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Arc 2 - Episode 11 - Epic Boss Battle [Insert Airhorns Here]
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The crew goes up against the mob boss herself.
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Dakota as the PM, DM, GM
Evelyn as Hikaru Hatsumi the Pikachu
Eli as Bruce Flameback the Cyndaquil
Shawn as Sammy Pepperoni the Munchlax
Jake as Walter the Riolu
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Transcript
Introduction and Sound Check
00:00:00
Speaker
Test, test. I'm good. Eli? yoy Yo, yo. All right. Evelyn. Test. Good. Jake? And I need cash now. Cole, A, 100. Ask piss farts. Sean? Well, I see the waveform on the Zendcaster, but I didn't hear Sean say anything. yeah That's OK. That's OK. OK. Yeah, we can hear you now.
Humorous Technical Discussion
00:00:27
Speaker
yeah those yeah but yeah seaun is okay um um but sure we know that was when i listen to the patreon version The fact that you didn't hear it makes just funny on here My air conditioning running on no, and kas I can't hear it No, I can't hear your condition the fact that you didn't hear what I said makes it funnier and I'll use it as my preconditioner Use it as the pre-show when you get it Yes Hang on. I'll take my whole microphone over to my bedroom with my where my air conditioner is I
00:00:56
Speaker
can you guys hear myer canda
00:01:00
Speaker
i heard that All okay we are recording by the way wait can you guys hear the air conditioner i know i got home about so i just running through the house it like a crazy man can you hair the er conditioner hear the conditioner can hear can you are you feeling it now mr crabs are you feeling it now mr crabs
00:01:33
Speaker
nice
00:01:47
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to the Path of Time I am Dakota your PM your DM your GM and sitting to my left is Somebody who is currently filming not filming recording on a Macintosh Apple an Apple Macintosh one.
Self-Introductions and Setups
00:02:03
Speaker
I know what it's called It's me Evelyn Yeah, yeah, I have a... I am currently recording on a MacBook that has the words System76 written on the front. It's kind of weird, I don't know how it happened like that. But anyway, setting to my left is somebody who truly believes that the proper word for for a video description is dooblydoo.
00:02:30
Speaker
Yeah, that's me. I know exactly what a doobly-doo is, and soon so will everyone else. Meet Eli, by the way. And sitting across from me is someone who is currently drinking ginger beer.
00:02:50
Speaker
just quack out of I got a whole case of ginger ale That's not the same but like it's almost it's a 24k. Did you like did you seriously like run across your house to her grab? He's getting his steps in today I Okay, it's like two steps over there. No, I didn't go all the way across that Hi, I'm Sean with a giant case of ginger ale
00:03:18
Speaker
Sean, you gotta to introduce Jake. Sorry, I had to put the ginger ale back. here first yeah but Okay. He ran all day across his house again. And sitting to my bleft is someone named Jake. Bleft? Really? What? Crazy. Am I the only one who heard that? But did you just say bleft? I just said that!
00:03:47
Speaker
That was the joke. not j not Not what he was doing, but the fact that he was to my Bluff. Is this the thing of this show? What the hell is a Bluff? I'm about to attack a cat. And a goose, a zang goose to me in fact. We just had this discussion before the show, it's a mongoose. I'm about to type a goose, a cat, I don't care, Walter wants blood. It's a cat ferret. It's the cat ferret. We've got too much friendly content right now, we need some of this. It's basically just a mink.
00:04:17
Speaker
actually is a mongoose like a mink i don't know if i've ever seen a mongoose in person hey it doesn't matter it's supposed to a mink it doesn't matter what is like a mink he's about to die it's like a mink but more vicious i think right and minks are vicious they're carnivores i'm pretty sure is a mongoose a kind of mink welcome to the podcast someone asked amongoose venomous alexa is a mongoose a kind of mink Okay, I think they're a little bit vicious because I just I just googled mongoose in the first ah under the section that says like people also ask what the very first thing says Why do mongoose eat
Mongoose vs. Mink Debate
00:04:53
Speaker
snakes? no mongos are not Yeah, but because they can
00:04:58
Speaker
because they can me get to stop talking about what gooses Alexa says no, it's not the same Okay, this is a little hardcore than I thought. That's why the mongoose eat snakes Oh my god, these mongooses hunt and kill these stakes in their natural habitat eating them down to their venomous sacks Like Jesus Christ. Yeah is that what the make i mean on I'm so glad we're not being because yeah made out of mink fur oh hey welcome back to master time we're no longer PG we're gonna swear now uh yeah i don't know if you noticed but back in episode eight we started putting explicit tags on i don't think i put a uh i don't think i put a disclaimer under but it doesn't matter our audience is old enough and like i don't think anyone's dying if you're dying let us know in the discord all right let's go let's go let's go
00:05:53
Speaker
I don't know if that's a good advice to be giving. If you were dying, go download the Discord album. Let us know before you call 911. Yeah, I've got to find my dice. We can't knock them down again. Question, a power band gives me a plus nine to my attack, right? What? Oh, cu how man it should be plus eight to your base. That's your power band. yeah To just my attack, right?
00:06:22
Speaker
Okay, my dice are completely gone. Give me a second. Everyone else is going to be very confused. I found a d20. Hold on one second. I gotta go diving for this one. What I just put in the lockers. There's a locker room. Aha, I got a d20. I'm dying. Yes, we know. My d4 is
Episode Recap and Character Dynamics
00:06:41
Speaker
gone. Oh, my gosh. I found it, guys. I found the pyramid. Guys, I found a couch on my floor. Oh, right. We still gotta do the recap.
00:06:52
Speaker
Damn it. Yeah. Why do you think I'm diving for dice? All right. Um, so I rolled a one plus eight. Okay. I am rolling. All right. Uh, others roll. I also rolled a one. A D four. Roll a D four to do the recap Evelyn. A three. four or jake three well i rolled a two so i guess i'm doing the recap how does this always happen odds are against the fact that i do recap i always do it you've done like more than half the recaps this season i know and the odds are stacked against me doing the recaps and yet still i've done something which is actually fine because i just reviewed the previous episode earlier so i actually have a good uh recollection of what happened all right let's go
00:07:41
Speaker
Okay, so the last time pass through time um you guys Started in the pepper nice pizzeria. You guys had an argument with Selena cuz she was being stingy about the Walter and Selena's agreement to about swapping the orbs Selena did not want to give Walter's guitar unless she was able to hold on to the orb so you guys managed to switch the orbit one you think is ah One you guys think is fake you guys gave to Selena so she is now holding on to that and Walter has his guitar back
00:08:17
Speaker
you guys left the pizzeria and jake ended up snapping his high-eathed string so he had to get that replaced later on but you guys headed down to the general store to pick up a supply of mozzarella sticks and pepperoni for mr pepperoni to pay back the debt of 1500 poke is worth of mozzarella sticks which by the way are still sitting on the table i just want to point it out uh and along the way you guys know 78 75 of them Okay, there's only 25% of the mozzarella sticks still on the table. Minus whatever you guys munched on. So, you guys met the Perugly and Xerox, who the Perugly is... I don't actually remember. Did, did sacrom tell you guys who the Perugly was? The boss. says there them that I feel like you, yeah, I think you guys already know that. but Yeah, you guys already know that.
