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Arc 3 - Episode 8 - Bootlegging and Bodyguards
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The Crew engage in the most heinous crime imaginable. Piracy. What new lows will the crew stoop to next time? not holding the door? Stealing free balloons? Not tipping the waiter? get out your felony bingo cards ladies and gentlemen because its time for the worst thing this world has ever seen. Bootlegging.
Patreon - patreon.com/MysteryDungeonPTT
Discord - https://discord.gg/A7NCWyPkSd
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 to 'A Path Through Time'
00:00:11
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to A Path Through Time. My name is Dakota, your PM, your DM, your GM. And sitting to my left is somebody who has... actually don't know.
00:00:25
Speaker
Somebody who has tweezers sitting on their desk. i definitely don't. Tweezers? Yep. he get to That's what they sound like. Hi, I'm Evelyn. um And i just came back from what's it called again? Yellowstone.
00:00:44
Speaker
Oh, we were actually at Yellowstone. Yeah. Yeah.
00:00:51
Speaker
Well, I got back. That's why I wasn't on the last episode. i was in she was in the show middle of the country, also known as Montana. No, she wasn't.
00:01:06
Speaker
And it was amazing. I was like there for a whole a whole week and I got to just see mountains and volcanoes. I got face fulls of sulfur gas. come That's good for the health.
00:01:20
Speaker
Yeah. Call it Old Faceful. Old Faceful.
00:01:30
Speaker
And sitting to my right is someone who just ran a marathon.
Personal Updates and Adventures
00:01:34
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely me. I did not train nearly enough for it.
00:01:43
Speaker
So I am going to be very exhausted for this recording here. He can't run a new track star.
00:01:53
Speaker
Yeah, definitely 100% runner. I've definitely been running in the past 10 years.
00:02:03
Speaker
And sitting across from me is someone who is definitely not currently drinking a cinnamon bun milkshake. what?
00:02:15
Speaker
A what?
00:02:18
Speaker
A cinnamon bun milkshake! Oh, it tastes a cinnamon bun. I'm sorry, those like what are those and what monstrosity decided to make that? Well, it's just cinnamon bun flavored ice cream.
00:02:32
Speaker
What's difference between cinnamon and cinnamon bun? Well, one has a bun in it. They just grind up a bun and toss it in your milkshake.
00:02:42
Speaker
Seriously, like what is the difference between that? Why did they just call it cinnamon bun? Well, so it's got, uh, graham cracker pieces in the ice cream that simulate the bun part of the cinnamon bun.
00:02:57
Speaker
I- Okay, no, that makes sense. i don't know what tell you, I only ever have vanilla.
00:03:03
Speaker
You've only ever had a vanilla milkshake? What a sad existence. don't I've even had a milkshake before. what okay i don't believe that you've never had a milkshake i've only had ice cream that's it process i've never had a milkshake i don't believe i've never had there's no way that is true i'm never like been to mcdonald's or anything and gotten like a milkshake or like a frosty from wendy's or something like that like no surely you've had something all i've had was ice cream
00:03:35
Speaker
Well, actually, I think a Frosty is technically just ice cream. All I had an icere with ice cream cone or ice cream and ice cream in a bowl. That's all I've ever had.
The Cinnamon Bun Milkshake Debate
00:03:45
Speaker
Man, that's so sad. We should use some of the Patreon money so that Jake can actually experience real life.
00:03:52
Speaker
Yeah. Experience a milkshake for the first time. It's like the $1 a day can help this young man learn what life is. $1 a day can save the children in need, and it just all goes to Jake so he can buy a milkshake. Forget donating to GiveDirectly, I'll donate to Jake.
00:04:12
Speaker
Yeah! I'll send my PayPal and Patreon.
00:04:18
Speaker
Okay, so getting us back on track, let us all roll for recap. Oh shit. Is Evelyn included in this roll?
00:04:30
Speaker
We're not... No, because yeah the last episode last episode didn't include any of the main cast. no oh Remember, the last episode was Abyss and Breed.
00:04:41
Speaker
Right. Okay. yeah so this Yeah. Because if you remember, we didn't do a recap last time. yeah Okay. okay
00:04:53
Speaker
I got a two.
00:04:57
Speaker
Anyone else? Oh, right. First roll. Did you guys forget how to roll
Dice Rolling Chaos and Recap Setup
00:05:02
Speaker
dice? Come on, guys. I'm sorry. I just i just froze for a second. ah Okay.
00:05:09
Speaker
All right, we got it two. Jake, what do you got? Let me just grab one of my dice that are on the ground because i never bothered to pick them up when they fall off my desk. Hopefully it's a d4.
00:05:20
Speaker
Two? Okay. Why are there so many back here?
00:05:26
Speaker
I rolled a zero because I haven't rolled yet. no Okay, okay. Well, that's not correct. Somehow on a d4, Evelyn Manistrel is zero. There's still more dice under my desk!
00:05:41
Speaker
Okay.
00:05:44
Speaker
Another one!
00:05:48
Speaker
so Do you not like not have dice anywhere near you? What are you doing back there? Another one! Another one?
00:05:58
Speaker
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I had eight dice under my desk and I never bothered to get. What was that, Evelyn? Oh. Um... Oh, I just said I was just getting the dice.
00:06:11
Speaker
Um... Oh, okay. But... I thought I was exempt from rolling for a recap. No, no, no, no. Because we're recapping about the last episode you were on. The last episode me, Jake, and Eli recorded, Jake was playing...
00:06:26
Speaker
abyss and i that oh okay yeah okay this recap has nothing to do with the last uh side episode four four okay i also rolled a two so we got a two a two and a four roll off so so that's a three-way roll off
00:06:50
Speaker
Alright. D20s or what? No, D4. Oh, just another D4? Another four Three!
00:07:01
Speaker
I know you said three, but in Discord your mic kind of cut out. It sounded like you said 30.
00:07:08
Speaker
One. I also got a one. Eli, you matched with me. You have to do the recap. Oh, cool. Definitely remember what happened over a month ago.
00:07:21
Speaker
I'm gonna go backwards because I feel like that'll help me
Episode Recap and Storyline Progression
00:07:32
Speaker
remember things. So we ended at the booth, the the ticket booth for the Justin Beberle concert.
00:07:44
Speaker
And we had just decided to go on along to the recycling plant where we had our next lead on where things might have gone. And also, we did we still have some TMs to recycle or did we just sell those back?
00:08:08
Speaker
Was there a lead at the recycling plant? don't remember that part. I thought you guys just wanted to go do some ah errands and you guys were going to go recycle your TMs.
00:08:20
Speaker
Oh. and Unless I'm missing something, I don't think there was anything story related at the recycling center. Oh, maybe not. We did have TMs to recycle then.
00:08:31
Speaker
And so... Right. Before that, we had gone shopping for TMs and gotten some new moves and such.
00:08:42
Speaker
And had a battle with someone. Go listen to the previous episode if you want more details. Oh my god. As I said, that's like 80% of the episode last time. All I remember is we we leveled up a lot.
00:08:58
Speaker
Yeah, I gave you guys way too fucking much XP because i forgot you guys had XP Elite. So you guys ended up all jumping up like two or three levels. Yeah. I'm really fearless. yeah so to fill in the gaps last episode you guys uh went and started the fight with the shadow umbryon uh where i was injecting chaos energy into the fight where every few uh every few minutes i would interject with some random events that happened you guys ended up defeating the shadow umbryon and
00:09:30
Speaker
uh, dispelled all of the chaos in the train. Thus, you guys were finally able to advance to Shangalo City without, um, traveling back in time. So, uh, you guys went and saw the, uh, you guys went through the town, you guys were looking at, like, all the different stalls and stuff, and you guys came across, uh, Justin Bibarel setting up, er, er, fuck, an event where Justin Bibarel was going to be performing later that night at the center stage, and,
00:10:00
Speaker
It is going to be happening later that evening. And for convenience's sake, I'm going to say it's just going to happen whenever you guys are done with the recycling center. So you guys are currently heading towards the recycling center where you guys are going recycle your TMs.
00:10:13
Speaker
And that is where we left
Recycling Center Antics
00:10:15
Speaker
off. So Jake, why don't you go ahead and give us our random move from a random move generator this time, not your character sheet.
00:10:26
Speaker
Let us rock blast on in. Alright, let us rock blast on in.
00:10:37
Speaker
You guys have arrived at the recycling center. It is a big building with big smokestacks coming out of it. This is not a clean recycling center like the ones you guys saw on Gale Beach.
00:10:48
Speaker
There are two large wooden doors that let you enter into this building that is spewing smog.
00:10:58
Speaker
I'm just getting pictures that we see that door Walter's face because of PTSD.
00:11:06
Speaker
As you guys enter the building, at the front desk, you guys can see there is Rift for power fish!
