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Arc 1 - Episode 8 - Boca McDonalds
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The Crew goes to the Museum to find out more information on The Elgyem's Guide to the Galaxy, and definitely don't get distracted on the way.
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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
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Transcript
Introductions and Humor
00:00:19
Speaker
yeah i've decoded isn't anyone yeah that's the same here yeah he's a ghost yeah
00:00:27
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to mystery.net pass through time I'm Dakota your PM your DM your DM and sitting to my left a thousand miles away as someone who is currently maybe possibly sitting on a chair.
Recap Fumbles and Decisions
00:00:39
Speaker
It's me, Evelyn.
00:00:41
Speaker
And sitting a million light years from me is someone who's sitting on a beanbag made of goo. Yeah. Wow. I don't know how we're connected to this call together, but I'm Eli. And sitting across from me, just directly across me, just only a few feet away, is someone who likes to take speed bumps at 25 miles an hour.
00:01:11
Speaker
I initially thought that was fast and then I remember to wait 25 for a car was slow. Yeah, no, nah. It's me. You ever driven a car before? I drive car. Oh, yes, I also drive car. 25 miles an hour is still fast for a speedboat. Anyway, let's let's fly on in, guys. One million years later. One million years later.
00:01:36
Speaker
I, everyone's just dead. Um, right. Let us, why do I always struggle to come up with any football move? No, don't do that. You gotta do the recap. Oh my. Don't do this again. Don't do the recap. I knew I was forgetting something. Do you guys want to redo the intro? Yes. No, we're good. No.
00:01:58
Speaker
I figured we were missing something. I was like, because that's why I started there. I was like, there's something missing, but I don't know what it is. So I was just pushing through it. That's the third time I've almost forgotten the recap. Us fumbling the intro is the best part. It's not. Wait, what is the best part? Us fumbling the intro is the best part. You say that.
00:02:23
Speaker
Are we keeping all of this in? No. We get to say Sean's five favorite words. We'll fix it in post. No. We'll fix it in post. All right. We're going to keep on going. All right. Everyone roll me a d4 and see who does the recap. That's the one die I didn't have out, you jerk. Good job. This is the least one to use. And this is where I get the box die. This is not a d4. Oh. I will just say triangle one. A three, a two.
00:02:54
Speaker
Sean? I'm looking. Hang on, it's in the bag somewhere. Okay, I found it. Three. Three? Okay, we got three, three, and two.
Volkenburg Library Mystery
00:03:03
Speaker
I got a three. So between you and... Who else rolled a three? I have one. Me. Alright, you and everyone have to roll off. Wait, why shouldn't... Just let Eli do it. He's the one that didn't roll a three.
00:03:16
Speaker
Hey! Don't make me use a recap! Alright, what are we rolling for this roll-off? What are we rolling for this roll-off? Evelyn, do uh, rock, paper, scissors with me. Rock, paper, scissors, scissors. How do you do that over an audio medium? I got scissors. Scissors. Dang it. Wait, did we both get scissors? Yeah!
00:03:45
Speaker
How are you guys doing this? Cause you guys have like 10 seconds of latency. Uh, one person just says scissors and one of the other person, I just say rock bro. That's cheating. All right. All right. You know what? I'm going to roll another. Yeah. Pick heads or tails. Oh, okay. I rolled a two. That's not heads or tails, but okay. We said you were rolling D fours. All right, fine. Roll a D four, whatever. I was going to have you guys call heads or tails, but sure. I got a one.
00:04:16
Speaker
Okay. Sean, you're doing the recap again. I think I've done the recap the most. I have done the recap the most. Yeah. I think this is Sean's third recap by the main episodes. All right. So last time on a Path Through Time, we were in the city of Volkenburg. We went to the bookstore library place that has books in it.
00:04:39
Speaker
that has Absol the Blair. Yeah, Blair the Absol. There you go. She has glasses. There are accessories she can wear. I think she says, I think Dakota says she has like a necklace. Anyway.
