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Arc 3 - Episode 3 - Morally Explosive
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The crew decides on a logical course of action as to what to do with Dandelion. Also exploions and stuff I guess.
Patreon - patreon.com/MysteryDungeonPTT
Discord - https://discord.gg/A7NCWyPkSd
Dakota as the PM, DM, GM
Evelyn as Hikarun the Pikachu
Eli as Bruce the Cyndaquil
Micah as Blair the Absol
Jake as Walter Fisthands the Riolu
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Transcript
Introduction and Audio Issues
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey guys, before the show gets started, just a little bit of an audio warning. The audio is a little bit crunchy in this episode. I'm not entirely sure why, but just giving you guys a heads up. Anyway, to the show.
Meet the Hosts
00:00:23
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to A Path Your Time. My name is Dakota, your PM, your DM, your DM. And sitting to my left is somebody whose favorite little fox is Vulpix. Because I have a Vulpix plush sitting next to me.
00:00:36
Speaker
Aww, so cute! Those Vulpix. Oh my gosh!
00:00:41
Speaker
Hi, I'm Evelyn. I'm admiring the Vulpix in front of me right now. And to my left is someone who saves all of his spreadsheets in JSON format.
00:00:56
Speaker
Yep. definitely know what that is and why we would do it and totally don't just save everything as an excel sheet. I'm Eli sitting across the table from me right now just sort of staring off in the distance not really sure what he's doing.
00:01:16
Speaker
Huh? Oh wait are we doing something today? Oh wait, you're introducing me, right. Hi, I'm Micah.
00:01:28
Speaker
I did realize you were playing into the bit. I legitimately thought you were confused.
00:01:35
Speaker
Oh my goodness. And sitting in sitting behind me in the booth behind me, someone who just got done rolling their brand new 10 pound metal dice across my wooden table.
00:01:52
Speaker
Matt won. Do you know how fun that i would actually be if you had like a 10 pounded dice? Just like, every time you roll the dice, just FUD in the microphone. That would be so fucking awesome.
00:02:06
Speaker
For those who all actually roll... For all those people who for all those people who do roll metal dice you know what i'm talking about Yeah.
00:02:19
Speaker
I wanted to get metal dice, but I also have an unprotected wooden table, so... What about wooden dice on metal dice? Oh, hey! This is the... Actually, we doing small talk? I do want to talk about something, actually.
00:02:31
Speaker
Sure.
Memorial Day Weekend Recap
00:02:32
Speaker
So this is the first time I think I'm recording with my new desk setup. Did I tell you guys about that? No. Well, yeah, you've been telling me it multiple times.
00:02:43
Speaker
Yeah, I know, because I'm so proud of this. I used to work on this little fold-out table, in my camper here but i decided it was enough and i pulled everything out i pulled all the chairs and stuff and i made my own desk i took measurements i bought the wood i cut it up myself nailed it together and it is they have yet to sand it down no the corners are not sanded down it's all sharp and i still need to countersink some of these bolts so it still needs some work but i'm very proud of this new desk i'm on and i
00:03:14
Speaker
I finally have space for all of my monitors and all of my plushes to sit around me.
00:03:19
Speaker
I have a... Yeah, that's really cool. very happy with my new setup. And today is the first time I'm actually getting to record with that setup, and it's so much nicer. So, what am about you guys? What do you guys got interesting going on in your lives?
00:03:33
Speaker
I just roll two, just roll one, back to back. Alright, anyone else? Nope. I got... Well... Over the weekend for... What was it?
00:03:49
Speaker
I'm sorry. I'm a little dumb in the head. What? What holiday was on Monday? I can't remember. Memorial Day. Memorial Day. Thank you. I'm sorry. no. I can't blame you because You don't know how I celebrate. I thought it was Labor Day for some reason, but Labor Day doesn't come until August. No, Labor Day is when we're through packs.
00:04:09
Speaker
I know, I know. or You talked about this yesterday. i know, that's what it was on my mind. god. Like, isn't Memorial Day about death? It's about the veterans.
00:04:20
Speaker
Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry if you're a veteran this I don't know. It's about veterans who gave up their lives and continue in veterans. That makes sense.
00:04:30
Speaker
That'd be crazy have a veteran watching a Pokemon. Anyways, um... So yeah, well I was doing over the weekend since, yeah it was Memorial Day, ah we got an extra day off from work, my family and I went down to a water park for a day and a half.
00:04:46
Speaker
I forgot you did that! i completely and forgot you were out of state! Yeah, I was down, i was over in Idaho for, yeah, a day and a half.
00:04:57
Speaker
Yeah. hey Nice. It was pretty fun. If you saw it in the if you saw it in the art chat the other day, I posted, i went i finally went to Sammy's restaurant.
00:05:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah, you did do that. Yeah. oh yeah I went to Sam's. Oh, hey, I wanted to ask you about that. I know this is this Walcox running a little long, but why were you at a dog pound on vacation?
00:05:22
Speaker
If weren't getting a dog? My sister wanted to stop by there. it was a Just to see the animals? are Yeah, she likes to to puppy hangout.
00:05:33
Speaker
You just go in there and hang out with the puppies there. Oh, we used to have something like that in Germany. Yeah, I know what telling us. Let me actually post a picture, because I got the i a picture of the dog I had. Yeah, you never posted every picture of that dog.
00:05:46
Speaker
His name is Chico, and I love him. Chico? That makes him familiar. It's a boy in Spanish. Oh, that's probably why. Okay. Yeah.
00:05:57
Speaker
Well, um do you guys have anything else or you guys ready to move on?
Movie Discussion: 'Wicked'
00:06:01
Speaker
Oh, I'm gonna be seeing Wicked the movie on Wednesday.
00:06:07
Speaker
are they coming out with new movie? Um, it came out like December or something, but it's returning to the theaters for one night only. That's weird. Any particular reason?
00:06:20
Speaker
It did really well in the box office, so they're bringing it back. If they do really well, they would be able to do more than just a day. There are way more that are way better. Artificial scarcity.
00:06:33
Speaker
So, if they have it just for one day, people are going to go to it more because... Hold on, one second. things are If they wanted to create artificial ah which is a scarcity, then why would they release it on a Wednesday?
00:06:47
Speaker
Look, I don't know. that This is all just guesswork, but that's what my guess is that's going on. I'm very curious about that. i feel like it's like some kind of special that this is Wicked Day or this is Witch Pride Month or something i don't know.
00:07:01
Speaker
Alright, here's the dog. Dog post? Dog post. I don't know. For those listening at home, we're recording today on 1st.
00:07:11
Speaker
Happy Pride Month!
00:07:17
Speaker
Oh, it is first. I thought it was the reason. And the movie is being shown on the fourth, so that's when I'm going to be seeing it.
00:07:30
Speaker
Nice! Alright. Eli, you got anything to add? I just had a cookout at my grandma's house on Memorial Day.
00:07:40
Speaker
had the whole family over to celebrate. It was nice. Yeah, I didn't really do anything to celebrate. I worked. By choice. You celebrated a day off by going to work.
00:07:54
Speaker
They were offering two and a half times pay. Of course I was going to work. I know, I know, I know. Fair enough. Wait, who's running a Memorial Day? What businesses opened during Memorial Day?
00:08:07
Speaker
Military businesses. so There were three other people on their entire campus yesterday. Or not yesterday, on Memorial Day. It was fucking ridiculous. Jake, you forget that Cove works at Military's job.
00:08:18
Speaker
I work under the military. I don't work for the military. Well, yeah. My bad. Yeah. But yeah, Jake, did you do anything cool? No.
00:08:29
Speaker
Alright, moving on And we don't have a move. who No, we have
Episode Recap and Mission Recollection
00:08:35
Speaker
to bring back our old tradition. I don't even remember if we did last episode. We must roll for recap. I did.
00:08:40
Speaker
Okay. It wasn't last episode because that was just me and Evelyn. And then I was just like, you did it. ah Yeah, because half of you guys weren't here. So, Eli and Jake. I hate having to think about, like is your name Walter or Jake? i'm like, goddammit. So, yeah, you guys are exempt from this one. I want everyone else to roll a Everyone else.
00:09:11
Speaker
I don't know when my d4s went. like they They've all vanished. Well, pick a random one over to one and four. if go kind don't work why I thought I was exempt from this. Oh, fuck. I got a three.
00:09:22
Speaker
Okay. Alright.
00:09:26
Speaker
What happened? Oh yeah. Uh, the, hold on. No, not going cheat. I was going to pull up the description on Spotify. I'm not going to Wow. Okay. So what happened?
00:09:38
Speaker
And I'm fine with Eli and Jake. Yes, that's your name. Jake, uh, hearing this because it had no plot relevance. However, it did help move the story along a little bit. Sorry. it helped move the timeline along a little bit. So let the cast move to Ventus city quicker.
00:09:54
Speaker
So what ended up happening last episode, is ah I'm struggling with names Hikaru I genuinely forgot your name Hikaru and Blair went to Ventus City and you guys met an Eevee who was played by Eevee what was his username named Nyx huh oh yeah yeah you met an Eevee named Nyx played by the person Eevee and then this Eevee had a bit of a trouble
00:10:27
Speaker
Did i not s say Nuventus City? No, you just said Ventus City. I thought you meant Nuventus. Yes, Nuventus City. ah You guys met an Eevee who had some trouble. His friend, Ilvis, I'm curious if anyone got that reference, by the way. I got this.
00:10:47
Speaker
I had absolutely no idea. Shebrishitis.
00:10:52
Speaker
You guys were tasked with going to meet Mama Jaralot, deeper in the city, and she tasked you guys with fighting the magical... What did I call it? The magical sunrise one?
00:11:05
Speaker
No, it was the... What was it? Oh, I don't remember.
00:11:11
Speaker
I have it in my notes, but um I don't care that much. It was a flower. A flower that can heal any ailment. so you guys were tasked with going to the top of Mount Kraglspire. And you guys had to travel through the not tunnel of love.
00:11:24
Speaker
It was the tunnel of fun. And you guys went through the mystery dungeon, met some very interesting characters along the way. Got to the top, found the flower, went to the bottom, destroyed some signs, and you guys saved the day.
00:11:40
Speaker
after forget out or ah After finding out that Mama Jarla never needed the flower in the first place. Turns out the flower is actually just a drug that she used for fix that she needed, and she gave you the actual gibrositis remedy.
00:11:56
Speaker
And you guys took that two nicks, healed her up, and off you guys went. I forgot something, though. To the bathroom! I cut that out of the episode. Go to Patreon. Not that! No, you forgot the Lopunny!
00:12:10
Speaker
No. I said you guys found some very interesting characters, so... We brought back a Lopunny, though. Oh, did you guys bring her back? god damn it. Yes, we did. Dandelion's still with us. Wait, what? Did you keep She's still with us. Fuck me, god.
00:12:31
Speaker
What did we miss? We haven't said in the episode that we brought her back yet. Or sent her back to Flameback. I missed Flameback. So she's still with us. I thought you guys weren't sending her to Flameback because it's the stupidest thing you could have done.
00:12:46
Speaker
we said We haven't sent her back to Miss Flameback yet because we haven't told her about it. But we have friend that's Lopony named Dandelion now. oh yeah, a friend. oh ghost why does the What does the Lopony contribute?
00:13:00
Speaker
Why is it stupid? Because it was a joke. It was supposed to be a dumb sex joke. Oh, fucking crazy, guys. Okay, well, I gotta deal with that this episode.
00:13:12
Speaker
so We got all kinds other kind of viewers now. And if... And the thing that Evelyn was talking about got cut out of the episode, so if you want to hear that ridiculous bit, you can go to the Patreon, because that was a bit too much for the episode.
00:13:28
Speaker
So... Alright. and Yeah, after that, you guys went to a hotel and went to sleep. And that is where we're leaving everything. Did I cover everything? Pretty much.
00:13:43
Speaker
Blair went to go shake Nix's hand, and Nix's scratch and the board blew up. Yeah, that's right! We got our ah run a nat 100 on a scratch roll. The world ended last episode. I forgot about that.
00:13:56
Speaker
Yeah. Also, yeah, so, yeah, uh, we had two... You forgot a lot of stuff. a lot of stuff that's pretty important. Apparently so. Yeah, the world ended last episode, so that'll be cool to see what the where we leave off.