00:09:14
Speaker
Yes you guys met the mob boss going downtown with Xerox who was looking for Zekrom the bartender because Zekrom knows about like the mob dealings and all about the underground speakeasy you know a bunch of illegal stuff that could get them in trouble so they were looking for Zekrom to to stuff with, I don't know, I can't say anything, but, ah yeah, Xerox is also there, Walter managed to evade being seen twice, and you guys ended up successfully getting the pepperoni and mozzarella sticks from the general store, along with Walter's new guitar string. So you guys had to back drop those off, not a male carrier,
00:10:03
Speaker
Emoka who handed you guys the or handed mr. Pepperoni at the season desist from Sprigotito in Hawkeye and then you guys headed back to Miss flame backs place and that is where we left off with you guys seeing the probably banging on the door of Miss flame backs front door too bad. They don't have a good representative for lawyer like Bleh like Kyle had. Was she banging with well Kyle? And not a scratch the lawyer. he needs to Yeah. he needs Yeah. that He needs a lawyer like Kyle. Oh, I say you meant like Kyle had a no, I getcha. Yeah. He represented himself. we Well, technically, what do you mean? He's I guess. I don't know. I don't know too much about ah Italian mobsters, which is kind of what I base that off of, which you guys will get to see later. Was probably banging with her power, her tail.
00:11:04
Speaker
Uh, she was smacking the door with her paw. I'm just going to imagine. You put the imagery out there of her detaching her tail and smacking the door with it. But no, that is not what happened. Did they have long tails? Did they have a long tail? I was literally just putting together the carefishing for her earlier.
Character Conflict and Battle Setup
00:11:22
Speaker
But it's wrapped around their stomach, so it would detach. He's not wrong. Around their stomach? It's not wrapped around their stomach.
00:11:31
Speaker
It is. It's hated why would like Vegeta, he wraps it around his stomach. Yeah, like can all the pictures I'm looking at, it is not wrapped around his stomach. No, it's got a twisty tail and it's, it is kind of long, but it's not wrapped around his stomach. No, it is. It is. Oh well. We're going to say it's a paw. We're going to dome with the paw. What are you talking about? I'm looking at the imagery section of Google for pro ugly and not a single one of them has that imagery.
00:11:58
Speaker
it goes it dealing like back sprites of peruglium wi wipedia ah Okay, I'm gonna share my screen but I'm just gonna share my screen real quick. Oh, are you thinking that flower bit around its stomach? It's tail. It's not No, that literally is its tail. Oh, are you talking about the fluff it has on its tail? That's not a tail. No, that's literally its tail. Oh, but actually, yes it is actually. The fluff is its tail because in this other form, it has a fluff in its first form. I don't see that in the imagery. Hold on one second. There's a frog whose first form. I'm trying to I'm trying to find a picture that actually shows like the Like the connection between the fluff because I'm seeing a picture with it. Not that I'm seeing a lot of pictures where that's not the case Hang on hang on Yes, I'm looking for There's literally a clip from the anime with its tail disconnecting from its body like Jesse lifts the tail off of it.
00:12:56
Speaker
Huh, I see that okay interesting I did know there's a thing Huh, okay It is very hard to see by these photos because none of these photos I'm looking at showed the connection between the stem and the actual fluff Yep, okay. We have that figured out. No anyway. No she is banging on the door with her paw and And doing this is that item Sean, pull us up around a move. Slack off. Slack off. We will slack off in. That's grammatically correct. All right, we'll do it tomorrow then. We're going to slack in.
00:13:38
Speaker
okay so you guys are now standing you i've i was imagining you guys are like standing at the gate of the uh residence and you can see the perugly i didn't mention it last time and it's just because i forgot to but yes zerix is there at perugly side i didn't mention the last time that's my mistake zerix is there and you can see that clearly Also, it is nighttime outside. It is just them outside, you said? It is just them. It seems like they just arrived and probably just started knocking on the door. All right. Question. They found us. Wait, hang on. Has Walter told the rest of the party who the Zangoose is? Because as far as we know, we don't know that guy. No, you guys got a brief glimpse and I think go ahead. That son of a.
00:14:32
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think so. I think you guys just got the brief glimpse of Zarek's kidnapping Walter. and That was basically it. And you guys, but you guys did get tell of Zarek's, the a balancer from Spricketito, the pan-seater in the bar. Yeah. So you guys know of him. of Yeah. Yes. Walter did not tell you guys, but you know of him, you guys saw him kidnap Walter. Can I just say you see a Clinton-Walter's eye when he sees that he's here.
00:14:59
Speaker
He's like, rematch. Can I roll perception to see if I figure out that that's who that is? ah You don't need perception. You just know that. I'm probably tell he's the one who went to have the possibility of failing the role. I guess you can. But I don't see how that would help you. No, no, no. I just wanted to make sure that the characters knew who it was, I guess. No, thank you have a marked up. I never remember if you told me or not. I want to know if ah my medical actually did mess up its eye.
00:15:26
Speaker
I don't remember, and I don't think so. He's not like blind or anything, so. Guess I'll have to do it myself then. He's got an eye patch on. He's got two eye patches on. He's doing cooler. They call him no IP. He's actually got three eye patches on. He's got one over his nose. Three? Over his nose? OK, so what are you guys planning on doing with this? They were on the base. We got to get rid of them.
00:15:56
Speaker
uh before anything can get out of hand i think bruce is gonna like walk over to them you know like uh excuse me can uh can i help you this is my house the paregoli looks uh the paregoli turns around and looks and she's like ah why do you what do you what do you want and who are you oh you you're the cynical we saw earlier aren't you Yeah, this is my house. We're just coming home. Well, fuck. But as she as she says this, she sharply looks upwards and she points at Walter and she's like, you, you're the man. I'm attacking you. Can I restrain Walter? Roll opposed strength. I'm doing quick attack on the sucker.
00:16:44
Speaker
Okay, roll opposed strength with Walter or Jake, roll for a quick attack real quick and if you succeed, you'll roll with advantage against strength. Okay, that is a 11.
00:16:58
Speaker
Okay, so roll against Sami's strength, but Jake gets rolled advantage. I rolled 19 plus one is 30 20. Okay. You stopped me. I only got my biggest was a 14. Okay, so plus three. So you do manage to hold Walter back, but he's given a lot of force as he attempts to click attack the program. Hang on. just we let's no Let's talk to her first. I don't know. We got see what she's talking about. we Hold on. We just wait. Just count down.
00:17:27
Speaker
you So, you're the one that beat up my bouncer, are you, the Preagly says. Why, why, why are you, why would you do that? How's the eye? What the, no. Serik's like narrows his eye at you. Walter, just answer a question. yeah He won't let me in. Simple as that. Yeah, yeah mean I mean, that's kind of his job, obviously. I forget what voice I had for myself earlier. I think this was it.
00:17:54
Speaker
Also, he's a table bouncer. I tried to bribe him and he was okay with it if I gave him all my money. He was gonna let me in if I bribed him. Not really a good bouncer for that. At this, Zarex looks over at, for everything, he's just like, he's like, no, no, I didn't, no, I didn't. He's lying, don't listen to him. If I gave him enough Boca burgers, he was gonna let me in.
00:18:18
Speaker
Probably goes like polka burgers. Yeah, why book what he's a cheap man. He is not loyal I mean to be fair both burgers are delicious Anyway, what I really want with you, you broke in the same time my bartender disappeared and he happens to have information that could be, let's say, harming to my business. Now, now that we have you, Xerox, Xerox, grab him. Xerox is going to go... Xerox is going to... I saw him at the police station. He was in the town. He was in the... What was it?
00:18:54
Speaker
um ah What's the one that glaium was on I can't remember the name okay? Okay, yeah, he was in the police station a hot guy apparently he he went with the glace yawns Who were you talking about? The progress like who were you talking about who went with what your bartender? Yeah, apparently he went to Hawkeye because the police offered them deal they could get on to you So he's getting immunity of what and he's gonna rat you out What? ah Okay rule deception
00:19:25
Speaker
Yeah. What's under smart? I think it's either smart or you. It's cute. It's cute. OK, I'm 12. All right. Progally rolled a 15. She's just like, yeah, no, I. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yes, sir. Uh-huh. What attack? I'm just going back in. Where is this? The front door swings open and you see Alfred open the door. Oh, Alfred Alfred. Hey, can you go quick? I'm trying. I'm really having a hard time holding back Walter here.