00:04:55
Speaker
Yeah, she had like a pendant with a gem in it. Yeah. So we talked to Blair the Absol. We gave her the rundown that we've been telling pretty much everyone else, hey, this is what we saw. What is it? And she's like, dude, I don't know. There's this cool book, though, you should go look for. And that was the episode. We were, quick correction, we were at a library. I said a place where books were. OK. That is a place where books are.
00:05:22
Speaker
True. Okay. So yeah. So we were at a library and she, um, Blair, the Absol said that the only copy of the book that she knows of is at the museum of art and music. Um, and we were like, okay, let's go there. Um, also. Yeah. Also in Volkenburg, I think. Yeah, it is. Yes. Yeah. Also Hikaru may or may not have a crush on Blair.
00:05:51
Speaker
Um, I'm glad you, uh, added the part about the book because I genuinely forgot. Who remembers the name of the book? Oh man. Oh, I actually, I have a written down. Hold on, let me pull it up. You're not allowed to answer. Oh, right. I'm not going to answer, but I'm going to see if you guys get it right. I know the name. Anyone else? Bonus points. She thought I remembered anything about the last episode. LGM's got into the galaxy.
00:06:19
Speaker
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, that thing. Yeah, I figured you guys would remember that as soon as you said that. Anyway, we've had a bit of an off the hooking show. No, it was a knockdown. Oh, yeah. I completely forgot about that. It is. It is by Dr. Yeah, no way. Yeah, it was a Dr. Who. Nevermind. You were right. Sorry about that.
00:06:42
Speaker
Yes, I do believe Blair said, if not, it's not really a spoiler or anything, but Doctor Who Who died a long time ago. I don't remember her saying that. Okay, well, whatever. The Doctor Who Who died 10 trillion years ago or something like that.
00:06:59
Speaker
um but but but then he got reincarnated uh yes he got reincarnated as centauran which blair also mentioned yeah dr hoot hoot lived in the same time as all the all the paradox pokemon from the past and the future both at the same time yeah and the future time wraps around in this it's a donut
00:07:25
Speaker
I got a random move generator pulled up here on Chrome. Let's rock slide on it. One and eight. Give me a number between one and eight. I swear if it crawls rocks far. Seven. Seven, four and six. That's average is up to approximately five and a half. One, two, three, four and a half clicks somehow.
Journey to Boca McDonald's
00:07:46
Speaker
All right. I guess we are sheer colding on in. One hit KO baby.
00:07:54
Speaker
This whole intro is just a shambo. I hope the whole episode doesn't turn out like this. All right, we're sheer colding on in. Okay, so you guys are waking up. No, no, no, you guys already woke up. You guys already went to... See, this is why the recap is important. Even I don't remember what happened last episode. It was like a month ago. It was like a month ago and I didn't really remember the episode. All I know is library, book, go find it, absol.
00:08:22
Speaker
Yeah, basically, okay, so you guys are cur- Yeah, so you guys just left the library. As you guys leave the library, all around you, you see like a couple stores. There's the funeral store around you. There's an alarm clock store. I'm sure there's nothing going on with that. It's got a large crowd of people around it at this point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot you brought that up last time, yeah. Clearly not important. Ignore it. It's not important. It's not a bank, so Bruce isn't interested.
00:08:52
Speaker
yeah in the distance five miles away you know so your guys's current goal is to go take a look at the museum in which this book was recently not recently years ago was stolen that is your current objective i i see this is the problem with me remembering not remembering what happened last episode exactly i believe blair told you where the
00:09:18
Speaker
where the museum of music and art is if she didn't i'm just gonna let you know it's in the downtown the skyscraper district i still can't remember if it's downtown or uptown i'm probably super wrong but i figured like it was next to it but it's probably okay okay well it's in downtown volkenberg so that is your guys's current goal and i'll take the floor all right i don't want the floor can i have the ceiling instead
00:09:46
Speaker
Alright, you guys take the road? I don't know, you guys outside. Alright, just wondering, is there like any, are there any like trains or buses in this, in Volkenburg? There is a metro station that you guys came in on, which is also in the downtown.