Anarud's Graduation and Job Hunt
00:14:10
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I forgot. I ended- when was editing the episode- I told you guys I was gonna do this, I literally just ended the episode with, uh, with, um, Next Season Scratch, and it just the whole world blew up, and that's where the episode ended. Yo, who's this cool Machop in this turtwig- not turtwig, what is it?
00:14:28
Speaker
Tri- I can't think the name. Trico! Trico. Trico! The world blew up, and they got recreated 20 years later. Yeah. Also, I just want to point out, I sent that clip to Anarud, he hasn't responded to me two weeks later. Anarud, I'm so ashamed of you. How could you?
00:14:46
Speaker
hey man, he's busy. He's busy graduating from grad school and trying to find a job now. Oh yeah, I forgot, did he graduate? Yeah.
00:14:57
Speaker
I thought he graduated last year. Oh crap. Okay. I guess I'm wrong on that. He went back to grad school again. Did he fail? what do you mean?
00:15:08
Speaker
No. Oh. He just took a break. Yeah. He either took a break or graduated and went back for another degree. Huh. Okay. Well, that's better then. I don't know the details.
00:15:22
Speaker
Okay. yeah Andrew, if you're listening, we'll miss buddy. Okay. So, um, we have had, what, like, 20 minutes of small talk now? We've already used... Yeah, let's get going.
00:15:35
Speaker
Oh, hey, I guessed it. I wasn't even looking, but yeah, used 20 minutes of small talk. Okay, so, uh, Micah, are you forgetting something? I've got the moves, can you? I'm not. No, it's Micah's job. but We made it created a tradition with Sean, and now it is Micah's turn to take that.
00:15:53
Speaker
Okay. but Let us lunar dance on in. Alright, we are going to dance under the moon. Let us lunar dance on in. La la la.
00:16:03
Speaker
Bruce, am I the only one who didn't catch almost half of that recap?
00:16:10
Speaker
Did you have some audio issues or what mean? No, I just didn't- I could not understand what happened. Yeah, because the last episode was fucking insane. go listen to it.
00:16:23
Speaker
I heard- no met an Eevee, talked to Eevee, who played an Eevee, then we got a Pokemon for just for a certain type of crowd. For a certain type of crowd. Next, me and Bruce are gonna just find a Gardevoir and then bada bing.
00:16:40
Speaker
Oh What's next, a Vaporeon? Oh god, don't go there. So, okay. I love Vaporeon. I love Vaporeon, and I hate that people will do that, but the joke at this is hilarious.
00:16:55
Speaker
Yeah. I think the joke has gotten old. So, um, great. It has gotten old. Okay, so guys, you, uh, What did you... Okay.
00:17:07
Speaker
Did you... Fuck, I can't speak. Okay, I sent you guys, and I know you guys got it. What?
00:17:17
Speaker
Oh. Micah just sent Jake a two and a half hour recap of the last episode. but Yes, I will read i will walk listen to this while we do this.
00:17:28
Speaker
Uh-huh. suggest don't do that. Okay. You guys have been sent, and i know you guys have received the guild information page for your character sheet.
00:17:38
Speaker
So this contains all of the- What the fuck do you mean you don't have it? We just went over this! I'm joking. We went over this for like 30 minutes!
00:17:49
Speaker
I'm joking. I'm joking. God, fuck you!
00:17:55
Speaker
Oh my god! we spent so much time getting this shit set up. Dakota! Dakota! Shut up!
Guild Information and Member Deployment
00:18:01
Speaker
Go narrate! Do your
00:18:06
Speaker
So, this sheet contains all of the information regarding the guild and everything that was introduced in Arc 3, including all of the attributes for the Pokemon you can deploy, the description for all of those attributes, all of your unlocked GBA apps, and your unlocked badge functions.
00:18:26
Speaker
Excuse me. So, I'm not... Excuse me. I'm not going to go over everything all at once because there's a lot of information here. But um we are going to start with Bruce and...
00:18:41
Speaker
Walter, you guys are on the train to Nuventa City. You guys have about an hour left. um It is you, Walter, or sorry, it is Bruce, Walter, and who else did you bring with you?
00:18:53
Speaker
It is at this time I wanted to have you guys decide who you are deploying and where. So I'm going to say that you guys are on your group chat, and you guys as a group of four all get to discuss who are deploying and where.
00:19:07
Speaker
Train on the water, boat on the tracks.
00:19:12
Speaker
Let's see if anyone gets that meme. so um So, you do not have to deploy everyone it doesn't make sense to- Let's bring Alfred. We're not losing anything, we just bring Alfred. Let's bring Alfred. okay Bring Alfred.
00:19:28
Speaker
So, yeah is there anybody you want to bring with you or have deployed? Because not everyone you deploy goes with you. yeah May i make some some suggestions?
00:19:39
Speaker
Yeah, go for it. That's the whole point of us. Okay, also, I'm sorry, Eli, I cut you off. Yeah, I think we should just have Brielle employed like 90% of the time just as moneymaker. ah Yeah.
00:19:56
Speaker
yeah That's just something that we're gonna have to remember to do basically every day is just have her out doing her thing. So yes, Brie is a moneymaker, that is her attribute.
00:20:10
Speaker
This is what it says for moneymaker. She can attempt to do missions once per day. I roll a random mission from the mission board. I roll a d20 and I use my below chart for success rates.
00:20:22
Speaker
Rewards only count for as if one person was doing the mission. So having Brie deployed gives you guys a passive income generation. right. So for those of you who have Excel or are able to edit the sheet, ah you can go ahead and check that sheet is deployed.
00:20:36
Speaker
So hopefully you guys can remind me actually do that because that's going get hairy. So um at this will take effect at the beginning of each day.
00:20:47
Speaker
um So once we are done deciding who's all going to be deployed, will go ahead and roll that. But for now, is there anyone else you would want to bring with you or have deployed doing certain things?
00:21:00
Speaker
For the audience members, we have Veronica, Jeremy, Selena, Abyss, Bree's already deployed, Miss Flameback, and Alfred.
00:21:10
Speaker
I was gonna say, for the hell of it, do we want to bring Selina back? In the abyss? Just so we can watch the scram, the squabble? No, no, no. I feel like... X, X, no, please, no, no. I think the only one that we might want to bring it this point along is Abyss, but that is also problematic for... man, she never told me she was dating....if you know why we're not bringing Selina.
00:21:41
Speaker
Exactly. Um... Well, she never is... No. We don't know their actual, like, relationship status. We just know that Abyss is pissed at Selina. Wow, there's only one way to find out.
00:21:54
Speaker
This is all of us. We don't care enough. tonight i what are we what ah so what are we doing? like are why are we What's going to be the point of deploying them?
00:22:10
Speaker
um They can do certain tasks. like Let's say you want someone to help you track down silver. You can choose one of these guys to attempt to complete a task like that.
00:22:21
Speaker
They're most likely not going to be able to you know track down Silver herself, but you can say try and find like um intel or clues or something. So you can have them if if you have a reason for them, um they can go out and do things like go help me find clues for Silver or something like that.
00:22:43
Speaker
So, you can send them out to do various tasks. If there's like a side quest you want to be completed, you can have them go out and do that. If there's intel you need, they can go do that. So, that is the purpose of sending these guys out.
00:22:56
Speaker
Should we send Walter just to break some legs, break some jaws, get information for us?
00:23:02
Speaker
I do want to say... i do feel like it might be best if we keep the Eeveelution game together anyway. While Bree's making money, the other two can back her up. Just so like, I still feel like going though.
00:23:16
Speaker
They can only be deployed based on their current attributes. Bree is the only one with the moneymaker attribute. I'll just say i was say hereity security for her. Yeah. Yeah. they have Like, Selina can be going out like doing whatever she wants to do Like while at base tries to like watch over those two while Bree's making her money.
00:23:37
Speaker
Okay, so go to do so that is the attribute Abyss has, which is Bodyguard. um yeah so so like yeah I will say, yeah. so you can deploy her to Bree if you want to.
00:23:51
Speaker
Yeah, because... Yeah, just make sure that all three them together because it's better to keep together in a group because and they get ambushed, we not go we're not gonna be able to help them.
00:24:02
Speaker
Okay, gotcha. So you can, uh, Selina has the attribute dirty work and Abyss has the attribute bodyguard. If you deploy them with Bree, I might, uh, for flavor reasons, I might make it so like Bree has a less chance of getting hurt or something, but their attributes will not take effect if they're deployed that way.
00:24:20
Speaker
Yeah, well, at least Brie will be making her money. Abyss will be watching you over her. Selena's just there. Selena could be looking for information why they do this.
00:24:33
Speaker
where Where they are with our underground connections.
00:24:37
Speaker
Hikaru text the group. Oh, its it's it feels weird that we're now, like, ordering them around now. Yeah, I don't... If if we're actually like going to roleplay this, I don't feel like Blair would have much of an input because again, you you guys have all had a lot more experience with this and she doesn't feel like she's...
00:24:56
Speaker
ah She doesn't feel like she has the power to make the decision yet. It's kind of more your guys' job. Walter does not text anything that has anything to do with Selena or Abyss ever whenever he texts in this group chat.
00:25:12
Speaker
he constantly says ah He constantly sends selfies and emojis and nothing else. Yep. Thumbs up Okay. Um, lol. XD. Um, rip. i just That just sounds like Jake in real life.
00:25:28
Speaker
It is. I mean, you don't gotta call me out, but it is.
00:25:33
Speaker
Okay, I kind of figured it wasn't necessarily like us, like Bruce, Hikaru, Blair, Walter doing these decisions. I figured this was going to be coming from Ms. Flameback, just we're deciding as like above board who's going out and doing things.
00:25:56
Speaker
Okay. yeah that's Yeah, I can see that, yeah. yeah This is very much an above board thing, so if you guys want to roleplay it, you guys can call Miss Flameback and provide your reasonings, but I'm letting you guys literally just tick and untick the boxes for them to be deployed and leave it at that.
00:26:12
Speaker
So, you guys can take it either way. Alright. Yeah, that way just feels a little like better, more, it a little bit more in character us. I mean, because it makes sense. Yeah, like Evelyn said, it's, it wouldn't really make a lot of sense for us to be doing final calls for where people go.
00:26:40
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it also makes sense because I was going to say, Ms. Flamingbeck has the attribute leader. ah The leader is the central point of contact contains all intel from all currently deployed guild members.
00:26:52
Speaker
So it makes sense that Ms. Flamingbeck is in contact with all guild members and what they're doing. So it makes sense that she would be, story-wise, the one who is dishing out the orders. And I also do feel like she shouldn't be sent out at all because if we lose her, we lose a major part of this guild.
00:27:09
Speaker
Oh god, can you imagine if Miss Flameback like died or something? So I'm- in my opinion, i feel it'd be best if we keep Miss Flameback and Alfred at the house. Alfred can just bodyguard her and, well, Miss Flameback works for connections.
00:27:25
Speaker
Okay, so are in fact- So everyone else- Sorry, we are in fact sending out Selina Bissenbreeh, correct? Yeah. gotcha. That's where I'm sitting. gotcha What about you guys? Okay, I got those three checked.
00:27:38
Speaker
What do we even do we need a large crowd for a performer? Why would we even need that? don't know. Maybe we'll need it in the future. Who knows?
00:27:50
Speaker
us find out Veronica and Jeremy to go work their magic.
00:27:55
Speaker
Don't say like that. You know what i mean. Just playing back guys. Yeah, sorry. So...
00:28:08
Speaker
Okay, yeah i yeah, I will say um if they do not have a reason to be out, they like 99% of the time won't accomplish anything. So you don't have to have them deploy.
00:28:20
Speaker
I'm thinking of it as like in Arc 4, if not a scratch, where they used Keldeo existing being a rockstar type
00:28:37
Speaker
the it Get the excitement up to lure out the dogs. I figured that would be the type of thing the performers would be doing is just, hey, if we need a big group of people in some certain area for whatever reason, we'd pull them out.
00:28:55
Speaker
Should we... Yeah. are we is that Do we have everyone we need out? Should we get to the actual game? If that is the case, then... I guess if we're in the long term of it, if we are sending the performers out, maybe we should send Abyss with them, but we could do that another time.
00:29:16
Speaker
So everyone besides Veronica and Jami are getting deployed.
00:29:21
Speaker
Well, I'm just playing Black and Alfred, aren't? Well, no, but... We'll send the Evolutions out. Yeah, just send the dog trio. Do you guys have like a crew name for those three?
