tend to do with the previous two players.
Next was a 20. Natural 20.
Dirty 20. Dirty 20.
Dirty. OK, that will in fact get you a
spare. Nicely done.
There are splits. We just haven't encountered them
yet. So we're we're chilling.
You're you're just you're getting good bowls, Cindy.
Last but not least, for Round 2 all.
Right, I got a six on my D12. 6 on your D12 math thing.
Sorry, we will just make that also 5 pins.
Thick. You may roll again.
That's a nine. A9 will based on this chart that
I definitely prepared and I did not pull from the Internet last
minute. That will result in a split
where you have docked a total of 8 pins, but you have missed two
of them. But that still gives you the
highest score for no just kidding, because it's going to
be got a spare that gives you a higher score than LDN Schmidt,
which is pretty cool. So nice.
That's round two. We're going into round three.
Does anyone have any questions or flavor before I start
describing things? Yes, Elodie is going to be like,
you know, I think, I think her Pokémon are missing out on the
fun on this, and she's going to take out her Pokémon to watch.
Wow, which four does she have on her?
She has cabbage, the El creamy bubble gum, the Brione grape
juice, the Swampert keelam, the curlia.
I think actually she's probably not going to take out grape
juice because she's too big, OK, But she will take out aubergine
the purloin. Great.
Perfect. Four or five.
Sorry it's 5I did in fact lie. I said the wrong number.
You guys have unlocked 5, but Elodie sounds out four.
She sends out those four that she just described.
They all have differing reactions to the environment,
but they're all positive because Elides Pokémon know how to party
and a bowling alley is a good time.
Yeah, I guess you can just go ahead and do round 3.
Can I have them elides party party time me to give me an
extra D8 that I can use on bowling?
Bowling, cheating? Absolutely you may, that is
great. I do need a description of
flavour as how they encourage or inspire you though.
Do they do it as a group? Is it just one of them?
What's going on? They're definitely going to do
it as a group. They're going to start singing
along to the Aerodactyl Smith song.
Great, great, they do that. Don't want?
To close my eyes. Don't want to fall?
And I don't want to miss it. There, Yeah, they all start
singing along. The the teenage couple in the
lane 2 lanes down start making out because of how impressive
the actually role performance. Just kidding.
Yeah, because of how impressive the the show is of them singing.
Absolutely. That's why we're making.
No, it they started right at the climax, you know, of the song
and it just got really emotional and romantic and what'd you
rule? Was his his elodie's performance
or? Yeah, just give me Elodie's
performance as like a group. Yeah, because I miss you.
Crying right now. That's a 19.
Yeah.
Damn. So OK, so my description was
accurate. Everyone feels like the mood
just like get so much more. Whatever they were feeling that
was positive. Whether it's fun, whether it
there's the teenagers on the date, whether it's the greasy
kid who has a crush on Cindy, they all their emotions are all
amplified. And as is L DS emotions trying
to get this bowl happening. So you may roll your D 20s.
OK. Are we?
I mean it's an extra Dai. Don't know if that's too much.
I can. I can nerf it.
I mean, you're all going to use it once, so.
That's true. I think it's.
Fine, OK, well I rolled A1 for that one anyways, but the total
was 21. Oh, for both rounds or your
first round? Or for my first round.
O21 will sorry. Not 21, Dirty 20.
Dirty 20, Dirty 20 will knock you. 8 pins, 8 pins it's not.
If anyone's wondering, it's not like a straight linear kind of
scale they have. They vary and they have split
chances. So based on what you roll, 8
pins knocked. OK, second roll.
Second roll. Another dirty 20.
OK. Based on how this split worked
out, you do get the spare. So congratulations.
Very good teamwork, baby. All right, Schmidt, you're up,
do you? Which to enhance your
performance anyway. Oh yeah, we're doing some
horseshit. Hell yeah.
Quacko is already out. Yes.
I want to bring out realize I got a lot of big boys on me
right now. Yeah, it's just going to be
Quacko and Jessica. Quacko and Jessica love it.
They hit the field as you send them out.
Roll me a perception. Send that one dog.
OK, yeah. You don't notice anything in
particular. Your birds are here to support
you. What do they do to support you?
Oh. No, I'm nervous.
So they are going to be like course correction, right?
So Jessica with Hurricane Quacko with Air Slash, if the ball
starts to go in the gutter, that's like going to be like an
air bumper to bump it back and. Forth, OK, your opponents may
see this and they may accuse you of cheating, which could result
in a deduction. Do you still want to move
forward with this? They all have to make their own
perception checks and versus a deception check that you make,
so keep that in mind. They could see it and not accuse
you of cheating, but it is something that is definitely
potentially visible. Cindy's literally using bumpers
and will not say anything. New game plan, new game plan,
new game plan. OK, I'm going to have or choreo
do a dance and use captivate to draw their attention.
OK, while I'm cheating with Quack.
That's so funny, I can't believe we've ended up like a year and a
half into this campaign. I can't believe this.
The description we just described was using Pokémon to
cheat up bowling. That is so funny.
Or Corio may roll a performance check to see how successful this
is. That's a 16. 16 yeah Oracle has
got a lot of energy and is vibing to the music in this
bowling alley and it's pretty pretty convincing if anyone The
players know that Schmidt is trying to cheat, but if anyone
wants to catch him out on it, they have to make ADC 16
Perception check with disadvantage is something that
they have to do. That being said, we'll just
treat Quackos course correction as.
I was going to say, could we treat it like a bumper roll,
since that's what Quackos doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can throw. You can use D twelves here.
That's a two. Oh wait, I had decks, I had
decks. I had decks.