00:10:07
Speaker
okay oh the the train men took us to volkenburg yeah we're not going back no like underground yeah there's no underground in volkenburg so all right is there like a bike or scooter rental do you think a single quilt can ride a bike you can take the skateboard i'm gonna say no to take the skateboard no there's no bike rentals or anything you guys can walk you guys could
00:10:38
Speaker
Walk? I don't know. Bruce is just gonna wander off and find a bank. See if there's any investigation going on, you know? No, I'm not being serious. Okay, I was gonna say, if Bruce was actually doing this, I would say I'm gonna have to step up and be like, Bruce, where you going? Get your butt back here.
00:10:59
Speaker
Yeah, I know I was gonna see your cut all of our progress in half No as much as I want to make you pay for that Bank robbery in the newspaper. I do want to get this story moving Yes Let's get the story moving We walk to the museum. It's all you guys
00:11:25
Speaker
all right you guys head over to the museum it takes about an hour and a half to get to the deep downtown and you guys are looking around as you guys walk through the downtown you see many shops many buildings you see like clothing stores you see food shops restaurants basically anything you can imagine there's a boca mcdonald's uh there's
00:11:47
Speaker
There's a museum of art and music, probably not important. Basically anything you guys can think of is here. Alright, I'm feeling pretty hungry. Does somebody say hungry? I could go for a bite to eat, like always. Okay, so Sammy just heard the word hungry and now he's hungry.
00:12:11
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like we I feel like we get to stop by somewhere for food before we go into the museum. Does the book and McDonald's have a drive through? I hate to break the teeth, but there's no cars in this. You know, does the book and McDonald's walk through? It does have a front door. Yes. To get your food. Yes. The building has a front door. Same is already inside. All right. Oh, are you?
00:12:40
Speaker
Basically inside the Boker McDonald's it's the logo looks kind of similar to what an actual McDonald's is except it says BM it's
00:12:50
Speaker
Well, it's Bokeh McDonald's. As you go inside, there's a desk up front where people are taking orders. You hear lots of beeping and booping in the back, and there's lots of steam and everything in the back where the kitchens are. And someone behind the desk sees you and says, oh, hey, how's it going? Can I- Oh, yeah, I'd like a 120-piece Bokeh McNuggets and a large fry. It's an- it's an octillery. Okay.
00:13:15
Speaker
That's a 20 piece Boca McNugget and one Boca McFry. Why is it Boca? It's just fries. I don't know. It's everything we have on the Boca menu. Okay, gonna get a Boca milkshake then. Let's start with the word Boca for some reason. Yes, one Boca milkshake. And a Boca apple pie. And a... A Boca apple pie. One of those Boca Macs. Oh wait, he said apple. A Boca Mac. A Boca Big Mac. A Big Boca Mac, yes. A Big Boca Mac.
00:13:45
Speaker
What was that last one? There was two big bokomax, yeah. So I don't remember the last time I ate and I just got to stock up. I have to eat my weight in food every day. And I don't know when the next time I'm going to eat is. So this is my food all at once. All right, is this all on one tab? Yes. Oh, okay. He starts like writing it down and he hands it to someone in the back and they go off and make it. Oh, wait, I didn't order a drink.
00:14:15
Speaker
You ordered a milkshake. You ordered a milkshake. Jinx. You're right. You're right, Bruce, Ricardo. You guys can go get your food. I'm going to go collapse over here. I'm so hungry. Didn't you eat like two hours ago? That was two hours ago,
Museum Entry and Exploration
00:14:34
Speaker
voice in the sky. We walked an hour and a half in both directions.
00:14:41
Speaker
Oh, that is true. So I spent three hours. Oh, no. Oh, how terrible. Plus like the another, I think, hour we spent in the library. We only spent like half an hour in the library, I think. That conversation wasn't that long. OK. So we've been out of the hotel for like three and a half hours. Oh, yeah, I forgot. We ate at the hotel.