00:29:33
Speaker
I've just been calling them the Eeveelutions. Um, the Cerberus Squad. I think I called them like, Thelena's Posse or something. Yeah. You guys can create create a crew name for them if you want, because they are they are a crew, so.
00:29:47
Speaker
I mean... Okay, oh let's come back to that. We can spend the next week or so thinking about that in the in the chat. Okay, so... We still need a guild name. Here's some...
00:29:59
Speaker
No! No! What did say? Oh, God. Evelyn! I can't wait to hear that listening back to the audio recording tomorrow. I did not hear what you said.
00:30:15
Speaker
Yeah. That came out totally wrong. we're naming them later. We're naming them later. We're moving on. Yes, let's... So, uh, I really feel like I missed a joke there.
00:30:28
Speaker
Um, you'll, you'll know when I find it because I'll text you guys tomorrow. So, uh, okay. So, um, Bruce and Walter, you guys look up from your phones as a announcer announces arriving at new Venta city.
00:30:41
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The train comes to a stop and the doors open and you guys are, um, introduced to You guys are introduced to a very large city. I described it last episode, so I'm not going to describe it too too much.
00:30:55
Speaker
But it's a very big city, not as big as New Vent- as Wilkenberg. It is a large city with lots of skyscrapers. In front of you, you see Hikaru and Blair waiting on the training platform for you guys.
00:31:10
Speaker
Oh, and also there there's there's yeah there's a looming behind
00:31:18
Speaker
Girls night. Don't say like that. It's girls night. Jesus. Bruce, I'm tempted. Are you in with me? i'm I'm ready to go back into the train.
00:31:31
Speaker
Let's just go back. I'm just going home.
00:31:38
Speaker
Oh, Eli just ah wrote to the group chat. This is funny because in NAS times, New Ventus City was a small town. Well, too late now. Also, by the way... why had crash.
00:31:51
Speaker
had an economic crash Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, 20 years from now. In 20 years, they bulldozed all the skyscraper faces. like Yeah, there was just like, the Great Depression happened, Dust Bowl... The Great Depression?
00:32:09
Speaker
The Great Destruction, World War II, all that happened in 20 years. The Great Depresso. The Great Depresso blows away, um the Dust Bowl blows away the rest of the buildings, and there's just like three buildings left.
00:32:24
Speaker
No. Okay. Shit, I was going to say something. I never did missions for Bree, so I'm going to roll that real quick while you guys are... Oh, fuck.
00:32:37
Speaker
Well, okay, never mind. I'm not making any more rolls. You see that one? Yeah. Oh, Bree, no. Wait, a good thing that's just the roll the mission rank. It is.
00:32:52
Speaker
is. So, the rest I'll do later. Alright. So... I guess we'll take it from here, or, like... What is Blair... Hikaru? Blair? Who's your friend? Oh, okay. We're just jumping right into it. Okay.
Meet Dandelion and Ethical Dilemmas
00:33:10
Speaker
Yeah. He says he goes front of us. Yeah, I think Blair is, like, sitting on one of the benches nearby, sipping on a caramel macchiato from the sauce box again.
00:33:23
Speaker
Just trying to get headache from what had just happened in the last episode, which is like an hour or two or two ago.
00:33:31
Speaker
And likewise, likewise Hikaru is sipping on her second drink. Also. What's she drinking?
00:33:42
Speaker
It's, um... It's like an oat milk drink with, um...
00:33:52
Speaker
Um... Screw it, it's just boba. Sure. She managed to order a really like fancy custom order at the Sausbox that has like fruit jelly, fruit Y'all got this, me and Bruce just got orange just got like apple juice things.
00:34:12
Speaker
Yeah. It just ends up being boba.
00:34:17
Speaker
By the way, this may be pertinent to Bruce and Walter, but you guys were you guys had COVID for a day, which is why you guys stayed home. So, I don't know if you guys... Wait, so did the Lopunny go back with them? Or did... No, the Lopunny's still with us. We never said that the Lopunny was sent back yet. Apparently so.
00:34:39
Speaker
Dandelion's just standing right behind you guys. Who's your friend? Uh, she- I think Dandelion's also sipped you on like a- like a... but Let's just say she's drinking a black coffee.
00:34:51
Speaker
Okay. Uh, cause yeah, we all got drinks after what- where it's just happened with Nyx. But uh... Does Cicara wanna take the lead?
00:35:01
Speaker
Cause Dandelion is her friend. This is the day after. so this is the morning Oh, it's day after. Yes, this is the morning after. I failed to mention that, sorry. Hmm.
00:35:12
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. I think Blair just like looks to Hikaru because well she was your idea.
00:35:20
Speaker
to friend her, that is. She was your idea. Okay. I don't mean to say it in a rude way, but it was her idea to friend her.
00:35:31
Speaker
Walter just straight up whispers to Bruce, is this to boost morale or something? Thank God. I have no idea, but I'm just gonna be a little wary here, you know? just gonna... I mean, we just formed a guild, so are we letting everyone in? Or... Karu, do you want to explain to them why she's here with us?
00:35:54
Speaker
Oh, hey, guys. Um... Hope your train ride was okay. Yeah, so anyway, this- so anyway, this girl here, is she's- her name's Dandelion, and we recruited her in the dungeon that we just went to.
00:36:08
Speaker
You're kidding You went on a dungeon?!
00:36:16
Speaker
Yeah, we kind forgot to tell you, um, we went on a mission to- So you fought! Just to- just to- You got to fight! um've been trying to fight for weeks, and you all keep shutting me down!
00:36:30
Speaker
I'm sorry. well We'll have plenty of opportunities to fight, I'm sure. We got to fight that one duck and it's the wrong culprit. What the heck? But while we were in the dungeon, we realized like i got we as we we do not have good defense. and that's why like we got to we Me and Blair, we gotta train some more.
00:36:54
Speaker
And that's kind of also why we brought Dandelion on. Oh no, Blair was unscathed. Blair was never hit. Oh. Oh, sorry. Yeah. The unfortunate thing was, yeah, I really wanted Blair take some hits from the group, but when the Cubs were rolling for attacks, he never hit Blair.
00:37:15
Speaker
hey the dice don't lie.
00:37:19
Speaker
Well, well, my memories, my memories hazy. it was just like I got knocked out at least once. It was a blur. So yeah, I just don't. Yeah. and Well, what did happen is We were just trying to get some coffee in the morning.
00:37:37
Speaker
ah heard some news about a screaming Nickit. We went to a shop to try and get some message from Nickit.
00:37:48
Speaker
Turns out it was up at that mountain back there. She, like, paws over, like, uh, like, ponds over as like, another lightning bolt strikes the mountain. Uh...
00:38:02
Speaker
Uh, yes, we had to go up there. We got a flower to help cure the nicket. And on the way, we found this little pony named Dandelion.
00:38:15
Speaker
And she decided to come with us. And, well, we don't have to fight everything. So... Huh. She kind of shrugs. So... I don't want to be rude, but...
00:38:31
Speaker
We're just letting in everyone we meet immediately if they just help us. No background, no trust. Just, yo, you fought us one time, you helped us.
00:38:42
Speaker
We're cool. That is kind of generally how it works with the the whole guild thing. that The badge kind of makes things weird.
00:38:59
Speaker
More or less how this works. But have I'm like, one of the things, we got a special mission. Yeah, but I don't think we're, like, necessarily... I mean, we don't have to let her... She starts whispering to... We don't have to let her in on everything.
00:39:21
Speaker
It's just... She can help us out with a few things. like It's kind of like... I don't know. I think in these, like... spy movies they have like different levels of like you know classified documents like top secret secret confidential like she might just pass she might have like the low she might we have top secret clearance but she probably just has like the lowest clearance you know what i mean bruce pulls out his gba and points to it like he's gonna start texting on it and we should be texting this instead of speaking out loud
00:39:56
Speaker
I was also gonna say, yeah, it might make sense to... Okay, we're just gonna have to be very careful to let my mom know exactly how much everyone that we end up recruiting knows so that she knows not to tell them too much when we send them back to base.
00:40:20
Speaker
We probably should have your mom do a background text, background search on anyone we try to let join. I was going to do that, but right before nix and I were splitting, I got a massive splitting headache. like The entire world had just collapsed in on me.
00:40:43
Speaker
almost felt like I got sick too with everything that just happened. You had one of those experiences too? I think that... think, like, the two of us, since we you know since we know Dandelion personally, we can we can try to befriend her and see if she's trustworthy, but and then we can report back to Miss Flameback, and she can kind of assess from afar if, you know, if Dandelion, you know, deserves the clearance.
00:41:16
Speaker
Yeah. Alright, so Dandelion's gonna be traveling with us for now then? Question mark, question mark, question mark. Yeah.
00:41:29
Speaker
Kinda like she's, i don't know, interviewing or something? Okay. A work trial?
00:41:38
Speaker
Give side-eyed Dandelion...
00:41:43
Speaker
And she shrugs. She shrugs back at you. Hikaru walks back over to Dandelion. um Sorry, guys. we're don't worry Don't worry about us. Don't worry about them. we you know We are... mean, we're just trying to figure out how to integrate you with the rest of the team.
00:42:03
Speaker
It's not a big deal. I... and To be perfectly honest, I'm not even sure why I'm here. I just you you really charmed me with that badge of yours and now like I'm here and very confused if I'm gonna be honest.
00:42:20
Speaker
Well, you know you don't i have to join right?
00:42:25
Speaker
I'm joined what you guys your party? I don't know.
00:42:33
Speaker
Yeah, Blair and Hikaru, I don't think I ever did explain to her why she's here. What did y'all do to this poor girl? You guys rolled to recruit her, recruitharse you succeeded, but never really gave her reason why she was following So she's just mindlessly following you without reason. I think it's because we ran out of time.
00:42:53
Speaker
ran out of time. story-wise, there's no reason for her to be there.
00:42:58
Speaker
Hmm. Um, well, she starts texting- Hikaru starts texting the group again. she might- Again, she can just travel with us, right?
00:43:11
Speaker
yeah she can. She doesn't have to really be part of the guild. I just want to point out that there's a visual- of you guys are all just typing- Oh, excuse me. You're typing on your GBAs while Dandelion's just watching you. You guys just met up. You guys stared at each other, started typing on your phone.
00:43:26
Speaker
Spoke a couple sentences, went back to typing on your phone. Blair is making small talk with... or Blair is having a chat with Dandelion right now. Okay. Because, yeah again, she doesn't feel like she's... She doesn't feel like she has the power to like make that type of decision.
00:43:43
Speaker
This isn't me being lazy, but Blair just does not feel like she's...
00:43:49
Speaker
Yeah. She feels like you guys are the higher ups right now. Hikaru's texting still. um Yeah, I think that, like, you know, we... It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, actually. i After I got knocked out, we got, like, attacked by, what, three or four different enemies?
00:44:09
Speaker
And I got knocked out, and when I came to, i was, like, I was thinking, you know, it would be nice to have some more Pokemon on our side. At least just to travel us. At least to, like...
00:44:21
Speaker
You know, travel with us while we're traveling and visiting dungeons and stuff. Especially because we're facing off against like pretty tough, you know, pretty tough bad guys.
00:44:34
Speaker
who'd you think?
00:44:39
Speaker
How tough could they be? They ran away. mean, they're a psychic type, so that they're an evolved psychic type, they can probably beat you up pretty nicely.
00:44:51
Speaker
I'll just turn her into a little ditto. Or a little caterpillar. With a
00:44:58
Speaker
Oh yeah, forgot you had that.
00:45:03
Speaker
Sorry, you have what? The transformation orb. Oh yeah, he does have that. What does that do again? I don't remember. It's basically polymorph. Oh, god. And it's permanent.
00:45:18
Speaker
No, I don't think you pick. You roll a d for 1,000. Yeah. It's random. Yeah, it is random. D6. Okay. So if I throw out a canopy, Arceus could come out.
00:45:30
Speaker
if i go the caty aius come out
00:45:35
Speaker
Yeah, that wouldn't be problematic and have other implications that change the course of the world in any way. think there's some limitations. No, you s simply roll a... Okay, here's what think you did with the that orb.
00:45:51
Speaker
Roll a D1000. It's like, what? How many Pokemon are there? Like, 1025? There's 1168 different variants. one thousand one hundred and sixty eight different variants Yeah, did you do that.