00:19:55
Speaker
and no flat no Alfred sees the situation and he goes for an extra sensory on the parabola. What does that do? is It is a 2d8 plus 10 damaging move. Roll a If result is greater than equal to effect roll first flinch so it has the possibility of flinching.
00:20:24
Speaker
Which I did not. Hang on. Are we ganging up on these two Pokemon now? Yes, we are jumping them. No, no, we're not doing anything yet. Alfred is protecting the house. Yeah, Alfred is going for this Perugly. And as he's going for this extra sensor, he's like, children, get back. I will deal with this. Or wait, I lost my British accent. It gets back. oh I wanted this. I want it on. Let me. Let me.
00:20:53
Speaker
And Alfred slams into this correctly with psychic force and deals I don't have my d8 up. So you got to give me a second it just says I'll pay I'll pay you the free and actually let me go He rolls a but but No, no, I as much as I would appreciate that no, I'm not no, I'll give you all my Boca burgers when we resupply I My man, you're a lot of buccaburgers. I know that you are. You dropped them all on the ground but like an nine hour. I'll bake you a cake. Well, Alfred deals 48 damage to the police. What? Minus its defense special defense. Dead. So that means that Alfred did 11 damage to the burglary.
Alfred's Battle Strategy
00:21:45
Speaker
Oh, my lord whoa. Surprisingly less than I wanted.
00:21:48
Speaker
is extra sensory special a physical attack special special now at this you guys feel a psychic force hit you guys and push you towards the edge of the lawn wal just do it all yeah and in your minds you can in your mind you guys can hear alfred going you guys stay back you guys stay back i will deal with this perugly what about those angus is he leaving us to us The Zangoosh was pushed to the opposite side of the lawn. Now I need you guys to roll me d20s. The highest roll gets to play Alfred in this fight. Oh my god. te
00:22:29
Speaker
i got a fifteen ah wa fourteen two okay so if you rolled the 15 again me i got a 16 16 okay elite i am going to send you in the teacher's lounge a very poorly rendered photo of xeric's character uh alfred's character she i'm just gonna have alfred ignore the probably just go straight for the zango it's just a mess with it up with it i'm i'm glad he pushed us because i was about to ask if i could carry walter You guys are currently frozen in place. Holy cow! His attack! Wait, why did you send us Xerox's character sheet?
00:23:09
Speaker
Did I send you Xerox? hello let's just my advice Why is there a dragon pulse? No, it's the wrong name. He forgot to change the name. Yeah, let me see ability yeah nine it's the it's the right move. It's the right name. No, I just forgot to change the name on the character sheet since it's my personal copy. I didn't think of and it was going to work with dragon pulse.
00:23:34
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think you can even learn it by TM. Okay, so eli Eli since you're controlling Alfred Why don't you go ahead and give the audience Alfred stats? why is alpha purenorm <unk>s nice he should be I think what is a normal dragon? Yeah, yeah, it's a normal dragon I did I created I just created these character sheets really quickly. So it's not perfect.
00:23:55
Speaker
yeah so we have Alfred the Drampa a level 60 normal dragon type with the ability cloud nine which removes the effect of weather and holding a detect band which increases the speed by your base stat which is nine yeah you've only got it boosted by six in the temporary bonus but oh yeah so i think that's supposed to be nine yeah so it's hp his hp stat is 66 he's got 35 attack 30 defense 29 special attack 29 special defense and 42 speed
00:24:38
Speaker
He's got so much speed. He's just ridiculously fast. All right, and what moves does he have? He's also got me a brick tough IQ skill, so he should have 10 more HP than that. Oh, he does. I didn't even look at that. These were copied off of Selena's character. She ensures it's the most developed one. So actually, you're correct. Yeah, just imagine 10 extra, I guess. Yeah.
00:25:07
Speaker
right So his HP should be 76. I have a problem with his sheet. How dare he have a negative 1 and tough? Oh no, he's gonna out bench everybody. No way, he ain't tough. Okay, so what is Alfred's move set? Alfred's moves are outrage, hyper voice, dragon pulse, and extrasensory. This is gonna be a fun battle. How do you psychic stuff all the way without any psychic moves?
00:25:36
Speaker
Extra sensory is the psychic move, dingus. It is. Oh, yeah. Why do you think you guys are frozen in place? Oh, can I go roll and get out of it? I want to go for the thing. oh i hold up Walter's weak to it. Roll at the end of a turn. Yeah, probably. Yeah, that seems fair. Let me see. It would be. Walter should roll for disadvantage because he's weak to it. You just don't want to hurt the thing. Constitution. Yeah. put onation Dakota, are we paralyzed? Essentially, you guys, I mean, in the sense of the word paralyzed, yes, you guys can't move except for your mouths. But no, you guys do not have the effect to paralyze. OK, because I'm electric, so I can't be paralyzed, paralyzed. No, it's a psychic hold he has on you. Basically psychic without psychic. Wait a minute. Oh, psych. Oh, you gave Selena 300 IQ points.
00:26:35
Speaker
uh possibly i see how it is selena's his favorite character okay uh bright so um i need you i need you eli to roll speed uh normally i'd have you just hit the f9 but that's not a thing roll me a d42 yeah when i'm gonna get the xp out of this d42 i'm so sad when i'm gonna get the xp out of this oh my god what a roll okay
00:27:07
Speaker
be so bad I got a 32. Oh, wow. That's actually not bad. But the Progly got a 35. Dang. So the Progly is going to leap back and the Progly is going to leap back and go. for a body slam on Xerox. Oh, Xerox? Sorry, not Xerox. Not Xerox. He didn't fight it. You took a bribe? You took a bribe? You were going to take a bribe? How dare you? Friendly fire. No. And that once he does take, he attacks Xerox. The Pregly is going to go for a hit on Alfred and
00:27:49
Speaker
Uh, okay. So yeah, he goes for a hit on Alfred. Where is the stupid button? And she goes, my name, my name is Jio Kondo. You have offended me and my mob. You shall pay. Can I get a, can I get an acronym of that?
00:28:18
Speaker
You have a really long name. Yeah, I get that right. L-E-F-M-E-P-A. Did you just smash a keyboard? No, I pulled open a random Italian name generator and it gave me five names. Wow. First and last names. And I just stacked them all together. That's her first name. That's her first name. Yeah, last name, Elitzi. Elitzi.
00:28:46
Speaker
I don't know if that's how you pronounce that, but that's how I'm going with it. so zerooconder leads And she is going to go for a body slam and she is going to absolutely whiff and smack into the side of the house. Oh no, that just made him angrier. Oh yeah.
00:29:04
Speaker
it took me five hours to get that code of painting right how dare you how dare you any time you're like i'm giving you permission to role play as alfred but you have to use it at the british accent okay um I cannot do a British accent to save my life, but, uh... Oh, would you like a spotte? We picked the best person to play Alfred.
Battle Developments and Strategies
00:29:30
Speaker
yeah We probably did not pick the best person to play Alfred, but hey. I'm glad I would have murdered his accent. Oh, bruv. Okay, it is, uh, it is now Alfred's turn. What are you doing? Oh, okay.
00:29:47
Speaker
i I'm trying to remember Alfred's voice from any movie that I've ever seen with him. Just do some random British accent. that's all name is My name is 007.
00:30:02
Speaker
My name is Bond and James Bond. James. How dare you attack my master's house? That is not at all British, but I'm going with it. Think of Alfred from Batman. Yes. Yes. We're going to use a dragon pulse now. OK. It wasn't just it hits all of us.
00:30:28
Speaker
actually that's okay so all right so what's the damage on a dragon pulse that is 2d 10 plus 10 so i
00:30:42
Speaker
or plus r d ten plus ten plus a once yeah two d ten s no one d ten right no i think so they double the damage dice so it's four d ten s plus ten i always get that confused i'm ready for the one one two one wait is it for crit?