00:15:07
Speaker
yes are you guys giving specific orders or you guys just want to go sit down with sammy and i'll just give you guys like generic book up and whatever bruce isn't that hungry so bruce is just gonna go over and make sure sammy doesn't choke on anything eating it too fast well apparently sammy does not have food but he's sitting alone at a table for four
00:15:33
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I'm assuming Sammy chose a table floor. I was just laying on the floor. I said I was going to collapse. OK, you were laying on the floor in the middle of the restaurant. How do you answer that? Bruce is just waiting for Sammy's food to get ready so he can grab it for him. Oh, boy. Here we go. Oh, my God. OK. He'll be OK.
00:15:57
Speaker
I guess... I mean, I gotta get my food but I just don't want anybody in the restaurant to panic. It's okay, Hikaru. You and Walter get something to eat. I'll be there in a minute. I can't think straight.
00:16:12
Speaker
Uh, right, Walter. He exists. Right. Um, Walter goes up to the desk and he just... Uh, just the milkshake, please. I mean, that's all. Alright, one milkshake that's coming right up. And he doesn't even write anything down. He just shouts in the back. Alright, one extra vanilla milkshake. Uh, make that... Can you make that chocolate? Alright, make that chocolate. You're good dude, Walter. I thought you were a chocolate guy.
00:16:38
Speaker
I am a chocolate guy, sure. Sammy, what are you doing? At this point, Walter has walked around and he can see Sammy. I think you're standing over me the way we were standing over his collapsed body. Sir, he's standing over you. It's just like, what the heck is going on?
00:16:58
Speaker
Uh, he does this all the time. Every time he doesn't get food for a few hours, he just collapses. That'll be fine. Walter, this is why I live in a- Walter rolls his ice. This is why I live in a pizzeria, because then I can just eat whatever I want. And then, at any time, but now we're out on the road and I can't eat anything.
00:17:20
Speaker
Yeah, he just rolls his eyes, steps over, even goes and finds his table. I want... Evelyn, are you... or, sorry, is Hikaru ordering anything? Yeah. So, I'll have six... I'll have a six pieces, bokeh McNuggets, a medium fries, medium bokeh fry, and a pineapple berry sundae.
00:17:43
Speaker
We don't have we don't carry pineapple various our ice cream machines down it just wait you tell me you know what ice cream is oh No, we got those. I mean I saw our ice cream machines down. We got those first two orders. I'm a man I'm so sorry our ice cream machines down All right, uh, I'll have a milkshake then what flavors have you got?
00:18:05
Speaker
Good thing our milkshake machine isn't broken. We got vanilla, we got chocolate, and we got, I don't know why my voice changed on this, we got vanilla. It's what? August? That's basically all we got. No. June, it's like June. It's like June, so no, there's not Samrock shakes. Oh, Samrock shakes?
00:18:30
Speaker
No, it's March. We just graduated. We just graduated. I didn't know this because I was saying, currently it's June. Oh, I thought you were saying Shamrock Shake came out March. No, no. No, Shamrock Shake came out March. Yes, it is not Shamrock Shake. Broca makes Shamrock Shake season. Broca makes Shamrock Shake season. Broca makes Shamrock Shake season. You asked for this, man. You said the floor is yours. I said, hey. I don't know that. Okay, one of that, whatever that is.
00:18:59
Speaker
What is, what are you ordering? Uh, six pieces bokeh? He's saying this to you. I just realized my normal voice and his voice are basically the same. Except for when you talk deep. Who's, who's he? Who's the, who's the, uh, who's the waiter, the server? Uh, he's an octillery. An octillery, all right. Oh, that's weird. Um, yeah, so my order again is six pieces bokeh McNuggets, medium bokeh fries,
Clarice and the Book's History
00:19:26
Speaker
and a milkshake.
00:19:29
Speaker
Roger that. He starts writing it down, tosses it in the back, and the subscribe is already on. And at this point, Sami's food comes out, and it is nice and piping hot. Comes out on a tray, right there on the desk. All right, that's one order for whatever you ordered. I don't know your name. Oh yeah, I forgot to give you my name. The Munslacks that ordered. Yeah.