I had decks, I had decks. That's a 5.
It's A5 with A5 on D12. You managed to knock 2 pins OK.
OK, OK. So poorly, there's no way I'd
notice them cheating. Yeah, that's.
That was an 8. An 8 on AD 12, yeah.
That's only 6. Pins.
Yeah, it's you. Are you looking at my table?
Oh, I can just do math. Yeah, that is in fact 6 pins.
Schmidt knocks a total of 8 here.
Jessica has a good performance and no one, if they do notice
Quacko, they don't really care to call it out on it anyways.
But total total of 8 for this round.
Anything else for you? We're going to Gimli.
Disappointed my entire family. He cheated and still did worse.
Walker in the Dracon Village is shaking his head.
He just knows you've made a mistake.
I I sense somewhere my my lineage has been disappointing.
Because we know Walker was an avid bowler.
Yeah, I mean, you never know, Ginley.
All right, crit this one. OK, that is in fact a strike.
Fuck. OK Gimli doesn't even need to
cheat with his Pokémon like Elodie and Schmidt.
I mean, Elodie didn't really cheat.
She just got inspired. Very cool.
Miners bowling league is very serious.
OK, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, of course.
Cindy, lower the bumpers and give me your rules.
Cindy's gonna let out Larva Star and Izzy just to get them some
vibes. Yeah, they love like.
Experience. It's like vibe, dance to the
music and hang out because they're little.
They're Pretty Little. Larva star just kind of chills.
They're a little sleepy. It seems like they get a lot of
energy from the sun. This is a fun environment for
Izzy is he's kind of excited is he's kind of like scurrying
around and like climbing up the wall a little bit.
And it's like, like sticking out his tongue like to to get a
surveys of the area and it it detects it detects some fried
dough being made and it Izzy thinks about to going to go
snatch some and quietly looks at Cindy for approval.
I I give Izzy a couple pokey dollars to go and buy some
fried. Dough.
OK, yeah, Izzy places it in her mouth and rushes up to the where
it's being made. And you may bowl now.
He just gave a poke my money and he's like, I'm going to go pay
for this right though? I wrote the six for my first.
Roll. Great.
That will knock you 5 pins or yeah yeah.
Yeah, and eight for my second. And there is a split on that I'm
calculating. You do make the split.
That is in fact a spare. Nicely done.
Round 4 is about to begin. This is the penultimate round.
The vibes are still good in this place.
They've moved on from Power Ballads and they've moved on to
the Pokémon world equivalent of this, the Six Flags theme.
Whatever band, whatever group did that, yeah, that that's
playing now, Whatever, whatever that is, it's.
An old man dancing somewhere. Yeah, probably.
It has the yeah, it has the like we like to party vibes, you
know? So it's classic 11:00 PM bowling
alley nonsense. Anyways.
Oh, and Izzy. Yeah, this is enough.
Time has passed here. Izzy returns with some fried
dough and starts munching on it. It smells really good.
All the Paco and the Pokémon you can detect that it's it smells
pretty, pretty good. Take a.
Bite if Izzy lets me. Sure, Izzy.
You're you're Izzy's trainer. It's great.
It's just grease and sugar and fat, so you can't go wrong.
It is very good. How much was the the fried
dough? Izzy has no money.
So oh, but you didn't say how much you gave Izzy.
We're going to we're going to say that you gave Izzy 3 Pokémon
dollars because it has to be a little inflated because it's a
bowling alley. It's a bowling alley.
OK, cool. That's reasonable.
Allody, you're up. OK, now we're shifting gears.
Now we actually are in fact, cheating.
Cool. So.
We all could have had bumpers. I just want to point out how
straight laced I've played this game and I'm destroying guys are
cowards. Well, you have some Dome
advantage. Yeah, practice.
We did play in it in session zero and it's never come up
until this. Moment come up I am canonically
good at bowling, we have. To let this happen, yeah.
I think it's totally fair and I don't think I have any chance of
winning. I just think cheating is funny.
Yeah, it is. I have to be bad about it for
the integrity of the game. But yeah, Qi if I.
Don't want this. I mean, I have Qi.
I'm try to use her psychic abilities to keep me on track.
Oh, interesting. My little bowling ball on track.
Keep you, I'll keep the ball on track.
I was like, is she manipulating in your body?
But no, it's the ball. No, no, no, no.
Yeah, the ball itself. Sure.
Yeah, you can do that. Yeah.
Roll roll an Intelligence check I suppose OK to see what kind of
bonus you can get. A6. 6 isn't very high.
No I it's going to be worse than bumpers, but I have to determine
what exactly that's going to be. Just as add +4 to to your role.
Cool down for that for sure. Yeah, 14.
OK, Yeah, you clearly needed it. You knocked down to pins.
They are on the side, so there's no chance for a split here.
So you may roll again. Dude, I suck.
OK, 11. That's a miss, LED I I love to
tell you, you are not winning. I will say that.
No, I don't think so. You're Pokémon are proud of you
for trying. You know what?
That's all that matters, actually.
Aldi's got to lose it some things right.
So that's. True.
Can't be a winner in everything. Yeah, this is my game.
Schmidt, you're up. Cool, we are still cheating.
Great. Again, I'm waiting for a good
role to actually try to perceive if you're cheating, but so far
the cheating would be worked. 11 with the dex mod.
Are you cheating or is that a role?
Or is this cheating? That is cheating.
That was the D12. You're doing the same cheating
from before. Yes, OK.
I'm, I'm going to need a reiteration of the distraction
that you're doing with Orkorio in that case or that's right,
we're treating it like initiative, right, so.
