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Arc 3 Post Game Show
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The Co-hosts talk about the events of Arc 3
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Dakota as the PM, DM, GM
Evelyn as Hikaru the Pikachu
Eli as Bruce the Cyndaquil
Jake as Walter the Riolu
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Transcript
Introduction and Hosts
00:00:07
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to A Path Through Time. My name is Dakota, your PM, your GM, your GM. And sitting to my left is somebody who prefers Alolan Vulpix over Cantonian Vulpix.
00:00:20
Speaker
It's me, Evelyn. It's so cute. Oh my gosh, I want to rub it in my face until my face gets cold. Okay. um and Rub a fox on your face, yes.
00:00:37
Speaker
That's what did I do with 2B. Okay.
Eli and Roko's Basilisk
00:00:41
Speaker
And to my left is somebody who knows about Roko's Basilisk.
00:00:48
Speaker
Yep. Totally. We're not going ask any questions. We're just going to go with I know about it. I'm Eli. And sitting across from me is someone who is eat currently eating jelly beans a month early.
Jelly Bean Conversation
00:01:04
Speaker
Wait, what's wrong with you eating jell actually eating jelly beans now? What do you mean a month early? I think he means like because of Easter. Yeah, i just just because Easter is next have never seen one person in my life actually listen to eating jelly beans.
00:01:21
Speaker
In fact, I've never have seen one person eat jelly beans besides that devilish game where you have to spend either you get grass or you get jelly flavor.
00:01:32
Speaker
It's an awful game. Oh! Oh, Bamboozled. We do not like Beanboozled. Beanboozled. Wait, weren't we talking about that recently? Yes, we were. Okay, yeah, was say, thought we talked about that. my family, eat beans besides baked beans.
00:01:47
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. It took me a second to realize what you were talking about. We went from jelly beans to eating grass. It took me a second to realize you were talking about Beanboozled. Go grass, Dakota, you know that? Go touch grass.
00:02:00
Speaker
Go touch some jelly bean grass. do touch grass. I was touching grass earlier today. Doubtful. i Hello, I'm Rogue, I'm Jake, i'm everything.
00:02:11
Speaker
i'm you can tell I'm tired. Alright. Right after this, I gotta write about two essays. would youy it to it Oh, are you still in high school Jake?
00:02:26
Speaker
I think you graduated or something. No, geez. I'm in high school and didn do college classes. Are you graduating this year at least? Yes. Well, we'll see. Okay. see Depends on how this my grades are doing.
00:02:41
Speaker
Hopefully he's graduating in June. Yeah, as i say, you're end of your you the end of your senior year must be coming up here in just like a month or two, huh? Yep.
00:02:53
Speaker
There you go. Well, good luck on your exams, I guess. um We don't have a recap for you because obviously you've seen the title.
Route 1 Radio Project
00:03:02
Speaker
This is the co-host Q&A. So, or whatever I decided to call it. So instead, instead of a recap, we do have something else for you.
00:03:12
Speaker
um Eli and Jake have something to discuss that they've been cooking up. Announcement time! Oh man, we really should have practiced this, bet Eli.
00:03:22
Speaker
just almost called you a bird. Yeah, should I sprung this on you guys literally like five seconds ago. So I literally was like, hey, you guys want to announce that thing? You guys have been working on it. And they're just like, yeah, sure.
00:03:35
Speaker
So, since you fair people who support us on Patreon or on Spotify, we thought you guys deserve some more content rather than um are wild schedule that we sometimes actually keep up with and mostly don't um hey so we've done a pretty good keeping this we've done amazing for like yeah for recently recently we have recently we have well yeah i i announced that we were taking a break what are you talking about we have kept our schedule don't don't
00:04:15
Speaker
Okay, but we we do have something extra cooked up. we friend died <unk> We've been going through the original Pokemon anime season one, watching a few episodes and talking about just our thoughts, like, you know, regular podcast style rather than, like just actual play podcast stuff.
00:04:38
Speaker
And we get to see some things that I have forgotten about pokemon how i hate misty so if you want to see eli try to defend misty and me and him get in a fight over who was ash's true crush um yes two actually technically adults and arguing over a 10 year old kid's actual crush um and it i think it is also my favorite character we'll see again it's called a redneck jones that we only ever see once
00:05:13
Speaker
Oh, you guys have been talking about Redneck Jones. Who's Redneck Jones? Watch the video and find out. Yeah, oh don't worry. You all guys haven't even released it to me.
00:05:29
Speaker
So, yes, ah do you guys have an official name for this yet?
Name Change Discussion
00:05:33
Speaker
Yes, we may change it because depending if we keep going on because there are things but what we've named so far is called Route 1 Radio.
00:05:46
Speaker
oh wait, are you guys are you guys are you guys gonna be like, if when you guys get to Gen 2, it'll be like... ah It'll be Route 29 Radio. Yeah, Route 29 Radio if that's the starting route. That'd be so cool actually, I really like that.
00:06:01
Speaker
Yes. You should change the title of the... of like every time you Every time you reach a new route in the anime, you name it to Route 2. We would be doing that almost every episode. every episode. How many times would it change?
00:06:18
Speaker
Literally every episode would just be a different name for the show. Yeah, we do every three episodes is like a different route, so we'd have to change it mid-episode. Okay, yeah. I don't know about changing the name the entire show, but was thinking like... Also, a little bit about things. We go over three episodes every week.
00:06:38
Speaker
Every time we don't have time to record our actual podcast. Our main one. that's That's our schedule so far. yeah So yeah, is it going on Patreon? Or like, are you dumping at all on Patreon? Or are you just releasing it week that we don't record? From what I've discovered, we will be releasing it on Spotify, but very slowly compared to what Patreon would be.
00:07:04
Speaker
Okay, so you'll get early access going on Patreon. We will doing it Patreon consistently, and then we'll be we'll have just backlog of extra episodes we can throw on whenever we have stuff happen for the main show, we can throw on an episode under the main show.
Release Strategy on Patreon
00:07:21
Speaker
Alright. Unless you people demand it more, then we'll see. Yeah, unless there is, like, huge demand for it, and then we might consider putting it on more consistently on Spotify. You may be able to get double episodes with our release of our main episode.
00:07:38
Speaker
As far as I'm aware, this is just a ah Jake and Eli thing, right? I mean, you guys can join. Yeah, it eventually we'll let other people join in, but for now, yes.
00:07:51
Speaker
Okay. Once we get to Kalos, we may let someone else settle. Yeah, that was really good. Yeah, once we get into Kalos in like 10 years. ye there Don't worry. We'll get there.
00:08:05
Speaker
So ah what what tier are of Patreon are you guys putting this on? I think we hadn't fully discussed this yet, but I think we're going to just put it on the the basic tier, the the lowest tier.
00:08:20
Speaker
It was either going to be lowest or the second tier. we could probably To clarify the lowest pay tier, correct? Yes. Yeah, lowest pay tier. No, no, no. Yeah, this this will be paid if you want to get early access to yeah and i basically almost getting fistfights about some discussions.
00:08:37
Speaker
Alright, so for five bucks a month, you can now get Route 1 Radio starting whenever these guys let me upload it to Patreon. Whenever I yeah get around to actually editing the first few episodes. yes you get to see the custom intro that I made and music. Totally didn't rip off a bunch of music.
00:09:00
Speaker
Oh, wait. Totally original music. I sung it all myself. I'm not going to spoil it, but I do remember what you guys you guys were discussing this in the chat a while back.
00:09:12
Speaker
yeah I made it, and I sent it.
00:09:16
Speaker
Okay, this will be fun. Hey Rue 1 Radio will release on March 22nd, which is next week, so back to it. Alright, so with that being said, ah i think it is time for us to actually get into this episode. Did you guys prepare me any questions?
00:09:35
Speaker
Huh. Um. Guys. Not exactly, but I did have a few things that I wanted to talk about. Okay. Alright, we'll start there. i was gonna say, guys, this is supposed to be a Q&A for you guys, and you guys didn't bring any questions.
00:09:52
Speaker
We're busy doing paperwork.
00:09:58
Speaker
Okay, so Eli, it sounds like, yeah, you got something to talk about. Yeah, so I had something, like, i so I know pacing was a thing that we wanted to work on.
00:10:09
Speaker
I kind of feel like we stretched the rubber band a little bit too much and flew the opposite way because like it felt like pacing was good for the first half of the season and then i kind of feel like things just started going way too fast story-wise so like at what point do you think things got too fast seems to end pretty abruptly to me oh
00:10:40
Speaker
I wasn't exactly, so a little bit of an interesting interesting note on that last part, I wasn't exactly planning on it ending that abruptly either.
Season Break and Challenges
00:10:50
Speaker
But I realized that a couple things. One, um I needed a break from the show for a little bit.