00:19:54
Speaker
Yeah, the Munch likes the guy. That's me. I'm Sammy Pepperoni. I'll take that, please. Bruce, thank you for waiting for me. Roger that, Sammy. Here's food. How much is our orders? I'm just gonna say deduct like 10 poke from all of you. That's the cheapest meal. Each person individually. Well, it's Boca McDonald's. Do you know how much I ordered? Where's the money? Yeah, I was expecting 70. I'm making it simple. 50 poke? Where's the money?
00:20:21
Speaker
no i'm not gonna make you guys it's all you can eat yeah right for 10 for 10 pokey you could just put the business out of i would eat everything this was why i didn't order anything i didn't want to pay any money well oh did you not order anything no
00:20:41
Speaker
Oh, in my case, don't deduct 10 poke. Yeah. Said Bruce wasn't all that hungry. I'm down to 30 poke. You only have 30? Oh, geez, I don't know why you guys have so much. I have 157. Yeah, because we paid for the hotel. Oh, yeah, you guys didn't pay for the hotel. Yeah, Walter has 953 per day. Why do I have a hundred? How do you guys have so much money? What? How did Walter have 900? We started with like... That's a good question. Yeah, I only have like 157. How does he currently have 30? I started with like 110 or something.
00:21:11
Speaker
I'm sure there's a reason. I'm sure if we went back in the episodes, we would find it. Whatever. But Bruce Bruce has got the cash. He'll he'll own his car with some cash. Hey, Bruce only has 175 okay on him. On him. Yeah, I don't know how you guys have so little money. Anyway, I know. I know. I know how. And it comes out on Bruce and I have more money than Hikaru because Hikaru didn't get any money in the dungeon. We got all the money in the dungeon. Oh, yeah, that's true.
00:21:40
Speaker
We got all the way back. Well, you got so you got 20 XP according to Walter. Because you guys have the same XP. OK, you guys, the food comes out. You're sitting at the table. This restaurant is pointless. We've taken our episode time. Yeah, I was wondering why you gave us the floor. Eat.
00:22:02
Speaker
Ah, no, I can't really blame anyone but me. You guys eat and it's like 30 minutes later, guys full, bring your bellies up. I don't think you guys ever. No, we didn't lose belly. And now we're at the museum. Good job. You guys are going to the museum? Yes, for real this time. Yes.
00:22:25
Speaker
Hello everyone, I am Dakota, here to thank you for listening to our episode. Our show comes out every other week, Sunday morning. Go follow us on Instagram at PMD Path Through Time, and at Twitter at PMD Path Through Time, that is through spelled with a U, and our Discord where you can receive updates on the show, and talk to us and give us ideas, such as the question of the episode submissions. Speaking of which,
Walter's Urgent News
00:22:44
Speaker
this week our submission comes in from Sean, and he asks, are there time zones in this region?
00:22:49
Speaker
and uh i don't think so it's not really something i've thought of before but i don't think so i don't think the outcast region is big enough for that also it would just create more complications so no that is not something i've implemented into this system and i don't think anerud implemented it into the system either so no i'm gonna say no no there are no time zones in the outcast region without it or the way let's thank our music producers
00:23:18
Speaker
Thank you for Moristoke from Pokemon Sword and Shield, making a sandwich from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Potter from a Palace from Pokemon X and Y, Heihei City, Night theme from Pokemon Sun and Moon, Emotion from Pokemon Black and White, and as always, Pokemon Center theme lo-fi remixed by Glitch X City. And back to the chaos.
00:23:39
Speaker
So you guys get to the museum, and as you step up to the museum, there's a sign that says entry is 50 poke, which is why I was surprised you currently have 30. Oh no. Oh boy. Entry is 50 poke.
00:23:59
Speaker
Okay. There's a, um, I don't know, a Pidgey standing there at the door, accepting entry fees. Yeah. Could we just say we're here to talk to the staff about a missing bus? Guys, guys, group, group paddle. Oh, okay. Sorry, we'll talk to you in a minute. Hang on. We'll talk to you in a minute. Sorry, it was, it was a star link. Okay. Don't get enough money to get in. 50 bucks is kind of, kind of steep. No.