00:46:03
Speaker
You roll that and then re-roll if you get legendary. Yeah. Okay, yeah so for the sake of storytelling, um you guys are texting and stuff. Are you guys deciding to keep her or what are you guys doing?
00:46:18
Speaker
vote to keep her. Yeah, Bruce has accepted the group's willingness to keep her around and...
00:46:30
Speaker
is just like... warily...
00:46:35
Speaker
allowing it. guess like... Yeah, yeah, he doesn't trust her, but like... the rest of the group seems fine with her, so... Ah, Walter is not... Walter is... certain Walter is dead-painted, like,
00:46:51
Speaker
hmm... Something fishy is happening. don't trust her. Okay. So... Um, I will remind you guys, your mission here in Uventa City is to is to find the trash thieves.
00:47:06
Speaker
Right. Trash thieves? What? Right, we're searching for the airs we'll the trash. right, right, right, right.
00:47:15
Speaker
Um, Aniline, do you have, like, low kick or something? her Uh, I have submission. Submission? for character Yes, you have submission.
00:47:28
Speaker
What type is that, fighting? Fighting. Yeah. Ah, okay. You should be good. um we're We're trying to go after an Ursa Ring that stole something important from us.
00:47:38
Speaker
um You think you'd be able to help us out with that?
00:47:44
Speaker
I mean, I'm following your command, so yes, I will do whatever you want. It is clear to you guys at this point that there's definitely not something right about this love playing.
00:47:56
Speaker
Yeah, i was gonna say, with that coming, Blair's little thrown off. You mind control the poor sucker.
00:48:06
Speaker
Oh. Is it because from a dungeon? i was gonna say, like as soon as she says that, Blair kind of blar cast the shoots her a look. It's like, what?
00:48:21
Speaker
What you talking about? Do you remember anything from before you met these two? You talking to Dandelion? Yeah. Uh... I mean... Yeah, used to I think there was, like, a cave? Something like that there was a cave?
00:48:40
Speaker
Did y'all erase their memories? That's
00:48:45
Speaker
really remember. Mmm... Yeah. Blair just shoots the group a very concerned look. Bruce pulled out his DBA again and texts, yeah, so maybe we shouldn't try to recruit people who've been corrupted by Mystery Dungeons.
00:49:02
Speaker
Seems like it's not true. You're kidding me. That's how you recruited her? asking her story. Yeah,
00:49:17
Speaker
I mean...
00:49:19
Speaker
uh we're not exactly like we don't have exactly ordering her around we're just kind of i felt like we were just you subjugated her mind she has no choice is that what the badge does looks like it
00:49:38
Speaker
Seems like that has is something like that going on when it happens to something corrupted by a Mystery Dungeon. Because we know that Mystery Dungeons create the enemies that we have to fight by corrupting their minds in some way.
00:49:59
Speaker
So that the recruitment with the badge might further mess with the mind of the Pokémon that's been corrupted by a Mystery Dungeon. Hikaru's mouth is just wide open. She's speechless.
00:50:16
Speaker
So y'all basically- blair also Blair is also riding us down. of her body and
00:50:23
Speaker
ah want you guys- I want Blair, I want you to roll a history check, which is smart. You bet. All right. You gotta get the ketchup off my fingers. I'm gonna eat hot dogs.
00:50:35
Speaker
Alright. okay My dad came in with dinner, okay? My dad knew I was a recording, so he came in with dinner for me. Okay. Alright. I'm hungry, okay?
00:50:48
Speaker
Alright. Okay, so that's 17 plus 2 19. seventeen plus two for a nineteen Okay, so bla Blair has read stuff about Pokemon in Mystery Dungeons.
00:51:01
Speaker
You know that Mystery Dungeons not only change the variants of the dungeon itself, like all the walls and stuff, but they also create life forms within them to protect whatever, ah to protect the dungeon itself.
00:51:15
Speaker
it is I beg your pardon? It should be clear to you that this Lopunny was generated to protect Kraglespire. By taking Pokémon out of the place that it was solely created to protect, it suddenly has
00:51:52
Speaker
I didn't do anything! Oh no! gotta finish writing that down. Give me one second before Blair has a conniption.
00:52:12
Speaker
they were just wild. Above board, I thought they were just wild Pokemon. Yeah, so me too! that's what they are in, like, the actual Mystery Dungeon games, is they're literally just Pokémon who wandered into the dungeon that then got corrupted by the dungeon. Or just live in the dungeon.
00:52:35
Speaker
oh, there's say a book so there's a book series by Brandon Mull. What's it called? It's a five-part series by Brandon Mull. Hold on. Um... announced the minute How to Corruptive Pokemon's Mind 101.
00:52:50
Speaker
Give me a second. Okay, Jake. The Five Kingdoms. in And there's a book series called The Five Kingdoms by Brandon Mull.
00:53:01
Speaker
um There's these castles that float around that are created by like this cloud wall. I feel like some of our audience members might know this book series. Let me know if you do. But it's a book series I've read, and these castles were created by this cloud wall that float from one side to the other, and they have entities that are generated with them specifically made to protect that.
00:53:23
Speaker
That's kind of how I'm treating these Mistser Dungeons, I guess. So...
00:53:29
Speaker
long with That is sad, dude. So, perhaps you have taken out one of these entities from their their sole purpose, and they suddenly have no purpose anymore.
00:53:42
Speaker
i will also... No, you guys don't know that yet. i won't say that. Well, Blair might know. but No, Blair would not know. Well... You know, she is a person. i mean, she's kinda just like us in a way.
00:54:00
Speaker
Like, even though she was...
00:54:05
Speaker
Hot on mic. Even though she was probably created by the dungeon? That doesn't mean like she could discover her new purpose by traveling with us.
00:54:21
Speaker
Uh, well, um... I guess Blair would also i just say this through. It's a possible thing. Um, I... She was created for the sole purpose of creating the dungeon.
00:54:34
Speaker
Or protecting the dungeon. If a Pokemon, while inside of it, is taken out of it, they no longer serve a purpose and they are basically mined... They basically become puppets to whoever took them out.
00:54:49
Speaker
I... I wish I had known this sooner. Because I don't feel comfortable with this anymore. Yeah, that doesn't feel right to me either.
00:55:04
Speaker
you just learn about it?
00:55:08
Speaker
I... It's hard to explain. i we should You can just say that you just remembered it during the conversation. Do you... Walter, do you ever have those times where you are doing something and you have a moment of realization that you remember doing something like years ago or a random piece of information?
00:55:28
Speaker
Ow. My head's been damaged so much I don't remember much past few years.
00:55:36
Speaker
But what a treat. Remember like Joey Trashman before? How he has sparked into your memory? When was last time you were in the direction of the game?
00:55:47
Speaker
I knew about him, but knew about him. I just never brought him up. He never needed to be known. Yes, and now this... Basically, i just I just remembered it. And I wish I remembered sooner.
00:56:02
Speaker
And I'm sorry. I'm not sure what to do with her now. But if we, if we like- What are you do? Take her out like a wild dog? A wild, what a dog. I was gonna say, Blair is just like, I hear it.
00:56:18
Speaker
She is kind of a dog.
00:56:22
Speaker
If we release her though, is she gonna be able to find her way back? Or like- Why we just drop her off in the, on the place that you her from? We might have to bring her back. It's a pretty long way from here.
00:56:36
Speaker
Well,
00:56:39
Speaker
So, just because it's long, we can't return someone from someone we mind-corrupted and made soulless?
00:56:48
Speaker
I mean... It sounded like... I mean... I don't know. I'm still optimistic. like in our In our culture, they they teach us that everyone has a soul, regardless of whether they... you know...
00:57:10
Speaker
whether that soul is like fully you know realized or not like maybe it's just
00:57:27
Speaker
well get maybe sounds like it would take little bit a while don't you just give her a map, the way back to where the thing was? Just give her a map and she can make her way there. She looks conscious enough. Hikari, you believe it's our place to help her in where she has to become her own person?
00:57:49
Speaker
To help her? I mean, we or I feel like we i mean, I feel like we have a lot...
00:57:59
Speaker
We have to save the universe. We have to focus on our mission of space-time rifts, figuring out that stuff. But, like... I see. It doesn't... I don't know. I feel really torn about this.
00:58:12
Speaker
i feel like... Okay. Can I have a map to where this thing was? Because I don't want to treat... You know I don't want to, like, take her... Like, drag her around if she's not going to have any autonomy.
00:58:24
Speaker
Maybe... Okay, okay. Here. Here. Here's what i think we should do. We should take her back for now and later on, if we are able to, we can come back for her. If she's still here.
00:58:37
Speaker
So should we keep her like on the team but just send her to the dungeon?
00:58:44
Speaker
I think we should send her back home. She's gonna vanish! She should go back to the natural order. Can we use the badge to send her back? No, because the badge only takes her to Flameback's.
00:58:58
Speaker
Yeah. I have a definition for the badge, I will actually read off now. And I'm sure Ms. Flameback is going to have plenty of questions why we sent Lopunny mysteriously to her. so If you want, I was going to say Blair could just walk her back. The definition for the badge is it can teleport yourself and others back to the guild and can teleport back to your previous location with a one-hour time limit.
00:59:23
Speaker
That's been used up already. Has it been more than an hour since we left the dungeon? Uh, yes. This is the next day. It's been like 12 hours. Shoot. Oh.
00:59:35
Speaker
So, yeah. Blair is offering to take her back to the dungeon and she'll drop her off there. If we want to do that. That works. Um, should go with- We're okay with killing people. this is This has made our morale choice.
00:59:50
Speaker
We're okay with murdering them, but taking them out. Oli, you're okay with murdering them! was never okay with murdering... mean, when we go to the dungeon store, we can kill them. Yeah, but it's all self-defense. We're not killing the vocalizing dungeons, we're knocking them out. Yeah, we don't try to kill them, right?
01:00:12
Speaker
Wait, who said? Bruce, your phone starts to ring. And you see it is Miss Flameback. and She's got a tracker. Why haven't you made it back yet?
01:00:23
Speaker
bru Bruce just walks away a little bit from the group and answers the phone. Uh, it's Mistflameback, obviously, and she's like, uh, hey Bruce, just checking in, seeing how your mission's coming along.
01:00:37
Speaker
Uh, haven't heard back from you for a bit. Yeah, so we made it to New Ventus City. Uh, Hikaru and Blair got here before Walter and I, because we were sick, apparently.
01:00:53
Speaker
And, uh, They met us at the train station with a Lathany that they recruited from a dungeon they went into. Uh, we're not entirely sure what to do.
01:01:08
Speaker
Yeah, Miss Flameback's like, wait, wait, from a dungeon? Like a dungeon Pokemon?
01:01:15
Speaker
Yeah. Oh no. She puts her hands in her face and like, goddammit. So, do you guys know how dungeons work? Uh, Can you point me towards the rest of the group? I'll talk with everyone. Hey, hey, don't look don't look at me and Bruce. based This was their true decision, not us.
01:01:32
Speaker
Yeah, Blair just explained it to us. It seems like she just remembered herself, how it works. Yeah, that You'd think a librarian would remember all this stuff.
01:01:44
Speaker
Okay, so what's- Blair just holding her head down to shame. Yeah, Blair, what do you know about dungeons?
01:01:52
Speaker
You want the real history for that, actually? Um, no, because based on previous conversation, you would not have figured this out. Yeah, okay. remember Well, I don't actually know all too much. I know that... ah do know that they are randomly generated, that the Pokemon inside are also generated fit the dead shit to protect it,
01:02:18
Speaker
Um, my knowledge of the dungeons are very limited at the moment. Okay, so... I That's... but that's the thing. Dungeons randomly generate.
01:02:29
Speaker
Where do you think that matter comes from? Matter cannot be created or destroyed. So when a new person enters a dungeon, it resets the dungeon, rearranging all the matter in that dungeon to form a new dungeon.
01:02:42
Speaker
This includes the Pokemon inside the dungeon. Since I hear you guys have been traveling around with a Pokemon from a dungeon, what you will find out soon enough that the person who enters the dungeon next will trigger a reset on the dungeon, and your friend here, being part of the dungeon, will cease to be and become part of the dungeon once again.
01:03:07
Speaker
I thought you were about to say the person that goes in there is about to become the dungeon. What the heck?
01:03:15
Speaker
The law of mutual exchange! Does this have any... Does this have anything to do with the space-time rifts? Uh, not as far as I'm aware. That's just how dungeons work.
