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Arc 2 - Post game Show
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The crew have a Q&A, Talk about System Changes, and have PTT TRivia
Stick around to the very end for something special!
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Dakota as the PM, DM, GM
Evelyn as Evelyn
Eli as Eli
Micah as Micah
Jake as Walter Fisthands the Riolu
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Changes
00:00:11
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to A Path Through Time. My name is Dakota, your PM, your DM, your GM. And sitting to my left is somebody who exclusively uses Himalayan pink salt. It's me, Evelyn. very ta The Himalayan pink salt has very tasty impurities.
00:00:29
Speaker
they taste like They taste like the Himalayas. And I've got someone with me who...
00:00:42
Speaker
me start that one over. Do you just want to start over? It'll be easier for me to just create one solid cut instead of two. Okay. yeah Real quick, I do want to say i do actually do that.
00:00:57
Speaker
What? Use exclusively Himalayan salt. Oh, do you? I actually do. Oh, that's funny. I don't even have pink Himalayan salt. Okay, here we go.
00:01:09
Speaker
Alright, I got one. You ready? Alright, here we go Hello everyone, and welcome to Path Through Time. My name is Dakota, your PM, your DM, your GM. And sitting to my left is someone who I'm going to guess his favorite evolution is Umbreon.
00:01:23
Speaker
It's me. Is that true? Evelyn. ah Yeah, yeah. Freaking love Umbreon. it actually? Um, I mean, not really. I'm just going with the... Oh, I was genuinely trying to guess what your favorite evolution was.
00:01:40
Speaker
Oh, well, ah well my favorite's Sylveon. Oh, okay. that makes sense. I was gonna guess Jolteon. Jolteon? Oh, because of Electro-type?
00:01:51
Speaker
No, uh, fairy, but... not being Popey-ist. Uh-oh, Jake's being Species-ist. Typist. Typist is the word. Typist is the term we're looking for here.
00:02:02
Speaker
Yes. Well, and to my left is someone who bought ten piano rolls.
00:02:10
Speaker
Yeah, I definitely know what those are. And I bought 10 of them, indeed. Totally. I'm EOI, I play Bruce, and sitting across from me is someone who definitely does not exclusively use pink Himalayan salt.
00:02:33
Speaker
I'm not gonna lie. i do. not ashamed of it You can't take it away from me. Hi, I'm Micah. And to... Going under the table now, sitting... Sitting under the table is someone who is secretly trying to take over the podcast and turn it into a Select Era podcast.
00:02:56
Speaker
You damn Skippy.
00:03:00
Speaker
damn Skippy, where is this? English Britain from the eighteen hundreds but maybe go Don't let me get my taser link on you. What? He's uncultured!
00:03:12
Speaker
On culture! Apparently so. No, I genuinely didn't hear what you said.
00:03:19
Speaker
but by the way, I found that a piano roll is... Laser link? ah piano role is A roll is the horizontal axis from those like MIDI playback videos. Apparently they're called piano rolls.
00:03:32
Speaker
I don't know if that's what you were referencing, but that's the closest thing I could find. Probably. Read about them on some history pages. The pianola rolls?
00:03:43
Speaker
Like the, uh... No, like a piano roll. Hey chat, they didn't let me see who I was. Huh? Nothing. Okay.
00:03:54
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, apparently there's a pianola role, which is like the role you put into an automatic piano player from like, again, the 1800s. So that's kind of cool.
00:04:07
Speaker
Anyway. Moving on. And moving on, you guys have probably noticed that Sean's not in that intro. If you guys remember at the beginning of the last recording, um I mentioned the fact that that recording, the last recording, last episode, was supposed to be ARC 3 episode 1.
00:04:26
Speaker
But we ended up turning it into the ARC 2 final finale. And the reason for that is that Sean will no longer be joining us on this podcast. Um... we had our differences that kind of got in the way and we had to, um, we had to go our own ways.
00:04:44
Speaker
Um, Sean will not be joining us for the show anymore. And in his place, we have Micah here who will be playing Blair the Absol, uh, who we got set up in the last episode pretty nicely for him to join. That was not intentional by the way. It really wasn't, but it was a perfect way for us to introduce him into the show. So, um,
00:05:07
Speaker
That is why I was being kind of vague in the last episode, is I didn't want to stir up any drama before an actual announcement was made. So, Sean will not be joining us from here on out.
00:05:24
Speaker
With that being said, this show will be continuing as normal. And the only difference is that Michael will be taking his place for the time being. For the time being. he just taking his place, period.
00:05:37
Speaker
um For now. Yeah. With that being said, we still have an episode to run. so um We are going to be start splitting this episode up
Q&A Session Begins
00:05:50
Speaker
into a few parts. We have Q&A session, which we're going to do here at the beginning of the episode.
00:05:55
Speaker
um And then we're going to be moving on to system changes. Because we have a few system changes to discuss as well as some other things. So that is where we're going to start. Do you guys want to do the host or the audience Q&A first? i don't remember which one we said we were doing first.
00:06:14
Speaker
I think we're doing audience first. Okay, let me pull that up because I had it pulled up and then I didn't. It is right here. Okay, so we actually don't have very many Q&A's from the audience. We have two from Leafyound Infinite.
00:06:32
Speaker
And she says, she they say, what's everyone's favorite NPC? I feel like this was asked in the ARK 1 post-game show, but it specifically says ARK 2 Q&A, so what's your guys' favorite NPCs?
00:06:47
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Duh.
00:06:50
Speaker
Alright, I got mine. ah Okay, let's start from the top. Eli, what about you? i think I'm gonna have to go with...
00:07:01
Speaker
uh, Zekrom for the ARC 2 favorite NPC. Zekrom does seem to be a fan favorite. I love Zekrom.
00:07:11
Speaker
That is Zekrom the Lucario, of course. Yes, it's Zekrom the Lucario. Imagine if in the future Zekrom the Legendary actually gets put into the store and I named him Lucario.
00:07:22
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fucking I was about to say that! Okay, Evelyn, what about you? What about me? Ooh, this is a tough one! Um... I'd say my fa- Ooh.
00:07:38
Speaker
First, i will answer for Hikaru. Okay, so I think he car his favorite NPC. I can't say Blair. You can't say Blair. so you see Okay, but she in Yeah, she No, no, but arc two was specified during that timefra she wast fact at npc okay fine um right fine i'm assuming you're gonna sayla but
00:08:10
Speaker
How'd you guess? Wow, how did we I was gonna laugh so hard at the subverted expectations where she goes with Tito's the Sprigetito.
00:08:22
Speaker
Even though during the Dome DM episode she absolutely hated- no no, she did like her. Who hated her? it was- It was uh- Sammy. Sammy hated her. For stealing the bread bowl idea.
00:08:38
Speaker
Okay, I guess I'm next down on the list. Does it even need to be said? Look at my username. Evelyn's favorite now. Oh, we did go with yours. play for not elyn' So you're going with cards. What's Evelyn's favorite?
00:08:51
Speaker
What is Evelyn's favorite NPC in the show? Still Blair. Still Blair.
00:09:00
Speaker
Actually, i would say it is Jefferson the Velooza from the Lunar New Year special. Jefferson? i I'm not familiar. I remember him, actually. that was, uh... I think I tried to be very quiet because that I could not stop laughing.
00:09:16
Speaker
Oh, we could bring specials into this? Oh, no I'm stuck then.
00:09:22
Speaker
Yeah, he was... The Veluza, Jefferson was the one that, um, he, like, cut his... He, like...
00:09:30
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He cut out his pieces of his- Like, ejected pieces of his own flesh, and then like served them as sashimi at one of the food stalls. What?! Nice! Oh, because- Blair was so grossed out, I couldn't stop laughing! ah like What the hell? Oh, that's Falusa's signature move! Oh, what's it called? Filet something. Is the name of its signature move, and that's basically- Yes. I think it is Filet Away. That's basically what does. It cuts its own HP, and it's presumed that it's cutting off pieces of itself to boost its attack power.
00:10:07
Speaker
Yeah. Blue's signature move is Filet Away, a non-DMG normal type move introduced in Gen 9 that boosts the user's attack as special attack.
00:10:20
Speaker
that's ah that's That's what it does in the game. However, in Japanese fun fact, it's actually called Cut to the Bone.
00:10:32
Speaker
Okay, I guess I'm next on the list. So, jokes aside, actually, Selene is not my favorite NPC. My favorite NPC is actually Veronica. Veronica's my favorite NPC. She has a whole story arc tied to her that that Walter will not discover out of spite, I swear.
00:10:49
Speaker
there so i don't want to. Well, you're on loss, I guess. You're always holding the skip button. Apparently Brother, Veronica's got to gotta makeup to Walter.
00:11:03
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She was so selfish.
00:11:10
Speaker
I don't care if people get on me for it. She is. true Okay, Jake, what about you? What's your favorite NPC? I'm stuck between two. One's from a special, one's not.
00:11:23
Speaker
Alright, I'll give you the special one. It's the door. The door guy. o just i made cry with my voice in the... Oh, you're talking about... Oh!
00:11:35
Speaker
No. It was during the... I forgot it was one Samusian sacrifice. What was Oh no. It was the... Zangoose. Xerix. Yeah.
00:11:46
Speaker
Zarek's the Zangu's- That was Zangu's- That was Zangu's- It was there's a door. it got- You just said he was a door person. No, the actual door that we were talking to- to- in the, uh, Halloween from hallowen episode. episode!
00:11:59
Speaker
Yeah. Oh yeah! That was a ghast- I'm pretty sure it was a ghastly, by the way. There's a ghastly infused in the door that was being held prisoner by the cult. You guys have never discovered that. Uh, well you never told us that, so we just thought it was a door. And from there on his name was Door the Gasly. So that three character is canonically a door.
00:12:20
Speaker
Hey, I made a ghost head cry? Alright, um, secondly it would be the um, the other Riolu that I stole money from and like, a paid and stole from.
00:12:32
Speaker
I don't remember his actual name, I think it's Jimmy, or Jerry, something like that. Probably. i i so I said it was the same Ryo-Loo from last time, which it is, ah but i I generally don't remember his original name that I gave him, so i'm calling him Jimmy.
00:12:47
Speaker
I know his name. I know his name. His name is Forgayable Character No. 7. Yes, that sounds about right. Right off right after Selina, Biss, and Bree. Hey, if it wasn't for him, would have never got kidnapped.
00:13:00
Speaker
Alright, Micah, what about you? Oof. If have the name of my favorite NPC, um...
00:13:08
Speaker
I wanna say Haraisa. Honestly. wonder why. It's not- it doesn't have anything to do with me. ah think it's just the way you portrayed her is not how I like it.
00:13:19
Speaker
But You're the one who submitted her as a character. Shut up! Who was Haraisa again?
00:13:26
Speaker
and But no. I- Oh. Yeah. we- Can we- She was the one delivering you guys mail. But I think, in reality, I think my favorite NPC from Ark 2... I think I want to say... i don't remember his name, but the Lycanroc you guys pulled out of the trash.
00:13:50
Speaker
Oh, Weston Smith. Yeah, Weston Smith. Yeah, the planned words of Smith and Wesson. Yeah. Knee slapper right there. it was just a very dumb interaction.
00:14:02
Speaker
It was. It was. you It wasn't supposed to go like that, but you guys' dice rolls, you just decimated them right off the bat. Yeah.
00:14:13
Speaker
Yucks. Can I give an honor mention to the one Pokemon that... I don't remember the Pokemon or its name, but the Pokemon that finally gave us a fight. Wasn't along, but gave us a fight for the first time in Season 2. The Sirfetch'd.
00:14:27
Speaker
Yes. Honor and mention. Honorable. What do you got?
00:14:34
Speaker
That's... That's my honor! The Sirfetch'd! Oh, the Sirfetch'd. I'm sorry, I was googling things for for another later thing. I was not listening.
00:14:45
Speaker
to Yeah, if we go into a favorite, now we gotta do the ones we hate the most. So no, we can't do that too many it's too many audience-abunded characters to do that But if you do want to be the most hated it's obviously Veronica Well fuck you i may I hate Veronica, but that's not the most I hate. You'll get a laugh out of it Okay, I'm just laughing around Alright, we got a lot of questions to get through. Motherfucking Charmander.
Unresolved Storylines and Character Arcs
00:15:20
Speaker
Motherfucking Charmander. Alright, keep her rolling, keep her... Alright, fine. Keep it moving! Leafy on Infinite also, um this doesn't have time to do with um this doesn't have anything to do with the actual show, but she asked, what is your favorite Pokedex entry?
00:15:38
Speaker
Ooh. That is tough. Got it. I don't pay attention to the next entry, so pass. I gotta remember the Pokemon's name, but I know it's in true. Hold on. It's a dark freaking entry and I love it.
00:15:50
Speaker
Alright, can you guys tell me you're the Pokemon of what generation it's from? And I can read it off.
00:15:57
Speaker
If you want. Okay, I gotta look up. it's I got the... got my what? What's the name?
00:16:10
Speaker
Do you remember the name of the Pokemon, Jake? I got it, alright. Phantump? I don't remember the third generation, it's super freaking dark. Oh, I know this one. Yeah. yeah lose Oh, I think you're- yeah.
00:16:24
Speaker
I think you're talking about and Y. go ahead. Yeah. I'll let you read it. Oh, let me get it out? Okay. ah Yes, just kind of like Phantump. And there's Y? don't know.
00:16:36
Speaker
Is this a cool Pokemon?