00:10:57
Speaker
And two, we found a really good point for me to just be like, wait, this is actually really good. Let's just button up the the ah arc here. I can start on a new plot line starting next season or next episode. So I'm like, okay, this is a great place to end the season, actually.
00:11:11
Speaker
But I only noticed that after we had recorded it. So if you notice in the actual episode, i at no point do I say like, thank you for ah joining us until the end of this arc, or this is the end of the arc. I only ever said that at in the end section with all the credits and stuff. So I never actually planned for that to be the last episode. It was just after the fact I realized that was a perfect place to pin the arc.
00:11:38
Speaker
So, uh, oh, and that's a good question. Um, a little bit of behind the scenes. Um, the scene where, uh, Miss Flameback was kidnapped by the Zoroark.
00:11:54
Speaker
Uh, you guys, uh, actual, I actually re-recorded that in my own time when I was editing the episode. Did you guys listen to the re-recording yet? Damon, how are we doing that?
00:12:06
Speaker
ah i I posted that in the chat like a couple weeks ago. Dakota, you think I listened to the chat? I think I listened to it when you posted it, and I do not remember it anymore.
00:12:21
Speaker
Okay, do we want to take a minute and go back and review that? Because that may tie into or answer some of the questions you guys have. Yes. I have simple questions.
00:12:33
Speaker
Okay. All right, hold on. Let me find it. Simple questions before we do that. ah Sure. um but up the cu do Let me find that real quick and pin it so that way if you guys know you can listen to it in the background.
00:12:50
Speaker
Thing is, I don't remember which chat I put that in. I think it's in teachers lounge. um chosen two I'm the voice of the people. So I will be voicing the people's voice.
00:13:03
Speaker
The peoples. Or what do the peoples say?
00:13:09
Speaker
When's Walter's father coming back? He's not coming back. ah Why do people keep saying that?
00:13:20
Speaker
Also, I posted in the chat. he guys You see his voice, people? That means he's lying. That's his lying voice. Oh my god. that's just blogs have been ah Actually, you guys haven't said much about that at all in season 3. It's almost like what I said was the truth in the beginning. No, Vince isn't coming back. We just went to hiding. We're coming back out.
00:13:42
Speaker
Yeah. yes and ho It's like how there was a couple of not a scratch Q&As that didn't have any mention of grilled cheese sandwiches.
00:13:54
Speaker
It's almost like ice com- wait, are you talking about the recent ones? Yeah. Because I stopped joining the Q&As after I stopped listening to the show, but every time i was on one of those Q&As, I kept harping on Anirud about damn grilled cheese sandwiches.
00:14:11
Speaker
Yeah. There was somebody who mentioned something food-related in the last Q&A. Please tell me, grilled cheese sandwiches. Come on, has my memory lived on?
00:14:23
Speaker
think... i think Anurud specifically said that if it was grilled cheese related, it would not be answered. So it was something else. I'll take that as a win.
00:14:36
Speaker
the second question of the people.
00:14:41
Speaker
When will we get our dungeons? When was the last time you guys were in a dungeon? Season one. Actually, no. Season two. one And I wasn't even in it.
00:14:55
Speaker
Season 2. No, there was one in Season 3. You just weren't in it, Jake. When? That was the very beginning of Season 3 of Arc 3 when... ah Oh, what was her name? The fucking prostitute bunny. Oh.
00:15:13
Speaker
Lopany? That's right. What did you just say, Evelyn? I said Lopany?
00:15:23
Speaker
Oh, ah okay, that's another thing you said. all right ah But yeah, what was that Lopunny's name? Fuck. Dandelion. it was Yeah, Dandelion.
00:15:33
Speaker
Yeah, yeah you guys were ah you guys took her out of the mountain when we did that special episode with Evie that one time. That was the one that I was sick for.
00:15:46
Speaker
Oh, I think that might have been the reason why did this special episode. So, people, have to point this out. I have been in this podcast for two years. I've not been in one dungeon.
00:15:58
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Mine be true, yeah. Yeah, I think I've been in two dungeons, maybe...
00:16:07
Speaker
so um there's a reason why i but well there's a reason i slowed down on dungeons though one they take a long time to get through like a dungeon can take up two and maybe even more than and as the length of an episode to get through i think the dungeon should have been how we found the boss the god
00:16:30
Speaker
god oh that honestly could have been a dungeon It could have just been a shadow. It requires different explaining. but you yeah You're talking about the ah very, not the last episode, but the episode. Well, was no, the second to last episode.
00:16:47
Speaker
The episode where we found out that this that the um shiny has absorbed the power of God. Yeah, SBL could have just turned the house into a dungeon and had us go through it. yeah to You had a Thanosnap the burger so she could easily move reality. Oh, that actually would have been a really good idea if I had you guys enter the house and then all of a sudden a bunch of rooms just started appearing that never were there before. And you guys like enter a kitchen and all of a sudden there's three bedrooms branching off of it. And like there's just a ton of different rooms. That actually it would have been really cool.
00:17:24
Speaker
Well guys, now we know what the end of arc 4 is going to be. yes ah Please make it before the end of arc
Alarm Clock Store Backstory
00:17:32
Speaker
4. I want it. We still haven't gone to the radio shop.
00:17:36
Speaker
We were promised that then we were told it was too dangerous. Is that the alarm clock store? Oh, the alarm clock store. oh yeah Oh, yes. That's right. The alarm clock store.
00:17:49
Speaker
It's still there. That was the only other dungeon we had access to going to. Yeah, you guys could go that whenever. tried so many times and I was shut down to go there. Yeah, there was... ah so i Did i explain why the alarm clock store is a thing?
00:18:05
Speaker
I don't remember if I explained that in an episode. you just You made sure to try to stop us from going there every single time we mentioned it. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Okay, so I guess I'll explain that now because i everything's above table. um So back at the start of Arc 2, yeah, the start of Arc 2, me and Micah, who was one of my in-person friends when I was in Washington and was there at the very start of Arc 3, we were trying to do um a side series called PTT SideQuest.
00:18:44
Speaker
um So, we ended up recording like an episode or two, but then we kept having to redo episodes. We had audio issues, and then we had to redo things. We had new guests on. We had to redo it because there were issues. We ended up redoing episode one, i think, five times. And it got to the point where we were so frustrated about it. We got to like episode two Yeah.
00:19:07
Speaker
Which was when the Alarm Club... No, the Alarm Club store was on one of the episode one ones. But it it got to the point where we were having so many issues and it was just... We were sick and tired of doing the same exact thing over and over. We just cancelled the sideshow.
00:19:22
Speaker
It never got released. I think... We had one of the episodes on Patreon, which was the only one I could salvage the audio from. i think that's what that was.
00:19:34
Speaker
But anyway, the Alarm Clock store was a dungeon that I made, Micah and... If we had one of the guests on, I don't remember which one it was. So it was at least me and Micah.
00:19:46
Speaker
And ah they had them go into the alarm clock store because Micah's character, um Blair, broke her alarm clock. So she went to the alarm clock store, but it turned out to be this absolutely chaotic... ah dungeon which I will not go into because there's like a chance that the co-host might actually go to the alarm clock store and you we will force the away there people do not you forget we will we will give you your fan service of dungeons so So the Alarm Clock store was a ah was a reference to a sideshow that never made it to air.
00:20:24
Speaker
That was literally a reference only one other person or one one or two other people in the entire world could get. So that's the explanation for the Alarm Clock store. Now, back to the original point, the reason I haven't done dungeons is because the purpose of Arc 3, or my goal for Arc 3, was to speed up the plot.
Shift to Plot and Character Focus
00:20:44
Speaker
And these dungeons take a long time to run through. um and especially in recent times where I haven't- I haven't had access to my computer because I've been recording all of these on my damn Surface Pro laying in bed.
00:20:58
Speaker
Yes, I'm currently laying in bed because I can't fucking record on my computer. Um, And I'll get into that in a minute. But it takes a lot more effort, it takes a long time to do these dungeons, and I'm trying to get the plot moving along because Arc 1 and 2 were so slow that I kinda never really even thought of doing dungeons. They just weren't really a thought.
00:21:21
Speaker
So I kinda pushed them aside in favor of more storytelling, plot progression, and character interactions, and character growth. So that was my goal for Arc 3, and I never really explored dungeons for that reason.
00:21:35
Speaker
oh so but yeah
00:21:42
Speaker
and the reason i'm not recording on my computer is because my computer is currently situated in a basement at the bottom of the stairs and there's a lot of sound that leaks downstairs uh when i moved to missouri i moved in with my fiance's uh My fiance's ah grandparents were currently living in their basement because...