00:24:29
Speaker
I mean, yeah, I got plenty of money. I mean, jeez, my pockets are overflowing. How would you get all this money? I don't remember. I just have it. Oh, you know, you probably grabbed, you know, I got you. You probably grabbed it when you went back in for your growth hour. I got it. You know, yeah, yeah. Good, good move. Smart, smart. Sir. Yeah, we'll go with that. Um, sir. Anyway, I've got enough money to, I can, I can spot people if you, if you need, if you guys need it. I got, I got plenty. Uh, Hikaru, you don't have enough, do you?
00:24:59
Speaker
No, I don't. Do we have the letter from Mr. Farnsworth? Yeah, Bruce should have it. A letter from Mr. Farnsworth? If I remember right, the letter from Farnsworth's just state... Talk to Blair. Is that... What was it? Oh no, it was just the address. It was the address the Blair is playing. Did Blair give us a note? No, Blair didn't. Yeah, Blair didn't give us a note. No. But we could just explain the situation and say that...
00:25:26
Speaker
You know, we just like, we're not, we're just here to talk to the staff. Hi, we saw a giant space hole and we need to see a book. Wait, are you saying this out loud? Out of the, out of the huddle? Okay. That's what I was gonna say. That sounds like a good way to get sent to the, you know, um, the, the, uh, the asylum. The asylum. Hey, jinx! I thought of that at the same time. Uh,
00:25:54
Speaker
Okay, so yeah, Walter's just like, yeah, if you need me to spot you a couple bucks, that's not an issue. All right. All right. Go team. How much do you need? How much do you how much do all of you need? I mean, I don't know how much. Well, no, I'm fine. I got I got I got money. Yeah. And I don't want to be broke. Two hundred. Bruce and I, we picked up a bunch of money out of the dungeon. Yeah, I know them. I got beat up anyway. He called it here. He just hands you 50. OK.
00:26:23
Speaker
All right. Thank you. Okay. Yeah, of course. I mean, we kind of have to get through here. Yeah.
00:26:30
Speaker
At this point, the Starly is looking at you guys like, okay.
Return to Gale Beach
00:26:35
Speaker
Wasn't that a Pidgey? It was shift change, I'm assuming. It was a Pidgey. It was a Pidgey. Starly, it says Starly. Yeah. Was it a Pidgey? Yeah, you said Pidgey. Okay, okay, you guys have me second-guessing myself. It's a Pidgey. The Pidgey is looking at you scratching his head because you guys just walked up to the steps and then got into a huddle blocking the doorway. Nobody, you get in the museum.
00:26:58
Speaker
if you don't let us in for free nobody's getting in so he looks at you guys and he's like uh right that that will be 50 poke for ntrooper person and he holds out his hand all right yeah i guess we all give him the 50 poke then what if and you guys hand over though are you saying this out loud nah let's just pay him okay well uh you guys hand over the 50 poke i'm assuming and you guys are free to answer
00:27:28
Speaker
Okay, Sammy walks in backwards. Okay, so... Genuinely did not expect that one. So you guys walk in except for Sammy who walks in backwards because he's just a built different. You guys walk in and there's big... What would be in a music and art museum? Did I say history and art? I think it was the music and art. You said music and art.
00:27:53
Speaker
Okay, it's a music art. So inside you see like a bunch of instruments laying around, guitar playing around. They're just laying around. I was randomly on the floor. Just like scampering around, looking excitedly at all the instruments. No, sorry. They're not just piled up on the floor. They're in cases, there's like velvet ropes that are
00:28:16
Speaker
blocking you from touching the cases and you can see a bunch of staff members milling about a bunch of security people which you can see because they're wearing hats that say security on them.
00:28:29
Speaker
Bruce is going over to the brass instrument section. Strings are your thing. Of course. Sure, there's a room dedicated to brass instruments with trumpets, trombones, sousaphones, tubas, everything. Well, Sammy's going to turn around and stop looking at the door and actually look at the museum. Okay, I had to take a second because I thought you said licking the door. No!