01:03:28
Speaker
You've noticed that this person here, she gestures towards Dandelion, is probably mindless, right? I mean, she's just kind She said she's just, like, following... just gonna do what we want her to do, but we... i don't know. I treat her with respect all the same, as if she was one of us.
01:03:48
Speaker
That's a good sentiment to live by, but this Pokemon has no intelligence. It is an intelligence created by the dungeon itself. So... There's no thinking going on behind those eyes.
01:04:03
Speaker
It is only protect the dungeon and that is her only purpose. Once the next person enters that dungeon, she will disappear into a fine mist going back towards the dungeon.
01:04:17
Speaker
Did you use the badge on her? We did.
01:04:24
Speaker
badge is meant to be used for to mark people to be part of the guild that that you guys find trustworthy and able to help our cause. You can't go around recruiting random people in the dungeons that you see just randomly.
01:04:38
Speaker
That's kind of recent! This what- Say you find- Say you find a history professor that knows about these timelips. That's a valid candidate to recruit into the guild.
01:04:49
Speaker
A random mindless Pokemon from a dungeon isn't someone you can bring onto the guild.
01:04:56
Speaker
Yeah, but it's not like she's untrustworthy. This is weird. We're the ones being responsible to today. If she's you know if she goes through thing sure she can't think for herself, she can't betray us. mean, no offense to her.
01:05:13
Speaker
She's just gonna vanish. There's no reason to keep her anyway. She's gonna vanish in like an hour. There's no harm in her existing right now, because like you said, she's not going to remember anything and she is just going to vanish. But she's not a real Pokémon. Not as you know it, not as you are.
01:05:32
Speaker
She is an apparition. She's like a philosophical zombie? Basically. So, my suggestion is let her wander the streets of Nuventa City and the problem will take care of itself.
01:05:51
Speaker
da I know it's kind of harsh, but it's an unfortunate situation you guys have found yourselves in. If that's what we have to do... mean... I just don't want her to turn on us as soon as we release her. She can't. She doesn't have the cognitive ability to know right from wrong.
01:06:10
Speaker
She... wouldn't be able to. if She doesn't have that intelligence.
01:06:18
Speaker
Yeah, but like when as soon as the as soon as you enter the dungeon, they attack you. Yeah, that because that's what they're programmed for. The dungeons were made to protect one thing or another. That dungeon, i don't know what you guys were doing in a dungeon, but it was probably something that it was protecting, right?
01:06:37
Speaker
Something... mean, don't know, the flowers? The flowers?
01:06:44
Speaker
Um, we brought back flowers from the dungeon. Okay. Well, maybe the dungeon was protecting the flowers. And that's why the dungeon exists.
01:06:55
Speaker
Uh, I will, above board, remind you the flower was outside the dungeon. Yeah, it was at the end of the dungeon. Also, I just remembered it's called the Daydream Flower. Daydream Flower. Thank you. Yeah.
01:07:08
Speaker
So, yeah, Miss Flameback's like, well, just... I don't know, send her out, tell her to go wander into the wasteland or something, I don't know. and we should bring her to the- we should bring her to like, i don't know, a fun place in New Ventus. Just give her an ice cream cone and tell her to wait!
01:07:27
Speaker
yeah or just like, just just take her there and just let her like let her wander the museum and get a taste of like, just enjoy life well as you can. Then there's gonna be cameras us entering with the Pokemon.
01:07:39
Speaker
And then moments later, the Pokemon just vanishing. Are there chances? I don't think there's video surveillance. All right, then security guards are going to see us do this.
01:07:52
Speaker
They're gonna see her vanish? I don't think you guys understand. They'd see us walk in with her and then leave her there and we all just wander around the museum and then leave. It's like child abandonment.
01:08:06
Speaker
What a kid being a child. She's a full-grown Lopini. Let's leave her. A person will probably come up and want to take and probably try to make friends with her.
01:08:19
Speaker
I don't think you guys understand. Can you listen? She doesn't have any intelligence. She doesn't have the ability to taste. She doesn't have the ability to appreciate art. She's not a person as you know her. She is the semblance of a person for the intent of fooling those who enter dungeons.
01:08:37
Speaker
That is her sole purpose. She does not have the ability to feel art. She's a robot. Flera's been... Flera's been holding... No one knows what a robot is. Flera's been holding up her paw for the past few minutes. She doesn't feel like she should... I'm sorry.
01:08:56
Speaker
Can I just take her back? I don't feel like this is moral to be doing any of this. I think it's not our best that we just take her back so she'll be there for whoever resets the dungeon.
01:09:09
Speaker
I just like that's the best way to go about it If it makes you feel better, you can take the time to bring her back to her dungeon. She'll return there anyway, so there's no harm in doing so.
01:09:21
Speaker
I guess so. But we're already on a timer. Seems like the best plan. What? How's that best plan? We could just leave We need to find the thing!
01:09:33
Speaker
got stolen! Blair can take her back, and the rest of us can go search for... The Ursaring that we're looking for.
01:09:47
Speaker
I wanna fight! It's the first Pokemon I have a good chance against with type advantage! No. I will say you guys should not split the party. I'm just kidding you guys. earn nothing will change Nothing will change if you
01:10:02
Speaker
So, just don't split the party. Make this harder for myself. Nothing will change if you guys decide leave the Listen, bring and she can just not talk. And then she'll just vanish out nowhere.
01:10:14
Speaker
Like, she could just be gone one of these times. And if that'll make you happy, we could just keep her with us until she just vanishes. Whatever you guys want to do, just... The problem will take care itself eventually. So do what you guys must.
01:10:27
Speaker
But have you guys found anything about the trash robbery?
01:10:32
Speaker
Uh, we know that it was... they' Actually, you... it Does Miss Flameback know that it's an Earth Ring that did it above board? Yes. She knows everything that you guys know right now. and is Okay. yeah So, no. We we have gotten to the city that they were going to, and then this happened.
01:10:56
Speaker
I see. Okay. Well, I'll leave you guys be. Um, I'm sorry for all this trouble and I'm glad I could clear some things up, but... Alright, I'll see you later.
01:11:07
Speaker
Look what Jake just posted.
01:11:12
Speaker
Fuck them kids. Okay. Sorry. For context, Jake just posted a gif of, uh, Kafeeki throwing a Simba off the cliff. Rafiki.
01:11:27
Speaker
Rafiki. That's funny. Listen, they're saying that this is what happens when you, like, see a little abandoned child. I'm not throwing a kid off a cliff!
01:11:40
Speaker
This is one kid or the universe. I'm going the universe. oh Okay. So with that, Miss Flameback hangs up the phone. and You guys all heading to the dungeon.
01:11:53
Speaker
Blair wants to go back to the dungeon just to take her home. Yeah. was I'm not just going to fight. um want to fight. ah want to pox. and we Is there a way that we can search for the time on the way to
Encounter with Robbers and Explosive Chaos
01:12:07
Speaker
the dungeon? Because like e but we'll have to travel through town to get to the dungeon, right?
01:12:13
Speaker
Roll an investigation for me now, and i will tell you what you find along the way. Walter just starts so funny as soon as they get into dungeon. Perception. Make a perception. Perception. Beauty. Sorry. Okay. Do you want everyone to roll?
01:12:26
Speaker
No, just Eli. Yeah, 4-2 plus 2. That's a 6-2. Alright, that works for the group. I rolled for myself, because I thought we might be rolling all together, and i rolled natural 1, so that's good we're not doing my roll.
01:12:38
Speaker
Okay, yeah so you guys are heading back to Mt. Kragelspire. After a little bit, um Eli, since you're the one who rolled it, Bruce hears... A cracking noise?
01:12:50
Speaker
And then an explosion as the building to your right collapses into the street in front of you guys. This huge four-story building just destroyed in front of your guys' eyes.
01:13:03
Speaker
As a Garchomp, a Dragonair, a Shelgon rush out into the street holding big bags of money. What the- Okay, so... big big robbery going on. Quick! Beat them and take the money! And return the money, is what you mean to say.
01:13:26
Speaker
Some of the money! Most of the money, not all of the money. None of the money!
01:13:36
Speaker
but we'll see how things go out. Shall we roll initiative? Can- blair what can Blair roll Investigation for their uh- for their Pokemon level? Um... I think there's an IQ- I think there's an IQ skill for that, so you'd have to use that IQ Is that IQ skill?
01:13:54
Speaker
think so. Oh, I was gonna see if I could Dragon Ball scatter this. Oh, no, but they are run- they see you and are running away from you. Um, I want someone roll little perception.
01:14:05
Speaker
Oh, I can do that. um Whoever's best at perception. Who wants to do it? he charge got a plus two I've also got a plus two. For beauty... Beauty, I'm straight.
01:14:24
Speaker
got a 6-0 for that one. what' i got What's that ability called? 21? Alright. You notice that the Dragonair looks behind themselves for for a split second?
01:14:36
Speaker
and they do a double take as they see you and then they quickly turn away and start hurrying even faster. Wait. Question. You said Dragonair. Yes. Is it Dragonair or Dragonknights? It is, uh, got a Shelgon, a- that's Dan Lime. Uh, a Shelgon, a Dragonair, and a Garchomp.
01:14:54
Speaker
Okay. These are- you also- you also- sorry. You also see the Dragonair whispering to the Garchomp as they're running. Or talking to them, I guess. Can't really whisper while running.
01:15:05
Speaker
I don't feel like that's a good idea. Because that's ah that a Garchomp. That's a fully evolved Pokemon. I mean... it's a round type, which is not great for half of us.
01:15:18
Speaker
two of these dynamites can take them out. I can do a maximum of 200 damage just with these two. That's probably fire damage, which they're all resistant to.
01:15:29
Speaker
No, it's explosive damage. Dakota, what's the damage type on the dynamite? I think Blast Seeds do type damage. It is considered untyped. Yeah. Okay, and so it has no type.
01:15:42
Speaker
It's just straight damage. What is your range? Get over here! This feels morally great. morally cra what explosion range?
01:15:53
Speaker
It should be 50 feet. So, I don't know how Blair feels about this, because we'd be soli- Okay. This feels morally great. We'd be solving a robbery with domestic terrorism.
01:16:05
Speaker
Sorry, I just love the visual. We blew up a whole town block. Are you- are you think this is bad? Blair wasn't there for that. yeah day Well, Blair's gotta get used to this.
01:16:16
Speaker
Can I paint a visual? Can I paint a visual? You guys see some robbers running down the street and Walter's first idea is to vaporize them with TNT. Plus, if you did that, that would destroy all the money. no, not the money! Well, he wants the money!
01:16:37
Speaker
I don't know if we can take him. I mean... They do look scared of us. Um, can I roll something to see if I recognize them?
01:16:48
Speaker
Wait, is that the Dragonair we got to help with the fire? Is that the Garchomp we had help with the fire? That was a Feraligatr, I thought. No way. No, it was a Garchomp because it was a Lifeguard. That was a Lifeguard in Gale Beach. What would they be doing? i mean, they see they look like they recognize us. they By the way, the longer you guys talk, the further they- I'm running after them! I said i was running after them. They- part one. Okay.
01:17:12
Speaker
Okay. Can I roll and see if I recognize them? Uh, sure. Go ahead roll a D, uh, a insight? What would that Perception. Insight.
01:17:23
Speaker
Yeah, i think- Let's go with insight. It would either be really or smart. Yeah, that's just good beauty. I just love seeing that, Rai, you're leaving a Terminator run. 18 plus two, 18. 18. Yeah!
01:17:34
Speaker
I do not recognize any of them. Then why are they scared at seeing us? Yeah, we're running. That's pretty much an insight check. We're going to throw all to at least for running after them.
01:17:47
Speaker
If they're running, then Blair's following. I mean, I'll run after them, but I don't want to fight them. don't Yeah, want to fight either, but I was- Uh, Blair's making sure that Dandelion's following.
01:17:59
Speaker
That she isn't like, walking off. Yeah, she's there. Oh good, so we could use the meat shield. No!
01:18:09
Speaker
No, I don't care anymore, Walter is a neutral evil character. the He's chaotic evil. He's a guy who's gotta do what he's gotta do to get the job done to save the world.
01:18:23
Speaker
He saw me in thievery with terrorism! Hey, he saw Guerrera from Star Wars. No!
01:18:32
Speaker
okay holy cow vote Okay, so you guys are running after them. The Garchomp double takes back and looks at you and he stops running and yells for the others to stop running as well.
