Welcome to game master Monday. The podcast replay, a different
one. Shot.
And a different system. With a different setting with a
different cast. Every episode today, we are
playing roots and flowers and my players are so hi everyone.
My name is Jenny nordine today. I'll be playing as price music
today. A creative Explorer, fantastic
dusty. Hello everyone.
My name is Dusty. Today, I will be playing Bell
Symphony, who is a creative teacher.
Hi, everyone. I'm Lex.
My pronouns. Are they, she I'm going to be
playing doli. They I'm a resourceful engineer
and last but not least Zoop. Hi, I'm Zhu, poor Supriya and
I'm playing Clefairy. Totodile who is a Cooperative
Rebel, what a fun combination of things.
Thank you everyone for joining me today.
Like I said, we were playing a roots and flowers today, roots
and flowers is a solar Punk, hack of the lasers and feeling
system and it was created by Gabriel say Tano.
Just to give you a little bit of an insight for how this game
works. This is going to be a very, very
children, Loki. Very fluorescent type of game.
You are all living in a small town and you're all going to be
rolling anywhere between 1 to 3 D6 during the course of this
adventure, you have two stats. They are Roots which is more
pragmatic Solutions, and you have flowers, which is more
emotional Solutions. High Rolls are good for flowers.
H Lo rules are good for roots and if you roll your number at
any point during this game, you were allowed to ask him me, your
A game manager, any kind of question to give you insight
about whatever you're dealing with.
At the moment you can roll between one and three dice
depending on if your role fits, what's happening.
Or if your special skills fit, what's happening, as well?
So without further Ado, are you all excited?
Yeah, yes. Very great.
I'm glad to hear it. I'm also very excited.
Let's just jump right into this thing.
So, you were all currently living in a small isolated town
called a porcupine stream. The human apocalypse was several
hundreds of thousands of years ago.
There's still some remnants of humanity left around this world
but for your purposes here you're a very close-knit tight
Community. You all have your own individual
jobs. You get what you need to get and
use. Make do very self insulated kind
of way. We're going to take a little
peek into your individual lives and we'll start with you price
our creative Explorer. What is a normal day looking
like for you? Well, a normal day for Price, he
would be out and about in the, in the desert wastes.
Trying to scrounge out any plants or materials that we
could potentially find as useful.
He doesn't exactly know everything that could be of use.
But you know what, any plant that he can find can be.
Use for something even if it doesn't look like it
immediately. So you know what?
Anything can work even if it doesn't know.
Yeah, I like that. So you're kind of out in the
field, outskirts of town, kind of alone with your thoughts
right now and you run across a yellow flower dandelion It is
absolutely not a dandelion I could be anything really good.
Well, I'll have you make a route check to see if you can identify
it, okay? Just two Roots.
Yes, we are rolling roots, and not flowers to identify the
flower, of course, as is logical.
And remind me of roots is less than my number.
I'm looking at the at the notes, it says, if you're using flowers
you want to roll under your number.
If you're using Roots, you want to roll over.
Over your number. So, that's a 3.
So that is under my number. So Jenny you actually do not
recognize this flower. That it's yellow.
It's pretty, a dandelion must be the last one of the Season.
Jesus Christ. What do you do with the flower?
Well, I would. I would pluck it.
That's my job. My job is to go out and find
things and if someone can make use of it, that's not my
prerogative. I just I just go and I find how
do you store your flowers? II have a little book that I
that I keep them in little presses.
Cool. So I'm just going to assume that
you pluck that. You put it in your book, no idea
what it is or what it's for and you sauntered back to town to
your little Hut. If you will one pound reports
assigned, yes, kind of perk if I and streams, everyone's
basically living in some form of a Hut.
Very, very communal Community here.
When you return though, you do see a and Envelope.
Kind of like strung up to your door, kind of hanging off your
doorknob interesting. I would, I would take the
envelope and take a look at it, so you open it.
And you notice right away the drawn on Insignia of the mayor,
you know, the mayor, everyone knows the mayor.
The mayor's name is Mayor Grandma.
The the note has summoned you to Mayor Grandma's Hut at the head
of town and she has something she'd like to discuss with you.
Okay. Well I would I would pocket my
little letter and I would I would head over to Mayor
Grandma's house. Fantastic.
A few Huts, down the road. We see Dusty's character.
Can you tell us a little bit about Bell Symphony?
Well, Bells a is, is a art teacher and she's just very
down-to-earth and she loves it to her little classes as just
really go out much other than to just like make Hey, some make
supplies. And that kind of stuff.
I love that. Would you say you're having a
class right now, I am actually setting up for 1:00 in the
morning. Fantastic.
Walk me through your setting up last routine.
Well, I'm never really know for sure how many people are going
to come. So I always just set out a bunch
of different things. Paints and sketches, set sketch,
books, and pencils. And anything that people might
want to do is more of like a drop-in, Dropout, sort of
Situation. Sure, but we are going to be, we
are going to make flower in the morning.
So I'm very excited about that. I love that as you're setting up
here, it's a little bit before your normal classes would start,
but you still hear a knock at your classroom door.
Go and answer the do. Sure.
You answer the door and you see someone who you're very familiar
with. This is a single mother.
Her name is a sunset marble and she is currently escorting.
It ten children through the door as she looks exhausted.
Oh son, said I would like oh you know that the kids are just this
really getting on me today. You know, they have a lot of
questions and I figured who better dancer those then.
You've Mel. So if you don't, I do you have
room for ten today. I know normally only bring a
few, but my God, all of them I do.
I certainly do. Let me just grab some things
real quick. If you want to take a seat at
the tables hot, she's like way ahead of you see, like the
minute you say, take a seat just like plop down in one of those.
Like chairs is too small for an adult.
So yeah, you got about 10 kids running around the classroom
right now. What's your move?
I'm going to basically what I had set up for the morning I'm
going to do with them. I'm gonna strip it down and
we're just going to draw a nice little pretty flower perfect.
I loved it. Since this is your role I'm
gonna have you roll to D6 to see if we can get the kids to do
that here with you. We're going to call this a
flowers roll. Roll.
So that is A4 and A5, A4 and A5, and your number is a 4, a 4.
So you've rolled your number and you rolled above your number,
but since you rolled a four, you get the first opportunity to do
what is called Call of the Wild, okay?
So Romania for is not an automatic hit or success but it
does give you the opportunity to ask me anything you want about
the current situation, anything you can think of Have I gotten
my letter yet? Not, as of yet, the letter has
not come through to you yet. Right now, you're just working
with the kids. Okay?
Is that my one question? Yeah.
Well, that would be your one, and it was not a whole lot to
pull them in the opening Steven here.
But, hey, gotta respect the rules baby.
Exactly. So let's see.
The kids are a little unruly, you know, they are there running
around, they're opening their Look summer, like starting to
draw the flower then getting distracted by their siblings.
Just a little bit of a disarray here so you know kind of losing
a little bit. I control the classroom but then
you get a second knock at your door.
You door. Don't answer the door.
A little frazzled this time but perfect.
Yeah, you're feeling that exhaustion that that Sunset was
feeling earlier, but no one's out the door instead on your
door mat. You see a letter?
Pick it up, fantastic. Same things.
You may have another from earlier.
It is a summons to come to Mayor Grandma's Hut.
I'm, as soon as possible. Well I can't really leave right
now with all these children in my studio.
So I'm going to go over to eat everything.
Sunset, sunset, yes. I'm going to go over to Sunset
and just be like, I'm so sorry Sunset.
But I just got this letter and it sounds really important.
I need to I need to close up shop right now.
Oh no. That's that's just fine.
Let me just get all the kids together.
Here she like helper round up all the kids.
Yeah. Yeah yeah, yeah.
This is like herding cats together.
Yeah. So you all do that.