00:16:44
Speaker
Alright, um, I gotta get the exact X and Y one, because that's the best one. Doesn't say there's different ones for X and Y, but I think the wendy one you want is from Y. thought it was an X. I thought I remember seeing it when played through X. This is what it says for Pokemon Y. According to old tales, these Pokemon are stumps possessed by the spirit of children who died while lost in the forest.
00:17:06
Speaker
Well, that defeats the purpose of him answering it. Yeah, thanks a lot. I guess I'll have to find a new one. Alright, I got it. got He got it.
00:17:22
Speaker
Do you actually have one or do you want us to move on?
00:17:26
Speaker
Me? Or Eli? Okay, I guess we're moving on. Eli, what about you? Do you have one?
00:17:37
Speaker
Eli? I am still looking. I actually I actually have one. Go for it.
00:17:49
Speaker
I actually ah was gonna say originally Absol's entry from X. Or I think it was actually Sun's entry is why I fell in love with it originally.
00:18:01
Speaker
But not gonna go with that one. i'm actually gonna Golurk's entry from black.
00:18:11
Speaker
What does say? It says, it flies across the sky at Mach speeds. Removing the seal on its chest makes its eternal energy go out of control. And I've always been very interested about that. Like what would actually happen? Like it says it loses control, but I wonder if it reveals like a new form or it just goes on a rampage. i I really want know what would happen if that seal isn't taken off.
00:18:39
Speaker
Huh. I don't know enough if about Gullert for that. Alright, uh, Eli, what about you
00:18:49
Speaker
Still looking. Alright, I got none. I'm passing. and I don't pay attention Pokédex entries. Evelyn, do you got anything? anything Man, this is a hard question, but I do have, um, I do have, like, a favorite, um, item description from Pokémon.
00:19:07
Speaker
What is it? Let me get it.
00:19:15
Speaker
The Galactic Key from Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. A key card for dis for disengaging security systems in the Galactic HQ. Losing it can result in punishment, apparently.
00:19:28
Speaker
Hmm. Okay. Why is that one your favorite one? I think it's just the like, losing it can result in punishment, apparently.
00:19:40
Speaker
like, somebody must have lost
00:19:45
Speaker
It really makes the organization come to life, you know? Yeah, who lost him what happened? Yeah, what happened to the person who lost it? Um, Eli, do you have anything else? Or would you like us move on? Yeah, here we go. Okay, you got some. Cool. Yeah.
00:19:59
Speaker
Gardevoir has the psychokinetic power to distort the dimensions and create a small black hole. This Pokémon will try to protect its trainer even at the risk of its own life.
00:20:12
Speaker
Huh. You said it creates, what did say, like distortion fields? Yeah. it can distort the dimensions and create a small black hole. So like, are they called distortion fields in Legends Arceus?
00:20:29
Speaker
No. Those are, um ah oh, time speed or space-time distortions is what those are called.
00:20:42
Speaker
Sounds about right. I haven't played that game in a couple of years. I just like that because, you know, this did unassuming Gardevoir, you know, just ah you you threaten its trainer, it just creates a black hole, you know.
00:20:59
Speaker
yeah Just protecting its trainer, don't don't worry, there's now just a black hole here on Earth somewhere. That's not important. Oof, reality check, Bloods and Zerceus is over three years old already.
00:21:14
Speaker
Oh, don't say that. I wish you never said that. Now I feel old. just looked up legends and I was like, ouch. That was released a long time ago. Yeah, that was released January of 2021, right? of 2022.
00:21:26
Speaker
twenty two january twenty eight twenty That's right, because it was BDSP was We are... No? yes yeah okay um in the sake of time i'm going to move on um we are
00:21:43
Speaker
I had a creepy one, I posted it, but I'm not sure if want to say it. Yeah, I can say it.
00:21:52
Speaker
Jake posted Hypno's entry. entry A Hypno is shown to be capable of creating illusions, namely by disguising itself as a human and causing illusionary children to appear.
00:22:05
Speaker
e There was a creepy intro where it said it led children to woods. Yeah. Uh, I... I know. If no is just another one of those ones that train that a leads children away to things. Drain them out of their dreams.
00:22:22
Speaker
yeah that Yeah, there's Haunter with the Dreams. I think it was Haunter with the Dreams. And then there's, uh, fucking Drifblim. Drifblim. Drifloon. Yeah, Drifloon. Yes. yes Drift Loon.
00:22:36
Speaker
that's ah That's another one of my favorites. that jeff Loon likes to carry off children, but dislikes... um Let me get the wording. Wasn't that fat kids?
00:22:49
Speaker
Yeah, it's something like that. I'm safe!
00:22:54
Speaker
So am I. I'm super skinny.
00:22:59
Speaker
Well, no, you would be a prime target. a prime target Well no, it's- what did you say? Didn't you say that it it only carries away to fat children? It doesn't- it it dislikes fat children.
00:23:12
Speaker
Ah shit. I see. Well I guess I have a target then. Yeah, that's it. Story goes that it grabs the hands of small children and drags them away to the afterlife. It dislikes heavy children.
00:23:26
Speaker
Oh, I see. I mean it depends on what classify as heavy. By a child's standard, I'm definitely heavy. Yes, I think we are all safe because we are all not children.
00:23:40
Speaker
Except maybe... Except for Jake. I'm a lineman, I'm fine. it's okay It's a okay, Jake. I'll i'll help you i'll help you get to Drifloom can grab your hand. i'll have a drift lim I would out of a Drifloom.
00:23:56
Speaker
It's a ghost type. You can't do that. Hey, human type attacks aren't normal its aren't normal type. We're moving on we're getting sidetracked. Okay, that's all the ah ah that's all of the listener Q&A episodes. cuna episode What am I saying?
00:24:10
Speaker
That's all of the Q&A questions I had for the audience because nobody submitted anything. Dang, way to shame our audience, Dakota.
00:24:23
Speaker
Well, they should post more questions. and Maybe they did, but maybe something happened. Yes, the ghosts of Christmas past came through and to deleted all of the messages to ruin my episode.
00:24:37
Speaker
or that but yes Or somebody in the audience posted questions before they knew they would be cast.
00:24:45
Speaker
and Okay, um so we're gonna move on to what I'm assuming is gonna be the biggest portion of this episode, the host Q&A. Because I know for a fact Micah has 12 questions.
00:24:58
Speaker
Yes, yes I do. I have a feeling we're not going to get to all of those, so I would start taking a look and see which ones you want to do more, because once you run out of time, I'm probably going to cut it there, because I don't have time.
00:25:11
Speaker
We just did two questions, and I took like 20 minutes. so But we're going to start on one person at a time. um eat Eli, what questions do you have? all Alright, so I've got just one question for you, Dakota. What you got? So, like,
00:25:27
Speaker
Pretty obviously, we had the whole bank robbery thing figured out a lot sooner than you wanted us to My question is, why didn't you just let us do our thing and have this case solved and not have to go to the other like six different people who just confirmed what we already thought was the case?
00:25:56
Speaker
And you probably could have shaved two episodes off of the arc and we could have finished up a couple episodes sooner. Because you guys didn't get everything. That's the thing.
00:26:08
Speaker
You guys... Well, we got everything that we needed to close the case. No, actually you didn't. You still haven't gotten everything. um okay There's a lot of stuff from that bank robbery that because you guys didn't uncover it, you guys it will be relevant in the future.
00:26:26
Speaker
Um, and... Oh, I've got to pick my words carefully here. Um... No, I can't say that. um You guys will have to find out at later dates because it has to do with one of the people you interviewed.
00:26:40
Speaker
But you guys did not find out everything you needed for that case, actually. So it was not a waste of time. There will be callbacks to those episodes that you can consider a quote-unquote waste because they were not wasted.
00:26:52
Speaker
There was things that you did and interacted with the players, the characters, that will be relevant in the future. Just because does now... I wasn't saying they were necessarily wasted, but I know you were you were saying that the whole arc as a whole took a lot longer and more episodes than you were expecting or planning on.
00:27:15
Speaker
So, I was just curious as to why you didn't just let us close the case faster and get done with the arc sooner. Well, you guys could have closed the case sooner if you guys had known who did it.
00:27:27
Speaker
But you guys didn't. But we did! It was Then why didn't you close the case? It- because you wouldn't let us! In what way did I not let you? You- Oh, I don't want to throw too much.
00:27:45
Speaker
You're fine. But you- you kinda sorta forced us to go to the other people instead of just being like, hey, yeah, it was the Leafeon and it was the Espeon.
00:27:58
Speaker
Let's go get him. Just in that statement alone gives me all I need to know that you guys did not, in fact, know everything about the case. Listen, all we know is we're going snap the neck of that Sylveon once we see her again.
00:28:12
Speaker
Yeah, you guys did not find all the perpetrators. Oh, the Gerninjas. That is all I'm going to say. There are still people you did not find that were relevant to the bank robbery.
00:28:25
Speaker
I wonder who the people we- We did everybody on the list and we didn't- None of them. We're not for ninjas. we We got rejected and never talked to them again. We just left them. I am going to lead you towards it, but I will say nothing after this. There were pieces of evidence that you guys discovered that you never linked to anything.
00:28:42
Speaker
They remained at loose ends that you never actually pursued.
00:28:47
Speaker
So make of that what will. You guys did not solve everything. We moved past it for the sake of time, but you guys did not actually solve everything with that case.
00:29:02
Speaker
yeah And that would probably will probably come back to haunt you in the future, actually. hope you got a kamikaze best.
00:29:13
Speaker
Oh.
00:29:15
Speaker
Oh no. Go on, bring any bombs! I'm ready for them! I'm ready for them! Geez, Walter's just carrying around like a million megatons of TNT.
00:29:27
Speaker
Are we gonna have to stop Walter from blowing himself up at some point? No, no, no. If Jake ever needs to leaves the show, that's how he's gonna do it. He's gonna see a bomb. Hell yeah! But that can't because... That's gonna be so sad, actually.
00:29:45
Speaker
But that can't happen because Walter Plissants is a character and in Not a Scratch. Not Scratch is like... There's different timelines, but fine. It literally is. We would just have an officially canonically very different timeline at that point. Yes.
00:30:03
Speaker
You know what would be more fucked up if he evolved right as he's exploding? This is the final thing that made him happy? Oh god! Sacrificing himself for friends? Yeah, that's what makes himself happy. Jesus is Christ. Oh boy. Alright, let's move on. This is getting dark. They all brought him back to life or something.
00:30:21
Speaker
Evelyn, what do you get for us? Oh, um... Okay, number one. I got two questions. Where in the Alcast region is Cult Town?
00:30:33
Speaker
Um, great question. I have to pull up the map that Anaru sent me like two years ago. It's on nowhere street. Also, since you're since you're doing that, can you just post the map in the chat?
00:30:48
Speaker
Um, well, I think everyone has it as well. yeah it's it's not something It's not something I keep private. You guys have access to it. It's just... Was it like the secret map?
00:31:01
Speaker
I don't have an actual answer for that. It was just a throwaway location I made. But I just want to see if there's like a... No, I don't have like an actual canonical place that it was in. But...
00:31:14
Speaker
yeah I can't pin something to that. i'm looking at the difference between Volkenberg and Gale Beach right now. there's yeah ah it's It was a throwaway location. Cult Town doesn't like actually exist. It was a noncanni non-canonical... That's a fun word to say. Non-canonical.
Character Development and Real-life Connections
00:31:30
Speaker
it's ah It's a location off in the middle of the ocean. i'm very smallly It's a very small island that after the episode had dropped, ah the Lands and the oceans gave way and the island disappeared.
00:31:46
Speaker
It's like, um... was it the Sebi Islands? oh No, it's not the Sebi Islands. It's... or It's ah in Pokemon... Yeah, the Orange Islands, or whatever it was in Gen 3, that the islands always show up every once in a while.
00:31:59
Speaker
Yeah, I know what you're talking about. no, Mirage Island. The secret island. Mirage Island, yeah. Yeah. What if it was in Tenebris? don't know where Tenebris is. That would make sense thematically.
00:32:13
Speaker
Yeah, Tenebris is to the west of Lux. I just got rid of them out, god damn it. Control shift T! Control shift T! Control shift T? Okay, I can't ask that question to Evelyn. It brings back up the last page you just closed.
00:32:31
Speaker
Well, it wasn't a webpage. It was in Discord. Oh, never mind then. Okay, yeah, uh, Evelyn, do you got another question for us? Yeah, which character has the most main character syndrome?
00:32:47
Speaker
Um, Walter. If you're talking about NPCs, it's definitely Selena. Well, at the same time. 1 Walter, for sure.
00:33:02
Speaker
i was gonna say, who do we have to blame for that? Literally the entire reason why Walter exists is because you gave him too much show time. The reason Walter exists is because Anarud submitted it as the first fan-submitted character.
00:33:15
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Well, yes, but at the same time, you yourself... in this house yeah You yourself also gave him too much spotlight. That's why he became a PC.
00:33:26
Speaker
Well, the fun i felt I think I explained this before, but if I haven't, I'll say it again. Walter was planned to come with you guys, no matter what. yeah well He was Walter Fiskhands. He's the father of the main character of Not a Scratch. He was not a throwaway character.
00:33:43
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at the same time, like you yourself had said at the end of Org 1, he became too... He had become too beloved and had had also gave too much spotlight to not make him a playable character.
00:33:57
Speaker
It was a white lie not make him a playable character. He was actual canon character in the Not a Scratch universe. Okay. So no, it was planned from the start that he was going to come with you guys.