01:18:44
Speaker
He looks back and he's like, you o You guys are the ones we were set to deal with, aren't you? you you're You're Bruce, right? ah No, he's Felipe. What if I am?
01:18:57
Speaker
He's Felipe.
01:19:00
Speaker
He pulls out a piece of paper from his pocket, he ah reads something off of it and steps back in. He cracks his knuckles and he's like, well, I guess I better take care of this now, eh? I chuck a TT. oh Okay.
01:19:13
Speaker
Are you actually chucking TNT? Can I light it from from Bruce's back? Yeah. No! then i'm Then I'm chucking it. Okay. I want to see everybody run. Alright.
01:19:27
Speaker
I'm making a way to our blast zone. It's not going to hit us. I'm grabbing Walter by the scrub of his neck like ah like a cat. Like a mother cat grabs a kitten. Too late. I threw it. He didn't know I was going to it.
01:19:41
Speaker
I threw it. well As soon as he throws it, I'm grabbing him and running back. I'm using double team. I'm using quick attack. I'm also using quick attack to get away, but I'm grabbing Walter.
01:19:54
Speaker
Okay, you guys are all out of the blast range. You hear sizzling as as the explosives blast. 10d10. That's a fly sphere. And I'm going roll a d20. Or no, I need you to roll a d20 for accuracy. Impossible crit.
01:20:10
Speaker
Dakota?
01:20:14
Speaker
um dakota What? Dude, that's 20. That's 20. twenty Oh no. oh That's 20 d10. So, I need you to point out that this is a 10 d10 attack with a blaster radius, so it'll hit all of them for full damage.
01:20:32
Speaker
So, the way crits work is you take max damage and add a dice on it, so that's 100 damage plus 5. So... Huh.
01:20:45
Speaker
The TNT- 100 damage plus 10 defense? Listen, don't- I'm sorry if this is bad, but if we fought them face to face, we were gonna get destroyed.
01:20:56
Speaker
so if I remember you have- How many- how many bundles of TNT do you have, Walter? I only threw one, and I have- let's see, i have 10 bundles of TNT. I only threw one. Oh my god. So I've got nine. So here, I can- Jake, do you want me to roll the D10s for you real quick? sense says Well, they're max, so... No, there's no point. It's max damage. It's max damage. It's 100. just rolled a D10 for 5.
01:21:19
Speaker
So it's 105 damage. So the TNT soars through the air, and it lands at the ground at the robber's feet, and you just hear a kablam for the second time, and they are nowhere to be seen.
01:21:34
Speaker
They are gone. They're so piles where they were. And falling from the sky is a piece of paper. How the paper survive? Oh no, please tell me it's not. Help him. The paper survived the blast?
01:21:49
Speaker
but Yeah. And... here. This is what you guys see. I posted it in our group chat. Oh, oh. Can't see that. Um, orders to capture the troublesome crew, including a Pikachu, a Munchlax, a Raluulu, and a Cintaquil.
01:22:07
Speaker
Bring them back to HQ. If you capture it, if capture is impossible, HQ, you have permission to kill. All right.
Post-Explosion: Distribution of Rewards
01:22:17
Speaker
Okay. Let's talk about XP. yeah Blair was gonna ask you guys if you guys had any beef with these people, but then Walter immediately chucks a fucking dynamite and Blair's fire flight kicked in So, Dakota?
01:22:35
Speaker
What? How's the XP? Shut No, no, no, you guys did. you guys did. You guys get XP for that. Where's the worth some money? Where's the bags of money? I was gone! I was gone or they was like burning alive.
01:22:50
Speaker
It is. Okay, so I want all... So, here's what's happening. It is now raining money. Oh, no. And there are people... I'm still holding Walter. I'm still holding Walter my ah by the scruff of his neck.
01:23:04
Speaker
There are people flocking the streets to grab at money left and right. I need all of you guys to roll me a d20. Uh, sure. If you guys have a speed move, you guys can roll with advantage.
01:23:18
Speaker
Nice. Oh, I have Quick Attack. I also have Quick Attack. Wait, uh... Oh, wait, uh... Not 20! Not 20! I have Quick Attack. I got Quick Attack, too. Oh, I only got a 15 in total.
01:23:31
Speaker
that's
01:23:34
Speaker
Oh, you got two net Okay, okay, okay, that's 45. So that's 40, 55, 51. I'm using Quick Attack and Double Team while still holding you Walter in by the scrub of his neck. Okay, okay, okay. So we got, uh, 55 plus Evelyn's 16, so that's 65, 71.
01:23:50
Speaker
You guys, collectively get 7,100 Poké.
01:23:56
Speaker
sixty five seventy one you guys ah collectively get seven thousand one hundred poke 7,100? Whoa. Dang. I can imagine how I'm going to say this is how much.
01:24:12
Speaker
Walter, you get 1,000. Everyone else, you guys get 2,000? One second. do my daughter yeah Everyone else gets 2,000. And then I'm going to say Walter gets the remaining 100.
01:24:25
Speaker
so everyone gets 2,000. Wait, 7,100 divided by 4. wait seventy one hundred divided by four Yeah, Welter 1,100 because he didn't use a speed move. Everyone else gets 2,000. I got 15, 8, and 8.
01:24:37
Speaker
I think that one outweighs his entire thing. i you might da one outweighs entire Cause I'm still holding him. Yeah, fair.
01:24:49
Speaker
You couldn't use the speed move because you were encumbered. I'm just getting choked out while trying reach out and grab stuff. Yeah, I'm just getting you left and white left and right as I'm like speeding around. I am so sorry, viewers. We weren't a fight, but I ended that so fast.
01:25:05
Speaker
yeah Alright, and what's our experience? Listen, I was gonna actually fight. I was gonna fight until you until you all mentioned how weak you guys were to ground type.
01:25:17
Speaker
Yeah, and also it was also dragon types. Yeah, drag three dragons, two dragons, and we're gonna get destroyed. What level were they set at, by the way?
01:25:30
Speaker
20. Oh. What? Okay. That doesn't work. None of those Pokemon evolved that early. i know, but it was balanced for your guys' level. So we were supposed to be able to win it, potentially. And you guys you guys gain 135 XP each. I don't feel good about this, man. i have Go-Getter and Elite.
01:25:56
Speaker
Okay, what does Go-Getter do? Plus 5 XP for each Pokemon after normal XP calculations, and... Elite gives me 1.5 XP after battle, after normal calculations.
01:26:10
Speaker
Okay, and we decided that was for the group, so that's 150 times 1.5 is 225. So we get instead. Did you say 135? Yes. You guys get 225 XP that. That's right. I'm level 16!
01:26:27
Speaker
what Can I roll for Coin Watcher? Oh, I got Coin Watcher too. you need to roll for that? Yeah, it's a roll. Success is earned 1.5 times. Mixed is 1.2 times. I'll level it up twice.
01:26:42
Speaker
Jesus. Okay. ah Go ahead and roll me. For those who have Climb Launcher, go ahead roll it for me. I got a success, so I just gotta add another 500 since it's only 1.5. Okay. Oh, wait. Rolled to each.
01:26:57
Speaker
I got a mixed success. Oh, no. Never mind. Qt is minus one. I got an eight. That's a fail. That's okay. So you get 1.1? one point one Is that what it is?
01:27:10
Speaker
No, I got a fail, so I get nothing. I get no bonus. Okay, so gotcha. Everyone's got their money and XP? um Yeah. a Leveled up.
01:27:22
Speaker
I also leveled up twice. Okay, so let's run through level up person by person. Alright, so ah let's do this one at a time.
01:27:33
Speaker
Let me this picture off my screen. Okay, so... Eli, we're gonna go with you first. I'm just going in order from ah from Discord. So Eli's on first.
01:27:45
Speaker
Alright, what level did you go? from a From Anto. From 13 14. Okay. Hey, it's my evolution level. Oh, damn. You definitely you do not feel you' an inclination to evolve.
01:28:00
Speaker
erdo evolve
01:28:04
Speaker
No, damn so from 13 to 14 you do not get a move. Let me make sure this is the most recent it's not what the fuck No, you do not Pokemon db it's simply better I prefer therapy you guys are only on 14.
01:28:22
Speaker
Oh you you guys are only on fourteen
01:28:27
Speaker
I'm on 16. Oh yeah, because before we added all the before we decided to party-wise XP, when it was only just me. so yeah you
Leveling Up and Technical Challenges
01:28:37
Speaker
guys um So yeah, you guys get... sorry, Eli. Eli, Bruce gets plus one ah yeah plus plus one defense and plus one offense for level up, I'm pretty sure.
01:28:51
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, that's weird. It's not letting me change it on the sheet. That is weird.
01:29:02
Speaker
I'm typing 7 into the cell. When I go into the cell, the top bar says 7, but it still says 6 and nothing else changes on the sheet. Did you hit enter?
01:29:15
Speaker
Yeah. Nothing. Huh. Okay. Keep it in mind. We'll have to fix it after the show. We don't have time for troubleshooting in the show. So we'll take a look at that afterwards.
01:29:27
Speaker
Okay. Got it. All right. Yeah. No problem. Okay. All right. Next up we got... Hold on. Am I bleeding? Yeah, I am Oh, well. All right. We got Hikaru.
01:29:42
Speaker
So, Evelyn, what did you like go from and to? So Hikaru just went from level 13 to level 15. Okay.
01:29:53
Speaker
And that gets you. I wish I could default into Let's Go. um Yeah, I don't learn any new moves. oh Yeah, you don't learn any new moves.
01:30:06
Speaker
What is going on again? That is plus two to offenses and plus two to defenses for you. Yeah. So i'm goingnna alllf
01:30:16
Speaker
so I'm going to increase my attack, defense, special attack, and special defense by one each. Okay. Gotcha.
01:30:28
Speaker
Woo! Leveled up! I'd say yeah, I just don't know. Hey, I forget how far away can stats be from each other?
01:30:39
Speaker
Devalfral is your minimum stat cannot be three times less than your maximum stat. Alright, I'm fine then.
01:30:49
Speaker
Alright, uh, Eli, what did you say? I boosted my defense and my speed. Gotcha, okay. Alright, um, uh, Micah, what did Blair level from and to?
01:31:02
Speaker
Okay, so, still not feeling good about it, but, uh, Blair levels up from 13 to 15, and i put two points into defense and two points into special defense.
01:31:14
Speaker
Okay. Um, let's see, going to Gen 8. Uh, you said you level up to 15? Yeah, I also get Detect. Yes, you get Detect.
01:31:25
Speaker
ah Let's see what Detect does. Don't you have to level up your offensive stats twice? not d Do I? d and special ah Yeah, every level up you increase your offensive stats by one and your defensive stats by one. Yeah, you just you just said your D went up by two. Alright, let me fix that.
01:31:50
Speaker
And your special defense.
01:31:54
Speaker
Alright, let me... Yeah, because I upped both defenses by two just now. Let me fix that. So... Oh, I see. yeah I'll put... Okay. Well, Hikaru, you said two offense plus two defense.
01:32:09
Speaker
Yeah. And that made it look that made it look like you said for each level up.
01:32:14
Speaker
yeah Okay, there we go. I fixed it. So I put one in attack, one in defense, one special attack, and one special defense. Gotcha. And detect, protects the user but may fail if you use consecutive way. It is a fighting status move.
01:32:30
Speaker
I got the fighting protect move. are you keeping that? My question is how does this work if I use as a bonus action? Um, let me... It has a... I just need to wrap this text.
01:32:44
Speaker
Roll a d4, results must be greater. So it it has you roll a d4, you would roll d4 divided by 2. So it would really only work the first time if you used it as a as a bonus action.
01:32:58
Speaker
Okay. Just honestly kind of busted because you could just use it and then just not get hit next time you were attacked. Yeah.
01:33:10
Speaker
Okay. Okay. So did that get rid of any moves or did that in your fifth slot? ah Oh, I swapped out for Leer. Gotcha. Okay. shake. What did you level up from in two?
01:33:23
Speaker
I leveled up from 15 to 16. Gotcha. Okay. Let's see what that gets you. i don't know what happened, but... And I had a one to attack, one to regular defense.
01:33:36
Speaker
And even though they're all adding up to 13, like defense, adding up total, then offense is making me say you must add to offense. a That's a glitch, because when I add offense, it says I'm going add defense, so that's wrong.