00:11:16
Speaker
You know what? Yeah! It's Front Door Fish! Front Door Fish is here in Shangalo, 30 hours away from the other town where Saldo's. just a Joe and it's like Officer Jenny and there's Joy Cousins.
00:11:30
Speaker
Well, we've already established that this fish has like 30 jobs. Yeah. I'm seeing a different one. Yeah, this isn't like an Officer Jenny Cousins. It's just Larry from Amazing World of Gumball.
00:11:44
Speaker
Well, that's what he's based on. Oh! That was the inspiration for this character.
00:11:51
Speaker
So, yes. You guys see... the Not Larry. Uh... Fucking front door fish. And he's like, oh, hey, it's you guys. Uh... Wow, you guys are far from home. Hey, what can I do for you guys?
00:12:04
Speaker
Oh... We... Want to recycle some stuff? Uh, okay. Uh, you... I'm assuming you mean TM recycling? Garbage recycling? What do you doing?
00:12:15
Speaker
TM. Ah, okay. We haven't gotten to use this machine for a while. He like walks over to like a big green machine sitting in the corner, like wipes some dust off of it, and he says it's the TM Recycler.
00:12:27
Speaker
So he's like, alright, uh, what do you got? That'll be, uh, that's a hunter poke per TM, uh, sleep processing fee, and I'll get these recycled for you right away. Uh, I'd hand him the Fire Punch, Ice Punch, and Thunder Punch.
00:12:42
Speaker
That'll be his 300 pocket. And um he takes him from you.
00:12:48
Speaker
I'm still super rich. Oh, I do have a used TM. Okay. I will hand him my... some Trailblaze TM. Alright, he takes a Trailblaze TM from you, and she can subtract 100 pocket.
00:13:03
Speaker
here And Bruce will hand over his Play Rough TM, used TM. Yep. Alright, he takes that one, he's got a collection of 5 TM's. you guys have anything else?
00:13:15
Speaker
Um, did I sell the vacuum wave TM? I don't remember if I did. It's not in my bag, so I'm guessing we got rid of it. Yeah, I was say, if it's not in your bag, you don't have it, so.
00:13:26
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. He takes your 5 discs from you and he one by one inserts them into the slot the top of the machine. You can hear whirring and buzzing and it's like spewing out some smog. Because it's obviously a gas powered electrical machine. you know how it is.
00:13:41
Speaker
After some time, the discs come out and they are the same as they were except they're slightly faded. And as he hands them back to you, you guys see that on the back of the discs, is a symbol, like a classic recycling symbol with a one a number one on the inside of these.
00:13:57
Speaker
This is a once recycled TM. Alright, here you guys go. Here's your recycled TMs. You can do whatever you want with these. You can sell them shops and stuff, but they'll sell for much less than they would brand new I had an awful idea we could do with these TMs. What?
00:14:17
Speaker
Let's just go find some young or rich person and just say it has a one on it because it's the best of them all. Well, if you guys find Youngs or Richie Joey or whatever that the yeah trainer's name is, you guys could go so try that on. Yeah, let's go. Let's go find the rich kid. Well, do they work exactly the same?
00:14:38
Speaker
Do they work exactly the same as before? or do they just... No, every time they were... I'm making this up on the fly, but every time they're recycled, I'm going to say there it loses 10% chance of ah working. So like a brand a brand new one would have 100% chance.
00:14:52
Speaker
a once recycled one would have a 90% chance of working, and second again, it's an 80% chance, and so on. Is it like an exponential decay? Like 90 and then 81 and then 80? No, it is a linear. Yeah, 90, 80, 70. That's Saturday.
00:15:09
Speaker
Yeah. Alright. So you guys now have once recycled TMs.
00:15:16
Speaker
I managed to find um Unicode icons for the recycling symbols. Yeah, I saw you post that in our chat. And yes, that is the cycle I was talking about. Because it is based off the actual once recycled symbol in... Yeah, yep that is exactly what I based it off of.
00:15:32
Speaker
If you've ever looked at the box... the Fuck me. At the back of the box of like ah of a cereal box or something, you'll see like it's been once recycled or twice recycled, e's cetera etc.
00:15:45
Speaker
thats pretty much That's not actually what it's for. That's the number... No. that That number is telling you what type of recycling thing it is because i certain recycling plants can only recycle certain types of things.
00:16:06
Speaker
So you have to look for your area to know what numbers can be recycled in your area. I didn't know that. Okay. I thought it was just they had like once or twice recycled, et etc.
00:16:19
Speaker
No. one bo Don't listen to me. Apparently, i don't... I'm fucking spreading this information. ah I really always thought that's what that was. So then, how many times can things be recycled then?
00:16:32
Speaker
just I mean, I think just like in theoretically indefinitely, but the plastic the plastic quality degrades over time. yeah As I said, there's material degradation the more and more you recycle things. yeahp So that's why it depends on what it's made of if and where it can be recycled.
00:16:56
Speaker
Like, I can imagine that Yeah, go on, sorry. Yeah, not all recycling plants are like can actually handle all types of plastics.
00:17:10
Speaker
Hmm. well Yeah, i guess there are many different types of plastics. All right. Well, um, all right. So what are you guys doing now? I'm going to say it's like a good, like it's 5 p.m. going to say it is somewhat in the afternoon now.
00:17:24
Speaker
I know that doesn't make too much sense because you guys just got off the train, walked to the trins to the recycling center.
Concert Plans and Missions
00:17:29
Speaker
and suddenly 10 hours have passed. But for convenience sake, the show with Justin Bibaro will be starting in about an hour.
00:17:40
Speaker
Hmm. Okay. I guess it took us a long time to walk to the recycling plant. You know, it's because the crowds. It's so crowded. it just we had to walk around a giant crowd.
00:17:52
Speaker
was just a big crowd for the show. As you guys get to the the center stage, what you guys see is two lines. There's a sign that says VIP line, and there's a sign that says general admission.
00:18:05
Speaker
So, the general admission line, way longer than the VIP line. it'll Your best guess is that the VIP line is more expensive, and the general admission is a lot cheaper. What do you guys want to do?
00:18:19
Speaker
You know, I've always been... You know, I've always been interested in um working at the event, if that's possible.
00:18:33
Speaker
I'm running pretty low on money, so. you do They do background checks on them for like a week before. they? well Well, I'm pretty sure my record's clean. I mean, i don't... I haven't committed any crimes.
00:18:51
Speaker
Eli, you're not really... Go ahead and roll. I need someone to roll Perception real quick. Oh, okay. Yeah, that makes sense for Bruce to do that. By the way, just for me, i don't see if our say our waves in Zincaster.
00:19:07
Speaker
I do. We're fine. Yeah, we're there. So, i Perception is beauty, so I got a dirty 20. Oh, dirty 20? I, uh... Ah, that's what the Pokemon's called.
00:19:19
Speaker
Okay, uh... Uh, okay, so, from one of the alleyways, uh, you hear someone psst, psst, hey, you kids, over here
00:19:31
Speaker
Yessss? Uh-huh. Because you look over, and there's just a hand gesturing down towards the alleyway. Me looking at myself, looking that I'm an adult, not a kid.
00:19:42
Speaker
Tch-
00:19:47
Speaker
Bruce will cautiously walk over. This is more interesting to him than the the big crowd. Okay, so you walk over to the alleyway. Is anyone else following?
00:20:03
Speaker
I'm still talking to Walter. Yeah. Okay. Alright, we're gonna separate Eli from the group then. Uh, so, uh, Bruce, whatever. So, Bruce, you walk over to this alleyway, and, um, you see an Inteleon, who is wearing an eyepatch.
00:20:21
Speaker
And, and he's like, hey, kid, uh, I saw you looking over there at the show. I got a, I got a little job for you. You think you can get your buddies in on this, too?
00:20:34
Speaker
it Depends on how much you're paying. He, uh, yeaha He holds out three VIP admission tickets. I need you to do a job for me.
00:20:47
Speaker
All right, I'm listening. He hands you what seems to be a strange piece of technology. Go ahead and roll.
00:20:56
Speaker
want to say what, Connor? Intelligence? Insight.
00:21:02
Speaker
insight No, no, Insect's a terrible one for that. I feel like a technology-based thing would probably be some form of smart. Yeah, just go ahead and roll smart.
00:21:13
Speaker
Yeah, I feel- I don't see anything that really fits the bill, but smart definitely the bill. Because it's when it's just techno- when it's just using just Pokemon, technology really isn't much of a thing. When it's just your Pokemon, so.
00:21:25
Speaker
Yeah. 14 plus 1, 15. This is cassette tape recorder. this is e cassette tape recorder
00:21:34
Speaker
And he hands you another item. With your 15, you can tell if this is an omnidirectional mic.