00:34:08
Speaker
I'm pretty sure I've said that before. You had Walter set up as like Hikaru's best high school friend. And yeah, I just, it made sense for, like I definitely knew he wasn't a throwaway character.
00:34:23
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i wasn't treating him like one. like Yeah, he definitely wasn't a throwaway character and I would have made an effort to get him in your party if you didn't. yeah I understood he wasn't throwaway character in ARC 1 I still treated him as a throwaway NPC in our book because he wasn't a player character.
00:34:43
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Until he was a player character, he was throwaway NPC in my mind, whether like no matter how I knew that it wasn't just from a player standpoint.
00:34:56
Speaker
Yeah, that means outside knowledge to influence my play. It's also um the fact that um this show is the first time I have tried DMing anything.
00:35:06
Speaker
So way back in Arc 1 when I was playing Balter as a character and DMing, my DMing skills were just fucking awful. So it i I was trying to get him to like be emotionally apparent in the show, but I did a really bad job of that.
00:35:22
Speaker
So... Can I Can I build off of Evelyn's question real quick? Sure, go for it. So we've we've said who's the main character who has main character syndrome in Arc 1. What about Arc 2?
00:35:36
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Well, no, I was including both arcs. I was just saying that specifically Walter's personality from Arc 1. Yeah, I think, okay, if we're going arc by arc, Walter in Arc 1, Selina in Arc 2.
00:35:51
Speaker
yeah You've heard about Selina so many times. I know, but she had that whole story plot thing and other than the main characters- She's even acting in the story plot where she has one of the old enemies. She's like, what's Selena? Oh, she's raving. Yeah, because I keep forgetting about her.
00:36:08
Speaker
So I just like come up with something at the top of my head. Just because the DM forgets about a character doesn't mean the character can't have main character syndrome. Well, actually, yeah, that is true.
00:36:20
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yeah well There are bits like- No. No.
00:36:27
Speaker
Straight up, no. You have more port battles to attend to right now. I myself, I'm just gonna lace around. Just gonna go to a party, you don't mind me. Pretty much.
00:36:40
Speaker
Okay, alright, what do we got next? That all my questions. Jake, do you have anything? I actually do have a question. I posted this in the in the chat. um Arc 2 Q&A, yes or no?
00:36:55
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No. No. What? We got
00:37:02
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two no's and two Yeah, we got two no's, huh, and a what.
00:37:11
Speaker
Gotcha, okay, cool. That's all I wanted to know. Jake, what about you? Elon and I are on point. Oh, for me for questions? Yeah. Oh, um... Crap, um, I thought we were...
00:37:26
Speaker
i have some this question Some of these questions cannot be asked. Why not? Look at what I said, can't ask four five. Oh, I see. This was probably but back before you joined the cast.
00:37:41
Speaker
Jesus. Oh. take it we We can't say that. Yeah, no. Jesus Christ. one take Those will not be asked.
00:37:53
Speaker
I we already answered what is your favorite NPC. Jake, why would you ask that? It's so inappropriate! Jesus, Jake, don't you know this isn't an R-rated
00:38:05
Speaker
Jeez! Jake, I know this is R-rated, but dude, we can't say that! I thought it was not R-rated, but okay. I just screwed around at this point. Alright, who cares the story besides Selena? What are you most excited for?
00:38:20
Speaker
Sorry, uh, what was that I missed the first part of? Besides Selena, whose character story are you most excited for? Veronica's. I have a whole fucking thing planned for Veronica.
00:38:32
Speaker
And too bad that will never happen. Here's the second question. Why Walter got the shittiest parents?
00:38:38
Speaker
Why is the world just crap on him? I wish I could explain that, but you won't give me the chance.
00:38:46
Speaker
Give me a chance right now! I'm listening! No, I can't. It's story related. If only Walter would talk to Veronica. That's it. Eli, strap him down. We're gonna get airstop him somehow.
00:38:58
Speaker
Okay, guys, we're doing a roleplay session right here in the middle of the Q&A. Oh, you do that. You think I'm not hopping on an airplane right now to go to your location?
00:39:09
Speaker
Don't worry. Don't worry, Eli. I'll meet you there. go. You don't even know where I live, Micah. I think you live six hours away from me, don't test me. No, it's not six hours away. No! That's somebody else!
00:39:26
Speaker
You live like a half an hour away from me! I was gonna say, that's why I was so confused. i was like, I literally went to your house yesterday. Shut up, I'm thinking of somebody else. I'm thinking of somebody else, shut Oh, you're thinking of Evie. Fucking Christ, dude.
00:39:40
Speaker
Shut I'll get my friends mixed up. I'm a terrible friend! No! She was crazy. I feel like this is a good good this is a good ah place to put this. Micah is one of my friends in real life. so Yeah, hi everybody. We know each other.
00:39:57
Speaker
We know each other personally. Really? Yeah. Surprise, surprise. Also, alright. Wait, did you actually not know that, Jake?
00:40:08
Speaker
I knew. but Oh. You're stressing me. Okay, move on. Move on, Jake. Next question. This is, um... Okay, Jake, Jake, you need to answer the fourth one on this list.
00:40:20
Speaker
Dakota, shut up. You're not answering... You're not asking questions. No, no, no, no, no. Only the questions... No, he... He posted it. He should be the one to answer it. No, no, no, no. I'm not.
00:40:33
Speaker
Alright, Jake, answer your questions. This is for your character and yourself. If you had to choose, what evil team would your Pokemon be on? Or would you be on? Team Galactic.
00:40:45
Speaker
Both. Damn. I love Team Galactic. They're fucking awesome. I'm Team Plasma. I think I'm also Team Plasma.
00:40:56
Speaker
The end version, not the shitty version.
00:41:01
Speaker
Which one? The better one. The one that's actually for Pokemon rights.
00:41:07
Speaker
Yeah. I'm gonna go similarly Aether Foundation. Ooh. Oh, for Jet7. That's not a bad one. yeah so Actually, can I change my answer? I love the Aether Foundation.
00:41:21
Speaker
Aether Foundation actually does good work when they're not being led by a psychopath. yeah they yeah Actually, ah they were supposed to take in Lost and I i believe it Lost and Abandoned Pokemon. conservation yeah Yeah. Fun fact, when i when I did my college stuff, that's actually what i studied was Zoology and specifically Ethology.
00:41:50
Speaker
So I wanted to do Conservation. um So, yeah. Nice. Yep, so, fun fact, that actually aligns exactly with what I studied in college.
00:42:01
Speaker
Didn't end up happening, I'm an aerospace engineer now, so fuck fuck that, I guess. Yeah, ah fuck nature and fuck animals. Yep, I didn't take that. We're not doing that! That's against the law! didn't mean- No, not like- Jesus Christ!
00:42:20
Speaker
I'm not the most un-edged person anymore! like Mike and I are still on the same page. Do they keep that in the show?
00:42:35
Speaker
fucking crap. I think it's fine. We've had sexual innuendos in the past anyway.
00:42:46
Speaker
I'm sorry. i am sorry. That was was completely out of pocket. Okay, let let's let's move on. Jake, do you have any more questions for us?
00:42:56
Speaker
ah When you recover? my chest! I'm trying to think.
00:43:10
Speaker
Are you really expecting us to do an arc for each orb, especially when we lose an orb two orbs? than 2 arcs. How many arcs is gonna take to get each orb?
00:43:23
Speaker
Don't worry, I do have a plan for you guys, so... Did you lose the same orb twice? Yes, you did. Kind of. You lost 2 orbs in 1 arc. You lost 3 orbs in... No, 2. The blue one and the blue one again. There's 5 of them all together.
00:43:40
Speaker
oh my god. Not the black and white ones. No, you guys lost it 2 times, not 3 times. Yeah, because you guys lost it when when Selena went for it and then you guys lost it again when it was in the basement of the fucking Project Flameback. Jesus Christ, I can't speak.
00:44:02
Speaker
Hey, ah i do actually want to say one more thing. Can I also change my team again? i For the evil teams, real quick. oh I want to bring it back around.
00:44:12
Speaker
I don't remember what their name is, but there was a... I believe it'sli maybe it was just Japanese, but there was a Pokemon Fusion comic with that with that evil team. Evelyn, do you remember that one?
00:44:26
Speaker
Can I have like Rainbow Rocket or something like that? No, no. Team Rocket um yeah okay was just doing stuff in a Japanese exclusive manga.
00:44:36
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Yeah, Evelyn and and i had discussed, it it was during like, it was roughly during the Lunar New Year stuff that we had like come across that. i don't remember what their team name was called though.
00:44:48
Speaker
I'm pretty sure it was just Team Rocket. It was created by a rogue Ghastly. ah what but Like a Like a ghastly from haunted house, I'm pretty sure. But yeah, pretty much people like had fused themselves with Pokemon and like they came out to like thing they came out like like this. Oh, I remember this. Wasn't this from Pokemon Adventures?
00:45:11
Speaker
Was it? I'm thinking of... um but Oh, a joke I can say, but shouldn't. The guy that fused himself with... I'm thinking of like Detective Pikachu, the movie.
00:45:23
Speaker
Yeah, I don't remember what that group was called though. It's not a group, it just a guy. It was just Mewtwo. No, it was a comic. We're not talking about Detective Pikachu. Yeah.
00:45:37
Speaker
Spoilers for Detective Pikachu, by the way. I love Detective Pikachu. It was a great movie. Anyways, if you're able to, please tell us in the Discord what that group was called. I don't remember. Oh wait, it but it's from Pokemon Reburst.
00:45:53
Speaker
Reburst or Reburst? but Reburst. Isn't it like Clifford and- Clifford and- Clifford the Big Red Dog. Notorious Gangster.
00:46:04
Speaker
Okay, so- Jacob! Reburst, I- No, it's not Team Star. It's not Team Star. It's listening as Team Star if I'm looking at here. it's That's not it. But it's it's the it's the evil team for Pokemon Reburst.
00:46:18
Speaker
Yeah, Jake, you can say that on the show. That's not not lot of what you said. yeah I can or can't? Yeah, you can. It's not bad. It's Team Fury. Oh, no. It is No, it ain't. We're moving on.
00:46:34
Speaker
wonder Michael likes it. What? Wow. Huh? Huh? I didn't hear anything. Okay, Blair's a immediately killing off Jake. That's it.
00:46:45
Speaker
I feel like she's gonna do that anyway. He's going straight for the player character, not even uh, not even Walter. He's going straight for Jake. I got 10 Yeah, okay, you do.
00:46:57
Speaker
Jake doesn't. Blair reaches through the fourth wall.
00:47:01
Speaker
Dang. Give me sec. Give me a sec. Give me sec. Yeah, okay, we're moving. We're gonna keep going. We're gonna keep going. All right, I think you have any more questions you want to ask I think he steps away from the mic. He's like trying grabbing a shotgun or something. Oh shit.
00:47:17
Speaker
It's too late. He's like Jake, what do you have over there? I got my rival. I had to leave mine back in Ohio. I was so sad about that. my uncles.
00:47:31
Speaker
Do I have a bullet in here? Should pull the trigger? but What? Jeez! Jake! I mean, yeah, go ahead, Paul's here. It ain't gonna do anything. It's an absolute. Just shoot another hole in the roof, you know, you guys don't have enough leaks going on already. Alright.
00:47:47
Speaker
keep Keep it going, Jake. Keep your questions going. Or do we want to move Good thing I didn't fire. There is a bullet in there. No, I'm looking at his question list. We can get through these pretty quickly. Okay. I don't have half of these. Alright, for the group.
00:48:05
Speaker
And this is excluding Galation just for Dakota. What is everyone's favorite evolutions?
Deep Dive into Pokémon and Role-Play
00:48:14
Speaker
Oh, easily. That's Vaporian for me. Yeah, Sam. I love Vaporian.
00:48:23
Speaker
Jolteon. J-oh! J-oh! J-oh! wait wait we we we literally covered this with evely already yeah he did yeah yeah so i think for me it's like it's
00:48:37
Speaker
silvion followed by glaciion a nice i think i also have to say i think it's gonna be vipoion that flairyon for me actually ah thing have to i think i just see flare it's very pretty there' gal glaian vipoion and ummbrion for me What are your favorite fake Pokemon?
00:48:58
Speaker
I don't know any fake- I don't do fake Pokemon. Fakemon? yeah I love Astrolotl, actually. Astrolotl? What's that? Oh, wait, no. There's one from Uranium.
00:49:10
Speaker
ala I'll actually list it. i don't remember what what game it's from. um But it's it was on Pokemon DB. Not DB, but Pokemon Showdown for a little bit.
00:49:25
Speaker
I'll throw a picture of it in the chat. but i'm gonna find I love the way the Astralotta looks. too long I got one Figfoot.
00:49:37
Speaker
Figfoot?
00:49:40
Speaker
Hold I'll get a picture for you. Here it is. Outen.
00:49:47
Speaker
It's so adorable. Throw it the chat! Copy image. There you go It's Outen! That...
00:50:00
Speaker
Aw! Figfoot. I love Figfoot. Figfoot, that's awesome. He looks like giant shaman. He does! and looks like a shaman evolution.
00:50:12
Speaker
Outen. That's just a dog with wings.
00:50:15
Speaker
Uh, yeah. It's very adorable. That's like saying Tepig is just a pig with fire. it is though! That's literally what it is. i know, don't try to like, oh that's a lazy design, it's just a dog with wings.
00:50:32
Speaker
Wait, are we not looking at the same thing? Are you guys talking about Autsen? How Autsen is just a dog with wings and then how Tepig is just a pig with fire.