00:28:56
Speaker
All right, so Sammy turns around and he sees everything I just described except while just looking at all the guitars with his eyes just wide he is by the way still have his guitar and violin bow on his back. Nice. Yeah, it's like he has got like a guitar strap because he's a cool dude.
00:29:19
Speaker
Okay, not long a sneak and I should I like roll perception or something for the, uh, like, uh, look section. See, anything interesting.
00:29:29
Speaker
I mean, if you guys want to, I can trace something, I guess. I didn't quite have anything planned. I don't know. You guys don't have to roll them. Yeah, you guys have a full perception. There's plaques in front of multiple instruments. What are you guys looking for? The book. Roll me, perceptionize it, but I'll take the average. Unless some of you guys are not looking for the book. It was cocked, dang it. It was a 19 and a 1.
00:29:57
Speaker
I got a nat 1. I got... But since that's a perception roll, that gets bumped up to... A nat 1? A nat 1's a nat 1. I got a 13. I got an 8. Okay, we got a 1, a 13. And an 8. A 1, 13, and an 8. I'm gonna get a... What did Walter get? Actually, that average... Like, 8? That is a good question. I need to vote for... I always forget about Walter. He's that poor guy.
00:30:27
Speaker
uh 14 so that's going to average out to approximately nine this mental mess you guys look around and you see a map of the building floor the built the building slam that the the names of the rooms there's a map of the museum jeez it's like a big billboard bulletin board thing and everyone except hikaru sees it okay so bruce is gonna go over there hey guys we might wanna
00:30:57
Speaker
Go find what we're looking for here. You'll use the map here to figure it out. Oh, is that a map? Yeah, yeah, we'll be right over. OK, so you guys get up to the map and there's, you know, there's the building floor. It shows you all the different instruments. There's the brass section, string section. He's section, the piano section, question mark. It's a whole bunch of sections. Reads is what you're looking for. Yeah.
00:31:26
Speaker
Yeah, reads, woodwinds, all the band instruments, percussion. How could I forget percussion? I was on percussion. And on the other side of the building, you see a bunch of, it's a bunch of names, like there's the painting room, there's the chalk drawing room, all the different mediums and there's books, history books. There's basically every selection you can think of for books, every genre. Okay. Oh, wow. Yeah.
00:31:56
Speaker
I guess we go over to the book section and try to find like some staff member or something who might know something. Yeah. Yeah. Sure enough. You guys go over to the book section and it's like a big sprawling library of books reaches all the way up to the ceiling, which I forgot to mention is like 30 feet high. There's staff members milling about and there's one that looks like it's ready to ask any question you guys have.
00:32:26
Speaker
It's very quiet. We have no questions, apparently. Apparently not. So Kari's going to go over to the curator. Who is this? Who is this person? Of course, it's a Raboot. And his name says her name says Clarice. Clarice. She looks at you guys. Hi, can I help you guys? Excuse me, miss. Yeah, we're here to inquire about a book that was part of your collection.
00:32:55
Speaker
uh yeah do you have do you have a name or author or anything i'm happy to answer any questions they have about all these wonderful books we got here yeah it's called elgium's guide to the galaxy by dr hoot hoot and someone told us that you guys had it but it went missing oh yeah uh actually yeah really
00:33:15
Speaker
here hold on one second and she actually pulls out a flip book or sorry a binder from behind her there's like a chair with a bunch of different stuff and she starts flipping through and she's like like looks like it was stolen before i started working here about what eight years ago uh no one's ever met on the culprit on it yeah it was in that display case over there and she points to the other side of the room where there's like a display case displaying individual books and you can see there is one slot missing
00:33:44
Speaker
If this was a cartoon, there would be dotted lines blinking in and out signifying
Walter's Family Revelation
00:33:48
Speaker
that there's supposed to be something there, but there's not. She looks back at you guys like, I'm sorry. I can't really help you guys. There's nothing I could do. It's been missing for many years. Yeah. Well, has there been any, um, I don't know, detective work investigating into the case?