Recording Challenges
00:22:03
Speaker
ah Do you guys want me to get into that story? I know you guys know that story, but... Sure, I don't know. It's up to you, really?
00:22:15
Speaker
and If so, I'll tell it at a later time. Yeah, it's not necessary, but basically where my PC is located has a lot of sound pollution, and it's really terrible for recording. So I am not recording at my PC. I have to record out my tablet, and I have like access to none of the resources I normally do.
00:22:33
Speaker
uh i don't have my excel sheets i can't use character sheets which is all of my character sheets are on a notes app on my phone so i don't even have access to the system or anything it's really hard for me to do things that are more intensive so uh that is part of the reason oh hey nice yeah which one do you got can you let uh what which one do you got I don't know what this one's called. I named it Metagross EX.
00:23:05
Speaker
But oh, your tablet after a Pokemon. Yes, think mine's a Surface 8 Pro. I think that's what it is. its It's a bit older because I got this like get three to four years ago, I think.
00:23:22
Speaker
But it's been doing its job. I got it as a backup PC and that's what it's been used for. So. Yeah. Do you have your character sheets on, like, OneDrive or anything?
00:23:33
Speaker
No, I have all of my character sheets are gone because my PC died recently and I still haven't recovered those. So I gotta reconstruct all of those again.
00:23:48
Speaker
You should be able to get the files at least, right? Off of it. I mean, I've tried. i don't... If you like can take out the hard drive and get that to somewhere else or something, right? Well, the hard drive is completely wiped.
00:24:08
Speaker
There's nothing on that anymore. Yeah. A while back, in my my PC completely bricked itself and we didn't find out until later. My RAM ah was like broken or something and basically my computer was running without RAM.
00:24:25
Speaker
uh so i didn't know that at the time and i did a hard reset on my computer just to try and salvage the computer itself which didn't work because well the computer had no ram so uh ended up taking it to a shop and they said yeah your ram sticks are broken and they got me two uh 32 gigs of ram to replace it which was 200 dollars by the way uh of ddr4 ram but anyway um it worked for like a week and then it got bricked again and i really hope those ram sticks aren't dead because i got my new pc but i haven't tested them because my new pc runs ddr5 ram not ddr4 so
00:25:09
Speaker
I don't even know if those sticks work anymore that I just bought.
Data Loss Incident
00:25:13
Speaker
But anyway, I completely wiped my old PC just trying to salvage the computer and I failed. So all the files that were on the computer are gone, except for the ones that were on my external hard drive, which has all the podcast audio. So the podcast is still safe. you've like shared OneDrive links with us.
00:25:32
Speaker
i i I have to look at OneDrive. I don't remember what I have on OneDrive. I think it was just the audio back when we were like doing audio sharing and stuff like that. but Oh, sign in.
00:25:48
Speaker
microsoft can I'll deal with that later. There's a good chance I might have something on OneDrive, but I had like a master DM version that had all of my character sheets and stuff on it.
00:25:58
Speaker
I'm like 90% sure that's just gone because that was just saved on my device. Dang. That's unfortunate. Yeah, so I'll have to reconstruct to that. Yeah.
00:26:09
Speaker
If you want any help rebuilding sheets... i can I just need to that I just yeah it would be I mean yeah I'd love some help uh because I'm just trying to fix was it version 4.3 I think is what we were on and then that stopped working god that was way back when Sean was on holy crap yeah we we never got 4.3 working No, we didn't. And then 4.3 broke. I tried reverting back, lost a bunch of stuff, and then... That's a whole thing. I never got it back. Yeah, I need to reconstruct the entire system.
00:26:47
Speaker
cause there's The version you guys are using, I think, still has bugs or something like that. so so i'm yeah I'm still using the last version that didn't have bugs, which I believe is 3.8.
00:27:02
Speaker
jeez you're still in the three series of the system yes oh geez i don't think that even has the updated rule set ah i might have pulled over the updated rule set possibly okay okay and that is something i wanted to discuss with you guys later but we'll get to the questions first uh is the is the way the combat system has been working uh i do want to ask you guys about that and see how you feel about it after using it for an arc but ah we can do ah we can do system discussions later.
00:27:36
Speaker
um Now that I've talked about my life for like 30 straight minutes, ah do you guys have any other questions? I think Jake did, didn't you? I'm trying to think.
00:27:48
Speaker
I thought thought of it all. I have a question for Jake. Oh, please tell Ask. How did you feel a finding out that the furret that you'd been hunting for like an arc and a half was just a perfectly normal civilian that had been wronged by the same person who gave you a hit on them?
00:28:18
Speaker
Oh, Cookie. We shall discuss this great great depression I had on
00:28:28
Speaker
Me and the community were greatly wounded by this.
00:28:34
Speaker
As a spokesman of the people, as someone who was once one of them, the damage too much. And bringing this back is a great, great just displeasure.
00:28:51
Speaker
Yeah, I think you you guys are talking about a Cookie, right? yeah the first Yes. As my dog tries to eat my hair. Yeah, I think I already talked about ah how that was a ah player submitted character and how that all worked, but yeah. Yeah, yep you that that's fine yeah. I knew that you had talked about it before. That's why I wanted to ask Jake about it, considering he was the one who actually attacked the person.
00:29:18
Speaker
yeah t subdued Words. Punched in the face. Tell me you don't un arrest it was He was arrested. That's what happened.
00:29:33
Speaker
bounty hunter arrest.
00:29:38
Speaker
Yeah, not quite. Okay, next question for Dakota.
00:29:46
Speaker
So since we found out that Bree was... a zoro arc by the end of the arcrk o i wanted to talk about this and i know everyone want wanteds to talk about this where did this even happen oh that is a great question evelyn do you want to reveal what happened in the the special episode we did
00:30:16
Speaker
Me and Evelyn were secretly working on that last episode.
00:30:23
Speaker
Yeah. um and We had some we had a little bit of dramatic irony going on.
00:30:32
Speaker
Let's just say I was playing was I playing Bri or was I playing the and you I think I was i was playing Bree in that episode, right?
00:30:43
Speaker
So yes, oh you swapped over when the fight happened. Yeah. So when the fight scene started, I start I started playing the other.
00:30:54
Speaker
I started playing the other Bree instead. um But it was Zoroark disguised as Bree. Oh, I would have talked about this so much so perfect.
00:31:08
Speaker
won Continue. And I came back and I think Zoroark came back with you guys as disguised as Bree.
00:31:20
Speaker
And I was playing so i was playing the Zoroark and basically infiltrated your um your base.
00:31:32
Speaker
You know, so much for a fight back security. Yeah, so so when exactly was this? Like, which which special episode? ah This was the special episode where you were playing Abyss and Evelyn was playing Bree.
00:31:48
Speaker
Jake wasn't there. Okay, just making sure I knew that. I know that you would mention that Bree was, like, feeling weird or something.
00:31:59
Speaker
You mentioned that. I was suspicious of Bree for a while and then nothing happened with it. God, I've been wanting to reveal this for so long. ah Yeah, but of course, like, I, e Eli, was suspicious of Brie. Bruce knew nothing about it, so I couldn't act on that suspicion at all.
00:32:19
Speaker
Oh, that was so good. um So during that special episode, this is the special episode where they went and went and found the rescue team with Charmander, Squirrel, Bulbasaur.
00:32:31
Speaker
So before the recording started, I had texted Evelyn. i was like, look, you are going to be playing a double agent during this episode. And I gave her the character sheet for a Zorowark.
00:32:43
Speaker
Now, with ah Brie and Zoroark both being Dark types, I had similar
Plot Twist with Zoroark
00:32:48
Speaker
movesets. I made sure they had similar movesets. um And what ended up happening is Evelyn was playing Brie all the way up until the fight scene.
00:32:59
Speaker
As soon as the fight started, they got into a bit of a kerfuffle. There was a big dust cloud, and you couldn't tell, but Evelyn started playing the Zoroark. When the kerfuffle happened, they both turned into debris and you guys weren't able to tell which was which.
00:33:15
Speaker
is a big I was not planning on Zorwark infiltrating your base. However, what ended... So you're telling me they knew there was there was someone who was able to transform to them.
00:33:28
Speaker
They saw two of them and when they were acting weird, they didn't think, oh wait, maybe we got the wrong one. So, what ended up happening is Evelyn was playing the Zorowark, and the illusion ability was in effect.
00:33:46
Speaker
If you had hit her, she would have turned back into a Zorowark. The thing is, you guys nailed down the wrong Bree during that entire fight. You never once hit the actual Zorowark. Thus, the illusion was never broken. That was by a complete accident.
00:34:05
Speaker
You guys chose the wrong brief from the start and focused the wrong one. Thus, the Zorowark was able to maintain the illusion through the entire episode.
00:34:17
Speaker
So... i guess this tells us when someone uses ore... When they transform, their ore changes as well. They can change their ores as well.