00:21:42
Speaker
So... He's like, i Kit, I need you. When Justin Bibriel there goes up on stage, you're going to go and you're going to record him for me. And if you return back here, might have something a little extra for you.
00:21:55
Speaker
Alright, I'll go talk to my friends. See if we can help you out a bit here. Is Justin guys going to... This Justin guy is going to be singing three or five three to five songs. I need you to at least record four of them in good quality. The prize is yours. If you get all five, it'll be a little something-something extra.
00:22:15
Speaker
all Alright. Sound like a deal? Sounds like a deal. The Inteleon turns around and walks away into the shadowy alley, disappearing from sight.
00:22:29
Speaker
all Alright, so Bruce is gonna walk back and go, Hey, uh, Tikaru, think I got, uh, I may have found a way for you to make some money. but Hold on on, please tell me there's like a band sign of this Inteleon just plastered everywhere.
00:22:52
Speaker
i Uh, no, you guys don't see anything out of the ordinary. He's just been kicked out of the concert many times. Uh, no, you guys don't see anything right off of that.
00:23:06
Speaker
Uh, oh, uh, what is it? Is it too good to be true?
00:23:14
Speaker
Eh, I mean, probably not. We got the, this guy just gave me this recording device. Told me that he could give us some good money.
00:23:29
Speaker
We can record some of these songs that this Justin guy is going be singing.
00:23:37
Speaker
You know, when you first went into Alloy and then came back saying you knew how to make money, and i thought something else, but I'm so glad this is the best. Jesus, Jake. Okay.
00:23:49
Speaker
but That's my rough joke of the session. Thank you. What did you think it was going to be? Oh, no. i wasn't thinking that. That my joke i was making.
00:24:06
Speaker
Oh.
00:24:08
Speaker
So what do you guys think? Should we do it? We've done worse for less.
00:24:19
Speaker
Sorry, I'm cracking up. um this ah This bit was my idea. it it was. Full transparency besides Evelyn's idea.
00:24:32
Speaker
This ain't much compared to us. We've done terrorism.
00:24:37
Speaker
Quiet, Walter. We haven't done terrorism. um Somebody else has done terrorism. Yeah.
00:24:46
Speaker
Wasn't, I think it was, uh, did we do terrorism? No. It was technically the artillery. Yeah, that was Vickers House. You guys blew up. Well, Sammy blew up. Also, I threw TNT in the middle of the street.
00:25:00
Speaker
Uh, no no no, this was back when Sammy swallowed the button and blew up the fucking nucleus in his house. I know what I'm talking about that, but also, Walter did technically do terrorism by throwing TNT in the middle of the street.
00:25:12
Speaker
Yeah, I guess so. guess you're right.
00:25:19
Speaker
You guys just have long list of war crimes. Yeah, that was a whole joke and like from multiple arcs, it was just a list of crimes we've had. Yeah, we still don't have the felony bingo cards yet.
00:25:30
Speaker
Weren't you actually working on those for a bit, Evelyn? I was, yeah. i have them I have them all formatted in Canva. just ah you told me you you I think you suggested like making them interactive, and I haven't done that yet. or Yeah, okay.
00:25:47
Speaker
Well, we should... I don't know how this work, because we'd have to release some the people who haven't listened to it yet. Okay. okay Um, back off the tangent, what are you guys gonna do about this?
00:25:59
Speaker
Uh, I'm honestly kinda curious what Khar's reaction is to bootlegging. Um, how much? Bruce will also pull out the the VIP tickets as well.
00:26:13
Speaker
Like, he also gave me these, too.
00:26:18
Speaker
Those are VIP tickets? Yep. Are they legit? far as I can tell. Um, I mean... Hikaru, if you want weak, can do the bootlegging if you want to go have fun in the concert in back with the VIPs.
00:26:39
Speaker
Uh... Yeah, I mean, Did
00:26:46
Speaker
he say how much we're making? What? Did that guy say how much we're making, um Bruce? Who even was this? Did there kids you say name?
00:26:59
Speaker
He did not give me a name, he did not give me specific numbers, but he said there'd be a good chunk of cash for four out of the five songs that he's doing with an extra bonus if we get all five.
00:27:14
Speaker
Hold on, I want to point this out. Before my joke, that the thing he said he had something special for you. Something a little special. And that's what led to my joke before.
00:27:28
Speaker
Jake.
00:27:31
Speaker
No, Jake, no. ah yeah Well, you know, I have... um You know, my my mom's record collection, we have like maybe 50... We have a good 50 records at home. And I will say that some of them are rare records that... um Some of them were not like... Are songs that weren't like officially released by the record companies.
00:28:00
Speaker
um Some of them were out of print. Um... Yeah, like... So you're saying these are worth a good bit of money too, right?
00:28:14
Speaker
Honestly, we could just do I just don't want caught. no. Here's the way said. You can go have fun. I can do it. Me and Bruce can do this. I don't care i get their own out.
00:28:27
Speaker
Yep. Well, there we go. We got free, I guess, as long as we got the free VIP tickets, I'm i'm i'm golden. I have question, Dakota. I got a question.
00:28:38
Speaker
God, RCSGM.
00:28:42
Speaker
Sorry, I'm alive. I'm definitely not building things up behind the scenes. I was not listening. What's up? What happened? got question for you.
Concert Experiences and Backstage Access
00:28:50
Speaker
Yes. What? How is this concert bigger than the ones I've seen my mother be in?
00:28:57
Speaker
I don't know how- I don't- Oh, you're about Veronica. I thought you met you Jake in person. I was like, how the fuck am I supposed to know? Why would i ask about that? They are about equal size to the ones Veronica has. Veronica is also a famous rock star.
00:29:12
Speaker
Have they ever collabed? Justin Bieber is a famous pop star.
00:29:16
Speaker
You'd have to ask your mother.
00:29:20
Speaker
Damn, alright. Hmm.
00:29:27
Speaker
i don't know car does one of your records have victoria in it did you say victoria i messed up the name oh veronica i was hoping you wouldn't notice uh i i'm gonna say no i'm gonna say no just because i don't i don't I don't have that part established and i want to create something going end up regretting because of this quest line. He doesn't trust me with this information. You mean whether Hikaru has any Gravel Rock records?
00:30:05
Speaker
Oh, do you have any Gravelo, Curtis? I don't know, I mean, I guess. I'm sure she would. She just, I just, you know, maybe like two or three. I was just questioning if they had a collab, if they have a collab. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I'm going to say no, just on the safe side, because I haven't established that yet.
00:30:23
Speaker
Good. Shouldn't give me too much information. Okay, I'm going to say no as far as you know. It's going to leave it open to me in the future if I want to expand on that.
00:30:32
Speaker
Okay, so... ah You guys now have three VIP tickets. What are you guys doing? What are... I'm assuming you guys are going up to the VIP line? Which, by the way, at this point is almost empty. Yeah, let's go ahead and go up there in case they close it early.
00:30:47
Speaker
Yeah, but Bruce is going to put the the machine thing into his bag just so he's not, like, carrying it openly in. just to make sure that that's clear.
00:30:59
Speaker
It is not just out in the open. Put it like as deep in your bag as you can. oh yeah, no. we can him like a stealth roll for it. Oh, here we Put under all your bulky burgers. Yeah, it's going in the bag. it in between the patties.
00:31:17
Speaker
ah You still have like 95 grimy foods, don't you? Yep, I got 94 grimy foods. I want to roll something real quick. don't Don't eat the buffet they got for the VIP. He's going to be stuffing so much in there.
00:31:34
Speaker
He's going to ruin this VIP lounge. Okay, so you guys walk up to this VIP lounge. There is a bouncer there. it is a cotton colder. And he's waving some kind of weird metal walk around.
00:31:47
Speaker
So, as you guys walk up, he's like, alright, just stand there real quick, and he like scans Hikaru and her bag, and the metal wand turns green. Eli, you are up next. I want you to roll stealth.
00:32:01
Speaker
Okay. They have metal detectors? Yeah, which is cool. Yeah, I'm not sure why metal detectors exist here. Why? What if they were a metal Pokémon? What if they were a steel type?
00:32:14
Speaker
That's why the skill-type Pokemon slider... I don't fucking know. Want me to give him advantage? I can probably do some sort of like electromagnetic interference thing. I got a 17. Don't worry.
00:32:25
Speaker
okay He waves and wand around you. Nothing suspicious about you. You're able to pass through the gate. Walter, I need to roll stuff. You were walking into this concert with a nuclear bomb in your bag.
00:32:39
Speaker
Oh why Yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, TNG. I can't vanish from you. Sekaru, please.
00:32:51
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, you can go ahead and help. Just ah roll d20. Jakey, roll stealth, which is cool. Whoever gets the higher roll. Do I also roll a cool? or No, just roll plain just real plain why Yeah, just a plan B. 20. Okay, I got an 11 in total.