00:50:43
Speaker
Oh, i sorry I thought you were saying Aoten was a pig with fire. I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? No, that's a pig. Okay. yeah If you guys are curious, look up Aoten, O-W-T-E-N from Pokemon Uranium.
00:50:56
Speaker
Um... Yeah. Alright, Jake, you got a couple more questions. I don't know. I probably can't find this anymore, but there was like a... I may have actually made this up once, actually.
00:51:08
Speaker
But there was like a... There was a ground-type Eeveelution called Saveleon.
00:51:15
Speaker
Sableon? I didn't know. Let's see. I don't know if- You mean Sandion?
00:51:26
Speaker
Sandion? I must have called it something different. i mean it I have Sandion right here.
00:51:34
Speaker
Let's see, Sableon. battle three, that's it. Oh, that's the art class. No, I found a fusion for Sableon. Hold on one second. Oh, I must post that the public chat.
00:51:45
Speaker
um There's Sandion. Here's Sableon. i I don't like it. i don't like it. Put it back. back.
00:51:58
Speaker
i don't like the way it's smiling at me. Yeah.
00:52:04
Speaker
I don't know, probably unpopular opinion, but in my opinion... Why is it copying that? I don't know. 90% of fake Mons just don't look like Pokemon to me. Well, yeah, i think they tried too hard to make it like Pokemon, and by doing that, they just look very out place. So I went to the Fusion Calculator website, I found Lucario Az... I found Lucario and Azeril.
00:52:33
Speaker
I do actually want to post something. What the hell? home
00:52:41
Speaker
It's the is its entire body. i Go to the Pokemon Fusion website and look up Azeroth and Acario. Holy fuck. I remember... My friend Jay actually made a... like Like her and I were screwing around with Pokemon Fusions and just doing random months We found Absol and Kakuna.
00:53:01
Speaker
And she actually drew it and looked so cute. I have to go find a picture. Yeah, this one's my favorite one. It's a Shiny, Glaceon, and Zorowark. This is my favorite fusion.
00:53:14
Speaker
Yeah. Meh. Um... Meh! Fuck you.
00:53:22
Speaker
okay. when i was When I was a kid, i would i would like take Pokemon sprites from like Diamond and Pearl and stuff, and then like and then like splice them together using paint.
00:53:34
Speaker
Using Microsoft Paint. How do you delete that, Jake? What? That's fine. Hold
00:53:44
Speaker
Yeah. And one of them one of them was a fusion of Beldam and Magnemite. And another one was like Squirt 2. I made two different versions of Squirt 2.
00:53:56
Speaker
Squirt 2? water fire type. Nice. Okay. Squirtle has water electric. Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:08
Speaker
Okay. right. Um, all right. Let's move on. Jake, you got a couple more questions that shouldn't take too long if you want to get through those. Uh, Picaru, what is, you have any of the Pikachu signature moves, which would be? uh,
00:54:23
Speaker
what are we counting as Pikachu signature moves? Oh, let's go moves. Oh, Let's Go moves? I want to say Let's Go moves, the GMAX moves, maybe? like how the Pokey Wrestler, the Pokey Dancer, they all have one move they have just because of the what they're wearing.
00:54:40
Speaker
Oh, you mean like the Cosplay Pikachu ones? Yeah, their special moves, they always have one. Darn. Like for the fighter, he has the some reason he can use the Fighting-type move. Ah, yeah.
00:54:52
Speaker
Let's go through them. So, Cosplay Pikachu is... Their move is... Oh, by the way, cosplay Pikachu is always female.
00:55:03
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um So her move, her like default move is Thundershock. And then when she becomes Pikachu Rockstar, it becomes Meteor Mash. And then Pikachu Belle, it becomes Icefall Crash.
00:55:17
Speaker
And then for Pikachu Popstar, it's Drain and Kiss. Pikachu PhD has Electric Terrain. And Pikachu Libre has Flying Press. What the fuck am I looking I'm just randomizing Pokemon Fusions.
00:55:37
Speaker
I hate it. I've Quillfish and Dialga. It's face, oh my goodness. it's It's always judging you.
00:55:48
Speaker
Well, out of those six... You know, I think it could be really awesome for Hikaru to have Meteor Mash.
00:55:57
Speaker
But I've always thought of Hikaru like Pikachu Popstar, so maybe like draining Kiss would make the most sense for her. But we also had subplot and at the beginning of Arc 2 about Hikaru wanting to learn Bolt Tackle.
00:56:11
Speaker
That's still an option, by the way. yeah I have something planned out for that.
00:56:23
Speaker
Alright. Tick! More questions! Uh... I'm gonna scroll up, there's so many damn images. I know, we're flooding the chat with cursed infusions.
00:56:39
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Alright, here's one that's even on the list. How scared are you of Walter of him accidentally sitting too close to Bruce when his flames are lit? Hmm? Me? Oh, I don't care.
00:56:50
Speaker
What happens I'm talking about the rest of them, like... but they Bruce just accidentally starts off the TNT.
00:56:59
Speaker
I wanna to say Blair would ah probably sense that coming.
00:57:04
Speaker
Wait, Walter's carrying the TNT. It's in his bag. is It stands too close to Bruce. Dang, I forgot about that.
00:57:15
Speaker
We've had a conversation where I'd kamikaze with her. Yeah, I can honestly say I've never thought about that. So, yeah. Alright, the last one. Uh, yeah.
00:57:27
Speaker
I can just imagine Walter standing too close to Bruce and Bruce sneezes. Oh, no. mean, it happened to his house. Oh, okay. That was not a sneeze. Come on now. We all know that was... ah yeah That was unintentionally intentional.
00:57:46
Speaker
So it was intentional you burnt down his house. I mean, hey. He just admitted it. was going for the paper on the door. We know how it happened. The cracked wooden chip door.
00:58:02
Speaker
We're not starting this again. No. That's why I was silent. Okay. Alright. Jake, that's all for your questions. we need to move on. We've focused too much on one person because my cat has, what, 12 questions?
00:58:16
Speaker
Yes, I have a lot of questions. We still got other segments to get to, so... Alright, I'm going to say go ahead and pick five that you want to talk about. Oh boy, if you say so. Alright, give me one second. have to pull them back up because I tried to search for something and couldn't find it.
00:58:36
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Alright.
00:58:40
Speaker
Alright, I gotta ask this now, but because now I'm just genuinely curious. Following the last episode, do the player characters themselves also have traits like how the NPCs... Let me restart.
00:58:54
Speaker
Following the last episode, do the player characters also have traits like the NPCs do in the guild? Traits? Oh!
00:59:04
Speaker
um You're talking about like, lo like ah moneymaker or something. No, they do not. Okay, because Blair still retained hers also. ah no No, because you are now a player character. For clarity, what he's talking about is the NPCs that are listed as resources for the guild and that is Project Planback.
00:59:25
Speaker
It's called resources. Yeah, they, uh, that's, I i have a better word for that, but I sort of have, um, they're, they're given tags for what they're best at. Like Bri, I know off the top my head is a moneymaker.
00:59:39
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Um, Selena's listed as dirty work and stuff like that. It's things they're good at and, um, for setting out on tasks and stuff. The players do not have that now.
00:59:54
Speaker
Oh, that is just scary. Oh Jesus. yeah Anywho, okay next question.
01:00:03
Speaker
So... For each playable- for each player character, if each player character had a special regional form, not counting the ones that already exist, what would they be?
01:00:19
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one So like, like, let's just Arceus, like that version Syndicola doesn't count. Lame, because that's my two favorite regions that already have Syndicola style. what type would they be or what they'd look like?
01:00:36
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What type? Yes. We'll stick with the type. Um, let's see. He's depressed.
01:00:46
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You can make a ghost type. Dark and fire. Dark and fire. Okay. Termin the Houndoom. Okay. Another emo dog. Bruce?
01:00:58
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Bruce Eli? I'm doing what I do. We're going to go with not my own creation, but something that I think is really cool.
01:01:10
Speaker
a Scott from the Roaring Trainers podcast. made so the Roaring Trainers they're set in Johto but he made regional forms for the Johto starters or like not really I guess just they're retyped forms so it's a ground electric type type losion that is really cool
01:01:49
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Evelyn? Ooh, I'm thinking Hikaru as a regional form. Maybe, like, maybe Fairy Fire.
01:02:03
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Fairy Fire, okay. Yeah, because, um, yeah, fun fact about her, her um her dad's side of the family is from Valkenburg.
01:02:18
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Hmm. Okay. Yeah, so her dad was actually, before he became a real estate broker in Gale Beach, he was a corporate real estate person, like business person in Volkenberg.
01:02:33
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Yeah, and his like ancestors are all from there.
01:02:43
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Yeah, and that includes, if anybody remembers from the July 4th special, there was Hikaru's great-great-grandfather's name is Vegeta Hatsumi. Hmm.
01:02:55
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Yeah, he was a samurai who fought in the War of Light and Darkness, which is how Lux got its independence.
01:03:04
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I forgot that Hikaru's got her own backstory that's actually detailed about her family.
01:03:12
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i think... Do we do you also want me to answer this now? Like, do we want me to answer my own questions as well? You can if you want, yeah. I think Blair would actually be Ice Flying.
01:03:24
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If I had to pick, uh, Regional 4 for Absol. Why Flying? Because... i think it's always been because of the Mega Evolution.
01:03:35
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i always thought it'd be cool if Absol could fly. flying dog. I like should be able to alert people a lot faster and get away. Yeah. It would actually make sense for why apples are always living in the mountains.
01:03:50
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They've been there for so long, people have discarded them and ate them so much that they've... Because they've had the retreats of the mountains, they've become accustomed more to the cold.
01:04:01
Speaker
Okay. That's... Okay. Cool. did be Did we get everyone? I think we did. Uh... it does I still got more questions to ask, though.
01:04:12
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go on.
01:04:17
Speaker
Alright. So here's actually one for Walter. Walter's instrument that he plays is the electric cello. but it's just But is it just an electric guitar that he plays with the bowstring?
01:04:29
Speaker
ah Or do electric cellos actually exist in the world? Or is Walter just that dumb? this is ah you know No, this is a this this is actually a question for me. Because I'm the one who set this up.
01:04:39
Speaker
I forget the name of the guy, but um that is actually based on... And actually, this this ah actually leads into a topic I wanted to touch on later anyway. um A lot of my characters are based on music artists.
01:04:53
Speaker
um I was discussing this with Evelyn not too long ago. Fuck, I forget the name of it. um There's a guy who uses a um who uses a electric guitar with a violin bow as an improvised electric cello.
01:05:09
Speaker
um And that's what I based that off of. Improvise. forget the name of it. Improvise electric. Hello. You have no idea what I mean for it just to be a regular guitar?
01:05:21
Speaker
I don't remember the name of it. Oh, man. Um... Damn it, I saw him on TikTok last year, i forget what his name was. But ah no, it is an electric guitar that doesn't need an amp for some reason, that just uses a violin, but was an improvised electric cello.
01:05:40
Speaker
oh Oh, so it's just an electric guitar. Yeah, that's how it was always described in an ARC one.
01:05:47
Speaker
I mean, i ah I know an artist like Kevin from Pentatonix. He plays an actual electric cello. Huh, okay. um But yeah, this actually leads into something I wanted to talk about later, is that a lot of my NPCs are based on music artists.
01:06:04
Speaker
Selena is based on Aliza Reid from Amaranth. Also, you're gonna see a trend. I listen to a lot of metal bands. um So Aliza Reid from Amaranth is what Selena is based off of.
01:06:20
Speaker
um Veronica and Jeremy are based off of the lead singers of Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong. um Unfortunately not Chester because Chester is... Chester died, didn't he?
01:06:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Yeah. It was back when I really got into Linkin Park, especially with their From Zero album. I love that band. um Abyss is based off of West Coast.
01:06:48
Speaker
um And I think there was some others... um Oh, it's it's not a music artist, but Brie is actually just based on my sister. She was submitted by my sister, and I just based her completely off my sister. so but and She is just my sister.
01:07:05
Speaker
ah yeah A lot of my ah lot of my um fucking personalities for my player characters comes from metal bands. So, fun fact. Okay. Um, um, was what else she got my ah what so my second or third question.
01:07:25
Speaker
I don't know. You i've got you got time for some more. I'll just, I'll just say I'll have three more so we can keep going or until we run out of time. So, This is kind of more two questions than one.
Memorable Episodes and Audition Insights
01:07:36
Speaker
What was everyone's first Pokemon game? Side games are included. And following that, who is everyone's favorite Pokemon game? Again, side games are included. Diamond for both.
01:07:49
Speaker
Okay. Gold and silver was my first. Black and white was my favorite. Hell yeah. Mine was Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team.
01:08:01
Speaker
Hey, nice. And... My favorite, I think, is still Explorers of Skye, but with Scarlet being a close second?
01:08:14
Speaker
I'm actually not sure, maybe it's the reverse now, I don't know. Really Scarlet? That's a hot take. Jeez. Scarlet was good. Scarlet and Violet were pretty good. thought Scarlet barely registered a Pokemon game. That game was ass. And now that is a hot take. That game was one pretty bad glitch in Scarlet, but really liked all the... I liked the world design and the...
01:08:43
Speaker
Just basically the whole open world format. I think they did it pretty well.
01:08:49
Speaker
I'm going to not say something there about that. Technically, my first Pokemon game was Crystal, but I was playing it when I was three.
01:09:02
Speaker
So I always say my first Pokemon game is SoulSilver because it's the first one that I actually owned myself.