00:31:03
Speaker
Right? Yeah. Yeah. I've turned a little bit crazy. Where did they change how crits work? That's how it used to be. We used the old version of crits. I don't remember what it was. It's not in the system. What the hell? Who designed the system? Who upgraded the system and got rid of critical hits? No, it was... No, I'm the one who changed the system around. I must have removed it by accident. Alright, enter it. Please attack the Dakota.
00:31:31
Speaker
okay so for the sake of it yes it'll be 40 10 plus 10 all ones okay so we got three four seven eight so it'll be 23 right wait 14 plus the game is 22 yeah 22 so 32 plus my special attack of 29 will be what 51 damage physical or special what that should be great you plus 29 61 damage and 22 right yeah okay what's your final number okay yeah 51 special dragon damage okay so that is going to deal 22 damage that is a sizable chunk actually yeah there special defense oh my god
00:32:32
Speaker
Okay, so as the Protely gets up back to its feet, it's going to look at you with an angry look in your eyes as it goes for fury swipes.
00:32:50
Speaker
Hey y'all, sorry for the weird midsection placement, but from this point forward, Jake had to leave the recording to go deal with some family business, so from this point onwards, Jake will not be showing up in the recording, and I did not realize this until later in the episode, so sorry about that. um everything's fine don't worry about it but um right thank you guys for listening to the mid-section i am the code at your premiere do your majam if you can't tell i haven't done this in like a month uh pray uh go join our discord it's linked down below we have a patreon hooray it should be linked down below if that didn't go bug me in the discord because i probably forgot about it
00:33:30
Speaker
uh as far as the question of the episode goes this week nobody submitted anything so go do that go put some questions there's a channel in discord called question of the episode q o t e i remember what it's actually called uh something along those lines go ask me anything anything personal related anything about the show whatever you need right um music as far as music goes for this episode we have rogue port from Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door. We have Ghost Gulpin from Paper Mario 64 and Tuppa's Heart from Paper Mario 64. Alright, and back to this chaos.
00:34:10
Speaker
Oh boy. Now, for those who don't know, in the Mystery Dungeon game, Furious Wipes is so much worse than it is in the actual games. Now, let me read you the description. Furious Wipes is... That's not it. Furious Wipes is 1d6 plus 3, which doesn't sound like much, but I get to roll a d4 plus 1. This is how many chances you have. Roll accuracy for each chance. For each hit, apply damage.
00:34:39
Speaker
so i roll a four and a four plus one is five so i'm going to roll five d six plus fifteen and that is one no you that that was how many chances you get so now you roll accuracy five times is that how it is hold on one second yeah that's what you just read Okay, one second, i'm accident I almost edited the formula. as only Do you think I actually retained any of that? I thought I didn't know it. There's not a chance that you have, bro. Oh, oh, oh, you're right, you're right. Okay, okay, okay, okay gotcha. Alright, so we got a 17.
00:35:14
Speaker
A 17. A 17? What are the chances of that? A 17. A 14. Yes, can you hear them? And an 8. Okay, I'm rolling in front of my mic, so hopefully it'll pick up. What are the chances of that? I just want three 17s in a row. a Holy shit.
00:35:33
Speaker
Okay, so if that is ah Exactly what I said before anyway, it is 10 D's and it's like what am I saying? The AC is 10, right? This is 10. Oh this time I was looking to move above which is six. Yeah. Yeah, so that's four heads Sorry, I was looking up the exit above me. I know how to play this game I have definitely opened to this character sheet in the last like three months so that is 46 plus 12 I don't have I gotta use digital dice I lost on my dice that's 14 plus uh 12 which is 26 plus physical attack is 32 so that's what does that say 26 so 56 58 damage minus hero defense geez that'll be 28 damage then okay chunky hit 76 minus 28 geez
00:36:33
Speaker
Alfred only has 48 HP left. So Alfred, yeah and not Alfred, probably is, lunge stands up and lunges at you and scratches you across the chest repeatedly, and you're now bleeding. With this, the front door, well, the front door's already open, but you see Ms. Flameback appear at the front door, and she looks extremely surprised. Are you doing anything as Alfred with Ms. Flameback?
00:37:01
Speaker
Uh, this flameback, uh, I have the situation, uh, under control for now, but that could change. You say this as you're currently, like, bleeding, profusely under your chest. That could change very soon. This flameback's like, uh, oh my god, what is going on? Uh, is that my boss? She fucking and finally notices the prerogative. Wait, wait, what the hell?
00:37:30
Speaker
Mrs. Flameback knows the mob boss. And you she she slams the front door closing. You just hear click, click, click, click as all the locks go up. Wait, she went back inside? not was collecting but She has locked herself inside. And you hear kachunk, kachunk, kachunk. And you can see in the windows a bunch of steel reinforcements have appeared. Wow. She knows her. This place has really locked down.
00:37:59
Speaker
and Inside the house you can hear... Inside the house you can hear Arabella get downstairs! She knows her other child is in the yard, right? that there There is no upstairs decoder remember, this is a one-story Arabella get in the safe room that's not downstairs She knows that Bruce is outside I hope i hope the bad guys don't get to Arabella
00:38:31
Speaker
don't worry if they won't I hope the bad guys don't get to us no don't worry they won't there is about at this point there should be about five heavy reinforced steel doors between Arabella and the outside world so think I think she'll be safe I think we have more things to worry about like us I hope they don't get to us Sammy you think we can take them I mean we can't move right now so I mean I have no idea Hypothetically, if we could move, could we take them? I think we could take them. Like the the four of us, probably. I don't know. Walter, I think fell asleep. He's kind of been hugging us the whole time. It's not just the four of us, though. We've got Selena. We've got Bree. We've got... Are they are they even here? Oh, yeah. What happened to them? They're all there. They're all frozen. They're all frozen, too, with us.
00:39:24
Speaker
They're all frozen and their mouths were frozen shut so they're not talking. I never saw them i said everything except for their mouths were frozen shut. they can but that they just have them specifically are their Their mouths specifically are frozen so you don't have to do extra work. ah sure plan go with that That was what I was going for.
00:39:42
Speaker
So, Alfred, in the middle of this battle, you see a beeping coming from your ah from your pocket. And, um Editor, future note, put in a Game Boy Advance startup sound here, as you see a Game Boy Advance bleeping in your pocket.
00:40:00
Speaker
okay do i know what that is yes you know what this is oh okay um i mean i was about to have him go outrage but i guess i'll check what this beeping is first so you you grab your gba out of your pocket and you see a message from miss flameback and it has just a quick little couple sentences it says get kids into basement asap okay basement as in you know you can you know that she means the secret base or no the secret base that's what she means okay I guess I'll be Alfred will be like okay ah before we get this battle any further can we at least take it out back so I'm not wrecking the garden we got a battlefield out back we can settle this all there
00:40:55
Speaker
As long as you swear to me, no funny business, otherwise I won't be holding back anymore. she says never eyes at you I'm just picturing all of us stopping the battle and casually walking to the back yard.
00:41:11
Speaker
It's kind of stupid, but it's what's happening. Sure, but they must come with us. She points to the audience. Like, the audience doesn't like all the other people, not the actual audience. You guys! You guys! The ones that are frozen back here. Yeah, you guys at home, you guys get to come with us. Yeah!
00:41:33
Speaker
So, are you going to be doing any funny business, or are you just straight up heading to the back? I mean, I'm going to be heading to the back, but I'm going to head over to the kids on my way back and tell them, get in the super face.
00:41:52
Speaker
Okay, i I'm going to give this to you. You do have psychic abilities, so if you wish to telepathy with them, you can. Yes, I will telepathically tell them to get in the secret base.
00:42:04
Speaker
Okay, and you do still have a psychic hold on them, so. Well, oh. Can he drag and drop us there, or is he gonna make- is he gonna tell us to walk there? Alfred, why don't you just like move us with your brain out over there? Yeah, that's a- I guess they were- I was like moving them with me as I was walking back.