00:33:14
Speaker
Six. Okay, that's fine. The DC was 10. He waves around the wand. The wand starts like, fixing for second. He like, smacks it. It goes back to normal. Oh, sorry. Those are my claws.
00:33:28
Speaker
Oh, okay. Alright. Yeah, you're good. Going through. And you are able to walk through the gates. Oh, what kind of Pokemon's the bouncer? Uh, a conchalder. ah So instead of two concrete slabs, he's just carrying around a concrete slab and a metal detector. He wanted to feel like his youngest self again, ah back in his last form. He wants to feel young again.
00:33:54
Speaker
So you guys ah enter into the stadium, and you guys basically imagine like, I don't know, the T-Mobile Stadium in Seattle is the first thing that comes to mind.
00:34:04
Speaker
It definitely wasn't just in Seattle last week. ah You guys are just in a giant football stadium and there's just Pokemon everywhere. Eli,
00:34:20
Speaker
you rolled a 15 for your investigation on that thing. So I'm going to say you somewhat know what an omnidirectional mic is. Is Eli the person who would an omnidirectional mic is?
00:34:32
Speaker
Yes. Yes, I do. Okay, ah for those who don't know at home, an omnidirectional mic, I think I've got the right word. It's a mic that picks up better in one direction and not any other direction. If you point it at something and it... Is that not what it is? Or is the omnidirectional one the multidirectional? Omnidirectional is it records all directions at the same time.
00:34:54
Speaker
Okay, that is not what I meant to say. What is it? It's not unidirectional, is it? No, it's got some other name.
00:35:04
Speaker
Uh, Don, I don't have the box for my mic with me right now, but... What about police scanner? wait, yes I do. It's, um... It is a unidirectional mic.
00:35:14
Speaker
It is. It is designed pick up sound primarily from one direction, usually up front. Yeah, well that's showing the, uh, that's a, uh, that's not unidirectional, that's the, someone, that's a cardioid mic.
00:35:28
Speaker
Um... Yeah, cardioid is what we probably want anyways. I'm thinking of like the ones that like, uh, fuckin' you'd see like a spy using like James Bond where they pointed at something and it picks up in a very narrow range.
00:35:42
Speaker
Oh. Like, so we're James Bond? I mean, we did get this from an Inteleon. Okay, yeah, it's not an omnidirectional mic. My name is Fisca. We're gonna call it the unidirectional mic. Okay.
00:35:57
Speaker
okay
00:36:00
Speaker
so uh this uh i'm gonna say you know that you do have to get somewhat close to the front of the stage in order for this to work because although it does pick up um audio in one direction if you point it towards the stage will also be pointing towards a lot of the audience members in front of you yeah yeah bruce's plan was to get like yeah but bruce's plan was to get like As far away, like in the VIP area, there's probably going to be a bunch of people scrunched up right in the middle in front of the stage.
00:36:36
Speaker
Bruce was going to try to be like kind of off to the side away from the crowd you know the VIP area. and Okay, so you're going like middle of the road, but all the way on the side.
00:36:51
Speaker
Yes. Okay. Alright, that'll be fine. Are the others following you? Or what you guys want do? want to try something hilarious. Now, I don't want to know if i'll get kicked out of this concept because of this idea, I want to know what the other players thought.
00:37:09
Speaker
Could I try to go around and sell my teams and make them think that there records? Oh, no.
00:37:17
Speaker
Uh, you can try- hold on one second. Uh, so you're trying to sell used TMs records? Yes! Okay, uh- Like they're one ah one one of ones, like the only one released.
00:37:31
Speaker
Uh, you can try that if you want. I'm looking for a real- I'm gonna try to look for a really young dumb kid sell this to. Go ahead and roll perception.
00:37:42
Speaker
Might get kicked out of this park so fast.
00:37:48
Speaker
Oh, I should also point out your guys' tickets have numbers on them. ah I want you guys to write down the numbers that you have. your ticket is 112. Evelyn, your ticket is 593. 593, okay. Jake, your number is 674. 112 for mine, right? Yes. Okay.
00:38:06
Speaker
five and and jake your number is six seven four
00:38:13
Speaker
one one two for mine right yeah
00:38:20
Speaker
I got it in my bag now. right so ah Alright, so Walter, you're trying to pawn off these used TMs to people? Yeah.
00:38:33
Speaker
I got a 19. Okay. You see what is clearly ah a rich kid, a spoiled rich kid. I'm going to say it's... but what's um A ah Yeah, sure. Let's go the Zubat.
00:38:49
Speaker
There's a Zubat somewhat close to you and he's clearly got a lot of money. He's got all the fancy stuff on him. all the merch. Yeah, he's wearing, he's wearing, what is it, like the, what's that mean? It's got all the branding on it, all the puffy jackets and stuff. don't know how you do that, I don't know if this is bad. I'm thinking about the guy in K-Pop Demon Hunters who's constantly ripping the shirts off his body. Just a pompous asshole.
00:39:22
Speaker
<unk>s He's got like another shirt under it, and then another shirt under that one. Yeah. So, you see this Zubat. He's clearly a douchebag. And he, uh... So, I take it you're walking up to him?
00:39:34
Speaker
Yep. but Okay. He sees you. He's like, hey, punk, what you want? oh I work here. Um... I'm, um... I'm wondering if you wanted see you're a true fan of his work.
00:39:48
Speaker
I want to know if you want to buy some one-on-one records of his. One-on-one? You mean one-of-a-kind? Do you even know what you're selling? Well... I'm sorry sir, I just started working here.
00:40:00
Speaker
They only hired me for muscle. um Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's kinda what figure. Yeah, your type, yeah, you wouldn't be... Yeah, you ain't gonna get anywhere. Alright, what do you think?
00:40:14
Speaker
He shows them him as if he can see him, but he can't, so... Is he like acting like he can see and he's like, oh yeah, this is great, this is great. Go ahead and roll persuasion.
00:40:26
Speaker
Deception. Deception with advantage. This is a blind Zupat.
00:40:32
Speaker
Um, 18? Jesus Christ. He's like, yeah, yeah, I'll take a lot, I'll take a lot. Just put on my credit card. And despite saying that he hands you a thousand prok. For all three?
00:40:46
Speaker
For all... yes. All three of the used- wait. I thought that was still in my possession. Those are the three that he has. All the, uh, elementals. Yeah.
00:40:57
Speaker
I aspire to upsell- Oh. i mean, yeah, you can try and upsell them if you want.
00:41:04
Speaker
These are- These are the only ones that he's gonna be selling for, like, ah a year, and then they'll come out for more. they're- they're about 1,500 each.
00:41:17
Speaker
Hmm. Alright, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. Just-just-just give me the fucking TMs and... Alright, alright, you hand it to him. Yeah, he rolled- should've rolled beforehand, but he did roll an 8 for his insight, so... Alright, just got $4,500.
00:41:32
Speaker
Yes, he got 4,500 Poké from selling these worthless TMs. What do you mean, worthless? I'm now back- I'm back to 18 grand. Oh, say grand?
00:41:45
Speaker
and two hundred I thought you said you were low on money. My god. I never said that. They did. and Bruce and Ticaru are low on money. We're both at sitting at under a thousand.
00:42:01
Speaker
You never asked for money. never asked. Okay, so, alright, so I forgot, where is Evelyn and Welker sitting? Are you guys sitting next to e Eli, or what's happening?
00:42:13
Speaker
I feel like we're all just standing, I don't know. Did we all like walk different ways? Like standing in the pit. So could rip off a Zubat, Ikaru could go fangirl. i'm gonna say, you guys see that eli Eli went to where he went, which is in the middle, all the way to the right.
00:42:30
Speaker
So you guys can follow him, or you guys can find your own seats. um I guess we're all following. i was gonna say, Ikari, you can go watch it. I'll just make sure nothing happened. It's a bruise.
00:42:42
Speaker
Yeah. Also, after this concert, if we go by a Zubat, I may walk off for a second. He said something that needs to be corrected. stuff is a very racist Zubat.
00:42:56
Speaker
Oh my gosh, it's a Swampert all over again. It's a Swampert from not a scratch. Yeah, he only likes flying types. thought it was something only water types.
00:43:08
Speaker
No, that was the thing. but He only likes his own type. Oh my gosh, it makes sense because flying types are strong against fighting, so they don't like each other. don't think Swofford is a fighting type. What you about?
00:43:23
Speaker
Oh, were you talking about the Zubat? Sorry, I thought you were talking about the... I was making sense of why he didn't like the fighting types. Because he's a flying type.
00:43:33
Speaker
They're strong against us. Okay. right see you guys yeah By the way, do the... um Do the ticket and the Gravel Rocks t-shirt take up bag space?