01:09:12
Speaker
And think my favorite... is either SoulSilver or Red Rescue Team. Gotcha. For me, it was Pokemon White.
01:09:24
Speaker
And I think my favorite... Hmm. that's That's a tough one. I think I have to say X. I really loved to X. um It's gonna be X or Super.
01:09:38
Speaker
Was X the one with the deer or Yvelto? Uh, Xerneas was Pokemon X and Yavolt 12 was Pokemon Y.
01:09:51
Speaker
Okay. china with you chosen no Yeah. Wow. People usually do not like Xerneas. Oh, I love Xerneas. Xerneas was amazing. Xerneas is awesome.
01:10:02
Speaker
I just mean X and Y in general as being a favorite game. Yeah, well yeah, that's also where got Megas. I mean, i don't really know Gen 6 that well, so.
01:10:13
Speaker
I said Xerneas because it was the first ever Fairy Legendary. Also. Also, it's just Rainbow Horns when goes in the comment, it's beautiful. I'd rather the Deathbeam than the Moonbeam.
01:10:27
Speaker
Yeah, so used to their own. But I like that mainly because of Megas, and we finally got Mega Absol. Yes, I'm gonna keep saying this. I am very much the Absol fanboy. You can take that away from me. I mean, I love the Megas.
01:10:39
Speaker
I think the way they implemented the Megas in X and y was terrible, and... i got agree with you there, though. Yeah. The games versus anime was very bad, my opinion.
01:10:52
Speaker
very bad in my opinion I wanna if this is my problem in that game. think that's just a you the ability to Mega Evolve Lucario like halfway through the game after getting it.
01:11:04
Speaker
Dang. Are you sure you didn't just misplace the- are you sure you didn't just misplace the stone? No, I played like three different times. After I used it single round times, you can't Mega Evolve anymore for some reason. I couldn't.
01:11:16
Speaker
Huh. That's strange and shouldn't happen as far as I know. Are you sure you didn't already Mega Evolve a volva Pokemon in that fight? hu
01:11:27
Speaker
I know I didn't. I only had to Lucario stone. I didn't go over thinking- Because Lucario is my favorite Mega though. Yeah.
01:11:39
Speaker
Alright. Alright, next question. Yeah, moving on. We're going to... alright Go for one more. One more question. Okay. It's gotta be a good one then.
01:11:55
Speaker
o Here's an interesting one. i actually got this one from Critical Ditto, because I started watching them recently, or i guess listening to them. But if you could go back and turn one failed role into a successful one for Mark 2, which role would that be and how would it play out, do you think?
01:12:15
Speaker
I think we already all know the answer to that one. Oh, no. Well, he said specifically for Mark 2. Yeah. Oh, I wasn't thinking. I know what you're thinking of, but that's not what I was thinking of.
01:12:28
Speaker
What are you thinking of? Or i think it must be the mice could also be vice versa. Which succeed do you think would be funnier or better if it was a fail? but but let's For the sake of time, let's just stick with the first one.
01:12:40
Speaker
I was sorry i was just thinking of the um of mixing up the orbs. Oh. Yeah, my bad. your bad. It was completely your fault.
01:12:52
Speaker
God just sold a checkmate. Oh, yeah, no.
01:12:57
Speaker
I got tackled and I just lost the orb. You got tackled by God. was like, that fuck out of here.
01:13:08
Speaker
Okay, Eli, what about you? Just go down the list. Honestly, do not remember the rolls well enough. The the only answer I have to this question is the ember at the note on the house in arc one.
01:13:25
Speaker
Yeah. yeah. Yeah. Honestly, I'll say this. If you didn't burn down the house, that probably would not have given me the want to play him to get revenge for him. That single dice roll um determined whether Jake joined us. Yes.
01:13:40
Speaker
That single dice roll changed so much about the show. Can we say that both? ah So far, there have been two houses burnt down as a result of critical fails and also a critical success.
01:13:55
Speaker
Although the critical critical success was not on purpose. And one munchlax eating a detonator. And that. What's the second husk being burned down, then?
01:14:10
Speaker
So, okay, I'll go by them in order. We had Bruce burning down the house in Arc 1. We actually had, it was in ah in the special Into the Abyss episode. Where, uh... Oh, the Phantom Fighter. Yeah. Yeah.
01:14:22
Speaker
look I don't remember, um, all the names, but I think it was Bizer. Bizer and... Einstein. It was Einstein. It was Einstein who did it. Who used Dragon Breath because he got pissed off that the food was fake and burnt down the mansion.
01:14:40
Speaker
Oh, that's great. Yeah, I remember that. I forgot that happened. God, that was so long ago. I can't believe we've been doing this show for two years now.
01:14:51
Speaker
As this month.
01:14:55
Speaker
And then, of course, the third time we all know when once saw when ah Sammy ate the detonator. count yeah don't count on fire He blew up a whole block. Yeah, it wasn't really fire, it was more of like a semi-nuclear explosion. Listen, listen, it wasn't fire, it was house removal.
01:15:13
Speaker
We were getting rid of the terrorism. yeah By causing more terrorism. But hey, good thing it was National Terrorist Day. Can i just have a series of rolls as an answer?
01:15:27
Speaker
Sure. Give me like two or three. The door. The door? Yeah. a door yeah Yeah, that makes sense. The metal door that got kidnapped, me stabbing a guy. Yeah, that changed the whole fucking plot of Arc 2 right there.
01:15:46
Speaker
By the way, Selina wasn't supposed to show up until Arc 3. I just want to put that out. Wow. But because of those series of roles, i was like, fuck it, we're doing this now.
01:15:57
Speaker
Walter would not have been this aggressive. Wait, so weren't supposed have the orb stolen until Arc 3? Um, well you guys, flip it was... like we would have turned out Things would have turned out very differently. Initially I planned on Selina being the mob boss.
01:16:15
Speaker
But then I was like, ah fuck, I guess I can't do that now because I'm not ready to i'm not ready to explore Selina's plot yet. So I made someone else the mob boss.
01:16:27
Speaker
And then it it was I think the next episode where Selina's plot got revealed. Because was so good. Good thing she wasn't, or else wal else our dragon friend would not have won.
01:16:42
Speaker
Dragon friend? don't know. can't think of it. The butler. The butler. Yeah. yeah oh Oh. I think Granville would still hold his own pretty well. And also, if worse came to worse, I'm sure Miss Flameback would have stepped in.
01:17:00
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Miss Flameback been fine. What the fuck? You know what? You wanna know what's also changed because of that door I was on planning having Walter be this um murdery, dark, anything, but after getting multiple psychics to the head, tortured, dragged to the forest, um getting a becoming in love with his cap drawer, you know, lot of shit happened.
01:17:27
Speaker
yeah Yep. Yeah, dick Walter's the rogue of the group. Oh yeah, absolutely. He's a chaotic evil rogue. Oh yeah. Yes. I just pickpocketed someone. Of course I'm the rogue.
01:17:39
Speaker
Alright. So... Um... Micah, you don't apply. I was gonna say, you have questions... No, I do... i do apply, because there are... Blair has been around for some episodes, just not any canonical ones.
01:17:55
Speaker
You didn't roll those dice. Um... I've rolled several dice. I think one that was... Unless you want to pull from one of the special episodes. What next role did you want to improve from the... Yeah.
01:18:12
Speaker
I think it... I don't think it was a so specific role on my end. But I think it might have been one of the... I think it was Reginald's role. um At the top of... Yeah. Reginald's role at the top of the... Wooden Mountain during the Christmas episode.
01:18:29
Speaker
Oh, God, i forgot Reginald was there. fuck um Excuse me. I had a whole thing planned for that. And you guys fell off the goddamn cliff again. Because he blew it up!
01:18:43
Speaker
I have this whole thing planned. I had a whole skill in this right now. Shocker. My whole plan is I was gonna catapult off him into the disguise to try and- or at least use him as i go like a like like landing pad, but he got himself knocked out and I couldn't do that. Yeah, you guys threw a nuclear bomb at the mountain. A literal nuclear bomb.
01:19:06
Speaker
And then you guys fell down and we had a whole court case drama over the murder of you guys. Yes. Okay. I got away with it again. Alright, what's your answer? The D&D episode where we were fighting the final boss and I just missed like every single attack I tried to do.
01:19:29
Speaker
Kratom, yeah. Oh gosh. Oh yeah, please. At least one of those could be big set. I feel so bad still. Blair hit every attack, I'm pretty sure. Also, I'm curious. I don't know if this reference landed, but Kratom is based off of Kratos.
01:19:47
Speaker
Yeah, um I wonder. Okay, I wasn't sure if that stuck or not. yeah but I had one thing i wanted to ask. It was... I forgot to ask this and now Spirit brought the roll thing up made me remember it. um What do you got?
01:20:05
Speaker
It's not based off the roll, but what was one action that that you had happen? Not dice roll, but you just had happen because it was funny. And I have my answer locked and loaded and only you and Micah will remember it.
01:20:16
Speaker
It's when I played that Munchlax and I killed that guy. Oh my fucking god. Pete the Munchlax. Holy shit. That is a callback. ARK 3, bringing back Pete!
01:20:30
Speaker
Jesus Christ. What was that? Was that tryouts for the original show?
01:20:37
Speaker
Long story short, for everyone who's listening and Evelyn and Eli who weren't there, i was ah i was... This is during the time when we needed someone to play Waltzer.
01:20:49
Speaker
Because of ah my situation in real life, I could not play him. need stop you right there. There is something that they need to know. it is I had them do a fucking interview roleplay session like I did with you guys. It was the same roleplay session, the same campaign.
01:21:08
Speaker
Oh. With the Skarmory and the... The Murkram? There's a Honchkrow. Honchkrow. Ain't no Honchkrow no more. yeah shoot yeah day to Yeah, yeah because Yeah Cuz yeah P is coming back as a character. He's he is gonna show up He has to know he is wanted ah will let you know we made that canonical true.
01:21:36
Speaker
He is wanted Yeah, um what happened is Jake was playing Pete the Munchlax and he ended up actually killing the mob bots. Because I said, you know what would be funny? He slips and he falls after the battle is over. He said he slipped on the blood and fell on him and just crunched him. he crits! What happened is he was like, I think one or two HP from being um considered fainted to being considered dead.
01:22:03
Speaker
And he like threw this stupid flavor thing like, oh, pizza slips and falls in the blood. And I fall on the fucking mob boss or whatever. I'm like, he's right on that line. so I have him roll for damage and he pushed him barely over that line and he murdered the fucking honch crow.
01:22:20
Speaker
Dang. And we just barely beat the honch crow, if I remember correctly. and We destroyed him. Yeah. um I feel like i have to give the audience some context. This is never released.
01:22:33
Speaker
um Back when I was picking co-hosts a few years ago for this show, I had them run through a mini campaign to determine you know if they would be good roleplaying together, if they were good co-hosts, etc. etc.
01:22:48
Speaker
um Excuse me. And by the way, that interview session was the very first time I had DMed anything. That was the very first thing I ever DMed.
01:22:59
Speaker
So, yeah. You did Evelyn's first and then ours, right? Or was it ours first and then Evelyn's? I think it's... Hold on.
01:23:18
Speaker
I don't remember who I paired up because I did you guys i mean i did you guys in pairs. I think it was Evelyn Eli? Was it yet? No, it was me and Sean. Okay, it was you and Sean. Okay, so it was you and Sean where Richard showed up.
01:23:36
Speaker
Yep. God forbid Richard comes back. Here again showed up. Yeah, that's an inside joke we've been keeping alive for years that never that the audience doesn't even know about.
01:23:46
Speaker
It's fucking Richard. Yep. Yeah. I think what got me the most happy doing that whole thing wasn't the bird killing. It was the fact that I had my my munch like dive into the trash can to eat poison cake.
01:23:59
Speaker
Yeah. You that on your own. know. I forgot about that. I'm beginning to realize that... Almost every side episode that's happened, Blair's gotten PTSD from.
01:24:14
Speaker
I know, right? Yeah, Blair's gonna come into the podcast, like, extremely fucking wary. could just gonna like, oh shit. The side episodes are not canon, so... Yes, but I have also made flashbacks like in other side episodes, like her and the Joltik and whatnot. Just like her immediately getting PTSD off that. showtic God, that also never got released. I think that might be on the Patreon?
01:24:40
Speaker
That might be on our Patreon. Our original side... No, I think I removed it from the Patreon. I don't remember. um like it might might come up. Let's not actually say it.
01:24:51
Speaker
Because it might come up in the podcast. Let's just say that Blair has been absolutely like mentally abused over the past few side episodes. Welcome to the club. so many different ways.
01:25:04
Speaker
Hey, I got someone else in the club with me. but Walter's got a friend. yeah How did you get tortured, Death? Ah, cool, I got tortured. I don't wanna talk about it.
01:25:15
Speaker
I feel like have to give context for that too. SideQuest was a mini campaign that me and Micah were planning on running for the Patreon members that ah failed four times. We tried to start it over four separate times and it we tried keeping it alive over a whole year and it never succeeded once.
01:25:34
Speaker
it was going to It was going to the last time, but they came out of mic issues. Yeah, and then fucking Jacob and said horrible, horrible echo. Sorry for outing you, Jacob, but it' was your fault.
01:25:47
Speaker
Um, and we tried it again, still the echo issues, and we just gave up it because I was frustrated because I had started that same episode over four times at that point. I was sick of even trying to keep it alive.
01:26:01
Speaker
I gotta be honest, it's probably for the best because Blair trying to get along with a Robin would have been an absolute nightmare. i doubt that would have been fun though. ah wonder if Robin will ever show up in the show. He will now!