00:34:29
Speaker
That's a good point. there was another thing. That's an interesting precedent set there. because i i swear i used origin or um sense at least around here for one sense of the other so unless we just you didn't didn't think of mentioning or difference they can change it might have just been i didn't think about it there was some another thing the poison what they also it can change your smell
00:35:00
Speaker
Do you remember the poison, Evelyn? We had a discussion about that during the fight behind the scenes. Wait, I don't remember the poison, let me check. So, what ended up happening is that during the fight, the Zorowark Bree, the fake Bree, accidentally got poisoned during the fight.
00:35:20
Speaker
me Evelyn pointed it out. And we found out that poison does not break illusion. So while you managed to hit the Zorowark Bree with Toxic, it never broke illusion because apparently poison it doesn't break illusion. Which is a very niche fact that I used so that way that Zorowark would not break illusion.
00:35:46
Speaker
Okay. Oh, yeah. So, I'm going to say this. Bree's friends are fake friends. you You see a double agent. You take him down. All right. All good. All good.
00:36:01
Speaker
But immediately, the next day or everything, that she acts like um a 180 kind of personality. And you don't think suspicious. Maybe we got the wrong guy. Well that's the thing, I noticed this, but Evelyn was acting purposefully suspicious after the battle had ended. you Like you were talking all creepy, all creepy-like during the entire ending of the episode, and no one ever mentioned it.
00:36:27
Speaker
yeah So the question is now, where is Bri? Probably in an alley beat up. Uh, what?
00:36:37
Speaker
I will be honest, I hardly remember this whole thing. remember because I was so so happy with how that turned out. You really just docked the this whole thing, though.
00:36:51
Speaker
But, uh... Well, it was such a big thing, because what are the chances that you got into a fight where the Pokemon was illusion, and that Pokemon never breaks illusion through the entire fight? Like, that was such a mind-blowing fight in the in the back... in the Yeah.
00:37:07
Speaker
How did the real three never hit a move? on the zoroark is what i'm wondering that's that's the thing it just turn after turn this zoroark never got hit just by complete chance yeah it's such an astounding thing she had to roll super low for new not hit with moves how did she roll well you'd have to get like one to five multiple times and miss every shot this is wow Yeah, I know. So yeah, after that i was like, holy crap, we have a Zorowark infiltrating the
Handling Double Agents?
00:37:45
Speaker
base. How can I use this?
00:37:48
Speaker
So I know it's such a cool thing and I haven't able to talk about it until now. Glad I asked about it. So guys, whenever we see double anyone else, we agree. We all, let Walter punch both of you.
00:38:08
Speaker
sh I have to punch of you This isn't a thing that we... did This is above board. We don't know this in game. I mean, we know there's a Zora that can mimic people, so if there's two of us, we can probably just figure that out. I mean, if we can get in an actual episode, Abyss talking about this situation, then we can have this whole pact happening.
00:38:36
Speaker
Because Abyss now knows what was going on Abyss knows everything now. So when is Brie going on her... It's up to Dakota to have Abyss bring it up with us.
00:38:50
Speaker
When is Brie going on her villain art for being left behind? Yeah, so that's... So do you guys know what happened to Brie? Oh, know what happened to Brie.
00:39:02
Speaker
Not like I'm telling you guys. Oh, she's getting the Walter treatment.
00:39:09
Speaker
she She's getting psychicked right now. oh yes. that's why She's fine getting psychic. Psychic does nothing to Bree. Oh, yeah. It's minor migraine.
00:39:21
Speaker
She's a dark type.
00:39:24
Speaker
right, then she's just getting punched.
00:39:29
Speaker
She's just getting mock-punched. Which is worse, being assaulted in the mind or being assaulted physically? the a like, would you rather face? would you rather face, Batman or Martian Manhunter?
00:39:46
Speaker
Pick a Martian Manhunter. I'm never fighting Batman.
00:39:52
Speaker
All right. And since I asked a question to the other two, might as well ask Eflin something, too. you You did get the TM slurph.
00:40:05
Speaker
Do you ever plan on doing anything with that? the Just for the audience? You know, I think we should go to as her mom and learn it. Learn it with her.
00:40:18
Speaker
I want to hear a Scottish. I want to see your Scottish mother. or your sweet Swedish mother or German. Hey, quite definitely answer now what is she now? Yeah, I know. Every time you see her, she's going to be a different different person.
00:40:35
Speaker
I think I just like to use it fuck there. Okay. Wait, what did we say about Slurf? Was it like a 50% chance not working? think I was about to like... I bought it, right? I think I'm sur Something like that, yeah. Where'd you even get it from again? can't remember.
00:40:55
Speaker
Oh, where did you get it? Oh, yeah, you got it because it was made from China. You found it discounted in a shop. It was music in a clearance sale. Oh yeah, it was in the discount bin. Yeah. like you It's like you went to $5.
00:41:11
Speaker
Went Dollar General. Yes, I'd like to win a TM, please. I'd like a nice, powerful water-type TM that I can learn for some strange reason.
00:41:23
Speaker
But I'd like it for cheap. Hmm, let me see what I can get. just pulls up fucking slurf. I just love that it actually has made in China stamped on it.
00:41:39
Speaker
Yeah, the reason I haven't the reason that like Hikaru hasn't taught herself slurph yet is because Bruce.
00:41:50
Speaker
Oh, yeah, because it's an area it's a light attack move. Yeah, yes, that we really haven't done much of that system because we all we really have only one target moves.
00:42:04
Speaker
Hold on, wait. This this is like Yu-Gi-Oh. you To use Surf, you require one sacrifice. Sacrificing Bruce. You summon the legendary fisherman!
00:42:19
Speaker
This something requires one sacrifice. just gotta buy like frickin... You know what? You know what might work? um You guys should all come back to Hikaru's mom's slurf shop.
00:42:34
Speaker
Surf shop. ah And buy surfboards. Sorry, your slurf shop is your is from your cousins.
00:42:44
Speaker
See, they wanted the store, but your mom wouldn't let them have it.
00:42:50
Speaker
Oh, man. No, it's ah it's a franchise. Because the OG Olola Sporting Goods is based in Briny Breeze Island. And um it's run by when Janice, Hikaru's mom, was a kid.
00:43:09
Speaker
her parents ran the shop in briny breeze island and then when she um when she met hikaru's dad um he's from he he's from valkenburg he's the one with the like the million ties um i think he has five ties now or something like it's either four or five yeah he yeah he's the inferni with five ties And he was like sick of his corporate job in Vulkenberg. So he decided, i think they just like both decided to move to Gale Beach together because he like, he thought it had like the best business opportunities with, the you know, the most booming real estate beach house market.
00:43:57
Speaker
Yeah. So even though you're the only beach house we saw was the shop.
00:44:08
Speaker
Free market. There's like five other beach houses. Well, listen, listen, in ten years it will be booming. yeah you got that same castle Pokemon. just remembered. ah yeah you You sent the artillery, off to see your dad, didn't you?
00:44:29
Speaker
yeah
00:44:34
Speaker
she gave him his she gave vickers his business card Well, maybe you'll see him as a neighbor someday. Maybe. Listen, your mom's main customers at Sandgast.
00:44:48
Speaker
That we created. so that's how um so that's how the Alola Sporting Goods ended up in Gale Beach. It's just a franchise. I like that. Maybe you guys will see other ones as you venture around. I'll keep that in mind.
00:45:02
Speaker
Alright, so what were you saying about having us go back to your mom's shop to do something? If you guys want to buy surfboards, so that the next time, like, if if Hikaru uses slurf at some point, maybe... I don't know that's how that works. You guys will... You guys will not be caught off guard.
00:45:26
Speaker
You'll have your slurfboards. could maybe do that water, but if slurf, it's like jello. this Your slurf boards, Jesus. it Of course, I think we should like test it in... I feel like slurf is just a water type um sludge wave.
00:45:49
Speaker
Which is basically just muddy water, but not a chance to poison. It's sewage water.
00:46:01
Speaker
Oh cheese No, i don't like that at all. Uh, Seward Water Whirlpool. yeah You know how water-type Pokemon are able to get generate like infinite quantities of water?
00:46:20
Speaker
Yep.
00:46:22
Speaker
That would be interesting to... get it Getting away from that discussion. Let's move on to speaking of real estate.
00:46:34
Speaker
When are we going to buy our house? yeah you guys do have new shop let's buy the car's mom's shop let's just buy that we don't need to buy car's mom's job it's already in the family we gotta listen on slice it's a mo house as i've seen it's gonna be a booming business we'll make our money back super fast
00:46:59
Speaker
I think we need to let's buy a new safe house. What if I did that? I just had an idea. What if I let you guys buy houses in the different cities and they can be like outposts for you guys?