You had on the road to marry grandma's house and then I will
pop it on Alexis character, Lex, tell me about Dolly.
So doli is a resourceful engineer.
They are most likely spending the morning, kind of getting
their plans together. Working their goal, basically is
to work towards accessibility, so they do a lot of, you know,
making sure that buildings are kind of up to code for
Wheelchair and crutches users. They also, you know, work on
different machines to kind of help people with different
disabilities or different challenges in their life.
You know, their more recent and invention was working on hearing
aids and things like that for some of the older individuals
and other and children who have hearing loss in the in the town.
So they're kind of getting their their toolkit of many, many
tools to Together in the morning.
Ready to head off for work. Fantastic.
And for work today, I'm having you head to a place called The
deepground Farms, deepground farms and something, you're all
familiar with their kind of in charge of overseeing, the
livestock of the community. But the, the most senior member
of the, of the deep ground household was a mole Hammer.
He's been complaining that his eyesight, starting to kind of
leave him a little bit. So he's trying to see if there's
anything you can do to help them out with that.
Okay, so Joel, he's going to show up and knock on the door.
Mornin you hear? The door is answered by his son
gopher morning. Gopher.
I do lie. Yeah, pause should be out back.
I think he's trying to milk one of the cows right now.
You sure he's grabbing the right bits.
You know, if between you and me. I don't think he's grabbing the
right animal. Imagine it'll pick a chicken.
All I know is he's talking to something that has white with
black spots and it ain't a cow, I don't know.
Okay, so I've been working on some stuff at home, you know,
I've been, I've had some eye problems myself but I've got, I
made myself some glasses and I think I figured out how to How
to make a makeshift, some old, some old disused pieces of glass
and wire to make some stuff for him.
So well, we'll see what we can do.
That's what we're looking for. So a, he escort you to the back
and just like soup says he's in the chicken coop hopelessly.
There's like grasping at things. I've man when did caskets so
fast, I'm gonna come up and just mr.
Him, mr. Hammer mul multi it's Leo.
That is not a cow that is not a cow.
Damn, I, my eyes are tricking me again.
Did you bring that thing? I asked for, yeah.
I've been working on it so we got to make sure that it's set
right for you. Let me, let me get myself, set
up over here. Why don't you leave the poor
chickens alone? They don't have any teeth for
you to work with. Can you ask you or me out of the
coop that would explain why they have taken at me?
Here, I thought the cows were just evolving.
Whatever you say, whatever you say, is hammer and he goes, oh,
they go over and lend out their arm to leave them all out of the
chicken coop. Perfect.
Yeah. You you leave them out of the
chicken coop and said I'm up on one of the few of it.
What would normally be a milking bench?
Just kind of on reserve right now.
I'll have you also rolled to D6 to see if you can successfully
get this guy into glasses town, and that would be your roots
roll. It's a 1 and a 3.
So, I got one over my number one, over your number.
So one success. One failure.
Yes. Okay, perfect.
So that's a mixed success. So you give him the glasses and,
you know, it doesn't immediately improve his eyesight or
anything. He's not hopping around saying
he can see or anything. But you know, you do see him
squinting a little bit less, he's looking around and goes.
Okay. Yeah, so that's where the
chicken coop is I gotta remember that.
I just got to get like the lay of the land, you know, things
were a little blurry but I can make do with this, you know?
I know you just got to give me some more time without knowing
exactly how bad your eyes are. It was hard for me to guess
exactly what I needed to do for you.
But you know I did what I call all the time in all the time you
need. I'm okay with that.
What can I repay you with? Would you like would you like a
chicken a pig but what did your family needs?
We don't really need to too much, but, you know, if you
could spare some eggs for breakfast this morning, I'd be
that'd be wonderful. I, we don't need the whole
chicken. Okay?
I won't give you the whole chicken, but go for should be
able to set you up with some eggs.
No problem. Brevet.
So so as you leave the home go for gives you out two dozen
eggs, you head on home and you have a letter tied to your
doorknob. Okay, they're going to grab the
ladder and start reading it Ribbit like everyone else so
far. It's a summons from mayor
Grandma asking you to report to her Hut as soon as possible.
Well I guess the restaurant work is going to have to wait until a
deal with this mayor Grandma. Better words always takes
precedent. So off I go Perfect.
And finally, we check in on soups character, soup.
Tell me, please tell me about Clefairy Totodile.
Okay, so Clefairy Totodile is what we call the town's Rebel.
And so basically what the town Rebel does is she's invited to
all of the decision-making so that she can poke the holes in
all of their decisions and tell them why they're wrong.
Sure. It is so that way, that way,
when they think they got something good going on, she can
be like, no, I don't think that's going to work.
And it just makes people have to think a little bit harder about
what they're doing. I like it.
So because you are the, the town, whole poker, you are
currently sitting in the living room of Two Gentlemen.
A married couple. This is the El Camino family.
The two gentlemen. Her name is green and blue
green, El Camino, and blue, El Camino and they're having a
disagreement, if you will on what they should do with their
son. Rodney, who was very recently
caught trying to steal from the deep ground Farms.
So so green is kind of standing up going my the boy needs to
learn discipline. The boy needs to spend an
internship with the mayor so he understands the repercussions of
what he's On and blue stands up like he was just trying to help
the family out. We were low on livestock and we
didn't have anything to trade. Like if anything we should be
teaching him how to better assist, and how to better treat
the community. But no discipline.
No gentle hand here so they're just like looking at you being
like we're at an impasse. Okay, well, it seems to me here
that the best thing to do is to do a little bit of both.
We can be quite gentle with the fella but we can also have them
instead. Ed of interning with the mayor
and he should be digging the whole post for deepground Farms
that way he can learn to give back to the community, and then
they can give him some Livestock in repayment so that he can help
the family. They're, they're kind of
softening to the idea. Can you roll to D6 for me?
Okey, let's be of an hour's roll flowers.
So I'm going underneath my under your number, a rate that is a
three and a two to success is to thumb.
Way up from green and blue. They shake each other's hands.
This is the most intimate. You have received them be with
each other. They're not really big touches
and they call Rodney downstairs. Rodney, Rodney is kind of, you
know, he's a teenager. He hasn't quite grown into his
usefulness yet, but he was kind of saunters downstairs and they
go Rodney. We've reached an agreement on
what to do with you. We're not going to send you
away, but we are going to ask you to go back to deep ground
and do some work for them. Em that way in exchange.
Maybe they'll give us the livestock lady in fit Ronnie,
Hannah. Like looks at you, seeing you on
the living room, this goes fine, whatever.
Just like, storms out the door. Clip fairies, silvery pink hair,
glistens, in the sunlight, as she gives them a big thumbs up
for a job. Well done.
So yeah, you you are, you are strutting home with the utmost
confidence. Another family's burden
resolved. And you see a letter tied to
your doorknob? Ah a letter, those are rare
these days. I open it up and read what it
says. You have been summoned to Mayor
Grandma's Cottage at the edge of town and she's asking that you
come as soon as possible. Oh no, there must be a real
problem and she had straight on over fantastic.
Everyone headed right on over. So you all arrived Fair.
Fairly simultaneously your all. Yeah, it's an isolated Town.
Not a lot of distance between your locations here to Mayor
Grandma's Hut, little bit of background on a mayor Grandma,
the way your community works here is /, Town law, the oldest,
and most able minded individual, in town, takes on the role of
Mayor. In this case it is Mayor
grandma. That is her legal name,
Grandma's Here, legal first name and she is very very He's very
caring, very gentle type of person, very popular among the
villagers here, and people consider her to be very in tune
with the old ancestors here. So have to the be summoned by
her must mean she's really looking for something specific
here. So you all come in together and
she's sitting very calmly, crisscross applesauce on a
little green mat and she just gestures to four other mats, all
of the steaming hot cup of tea for you.