00:43:50
Speaker
Uh... The t-shirt? ah i' if I'm gonna say no to both.
00:43:57
Speaker
The tickets is a very one-off item. I'm just gonna say yeah, no. Alright, I'll put them in like a different section of the sheet or something. Okay. Alright, so you guys all find your seats.
00:44:10
Speaker
Evelyn, you said you were following the others? Or am I wrong on that? yeah i'm fine Yeah, I'm following them. Okay, so you guys find a seat at the very far right of the stadium.
00:44:22
Speaker
And I need... is going to be very important role.
00:44:29
Speaker
Go ahead and roll... Eli, go ahead roll performance to see how well you can get this mic setup going. This is going to determine how hard this little mini game going be. Can I help him? Because I am i did say I go... It's a mini game.
00:44:43
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Go ahead and use the help action since you've got like music, audio experience. Okay, it's not gonna be much help. Uh-oh.
00:44:55
Speaker
I got two. Oh no. I got an eight plus two. Ten. Ten. Okay. Not bad. Not bad. Does the car want to do anything? Hmm.
00:45:07
Speaker
I might, you see what he's do? What? Is he, like, physically fumbling with it? Yeah. Uh, he was basically trying to get a ah good setup, uh, recording setup going.
00:45:19
Speaker
Good recording position. I'm not sure what I can do. like I thought the whole thing was the worst case scenario. scenario Why Ikaru is okay with this, because we said we take care of it. She can just go watch the show if she wants.
00:45:33
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, I'll try to i didn't i didn't realize you guys were going to go all the way to the far right of the stadium. I'm going to find another seat. see like I think that the problem is that Bruce Yeah.
00:45:50
Speaker
but Bruce, I think, is still a little bit too close to everyone, so he's occasionally getting bumped and stuff. So Bruce is going to move a little bit further away from people and just try again.
00:46:04
Speaker
it's just Walter saying, no, you should do that when he's completely wrong. Okay. um I'm gonna say as you get closer and closer to you start to see the uh Justin Bibberell's bodyguards are there near the front of the crowd for like riot control
Recording the Concert
00:46:19
Speaker
so.
00:46:19
Speaker
Who are I'm gonna say they're more conch holder. Okay. I'm gonna say like he found like a contract or something with conch holder. Yeah. Hmm. Yeah
00:46:32
Speaker
yeah so well root Bruce isn't necessarily trying to be like at the very front, more to the side oh the crowd. Okay.
00:46:47
Speaker
but So you're gonna try and blend into the crowd?
00:46:51
Speaker
Yes. Okay, so I'm gonna have you do is you're gonna set up somewhat more towards the middle, but because you're closer to the front where near the bodyguards are, I need you to roll stealth with advantage because you're being obscured by the crowd.
00:47:04
Speaker
Can I do the help action or no because he already has advantage? Well, let's see what he rolls first. Probably what he should have to begin with.
00:47:14
Speaker
So let's see if it's... Wait, cool. Okay.
00:47:19
Speaker
all Alright, so stealth is cool. Yes. That's gonna be a flat 13. Okay, will pass.
00:47:30
Speaker
They don't notice anything. At least not yet. So go ahead and roll for setting up. That's another performance.
00:47:39
Speaker
So cute. 12 minus one, 11. Okay, 11, that's higher than you did the last time. So I'm gonna say you cut.
00:47:52
Speaker
Yeah, okay, I'm gonna give it to you. You're gonna have a medium time with this little mid-game. So, alright, right so and you guys are all settled down. Walter and Bruce, you guys are together, correct?
00:48:06
Speaker
I'm basically just watching, I'm just sitting like... don't know, is there any seats? Because I'd just say he's just sitting right beside so in case anything happens. Like trying not to act like he's watching the show. Sitting... Yeah, I'm gonna say you guys can stand if you want to. Like half the crowd's... I'm gonna say everyone's standing, because if half the people are sitting, then half the people can't see. So yeah, everyone's standing.
00:48:32
Speaker
Yeah. yeah so And Hikaru's like in the towards like the middle of the stage where she's just like mingling with other fans chatting trading. I'm gonna say you're not you're not too too far away from the others then so. Yeah not too far.
00:48:49
Speaker
Okay um so is at this time lights go out and spotlight on the stage goes katonk. And you see Justin Bibarel is out there on the stage.
00:49:02
Speaker
And he's like, hello, everybody. Hello, everyone of Shang-A-Lo City. Are you all ready to rumble? This is definitely wrestling.
00:49:15
Speaker
probably it that you sound me That's That scared me much. Get the shit out of me. That perfect. You made me jump out of my chair.
00:49:26
Speaker
Just imagine a whole crowd of like teenage girl Pokemon screaming like that. Pretty much. I thought a pipe burst in my room.
00:49:40
Speaker
Okay, we need sound effects for this part. Oh, Jesus Christ. it's just that, but played on loop for a little while.
00:49:50
Speaker
Okay. Oh, my heart. So, Justin Bibarel starts his performance, and the first song goes underway as he starts... I had ChatGipatu come up with a bunch of different stupid punnings. Some of these are terrible.
00:50:07
Speaker
Nice. These are just awful. The first one is Bulba Bulba Bulbasaur. You want to take a guess at what song that's supposed to be? Nope.
00:50:21
Speaker
It's supposed to be Baby. like Baby Baby Baby. I don't even know that song. But it's a horrible pun. Wait, as in by Justin Bieber? Yes, these are Justin Bieber songs. So, he starts singing Bulba Bulba Bulbasaur.
00:50:36
Speaker
And, uh...
00:50:39
Speaker
Like that? Oh, that song. jesus Christ, I haven't heard that since like fucking 2012. Jesus. Whenever the fuck that song came out. on Okay, so as you're recording, um Bruce, I need you to roll ah performance again.
00:50:56
Speaker
Since you got a 10, you're gonna roll regular. If you had rolled less than 10, it would have been disadvantage. If you had rolled more than 15, it would have been advantage. So i'm go go ahead and roll performance. One of his songs is called two time, not one time.
00:51:09
Speaker
And I'm going to say, because Walter is there, you, um, Walter, you can either, ah keep an eye out and ensure that the bodyguards don't, uh, or you can take the action to help Bruce with his role.
00:51:26
Speaker
Uh, but if you do not look out for bodyguards, I will do some background roles that will influence things in After my role to help him with technology, he'll just, after him failing badly to help set it up, he'll just watch out bodyguards.
00:51:40
Speaker
Okay, and I'm gonna say you're gonna have to tell me what your action is before Bruce takes his roll. Alright. Okay, so go ahead and roll regular Bruce. Whatever the name is. Oh yeah.
00:51:54
Speaker
I wish it wasn't performance. I kind of feel like recording something shouldn't be a performance anyways. ah what Well, if you think that a better one, we can do that one instead. Smart? we got Yeah. I feel like it would be more... It would make more sense as smart because I'm the one recording. if it was a recording like a video recording it, it'd make more sense because you want to get the perfect frames and everything, perfect perfect capture. But we're just doing that the...
00:52:28
Speaker
It's just a sound recording. Yeah. Let's let's go with Arcana then, alright? Because the only other things is history, investigation, nature, or religion. So I think the only one that comes even close is Arcana because it's like technology.
00:52:41
Speaker
So go ahead and roll out for Arcana, smart. I still find it high inside some beauty. Good. So that turns my 15 into a 16 instead of into a 14. So I get a 16 for this first one.
00:52:57
Speaker
As this recording goes on, it is a perfect recording. Absolutely flawless. Or at least you're pretty sure. So you feel like it was a pretty good recording. I'm going to this recording set of things with like set of like headlongs or something. You're listening along. You can hear the audio quality.
00:53:11
Speaker
So... ah Yes, Arcana. Because technology is magic. it's Pretty much. So because Walter was... Oh, yeah, okay.
00:53:23
Speaker
Because Walter was looking around, one of the bodyguards was looking a direction, but because Walter was looking around, he was able to warn you and ducked it down a little bit before the bodyguard saw anything, but still kept the recording going fine. So, everything went flawless for that first recording.
00:53:39
Speaker
As the second song comes on...
00:53:43
Speaker
Two time. What? ah One less lonely jiggly. What?
00:53:52
Speaker
It's just supposed to be one less lonely girl, i guess. Okay. I guess. So that song goes on and we're going to start this over. First and foremost, Jake, what are you planning on doing this time?
00:54:08
Speaker
After seeing how they just are- they're already getting suspicious as Ares, still looking out. After seeing that already being suspicious. Okay.
00:54:18
Speaker
Alright, so you're gonna roll regular again.
00:54:23
Speaker
Ooh, dang. Seven plus one, eight. Yeah, you bust the recording on this one. There's no good audio quality in this one. You accidentally catch some of the fans in the recording, and it's an obvious bootleg. It's not really going to fly as an actual recording.