00:47:16
Speaker
Like base outposts. I have a plan. okay mean I have a plan. that's And then if we get like four houses, do we get to buy a hotel or something?
00:47:28
Speaker
okay fuck v and I hope that that face bomb just got through the light. Do we get across Go and collect our money? yeah, yeah. you Go back to Volkenberg, collect 200, Jesus. Alright, here's my plan for Volkenberg.
00:47:44
Speaker
one For our first outpost, I'm thinking we buy a shop that's empty, a shop that's empty and has a back room.
00:47:56
Speaker
Then we have the Floette and her flower business start that off for her and she can be a front.
00:48:06
Speaker
A front for what? Is it a front? You're a safe house. It's a safe house. So that's got there's got to be a, people got to think something goes on there. If nothing happens there, you get suspicious.
00:48:21
Speaker
But they think, it's just a flower shop, no one's going mind. Yeah, who's going to go up to the kids selling flowers and shake them for secrets? Don't forget that that Floette is a child.
00:48:35
Speaker
Who's going to look at a a child running a business out of a building and not be questioning it? It's Pokemon. We have kids that do terrorism in this.
00:48:51
Speaker
Do we? and well I love that. It's Pokemon. Why not? We had a town that had Terrorism Day.
00:49:02
Speaker
yeah but it wasn't the kids that were doing the terrorism. oh they kill Terrorism Day. Great game. A kid running a shop? Impossible.
00:49:14
Speaker
Impossible. I do love the idea though of letting you guys set up outposts and stuff. Oh, that sounds so cool. i actually really
Secret Bases and Outposts Idea
00:49:24
Speaker
like that. Yay, we finally get to make secret bases!
00:49:29
Speaker
Yes, I love that actually. Great, we can use this as a spawn point for when we do dungeons, just do that the whole day Okay, you know, okay, if you guys are on board, I can actually make that a thing. It'll be a good way for you guys to spend the amount of money you guys have, but I can actually set that up. We're gonna have a Wild West duel. You're gonna have to make them reasonably priced, though, so that we can actually get in multiples.
00:49:55
Speaker
Without spending 100 grand on each one. Well, to be fair, we gain money like crazy in this. haven't needed to do any money missions for a while. That's another reason we haven't done dungeons.
00:50:07
Speaker
Oh, that'd be so cool! So, okay, so I'm just having ideas after ideas. What if you guys had outposts in each of the major cities, but each outpost you have, you can, like, buy upgrades for? So, like, say you can buy an upgrade for a fast travel point, or... oh what's something else? healing station. Are we playing Days Gone?
00:50:31
Speaker
ah I've never played that, or... But... But I don't know, like haven't like, giving you guys like a little bit of base building with this, actually I think it'd be so cool. What you guys think? Do you guys have any ideas on that? Doing base building will be a whole episode for me.
00:50:49
Speaker
Yeah. Like, I forget we're not we're not in the main series world, but like... Pokemon Centers. Yeah, I feel like we we would need to come up with a good system for the upgrades because like I don't think that Healing Station is a good...
00:51:09
Speaker
Upgrade level. was just an idea. like feel like a healing station would be like a public utility. our Healing station is useless. We didn't have to. I want to raise my hand. It depends on like how capitalist our world is. i want to raise my hand. You guys are making a more and more capitalist. you guys are like the richest people. I want to put out the suggestion that we no longer.
00:51:35
Speaker
um We can't bullshit heal. we can i want to put it out that we can only use the sleep heal once every two episodes.
00:51:45
Speaker
Sleep heal? I don't know about every two episodes. I don't know. We only really only use it once episode, but we need a reason to have a safe place to sleep. If we want do this base building, it needs have people looking for us.
00:52:03
Speaker
We have people going to call us out. We need a reason to even want a safe house and not just go to a random place. Okay. I mean, to be fair, we've been sleeping in hotels where you can lock the door and it should be safe.
00:52:21
Speaker
Okay, Dakota. i You do say that, but you did have someone drop mail off at your hotel once. well You're saying locking the door makes us safe?
Garchomp's Capabilities Debate
00:52:34
Speaker
In a Pokemon world. Maybe you gotta put super locks or something on it. i don't know. yeah well you Our main enemy- One of our main enemies is a Garchomp who can destroy a skyscraper. They say they can dis destroy skyscraper. I don't know if Bob the Garchomp... Hey, Hyper Beam could cut in half. I mean, come on now. I fought Bob the Garchomp. I don't think he's destroying any skyscrapers. Listen, listen.
00:52:58
Speaker
He's not a good representation of Garchomp's. He evolved early. Wait a minute. i just A little bit off topic, but when was that a dex entry made for Garchomp about jets hitting you know skyscrapers?
00:53:12
Speaker
That wasn't made around 9-11, was it? You do not listen to that. so Slugma, the fire, a lava um slug, said it's hotter than the surface of the sun. so we're not listening to that. Yeah, MagTargo. MagTargo.
00:53:27
Speaker
that's slug yeah well garch garchomp's thing is that it's a jet destroying skyscrapers that's just 9 11. was is that actually a thing because i have not actually heard that before so i don't know unless jake just put some false and memories in me i know they have a i know i know pokedex entry is that they can mach 2.
00:53:51
Speaker
I it. That's Pidgeot that goes Mach 2, by the way. It flies at speeds equal to a jet fighter plane. It never allows its prey to escape.
00:54:03
Speaker
Okay. They must have changed it, because swear Guard Trump had that as well. That's the ah Pearl entry. I am looking for any mention of skyscrapers, and I am not seeing any mention of skyscrapers. don't remember the skyscrapers thing. I do not remember that.
00:54:21
Speaker
Oh, okay. Why did you mention skyscrapers then? I didn't! No, I'm just saying they can destroy it. One hyperbeam and skyscraper gone. I just looked at it. sarah As long as they focus fired in it and just random fire, they can destroy a skyscraper.
00:54:36
Speaker
Wow, Garchomp was only in five games? Wait, hold on. That's not right. That's not right at all. It's five generations. Five generations, but five games not right. Oh, this is only showing one gen. Oh, hold gotta... Never mind. no I'm just stupid.
00:54:53
Speaker
I don't know how to use them. Every generation has like four games. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I i didn't realize were all from the same generation. Yeah, I think that was something that Jake just brainwashed me with.
00:55:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:10
Speaker
Unless someone in the audience can prove me otherwise. yeah You were the one who said Garchomp can knock down skyscrapers. yeah I said destroy. were the one who said skyscrapers.
00:55:23
Speaker
Oh, yes. Okay. Same difference. Whatever. Yeah, I got a question for Bruce. Uh, well, for Eli. Who's Bruce? Yeah.
00:55:36
Speaker
Yeah, good question. ah Okay. Why does it seem like, why does it seem like Bruce always has the least money? good question. Rich kid can't get no money.
00:55:49
Speaker
no money. Doesn't love him.
00:55:53
Speaker
Hey, only one of us can have that. going to with Bruce's parents, knowing that he's from like bit big, rich company stuff, gave him a strict allowance to make sure that he knows the value of money and didn't grow up as a typical rich kid, spend money like it's water thing. Yeah, there you go. I like Walter had the different experience...
00:56:21
Speaker
or he just got money and he's like a rich kid yeah how much money do we all have i am pulling up my character sheet now to find out you guys you guys had 150 000. know i had to get i had to give i had to give out some scraps to you too <unk>ers perhapss good Not including the jewels because we haven't converted those jewels to money.
00:56:54
Speaker
i have 2080 money right now. hu By the way, am on version 3.3. Let's see, I have seventy k and jims and then eighteen k and just money Yeah, gems don't count. I have 20-20. Right. public Yeah, because we have to find a spot where we can actually sell the gems for at least their average value.
00:57:35
Speaker
Because the last place that we tried to sell our jewels in... or gems, whatever they are, did not give us the option to sell them at the value that Dakota originally told us about.
00:57:50
Speaker
I wonder how much I can sell by TNT on the black market.
00:57:56
Speaker
Yes. Oh, gosh. yeah Dakota gave me a lot. He wants this out of my inventory.
00:58:05
Speaker
i've never once tried you're the only who ever says dakota wants us out of your room i have never once tried getting it out of your inventory you you will i think i' find funny i think it's a funny thing if you had the chance to get it out of my inventory but you did the bulky burgers but and not the tnt the bulky burgers i don't care if you have the tnt and it's a really funny item no no that's true thing can wipe can wipe a squad of dragon types off the face. His thing can target one person at a time.
00:58:42
Speaker
I feel like you did the wrong person there.