It was loud, Aries. Please sit down.
And she must have been so excited when she grew into the
name grandma. Yeah, I imagine me a five year
old named Grandma's. Maybe I'll be a grandmother and
you'll all see. They're like you already got the
voice for it. Sweetheart, listen, your
grandma's name is Grandma and you will own it.
The lineage of grandmas is my father grandfather and he's
going to come in. Look at everybody's go, we gotta
go sit down. Yeah.
Mayor Grandma gestures of the mat again.
Like, yes. Please sit down.
Since I just came out from from exploring, I would set my big
backpack down and then also sit crisscross applesauce a small
boy grabs your backpack for you. In gently.
Hangs it up on a hook on the wall.
Small boy a small boy grandchild.
If you will miss his name. Grandpa.
Oh, the small child's name? No.
His Name is ice cream. Oh lovely.
Okay. Cliff very briefly debates.
If there is something to rebel against here and decides that
there's not and goes ahead and sits down A wise choice.
Bell sits down and smooth her long.
Brown skirt over her knees and sits crisscross applesauce.
Love it. Bell yes.
Saying hi. I'm sure you're all wondering
why I've called you all in here on such short.
Notice as you may know the the summer months will soon be upon
us for currently enjoying a season of temperance and nice
breezes. So it is high time for us to
make the annual trip to Beacon City.
Now, obviously, I can't go. It's just had gestures to her
old knees, so it falls on me, the mayor to call who I believe
to be the foremost capable citizens, and send you on the
quest and you landed on us. I sure did.
And I can tell you why price. My Brave Explorer wise
bride-price knows much about plants.
Flowers is the only person in town who very frequently leaves
the town. So we have expertise He's there.
I wanted the kind teacher bail to be able to lead and guide you
and help Corral. You and educate you on things,
you might need educating on and how could I not choose?
The greatest engineer? We have in town resourceful able
to build what you might need along the journey.
And of course, Clefairy. I just think you could use some
responsibility. I've heard some things around
town and I think it's high time. And you, you you hung out with
some good examples. I I'm okay with that.
That was considering I should I rebelled against Grandma so as
she she very slowly stands up and goes now.
Of course this is all up to you. I can choose any other for but
if you for consent to the journey, it's a great
opportunity could bring honor and some extra supplies for your
home. Of course, you get first pick of
the litter as as it were from the year of Sue.
Applies and we already have our contact in Beacon City, ready to
provide them for you. So if you consent I will send
you on your way. This is an urgent matter.
I'm ready. Well, I just like stand up and
grab my backpack from the wall. I mean, the episode, but in
really fucking quickly. So I think we're gonna say, yes,
Grandma turns behind herself. And she's a camera like, oh my
God, let me, let me check my Rolodex of other character.
There's nope. Nope.
This is he's going doli. Looks, it looks like Grandma and
just goes If you think that we are the best bunch to go.
I guess. I can't say no.
Well you could, if you wanted to well you know what I mean?
You know what I mean? I want to help and, you know,
you should they look at Grandma and the Maybe I can do something
to make make walking a little bit easier for you to when I get
back. You know, I didn't realize your
knees. Were that bad?
Oh, I do down me. I don't want to be a better than
anything. You focus on the town first,
where you come to me, think we need to focus on you at some
point. But okay, well, we'll talk about
it later. Now, first things first, follow
me. She turns herself around and she
opens her back door and invite you for a walk through it.
We go. Okay, yeah, the doors open.
So you go through the back door here and you see something, you
kind of thought was a rumor, but turns out it is, in fact, true.
You see a huge large swirling Mist Cloud?
Right in the backyard of Mayor, grandma, and supposedly.
This is what it's called The ancestral missed.
As I mentioned earlier, you are an isolated Hound and the legend
says that this is the reason why your town as isolated and no one
can find you way up to send people out every year to get
what you need and mayor, grandmas pushes the four of you
towards it. And says, now, the first thing
you have to do before you can begin the adventure is you have
to part The ancestral missed? And you have to find a solution
to it together. I will allow you the time to
ponder and Come up with a plan of attack for the Mist, doli,
immediately goes to the base of it, trying to find out, what's
causing it to emanate and how it works.
Yeah. Make a Roots role for me, if 1
D6, For, that's a Roots roll over my number over my number
over, your number four routes roll, which is what we want for
us, that have it up because I guess that can't keep it
straight. Yeah, no same.
I got it now. I think though, so yeah, what is
causing the ancestral mess? So you're looking at the base of
it and you very quickly catch on to the fact that was like a
metallic humming it coming from under the Mist that's strange.
I'll probably need some more time to figure this out, but you
know, they look at everyone else.
There's definitely something, something magical and mechanical
going on here, that's causing the Miss to be here and be part
of the whole situation. What do you all think?
Kim Bell, throw a rock at it. Okay.
Yeah yeah. Do it in what Manner are you
throwing the rock? It's like tossing it through
just to see if there's any like resistance or if it goes through
an investigative rocks. Yeah.
Okay. I'll have you do a Roots role
for that. Okay, so I need to roll below my
number over and roll over your number four routes.
Yes. Five and your number is a 4/4.
That's over your number. Say you throw the Rock in there
and you hear a metal clunk sound, does it go through the
mr. Does it bounce off the missed?
You don't see it go through it. It's almost like it hits,
something, and stopped. Okay, well, maybe and Clefairy
stops and thinks for a second and says, well, the next best
thing is and she runs and she Listen to The Mist.
Okay. I'm going to make that a flowers
roll. Okay.
I did not. I got a 4 and my number is 3.
So you jump through the mist and you were now.
Just surrounded by Mist. You can't hear the humming.
You can't see anything. You can't see your way back to
the party. You're just in the Mist now.
Perfect. All right.
Um, this is a conundrum. Well, since since they went into
the Mist, here we would need to find our way back.
So would anyone object holding on to a rope while I go into the
Mist to go find them? Absolutely not.
Okay. So I would get a rope out of my
bag, tie it to my waist and head it, do you.
Yeah, I grabbed the I grabbed it and I'm holding on so tightly
because I'm like this, this was the right way to go about
jumping into a thing. So, if we lose another one, I
we're really shit out of luckier.
So why is where did the noise come from just.
So I know it sounds closer to you rather than farther away
from you. So the metal humming, you would
be able to hear it from the outside of the Mist.
And when Bell through the rock, the the clunk definitely sounded
closer than far. Okay, so I'm going to start in
the direction of the noise and see if I can.
I can find out where, where they ended up before we get too far
into the Mist. Sure, you're an Explorer, you
have your rope tool that you're using, I'll let you roll Out, 3,
D6 for this one. Hey, and this is a, which roll
oh, Roots Roots. So I got a row above my for yes.
Ideally Hey, how about a five? What are the numbers 5 2 & 1?
Okay, so so 16s basically pretty much.
Yeah. You, it's hard to see in there.
You quickly learn that as you get through the Mist, while you
can hear the humming. It's kind of hard to pinpoint
where it is. So you're just trying to, like,
listen out for a cliff, fairies like calls for help that I sleep
very, very is is yelling, but it's yeah, It's less of a help
and more like, hey, hey, over here.
Do you hear me? And she's like, waving her hands
like they're their helicopters to like.
Dispel the Mist. Just spinning in a circle by
yourself. So, yeah, price.
You can hear but you cannot see. So I can't hear Cliff areas as
calls for help you, you can hear, but you can't see the the
metal thing or Clefairy, so you can hear them, but not see them.
Okay, step one, find Clefairy. Okay, go towards the fairies
voice Bell. Can I just, is there a switch?
Is there a switch? I'm going to withhold that
answer because that be a great one if it was a call of the
Tonight look for a switch you can look for a switch or how you
make a 1D. Six routes roll.