00:42:24
Speaker
and then tell the pathbook lead. I draft them next to the opening of the secret base and tell them to get in. Are you doing this while the Paregli is back there or...? I guess it's...
00:42:39
Speaker
How conspicuous was the entrance to the secret base? If I remember right, it was... I don't remember if it was a tomato plant, or sorry, a tomato berry, or a picket fence, but one of the two, you just push in like a lever and the trap door opens up. It was a tomato berry plant. It was a tomato berry plant, but how easy to see would the...
00:43:02
Speaker
oh um from the battlefield i'm gonna say it's relatively easy to say it's invisible when the hatch is closed but it's pretty obvious there's a square hatch although if you are rolling for stealth or anything i'll give you advantage because it is nighttime right got it so how quickly is the prugly heading back um depends are you rushing are you walking back i am walking back but i'm gonna try to psychically move the kids back so they'd be back there before we got there okay and then in that case he's dropped them in the staircase that i open up with the psychic stuff
00:43:47
Speaker
Okay, cool. So I want you to roll... Just roll performance for the psychic stuff. Okay. What is performance? No advantage. Uh, no advantage. Performance is cute. Yeah. What happens if he drops us?
00:44:06
Speaker
you guys are just following the ground you guys are like an inch off the ground yeah what if he drops us down the hole there you go there's a stair well that's actually big enough for like well then I used a fence curl and go down the stairs in my ball here we go we again team plus two okay yeah so yeah okay so basically what happens is you psychic them over to the entrance you're able to open up the hatch and everyone is able to just enter before the program it gets in the back no extra rolls required beautiful so um i'll let the others do do the others want to do anything at this point you see you guys are dropped in front of the hatch as the hatch opens are you guys doing anything with this or are you all just heading down
00:44:52
Speaker
I am running down there. shit He carves gone. Any input from anyone else? I'm just going to assume that Bruce is going down there. Well, Bruce is going to wait to be the last one going down. Okay. Well, how come? that Up to the other to make sure that nobody tries anything funny.
00:45:15
Speaker
Okay, so Selena and Brie go down, but ah Abyss looks at you, Bruce, and he's like, uh, what exactly is this? Uh, we'll talk later. It's not gonna hurt me, is it? Not as long as you don't mess with anything. Okay, I'll keep that in mind. He starts scuttling down the hole, and it is just Bruce, and he's just, what? will i Did Sammy and Walter go down?
00:45:43
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I was going to ask. Oh, sorry. I forgot about the blue boys. ah I was seeming Sammy Walters going down. Well, I was going to ask, like, is Walter still on me or or or or like, am I still holding him back? Or like, I assume, like, since now that we've moved, he's not trying to fight anymore. You guys are separate.
00:46:03
Speaker
all right so i well jake well i guess so i guess we do decide walter goes down because uh jake said that he'll be back in 20 minutes about oh i didn't even hear a little oh he left what the hell he's oh i didn't even know this that's why he's been so silent oh okay well okay sure welcome goes down the hole out i would just say either he can go down the hole vaulter i'd say either he could take he can go down the role i'll carry him down the hole whatever it's fine he goes down the hole i'll take care of him until what jake gets back and i won't i'll do as minimal role playing as possible
00:46:42
Speaker
okay so yeah walter goes down the hole rushes down because he knows what's down there so it's just sammy and uh bruce uh yeah i'll go down after after walter yeah yeah okay cool so that entire thing was pointless everyone just goes down in the hole great okay Well, it was more of we didn't know what Jake was doing. Yeah, if Jake was here, he would probably try to not go down. But Jake's not probably. That's why that's why since I was holding him back, I was waiting to see what he was doing. I didn't know he wasn't here. Oh, yeah. No. OK, so everyone goes on the whole the lat hat closes behind you and we will get back to you guys in a minute.
Psychic Moves and Battle Control
00:47:24
Speaker
So as the property rounds the corner,
00:47:27
Speaker
She looks around for a little bit and... Oh, okay. So she's like, what where where are the kids? Where did they go? That's not important. You're not fighting them, you're fighting me. Who attacked last? I don't remember. The fury swipes was what the last happened. Okay, so you got the next move then. Yeah. Okay. But she looks like she's ready to pounce.
00:47:57
Speaker
Now, you attacked my household and I don't take kindly to that. So, time to use outrage. Okay. Now the kids are safe. She looks so pissed.
00:48:14
Speaker
Alright, outrage. How does outrage work? Yeah, I don't have the full effect there. Oh, I'm sorry. I'll read it off. I forgot. I sent you a picture of it just real quick. ah Okay. So it is a power 12. It is a 3d12 plus 10 move with an accuracy of six. Roll a d4. You attack for that many turns and then become confused. And I rolled an 11 for the accuracy. Okay. And roll a d4.
00:48:44
Speaker
That's a four. Hell yeah. Okay, so you're gonna be able to- you're stuck using outrage for four turns in a row. and Until then you will- after- after with which you will become confused. So, go with an 11. That hits. Go ahead and roll a 3d12 plus 10. That is hefty. That's what he's going for. That random cat attacked his house. That random cat attacked my house.
00:49:13
Speaker
okay that's a six and nine and a 12 okay so 24 plus 35 minus defense sorry what was the total number 25 59 59 minus defense uh that is 30 damage oh boy
00:49:36
Speaker
Oh my god! So the Prugly, I feel like since we're moving away from the PTS spec, you have broken one of Prugly's legs. She is extremely hurt and she is bleeding pretty badly.
00:49:52
Speaker
She yells out in pain as you smash into her and she's like, how what the hell? And she is going to go for a a body slam, but she's going to roll accuracy with disadvantage because she's injured.
00:50:09
Speaker
Rolled a six, which will hit. And a nat one! So, she's going to roll damage on herself, divided by two. So, she is going to roll 2d10 plus 10. I don't have, I gotta put my digital dice out of here d6s. 2d10 plus 10, she got a 20 plus her attack is... she does an attack of 32 so that's 42 damage divided by 2 is 21 minus her defense so which is 29 so she will do one damage to herself oh my god i can't believe that one damage she did 21 damage but she has a defensive 29
00:50:57
Speaker
So she deals one damage to herself and you can tell she's on her last last legs. Oh no and I'm still using that one. And at this point you hear a thump thump thump as you hear someone running up behind you. Oh well I'm still out raging. I'm gonna check real quick if outrage hits everyone or not. I don't think it's a field move.
00:51:24
Speaker
stop it up here I just typed in outrage expecting to move ready to That's funny, um, let's see. Oh It is not um did it did No, it's a single-hit move Quick question is is well alpha technically part of the party now who's uh for this are you talking about is this because of an iq skill or something no it's because of if he wins do we get the experience because if you know all he has to do is be a part of the party no because you guys were not part of the fight if there was that would be insane but yeah this would be like a super boss battle thing with super high levels
00:52:18
Speaker
yeah so yep you guys uh why did I say you guys oh yes Eli you can hear Alfred can hear footsteps coming up behind him okay well he's still in outrage mode so he's just gonna turn around and be raging on whatever's behind him Okay, so in that case, go ahead and use Outrage on whatever is heading towards you. So you immediately use Outrage, and it turns out it is Xerox who is free of your second control since you dropped everyone, including Xerox. So Xerox is attempting to sneak attack you by sprinting at it. you So as you use Outrage on whatever's behind you, turns out it is Xerox. And you ah did how much damage again? What?
00:53:07
Speaker
55? Physical? Dragon? 55 minus defense. I heard public sell sheet. 55 minus defense. You use outrage. And Xerox just goes down. He is out for the count. He just falls to the ground and does not get up. Yeah. However, with this, you get... You don't want to be around Alfred when he's raging.