Game System Updates and Changes
01:26:14
Speaker
Uh, no, Robin was there in the Christmas episode. Yeah, he was. Anyway, I think to yeah that We need Robin, Pete, both those characters need to show up now. That's going to conclude our host Q&A session.
01:26:28
Speaker
um i As I expected, that took up the of the episode. um So with this, I'm going to kick it over to system changes. um I have a list of things that have changed in the PTT system.
01:26:42
Speaker
We are currently using PTT 4.3.
01:26:45
Speaker
And there are a few system changes that I need to discuss regarding battle of the battle system. ah What else do we got? We got battle system. We got... Oh, God. We have, like, bonus actions.
01:26:56
Speaker
We have so much fucking shit. um So I think I'm going to split this up into three separate sections. The three biggest things is going to be the battle the way battles work has been determined.
01:27:09
Speaker
um The way phone there's going bonus actions and there's also move level ups like there is in the Mr. Dungeon games. So I'm going to go through these one by one.
01:27:20
Speaker
And if I get anything wrong, stop me. um But I'm going off the definitions page on the 4.3 version. So it should be the most updated stuff. Um, okay. What I have listed for, um, in- When we start a battle, initiative is determined this way.
01:27:39
Speaker
Friendly and enemy groups roll for initiative and add their totals together for each group. The highest total group goes first. Order determined is is determined by role-player and player strategy.
01:27:50
Speaker
Turn order may change each turn, but group order stays the same. So what that means is the good guys roll D-Speed and they add their all their dice together.
01:28:01
Speaker
The enemies roll um their D-Speed and add theirs together. um Whichever is higher goes first, and then swaps back and forth from there. In the middle of battle, all um all player characters can decide who goes first by themselves.
01:28:18
Speaker
I think... Final Fantasy does something similar. I don't remember. But and might be wrong on that. Final Fantasy has got some sort of weird system like that.
01:28:29
Speaker
I haven't played Final Fantasy since Final Fantasy XIII. But so you guys can choose whatever order you guys want to do stuff in.
01:28:42
Speaker
And that order does not have to stay between rounds. Does that sound right? Did I get that right guys? Yep. Okay. um Next we have bonus actions.
01:28:53
Speaker
So we are borrowing the action and bonus action system from D&D 5e. oh From here on out, they are because there are certain moves in the system that are just absolutely useless to keep.
01:29:07
Speaker
Like a quick attack and stuff is just completely overshadowed by other moves as well as the priority system just doesn't work with the system. So the way we did this is we have two actions that we can use on each player's turn.
01:29:23
Speaker
We have a regular action. Which is something like using a move, using an item, or um doing a major item like, I don't know. Bonus actions is also a move, but that move is used at half and half power or half effect.
01:29:43
Speaker
This is the criteria for using a move as a bonus action. A bonus action is a move that can be used once per turn as long as the move follows these criteria.
01:29:54
Speaker
The move must have a base power unless it is a status move. Base power... Wait, why is that rule even there? That just encompasses every every move. Effort glass wants to be changed to must be a move.
01:30:08
Speaker
Must be a move. It's because it's a limit on base power. Well, that's the next rule. Base power after move level ups is equal to or less than four. That's rule two. Because status moves can also be used as butnu as bonus actions associated here.
01:30:25
Speaker
Okay, so the move follows these criteria. It must be a move. Base power after move level ups, which we'll get to later, is equal to or less than four. it may not be a multi-attack move.
01:30:38
Speaker
Moves used as bonus actions deal only half damage or take half effect. um An example is you roll the damage divided by two. Or counter only does times one damage instead of times two damage.
01:30:51
Speaker
So you may use any move that follows those criteria as a bonus move on top of your normal action. So you have you can use two moves per turn now, but your second move is used at half power.
01:31:05
Speaker
or half effect if it's a status move.
01:31:11
Speaker
Did I get that one right? I think so. Okay, basically just imagine it like the bonus actions from D&D 5e if you know what that is.
01:31:22
Speaker
don't think so. um So only certain moves are applicable to be bonus moves. The weaker moves that is. So like quick attack or a status move.
01:31:36
Speaker
Move level ups. Move level ups. For the status moves, yes I don't know if you covered that, for like the status moves that have a limited time ah effect.
01:31:51
Speaker
I'm guessing that effect would be cut in half? Like smoke screen lasting a certain number of turns? ah Probably. Yeah, because down here in the rules it says roll damage divided by 2.
01:32:03
Speaker
So I think it would be the same. it would be like, because it says like smoke screen is like roll a d4 plus 1. That's how many turns it lasts. I think that's what it is. So you would roll a d4 plus 1 divided by 2.
01:32:16
Speaker
Yep. So... Yeah. But if you if you decide to use that move as a regular action, then you can just use it at full power.
01:32:27
Speaker
can You can choose to use your weaker moves as regular actions if you so wish.
01:32:33
Speaker
um Move level ups. So moves can level up now, just like in the original Mr. Do they? In Restorance Team? I don't remember. yeah That is starting in Gates to Infinity, I think.
01:32:46
Speaker
No, is it? Okay, I can't remember because I was trying to think of Explorers of Sky. and don't know i don't think so. I used to think of Explorers Sky. Okay, I don't think so either, no.
01:32:57
Speaker
Okay, so but just like in Gates and Above, oh to infinity and beyond, move level ups are a thing. um From here on out, move level ups, this is how it works.
01:33:10
Speaker
Move level, moves a level up after being used 10 times. This progression can be tracked on the character sheet um with the progression bar seen to the right of the move level.
01:33:20
Speaker
It must be updated manually. When a move level up levels up, its base power increases by 1 and the level up progression bar is reset to 0. So if you use a move 10 times, it becomes more powerful.
01:33:34
Speaker
um so and On our character sheet we have a tracking system on here where we can track that every time we use a move. Once it reaches 10 it automatically increases your you're these are base power by 1.
01:33:49
Speaker
so yeah If you choose to keep a move you can keep leveling it up. When you learn a new move it is set your the move level whoops is set back to 0. so Oh, that's the other thing. We have five move slots now. we decided to get rid of the learn slots.
01:34:07
Speaker
um Yes! money Move learning is no longer a thing because we found it to be just... and and What? I forgot that we were getting rid of the learning moves. Yeah, we haven't we haven't discussed that in like six months.
01:34:25
Speaker
Yeah. It's like the first thing we discussed about changing then we never brought it up again. Okay, well I implemented it. so I love the idea. move Learning moves no longer exist.
01:34:36
Speaker
um Our parent podcast, Not a Scratch, he uses a system where if you learn a new move, you have to go through hoops and bounds to be able to actually learn it. We got rid of that.
01:34:48
Speaker
So um once you learn a move from Level Up or from a TM or something, you just know it completely. Just like in the regular games. um However, um back when we did have to jump through those hoops, um there was a fifth slot for your learned it's called your Learn Slot.
01:35:08
Speaker
It is a fifth move that you can keep that is used at disadvantage. um So we decided since we're getting rid of the learn slot, we didn't want to get rid of the convenience of using the fifth slot. So we're just keeping a fifth slot so everyone can use five moves now.
01:35:24
Speaker
and know what's no I know it's not- It's not to like regular games or the mystery dungeon games but it's just a convenience thing but this isn't but these aren't the mystery dungeon games this is our game it is based on the mystery dungeon games so i'm about to steal a hyper beam tm tm i'm just gonna pull all right Well, we've jumped back into the DMZ universe, player cast Fireball.
01:35:50
Speaker
um There's some other changes, that but that mostly regards to the actual character sheet itself and tracking of certain stats and stuff, so that's more for the actual players. So I'm not really going to go over those Those are just convenience things. than that, I think that's all of the things. I still didn't fix the shop, by the way. The shop's still broken.
01:36:11
Speaker
oh What's the shop? What shop? What's... It's a VM cheat that is always a hassle to deal with.
01:36:23
Speaker
Yeah, the shop is a hassle to deal with. The shop system that Anirud implemented. So I'm just manually doing shop stuff still. I think that is that oh that is Everything?
01:36:39
Speaker
I still have some debug stuff in the description and the definitions page I need to get rid of. i have ah I have a list for and i have an encounter table still sitting down here just for no keeping that i need to get rid of for the player version.
01:36:53
Speaker
But I think that is everything.
01:37:04
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my god, what are you guys saying?
01:37:07
Speaker
What? Okay. Sorry, I was looking at you guys' chats. Um... Okay. Uh, do you guys have any questions about that? Or you want me to to explain anything?
01:37:19
Speaker
Um... Yeah. Well, I was thinking, like, if we're if we go up, if it's just the... If the initiative order is based on, like, the sum of everybody's initiative rolls, um...
01:37:32
Speaker
I'm thinking that like our team is always going have an advantage. It will. yeah I think so. also But the but the way that's balance the way that's balanced is because you guys are a larger group, if you fight a singular enemy, you will be fighting a much higher level um enemy, which will also have a higher D speed.
01:37:52
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So, um if you guys are fighting if you guys are fighting five enemies, you're going to fighting five enemies of the same level that you guys are. But if you're fighting one enemy, it's going to be a single enemy of a much higher level. And that higher level comes with a higher D speed.
01:38:07
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Oh, yeah. yeah I do want to ask, actually, while we're here. with that How are we going to rule... And then people also have a higher attack and everything. Yeah, but since we're also doing the the system of 1C vs. the other team in combat, how are we gonna rule weird moves like Sucker Punch?
01:38:29
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um That is something I wanted to bring up. I'm going to say, because Sucker Punch has a priority attached to it, however, it does not meet the required it does not meet the requirements for a bonus action.
01:38:43
Speaker
I have an What's your idea? there This is a thing where it's usually just for the villains, like, because I watch this guy who does this. He gives villains, like, called legendary actions where they can pop it any time after a certain person does something.
01:39:00
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Yeah. so we're not So let's say, i was going say, you oh, you could just use to pop at the beginning of the round.
01:39:07
Speaker
So what i'm what I'm deciding is if it doesn't fall under the bonus action, priority just doesn't exist for that move because move order is determined by your initial D-Speed roll anyway.
01:39:18
Speaker
So priority doesn't really exist unless you use it a bonus action. The um reason for bonus actions was to give the moves that get benefits from like priority and statuses stuff a higher chance of being used because you're going to get rid of Growl pretty much right off the bat when you start leveling up. oh But now you have a reason to keep it because you can use Growl once per turn if you so use if you so wish at half the power.
01:39:44
Speaker
So for moves like Sucker Punch or more powerful moves that have priority, the priority just gets negated.
01:39:53
Speaker
and What if we did like Sucker Punch as a reaction move when you get hit on the opponent's turn, you can use Sucker Punch to hit just before that hit happens?
01:40:10
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I don't have reactions written into this system right now. oh Because we don't really use like movement and stuff in this system, so like Attack of Opportunity as your reaction doesn't really exist.
01:40:23
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So that could be something I implement as a new reaction system, but that would have to be worked from the ground up. As of this moment, I'm saying that anything that doesn't fall under a bonus action applicable move doesn't have any priority.
01:40:38
Speaker
Or, but to balance that out, it also doesn't have negative priority. So moves that come with negative priority that are higher power also don't have that. So there's the balance in that. Right, okay.
01:40:49
Speaker
That's fair. Yeah, that might be like a 5.0 or 6.0 thing that you can work Yeah, that'll be a 5.0. I'm saying probably, because we are currently in the fourth series of character sheets.
01:41:02
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So I still need to fix four points to read. doesn't It isn't compatible to Google Sheets. So I still got some work to do on that. But yeah, so...
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01:41:14
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Okay, I think that is everything for this segment of um characters character ah system changes. so I don't remember what we were at at the end of our coin. I think we were still in the 2 series of character sheets, but we were way updated. I think... I'm trying to remember because you gave... no never mind.
01:41:36
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I remember it something wrong. Go on. Okay. Okay, so because we have just a little bit of time, um actually this this is gonna get cut out. Do you guys want to go on for another twenty ish minutes? Because I do have another segment if you guys want it. Um, I'm down. What is the segment?
01:41:56
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I have a PTT trivia game for you guys. Oh, we're doing this. Okay.
01:42:06
Speaker
Alright. Okay. Cool. Alright. So. Alright, and for our finals. sure Jake, we have something to record after this. Shut up.
01:42:19
Speaker
You're staying away forever. You just remembered that? It's been a long day! Okay. yeah do Do we want to do that some other time then? Because I'm not supposed to do it with finishing Do you guys want to finish now?
01:42:38
Speaker
i'm I'm good either way. it sounds fun to do the 10 questions thing, but if we want to push it back then i' I'm good with that. Yeah, I'm just gonna say I'm not doing this any other time. So ah I'm just gonna say if you guys want to do it, it's I gotta pull it up here.
01:42:54
Speaker
I can't really put this anywhere else. So it's up to you guys. If you if you need to go you can go. Yeah.
01:43:04
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um I'm game for it. So, um, who, who, who wants to do it and who wants to go? Cause
01:43:13
Speaker
I gotta a stay anyway. So I'll stay. All right. I guess we can all stay then. Sure. Okay. All right. It shouldn't take too long.
01:43:25
Speaker
Nah, it shouldn't take too, too long. Um, okay. I'll leave this back. That's getting cut that's getting cut out Okay, so for our final segment, I have prepared for us a PTT trivia.
01:43:38
Speaker
So I'm going to ask a question and you guys for points. so i'm going to ask a question and you guys for points are going to have to answer a question. Get it correct, you get a point.