Okay. That's a 4.
Well, I've got even just incredible it'll take a photo of
it right now. Amazing.
I believe you so well yeah. Ask your question for me.
Is there a switch? Yes.
There is a switch.
Can I turn off the switch? Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Well I'm just gonna say shows you are able to If I, that there
is in fact, a switch. But since of for isn't an
automatic hit, right? You you glean that this must be
something you can turn off, but you're still not seeing where it
is. Okay?
So then I'm going to look at do lie and say, I think there might
be like a switch like just to turn it off.
It was going to look at her. Go.
Can you hold on to the Rope? So I can take a quick peek
around. I got I've got a flash, I got a
toy. Torch flashlight in my in my
toolkit. I might be able to see it better
than you. Yeah.
Honestly I think if anybody's going to be able to find that
switch is going to be U. So yeah, I'll hold on to the
Rope now. We're thinking all right.
You're, you're an engineer and you're using your tool and this
is your expertise will 3 D6 okey-dokey.
I shit you not 111. So I failed across the board.
Well, what about 1 in 16 or 18 team is the odds?
So yeah, that's really bad. So I miss across-the-board.
I probably like lose my flashlight.
I was going to say the same thing.
Like yeah you get under there. You're like feeling around for
it. Feels mean gross in your hand
and then that grosses you out and you drop the flashlight.
Light in the mist and then you can't see anything you like oh
shit, no God that's a sensory. No no I don't like that one.
Oh God no I did not find the switch.
I am real real. Sorry.
Also you okay. I am fine physically.
I'm very frustrated because I had to make that flashlight and
now I got to make a new one will find.
We'll see if we find it. But you know, Know what it is.
What it is. So Clefairy left behind her.
What was it? It was a.
Oh no. My Naked.
My pins again. My AI drone who is fitted with a
vibrato cutter. Yeah it can.
I try calling out out to elf? Yeah.
Your Elf towards me? Yeah, let's do a 2d six flowers
role for that since he's your little buddy a rate.
That is a one and a four. And your number is a 3.
OK, 1 success. Oh yeah.
So yeah. Well, I Alf flutters into there
and I'm going to call this a partial success because while he
doesn't find you Alf, kind of Smashes in to the metal thing,
that's in the fog. And when that happens, the fog
finally dissipates on accident. And you can see that Clefairy,
didn't really get that far. Just a little leap.
Price, not as farther. Still does this very beginnings
of the Mist and you see a smashed-up fog machine with an
AI drones, and I like wandering off the being like, a grabbing
his head, like after a night of drinking.
Whoa. Oh, wow.
Oh no. I think I hit it.
I heard it and it went boom. And I'm just sitting here like,
oh, that would explain everything.
You hear. Mayor grandmother's laughing on
her porch. I'm like, well, that's one way
to do it, I guess. Well done know, if you look at
head you might notice the porcupine stream.
You see a long winding River and mayor, grandma just like puts
the four of you together. Puts her arms around you all and
says, if you follow that stream straight down, you will reach
Beacon City with little to no problems.
Can we find Dolly's flashlight real quick?
That was gonna make, do you Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The fog dissipates. Yes.
You do see the flashlight and what was the gross thing that
Dolly touched cow? Poop.
Oh I wash my hands before we leave.
That's nasty. Oh yeah.
Absolutely everyone. Who needs to wash up if you need
something to eat before you leave anything, you can think of
from my Abode that might be helpful help yourself.
I just realized too that I never liked gave my family the eggs.
So I currently have two dozen eggs in my backpack, you never
know. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna hold
onto that. I'm gonna say that, it's Canaan
that do lie. Still has those do lie?
Still has two dozen eggs and their flashlight back.
Good. So you wash your hands, you get
that off of you, if your flashlight back, is there
anything else? Anyone wants to do while they
have made Grandma here? No, I'm pretty much all set
besides eating Maybe. Cool.
So I grab some snacks for the road.
Yeah, ice cream provides you with a bowl of assorted snacks
like kind of Trail Mix type stuff.
Granola bar. Yeah.
And take the of those. Yeah, yes, we still have a
bugles here in the post. Post apocalypse, help yourself.
They would survive. Let's be real.
Yeah, you reason Twinkies Vehicles into ink.
He's very, um, I'm just gonna make sure that that Alf is
properly charged and coughs. Vibro-cutters is also Properly
charged, sure. So, so the, the grandson ice
cream does. This comes out with like some
assorted wires and my outlets and plugs for you and he's just
like, yeah, grandmother's kind of keeps a box full of these,
just in case. So do any of these work for you,
I will plug one in and says I'm all charged and ready to go.
I guess so perfect. All right, so Alpha is fully
charged. We've got bugles, we've got
snacks, we are Are ready to rock and you all start walking down
the edge of the porcupine stream as you start to do.
So pretty early on down the road, you see a big red sign
painted with white letters that says the words, Dawn Chorus for
all your needs and there's a little like brick houses and
smoke coming out of the top of it.
On the side. There's a house and behind the
sign. Oh, okay.
Yeah. So by you see the sign like
immediately to the left of it. You just see like a big brick
house with smoke coming out and like a few, like, sheds in the
back. Seems to be a place if there's
any other resources you want to stop by at.
There's also a little, like things scribbled under that.
I totally wrote down early on and meant to mention here that
that also says provider, Of wisdom and courage.
Does anybody want to take a pit stop?
So, on the one hand, it might be a very good idea.
If we need some wisdom and courage, on the other hand, it
will delay. A slightly, do you think the
wisdom and courage is like Tangible, or do you think
they're going to just say some witty stuff?
Well, in my experience, any time to rest is a good time.
So even if it isn't tangible, at least we're going to be enjoying
ourselves. I think that I accept this.
Yeah, you know, it also is like in the grand scheme of things,
it only takes us an hour to get there and back give or take and
grandma. Could wait five minutes for us
to just check on check on what's in here.
Yeah, exactly. Marvelous, see ya.
There's a there's a bizarre brick house like I said, and you
all come up to the door and it's it before you even knock a very
wispy looking woman opens the door.
She has long flowing down to her feet.
Green hair. She's wearing a very flowy dress
Barefoot and just opens the door and goes.
Hello! My name is Dawn Chorus.
Please come in. I guess they walk in yeah, great
yes. Yes, courts.
You all in whether you wanted to or not czs core to all in dawn,
chorus is home, has so many birds in it, like imagine like
in your mind how many birds would be like a lot of birds and
then add like 10 more births of that number.
That's how many birds we got in this place.
They all seem to be singing different songs.
They're all on different wavelengths here.
There's an open window. Oh, that in the breeze in and
she doesn't appear to have furniture or seating
arrangements. But she does close the door
behind you as I kind of Twirls in front of you and goes what
wisdom do you seek Travelers Zoop.
I would like to be covered in Birds.
Please, we can arrange that the words of divert, the birds are
very wise Row 1 D6 for flower. I would like to be covered
birds. All right.
That is a to and my number is a three fantastic.
Yeah, you are successfully covered in Birds it perfect
different but you are covered in them.
Please remember that for the rest of this scene.
I am covered in Birds. Yeah, everything everything that
that Clefairy does covered in Birds.
One wish granted three to go any requests, any questions,
anything you want to know about? History words of wisdom
affirmation. I have them all as he spreads
her arms out. Like a bird comes out of her
like sleeve. What have we walked into Coleman
bird paradise? The floor is covered in shit, is
not Paradise. It is Paradise.
If you are a bird Bell we are not Birds.
Well Whispers to do lie, I'm not sure either and I'm a little
freaked out if we're gonna be honest.
Doli, like goes to run their fingers, through their hair.