Yeah, we'll just do it again. I I just looked at Captivate and
it was a DC, but you know, it's it's fine.
I rolled the 19 on the die. It's good.
We're. Going to keep doing it this way
just because I really want to give you another chance is the
last time I'm going to let you do it.
I do want you to make a wisdom check on the situation.
Perception check give me above a. 14 that is did not make it,
I'm sorry. OK, that is fine.
There. There is a mystery that you will
never know. Or you can roll again in your
next round and see maybe if I let you.
OK, Yeah, you may do your cheat role the same way you did the
last time. Do I catch?
Him do I do give you the same role I did earlier.
Or you get the same bonus, which was bumpers.
So yeah, you get yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's 9. 9 O total. Yeah, we're.
Going to give you 7 pins. There is a split so you may not
get a spare. Depends on what you roll.
So I rolled perception with this advantage.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a 14.
OK, what's the DC on Captivate? It's 13.
OK, we're going to say that Gimli did in fact see Schmidt
cheat, but they're with Quacko. I also saw him cheat but I'm not
going to say anything. Even though you didn't roll, we
just got. Yeah, just canonically.
Yeah, I didn't know. I rolled.
I I rolled and I got it. OK, Cool, cool, cool, cool.
Cindy is blissfully unaware, eating fried dough and just
having a good time with her little Pokémon.
Great, Schmidt, you're cheating. What?
What is this? How do I what?
About the integrity of the game. How do I respond to this?
You can take your time. I have no thoughts in my head
right now. We have Pokémon for a reason,
Gimli. Like it's not cheating.
What about skill? But saves a skill.
He's using his resources. What about integrity of the
game? I spent hours practicing.
Hours. OK, I haven't.
Well, get good stuff. You you could just use bumpers
like me. Right.
They're bumpers and he's doing it respectfully.
Why don't you? I almost said a bad word.
No. This is cooler though.
Is it? Is it cooler to be a cheat?
You know what? You know what?
Quacko can't help me because me
and Quacko are basically the same person.
So if that's how Quacko bowls, that's how Quacko bowls.
Quacko's not bowling. Quacko bowling now I.
Didn't see Quacko pick up the bowling ball and throw it in.
Well, Quacko, help me, because that's what Quacko does.
Well, that's cheating. It's one person.
One. You're not the same entity.
You're two different beings, says me, says the laws of
existence. I can't believe this is what
breaks up the Quacko Packo. I can't believe people would
cheat at the sacred game. It is bowling.
Calm down. It is sacred.
Not. Not really, no.
It's a national level sport in SIDO.
So we are bum backward town. This is my.
Old calm Town. No, you're disrespecting Mike.
I just went through a whole thing with your culture and
you're wearing a Cape now. You can respect my culture.
I'm actually choking. Fuck.
OK, it's. Been a while since Gimli
obliterated A twink, so it's time to bring it back.
You know what, that's how it's going to be.
Oh. Out of respect for my culture.
I don't care enough to keep arguing with you about this.
Anyways, I think I'm waiting on your second role still.
Oh shit if is Quacko still cheating.
No, I got called out on it. So now I'm going to like try
really hard and roll 4, OK? OK, yeah, that's fair.
That is that is a miss. But you know for first landing 1
you get you still knocked 7 pins.
This could be worse. Let's move on to Gimli.
First one I got a 17. That will get you 5 pins with no
split chance, so you can just add your next roll.
Second one, Dirty 23. That is a spare way to go,
Cindy. The first role is A7.
OK on AD 12 that gets you 6 pins with a slight split chance.
And then I got a dirty 12 for my second role.
OK, that is a spare. Nicely done.
Yeah. All right.
Very good, Good job. Yeah.
I mean Cindy's. Kind of cheating too, but.
Now that they're the bumpers are allowed because it's part of the
game. Yeah, that's fine.
You're right. You're right.
That'll learn somewhere. I'm just glad I'm knocking pins
down. It's really awesome.
You're doing great. We're here in the final round.
This is where the decision is made who the bowling champion
is. We're going to start with LED.
OK, I'm still going to cheat because it's funny.
Yeah, it's very funny. Can I roll perception?
Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
We have to see the cheat first time.
Right, this time I'm going to have Aubergine copycat what
Keelan just did. Oh, OK.
Misdirection. Aubergine is less intelligent,
so the threshold will be worse. LD really wants to get caught.
How does copycat work? You choose a target and you can
redo their most recent action with your own stats.
Use the target. Yeah, OK, OK.
Some really intelligence for Aubergine, right?
Yes, and their threshold is different too. 14. 14 is pretty
good. We'll treat that as a bumper
roll. You can roll D12.
Weird how aubergine did it better than Key Lime.
But Key Lime maybe is just Key Lime's wiring or that whatever
organic bionic system they use. Maybe they were overloaded by
all the stimulus in this room. Keylam was respecting Gimli's
culture, Yeah, probably didn't really want to cheat.
But this cat's a fucker. Oh my God, what'd?
You. Get.
Yes. 20 you getting that one? Yeah, it's one or a 20.
It's a. Snack one.
It's so funny because I've rolled like a 15 to try to catch
you, but I don't even think it's worth it.
Yeah, I rolled the second thing. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm just gonna be like to. Her, it's fine, she sucks.
So bad. Wait wait wait wait wait with my
with my 17? Do I still catch her even if she
rolled poorly? Yeah.
Well, what's interesting is that you see Aubergine like do a
little flip, which is kind of funny, and you see Aubergine's
eyes kind of glow the same way that key limes do sometimes.
But you don't really like notice any impact on the bowling
because LD gets a gutter. So like so.