00:54:44
Speaker
what i want And the bodyguards were not an issue this time. With a 2, the bodyguards never would have successfully seen it. Dang.
00:54:54
Speaker
What are the... Can I flavor like what's happening in Hikaru's section? Yeah, go for it. Okay. So Hikaru is like dancing.
00:55:05
Speaker
you know, there's like, she's surrounded by like five, oh, well, more like 20 other Pokemon in their seat. Like just, just dancing and cheering and singing along with the song.
00:55:17
Speaker
um When all of a sudden there's a, um there's an Audino. Uh-huh. No, there's, there's, yeah, there's an Audino next to her who is wearing a um Wearing a Justin Berberal t-shirt And And all of a sudden she She rips it off And there is another t-shirt underneath it Okay
00:55:51
Speaker
And uh Yeah Is that it?
00:55:58
Speaker
Yeah. Well, the t-shirt ends up on the floor next to Hikaru, and she doesn't notice it. Okay, cool. Okay, so back to Bruce and Walter. um The next song comes on, and it is ah What Do You Mew To?
00:56:15
Speaker
is supposed to be What Do You Mean? doooooodoo oh my gosh. Oh boy. Alright, Jake, what are you doing this time? Alright, have to He's just going after what's action, after seeing... Does Walter know he bought they bossed the recording?
00:56:33
Speaker
Does he have like one earpiece in his ear? And Eli has the other one in one who's ear? Yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, we'll go with that. you You're like his recording agent. He'll help him! God, I don't want fight a Concaldo, but we're going to have to, least he is.
00:56:48
Speaker
Okay, go ahead roll with Advantage then, Eli. Because Walter's of helping you need to fix up your recording setting.
00:56:56
Speaker
Oh, well it worked. 17 plus one, 18. Perfect recording. Absolutely no fans into this one. You raised the mic a little bit higher ah to the point where the mic wasn't quite picking up the fans and you got a perfect recording.
00:57:10
Speaker
And the bodyguards got... Okay. Yep, with a 13, the DC is 15. You guys do not encounter any bodyguards. One kind of looks her way, but he doesn't ah immediately notice you guys, so you guys are still in the ah With the fourth song that comes on it is i choose to ah What it's based off of I choose you riff on love yourself Ted is awful ill be sure were Are you sure what are we sure he's not the one ripping off songs?
00:57:48
Speaker
um I'm starting to wonder. Uh, so... Is he just healing songs from a different- from a way older person who made these?
00:57:58
Speaker
Jesus. Okay. Wait. Wait, a apparently- Wait, I choose you? It's called I choose che I choose Chu. It's not even i choose you like like what fucking Ash's catchphrases, but it's I choose Chu. That's awful.
00:58:15
Speaker
There is a... There's like Oh, I just... I was like, does Justin Bieber have an i choose have a song called I Choose You? And it turns out that um it turns out that it's an AI-generated song in the style of Justin Bieber.
00:58:29
Speaker
is? What? Oh, no. Oh, no. Okay. ah Jesus Christ. Okay. Well, um, what does, yeah.
00:58:46
Speaker
So what does, uh, what does Jake do for this recording? Recording number four. Jake?
00:58:53
Speaker
Walter.
00:58:55
Speaker
Um, after seeing that we got it set back up, he is going watch out the guards. Okay, go ahead and roll for fucking arcana.
00:59:15
Speaker
Bruce? Hello? I'm working on it. I dropped my die on the floor. Okay. Okay, 10 plus 111. Uh, yeah, that'll do it. You get a pretty good recording. It's passable. Nothing...
00:59:32
Speaker
Uh, outwardly, immediate, that it's a bootleg, so that's not the most perfect recording like you get in a recording studio. Alright, we just need one more. Hit! It's passable. Yeah. And... Bodyguards got a 7, so they would not have interfered.
00:59:49
Speaker
alright. And the last song Bulbasari. Bulbasari. Based off Sorry, jesus I hate you know okay i I'm gonna regret this.
01:00:05
Speaker
I know gonna regret this, because I know in the last song this is where they're gonna catch us, but I helped Bruce with the recording. Alright, go for advantage.
01:00:16
Speaker
Okay. There's a 50% chance that you guys get paid. 12 plus 1, 13. Yep, that'll do it. you get ah Just like last recording, it's not the most perfect recording.
01:00:31
Speaker
the The advantage did help. The other roll was an eight. All right, good. Ooh, there you go. right, now roll low, Dakota. A 12. The bodyguard's got notice a thing.
01:00:43
Speaker
You guys got a four out of five. So, um as the show comes to a close, Justin Bibberoling bows over and says, thank you, thank you, guys. And now for the ticket reading.
01:00:54
Speaker
I would like to, after the show, meet with ticket number 112.
01:01:01
Speaker
Shit. Bruce is going to quickly
01:01:08
Speaker
pass off his ticket to Hikaru. Okay. She's pretty far away. Like, not too far away. So I'm assuming like the crowd is starting to disperse. Hikaru's going to be coming back to us now because she saw where we went.
01:01:24
Speaker
Roll perception, see if you notice. Bruce, I'll put the stuff in my bag. You go give it. You go give the stuff to her. i was gonna say, yeah, you're gonna come to them anyway, eventually, so just, yeah, even if he has failed, it's not like, yeah, just, you see that he's trying to give you the ticket, basically.
01:01:43
Speaker
Yeah. You thought we were gonna steal this in a car? How dare you to go there?
01:01:50
Speaker
Oh, what are you, uh, what are you giving me? You heard the ticket number he wanted to meet with, right? Points at ticket it number.
01:02:03
Speaker
One, one, two. Oh my gosh. You had the winning ticket? Yes, and I very much do not want it right. to All right.
01:02:17
Speaker
Thank you so much. Oh um my gosh. I'm excited. if we If we can get 20 grand of that Zubat, probably. So Hikaru gives Bruce her ticket.
01:02:29
Speaker
Perfect.
01:02:32
Speaker
And then she runs off on all spores to the front of the stage. Wherever Justin Fibberell is. I'm going to say you see like the signs that lead to like backstage. They point towards backstage. And you see like a ah bouncer who's clearly waiting for someone.
01:02:49
Speaker
So, uh, he sees you come up, he's like, hey there, uh, ticket please. You're one one two. Yep. And you hand him your ticket and he's like, uh, uh, uh, all right. And he hands it back to, he's like, all right, this way. he like opens up the velvet, uh, what's called? Like the guards, the curtain, not curtain.
01:03:09
Speaker
So like the rope, it got the velvet rope basically. I forget what it's called, like a fence thing. It's that thing. You guys know what I'm talking about The red velvet robe. He opens it up and lets you into the back. Okay.
01:03:23
Speaker
And, uh, yeah, there's just like a path that leads towards the back of the stage. We've got some stairs and there's a door and another con calder there. He knocks on the door. He's like, uh, Justin, we got your fan here.
01:03:37
Speaker
and opening the door you see Justin Bibberell who clearly seems disheveled like he just got out of like an argument or something he he turns back to us like yeah shut up yeah I know i know just he he looks back at you I'm sorry about that got some he air quotes business that I need to take care of but hey how can I help you hey
01:04:05
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Actual Evelyn is... Has a bit of a cop. Um... Ah! Uh... Hi! Well, I'm, uh... Name's Hikaru Hatsumi. Um, she extends her hand.
01:04:21
Speaker
And he shakes it very formally. Yeah, I'm, um...
01:04:27
Speaker
Big fan of your work. I'm i'm an aspiring recording artist and songwriter. I brought my notebook of songs with me and I've got my ukulele.
01:04:45
Speaker
Hey, so you're a fellow music fan just like myself. Hey. yeah Hold on one second. He like turns around leaves real quick. and closes the door just real fast. I want you to go ahead and roll investigation.
01:05:02
Speaker
Investigation? Okay.
01:05:07
Speaker
Three? Wait. I don't like where this is going. Okay, I'm gonna give you a little bit. Just the bare bit of it. You basically just hear some muffled talking and he's like, yeah, yeah, take care of him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:05:21
Speaker
And just more muffled talking. ah The door opens up. He's like, eh. Why don't you come on in here? We got some treats and refreshments and stuff. and I'm sure you'd want me to sign something of yours. He says like giving you a wink.
01:05:36
Speaker
Okay. So you enter what seems like some kind of green room. There's a plate of cookies and stuff like that. Some limited on the stand. He sits down on the couch.
01:05:48
Speaker
He is wearing... i He's wearing like a lot of you can see that. And I don't know what would a pop star wear?
01:06:00
Speaker
Like I don't know. Oh. Oh. Justin Bieber used to wear purple a lot. Did he? Okay. He's wearing purple sunglasses. Alright.