Forgetting for a moment that their head is like very closely,
shaved like buzzed head. Like it's just like it's fuzz
and just like, they're like right there can't even like it's
not satisfying and they look at this woman and they just get
then they go I gave I guess the only question I have is, how do
we even know? What kind of wisdom can you
even? Give us.
You said something about a wish? Well, I can also do that.
Yes. Wishes, I can grant a desire if
you so choose we have a lot of access to a lot of things so I
can grant wisdom. I can imbue you with courage for
the journey. It all depends on what you
think. You might be afraid of my
friend. What do you would you like to be
prepared against? You could call me a bird like to
be prepared against the army of birds.
A very docile creatures. They holds her finger out in
three, Birds land on. It is then that wonderful time,
boys, knock it off. Let me think for a second, all
that my I let my mic and Patriots here go.
I essentially have bird armor on.
Yeah, yeah, you, you you got exactly what you wanted,
immediately fell turns to price and goes hey you to a lot of
nature, right? Is this, this whole normal, the
birds. All in here not fat and kind of
shakes his head nose. Like this is this is no for me.
Birds are usually more sparse. That's what I thought.
Okay, I guess we're just going to try and like, Get over the
third thing I guess protection against Birds.
I would like to suggest to the group that perhaps we ask what
dangers, we might face on the way that forgot.
Wisdom. I would, I would love, I would
love an insight into what kind of dangers, G AR grandma said
that, they really wouldn't be any problems along the way.
But you're saying that, you know, courage against things we
may fear are things out here on this path that we may fear, or
that we may be confronted by in bad ways.
Yeah. Yeah, mon 1 D6 for me for a
flower roll. Please.
Oh God, I have to Rhino very It's your, your options here,
but you've had a lot of gotta to, that's my number.
We will take it, which means you can ask me the DM anything.
And since your role was to ask anything, here is some insight
for you. So when you ask this question,
she starts twirling around her living room area here.
The the bird poop kind of vanishes the bird scatter and
some other birds are flying around her and you start to see
a map. Of the Porcupine Creek and
you're going to notice three things right away from that,
that question for hitting that role you're going to see two
cities on opposite ends of the creek left and right as well as
Beacon city at the mouth of the river.
And there is going to be like a straight line of birds kind of
right before Beacon City. So those are, those are the
things that you can immediately. See, she's showing you two
different towns, a straight line.
Before Beacon City and Beacon City itself.
Yeah, we should write. I should I ask for protection
against Birds, that's what it sounds like.
Is there a blockade? Is there a blockade?
You can make it 1. D6.
Flour roll for me. Okay, so I have to get above my
number you'll get under you're not everybody lives.
Oh okay, I got one. Which is under everyone's
member. Yeah.
So yeah she goes. There is a migratory group of
animals that may be around Beacon City.
I can't speak to when they'll arrive but they may arrive what
kind of animal Can I confirm the animal as she is going to sound?
Like shake her head and say, it's a migratory beast and they
may or may not arrive. We are not yet.
Sure. Which Beast, we're discussing.
It's dangerous. Could be depends on how you
approach them. I suppose I think that one of us
should ask for the wisdom to know how to approach the
migratory animals. I do have one final request.
I can I can honor I believe relief.
I'm trying, everyone's asking prices high prices hasn't yet.
Oh, okay. You could ask for the wisdom.
I would like to dog of wisdom this.
What, how should we approach this migratory Beast one day six
flower. I'm going to those probably
that's exactly your for which is exactly my number answer, the
question. Those are hot tonight.
The the migratory Beast, she Twirls around again and the
birds all flutter together to take the shape of a beaver.
I was totally thinking bison. I was thinking about be an
allegory for something. But I thought you were gonna say
alligator. They migratory sure alligators
are totally Myra. Solar pump game.
The whole bunch of stuff happens.
If the river is fast enough and they are stupid, my friends.
I have awarded you with an armor of Of birds and the wisdom to
know of your upcoming path. I will allow you to keep the
armor of birds, that was your fondest wish to summon them
simply call them. Awesome.
I will allow you to depart Allow us bow about your grace.
All right, wave politely. Yeah, I think we should go now
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So as you're departing, you now have the wisdom of the, of the
two cities, you know, about the potential Beaver, blockade, you
have a bird armor. Now, as you continue walking
down the stream, you see the first of the two cities that was
mentioned since you visited on choruses home, you're kind of on
the right side of the stream here, There is a a small town,
kind of has like a loud activity going on around it.
Some very mechanical sounds coming out of it.
You see a very large, building shaped like a book.
And you see a sign and saying you are now entering the town of
penguin. March, you are able to stop
here. If you wish, that is the next
stop on your journey. If we get, if we get harassed by
a bunch of penguins, I'm out band.
I'm going to just keep going. That's the City Guards, I'm kind
of over the luckily if they tried to attack I can just make
them become a piece of armor for me.
Penguin armor now I kind of want to go to that that building that
shaped like a book. That's all right.
As long as I don't get mobbed by Penguins, we can go wherever you
like with looks like a place of learning.
In this climate, a place of learning about penguins maybe or
other this war marching Bachchan is just the name we will check
out the book building. Yeah, so you enter the city,
very nice architecture here. Very different from what you
would be used to a porcupine, a stream and you enter the view.
Large Learning Annex. It is what it is that a Called
of penguin. March as you enter there, there
is a very middle-aged looking man graying hair.
A little bit of a gray goatee, sitting behind a desk, seaming
the organizing a group of books. Hello.
Welcome to the Learning, Annex
to be like gestures behind you and you see holy shit.
That's a lot of books. We have collected vast amounts
of old one learning as well as collected.
The most studious and well-documented events of our
own time. We here are focused on being
proactive and modernizing, every city in our current Society.
We want to make sure everyone has the The wealth of knowledge.
They need to ensure their City can be the most productive.
How may I assist you? Well, first off, I just want to
say, maybe maybe I can help you. You need a wheelchair ramp out
front. There are too many steps for
people who don't you can't, you know, can't get out of a
wheelchair. I can maybe help you if you if
you don't have any plans for that.
We could draw them up for you. Good Heavens.
I didn't even think we, I can't believe we didn't have Already,
would you mind doing that? Actually, I would trade you at
any book in the library. Truly, if I can get one, like
optic, so I can work on some glasses, that'd be wonderful.
Most assuredly, he like reaches into his desk and he pulls out a
crystal button. He presses it, and five books
appear at his desk and they are all varying levels of optic
learning here. Some appear to be very old text.
Maybe old Optometry textbooks from the far-off distant year of
2005 as some appear, a little bit more modern, some about
glass, working frame, building things like that.
All right, I'm going to dig through those draw up some
plans, while the rest of them, figure out if they want to get
anything from this guy. Great?
Yeah, you can roll to D6, roots to see if you can build that
ramp. Bell is going to very excitedly.
Ask oh, do you do you have a Books with pictures in it or
just the books with rotting in it all thoughts what did you
roll for me? Lex to successes three and five
to success is alright so you you get right to work on that ramp.
You build a fast, he's so grateful.
He just gives you all five of the books.
Awesome. Answer your question.
You're looking for books with pictures in the many particular
pictures. Yeah.
A book on the paintings of Henry fuseli.
Know how specific? Let me see, he make 1 D6.
That's a painting book. Make enough for what you're
doing for teaching purposes, but yeah, 86 for flowers.
Okay, to ones to once it's a flower roll under your number
two successes, so he very excitedly is ready for this one.
So he reaches into his desk, he pulls out the button, it looks
like it has the works of that painter on it.