Bad that you're like, I don't even did something happen?
Like you could, you could definitely still call her out,
but like on what you know, there's no evidence.
Yeah, I'm like, why did they do a flip?
Why did they do a flip? Why did the cat do a flip
though? Yeah, you know what?
I don't think Schmidt's seen copycat either, so.
OK. I have because actually, can we
say Sudawuda also does a? Flip.
That's just what copycat does, dude.
That's just really. Funny to imagine the goofy tree
doing a flip. Yeah, why not?
Yeah, true. Give me give me a straight D20
rule for Aubergine 4 four. OK, cool.
Moving on. Give me your second rule. 17.
Oh, 17 is pretty good. You will end this round with the
score of five. Let's move on to Schmidt.
Hello, Schmidt. Hello.
Final round? Yes, now's your chance.
Can I make that goddamn perception check that's
bothering me now? Yeah, I'll give you one more is
your last chance. Can I say that, like, Schmidt
just got his, like, chops busted, right?
Yeah. So he's not going to cheat this
round. And he's like trying to hyper
focus. Can I like convince you that to
give me like some kind of bonus on this perception?
Yes, I will lower the DC threshold in my brain.
OK, I don't think it mattered. I crit.
OK, great. You perceive that despite not
giving instruction to cheat, Jessica is still, in fact,
schmoven. She's dancing and she's enjoying
the culture and the vibe of this bowling alley.
That is something to consider. And we do have fried dough.
I don't just because of fighting time now, I don't know if we've
established that with the rest of the party.
Yeah, probably not. Yeah, I'm chill with Jessica
being a fighting type. That's pretty type OK.
That's pretty good. Great.
What would bowling type be? We'll never know.
Psychic because they were cheating.
They're playing like party music right now.
It's like the party type. If they're still playing that
music, psychic because they're cheating.
And if we know anything about psychics, they're just dirty
cheaters. I mean, they were playing a rock
ballad, so. Sure, they just started rock
type, turned to rock type now rock flying now, now associating
hip hops with their just music with the type chart like you
have like hip hop was ground. That was really it.
That was the, that was the thing.
That was the thing. OK, I'm disappointed.
I I thought you had. There's a secret face in the
bowling alley to take care. Something or or like some other
behind like trying. There was there was something
that was like spying on me when I was fucking doing the mimosas
thing. So I thought maybe that bullshit
came back. Yeah, I'm, I'm sorry to report.
Dex 17 just straight. 17 in dirty.
Roll right? Yeah.
That's 5 pins with no chance to split, so you may roll again.
God damn it, why have I made the same set of rolls twice?
That's A7. A7 is in fact a gutter ball
because you rolled so well on your perception.
As the ball goes into the gutter you do see 2 little like gremlin
Y hands pick it up and put it return it to the shoot.
That brings it back to the players and you notice a pair of
twinkling gemstone eyes. Who was responsible for working
in the back? If you were curious, because I
want to give you something for for your.
Effort Monday night made me hate that fucker so.
That's fair. He's designed to be hated,
honestly. I don't think he's supposed to
be liked. As I, as I get the gutterball, I
like throw my hands up in the air and I turn around.
I'm like, all right, fine, you're the better bowler.
I throw my hands up in the air sometime.
That's what comes on right now, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Pokémon equivalent of that
song is the final song in the bowling alley.
It's Gimli's turn to prove that he's in fact the better bowler.
Dirty 25. OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fine.
Stop, you monster. Another strike.
He's been waiting to do this for a while.
A little flare with the glove in my hand.
He hasn't flexed on anyone in a minute, so it's it's time he.
Just flex on OK. Cindy Last but not least, this
Viper bumpers go down. I wrote an 11.
OK, that's great. That is all but one pin knocked.
And then I got a 5. That'll be enough, thanks to the
gutters. That's a spare for you.
Way to go. And with that still felt like it
took too long, as bowling always does.
But it was fun the whole time, so.
True. That for sure.
Unexpectedly, Yimli has the top score.
Let me math. It's not even hard to math.
Schmidt has the second best score.
If you want actual totals, you have to give me a minute.
And even honestly, without the bumpers, I think Cindy would
love the third best score and LD did very poorly.
So that's our ranking we will award Gimli with.
A bowling ball. Going.
To travel. With that, that's a very
unfortunate thing to travel with.
We will give Trevor the Giglist the ability to craft very
spherical rocks with finger holes in them.
So I can reuse my bowling. Pass Yes, absolutely, whenever
I. Love this so much whenever.
Is needed. Well, I couldn't.
After he evolved the bowl door, I couldn't roll them anymore.
So we will, we will award that as well as a inspiration.
That is a re roll. You can re roll any dice at any
time. Nice, Schmidt forgetting 2nd
place gets AD 8 inspiration which does not expire that he
can use for anything. Cindy was playing with bumpers
but I want to give her something fun.
Oh, let me calculate what your score was.
I'm so excited for my prize. A lecture about cheating.
I know you were treating, you were cheating really badly.
It's you. Couldn't even cheat.
Good. Maybe if you had a little bit
more respect for the game. And thus ends Elodie's cheating
mark. We will We will give Cindy some
real life bumpers and give her 10 temporary hit points that
will not expire until she loses them.
She meant like elbows, Elodie. And it's like, you know, I can
give you some cheating pointers later.
You know what? I'm down.
And now I lecture you. I saw you were cheating.
LD gets fucking nothing. She's a disgrace.
She can't even cheat properly. Very sad she.
Hopefully has taught you guys to respect the game a little more.
Sure has. She does it.
Better, she increases the bond with her Pokémon as Cindy did as
well, so there is something to take away.