00:53:29
Speaker
And with this, you get a smack on your head as a Perogalee has gotten up to you and uses a Crush Claw. I know we got a little bit out of order with that, but it was just something I threw in there. So the Perogalee is using Crush Claw on your head. I say she hit you, but I didn't roll accuracy. She hits anyway. She hits you on the head, and she rolls 2d8 plus 10. It says, oh, there is an effect with this. Roll d20. If the result is greater than equal to your effect roll, defense is minus two.
00:53:59
Speaker
uh she got an 11 so the effect was 11 so it will decrease defense by two points which is extremely negligible but i'll note it anyway uh defense minus two that's after the damage yes so that is what was it again two eight plus ten two eight plus ten two d eight plus ten Okay, got she got a three and an eight. So that's 11 plus her physical attack. She only has physical attack anyways. So that is 32 damage. Minus your defense. So I take two damage because my defense is 30. That's funny. Okay. So yeah. ralfred just essentially He limps up to you and just falls on you because she's so injured.
00:54:54
Speaker
so uh it is now back to i think it's back to alfred we got a little jumble with the moves there but i think we're on track yeah and he is indeed still raging so we we are on turn three of outrage yep and i got an 18 to hit so it hits again okay well i do you have to roll accuracy each time i don't think you do because it has a chance to miss every hit oh okay you can get it interrupted if it misses okay one more time a 3d12 plus 10 yep
00:55:46
Speaker
got two twelves and a three. Oh boy. Okay. That'll be 27 plus my attack of 35. So Yeah. 62 damage. So 62 minus her defense. I forgot. 72 damage. Okay 72 damage minus her defense. It doesn't matter because she had one HP. Oh no.
00:56:13
Speaker
So oh it was really funny because you hit her and you brought her down to two HP and then she got a critic, a nat fail on herself and did one damage. So she went from two health to one health, you which is really funny. Uh, so she crumples to the ground in a heap and she is knocked out for the count. Both Xerox and the perugly are basically next to each other, just completely knocked out. Did either of them die?
00:56:42
Speaker
Uh, no. Neither one of them got negative their max HP. That's good. So how much experience did Alfred get? Oh, actually, I guess we can put this, but let me calculate that. Uh, let me find, let me dust off the XP chart real quick. So total level foe, why is 80 in there? Um,
00:57:10
Speaker
that' will be five There's one what oh total level of photos after those total number of I Put in the calculations a boss fight with one player, but the level was one oh Okay, there we go, okay, so you get 900 XP that includes knocking out zerix too oh yeah uh zerix too so i wait a minute that does bring her to 80 what the hell okay so you get 1200 xp nice yeah yeah because yeah right just level there's no way thats up alfred but it's fun to know
00:57:48
Speaker
Yeah, yeah the per is level suspect even us Oh my god, I can actually kind of check Yo, that would have gotten us up to level like 18 so yeah you guys are level 11 so 1200 would have gotten you to level 19 that would have been fucking insane so okay get barely any experience in season one and then arc two we just jump up seven level or eight levels
00:58:25
Speaker
okay so it is at this point ela you must return to your own body oh dang you feel the soul leaving alfred and you suck back into your own body and that is as much as you guys know this is like your name so uh yeah so you guys are now in the underground and um You guys are now in the secret base and Selena, Abyss, and Bree look incredibly shocked as they see all of these whirling gizmos, the giant screen at the end of the hallway, just a bunch of random tech stuff that they've never seen before in their lives. And they just have like the open, their jaws are on the ground. So we may have known a little bit more than we told you about.
00:59:20
Speaker
Selena looks back at you quickly. She's like, you think? You think? What the hell is this?
00:59:30
Speaker
Well, we didn't know how uh, how ch- We didn't really know how to, you know, break it to you. We didn't really trust you all that well. And we, to be fair, you just tortured Walter. You stole the orb. yeah and You had a lot of gold gold against you. So we didn't want to share everything right at once.
00:59:45
Speaker
this seems like a little bit much to hold back like what the hell like oh my god what is the stuff she like runs up to one of the guys on a pedestal and starts poking at it it doesn't do anything but she's like poking around with the electronics uh well if we had told you about this would you have let us hold on to the orb uh because no if not uh there was no point in us telling you about it See, you guys are manipulating me, decide how this is. Well, manipulates a strong one. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, Selena, we- Wait, hang on. This underground facility is top secret. You have to understand that. We we we can't just tell anybody. Also, you're one the to talk about- Yeah, why not? You're one to talk about manipulation. You're over here torturing people and stealing things from us. No, shut up.
01:00:42
Speaker
she narrows her eyes at you she's like she understands where you're coming from but she doesn't like it yeah i mean also we ourselves just found out about this place like five days ago or so when i found out that dad wasn't actually dead like i thought for about eight years
01:01:07
Speaker
You're just like how long I've been here. Yeah, we know that we went on this. Yeah. Yeah. So this she points out like the gigantic computer screen with the flashing dot at the other hallway. So this is related to me. She says pointing at herself. No, that that's not you. You think probably. I mean, that is where my mom said that my dad is at that dot. But we have no idea where that is.
01:01:37
Speaker
what do you mean at this point the hatch opens up again you can see uh i was gonna say daylight but it's nighttime you can hear the hatch opening up and alfred starts walking down the stairs and he is bleeding profusely what you can hear him heaving and he looks down the stairs at you guys uh well the probate kind of slashed her stomach open with a fury swipes think i don't think it's the band-aids for walt for him for band-aids so alfred peaks down at you guys over the staircase he's like he's like are you guys are you kids okay do they hurt you at all whoa why are they here i took care of them but i mean holy crap i mean walta so upset he can't even talk waltzer fell asleep i've gotten i have no actual solution for that so waltzer from this point on is just asleep
01:02:31
Speaker
he passed out from surprise no well here's the thing he got hit with a psychic type move he's weak to it you know what yeah let's just say he fainted let's say alfred accidentally used the entirety of extrasensory on walter he's just knocked out he could tell that sammy i don't know where to find the-aids Oh, I think
Exploration of Secret Base
01:02:57
Speaker
actually down here. Uh, I didn't think you'd actually go look I mean, I appreciate the effort. Um, yeah, I'll go help you look.
01:03:04
Speaker
Okay, so okay. See you guys go off and do your own thing. It is now basically Bruce and the others Alfred's like the first aid kit down here somewhere or at least like bandages Did you look at it? Did you look underneath the desk with the giant TV screen on it? Alfred points to the corner of the room. He's just like there's there's bandages instead of over there just grab them doesn't matter to I'm gonna go check on Ms. Blainebeck. I've completely lost my British accent. I'm gonna go check on Ms. Blainebeck, make sure them and Arabella are okay. And he heads back up the stairs. This is the start of Alfred's new voice. This is how he loses his accent. At the beginning of the episode, I completely forgot to give him a British accent and I forgot about it there. He didn't lose his British accent, that's just me being an idiot. so I think it's ah he loses his accent when he's heavily injured.
01:04:00
Speaker
Seems like more when Sammy jumps on his back He lost he lost too much of his British blood he became American oh no So um So yeah, this and Brie are currently just wandering around staring at all this stuff Can we roll investigation for the band-aids? Alfred pointed to the corner of the room and literally told you guys band-aids were there and yeah but it's a it it might be a huge pile of stuff and we don't know where the band-aids are yeah yeah okay fine roll perception one of us which one which one of us ah does it doesn't matter one of you guys okay i get a 10 plus that's my modifier again 12
01:04:51
Speaker
okay all right so with the 12 you can see a gigantic neon sign with arrows pointing at the first aid kit that just says bandit here in like three exclamation points like you can clearly see where they are okay i'm gonna grab the thing grab the first aid kit
01:05:12
Speaker
open it up and inside there are let's just say there's a bunch of drampa sized band-aids this kind of accident occurs incident not accident what okay ah Alfred we found always gone okay so Selena is uh so Selena walks up to you Bruce and she's just like okay Can I keep my head for this? Explain to me, what is this? And she gestures towards the room. What exactly is all of this that you guys have neglected to tell me? What are we doing here? Well, uh, before my dad disappeared, he and my mom were studying these rifts. And this was where they did all of their research, apparently.