He pushes the button. and one humongous Tome of all of their
paintings is now in your possession with anyone like any
other piece of information that they might want from the
penguin, March library books on Revolution on Revolution, you
say, what are you're holding against, not sure yet, as long
as that's all you Rebel, Without a Cause looking for looking for
a Cause Dangerous dangerous, a young willing mind looking for
something to rebelling against other girl to D6 or flowers for
that. You like we need like how to
deal with beavers because that's literally what we're going to
come across. That is A1 and A2 A1 and A2.
And your number is a, yes, you're all just doing a
self-fulfilling purchases here. You get another one, detailing
the American Revolution, maybe a slightly confusing.
Why this one's in there but this one's on the Industrial
Revolution modernizing. All the cities throughout
history. This you know, there's Like, you
know, control effing revolution in the library, essentially the
DVD of James Dean's is Rebel. Without a Cause comes through on
your list of options here. Very old Tome.
It came in a circle, we don't know how to use it yet, but
here's a few options for revolution for a young mind.
Oh, thank you. Price.
I would be kind of on our goal here.
I would like to look for the history books of the city that
we're going to if any but barring that books about
beavers. Hmm.
So a book on Beacon city or a book on bivas which would be
more prevalent to you my friend if I had to pick probably the
book on beavers. Has a cone beavers mere eight
years for this more beavers, regular 2D six flowers roll,
okay? It's just all the seasons of
Angry Beavers, so one on my number and one under oh, okay,
great. So one under that's one success,
you may ask me the DM anything you want.
Would we have any history books on vegan City or is that too
new? Um, Yes, yes, there would be
history books about Beacon City through this modern version of
society, has lasted long enough for there is documented history
about most places. Okay, cool.
So you get your 16s, a single book comes up.
It's about a, a 20-page novella and it is simply titled Beaver
Friend or Foe. So yeah.
You have all you've all been armor to the little bit more
information, which, you know, it should that come up.
You now are more educated about it, might add an extra dice
troll, who knows? The librarian congratulate hello
do lie on a job. Well done for building a
wheelchair-accessible ramp. I wrote that the city was
proactive and they didn't have a ramp go figure and he thanks you
all Grace it. As a very deep bow and says,
thank you for visiting penguin Macho's Library.
Thank you for building that ramp outside.
Is there anything else I can do to assist you beyond summoning a
book? Do you need anything from Beacon
City? Do I need anything from Beacon
City? Well, now that you mention it,
that's very kind of you to offer.
We could certainly use an increase of grain in our town,
we went through a big pastry phase and now we're running low
on the the materials we need to make such things so I would be
eternally grateful in fact would you like another book?
If for that exchange? I one of your pastry making
Books would be fantastic. Sure, sure.
I don't even make you press a button for that.
I, he's like goes behind his desk and pulls out a book and it
is, it is the Great British Bake.
It Bake Off, cookbook. I love it.
Perfect, perfect. It's what I was hoping for.
Exactly. Thanks great.
He escorts you a backed onto your Trail and you are able to
saunter down further. You're heading towards that
point where they mentioned you may encounter beavers, I need
everyone to roll 1 D6 routes for me.
Six foot once more of four. Well, I got Priceline will the
second one because you're the book on beavers.
I got my flower Roots number. No kidding.
Okay. I gotta find.
I also got a 66 was your second one Jenny.
Mmm, okay. And Did I get yours Bell?
I got a too. A 22, okay?
So two would be a fail. We have to on their number and
two successes. Okay.
We'll start with you, Jenny anything you want to ask me
about the situation? So you said we're getting, we're
getting closer to the Beavers. Yeah.
Yeah, what are they up to? What are the Beavers up to?
So the Beavers are just doing Beaver things there, there's
nothing special about beavers. You know, so well, as you
Ponder, the book, you would see that beavers are very Adept
Builders, and they have a tendency to block off water
Pathways, okay? So what I, They're blocking off
the river right now. Well, you get one question that
I will go to Zoup. Who has a question.
Okay. Hmm.
How can we bypass the Beavers without making them angry?
There's very pointed. How can we bypass the Beavers
without making them Angry Beavers?
Don't like to be interfered with.
If you start working to take down what they've built, they
might respond to that portal e kind of the mind their own
business animal. Now, for those of you who
succeeded, you are able to get past this area with no problems
Bell. I think you rolled under your
number, right? Yes.
Okay, so you are a most of the say, for the sake of this
exercise here. You're in the back of the line
up, everybody. And as you start to cross, you
notice the first Beaver start going into the stream.
And then a second Beaver, that a third Beaver.
You're seeing a whole bunch of beavers going into the pork.
Find stream and you think you can hear a little chattering
behind you. And turn and look behind me.
You're never going to believe this.
It's a beaver and it is staring very intently at you.
The rest of the Beavers seems to be going into the stream but
this beavers really hyper fixated on you fellas.
Going to is very slowly keep her eyes on the beaver and like
back. Can you make 1 D6 Roots role for
me again? So I need to get above my number
above your number. Yes.
Okay, so I need a four or five? Aha!
Oral sex with a 65. Hey, Okay.
So this Beaver is walking you slowly back away.
He's kind of getting the hint and he was kind of like, does
that finger gesture? A point of his eyes in the back
of you? And then he gets into the
Stream. You have been given the warning
of the Beaver. I will heat it.
And you arrive in Beacon City and boy, does it live up to its
name Beacon city as I bright City on top of a hill very large
and elaborate architecture. Like if you think that penguin
March was fancy but that big Library this is like Dubai,
fancy. Very large building is very
great architecture. And the thing is, we're going to
He immediately noticing is this is a place built to store and
hub, natural, resources of anything.
You can think of that a town might need is here.
We got food. We got water, we got livestock,
we've got clothing, we've got materials to make clothing
everything that your town is going to need is here and it is
at this point that you're going to see.
A woman, running up to you kind of out of breath.
She looks very, very official imagine the exact opposite of
dawn chorus running at you. This Woman's name is Margaret
sand and you you all know Margaret.
You've, you know, heard about her.
She's the provider of the resources and just wait.
Wait, wait. I'm so sorry.
We are behind.
I need help. I need.
I desperately need help at the resources.
What can we do to help you? Okay.
Yeah. What do you need?
This is. Yeah, I just need.
Oh gosh. I need everything.
We are behind in every feasible. Way.
All of our machines are jammed, we have no idea why.
They're just, they're just not producing the things we need to
give you all the resources, Our Workers are just sitting there
with their hands in their hands, are our fields or avoid
anything. You can do to help.
I'll bring you to the hub center, but I just need anyone
to take a look at this problem. Have you angered nature in some
way? Is that a thing?
I don't know, main, I mean, all I try to do is help.
All the cities is it, the Beavers?
Beavers now over. Well yeah.
There's a there's a smattering of beavers up the river who
build a dam. Okay, outside of the city.
Yeah, yes, my problems inside of the city.
I think what they're referencing is that of your fields are
Barren and you needed water, and the Beavers are blocking the
water from going to the fields that could be a problem, but
maybe that's not what we're hitting.
You know what? I'll have you make me good?
That's to D6 flower flower. I'll make that a challenging one
for you. Yeah, shit, one success, one
failure. Hey, we'll take it.
Okay, so you're kind of getting the sense that you're that
you're halfway there. The that there, there does seem
to be something blocking what's happening and then the thing
isn't reaching the town. But You kind of get this like
this feeling whether it's the wind when there's R ancestors,
your intuition that that the Beavers are not meant to be
disturbed, it doesn't seem to be tied to the Beavers Margaret.
Escorts you to the Grand Hub of resources here and sure enough
things aren't humming the way they're supposed to be.
You kind of sea ports where stuff would be coming out of
you. See a good smattering of Fairly
paid and hi. Highly trained employees, just
kind of being like, I don't got me but but but seems stuck over
there. Dole.