01:06:11
Speaker
We'll go with that. So. You got something you want me to sign? I'll play baseball cap too.
01:06:21
Speaker
yeah Yeah, we'll give him a baseball cap, I like that. Yeah, um... Can you... Okay, she pulls out her... Ah, the ukulele's an heirloom, I don't... She pulls out a... You know what?
01:06:40
Speaker
Um... You know what, do you have an index card by any chance? Uh, sure do. He pulls out a full stack of index cards as if he had it prepared and ready to go with a black fell marker.
01:06:54
Speaker
Okay. Um... Okay. Um, if you, um, if you sign this for me, I can just, we can just put it in the back of my... on the inside of the case.
01:07:09
Speaker
Uh... Can you do that one? Yeah. What you want me to write? Just whatever you want. He writes down whatever you want, signed to Justin Bieber, and he hands it to you.
Backstage Revelations and Deceitful Deals
01:07:23
Speaker
That was
01:07:26
Speaker
the most obvious joke ever.
01:07:30
Speaker
He's like, no, no, that was a joke. hands it to you, but he also gives you another name. He says to my biggest fan, signed Justin Bieber. Signed Justin Bieberol.
01:07:43
Speaker
Beaveral, yes. i don't know who does the Beaveral. Sorry, Beaveral was my brother.
01:07:49
Speaker
So, yeah, he hands you the actual signed one. Well, I mean, they're both signed, but... Yeah. Oh my gosh, thank you so much. Um... Yeah, I, uh... I was wondering if, uh... Yeah, I mean... How's she gonna say this?
01:08:10
Speaker
Um... She's...
01:08:15
Speaker
I'm a terrorist. Well, uh... What? Let me know if you're interested in, um... Let me know if you're interested in, like, collaborating on any songs sometime. Um... I would love to... I mean, it would be an honor to work with you someday.
01:08:33
Speaker
You know what? He's, like, staring up, like... These guys had cock like he's thinking. They're like, hmm... know what? I got a deal for you. Can you do something for me?
01:08:44
Speaker
Sure, what's up From behind him, he pulls out a metal box with like a big lock on it. this ah I need this delivered to Chris Geodude. I need this delivered. It's over in Frost... What's that what's the name of that one town? Frostvale? Not Frostvale.
01:09:07
Speaker
ah Fuck, there's an ice-themed town. I forgot the name of it. Is it Snowdrops? Snowdrift! Yeah, that one's it. I'm pretty sure that's it. Snowdrift. So he's like, I need this delivered to Chris the Geodude.
01:09:21
Speaker
He's someone I've collaborated with in the past, and I need this delivered to him. I'll tell you what. If you could deliver this to Chris here, I think I can make something happen with you. we could. I don't know about our startup collaboration, but I'll put in some cred for you. How's that?
01:09:41
Speaker
Okay. I mean... But I need you to understand, at no point are you to ever open this box. He points at the big lock on it. This is for Chris's eyes only.
01:09:53
Speaker
Very confidential stuff. You know, pop star business. You know what happens. We now have it. I understand. course, I would never look at it. He hands you the box, and it is oddly heavy You hear know like a strange whirring sound, like almost like machinery or something. There's something strange in this box.
01:10:16
Speaker
It is a gray metal unmarked box.
01:10:23
Speaker
You'll know what to do with this. of the devil You have received the Devon goods. Pretty much. oh You know, we said Chris GioDude. I just thought Chris Pratt.
01:10:37
Speaker
No, it's based on Chris Rock. Oh wow. so So, uh... Yeah. Okay, so, he's like, alright, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything else I can do for you at the moment?
01:10:51
Speaker
Um...
01:10:58
Speaker
Um, not at the moment. Uh, she just... She just hands him... She takes another index card and just writes her address on it.
01:11:10
Speaker
Okay. So he takes us from here and he's like, yeah, all alright, all alright. Cool thing it's Gale Beach, huh? Maybe you're not from around here, are you? Uh, yeah. We're from a few... How many miles is it? we We're from... We're like 12 hours away by train.
01:11:28
Speaker
Yeah, something like that. Small world. Alright. I'll send one of my agents out once I get word that the delivery is completed. We'll get something worked out. Won't be the last time I see you, so... Yeah, thank you so much. um Yeah, yeah.
01:11:41
Speaker
yeah And he stands up and goes over the door and opens and he's like, after you? Yeah, take care. Alright.
01:11:52
Speaker
And he closes the door after you. Okay.
01:11:57
Speaker
Alright, so you now have... I'm just going to say you have in you can put in your inventory index cards times two yeah and the mysterious goods. Mysterious goods.
01:12:09
Speaker
Yes, you have obtained two items. I'm going to say this. I'm going say, yeah, those index cards are stackable. Good thing Walter was in there. His interest would have made him open the door when he was arguing with someone.
01:12:21
Speaker
Well, the index cards are in her ukulele case. Okay, so just add it as an attachment to the ukulele then. Just like ukulele plus index cards. Uh-huh.
01:12:32
Speaker
Yeah. That doesn't... i i mean I take it you're running out of bag space? well Well, it's not... Technically, it's not in her bag. It's just... It's in another... The ukulele is in another case.
01:12:46
Speaker
is all That she also wears on her bag. Never really thought about that. You technically have two bags, but it doesn't count as a... Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, you can do that. That's fine. Okay. All right.
01:12:59
Speaker
as you guys As you exit the stadium, you can see Walter and Bruce are there while a bunch of people stream past. You can see them. They're waiting for you outside the gate.
01:13:13
Speaker
Hold on. I'm going walk away from everybody. This would be when Mikara was in there talking to him. going to random conkelder that's... just doing something i'm gonna like just whisper in here just cause the conversation and then like whisper like you see that zubat i'm pretty sure they're selling they're trying to sell looked like recycled tms as justin bieberrell's um records he also said something i'll take a look at it he also said fighting types only deserve to be working people
01:13:49
Speaker
like worker's class. He said what? He was talking down about his fighting Wait, he said that? Yes, he said that. yeah He's like, he cracks his knuckles and he's like, alright, alright. Well, he's making this fucking personal.
01:14:01
Speaker
And he goes stanking up with Zubat and starts talking with him.
01:14:06
Speaker
And I bounce. It's at this point. I wait outside. Well, no, it's is ah is at this point Hikaru would have met up with you guys. So, Hikaru is now with you. While the Conkelder is arguing with the Zubat.
01:14:22
Speaker
Ah, sweet revenge. Alright, it is about 6pm, sorry, 6pm, it's like 7pm, and you got, uh, Eli, you have one, ah cassette tape full of audio recordings, and, uh, yeah, it is about dark out right now, so, that is where you guys are currently standing. 7pm, we're still in the summer, right?
01:14:47
Speaker
Uh, yes. After school, so, right up yeah. Like, May, June, July, I don't know, something like that. Never really got a specific date put down.
01:14:57
Speaker
Yeah. But it's not like cold anything. I feel like the sun would still be out until about 9. Uh, sure, if that's who want it to be. Either way, it's about 7pm. Okay. Do you want it to be dark out is the main question.
01:15:11
Speaker
that That was kind of- I was just doing that for like the theme of it. Like it's after a concert, it's kind of dark out. That's just the theme I was going for so. Alright, Bruce- It's up to you guys, it doesn't really matter. Bruce, where was his Inteleon setting me?
01:15:25
Speaker
Uh, so Bruce is just gonna go back to that alleyway.
The Thunderous Boots of Invisibility
01:15:30
Speaker
I'm following Bruce's chest as muscle. yeah there's There's no... You can't see anyone, but from the other way you see your... You goods?
01:15:43
Speaker
Yep. You got the money? Alright, let's see what you... Yeah. Alright, got four out of five. the The crowd got a little extra crazy on one of them, and... I'm going to get to point them out as well. I'll determine the value of the goods, thank you very much.
01:15:59
Speaker
He extends his hands from the shadows as to ask for the equipment. Uh-huh. He can listen it from here. You can hold onto while he listens to it. the They're headphones. They're not speakers, you dumbass.
01:16:11
Speaker
He can hold onto it while he listens to it. Hand over the headphones. I'm sorry, hoping i know I know easily it is Inteleons to get away. He's gonna try and snatch it for me. Do where contest his strength test.
01:16:26
Speaker
Can I punch him? Is Hikaru with them? Yeah, I'm gonna say you got you're like a in the back the group or something. Yeah.
01:16:39
Speaker
Can i help him? Or can I just punch him? Eli's the one holding. I want Eli to roll. I mean, you can punch him, but hold on. maybe we got the bloodlust. No, no, no. He's trying to swipe and run. And tell him this can go invisible, remember?
01:16:57
Speaker
No, that's only Sobble's that can go invisible, isn't it? what I thought Inteleons were those. don't know. I wouldn't make sense when I lose the ability. Am I thinking of the wrong ones?