00:58:46
Speaker
Well, wait, why did I target Bruce? because i think it was literally just because of the previous episode's fight you got fed up with the garchomp got stunlocked and i mean him b s even though i worked on the garchomp's bokeh burgers at the enemies nakoda you got mad at that and annoyed but not at me wiping the his entire squad in one hit uh is because the thunderous boots of invisibility was going to ruin my monologue
00:59:20
Speaker
What do you mean you was gonna ruin your monologue? I wasn't even gonna do anything until it was You made the whole about the burgers. the Silver was there a waiting for everyone to appear. And I was like, I have this thing all set up. I want this to happen now. I'm like, fuck you and your boots. They're going in the trash.
00:59:43
Speaker
so the boots are guys i finally had good opportunity to use the boots and he instantly steals from me the option that you could have had was go for um evelyn who had the least amount of op stuff bruce had the medium and then me who had the ultra ah of extreme stuff i mean to be fair Jake's... he He still has the curse on Jake, so... Curse! Until he uses his Auto-NAT1 on Jake, he doesn't need to care about you having the TNT.
01:00:22
Speaker
Yeah. He'll care. I can cash that in whenever I want. Go ahead. You did use it for me, it's so right? At some point in the last two episodes?
01:00:34
Speaker
Sorry, what was that? I was typing. think? you You used your AutoNAT1 for Bruce sometime in the last two episodes, right?
01:00:47
Speaker
No, I haven't used any of them. He's saving them for a boss fight. That's what he's doing. saving them for a boss fight. I already know what I'm doing with those. so I know for a fact I haven't used them because if I did, then I fucked myself royally. i um know okay so Next time i use guys...
01:01:08
Speaker
Next time we use TNT, make sure you're away from me. Yeah, I mean... Yeah, because I want a nat 1, you just completely blow up yourself. This thing could kill us all.
01:01:20
Speaker
It could do 100 damage if I roll perfect. That's true, actually. Wait a minute. If I roll perfectly, it could get 100 damage. That one with TNT. And blow yay Walter up because Walter has to survive to the future.
01:01:38
Speaker
Walter can't die in this show.
01:01:43
Speaker
don't know. Oh my gosh. that just mean ah Dakota, i will say this. You can never use this on me. You won't why. You're killing the party because ah it would automatically set off the other nine.
01:01:56
Speaker
So if you use this, you Walter. You just straight up kill Walter. if you use that nat 1 on me while i have the others. Because that's a thousand damage I could get. You just always assumed this though.
01:02:10
Speaker
You just always assumed going to use it on my I know what he's going to use it on. going to use it on my orb. you're Oh, my way wait. I should have tried that Sylveon.
01:02:25
Speaker
Espeon. It is a shiny Espeon. We told you this. something You know, maybe i sure maybe if I threw that, she would turned into a Sylveon. That would so actually. don't think mattered because unlike you doing it to legendary Pokemon where she would lose their power, she'd kept theirs because she infused it with her.
01:02:45
Speaker
She's not just that Pokemon. She got infused with her. Yeah, she's like powered up from them. yeah i could do it on a um reggie rock but not her yeah so you should do it on the garden what happens if you guys infuse yourselves with the orb what was gonna begs the question what happens if you fuse yourself with the orb now then that the net one yeah well one of the uh one of the you take d10 you take d30 psychic damage
01:03:22
Speaker
Well, I don't even know I'm truly... psychic damage wouldn't actually be that bad, honestly. That's what I was... Yeah, that's where I'm saying. like That actually wouldn't be that bad. Not with me, would, because it'd be be times two.
01:03:35
Speaker
Well, for Walter, you take D20 psychic damage every turn unless you make a DC 20 wisdom save. Jeez.
01:03:46
Speaker
um know you You take the type of damage ah depending on what orb...
01:03:54
Speaker
yeah
01:03:57
Speaker
We have the blue orb, so that's the time orb, right?
01:04:05
Speaker
Or Dialga orb, technically. Wait a minute. I thought it was the Lucia orb. You said the orb of Dialga. Why don't they know it was Lucia orb of the orb?
01:04:19
Speaker
you ja Jake comp completely forgot the whole story of the orbs. Yes, the orbs are the gods. Well, Lugia's a god.
01:04:33
Speaker
Yes, but that they that the time-space distortion... Listen, listen, listen, listen. That was season one when it was explained. No, that was literally season two. You were there for the that was season Yeah, that was the end of season two.
01:04:52
Speaker
I love this format, by the way. were well established at that point. What, just the discussion format? Yeah, this post-game show episode format. it's like we we were like We didn't have any questions prepared, so this is like all just chaos.
01:05:09
Speaker
I know. it's great I was worried we weren't going have any content. If you do want questions next time, so comment. We you really need them. We've been recording for almost two hours.
01:05:21
Speaker
yeah we live on... Oh, right. So I had an idea. We have... Idea. Blue orb time... or Dialga time.
01:05:33
Speaker
If... So the Espeon fused with the Giratina orb gave herself distortion powers... What if one of us fuses with the Dioga Orb gets time powers, reverses time to back before Silver infused herself with the Giratina Orb?
01:05:57
Speaker
have some interesting idea. Okay, we're we're gonna have the whole um Marvel's time travel comment where oh my that would just make a new timeline, for not change our time. shows no. That would turn into that. We would basically be doing future trunks.
01:06:15
Speaker
no no we would change let's have a time we and i have not ours please no i hate when shows do that i hate that yeah i can tell you i would not let it get to the anymore oh my i would tell you i would not speak marvel you just did marvel or anything eat nikota speaking of marvel you just did i just realized you did something about a marvel show that hey you just did a secret invasion with with the Marvels. Is that a thing in Marvel? With the Skrill.
01:06:51
Speaker
It's about- Hey, that wasn't intentional. yeah I know, but you did it, and i you just reminded me how much i hated that that show they did.
01:07:01
Speaker
right. It's basically a lot of the characters that we love in the Marvel universe were aliens. Yeah.
01:07:12
Speaker
okay Do you guys have any other questions for me or discussion topics? Yeah. i think if you have I think everything else.
01:07:22
Speaker
Did you have the Abyss? Everything else that I had was answered during the show. but Dakota, did you have the Abyss and Selena relationship before the whole of us joking around about Walter liking her?
01:07:40
Speaker
That's a good question. That's actually a great question. Or did you just do that so we didn't have any more romantic stuff going on here? I will say i got the idea from the song Spine by West Ghost.
01:07:55
Speaker
I have to remember when I heard about that or heard that song for the first time. So I don't actually know. don't remember if I had the affair planned.
01:08:09
Speaker
Affair? Oh, wait, I just realized. They're married? What? No, I didn't mean affair as in like a... No. You can have an affair and not be married. You mean cheating?
01:08:21
Speaker
yeah Yes. Affair is when you're married. Cheating is when you're dating them. Okay. Whatever. know what I meant. there Yeah, I'm not sure that it was planned or if it... Also, we've not... We didn't really talk about it since then.
01:08:39
Speaker
No, I think it was, uh, I think that happened after realized you guys were dating. Because I think that's the whole reason I came up with that in the first place, is because you and Selena had like a weird thing.
01:08:53
Speaker
Yeah, flirting. And then I listened to that song and I was like, huh, that'd be an interesting plot thing, and I tried it and it didn't really work, so.
01:09:02
Speaker
I mean, we could've, we just, but we just completely forgot about the plot. I think it was not planned.
01:09:07
Speaker
Yeah, because I was trying to make it like a ah ah Ralph and Snow kind of thing.
01:09:14
Speaker
Which, it kind of ended in the same way anyway. Wait.
01:09:20
Speaker
I just had a major idea. The reason Walter had to leave his family, had to leave Ralph and it when growing up, is because he was infused with the orb, and he had a time travel to make the timeline Oh my god. Could you imagine?
01:09:37
Speaker
Could you imagine if that's like the reason behind all of it? God, if this podcast finishes up and retroactively Anirud makes that this like canon or something, the reason Walter's dad hasn't been around is because he has to keep a secret god power secret from the world.
01:09:53
Speaker
He's just with Selby out of nowhere. like That's that some like conspiracy theory type shit right there. not No, I'm not saying he's Selby. I'm just saying like, there's like an ending scene and one of the Non-Scratches like, end scenes and they see Celebi talking to a Ryalu, not Ryalu, a Lucario and they just fade into the timeline.
01:10:18
Speaker
I don't remember that. Is that from the newer seasons? No, Celebi's a time grass Pokemon, right? It would be cool if it did happen. oh Oh, I see, I see, I see. Okay. Yeah, yeah. so I'm thinking of the legendary Celebi, the grass one that can time travel.
01:10:34
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was making I didn't- Yeah, Celby is grass psycho. I thought Celby was Victini. I kept- I was confused if I was selling Celby right over as Victini. I was confusing the two.