It is 11:00 PM and Greasy Timothy is looking to close up
soon. Is there any other points of
action for you in the bowling alley?
Why is this poor kids name Greasy Timothy?
That's horrible. You got to be real bad, Greasy
Timothy. It wasn't like was the other guy
that was making out with the girl.
Was that also Timothy that We need this?
This Monica Greasy Timothy that? Wasn't Greasy Timothy, that was
a little bit older and he was less.
Greasy. That was a that was a crusty
Tim. Yeah, he's.
A little bit older, Slick Tim. This is maybe the latest the
Quacko Packo has been awake and not in a life or death
situation, which is interesting. You you you didn't answer my
question. What?
Was your question, sorry. Does does Greasy Timothy shoot a
shot? Oh, at Cindy.
Yeah, let me roll his charisma and see.
Oh God. I want to see this.
Huge. I don't.
I think he has a negative charisma stat, but he didn't
roll a natural 18 so he's trying.
To rizz me up. He's he's trying to rizz up a
little, but he's not very rizzy. He's.
Got that slippery rizz? Yeah.
So, so as you're training as as you're exchanging your shoes
back and you're closing up for the night, he, he looks at Cindy
in the eyes and says, my name's Timothy.
It was nice to meet you. And here's my phone number.
And he's gives you a little piece of paper, the number on
it. I put it in my pocket OK and
give him like awkward finger guns as I leave.
Nice. He he swoons at this.
He's like, oh. Rizzathi.
Rizzathi over here. Rizzathi, let's fucking go.
God hell yeah. Nah.
You want. Some crazy Timothy.
Just slick, Tim. So smooth.
He's so smooth, dude. Slick, Tim.
The spoiler is that Slick Tim doesn't have a phone either.
That's his like family line. It's like the landline
communications. So you got to like, talk to his
mom middle. School.
Res yeah. Middle school Res Yeah.
And be like, hello, Is this missus Slick Tim?
Great. I'm calling to talk to Greasy
Timothy. Oh yes, of course I'm greasy.
Timothy's mom. Why do you know he's greasy?
Let him shower. The whole family's greasy.
They're just a bunch of greasers.
I was about to say, what does Greasy Tim?
'S mom look. Like this is greasy Timothy.
Yo all for MILF guys. Oh my God.
My milk. Got it going on this.
Is so oh. Yeah, that song plays as you
meet, actually. Yeah, just kidding.
Got me down bad. Yes, I love.
That one so much and I think he's a real chat.
That version goes so crazy. It does.
Timothy, it's not you. I'm just kind of into dudes.
OK, guys. What we don't know is that Crazy
Timothy is the BBEG. You guys got to kick his ass,
now you. Got to get on his good side.
Get. In.
There and kick his ass. No, it's Calvin.
I already know it's fine. It's Calvin.
He comes back again. He's already kicked his ass.
Part 2. I went from the ninja troupe to
the top of NRG. I got my.
Revenge. Great.
Congrats on your little adventure.
Yes, it's late in a quiet town. The only noisy place has shut
down. That's not to say there isn't
still activity. There's a little nighttime
Pokémon scurrying about and making little squeaks and
squeals, and there's some people milling about.
There's two really lovely little natural lakes, little ponds in
the town that some some older gentlemen are fishing at.
But in general, Paddle Berg is going to bed.
What is the Quacko Packo doing? Also, go to bed.
OK. And it's bedtime do.
They camp, do they hotel or do they hostel?
Just hostile, quick and easy. Yeah, that does my vote.
Great, I. Agree.
Perfect. May I get a history check from
everyone besides Cindy? Besides Cindy.
Do I know?
Oh fuck, I think I know what this is.
T. But I rolled low.
OK, I'm proficient in history. Oh.
My God makes it a 10. OK, give me what you get.
Rolled A-15. Great, because Schmidt is the
only one who achieved this check the other day, as you, we'll
just say in the morning. IRL forgot about that until you
brought it up. Yeah, this is the second time
this check has come up for the party.
Now at this point, everyone knows that tomorrow as in like
after the the day after the day after the bowling alley.
So two days after the bowling alley is Cindy's birthday in the
morning when you wake up, that tomorrow is Cindy's birthday.
And you all know this. Do you have anything you want to
say before I unmute or undefin Cindy?
We should have like a secret meeting and like do something.
I can make a cake. We just need ingredients.
OK, and a kitchen? And a kitchen.
And a place to have a party. Oh good Lord, there's a lot.
We can have a party outside, but the place to make The thing is
kind of bored, yeah. OK, Sandy, welcome back.
Thanks. You all have a restful night at
the hostel. No surprises.
You wake up. This Pokémon Center has the
Pokémon Center version of a hostel continental breakfast.
So you can, you can nom a little bit if you so desire.
Of course, I will say it's about, you know, you slept and
you're up late. It's like 8:30 AM in Petalburg
City. It's it's cloudy and it's windy
outside. What is next?
Are they going to romp about the town or they just want a GTFO?
I mean, we could go shopping. There is your classic mug and
there is one building that seems kind of like central to this
town that seems important that we have not evaluated.
Those are probably the two most noteworthy things in this area.
Right. There's a right of learning
here, isn't there? Didn't you mention that last
session? Did I?
I remember that maybe, maybe I'm just like crazy.
Or maybe. Bushboro.
Did we just completely mess over that?
Yeah, you did not. There was, and that's what I'm
remembering. No, no, or was.
It somebody else talking about it somewhere else close to where
we were going, like, 'cause aren't we going to one of the
like oceany cities? That is was.
That one of the questions in the gym.
It was not a question in the gym.