He's gonna get out there their toolbox, go over to Margaret and
go. You mind, if I just take a look,
I am an engineer. I don't usually work with big
machines like this. But you know, I am pretty
resourceful when it comes to figuring stuff like anything,
okay? Anything you can do, I'll take
anything. So yeah, I'm Gonna Roll.
I'm gonna go take a look and see if I can figure out what's going
on with these machines. But, yeah, that'll be two.
No three years here to about 3D 64 Roots.
That's why I said the toolbox because I wanted that third die.
Casting on Take over. That is three successes, let's
go. Okay so yeah you you get in
there and it seems the machines were we're second in something
they shouldn't earlier. The question was asked have you
angered a nature at all? And it seems like these machines
that would normally produce natural resources and speed up.
The process seems to have an assortment of like naturey
things that shouldn't be in. In there in them, we're seeing
like tree branches, tree logs, birds, nests things of that,
right, variety. Kind of those clogging things up
in there. Have you all been cutting down
trees or doing anything to anger nature?
Because clearly there's remnants of some stuff in here, that's
blocking all of the parts it's going to take me a while to undo
it. We were we were thinking, you
know, if the resources are out there, if we, you know, use more
natural resources of this begat more natural resources and we
could get things done quicker and faster.
You think we've angered something and have to sing?
Well I think he's taken more than nature can sustain.
That's all. We got into this mess in the
first place. You have to respect the nature
around you. Did you need more?
Or did you want more? Can I be both?
We wanted to speed the process up.
I thought we were doing the right thing.
You're saying it was the wrong thing to do this.
Yes, sometimes when you expedite this process, it compromises,
the quality of the product at the end and also it hurts
things. You know, if we're disregarding
how nature is able to adjust itself, naturally to our needs
We're not going to be able to sustain this kind of production
in definitely, it's just not going to work.
We're going to burn out. We're going to burn ourselves
up. We're going to burn out the
world around us. Well said, yeah.
Margaret, you know, just kind of like is beside herself,
Margaret's kind of the head of Beacon cities production
operations, so she feels pretty responsible for that decision
because I have I have a lot to think about, but do you think
This is fixable based on my roles, would you think?
I think I feel like. I think it absolutely.
It's definitely fixable. I don't think that we're past
the point of no return and you know, your intentions were good,
I can understand where you're coming from, but that's when,
you know, we have to take a step back away from the big picture
and remember that these big decisions affect more than just
those that we see in our immediate vicinity, it affects
the world around us too. As a rebel.
Can I go and apologize to nature for Beacon City?
I like it. Why not?
Okay. Yeah.
As a rebel? Yeah, you can make to D6 flour
for me, okay. Be good.
That is A2 and A3 is my number.
Hey, okay. Yeah.
So that's who is a success. What would you like to ask me?
The DM about the situation here. besides Margaret is there,
anybody else we need to convince not to try to expand production
beyond what Nature can provide I like that question quite a bit.
There would be so Margaret helps oversee the production but she
would have definitely had to convince someone to do it and
get them to sign off on it and from your your education back
home. You would know that the mayor of
Beacon city is a man named big blue moon.
Okay, so first, I will go out into nature and I will perform
some sort of ceremony to wait. No, first.
We should talk to the people. We should talk to the mayor.
We should talk to Big Blue Moon first.
Yeah, sure. Anyone else on the part taking
that Adventure. Yeah.
I also yes. Bell will also want to help
apologize to Nature with you. I think Dole he's got their
hands full trying to fix these machines.
So they're gonna they're gonna hang back.
While the rest of you guys go deal with the more social side
where they're going to. They're going to deal with the
machines. They're much happier dealing
with the machines. Perfect.
Okay, so what you want to do? First have to big blue or talk
to Nature? Talk to big blue, because big
blue needs to apologize to Nature as well.
Okay, yeah, Big Blue Moon lives in.
You know what, all those. He's got a house, it's a little
bit bigger than what he would need.
Like you, you all have about the same size house back in your
little, your hometown. This one would be like a little
bit bigger than that. You're able to just cut through
the city and get there pretty immediately and knock on the
door. You know, we don't do like
secure. Dirty guards.
Here in this post, apocalypse is a very trusting Society.
So you knock on the door, he opens it.
He's just kind of wearing like, working clothes or a blue collar
type stuff and he's just like, can I help you?
Hello there. Big Blue Moon, we are here from
porcupines stream. We noticed that you are having
some problems that are due to you're overworking your hand
against nature. And we come to petition, you.
Um, for ourselves and also for penguin March and any other city
that you do better by Nature, I have a multimedia 3D projector.
While this is happening, I was wondering, can I set up images
of like a destroyed Earth but just because you ignore them,
are we gonna do like Al Gore's whole presentation about climate
change forever? It Convenient, true thing ever
Inconvenient Truth thing. This guy just got in my hand and
it's just projecting images of the earth, burning and like,
overconsumption tell you what you and I would like to add to
that. Actually I would like Alf to
stand there with the vibro-cutters, just bring it
menacing things to get better. Hell yeah, we're eco-terrorists.
Now, I'm gonna say what the teenagers want to kill the bear
price. Any anything you want to do
here? I'm standing behind my team.
Got the flower support. I know.
Hang on, hang on. I have a thing.
I have a special Gadget. I use my Taser.
My God. Okay.
I like to imagine that Bell doesn't know that the this is
happening in the background. She's just like flicking through
and then she doesn't realize like a flip.
Okay. I'm gonna do this one at a time,
just so I don't lose track of everyone's numbers here.
First, and foremost Clefairy to D6, flour roll, please Okay.
All right. That is a two threes which are
my number. Whoa.
Okay. I will come back to you.
Belle to D6 for your projector. O3d say so you're using your
your your teaching and your tool.
Oh my God. Okay, what am I supposed to do
above above or below? Because it's two fours in a to
below for flower. Okay.
I got to force it to your number, is a three.
It's a oh my God. Okay.
One success as a lot of questions bank so far, a lot of
questions at the think of price, you are threatening of the
taser. That's really all I got 6 out of
16 and a 1. So 1 success, one failure.
And also to Total success has one failure and for questions
Zoop. I'm so sorry.
Can you roll one more D6? I forgot that you were using
Alf. Okay?
Oh, that is a one and that's under.
Okay, great. So three successes one fail and
for questions. So, We'll start with you.
Clefairy. What questions would like to ask
me. You get two of them.
Will does will can penguin march with their fantastic Library.
Hold a teaching session for Beacon City on how to be better
stewards towards nature. Yeah, absolutely.
And in fact, yeah, I would say that you could write them a
letter be like, hello. It's me, you know, the person
who wanted a cause I think I have it and it may be very
excited about that. Seven one of your birds too.
Take it. Yes, yeah, I will do that.
And I will summon one of my so that my my armor bird armor, it
has one less burden it, your Burma and the old man sent
Burger. You burner you may ask the
second question. I will let Bell ask a question,
right? So okay.
If you ever need any kind of examples for Call Of The Wild,
there are some really good ones lined out in here so you can ask
anything about the world. You can ask what's the best way
to do something? What a person is feeling at any
given moment, how can I help them?
Anything like that? That was Big Blue Moon feeling
right now. Bigler mood is well, you know,
you know that feeling you get when you watch like one of those
like, see what you're really doing when you eat animals
videos. Yeah.
The one that may be vegetarian. Five years.
He's feeling like that that very immediate sense of personal
responsibility of that like deep down good people feel when they
watch those. Those sentimental heavy-handed
kind of things but you know, it's for a good cause so he's
feeling heavy hearted. He's getting the Sarah
Mclaughlin effect. Yeah, exactly.
He's getting the, I should probably adopt a dog.
He's gonna bleed like swirling, it is.
In in his face and a taser going on right there to I you know how
you feel. Sarah Mclaughlin was singing at
you holding a taser menacingly? Yeah okay the next question
Clefairy has is how can we extend this Goodwill towards
nature? Beyond just a knee-jerk
reaction, long-standing. Yeah, no I have a policy.