01:10:46
Speaker
oh No, Victini is just victory thing. Yeah, Yeah. Yeah. He's got the view. Yeah, yeah. So that would be very cool and it would make me feel so much better at since he would not have been a dipshit dad.
01:11:03
Speaker
It made me feel so much better than my- I would not expect it to happen with Anirud's pretty clear stance that this is separate timeline from not a scratch. Yeah. Or like separate universe, alternate universe thing.
Crossover Speculation and Timeline Theories
01:11:21
Speaker
But it would be a cool nod to us. What we just said, you can make different timelines depending on what you do in the past.
01:11:31
Speaker
that If you change in the pass, it just creates another timeline. We're going to get the TVA in this.
01:11:38
Speaker
We change the timeline and end up in the Not-A-Scratch timeline. oh my god, dude, that would a crazy entrance for a season two. or sorry, not yeah a PTT like season two, where we change the timeline at the end so that we end up in the Not-A-Scratch time and meet up with fucking Ralph and all of them.
01:12:01
Speaker
Holy shit, that'd be crazy. But is it the timeline where Ralph joins the recruits of the Lost or is it the other timeline? That's the question.
01:12:12
Speaker
We'll never know. I mean, assuming not as scratch as there should be timeline B, but I guess we'll find out. go to Get up with Anna Reid with this idea. going. this This is an idea for like five seasons down. i don't even know if we're going to be around for five more seasons. I feel like i was five more years.
01:12:30
Speaker
that This is like a PC by campaign 2 kind of a thing. I'm expecting this to go for... I feel like this is all gonna intersect. Like, this is all gonna depend on, like, Walter's music career to an extent.
01:12:46
Speaker
Like... Oh, speaking of music careers. But go on. Yeah, like, what if, um... Um...
01:12:56
Speaker
Like, I mean, I just i just know like in in real, I just know like a lot of a ah lot of like musicians in real life have had like fucked up lives. um I'm not saying that this will happen, but like how would,
01:13:11
Speaker
like how does this, how does this end up, like how do you end up with like Ralph and then being separated from Ralph?
01:13:22
Speaker
Then is something for the future. Yeah, maybe that's something that'll get explained. I feel like that's something for Anaru to decide because he made it. Yeah. Because that was this. I feel like that is something in the future beyond this podcast's time.
01:13:39
Speaker
That's for the producer. Should we throw out some ideas for like a fan fiction writers in the audience? You know what? Audience, yes.
01:13:51
Speaker
Send me, um, I want your fan fictions of how Walter and the, month did they tell the name of the one that he, felt the Machop that he fell in love with? To have Ralph? Did they ever say the name? Because I only know the grandma.
01:14:05
Speaker
I think that's just Ralph's mom. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Just give let's see a fan fiction of how Walter and Ralph's mom, was she Machop or a Machamp?
01:14:17
Speaker
not Machop, Machoke or Machamp. She's a Machoke, I think. I was going to say, I think she's second evolution. I want to see some fan fictions of how they got together. Were they just bump into a concert that he had?
01:14:33
Speaker
Did they get together after doing a bounty mission on a quest board?
01:14:39
Speaker
Or did they just go to the same boxing arena? Yeah, I have a feeling that's an area that's not going to get explored. So any fan theories or fan fixer, I should be really cool to see about that.
01:14:54
Speaker
Because, yeah, I haven't really thought about that too much. But yeah, even after this podcast, Walter still has a whole story connecting PTT to Not a Scratch.
01:15:05
Speaker
So, that'd be interesting. My gosh, I could basically have my own Boba Fett series. so the question is now we've had ah we had a co-host leave every season so far oh so what's one of you guys on the chopping block next it's always been the newest person so i'm out i guess bye guys oh shit that has that has been a weird trend we've had it wasn't always the newest person every season
01:15:41
Speaker
It also wasn't every season. Oh, no, no, no, sorry. it was always the It was always the person right before me, so sorry, sorry Eli. No, mean, sorry, i'm Evelyn. You're next. It's always the person that introduces me. Oh, the person before you in intro?
01:15:55
Speaker
yeah Yeah, always been them. Jeez, so Eli's next on the chopping block. No, it's Evelyn. She's the one who always gets me. No, Evelyn's the first one. Evelyn introduces me, I introduce you.
01:16:10
Speaker
I am... hmm.
01:16:13
Speaker
This is the brain just three college papers. Dang, guess there's no more flamebacks.
01:16:18
Speaker
Yeah, we have to chop the flamebacks out of the plot somehow. But ah speaking of good my music careers, ah you guys seem to have forgotten about a certain metal box.
01:16:32
Speaker
Oh, I was about to bring that I haven't forgotten about it. I brought this up. I brought this up. We have brought that up multiple times in episodes. But we always had something else to I don't remember where that's to be taken to, but I do have a whole subplot for that.
01:16:49
Speaker
That I have written down that I haven't even thought about until recently. Please tell me if it's a love letter, I'm going to destroy that musician. If it's a love letter?
01:17:01
Speaker
was I'm going back to his place. It's wrecking his stuff. who pac or something I don't remember what ah the other person said was.
01:17:11
Speaker
Oh, great. it's He's giving us hit orders. Yeah, I don't remember who the recipient was. I have it written down somewhere. But, uh... Um, yeah. Hitmonlee, Tom.
01:17:26
Speaker
that's It's two Hitmonlee.
01:17:30
Speaker
So, moving on. Do you guys have any more discussion points?
01:17:39
Speaker
Thinking...
01:17:42
Speaker
thinking okay if you guys don't have you guys listened to the audio clip i posted oh no i did listen to it okay i don't know if you guys want to discuss that or not or anything i don't know if it'll bring up any more questions or whatever it's basically it goes over the same thing that you guys uh What was in the first iteration of that but it just goes into more detail But if if ah if you guys don't have any more discussion points, I do want to ask you guys a question How do you guys feel about the combat system we've used in this arc?
01:18:19
Speaker
um I would like to bring it up again whether or not you guys would like to keep that or if you guys would rather revert back to a so standard turn-by-turn system Because one thing I've noticed is that the bonus moves.
01:18:33
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah, the team initiative and like bonus moves and stuff. Because the bonus moves always get forgotten. feel like this this is kind of clunky. And i don't know. I want to know what you guys think about it. Because...
01:18:56
Speaker
I couldn't hear you guys for a second. Yes, I'm sorry. I'm back. Someone walked in my room. Oh. So, yeah, what do you guys think of that? family walked in my room out nowhere.
01:19:10
Speaker
I'm fine with the system. It's, um, though it kind of, um I feel like it screws the the ending in Because you need it to be random.
01:19:23
Speaker
Otherwise, you can just squatter wipe them before they do anything.
01:19:28
Speaker
Like what we did, we squad wiped the dragons. Yeah. Before they even had a chance. So I really think it's either got where you have groups and not just one big group or just go back to regular. Because it's just an un... You basically you can win if you're first, basically.
01:19:48
Speaker
My dog could just knock my mic off my table. Who dare they? She's acting like a cat.
01:19:56
Speaker
Hey, don't go bad about some jets like that. was going to say, we just had a discussion before the show about that. Yeah, so, yeah, I think I agree with Jake on the team initiative. I feel like we probably should just go back to, like regular initiative.
01:20:18
Speaker
eight Okay. It feels more accurate. In a way, you although I guess like technically in most of the Mystery Dungeon games, you also kind of have a form of team initiative because you all go when you're in a dungeon, all of your team members go in order of their speed. To be fair, in Mystery Dungeon, it's really just you and your partner, not a whole squad.
01:20:47
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. You rarely... I'm like, you could have like four or five Pokemon, but normal playthroughs almost never have that.
01:20:58
Speaker
So I feel like for a TTRPG system, it works better to have just regular speed initiative.
01:21:08
Speaker
Okay. But I do like the bonus actions. Like... Me and Evelyn did get decent use out of like quick attack bonus actions.
01:21:23
Speaker
And occasionally we had like an item bonus action, I think. But I think it was also like hard for me to figure out how like speed changes would work.
01:21:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. did yeah You're never there. You're speaking that bannna you were trying to build speed build was kind of hard for you to do. yep Oh, me, right. Hikaru, right?
01:21:46
Speaker
Yeah. Hikaru with the trailblaze. It kind of makes no sense. like true Yeah, trailblaze makes less of a thing having team initiative.
Combat System Effectiveness
01:21:58
Speaker
Also, it really that makes sense that you knocking down one person's speed makes them all slower. and didn't really make sense because that's a group initiative, knocking down him.
01:22:09
Speaker
oh no, I'm talking about the Hikaru's way of just knocking down their speed, I'm pretty sure, isn't it? Or do you just raise yours? No. sure Doesn't Electra Ball cut their speed? No, no. Electro Ball's damage is based on its speed. So so my like my normal my typical battle strategy is like use Trailblaze to accelerate and then use Electro Ball.