The name of the institution was not the location.
Regardless, I'm not going to make you do any rules for this.
There is in fact a right of learning.
It's at the northern part of town.
It says right of learning in Petalburg.
We. Should go to the right of
learning. OK.
Is that the plan? Everyone likes that.
It's been a while since the Paco visited one of these
educational, scientific research based institutions.
They approached this large building at the northern end of
town and they they can tell that there's an old unkept sign out
front that is typical to have seen in a Pokémon gym.
However, this is not a Pokémon gym.
Perhaps it once was. What this is now is in fact a
right of learning. They enter and are greeted by
the normal kind of vibes that they get from the right of
learning, which is very scientific.
There's a lot of research being done, there's Pokémon and people
in lab coats running all over the place and as the door opens
you are greeted by a wild haired man in a lab coat with glasses.
He is being followed by a Pokémon that you recognize from
Meteor Falls. It is the floating meteor
looking Pokémon that looks like a son.
He approaches and he says hello trainers, my name is Doctor
Takao Cosmo and welcome to the right of learning in Pedalburg
City. What can I help you with?
We haven't been to these in a while.
I need you to look at my I don't know what he is, Pulls beat out.
I don't know what happened with this guy.
This was a Lavator. Cosmo is taken aback, as is his
partner, Soul Rock. Cosmo says.
Well, this is quite the way to start a conversation.
Tell me more about this. And he gets really close and he
investigates Bean and he peers around and he is, he's very
spooked, but he's very curious as well.
Well, this was a lavator that I found from a tunnel that was
filled with fossils and it appears to be a preserved
ancient egg. But it was like just looked
fresh and we hatched him. He had no heartbeat.
So he's now spooky. Cosmo says yes, yeah, that
doesn't check out. Based on disappearance, I
believe there isn't much of A mystery here to be had, or at
least I'm not much of an archaeologist, so I can't tell
you anything about his composition, which seems to be
made of bone husk, which is quite interesting.
But I do have to say this strange version of pupitard that
you have on you is in seemingly a ghost type Pokémon, and it
does seem to possess properties of ghost types in the sense that
is not fully alive. It experiences life, but it is
not experiencing life in the same way that many other
creatures do. I I think that doesn't
necessarily answer any questions for you.
However, our institution specifically specializes in the
evaluation of Pokemons bio signatures where we can gather
information about them. This includes what techniques
they may learn and what levels they evolve.
So if you so wish, if this creature is capable of an
evolution, I can give you an estimate just as far as when you
may expect it, That would be great.
Cosmo addresses the group. He says this is a very energy
intensive process, so I may offer this to each of you just
once, but any repeat ones will cost you $50.
Is that all right? Cool, Professor.
Cosmo gestures like with arm motion to have being follow him
into a sort of like Chamber of sorts.
Do you allow this? Yeah.
OK. Being floats into like a capsule
that's extends from the ground to the ceiling.
It's like a big old cylinder with a hole in the middle and
the beam floats into it. And Cosmo fiddles with some
buttons on a tablet and he says, all right, time to evaluate.
And there's some whoring sounds and there's like little laser
beams and they kind of scan all over beams and they're kind of
checking it out. And Cosmo says, wow, this is a
very unique bio signature. This is incredible.
And he gets a read out and he says, well, based on our
understanding of this, Pokémon seems pretty similar to what we
would expect a Tyranitar to evolve into.
You can expect this approximately around level 11 or
12. Does that work for you?
Yeah. That makes sense.
Cosmos says very well. I'd be very curious to see what
the evolution of this creature might look like.
Me too, he says. I can offer you the same service
with the same catch as far as acquirable moves.
We can research moves that they can learn and we can teach
almost any of them and I will do that for each trainer for free
one time, but additionally will cost you $100 per technique
taught. So since we have being you said
was his name inside of our scanner, I could introduce you
to some techniques that he may learn if you wish that.
Would be great. Cosmo once again he doesn't need
to do a rescan because his device already analyzed that,
but he takes a look at the moves that being is capable of
learning. The list of these moves includes
Crunch, Thrash, Hyper Beam, Stone Edge, Dragon Dance, Iron
Head, Outrage. And ancient power.
I'm curious about dragon dance and ancient power.
OK, we've done dragon dance before, I believe.
Don't doesn't Schmidt have a dragon dance?
Yes. Yeah, I trust.
Yeah, I trust your notes more than mine on that move.
Would you mind checking that out?
As an action, channel Draconic Energy and double your damage
bonus on all attacks for one minute.
Yep, that's that's it. 10 PP range is just South.
What I currently have for Ancient Power is a damaging
move. Of course it's a melee.
It's an action based move that calculates as damage based on
Strength of Dexterity. On a natural 19 or 20, all of
your damage relevant damage scores increase by one.
So the number of dice, the tier of dice, and then your damage
bonus increases by one, which is pretty, pretty strong.
If it happens and that happens for the rest of the combats.
Not the strongest move. At your current level, it will
give you 2 DH +9 damage. Yeah.
I think I'm OK. OK, now you know.
Great, Professor Cosmo says. Thank you very much.
Who would like to go next? Sure, I'll go.
OK, no. Never mind.
Fight for it. No, I heard.
I heard Schmidt first. So.
We will. I'll fight for it.
OK, you guys can fight for it. Actually, I won't.
So you're good. You can you can go.
Come on, I want to fight. I feel like Cindy, like Schmidt
would step forward and be like, I would do it.
And Cindy's like, OK, that's fair.
Yeah, again, Doctor Cosmo is offering to determine an
evolution level if you so which or and or teach and learn about
moves that you can learn that aren't normally accessible to
your Pokémon. Yeah, I would like.