01:43:50
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um I'm going to ask a question. I want you guys to either write down or just think of your answer. And then I'm going to go down the list. I'm going to ask you guys, I'm going to see if you,
01:44:03
Speaker
Just try that again. I'm going to ask this question. You guys are going to either write down or think of your answer and then I'm going to call your name. You're going to tell me your answer and once everyone has told me their answer, I will tell you who got it correct and who got it wrong.
01:44:19
Speaker
Are you guys ready? Sure, yeah sure. Why not? All right. um These do range in difficulty. They're not all the same, but there is one question in here that is much more difficult than the rest.
01:44:33
Speaker
So first question. Oh, I'm going to do that question last, by the way I'm going really hard question last. First question. What Pokemon is behind the ticket counter at the Gale Beach train station? so
01:44:47
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Let me know when you get this one all too well.
01:44:52
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I don't remember at all. I didn't think it was ever revealed. It was. i think it was also revealed I think it was also revealed during ah the i guess side quest. I think it was also revealed because I remember it.
01:45:07
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I guess I got one. Okay, you guys ready? Yeah.
01:45:14
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Eli?
01:45:20
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Eli, you there? Uh, yeah. oh I have no clue. nothing I thought it was faceless nobody whoever ticket counter guy.
01:45:33
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There was one appearance of ticket counter guy. it was wondering what made him come out. i remember that out of the ticket a booth one time. Yeah, Evelyn, what about you?
01:45:44
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Yeah, I'm um, yeah, I'm drawing a blank. but I thought it was a Lucario. Jake, what about you? Nuzleaf. Um, Micah.
01:45:58
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It's Noctillery. You guys all got it wrong. It's a Tyrogue. It's a Tyrogue. I could have sworn it was Noctillery. um um when you guys escaped When you guys escaped the mob boss place, when you guys escaped the speakeasy, you guys circled back around into the train station.
01:46:18
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where you guys saw the Tyrog who looked surprised that you guys were there again. And you appeared with a Lucario. And without Walter. i remember that I remember that situation.
01:46:32
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I don't remember it being revealed who ticket guy was. Okay, next question. What is the name of the abandoned shop next to the Valkenburg train station? Abandoned shop?
01:46:48
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It wasn't the alarm, no, not the alarm clock store. That's near the library. No, that's basically our Ikea. guess I never did explore that. Never had time for it. I did, and I wish I didn't.
01:47:00
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That wasn't SideQuest. Once again, I wish I didn't. Don't get enough time? Man.
01:47:08
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Okay. You all ready? I'm ready. Yeah. Hold on, I got one more.
01:47:15
Speaker
I don't know. Oh, wait. Valkenburg? Wait, what? What is the name of the abandoned shop next to the Valkenburg train station? This was mentioned once, the very first time you guys entered Valkenburg.
01:47:31
Speaker
Nope. That was way too long ago. Okay. Alright. So, Eli is a note. Evelyn? I am also drawing a blank. Jake? Jake?
01:47:42
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Shit R.S. I don't think so. Micah, I feel like you might know this. I know this one. That's the Three Monkeys. It is, in fact, the Three Monkeys.
01:47:53
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Yes, the Three Monkeys it was an abandoned shop. It was a reference to our very first recording of SideQuest. Nope, no recollection.
01:48:04
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And also another reason why I hate you so much, because you flashed back to that during the D&D episode. I did. Alright, next question. from What- Yeah, that's what the orcs were about.
01:48:16
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I need each of you guys keep track of your points separately because I can't- We all have zero points. I don't know. Micah one point. The rest of us have nothing. What item acts as a secret lever that opens the basement to Project Flameback?
01:48:34
Speaker
You're good question. this one. Okay. feel like I should know this. Oh. The tomato berry tree. Alright, Micah, are you ready? I was asking to repeat the question.
01:48:46
Speaker
Oh, what item acts as a secret lever that opens the basement to Project Flameback?
01:48:54
Speaker
Wasn't that the tomato tree? Or tomato plants, whatever it was? Eli, what about you? Yeah, it's tomato berry plant. Jake? Plant in the garden. Same. Same?
01:49:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, that's got correct. It is a tomato berry plant. in the garden area. I was stuck between berry or tomato, but I know you love making shit out of your names. would've accepted either. You guys said a tomato berry tree. It's close enough. Tomato. said plant.
01:49:23
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Alright, this one should be an easier one. What is Tito's sister's name?
01:49:31
Speaker
What? I beg your pardon? She has a sister? i thought you guys would've remembered this. Who's Tito? I didn't even know she had a sister. What do you mean who's Tito's?
01:49:43
Speaker
I don't know. know who Tito's is. I don't know she had a sister. She does have sister. No! God damn it. Who's Tito?
01:49:54
Speaker
Fucking Christ. Tito was a Spigatito. That Sammy hates. Yeah, that robbed Sammy of his bread bowl idea. did you just ask me who Sammy is?
01:50:07
Speaker
No, what Pokemon type was Tito again? Sprengatito! Oh, a Sprengatito. Oh, okay. Don't need to yell. I think this is a wipe, Dakota. Okay, does everyone have nothing?
01:50:20
Speaker
Um, Sandra. Wait. Oh, wait. Cassandra. wait Wait a minute. Danielle? No. No. Hey, wait, hold on.
01:50:35
Speaker
um It has something to do with some alcohol. ah Yeah, I'm going to say- yeah, I was going to give you guys a hint to think of Tito's name. Yeah. Was there a name Toadie though?
01:50:48
Speaker
No. Or Toadie or something like that. Okay, I think I need Evelyn. I think that's all I need. Sorry, was your hint again? Um, think of Tito's name. Because I know the alcohol you drink.
01:51:01
Speaker
Yes, that's a weird reference that I know about in Dakota. Yes. Yes, it is! But I also don't know. I don't remember that bit about Tito. Well, yeah, the reason Tito was named the way she was is because i had a bottle of Tito's on my desk.
01:51:14
Speaker
I remember that, Yeah, yeah i remember that. I don't remember anything about her having a sister. She did. Okay. Um, I'll remember from Tito. I thought it was a Kangaskhan.
01:51:29
Speaker
No. no I thought Tito was a king Kong. Well, I am still drawing a blank. Okay. If you guys don't know this one, the next one's gonna be even harder for you. Okay, what's the answer? We don't remember throwaway characters. Her name is Morgan.
01:51:46
Speaker
Morgan? Axe-Han Morgan! jack daniels It was the the the other, the Morgan whatever. like the rum? Morgan? Yes, yeah, it's based on black ah Captain Morgan's Black Spice film. My favorite alcohol.
01:52:00
Speaker
Axe-Han Morgan. Yeah. No. Alright, keep it rolling, keep it rolling. Okay, next question is a follow-up to that, so I already knew this was going to blank. Where does Morgan live? Alright, next question. one The country now.
01:52:15
Speaker
Why do you know this one? Don't worry about it. Mapleville? I am gonna worry about it. Alright, we got one for Mapleville. Eli, what do you got? Yeah. it I'm going Mapleville. remember.
01:52:29
Speaker
ah Yeah. I guess I'm just gonna piggyback here. Yeah, make Mapleville. Yes, she lived in go find It was either Hawkeye or Mapleville because that was the, uh, that was your wild goose chase you tried to send us on.
01:52:46
Speaker
Is that where Mapleville was from? It was. Yes. remember Mapleville. I remember Mapleville being around. remember that was where she lived. So I tried sending you guys on a wild goose chase to find a Glaceon with a yellow bandana.
01:53:01
Speaker
yeah um was robbing a bakery in Mapleville. And the bakery, ah the reason you guys knew about this is because Tito was telling you about her sister's trouble, Morgan's trouble at her bakery, that her bakery got robbed by this glazed out with a yellow bandana in Mapleville. remember that! not remember the name, but talking about...
01:53:24
Speaker
again did the name but talking about Tito's sister. It finally clicked that that's what it was from. Yep.
01:53:35
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but i dont do I just never remembered that Tito has sister. ah thought she was just a stubborn little brat. Okay, this one should be easy. What flavor of donut did Walter Eaton or Quinn episode one?
01:53:48
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's easy. He got food? I thought he was starved. Alright, hold on. all right Everyone has to ready up. Because I don't need you guys picking backing off of each other's answers. Let's all put him in the chat at the same time.
01:54:04
Speaker
no no, no. Just ready up, but you guys have to say what you guys initially thought of. Eli's ready. Mike is ready. Evelyn and Jake? I really don't remember. um Okay, I got one. Alright, Evelyn?
01:54:19
Speaker
Uh, pineapple berries? No. Um, Eli. Donut flavored donut. Yes. Jake, what did you think of? Powder donut.
01:54:31
Speaker
Nope. Yep. And Micah? It was also flavored donut. Yes. Yeah, you guys used to get a point. It was a donut flavored donut. The first line that Walter ever said was I have ah something like I don't don't know. Donut flavored Yeah. like yeah alex says a go I'm i'm gonna go for bos point here i did you get that from astf Did you get that for me? Yes! follow That's what I thought!
01:55:02
Speaker
You don't get a bonus point for that, but yes. Oh boy! I don't get a bonus point, but I do get a brownie point. Yeah, you get a brownie point. Yeah! I do remember Malta even got fed or noticed.
01:55:15
Speaker
Yeah, that is one thing I want to say. You guys, there are so many references in this show. Literally every everywhere every single episode in this show has a reference of some kind. There are so many references in this show that just have not been mentioned.
01:55:29
Speaker
I've noticed a few, actually. 95% of them go over over my head. i know. And 95% of them I don't draw attention to. Like in our chris and the first Christmas episode, um whatever Demiascarada's line was, was a reference to both um the Harry Potter and... What's the other one?
01:55:53
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um
01:55:57
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And Puss in Boots. Yeah, I caught those actually. Also because I helped you make that character. i know you did. Okay, next question.
01:56:08
Speaker
There is only one Jolteon seen in the show. Who were they? Who? Oh, crap. Okay, I've got it. You're asking the Evoluscious person about Eevees? Alright, Eli is ready. Oh, wait.
01:56:23
Speaker
Jolteon, not Jolteon. Yes, Jolteon. I remember the Jolteon. I remember the Jolteon. I remember like jol the Jolteon. Don't get me wrong. But the Jolteon.
01:56:35
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okay.
01:56:38
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Was it one of the folks in the bar? I'm not saying anything. You have to ready up. I don't need you influencing other people. ah Okay, let's go. Alright, ready. this down
01:56:52
Speaker
Yeah, I'm ready. Okay, Jake and Eli. Sure. Okay, Eli?
01:57:02
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, what do you got, Eli? Uh... It was one of the other classmates in the survival class.
01:57:13
Speaker
Evelyn, what do you got I was thinking one of the speakeasy patrons. Jake, what do you got I just went with the school. Like, I don't remember. Someone from the school.
01:57:25
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Micah. I was also going to say speakeasy. Jolteon was a guard at the hospital in Gale Beach.
01:57:34
Speaker
Nope, don't remember that. Oh my gosh. Because she carved badmouthed the Jolteon. I just remember... um I just remember... I just remember Ronka running after Walter into the sunset.
01:57:52
Speaker
You were next to we' next to the Jolteon when he said that, sorry. But you didn't say that to Jolteon. But also, how can we forget the main character of that episode was Front Doorfish? Front door fish. Yes.
01:58:04
Speaker
Okay. So but next one's the hardest one. I'm going to save one for Lex. Okay. Um, who initiated the hit contract that Walter currently possesses um for bonus points? What is the Pokemon that Walter needs to kill?
01:58:21
Speaker
Okay. I'm locked in. I got it. All All right. Jake. Alright, I don't know exactly remember his name, but know... Hold on. Are you... okay What? Hold on, we're going down the list. I was asking if you were ready.
01:58:37
Speaker
Oh, yeah, might be ready. Alright, Eli, what do you got? The Kangaskhan in the shop in Hawkeye. hit is for Sundret.
01:58:49
Speaker
Okay. Evelyn passes. Jake, what do you got? It's the same, yeah. That's exactly... For any more bonus points, it's 7,000 Poki.
01:58:59
Speaker
You have the bounty on your character sheet. I don't have it up. I don't have i don't give enough fuck to open it for this. Okay, uh, Micah, what do you got Yes, it is in fact the king is gone looking for the centrist.
01:59:13
Speaker
Yes, so i rock there technically there's a fun fact tag with it. Yes, it was a male Kangaskhan general store shopkeep of Hawkeye. Now, initially, the hit was actually for a Sentret.
01:59:26
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However, in one of the more recent episodes, I changed it by accident to Furret. so I would have accepted either Furret or Centret. Initially it was Centret, but it accidentally got changed to Furret.
01:59:39
Speaker
Did we get a biggie evolve? I was gonna say, yeah, he evolved in the paper update itself. Oh my god, yes, we have to- Okay, I'm going with that, I love that. yeah No! It's harder for me to kill him!
01:59:52
Speaker
Wait, no, he evolved to avoid suspicion. They're looking for a Centret, he's a Furret. Little did they know, the paper changes. The hit
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02:00:01
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is not on a furret. No, the hit contract is for either centret or furret.
02:00:05
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yeah Doesn't care what kind, just wants a centret up there. Okay, um so there are two more questions. one This next one is actually just a fun fact about the show.
02:00:16
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I want to see if you guys have noticed. And the second one is going to be actually impossible. Oh boy. Okay, good next question. Specifically in... specifically in Arc 2.