That's a very great and fair question.
And you're now having me answer. A very deep question that has
played earth scientists for Millennia.
But we're gonna get weird. But right here, right now on
game master Monday, everybody listen here on game master
Monday, we solve the climate crisis finally so I someone has
two big blue moon. Clearly is the stand-in for big
business here, right? And surely, the only Way, you
get big business to extend their Goodwill and though we hate to
say it is showcasing how it impacts their bottom line.
You know, the end of the world is a very existential threat but
the end of your finances, might be a more tangible one that they
would want to approach so we want to showcase how not only is
saving the Earth, the right thing to do, it's the smart
thing to do, it'll help the economy in the long run economy,
which for the further record here, Here abso-fucking-lutely,
we'll just just for the record in case someone's out there.
Like, what that's is unheard of, I know, I'm right.
And then we have one more question you can ask about big
blue or the world or whatever you want.
Is this the last thing we need to do to get our supplies and go
home? Yes, cool.
Yes, it is nice. Okay.
So big blue has been sufficiently guilted into
adjusting his ways. He sits you all down and he
gives you a very lengthy breakdown on how he's going to
solve the problem and what he's going to implement and all that
kind of fun stuff. Listen I'm not gonna role play
that we didn't know for deep-set 33, freaking power points of
this. All those things that I said
where the right Thing to do, he did them.
So, you know, the, the groundwork has been set.
He thinks all of you deeply. He says that in exchange for
this once, the machine is repaired, they will begin to
dismantle the machines and go back to their original method of
home. Grown organic providing of
supplies and he will reward your town with two years.
Worth of resources. A wait That's more resources
than we need. He kind of struggles.
Okay. Well, what do you want then?
Just a guarantee that we will get the resources.
We need next year too. Well, we do have that in place
for you. That is part of our deal with
the isolated towns would you provide those, is there any kind
of technology that we can provide you?
That might help your town. Lengthen, the need Leo and
anything you can think of how can we make our town more?
We have a boat about about it. You get him out, absolutely
provide you about wait but There's a there's a beaver dam
in the way now. Well, then sail, your boat
passed the Beaver Dam. I'm coming over on the Beaver.
Dam, listen, you clearly have something where you're in.
Tune with nature. I'm sure you can figure out some
deal with the Beavers. It can be hailed.
We can just carry the canoe across perfect, the perfect
time. So that is exactly what we want
to provide the town of porcupine spring stream porcupines stream
with a canoe. It is that, is that the deal?
We've reached a canoe. Okay.
Thanks. Okay.
Oh, and penguin March is asking for a, a slight, a slight
temporary increase in their grain to make up for their
overuse of pastry dough. Done, I can do that.
How it's the least I can do for the people who have shown me the
error of my ways. Well this here, let's go.
Let's go. You rejoin.
Do lie back at the tech? You would explain to them, we
got a canoe, we got the green for penguin, March, we're going
to get around those beavers, no problem and because sail
straight home. Well before we go given what you
just told me, I have a feeling, I had a guy, gotta do something
to really hit the nail on the head, and they quickly put
together an invoice for their services to fix all of the
machines. And it okay, it's given how
extensive the damage was and that it was Emergency Services
which UPS the charge and it's like specialist Services, which
again up the charge, it's like an exorbitant or an exorbitant
amount of money and they, they look at at Margaret and go, you
know, I'm happy to set up a payment plan but also this, this
could be I avoided you know if we just destroy if we just
dismantle everything like you planned.
Because the maintenance on these items are even more expensive.
So just let your boss know that this was not a really good,
fiscal Choice. Yeah, no.
I-i've been called into big Blues office, and for what I was
told was going to be a Stern, talking-to.
So I have a feeling this is going to be our last year,
trying this? I don't think this was your
fault. I think your intentions were
good. I think.
Big, I think big blue was just getting a little too greedy with
it. Also just, this is for him.
I will make sure he knows that. And I will ensure that you are
repaid for your efforts. Yeah, I have no idea what the
metric is for money in this world so I didn't give it actual
number, but I would say that it equations like well over like a
thousand dollars per machine. Sure.
Yeah, this has been a very exciting.
Change of resources, types of currency here.
So, I would imagine that in quite some time.
You might find yourself with a few extra things, you need
around your house. If you will, maybe even more
eggs than you currently have, I would expect like a lot more
like a heist more sophisticated tools to get my job's done like
real, real technology to develop things versus, you know, me
making glasses out of broken bottles, right?
You know, I've got actual sophisticated devices to help
me. I think it's safe to say that
when you return home, you're going to have a real nice
upgraded toolkit powerful and and and several educational
books on how to use it. Perfect.
That's all I need. Kind of paint the image of you
returning home. You do.
In fact sale on that canoe with your resources and toe being
brought by land. There going to be a little bit
ahead of you. By the time you arrive, they
have a nice little horse drawn. What's the word I'm looking for?
The Pioneers used? You know, organized and yeah
that that kind of situation is heading back towards town.
You get into your canoe and you see all the Beavers turn to you.
And almost like the wind blowing through their first seems to be
whispering to them. They all salute you as you sail,
down the screen back home, we about this wave polite.
Lie to the Beavers as we cross. I like what one person's, waving
one person's two-finger, saluting one person's bowing and
then goalies just like Confused by the concept of the fingers
doing this stuff for the Beavers doing what that Beaver doing.
And you return home triumphant. You see mayor Grandma waiting
for you with a cane and her hand surrounded by all sorts of
resources, people getting in line to get their, their fair
share for the year. And she has you exceeded my
wildest expectations. I hope this was a fulfilling
Journey for you. Did you learn anything?
Yes, we learned a lot so much they turned into it.
Eco-terrorists. Oh, just a little bit works.
It works. I have found a cause you found
that cause I knew this trip would be good for you.
Tell me what's your cause mine causes environmental
friendliness of worthy, cause indeed, being friends with our
nature and environment. I hope you all have found
something that you can bring home with you for the next year.
I was maybe you'll be selected for next year's trip.
This is this is fucking great. Grandma Grandma know just what
to say sorry I got a little excited there and with that
thank you all for playing roots and flowers or that game.
I thought it was a lot of cute and lot of fun.
Thank you too. Lex and Dusty and Zoop from
rainbow dice Club, Lex. I'm gonna make you speak for the
group. Where can we find more of you?
Three and well, I'll plug my socials.
They can plug their personal ones.
You can find me at Lex, get pizza and all the major socials
and then you can find our podcast, the rainbow dice club,
which is an lgbtq to I A+ actual play, D&D 5e pod cast, set in a
Homebrew World led by an all Queer.
All In and non-binary cast, you can find us at rainbow dice
Club, on all socials, and anywhere that you get your
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And, and like we said, Dusty, you want to plug your socials
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You look, if there's no soup machine there, then I'm not
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What a delight for me to play. One of my favorite games, with
the cast of one of my favorite podcast.
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He pulls out the button. It looks like it has the works
of that painter on it. He pushes the button and one
humongous Tome of all of Their paintings is now in your
possession. I'm just going to send you a
photo of one of the paintings just so y'all know what I'm
talking, please. Yeah, I would love to have that
for my reference. Okay, I'm sending it into the
Discord. Here we go.
Great. Oh, hell yeah.
Oh, I need that obsessed. I love it.
It's a very spooky book. Definitely not for the children.
That come to your art classes? No, not really.
For me. Maybe they're cool kids.
I just saw the horse, like I was more concerned about the Goblin
on top of the lady. And then the horses, whoa, I
watched a whole like video essay about this guy and I Blythe the
name, it's it's my favorite. Anybody who has not seen this
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