To do both OK. I would like to hand him Walter.
Walter for evolution or for for both of those things.
For both, yes. OK, Cosmo puts a Walter the Big
friendly lovable done sparse inside the scanning machine and
Walter just kind of vibes as he gets just like ran over with the
Blazers and Cosmo says oh very interesting.
It seems that this creature is dependent on evolution based on
its ability to know a certain attacking move.
Once it knows that move and experiences a level up, it will
evolve into its evolved form. OK, what's the move?
The move is hyper drill OK. Can he learn that move?
He can be taught that move without a level up right meow if
you wish. I don't know why I said right.
Meow, I see a cowboy. Professor Cosmos, a cat boy?
No. Please, I need that as my head
cannon. Sure.
Yeah. He yeah.
I don't know how to fight for that, but he he likes cats.
Great. Can't believe that just
happened. Yeah, he he is able to teach
Walter hyper drill right now. OK, I do that.
OK, for what move? Oh shit, what type of hyper
drill? Normal.
Yeah, do it over rage. OK, I will send you proper notes
in the future. It is pretty similar to drill
run, but it's just like better and it ignores any adjustments
that are made to armor class or like protecting elements, which
is pretty cool. Spicy.
Yeah, Walter now knows hyper drill and in in one more level,
we'll experience an evolution. So you desire.
Those are your free perks. You may pay for more if you
wish. I'm good.
OK. Cindy was next in line.
Cindy, what you doing? I'm.
Going to send out Izzy. OK, Izzy, the Lizzy.
Izzy enters the scanner. Izzy's chilling.
It goes. It makes all these sounds and
the lasers go and Cosmos says ah you're very lucky you got
yourself a female salanded. This will experience evolution
in any moment. It seems that Izzy just needs to
experience 1 great feat or one successful battle and Izzy is
prepared to evolve. Doctor Cosmo continues to
research information about moves that Izzy may have access to
that can get early access. Thanks to the services of this
right of learning, studying techniques, Izzy can get flame
burst, toxic, nasty plot, venom, drench, belch, fake out, knock
off, snatch, Veno shock. I might have already said that.
Overheat, which you're familiar with, Confide and thief.
It's a lot. Do any of those interest you?
Flamethrower. I didn't say flamethrower.
What is the flame burst one or whatever?
Yeah, Flame burst. Flame burst is fun.
Flame burst is a little fireball.
That is a rule to hit, but nearby opponents, if it is
successful hit will also just take damage without like
additional damage. Not as much as the initial hit
on your target, but any creature within 10 feet of the target
will also just take fire damage. And what about fake out?
Fake out. Yeah, fake out is fun.
I currently have fake out, but this is subject to change that
only on the user's first turn of combat, the user may make a
melee attack on a target, and that target will not be able to
take an action that turn. It deals damage too.
I I don't know. Flame Burst seems very up your
alley. Yeah, Flame Burst does seem up
there. And you have a chance to set
your party on fire with that one.
Pretty good. That is pretty Cindy.
I can replace Ember with that because it's like a better
Ember, right? Yeah, it is stronger than Ember
and has more effects. It doesn't burn, but it's still
really good. That sounds good.
Great. We will track that.
And now Cindy has the knowledge that Izzy will evolve at any
time. Just needs to do a thing do.
Something, yeah. Do something that is all the
free services. Will Cindy pay for anything?
I I I don't want like a full like scan but I want to know
like more information about this troubish.
Oh, the troubish. Let's go.
Yeah. OK.
Like I don't want like the full scan.
Is there maybe like a reduced rate or something like just to
glean some information and stuff?
Because I I really don't know anything about it and he's not
mine. That's great.
I love that. Do you tell Cosmos he's not
yours? I just kind of say like we, we
saved him and we're trying to like take care of him until you
can find his owners. I.
I love a good throwback. That's fantastic, Cosmo says.
Absolutely, Yeah, I can offer you, just for a general review,
25 Pokémon dollars. OK, do.
You do it. Yep.
OK, you send out Troubish, not your troubish.
You haven't seen this troubish in a while.
He is instantly very stinky. That's kind of like what he does
best. He's a stinky guy.
And Cosmo puts him in the machine.
He gets all laser beamed up and Cosmo says very well I'll give
you a brief rundown. This is in fact a troubish.
It is male. It is this is kind of just game
logic, but Cosmo expresses to you that this troubish is level
6. It has pretty average stats.
It's ability is Stench and it is proficient in survival and
that's pretty much the gist you get from it.
Is a sinky little guy. Is that what you were looking?
For there's nothing you can glean about.
He belongs to. I don't know if there's any way
to like, test that. Like how do you find?
Doctor Cosmo, Yeah, Doctor Cosmo says that is something that
individuals can do. There is a feature known as a
trainer ID that is assigned to pokey balls that trainers
acquire. However, we at this research
institution do not have access to that.
That is more of a legal slash government operation.
So unfortunately, we cannot be doing that sort of research for
you. However, beware that if you say
you, you rescued this trouble, so to speak.
There is often, if the owners are easily identified, there can
be a, what's the word, an undisputable removal of this
Pokémon should you go with that route, which may be a good
thing, but based on your description it may not be a good
thing. So that is up to you, OK?
Thank you, I appreciate it. He says you're very welcome.
That leaves LED. LED What's your plan?
Yeah, cool. I will bring out Key Lime.
Key Lime. What are you trying to get the
full rundown on Key Lime? Yes.
Please both services. Yes.