01:33:50
Speaker
Are you sure it's not two times? you have the lowest stat? Yeah, I'm sure. Let me take a look at the formula.
01:34:04
Speaker
Yeah, it is. It's plus one your offense, plus one to your defense.
01:34:11
Speaker
I'm actually a swap... ah Sorry. um I'm actually going to take the special attack boost out and put that back to my basic attack. So two in attack, one defense, and one special the defense. That's what I'm actually going to with.
01:34:25
Speaker
Okay. Well, as long as you input everything correctly...
01:34:30
Speaker
Can you tell me what your level of bonuses are listed as in order? Me? Me? Yes. Yes. Who? Walter. oh Jake. That's what it is. are 13 total. Oh, yeah. That is weird.
01:35:01
Speaker
oftenphs is thirteen defense thirteen in total
01:35:07
Speaker
oh yeah that is weird Um, is it a Ralph Roll thing? I think so.
01:35:15
Speaker
because I'm getting the same thing. Um... So your lowest stat is 8, and your highest stat is not above 24. ah wait. No, this is Lopunny. No, sorry.
01:35:29
Speaker
I'm looking at Lopunny's stats real, Lou. Um, my lowest stat... Um... 6. You're looking at anything above 18? Nope. No, you should be fine. Well, maybe it's confusing because I got that temp bonus plus eight with the power band.
01:35:45
Speaker
No, because I should go in your temp bonus. It doesn't consider temp bonus. um know I don't know.
Moral Implications of Violence
01:35:49
Speaker
Maybe it's just a glitch. It's fine. it Yeah, it's something wrong with my formula. ah Yes, you gained.
01:35:57
Speaker
did you gain? You gained work up.
01:36:01
Speaker
Oh, that's going to be great for Bruce or for Walter. Bruce over here is how just steal Walter's moves. Your attack and special attack increased by two.
01:36:15
Speaker
I'm replacing Endur. Okay. So I get two moves I gotta learn right now.
01:36:25
Speaker
Okay. So. Alright. So. I think that's all the level ups. Alright, so, yeah. By the way, I just think I should clear out the temp bonus from yesterday.
01:36:38
Speaker
ah yeah from yeah. From the coffee, yeah. Yeah.
01:36:47
Speaker
So... You're welcome, guys! I got rid of the assassins!
01:36:54
Speaker
Blair drops him immediately after getting out the money of breath, but staring him dead in the eyes. Walter! What is wrong with you?
01:37:06
Speaker
I got the assassin vibe. Why did you even get that?
01:37:18
Speaker
Listen, he blew up a block, I only blew up a few people. I'm rolling a sanity check. I'm rolling a fucking sanity check. that's a okay That's a good quote. He blew up a block, I blew up a few people.
01:37:35
Speaker
ah Okay, i've rolled I rolled 16, she's okay right now, but she's not feeling okay. Oh boy.
01:37:46
Speaker
Oh, holy.
01:37:49
Speaker
Yeah, Hikaru is just like trying to catch her breath too, but she's like... look well he picks it He's like pointing it out, kill if necessary. That doesn't mean we kill them.
01:38:01
Speaker
It's kill or be killed. That's not our place to do that. It was defensive kill. Yeah. As much as I have been frustrated with um with some of Walter's actions recently, um I have to agree with him on this one.
01:38:23
Speaker
Oh, no, no, no, no. no no no no no Just because someone's going to kill us doesn't mean we kill them in self-defense. We can't subdue them without doing that. who's being high and now. You took control of a poor defenseless lupunny.
01:38:34
Speaker
That was not me! Okay! I didn't know that until now! How do you just remember it? think I read something in my class about like a... like every Pokemon's house is a castle.
01:38:55
Speaker
gotta defend yourself, something like that. I forget. Listen, I invoked to stand my ground rules.
01:39:03
Speaker
Don't know if that's actually a thing, but I'm saying it is. Even if they are, it doesn't mean you have the permission to take someone's life. They're gonna take ours. They would have killed us.
01:39:15
Speaker
They would, like, they were, like, Garchomp, you know, has his ground type. They would have, they would have, they would have took out me and Bruce, and they would have, and we wouldn't have, like, our attacks wouldn't have hit them pretty well. Like, my, my Electro Ball, zero effect on that Garchomp.
01:39:34
Speaker
like, do you know not very effective against the other dragon types. I know they're strong. would've lost! They- it doesn't mean we had to- there could've been another way, okay?
01:39:46
Speaker
We can't predict what could've happened because now we will never They public! They blew up a building! And you just them! I mean, I was thinking about running away from them too, but like, a gar- but like... They came back for us!
01:40:00
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, especially that Garchomp would've- would've- they would've had money, so resources. like They would've had money, and they would- then would've had resources to come after us, or hire more people to come after us.
01:40:13
Speaker
You know what? Let's not discuss this right now, with burning- buildings burning, collapsing. Let's go spend our money. No, Walter. We're taking this money back. This is not ours.
01:40:26
Speaker
Okay, philosophy class is over. let's let's Let's head to... Let's continue with our mission, okay? Can notes ki see the bank from where she is? The bank's gone! they blew up They blew it up.
01:40:47
Speaker
Was that a bank? Yeah, the bank is absolutely destroyed. then i go to level Everyone's grabbing money. and
01:40:56
Speaker
Is this the same bank? No. The other bank was in Valkenburg. Oh, right! briberg right Blair is taking the money that she has and hopefully the others will cooperate, but she's taking the her money that she got and putting it back in the bank.
01:41:14
Speaker
It's on fire! inside the doors so
01:41:18
Speaker
Um,
01:41:21
Speaker
i think but I think if we're gonna give it back to the bank, we should give it back to their customers. It might be like, it's not even the bank's office. She's going to the police. So, Walter. walter got out Walter's out of there. No, police. No, what Walter, you feel a tap on your shoulder from behind you.
01:41:40
Speaker
Hello? You look turn around and you see Bill the Arcanine staring at you.
Confrontation with Bill the Arcanine
01:41:46
Speaker
Bill! It's been forever! Do you mind explaining yourselves?
01:41:51
Speaker
shows in the nos hand set they but We had standard ground rules. They were coming after us. Justifiable homicide. Yeah. i sat I came here for a bit of a deployment, but I come here to find you guys blowing people up and possibly the bank.
01:42:07
Speaker
they I'm assuming you didn't do that. I didn't think you did, but... no where Do you mind explaining yourself? He gives it to him and just walks back.
01:42:19
Speaker
just ah She needs a maid before she loses her mind. bill this wasn't a bribe. hand him 2,000 poke. Bill, <unk>o that wasn't a bribe. That's just money he wants to return because he picked it off the ground being a goody two-shoes.
01:42:34
Speaker
Also, this is what happened. I was trying to recover the money so we can return it, because it's not ours! Well, go recover it from all the other people who were snatching money real quick while I talk to Bill. Yeah, as as you guys are doing this, there's this Pokemon all around you just snatching money up here.
01:42:48
Speaker
And he's like, well, as this is in my jurisdiction, I can't really enforce these guys to stop picking up money, so he handed back the $2,000. there like an FDI-C-T equivalent in this world? I'll take it. Give to me. Give to me. Give it me. I'll take it.
01:43:02
Speaker
Blair holds up away from Walter. Like if the bank goes up, as are is everybody's deposits insured? ah I don't know. I'm not a banker. I'm asking you above board.
01:43:18
Speaker
Oh, me above board? i don't know. I'm not a banker. second They don't know their insurance rates. We haven't invented the f fe FDIC yet.
01:43:30
Speaker
Yeah, i don't I don't know if they have like robbery insurance or crap. Because aren aren't like a lot of bank stuff like stored in like stock or something like that? I don't remember exactly how they Yeah, like if you deposit your money i'm going to deposit your money in the bank and then they lend it out.
01:43:52
Speaker
Okay, I'm gonna see, I'm gonna roll a d20 to see how big of an establishment this bank was. With a 7, it's like a, uh, it's a West Union. and It wasn't that great of a reputation bank. god.
01:44:06
Speaker
No wonder it robbed. They probably ripped those guys off.
01:44:11
Speaker
Anyway, Bill. Let me tell you exactly how it went down. We were minding our own business when suddenly, o The building explodes, we get hit by some of the debris, we're lucky we survived, and they come running out.
01:44:26
Speaker
They turn their heads at us and act like they know us, but because the fire, they run away. and but see want we wanted to be the good civilians to stop them or at least follow them to give the actual police here but then they turn around when they see us following them and then they read a note and you see um as an aura i got the murderous and poor intent from them coming off them so i used my stand my ground rights and i blew them up Go ahead and roll deception.
01:44:59
Speaker
Go ahead and roll- Well it's Okay, finish and then roll deception. No, you did not have an Orsa in Seldom. Shut up. and And then... And then we saw a note that said, Capture or kill them.
01:45:12
Speaker
Specifically to us and our friend Sammy. and on. You saw this after you killed them. No, no, no. I got the- I'm the Orr Pokemon.
01:45:22
Speaker
And I got the intention to kill Orr from them. You know, I'm getting an awfully bad Karen blames off of you. Um... I got 9-1-T and T, say that again.
01:45:34
Speaker
Hey, wait, whata whoa, whoa! Hold your fort, hold, what? That was out of character, that was out of character, buddy. Wait, okay. Oh, what? Oh, shush! Walter, shush! Oh my god. Sounds like you Carlos are gonna help.
01:45:49
Speaker
Go ahead. Um... Yeah, so kind of like we were we were getting attacked by these Pokemon. There was a Garchomp, you know, there was a Shelgon, there was Dragonair.
01:46:00
Speaker
And you see, I'm an Electric-type. Bruce over here is Fire-type. don't know if you can tell, he's got a flame on his back. um And we had we basically had three options.
01:46:12
Speaker
Number one, fight them. Number two, run. And number three, whatever the hell Walter. Well, it was a 50 50. It was I didn't know it was kill him. I thought injure them. Certainly. didn't know it was going to kill them either. mean, listen, the T. It was the only didn't know it'd be that powerful.
01:46:33
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not I'm not saying, you know, I'm not saying it was right that they were killed or whatever. I'm just saying that like that was our only option. Like, if we tried to fight them, they would have... Arceus knows what level they were. We we would have probably... We probably would have lost, especially me and Bruce. Like, Electric's not very effective against Dragon.
01:46:58
Speaker
Also, the Gartrump said they we were the ones that were supposed to get they were supposed to get rid of when they saw us. When they stopped and looked at us.
01:47:09
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, so you said these Pokemon attacked you. Is there a reason for them to have attacked you? Were you attacking them because they were running away or...?
01:47:20
Speaker
No, we don't know who sent them after. Apparently we got target on our backs. I think... I think like they're getting paid off by that Espeon that we were trying to get because we were so on their trail.
01:47:34
Speaker
You mean the one from the other bank robbery? Yeah, I think it's a bunch of bank robberies going back to back. It's a conspiracy happening, they're robbing all the banks.
01:47:46
Speaker
Well, if you didn't help me with this last bank robbery, I'd have a hard time believing me in this, but knowing what I know about you guys, I'd say your information is trustworthy.
Cult Suspicion and Mission Clarification
01:47:55
Speaker
We uphold the law here.
01:47:58
Speaker
He looks at you in your bag of TNT and he's like, upholding the law, huh? Is that what you call it? It's called self-defense explosives. You don't know who's gonna come at us. those Those dungeons can get dangerous.
01:48:13
Speaker
Especially if you blow them up.
01:48:16
Speaker
Well, if it gets blown up, it'll just reset.
01:48:21
Speaker
ah Yeah, we have a cult. I think we have a cult following us. I mean, we don't have a cult following. Thank goodness. wait You haven't had a cult following. We have, like... Do you remember the, um... What's her name?
01:48:41
Speaker
The Leafeon. Uh, yeah. Could I forget? Yeah. Do you remember her last words? Um... Long lived the Silver Cult, I think it was.
01:48:54
Speaker
Yeah, I think... And Hikaru just like paused because she's like actually like reliving the trauma of the moment that Chai died.
01:49:09
Speaker
Oh, crew crew. Hey, you wanna see this badge? No. Listen, what are you even doing here? What are you even doing here?
01:49:22
Speaker
what are you been doing here I said I was sent on a deployment because I heard there was some fucking robbery back in Gale Beach as well. And you guys have like no fucking police over there. It's all just the damn G-Bit.