01:06:04
Speaker
and they apparently built a machine that can track things and people through the rifts to see where they're going and that's how that that's what that screen is and that little flashing dot is apparently my dad wherever he is in the universe or multiverse i don't even know at this point So you're saying he might not actually be here in Alcast in the Alcast region? It's a possibility. I don't know.
01:06:43
Speaker
i
01:06:47
Speaker
I see. it So how exactly are they able to locate this? Because if we you guys have some kind of tracking technology, there might be a way for me to track my mom, maybe. I have no idea. My mom knows all this tech stuff. Like I said, I just found out about this place like five days ago. I don't know anything about anything down here except that a bunch of cool tech that my parents made with there with Flameback Enterprises.
01:07:22
Speaker
Okay, so do you think they could make some fancy technology to help me out? She seems genuinely intrigued now. It's a possibility. We gotta be able to trust each other, though. That seems very hard when we're keeping secrets behind our backs. I'm not keeping anything behind my back right now, so I don't know why you decided to
01:07:48
Speaker
She takes a deep breath, she's like, okay, so you guys are tracking your dad who went through a rift. Is there any way that this, because we're in the past technically, is there any way that in the future we're already tracking me, like us, in the future are tracking me? Do you think the future us are gonna be able to help us in any way? My brain hurts. That, yeah, that is a wild thought that is I can't disprove it. here Well, that's actually kind of troubling, because if the future has hasn't helped us already, does that mean we've already failed in the future if we haven't come to help ourselves already? I think if I remember correctly, Mrs. Bruce's mom, she said that um he he was wearing like a like a medallion or something. And that's how they're able to track him. Right. I see. I don't have one of these medallions, but
01:08:47
Speaker
uh hmm certainly there i mean it's been 20 years since present my present time so and like i know you i know you said you you you know you don't keep up on the fortune 500 or whatever it is you said like an hour or two ago when we were in the house um about you know what the flameback company is like in 20 years because you were like i don't know super young so it's it's not it's not like we can ask you what the flameback enterprises is like in the future so Well, I know that the Flameback Company will dealt with my technology, but this is a little bit excessive. Like, the holy crap. And with this, uh, with this, uh, you hear the hatch open again and both Walter and Miss Flameback come down the stairs. I was about to say Arabella, but no, she does not come down the stairs. No Flameback, you mean? yeah i Walter's already there with us. Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:40
Speaker
so uh so yeah so she walks down the stairs and uh her as you can see alfred is covered in bandages he seems to be doing better um alfred we found the band-aids for you oh yeah you all you're fine never mind ah So miss playing back comes down and she's like well, this is certainly one way to introduce you guys to this She says looking at the ah three evolutions um Welcome to project flame back, I guess this is a certainly something I guess ah do you um Do you need me to explain what's going on here? Yeah, it's like I Uh, I think Bruce basically summarized it already. Uh, he told me about how you guys are tracking your, uh, husband, I guess, his dad. And it's ah that big dot over there. And, um, you guys look over. Yeah, there's just a blank, still blanking dot. She gestures that, uh, I don't like, I'm just wondering, is there any way ah we can use this kind of technology to help me find my mother or or help me get back to my time in any way? but Maybe I don't need the, the orbs.
01:10:50
Speaker
And at that, Sami's gonna walk up to Mrs. Flameback and quietly ask her, well, since now that we're here, do we still need to do the test? I suppose not. Okay. Well, ah yeah, I guess this is our way of walking me into Project Flameback, so you guys are now a part of this team.
01:11:14
Speaker
although things got a little bit more complicated now that we're dealing with your mother as well so this is gonna be fun and sammy pulls the blue ob from out from under her okay so okay doing that so i guess this is a good way good way to um bring it out selena also pulls out her warp she's like what is going on here there's two of these orbs I'm just going to say this now. Bruce isn't explaining this one. perce is Bruce done enough explaining for like his week. OK, I was giving you guys an opportunity to say something if you wanted to. But me I mean, I Normally I'd let Walter talk if, you know, he wasn't passed out right now. That fight kind of did a number on him. But because it was kind of his idea to give this to me. Hikaru wanted me to eat it. I told her no.
01:12:08
Speaker
hu talks to he' say where this is uh anyway um yeah so uh this is miss playing back talking she's just like i uh we were trying to rope you into this so we were giving you a little bit of a test to see if you were trustworthy enough to actually be a part of this team so we gave you a fake orb and the hopes that you wouldn't do anything funny with it and if you didn't then we were gonna let you down here eventually selena's ears have just gone flat she just looks like really seriously she looks kind of pissed and
01:12:50
Speaker
so yeah she's this seriously so that's why you guys let me have the orb in the first place isn't it that's not like you'd like all of it we couldn't really get get you to give it back anyway Well, we're here now, and that's what matters. So, okay. So, what are we doing from here? Yeah, Ms. Flameback's like, well, we got one of the orbs. We have, I'm assuming the others told you about the book and everything. No, we actually told her it was a fashion magazine. We told her it was a fashion magazine because we didn't want to tell her about it. Yeah, Ms. Flameback seems to look like, what?
01:13:29
Speaker
that was walter's idea naturally yeah okay ah well well okay so so you got weve got this book here and okay so Bit of a recap, I ended up robbing, hear me out, I ended up robbing the Vulcan Bird Museum of Music and Arts because they had this book and she pulls out the original copy of Elgium's Guide to the Galaxy by Dr. Huntridge. It might just look like an ordinary book, but it's got tellings of these orbs that can control like time, space, and all this crazy stuff.
01:14:12
Speaker
But we haven't been able to figure out exactly what they're supposed to do. All all I know is that they're they keep you like godlike powers or something. I spent like some time trans trying to translate it, but I can't. Like it it has pictures of these orbs, but we don't actually know what they do. Just depictions of what they might do.
01:14:32
Speaker
So we don't actually know what they're for or anything, but i we're trying to collect all of them. And this one we've had with us our entire lives, basically. My grandmother gave this one to me when I turned 18. And she gestures at the blue orb. Oh, by the way, which one is the real orb? And Salida picks it up. She's like, well, I thought it was this one, but apparently not. And she just like throws it on the ground and
01:15:01
Speaker
It doesn't shatter but it hits the ground with a loud thump and um Nothing happens Okay, so I guess Sammy has the real orb a here you go and he answer the oh I thought that was meaning that it was that I thought that was meaning that Selena had the real orb because it didn't shatter and Well, everybody in character is convinced that that was the fake orb, remember? The one you guys gave to Selena? Yeah. Yes. I'm a little afraid to find out what would happen. I thought that was the clue that it was the the real orb instead of the fake orb. I thought we would be expecting it to shatter if it was the fake orb. Well, it didn't shatter. So yeah, the blue orb kind of just like rolls away to the edge of the room.
01:15:54
Speaker
um a little afraid to find out what the real orb would do if we shattered it i know around so but just to rosen i on shaters that yeah to real then Throw them both in the air see which one shatters
01:16:13
Speaker
So, yes, Selena's like, huh, it feels no difference. It's, it's a really good copy, I guess. Uh, so, okay. So we got this book that gives us information, but if we can't translate it and just go over the pictures, then what use is it to us? This is like the, this is like the key to all of our problems, but we don't, can't, we,
01:16:36
Speaker
This is the lock holding back the door to all of our problems, but translating this is the key. Shouldn't that be our next step then? I think so. like shall we take them Should we take it to Blair in Valkenburg and see what she thinks?