OK, Key Lime gets an evaluation. The lasers go and Doctor Cosmo
says this is really fascinating. I this is similar to to the
undead pupitart that we've seen earlier, but this is truly
something else. The organic components of this
Pokémon are seemingly how do I describe this Cyborg in nature,
seemingly introduced through an outside force.
And they are they possess technology that I've never seen
before or witnessed. This is quite, quite
interesting, he says. Regardless, that is not
necessarily any of my business or my job at the current moment.
However, this would be a fascinating Pokémon to conduct
extensive research on. That being said, this Pokémon
can experience an evolution, and it seems that it would
experience it at approximately level 11.
As far as moves to be learned, Cosmo looks at his tablet and
says this is extensive. I wonder if this has anything to
do with this Pokémon's unusual organic makeup Key Lime has
access to. We did.
We do Brick Break. We taught Brick Break right?
Yeah, we talked. About Brick Break, So yeah, so
Brick Brick Break is there. There's also or Sphere, there's
Dazzling Gleam, there's Encore, Energy, ball, Fire punch, Future
site, Knock off, low kick, poison jab, Psycho cut, reflect.
There's a lot. Are you keeping up?
Dang. Yeah.
There's spirit break, taunt and icy wind.
Dang OK. Cosmo is very impressed.
Jeez, can I hear a psycho cut? You absolutely may.
Let's check out Psycho Cut for what I currently have for Psycho
Cut is a move that's based on either Dexterity or Wisdom which
doesn't come up very often. It's a range attack so but a
rolled a hit and on a 19 or or 20 you get a critical hit.
At your current situation it would deal 2D8 plus.
What's your damage bonus? What's your confusion damage
bonus plus? 6.
OK two D 8 + 6 would be the damage on psycho cut currently.
I'm thinking that Psycho Cut might be a good replacement for
Confusion. You may lock that in if you so
wish. I believe that I will do that.
OK, Iron Grace learns Psycho Cut Very cool that's all the free
services doctor, Cosmo says. Is there anything else I can do
for? And then at that moment, all the
let's go off and Cosmo says, not again, just give it one second.
And he says, Peter. And then there's a funny looking
chubby rat Pokémon with a long tail with a lightning bolt at
the end. And he says, we'll need your
help again. And Peter says and rubs his
cheeks together and zaps a little conductor in the corner.
And the building regains power once again.
And Cosmos says, we didn't always have this problem.
This is a this is a new occurrence.
But thanks, thanks to Peter and some of their friends around
here, we we are able to to restore our energy.
It's it's been a non-stop problem.
I expect it to get worse in coming days, but no information
on a solution. So we're just doing our best.
And he says, sorry about that tangent.
Is there anything else I can do for all of you wonderful
trainers don't. Think so?
Right guys? Think we're good?
Is I mean is, is there is there anything we can do for you?
And this is with this power issue.
Right, seems like you you guys having a problem.
We have a lot of experience fixing power.
That is true. Actually new Marvel's power
problems so. Do you mention that new Marvel?
Yeah, we did do that. Doctor Cosmo says, oh, wow, you
trainers are very involved. My, my father, his name is Rizo.
He, he's no longer with us, unfortunately, but he works for
the organization known as Greater Marvel Holdings, which
is responsible for all sorts of projects, some of them public,
some of them secret, including New Marvel.
So it's fascinating that you went there.
He was responsible for a lot of the the, the work with that
occurred in that place. He says no one ever talks about
new Marvel. So that I'm just very impressed
with that. Yeah.
The for you as trainers, I don't think that there's anything that
you can do that that can't be done.
This is just been a more or less recent problem over the last few
months. And it's not just experiencing
our building in in Petalburg, but it seems that all over the
the region there's been problems with energy that we're still
sorting out. It seems that there's something
wrong with the grid. Hopefully someday we'll we'll
get to the bottom of it. But for now, thanks to Peter and
our friends, it's not affecting our research too much.
It's a recurring problem. It's as if something is
strolling in that power. Anything else for the gamers in
the right of learning I'll. Put Trebesh away.
OK, it is less stinky. Stinky boy, yeah.
The moment you do so, it is it is less stinky.
Trebesh enjoyed getting out for a second though.
You'd throw up anywhere. No, no vomit.
Not this time. Not this time.
If you ask him to do something, he throws up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If he's going to do something,
he will just throw up and not do it.
It depends on what it is. He just gets nervous, you know?
Any other? Well to be fair, the one time I
did ask him to throw up because I thought it would be corrosive
and then it wasn't. It was just throw up.
Because it was just the guy. Is there anything else the
Packer wants to talk to Doctor Cosmo about or do around in this
building? Or are they going to move on?
Thanks for your help. For real.
Yeah, no.
No cap. No cap.
On God. On God, is that right?
Am I doing that right? Yeah, you're.
Doing great. It's like 4 foot tall, like 4 of
an ass. Yeah, on God, no.
Cap for real. For real.
On God, On God, for real. For real.
Yeah, Doctor Cosmo doesn't really know how to take that
from a contemporary of of his age.
He's, he says, understood. Yes, of course.
And he waves you off if you are to be leaving.
Thank you. Have a good day.
So with the Packo departing from the right of learning, who knows
where they're off to next? Will they return W to route One
O 4 to see what their options are for crossing the sea?
Will they go E into unknown territory for no known reason?
No. Reason at all?
But they may do it. But who knows?
Who knows? We went bowling.
We're crazy. There's there's only one way to
find out and we will have to check in with that in our next
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Like fuck it, the door from the actual Lord of the Rings just
being like. You have my axe on God, for
real. For real.
If I had to do this with anyone, I'm glad it was you.
And it's like me too. On God, for real.
For real. No cap.