01:17:09
Speaker
Well, because it's Sobble's tears make it go invisible. Huh, okay.
01:17:19
Speaker
So I didn't think Inteleons. but i got no i'm thinking of the wrong pokemon i'm sorry i'm thinking of the i completely thought wrong pokemon i was thinking of the green one that can go invisible but has that mark on their belly that visible yeah what are you talking about he's thinking kecleon not until you oh kecleon i turned oh yeah heard yawned i'm like it must be that invisible one No. Alright, now I'm gonna... Yeah, the two secret evolutions, Inteleon, Kecleon, know... Yeah, sorry i might I'm sorry. I'm an Eon person, sorry.
01:17:56
Speaker
They all sound alike. Okay, go ahead and roll Contested Strength to try and keep the machine. Do you want me to roll again? no if you already rolled, what did you get?
01:18:08
Speaker
I got a 5 plus 1, 6. Aww. He got a 13, he snatches it out of your hand. like, yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up. Just let me take a look this thing. and you can hear him rewinding the tape and he's actually listening to it.
01:18:24
Speaker
Okay. A couple minutes go by. Yeah, a couple minutes goes by. He's like listening to the fast He's like, right, right. Yeah, yeah, You're about right. Four out to of five. Yeah, I'll give that. All right.
01:18:35
Speaker
I don't know where you guys got the idea of money from, but I can give you these. And he holds out a pair of boots.
01:18:45
Speaker
What? Boots? I'm sorry, but the tickets would have cost more than that. Oh, I'm not so sure. Uh, who's picking it up? What these boots exactly?
01:18:58
Speaker
Just read the tag. As you hold the boots, um, this is one of my favorite items that I've seen before. Uh, I saw someone mention these before. These are the thunderous boots of invisibility.
01:19:14
Speaker
Hmm.
01:19:17
Speaker
Okay. I saw this on like TikTok like a couple years ago, but these boots renders the user completely invisible. But every step taken is insanely loud, like a bomb going off.
01:19:31
Speaker
What?
01:19:34
Speaker
Okay. ya
01:19:38
Speaker
Those there boots that get you out of a pretty sticky situation. i guess More useful than you think. Couldn't they just hear where we are? They don't gotta see to use a move that covers a lot of ground.
01:19:52
Speaker
There's no response.
01:19:57
Speaker
Yeah, Hikaru thought carter thought he was just gonna abscond with the tape. um Which is why she started to walk forward. But then she noticed...
01:20:10
Speaker
She noticed the boots. Where'd you get these from, anyway?
01:20:17
Speaker
he's He's gone. There's no response. He disappeared into the shadowy alleyway. When we get reactions, we're like, right close to us. like I said he was obscured by shadows when you when you entered the alleyway.
01:20:32
Speaker
He extended a hand from the shadows to retrieve the item. ah Yeah. It's like, where'd you get this from, Edney?
01:20:44
Speaker
Bruce is gonna shoot just an ember into the shadows just to light up. Please tell me he's like a little shadowing. It's like he's like like holding onto the wall trying to make it like go wait go away, go away, go away.
01:20:57
Speaker
You shoot an ember down the alleyway and you get enough light to see the Inteleons just there crouching in the dark. He's like, shit. so You just see him like huddling in the corner, hoping you guys will go away.
01:21:11
Speaker
Yeah, we don't quite go away that easily. um He is going to attempt to flee. He's jumping up and over the fence at the back of the alleyway.
01:21:23
Speaker
Do we chase or is it not worth it? as hes jumping over the
Final Decisions and Future Plans
01:21:28
Speaker
As he's jumping over the fence, he's like, I gave you guys a reward, now fuck off! And he just runs down the other side other Can a picture of him when he jumps up?
01:21:38
Speaker
ah You can try, but roll at disadvantage because he is it is a dark alleyway. What are you trying to do? You better hope that GPA camera's really good.
01:21:49
Speaker
Yeah, um... well What am I rolling again? What was it? What was under? Go for... a tech Sleight of hand. Performance. Sleight of hand. Go cool. 14! What a disadvantage?
01:22:04
Speaker
Yeah, i got 19 and 13. Jesus. Okay. you So, because of the long exposure time of the camera, because it's so dark, ah you get a blurry image of the Inteleon.
01:22:16
Speaker
Like a grainy blurry image. It is clearly an Inteleon. But that's about all you can tell. You know, we'll probably just give him a description an Inteleon with a... was it? A thing over its eye?
01:22:28
Speaker
Um...
01:22:32
Speaker
What? It basically just looks like you took a blurry image of an Inteleon. I know, but I was gonna say, I could ah probably... A better description than just giving this to the police or someone be just basically an Inteleon with an eye patch.
01:22:45
Speaker
Yeah, Eli says some bank security quality, yeah, pretty much. Man, I just took- Why do you things have awful quality? I just took a Bigfoot photo, basically. I basically did. Yeah. Okay.
01:22:58
Speaker
okay I don't know what do you expected from taking a picture down the pitch black alleyway, but that's better than I should have given you. You know, i was I was really about to start walking down the alleyway all creepily with the thunder punches charging, like, ah lighting up the area. right. Well...
01:23:15
Speaker
We got what we needed. ae
01:23:23
Speaker
Evelyn just sent in our chat, if you're thinking about ratting the guy out, it turns out bootlegging isn't actually illegal in Ventus. Yeah. for For the audience, I don't...
01:23:37
Speaker
I don't know if we ever said this ah on the show, but we do have like a chat in the back that we discuss things amongst ourselves while the recording is going on, so we're not stepping over each other so often.
01:23:48
Speaker
I just want to say this. Me and Eli had our own personal chat, and we were like, if we don't get something good, we're jumping him. when we were after we After we got the first like close call with the guard, i was like, so we don't get like something that's worth 5K or more, we're jumping him?
01:24:04
Speaker
Right? Yeah. That's exactly the thought I had.
01:24:11
Speaker
So, uh, it is- I'm gonna say it is dark outside. Uh, still. Oh, yeah. It's dark. Cause alleyway's dark. Whatever. Alright! So, it is at this point, uh, you guys should probably either find an inn or make your way to Breeze Home City.
01:24:26
Speaker
Unless you guys have other business here in the city, this is, uh... Is Sakaru carrying the box, or is it just in their backpack? It's in a bag. yeah bag but it's heavy all right what next you guys don't even yeah i say you guys don't even know about it yeah yeah that's how i was looking was saying if we noticed it or not um so where we got where's are we going next um where are we going to breeze house please
01:24:57
Speaker
I say we go to Bree's home. No, no. Stay at a... Maybe we should... Hmm. Do we have money to stay at an inn? Stay at an inn or get on a sleeper car. We don't? i mean I thought I did. There's there' is no train to from Shangalo to Bree's home city. that's why they you guys That's why you guys stopped here, because that's the farthest this train went.
01:25:23
Speaker
Wait, you guys don't have enough money for an inn? Well, this is up for many rich bags over here. Well, I have 660 Poké.
01:25:34
Speaker
You just have 66? 660. Oh, okay. Is that it? I've got 913 here. I've got 18 grand. Jesus. yeah So, okay.
01:25:52
Speaker
So, do you guys want to head out in the dark you guys stay in an inn? I'm fine with that. You know, don't know you guys, but I'm kinda rested already. and I didn't really care about the concert.
01:26:03
Speaker
like Are you tired, Ikaru? Because you did a lot of screaming. We heard you from where we are. I'm pretty energized. Okay. So guys heading to Breeze Home City? You can see her like, you can see her like, tail and cheeks crackling.
01:26:17
Speaker
most Most of us can light up the way for ourselves. We all have moves that light, that something light each other up. Yep. Bruce can just light his back flame so that Walter can get a nice fire punch going.
01:26:33
Speaker
I basically just so um basically does tap you guys' back. I got a thunder punch. One hand fire punch the other one. I'm just lighting the way. Okay. There we go. We've got our own lights.
01:26:45
Speaker
So
Episode Conclusion and Audience Engagement
01:26:46
Speaker
as you guys head out into the forest that is between Shangalo and Bruce's home city, This is where we will end the episode with you guys walking into the spooky forest.
01:26:59
Speaker
So. Alright. Yep. That is where we're going end this episode. So, I have been Dakota. Your PM, your DM, your GM. I've been Evelyn playing Hikaru. I've been Eli playing Bruce.
01:27:13
Speaker
I've been Jacob playing the bootlegging Walter.
01:27:19
Speaker
Okay. We'll see you guys next time.
01:27:26
Speaker
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01:27:42
Speaker
We also have the music producers for this episode. We have Mount Travail, Fight Area Knight, Gym Challenge Opening Ceremony, Battle Gym Leader, and apple woods that'll be all for tonight folks see you guys next time