01:22:35
Speaker
Okay. Right.
01:22:40
Speaker
Okay, so you guys may be more compact, but i was gonna say it may be more compact, but here's another thing you think it work in dungeons way better than doing a group one because it basically yeah, that's we're in a dungeon and it yeah, if we're in a dungeon and we all roll against one entity, they're never going to beat us.
01:22:59
Speaker
le all roll is Incredibly bad. okay so you guys want to revert back to the turn by turn, but keep the bonus actions. yes yes okay if we do this i need you guys to actually remember that the bonus actions exist because half the time no one uses them because they're always forgotten about yeah i mean what about the move levels yeah that's the other thing i want to talk about because i i have been keeping track of how many times i've never got to use them
01:23:32
Speaker
I like it that we just know it once we learn it. I like it. I love that. I forgot. Wait. why What? What is a move level supposed to do?
01:23:44
Speaker
move level increases the damage that move. yeah Yes. When you level up a move, it increases the power of Yes. I forgot the exact formula you used, but I think like when you level it up, you either get an extra dice or you get like a flat bonus on top of your... I i don't remember. I have to go back and look at what that is. I don't remember this one.
01:24:05
Speaker
There's like a plus M2 minus one. It was something never really used because this was something i was trying to implement in version 4.3, which I never finished before my computer crapped out, so...
01:24:22
Speaker
And I also just forgot to keep working on it. so Yeah, we also didn't have enough battles really to ever actually level up a move. like Yeah. So thank goodness we didn't keep that.
01:24:39
Speaker
I don't think... actually... yeah, I never went back through the previous episodes to get through, like, to get the total numbers, but, like, the... what I have marked down from when we started marking it down, I used Play Rough six times, and that was the move that I used the most, which, based on our previous Q&A discussion on the system, wouldn't be enough to level up the move anyways.
01:25:10
Speaker
Yeah, so you guys want to keep the move level up soon?
01:25:16
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I think we just need more battles to be able to get moves More dungeons! okay so the last question i'll have more battles more dungeons we'll reach in the end of this episode so yeah i was gonna ask what do you want to improve uh we're reaching the end this episode so i'm not gonna make it long discussion but what do you guys want to see from arc 4 in terms of improvements
01:25:43
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Yeah, more serious.
Arc 4 Enhancements and Character Submissions
01:25:45
Speaker
like said More battles, more dungeons, maybe a little bit slow, like not more, not not quite as slow as like the first two works, but a little bit slower on plot progression would be OK.
01:26:00
Speaker
on OK, so more battles will definitely slow it down. So more battles. I just want to I want to say this like I know we just said plot progression, but i would love it if we could. them get some more other characters because it kind of we've been on the main story a lot and we've not had really a world to besides the um small bit me getting kidnapped we've not really explored much of the world of other people so random npcs we talk about for a second basically which probably could just be board quests for stuff okay
01:26:36
Speaker
Oh, which we'll probably need if we're buying a bunch of houses to do so, we probably need to do money quests, things, XP quests. Oh, yeah. oh Well, about like opportunities for training that don't that are not necessarily part main story, like side plots or like we go to we go to like a dojo or gym for a bit for a day.
01:26:57
Speaker
think I think there's something they've been for Alphen and then it works because then Yeah. then um they They do that in regular one way. He had to do that for like a couple of episodes, like do roles then he could buff one of his stats.
01:27:13
Speaker
Oh, that's right. yeah That's another thing. Human stat increases.
01:27:21
Speaker
The contest stat increases. Yeah. is that a Is that something that can even be increased? Yeah, so like normally... I will say... it in like In the Not-A-Scratch system, it was... You're in a guild, you work on a stat.
01:27:40
Speaker
Every two weeks that you're working on the stat, it gets increased. And then you can pick a different stat to work on. In our system, obviously, you'd have to come up with something different. But like it could just be... we're Well, we're technically in a guild now, so you could just make it be like...
01:27:58
Speaker
every in-game week we're working on a stat we can increase it yeah i actually kind of like that they're working on maybe i would love to get out i would love that not long no longer have a minus one in smarts i'd love that interesting yeah i'd love to i'd love actually do investigation rolls
01:28:24
Speaker
problem is we haven't we've like lost track of the calendar a long time ago yeah uh sean said we were like two weeks in around the time he left so i think we're like we can just say we're a month in by now we can just say we're a month in yeah yeah a month sounds about right there is a part of me that wants to go back and like ah check his work and find out Okay, so a few things I want to work on before Arc 4 starts. I'm going to finish 4.3.
01:28:54
Speaker
I'm going to finish 4.3 before Arc 4 starts. um Add some kind of outposting. I think ah that's something I'll discuss with you guys at some point. Just bounce some ideas off of. um Go back to the original turn-by-turn system, but keep bonus moves.
01:29:12
Speaker
Um, more battles. Um, and Jake, did you say character progression or like side character quests of what? I would like it I don't want to have characters that we keep concurrent. I'd love to have characters just out in the world. You guys did that earlier in Season 1 and Season 2, like in the beginning, with the subway people that Sean thought was cool, like the spray paint person. Okay, yeah.
01:29:38
Speaker
Like the artist. okay I would love this if we could just have like normal people, like front door fish. well I know... Okay, I know how to tie in this perfectly into the end of the episode, because I think we do need to end the episode here. This went a little longer than i expected.
01:29:53
Speaker
um So I will end this by saying, ah for all of those who are listening, submit me a character. in our Discord, if you were in our Discord, we have a channel, and I'm looking at now, it's called Character Submissions.
01:30:07
Speaker
um We have a format, I believe is pinned... uh but jake just submitted a character not too long ago uh these characters are for uh you to submit and i have the option of using them as npcs in the show uh we did this a lot in season one and two but it kind of fell off in season three if you guys use uh the channel the character submission channel i will try and use them more in arc 4. so um Go to our Discord, it should be linked down below.
01:30:39
Speaker
Go to the character submissions, we have a format that you can use and ah submit us a character or two or three. There's no limit to how many characters you can submit.
01:30:49
Speaker
So go to our Discord, we've got that
Patreon Support and Community Engagement
01:30:52
Speaker
there. ah Go to Patreon, um starting here soon on our $5 tier and up, we will be submitting Root One Radio. So that will be released on Patreon as they come out. I believe there's no release schedule. It's just when you guys make it right.
01:31:09
Speaker
For now. Yeah, we might eventually try to do like if we get a lot of support, then we'll put more effort into it. Yeah, that's true. We might try to do it like opposite weeks of PTT releases.
01:31:27
Speaker
so that every week you're getting something but that'll depend on how much people like it of course all right so you're talking about like the off weeks that we don't release release it on the spotify feed or the pit or on patreon on the off weeks uh for Patreon probably on Patreon and patrons getting them all op immediately getting everything we got like immediately.
01:31:56
Speaker
i'm pretty sure and then Spotify is getting an episode released every biweekly um the episode. Yeah, for things get good. Yeah. Okay, so, alright, so go support our Patreon. The Patreon pays for everything on our show, uh, because this show is completely funded by me. So, anything you support in the Patreon helps us ton. Just five dollars. Literally our, ah yeah, ah the minimum is five dollars. We do have a free tier, but I don't think anything's on the free tier, actually. Uh, so, please go support the Patreon.
01:32:28
Speaker
Uh, we have a Discord, uh, with a bunch of amazing people in there. Uh, We were just discussing stuff about the recent Pokemon Day stream about Gen 10 and stuff, so go join us and you can discuss stuff like that.
01:32:41
Speaker
What you mean? What, you Gen 10? He looks like Digimon. Oh, the new start. Okay, we're not starting a new conversation. Yes, I agree. We're ending the episode here. Cut it fast. But we're ending. All right. All right. We will see you guys next time.
Closing and Music Credits
01:33:02
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to the end section. Make sure you go join the Discord down below as well as our Patreon. as for music we've got a quite an extensive list to so list this time so let's get started we have pallet town pokemon center theme national park twin leaf town lake theme jubilive city eterna forest route 209 snow point city pokemon league theme route 228 through the sea of time lily steam goodbye lola brand new world
01:33:34
Speaker
Cerulean City, Vermillion City, Azalea Town, Lake of Rage, Route 201, Eterna City, Route 225, Icarus City, Undela Town, Halioli City, Postwick, Slumbering Weald, Turfield, Max Raid Battle, Stow On Side, Sir Chester, Jubilev Village, and Welcome to Paldea.
01:33:55
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All this music was provided by Glacek City. Make sure you go check her out on YouTube. Thank you, and we will see you guys next time.