02:00:28
Speaker
How can you tell who edited the episodes between me and Sean? Got it. Oh, Dakota uses the... Nah, don't say it yet.
02:00:40
Speaker
let's say yeah Okay. Is everyone ready? We talked about this like last week. I remember this. don't remember that. Okay.
02:00:51
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But i do. Okay. Alright. Eli, what do you got? the The music that you use is different and Dakota uses the same, not i don't think you use the same thing, but it's just all one playlist and Sean actually goes through and picks out different music for each section.
02:01:16
Speaker
I'm gonna give you the point, but yes and no. You got the main point I was looking for, but the second part about you, about me using one whole playlist, is not entirely true.
02:01:30
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Um, Evelyn, what do you got? I was gonna say, it sounds like... Because I know, like, I know Glitch X City's two, um, lo-fi playlists, but it sounds like you're mixing them together.
02:01:42
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Like, splicing them a bit. That is, that is incorrect. Jake, what do you got? I was gonna say how you use music.
02:01:52
Speaker
um In what way specifically? Because if that's all you got, I can't give you that point. That's way too big. How you place it in different parts. I can't give it that to you. Sorry, that's too big.
02:02:06
Speaker
I don't know. i I spaced out because someone walked in my room. so Oh, Micah, what do you got? I was also gonna say it's different types of music. this What specifically? You use specifically lo-fi music, I've noticed. I cannot give that to you.
02:02:24
Speaker
The answer is in the midsection, um this is this says of This has not happened the last, I think, two episodes, but in the midsection, I use music I created myself while Sean uses the um Pokemon Center Lo-Fi music by Glitchec City.
02:02:42
Speaker
I use a um a self-made Ragged Mountain from Mr. Dungeon Remix, an orchestral remix that I use in my midsections. I do that specifically to differentiate who edited the episodes.
02:02:54
Speaker
So if you listen to an episode and it has Ragged Mountain, That is an episode I edited. I think i I just used the... ah I think I broke that the last two episodes. I used a part of the oh the Ghost Ex City playlist in the last couple episodes.
02:03:11
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ah But um generally, yes, I used my own music for the midsections, actually.
02:03:19
Speaker
Okay. so So, yeah. um Oh, ah and the other thing is um actually I used to just pick and choose my own music that's how I edited an arc one and for the majority of arc two I also did that as I went pick and choose but I found that's actually the longest process of editing stuff so I'm trying to compile a folder of music that I can drag and drop onto the into audacity to make that quicker but uh for now I'm just using playlists of glitch x city because it's so much faster
02:03:51
Speaker
So that is how you can differentiate. Listen to the midsection music. Okay, give us this impossible question. Okay. You guys, I can guarantee none of you guys are gonna get this, but it's a really fun fact I found out.
02:04:04
Speaker
How many Pokemon besides the main characters graduated in Arc 1, Episode 4?
02:04:12
Speaker
Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold on. If you guys need to pull up the calculators, I'll give you guys a few minutes.
02:04:24
Speaker
Wait, why do we need calculators? it
02:04:29
Speaker
I think I know. can't find this answer. I'm looking for a specific number. I'm not giving you a range. There is actual number. There's not an initial number I thought of then. Alright, let me pull up episode four.
02:04:42
Speaker
Yes, there is an actual mathematical number for this and I will explain. I'm not gonna pull up the answer. Okay, well, I'm just gonna say my initial idea was zero.
02:04:53
Speaker
But no, that is not actually the right answer. But there were others. Okay, so I know at least one person graduated. Okay, um, are you guys all ready?
02:05:05
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. Okay, so Eli, you said zero. That is not correct. Hey, that was my initial thought. That was not the final answer. Okay, okay. I'll give you guys more. So what do you guys got? final answer is 22.
02:05:21
Speaker
Okay. Evelyn, what do you got? Um, three others besides us. Okay. Jake, what do you got? Eight.
02:05:35
Speaker
Micah? I'm saying seven. 2570. What? I just wine i just remember it took a very long time. I don't remember why.
02:05:47
Speaker
that actually happened. So here's the thing. um In that episode, you guys were all assigned numbers. One of you guys was assigned a one. If you listen to the very end of that episode, the last person who graduated was was the air on it was a gra it was assigned z ninety nine I remember the Aeron, yeah. i remember the air on I just don't remember how many people actually graduated.
02:06:12
Speaker
There were exactly 2,574 people at that graduation that were assigned in numbers and excluding the main characters of which there were four. That is 2,570.
02:06:25
Speaker
And only Eli- Oh! And only Bruce's mom showed up. And only Bruce's mom showed up. Oh my gosh. That's even bigger than my high school class.
02:06:37
Speaker
That's even bigger than like five of them. My high school class had maybe like 400 people. yes Yeah, same. There were like maybe 800. For background, i went to a high school in New York City that is pretty famous. And there were like 900, 800 people in each gra in like each year. Holy crap. The only high school bigger than that that I know of is Brooklyn Tech?
02:07:03
Speaker
Hmm. So, fun fact, because that's only one graduating class, you guys technically have approximately 10,000 people in Gale Beach High School. Wow.
02:07:14
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Also, I will say... true Because, like, z ninety nine doesn't necessarily mean that all of the other numbers were included. It could go by, like, last name or something.
02:07:28
Speaker
You would say that, but it doesn't because we actually spent some time assigning everyone numbers and or numbers and letters and the the way that things were laid out actually was explained. I will also say, since we're talking about famous schools, ah has anyone here actually seen Kindergarten Cop?
02:07:47
Speaker
The movie? Well, there's a there was a pretty good movie, I think it was about 2009 when it came out, called Kindergarten Cop. It was a basically just a cop went and subbed as a teacher for a while.
02:08:00
Speaker
I actually went to that school where they filmed it for a little bit. Oh, wasn't that the one in southern Oregon? Or northern Oregon? It was near Astoria. Astoria. Yeah, I vaguely remember you telling me this. Yeah.
02:08:13
Speaker
Yeah, also I went to the Goonies house, but that's that's a different thing. Oh, that's what no that's what you were talking about in Astoria. That's what I remember. yeah. Yeah. Anyways, that's all the questions.
02:08:26
Speaker
Yes, that is all the questions. e Eli, how many points did do you end up with? I think it was five, but I know I ended tied with Micah. Okay.
02:08:37
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Evelyn, what did you get? Two. Two? Oh, out. Jake? Sorry. Alright, Micah? I actually wrote down my like you asked and I have six.
02:08:48
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Okay, so Eli and Micah should have six. Yeah. Oh, I think I wasn't counting the two points for your your two-part question. I did that i did to actually implement that.
02:08:59
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Yeah, that last question there was an extremely obscure piece of fact that I knew you guys wouldn't get, but I just thought it was a really cool fact to share. and Yeah, I got questions. half those Over half those questions were just obscure facts that I had no chance of remembering.
02:09:17
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Yeah, they were PTT trivia. You guys had to remember things about PTT specifically. Next gotta ask, how long was Veronica dating when Walter was getting beat up?
02:09:28
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What? That's gonna be your next question. New new question. how How many years did you say Veronica dating while married to... um
02:09:42
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Technically well also I actually have a question a jeopardy question for you to go though. Okay What is the okay All right, what is the end goal and how what is the final ending plot to PTT?
02:09:58
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Okay, is only all right, so guys it has to do with no i'm not telling you guys fucking plot do incorrect answer you lose damn I'm so upset that I had to save my own show. Okay. All right, guys. That is going to do it for this post-game show. um Let us know how many questions you guys got correct in the in the answers below. All of those should be answerable by the audience. So, also, if I... not going to say that.
02:10:28
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right. Thank you guys for listening. um Arc 3 will be starting, hopefully, next... Record weeks. Yeah, we got we got three weeks still then, so yeah we'll have our three started by then.
02:10:40
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Okay, we'll see you guys next time. I've been Dakota, your PM, your GM, your GM. I've been Evelyn, playing Hikaru normally. I've been Eli, not playing Bruce.
02:10:54
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I've been Micah, soon to be playing Blair. I've been Jake, playing Rogue. Playing who? like, whoa, Walter. I'm really good.
02:11:07
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Alright, see you guys. It's like, who are you talking about? Hey guys, and welcome to the midsection. Stick around after the midsection, because there is a special little something that you are definitely going to want to hear. It's very important, very big...
02:11:24
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Okay, so, uh, Discord linked in the description like always, um Patreon linked in the description as well. Um, I'm gonna be trying to move away from the Mieges plastering Glitch X City compilations in here.
02:11:39
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Um, because I like the older style of when me and Sean used to handpick different, uh, video game soundtracks for, for, uh, for, for, for, fucking Christ, for the theming of the episode.
02:11:52
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Um, I, I did that for this one simply because had 30 minutes to edit this episode, so I got to get this episode edited, uploaded, like, ASAP, I got stuff to do.
02:12:03
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02:12:48
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Walter feels himself being turned around and pulled away from the group briefly and you look around and you see Veronica staring at you. yeah she should She looks at you and says, Hey, but look, there's something I need to tell you before you move on. Look, I don't know why you're avoiding me, but let you need to listen to something I have to say.
02:13:09
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I've been holding something back from you. I need to talk to you. Can you at least give me that? He writes he like rubs his temples like, sure.
02:13:22
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What is it now? i Okay. let's I'm just gonna give you the rundown on this. i Okay.
02:13:36
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Do you remember the house fire back in Gale Beach?
02:13:43
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Yeah. So we got to a flashback. We see Veronica inside of a dim house. There's gas cans on the floor. Veronica's holding a match.
02:13:56
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She sees through the window a group of Pokemon heading up to the door and she drops a match and runs out the window.
02:14:09
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the You gotta realize Bruce isn't capable of doing what you guys think he did. Why do you think I was in gale beef so fast that night? i Why do you think I went straight to Miss Flameback?
02:14:21
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Why do you think no consequences came from anything? Wait. You know Miss Flameback has police ties, right? How'd you know I was out of the building? i saw you guys through the window, and I was like, fuck, I didn't have time to- to the The gas was on the floor already. Vince was already locked in his room.
02:14:42
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I couldn't turn back. I saw you guys outside. And it was too late. So I i that's just dropped the match and escaped. And you guys seemed to think that Bruce did it. And I didn't have the heart to tell you.
02:14:56
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Walter, you need to realize I didn't leave you with that asshole on purpose. I had to go. i had to make money. i Walter, do you remember last year when my arm was in a cast and I told you I fell down the stairs and broke my arm?
02:15:18
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Yeah.
02:15:22
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You need to know that that was vice Vince. Vince did that to me i I couldn't stand to be in the house anymore. I was scared of him. i i had get away. i um but i knew he I knew he wouldn't hurt you. He's never hurt you before, but i he was a horrible man, Walter. i I can't. I had to leave.
02:15:49
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So so so i left, and i went to try and find you a better father, Walter. And I did, except this time I didn't rush the relationship. I actually took time to find someone. I knew you would love to have as a father. And then I went, when that decision was made, I got rid of the problem for you.
02:16:14
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You seem so happy. I'm so sorry, Walter. And she pulls you went into a hug. Walter's thing in his head because he hugged her. He was going to say this by like, not going to hurt me.
02:16:30
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as he like, he like, talks like, do you mean not gonna hurt me? He didn't do it physically, but he tortured me in my mind, in my mentality every day.
02:16:42
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if it wasn't for Hikaru, would have been by myself. I don't know what I would have done if I was by myself it wasn't for Hikaru. i I took the measures I could to get rid of him. I had to make sure I found someone that could take care of you.
02:16:55
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like an actual father, not a fucking abusive bitch. I... Look, hi I have to admit, yes, I was terrified to even be near him. i rushed into that relationship, and we married after only two months, and it wasn't a good relationship at all, and he was physically abusive, and i I... I couldn't stay there anymore, Walter. I had to leave. I made the excuse that I was going on tour. I went to find someone better for you. I had to...
02:17:27
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I'm so sorry, Walter.
02:17:32
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ah who
02:17:38
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Walter wants to forgive her! I don't! You can see if Veronica is crying at this point. Like, actually sobbing. i Here's my end of thought.
02:17:51
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What was her plan of getting me out of of the room and out of the house and the fire lit? Also, she took away another thing that Walter cared the most like a lot, and that was stuff in his room that she burned lot of.
02:18:04
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Are you saying this to Veronica? No, he's saying this to head. Okay. But like use but
02:18:14
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Walter's going to do what he's always done. And he's gonna push those emotions down. ah poor Walter. Jesus. Because he's gonna think of his someone else and not himself again.
02:18:29
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so Veronica is holding you at arm length. So now her face is completely wet. Her mascara is all over the place. And she looks terrible.
02:18:40
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And she's like, I... Look, Walter, can... Can... Do you want... Do you want Jeremy as your father? I'm asking you because I want you to be a part of that decision.
02:19:00
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If you're happy with him, then I say go for it. I'm happy with him, I want to know if you're happy with him.
02:19:12
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What I've been through, i'm not really sure I need a father anymore.
02:19:19
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Do what makes you happy. I have my friends that who I lean on. she' She pulls you into another hug and she's like crushing you at this point.
02:19:32
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Damn, I gotta apologize to Bruce.
02:19:36
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geez. Yeah, because you guys still think that Bruce did it. Hell not. I'm gonna give him the most shit before he realizes it. Yeah, so Veronica lets you go and she's like, you should go go go back to your friends. I'll I love you, Walter. i'm so sorry.
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And she lets you go. Hold on Even as I'm saying it back, odds I'm not.
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i love you too, as he walks away.
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