01:16:50
Speaker
Miss Flameback was like, uh, yeah, that was my, uh, yes, that was like one of our, um, initiatives was to go seek out Blair or some other scholar who'd be able to translate this. But I, uh, haven't seen her quite some time. So I don't know if she's still running that library of hers that she, or her parents or whatever.
01:17:12
Speaker
Well, we did. She is like a week and a half ago, right? Oh, that's right. okay You guys did. You guys did say that, right? Yeah. So, yeah, she should be there. Yeah. So you guys could go visit her in Volkenburg again once again, going back to Volkenburg. But we've also heard telling some that bank robbery. Actually, both of our initial both of our clues lead to Volkenburg, the bank, the talking to Blair, like but everything seems to be in Volkenburg. So that's either way. You guys should head back to Volkenburg.
01:17:42
Speaker
I mean, the only other idea that we kind of wanted to do here was like, we thought maybe we could go back to the field where we saw the first rift. That was like the only thing we could think of to do back here in Gale Beach. Oh, that's something we could do, yeah. I've already i've already tried that. Now that we're... I actually went back to the place you guys described. Either I went to the wrong place or there was no rift, but... and Mr. Dr. Sumo said he never saw anything. I don't know what it was, like why we were the ones that saw it.
01:18:13
Speaker
I don't know but i I mean I did find this which was really weird it was like in the middle of a clearing and she holds up a white piece of what looks like plastic.
01:18:25
Speaker
It's just like a weird like boomerang-shaped piece of plastic with what seems to be like buttons and shit on it, I don't know. It's some kind of like weird technology. I thought it was really strange. I kept it around just in case this had to do with anything, but i it look it just looks like a trash. I'll probably throw it away later. But yeah, it looks like you guys had to vote concurred. Wait, no, don't throw that out. We can make sense of it, perhaps.
01:18:51
Speaker
It literally just looks like trash. I don't think it's connected to anything. Let me let me take a look at it. OK, so go ahead and roll investigation on it. Investigation. That's a plus zero.
01:19:10
Speaker
I got a nat one. It's like she wasn't wrong. It literally just looks like a piece of trash. Should we all roll investigation?
01:19:20
Speaker
If you guys want to pass it around, you can. Yeah, ah Bruce, take a look at this. I can't make heads and tails of it.
01:19:30
Speaker
No freaking way. I also wanted that one one. It is just a piece of trash. It is hard to convince anyone else otherwise. Well, I guess ah guess it's Sammy's turn. I also can't make any heads or tails of this.
01:19:48
Speaker
Yeah, sure. Let me ah let me take a look at that. And I rolled a 15. OK, with a 15, you can see like the buttons seem to be like purposefully made. Like it seems like it used to have a purpose, but it doesn't seem like it'd be very useful anymore. Like it kind of does look like trash. Yeah, I don't really know what this is, but like it's got buttons. Do the buttons do anything? Can I push them? Yeah, you can push them. They make a nice little clicky sound. They sound like this. I don't know if you can hear that. Is it like a Gameboy Advance?
01:20:19
Speaker
No, because you guys know what the Game Boy Advance sounds like. You guys not hear that? No. I heard that. Oh. I heard that. Okay, I was pushing buttons on my... Yeah, so... yeah like ah It looks like it could be like a fidget toy or something. You just push the buttons to keep your hands occupied. I don't know.
01:20:38
Speaker
I mean, I guess it could be. I don't know. I mean, I miss playing back talking. It's just like I don't really see a point in keeping it around. I wonder if that could have somehow caused the rift. Why would this lump of garbage cause a rift? I don't know, Miss Blaine, but I don't know. I think it's worth it. I don't think you should throw it at you. It might be worth looking into with your science stuff. She rolls her eyes, but she's like, yeah, she rolls her eyes. She's like, whatever, I guess. She just like sets it on the table or like one of the pedestals with like technology sitting around.
01:21:09
Speaker
Well, um, okay, so I guess at this point, uh, you guys, she probably had to bed, don't I? Probably a good idea.
Future Plans and Conflict Resolution
01:21:18
Speaker
yeah ah Oh, it's been quite an adventure about the, uh, what are we going to do about the, the, uh, she looks at Alfred's like, what are we going to do about the mob boss? And I don't know her name and Alfred's like, uh, she says her name, but I don't remember what it was. It was some weird string of gibberish.
01:21:38
Speaker
she tongue i think something like just Just get the GBPD to come down and get it. Like, for real, we have the mob boss. There's gotta be some police office in nearby that can snag her, grab her, nab her like Hikaru said.
01:21:52
Speaker
Good good bit. That's what it was. It's a good bit the go beach investigation team. Oh, yeah, my bad. Sorry. This is that the girl that did the good bit. Yeah, that's the team. I meant the good bit. I forgot. That was the thing. She's like, oh, I guess there's a chance that she has ties to the police herself. But I can't see. Do you have like a jail down here? We could just get Walter's mom, the police commissioner, right?
01:22:21
Speaker
Don't worry about it none. Don't worry. It's it's you know what? It's it's just a funny little joke. It's it's nothing nothing. That's Okay. All right. Well, I suggest you guys head back to bad done. I rolled a 10 for deception What Why were you rolling deception because Because I would lied to her like well, I mean, I guess I didn't lie to her nevermind No That was more of just a nice little inside joke for us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Never mind. I take my roll back. Yeah, don't worry about it. OK, so um so you guys, hey, or I'm assuming you guys are heading back upstairs.
01:23:06
Speaker
yeah yeah okay all right so you guys head back upstairs you guys pass the body of the uh perugly and uh xerix and you guys head to the front door but it is still completely sealed by metal and miss flimback is just like oh whoops and she like pushes a button on her gameboy advance that she has with her and all of you can just hear chunk chunk chunk chunk as all the reinforcements pull back into place and you open the door and you can see veronica and arabella inside looking terrified. Veronica is just like, what is all of this? Let's play back guys. I will deal with this in the morning. It's way too late. It's a long story. Just we're fine now. Just go back to bed. Veronica, okay, I guess, sir. And they all head inside. So, all right, you guys head into bed. What do you guys do? and Anything else you want to do before we close out this episode?
01:24:05
Speaker
Just thinking about going back to Volkenburg again. It was really cool last time. Okay. Okay. Are you guys getting your own super rooms? You know, going to Volkenburg means we could stop at the Volken McDonald's again. Oh, that's true. And if we're going to stay there for an extended period of time, we should probably think about like buying a house there or like buying a house but how how how good do you think the housing market is right now that you think that a bunch of teenagers can just go out and buy a house in a big city in this economy well maybe your can your mom put the down payment miss playing backs looks yeah miss playing backs like i'm not buying you guys a house i guess ridiculous
01:24:57
Speaker
Well, could you at least, like, get us easier transportation between here and there? Like, it takes so long to get there. Since this part of the mission, I can give you guys a little extra cash, but I'm not buying you a house. That's ridiculous. Okay, it wasn't... I mean, it wasn't... We weren't, like, asking. We were just thinking out loud.
Preparing for the Day's End
01:25:14
Speaker
I know, I know. All right, why don't you guys go to bed? I'll see you guys in the morning. See the heads off to bed. Are you guys getting separate rooms, or are you all sleeping in Bruce's room again?
01:25:25
Speaker
Didn't we just like sleep here like a night ago? Yeah, I think didn't we just sleep here like last night? like Yeah, know so I don't see I think you Okay, whatever we did let's do that
Session Recap and Roles
01:25:37
Speaker
again. I don't see a reason to keep changing the room assignments Okay, I see y'all head to Bruce's room y'all laid down and that is where we're gonna end us up I've been Dakota you PM your DM your GM I've been Evelyn playing Hikaru I've been Eli playing Bruce and Alfred.
Sign Off and Goodbyes
01:25:55
Speaker
I've been playing, wait, I've been Sean playing Sammy who no longer has an orb. And I'm Jake playing Walter and I'm a dumbass. Alright, we'll see you guys next time.