01:49:34
Speaker
and i So was sent over there to sniff that out. Don't you badmouth the G-Bit. They do their best work. A G-Bit has total loyalty to the people there.
01:49:46
Speaker
And will never let anything happen. There's a difference between an investigation team and a police force. Your town has no fucking police force, so they require outside help.
01:49:58
Speaker
So I was sent there, and then I came over here because I was pointed to by this big trash bag, and now I'm here. And it seems like this is related.
01:50:09
Speaker
It seems like we're following the same path. You should join us! What you mean, join you? Well, we got some of our friends helping as well because they are concerned because they the robberies, we had something in one of these banks and they got robbed too we got hired by Bruce's mom too to also help look for them.
01:50:31
Speaker
and Apparently there's some kind of ornaments and that together they're they can sell for a really, really good price. Okay, so these robbers are after these valuable ornaments, okay?
01:50:45
Speaker
okay Yes, because they're like a collection Together, there could be sold for any amount of money. and Any amount of money? I don't think anything's worth infinite amount of money.
01:50:56
Speaker
So why is this cult following you? Cults don't form because one person wants to make money. We think it had to do something with that, um... Espeon we don't know what we saw we got on that target list because when we were investigating for you guys week she must have talked to them and Now they think we're a threat for some reason looks to the like smothering ash that I see I say um Okay, you said you're very good at our jobs.
01:51:27
Speaker
You said your your mom sent you on this mission and
01:51:33
Speaker
Uh, yes. It was my mother, Miss Flameback. I see, I see. May I have her address so I can mail her a letter?
01:51:46
Speaker
Uh, yeah, the Flameback residence in Gale Beach. Kinda hard to miss it. This is the first time Walter's not negotiated with his fist.
01:51:58
Speaker
Okay, I'm going to inquire further on this. It sounds like something that needs heavy police investigation. Wow. Yep, I would agree with that.
01:52:12
Speaker
More pressure on... You scratch our back or scratch yours?
01:52:17
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, do you have any contacts in the other state's police departments? Not particularly. I'm like, the I'm not the head honcho of the Volkenberg Police Force, but I'm like, one of the more experienced people they set out to do stuff, which is why got sent over to Are you a sergeant? Ugh, Gale Beach.
01:52:34
Speaker
I don't know. and Me, Dakota, doesn't know police lingo, so fucking deal with it. Sergeant is the one who deals with day-to-day troops. Yeah, this is something I think we might... This is Obviously, that these these bank robberies are crossing state lines. We might need some... We might need, you know, federal-level cooperation on this.
01:52:58
Speaker
Okay. Well, I will be visiting Miss Flamebeck. We'll send her a letter shortly. And I will get in contact with you guys. Let me know if you guys find anything or if you need any police help. I would love to investigate this further.
01:53:10
Speaker
I don't... I will say some things you said don't make sense. Cults don't form over ornaments, so there's gotta to be something higher. So... I have a suspicion that you are not telling me the entire truth, but...
01:53:27
Speaker
I'd like you to be honest with me. Is there anything you are not speaking the truth about?
01:53:34
Speaker
The value of the orbs is not simply money. Hmm. In what case, what value is the orbs? And why are you calling them orbs now instead of ornaments?
01:53:48
Speaker
Well, that some kind of you know how some people have worship idols for Arceus? Sure. These are for like other other legendaries.
01:54:00
Speaker
I'm not very versed in religions, but sure. Well, it's basically all a lot of religions in one to form a specific religion like the cultism.
01:54:15
Speaker
So basically this is just very religious for them, but I don't... The cult wants this, but we don't know if another party's here to just do it for money, but the cult's here for the religion part.
01:54:29
Speaker
They think it's gonna do something great, but miss we've had apparently they've had it for a long time. That orb is a nothing impactful. So it's not an ornament, it's an orb now.
01:54:42
Speaker
Well, that's what they call it. We think it's just an ornament. So do you guys know what these orbs do if they're not in just monetary value?
01:54:52
Speaker
Um... Praying idols? don't really know. don't know what they do together. Should we... Hikaru text the group. Should we say anything about the... You can't just text the group in front of him! That's so suspicious! That is so suspicious to do that. Yeah, okay.
01:55:09
Speaker
So, Bruce, give me... I think my mom will know more and be able to explain things to you better than we can.
01:55:20
Speaker
He narrows his eyes at you and like, all right. Well, here's the ah address of the, of the Volkenberg Police Department if you ever need to reach out to me.
01:55:30
Speaker
And he hands you a piece of paper with the address so you can mail it. So you can mail him if you need to. Cool.
01:55:40
Speaker
Alright, well I have some information to gather. will be in contact with you if anything is needed for this. Any gestures to the soot piles?
01:55:51
Speaker
Thank you very much for your help. really appreciate it. I will be seeing you guys around. heads off towards the destruction of the bank. You know, I got a pair of... By the way, were the bad guys carrying anything else besides the money?
01:56:07
Speaker
I got blown up, probably. I'm not gonna have your own perception. There's a red gummy, an orange gummy, a black gummy, and whatever the other gummy is. Yellow. Can I have the guy of the orange? Can I have the orange? we So we all just eat our gummy. that I think that's what we should do.
01:56:28
Speaker
Blair wants to take this back to the police station. Just because they're there and they're for us doesn't mean we should take them. Uh, Walter eats the orange one. Okay. Just because it's not for Just because it's... Did you say just because it's for us?
01:56:42
Speaker
You as a DM put it there for us to take. Blair doesn't feel comfortable taking this. Okay. Walter's okay with taking the orange one. Uh, Blair going to walk over and pick up the black gummy?
01:56:58
Speaker
She's gonna try and ah Guys, could can we please just take these back to the PlayStation? These don't belong to us, and these were in the bank. These belong to somebody else. What'd you say? Did these belong to the... Did these belong to the dragon guys that just robbed bank?
01:57:17
Speaker
It belongs to somebody. It doesn't belong to... It doesn't belong to us. Even if it doesn't belong to anybody, it's still police evidence. Walter's licking his fingers like it.
01:57:29
Speaker
True. Okay. For those who are eating it, add 10 IQ points. Fair enough. Yay, 10. Wait. i think if Doesn't that give more because it's a fighting type one? I think 10 is the max.
01:57:41
Speaker
Yeah, that's why you're getting 10 and 5 7. Where does it say that? In the definitions range. Definitions.
01:57:53
Speaker
Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Hikaru's just holding the yellow gummy in her bag for now. Sorry. Yeah. yeah So, Blair believes that we should take all the the gummies and money back to the PlayStation, as is still police evidence.
01:58:10
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, so yeah, I'm picking up the red gummy, but not eating it yet, then. Would it be 13 or 10? Because it says plus 10 to the 3. I have a feeling Blair's gonna get really annoying really fast.
01:58:24
Speaker
Blair's getting annoyed, Blair's trying to do the right thing. gonna be like, guys, in a separate group chat, guys, I don't think she's working out. but I didn't know that, like, Hikaru was more, She still seems like she might be ah going a little insane with this information and our way of doing things.
01:58:47
Speaker
So... Okay. Think about it this way. Y'all just picked up Blair like three days ago, and the first thing she does with you guys as a group is watch Walter blow a building in people.
01:59:01
Speaker
Not building, just people! Walter didn't blow up the building. Just pointing back. Yeah, I didn't mean to say building. Listen! octopus blows square blocks and he gets a reward. I blow up three people and now I'm the bad guy? You still kill people!
01:59:20
Speaker
So did he! There are no bad guys here. All the three... The only bad guys here are... anymore. Piles of soot. Over there. The only bad guys here are the ones that we have on a list when we find them.
01:59:36
Speaker
And that stupid sentrit. Uh, yeah. Um, ah and went I want Walter to roll perception quick. Okay.
01:59:49
Speaker
With advantage or anything? No. Unless you want to use your orisons, I guess. don't know. But I see a story and reason for you to do so. No. What's my stat again? I'm a away from my security.
02:00:02
Speaker
Perception. Perception. 15. All right. With 15, you look over your shoulder, and one of the people you see in the crowd is a pink furrowed a flower in their hair.
02:00:15
Speaker
And that is where we are going to end this episode. My arch nemesis! That's not the one. It's a Sentra you're looking for, not a Furret.
02:00:27
Speaker
No, actually, the initial initially it was a... i said I've said Sentra and Furret interchangeably. I'm just deciding that Furret is cuter, so it's going to be a Furret.
02:00:38
Speaker
You've also said Furret. You never said was shiny. Yeah, all I said is it was Furret. see that can mean any fur It its furret. that could mean any furret. Yep. any pink furret.
02:00:52
Speaker
Oh, no, no, it could be any furret. I don't know. What did I say about it? might have said pink furret. You just said plain furret. I remember. You just said plain furret. I don't think I said plain furret.
02:01:03
Speaker
but You just said regular fur. You didn't say anything about the book shiny. you said You said fur it. You never said shiny fur it. Yeah, no pink fur it. Whatever you want do with that, I'm not going rules lawyer you. so I don't remember, but there is a specific reason I am having a pink fur it. You can just change story and say it was a pink fur it.
02:01:23
Speaker
Alright fine, let's do that. It's a retcon. initially said it's a pink fur and that is where your fun fact says. Guys my bounty paper has just changed to pink.
02:01:35
Speaker
Because I do have an image of the sucker. the The image of the fur on your paper goes from brown to pink. is It's like slowly moving, slowly changing like Photoshop.
Conclusion and Music Credit
02:01:45
Speaker
It's like everything- I blink, it just gets pinker. Alright. So, with- Yes, with that, we are going to end this episode.
02:01:55
Speaker
I have been Dakota, your PM, your DM, your DM. I have been Evelyn, playing Hikaru, who is caught in the middle. I am Eli, trying to play Bruce better.
02:02:07
Speaker
Somewhat succeeding. I am Blair, trying not to lose her mind. Like, uh,
02:02:19
Speaker
You're next. Micah. Micah. We might have lost him. Oh, no. Please don't tell me. He's disconnected. all Micah's dead, guys. We gotta tell you about your extended car warranty.
02:02:34
Speaker
Alright, you guys. Micah died. We took him out back. Oh, jeez. Alright, Jake, say your bit. I'm Jacob playing terrorist Walter. Alright, we'll see you guys later.
02:02:45
Speaker
Bye!
02:02:50
Speaker
Hey guys, welcome to the end section. Obviously, Discord below, Patreon below, da da da. um I feel like I forgot to mention this before, but we do have a presence on YouTube.
02:03:02
Speaker
I've recently checked the analytics and it looks like not a single person has viewed us on YouTube. So if you go to YouTube Podcasts, i think that's what it's called. Google? No, Google Podcast died, didn't it? I think it's called YouTube Podcast. I don't know, YouTube shit. So, um we have presence on YouTube.
02:03:19
Speaker
We are up on YouTube, so go check us out there if that's more convenient for you. already said Discord, Patreon, blah, blah, blah, blah. blah right, we have music. we have a lot of music. In fact, it's almost the same music from the last time I said this. So, here we go. We've got...
02:03:36
Speaker
oh Treasure Town, Wigglytuff Guild, The Gatekeeper, Apple Woods, Craggy Coast, Foggy Forest, Northern Desert, Crystal Cave, and Mount Travail, all from Mystery Dungeons, Explorers of Sky, Darkness, and Time.
02:03:49
Speaker
And over here we've got the hype battle music I playlisted these last time, which is Xenia from Oras, Red from Arc of Souls, Silver, Giratina from Diamond and Pearl, Cynthia from Diamond Pearl, and Final Battle, Black and White, Gladeon from Sun and Moon, Lissandre from Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon,
02:04:05
Speaker
Origin Palkia Dialga from PLA Ho-Oh from HeartGold and SoulSilver Sada and Turo from Scarlet and Violet Lugia from HeartGold SoulSilver Red and Blue from Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Team Magma Aqua Leader from Oras Chairman Rose from Sword and Shield Ambien Iris. Almost fucked that up. From Black and White 2.
02:04:24
Speaker
Ultra Necrozma from Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. Wally Final Battle from Oras. Suicune from HeartGold SoulSilver. Gym Leader Pierce from SwordSeal. Counter Gym Leader, HeartGold SoulSilver. And Steven from Oras. There we go. My god, that's a mouthful. Anyway, um I will let you guys continue with your day. Have a good day and goodbye.