00:34:07
Speaker
Yeah, especially when I first released when it was first stolen We had like a whole bunch of different people because that's a very valuable book very very valuable information in there We had all sorts of people come in and take a look at it. Take a look at uh, but Unfortunately, this place is too busy and we couldn't find like any footprints or fingerprints or anything and I
00:34:32
Speaker
It just, there was no evidence. Just one night, or one day it was there, the next day it wasn't. We didn't know what happened. No one's ever managed to piece it together. I see. So there was no... Well, did some... Um... Go ahead. So there was no evidence and no leaves? No one knows anything about it? Not in the slightest.
00:34:54
Speaker
The only thing we could find was the window up there, and she points to like a mosaic window. As you can see, it has like a latch on it. It clearly opened the closes. That window up there was left open, but that's literally the only thing any of our detectives could find. Other than that, there's no leads whatsoever.
00:35:15
Speaker
Well, how did the book make it into the museum's collection? That is a good question. I'm gonna... Here, and she pulls out her binder again. She flips through it, picks up a different binder, flips through it, picks up a third binder, and flips through it. I'm not seeing much information on this book. If you need... Are you guys investigating this or something?
00:35:43
Speaker
investigators? We're more of just looking for the book. We were kind of pointed towards it as the potential answer to some questions we had. Oh, yeah, I'm afraid I can't answer many questions about this book. I mean, it's been gone so long. Do you think you could point us to the curator of the museum or whoever might have been here when it was brought in?
00:36:13
Speaker
It's possible someone may have attempted to make a copy of the book. I'm not sure. Let me, if you guys will wait here just a minute, I'm going to go talk to the Headmaster and see if he knows anything about this. And she wanders off into a side room that says employees only. And a couple of minutes later, she comes out with a Stoutland. That's a good, that's a good Pokemon.
00:36:36
Speaker
Uh, he comes out with a Stoutland and he wanders over. He's like, oh, you, you little guys are the ones inquiring about the LGM's guard of the galaxy, correct? Yeah, that's us. That's correct. Yep. You guys, I just took a look at the
00:36:54
Speaker
records we have of this book it looks like it was submitted about 150 years ago it was i mean this museum as you probably know has been around here for many centuries it's a big collection of knowledge and all sorts of stuff and this is this book here was submitted about 150 years ago right at the uh
00:37:15
Speaker
right about when, actually it was probably submitted, when a doctor who himself died and the entire collection was donated to the museum. Elgium's God of the Galaxy being the most valuable of his donations.
00:37:28
Speaker
I don't see any records of any copies. I don't see any records of any like edits or anything happened in the book. Once it was put in this display case, the only time it was ever moved was when we did renovations for making the museum bigger. And he gestures to the music side. This music side used to not be here. We did renovations quite a long time ago, but that was like many, many years ago.
00:37:55
Speaker
more than eight which is when this book was stolen so I don't think that has anything to do with it and he kind of cuts off because from the front door you can hear a commotion going on he can hear a lot of squawking and someone's like let me in no it's urgent I need in no stop and uh someone bursts into the room or lobby with like a bunch of feathers flying over and you can see a paliper and he is staring right at Walter
00:38:24
Speaker
Oh boy. You! I... I... It's urgent. Here, take this. And he just, like, frisbees it over to Walter. And he pelt for books that are in the museum. Does it hit him in the face? Good question, does it hit him in the face? Roll to dodge. I'm gonna roll Dex for him. I don't know how to use commands, apparently.
00:38:43
Speaker
Okay, uh, it, let me find his modifiers, is a 15? Plus mark? 15! So he catches it, nimble deep elevator. What is Walter of a plus 3 in? I can't find it. There it is. Sorry, 2! 14! Wait, no, is it cool? Hold on. Sorry, I'm getting my things mixed up. There's definitely some dexterity. Yeah, dexterity would be cool. No, yeah, it's 15. Yeah, he's got a 3 in cool.
00:39:13
Speaker
What the heck? How the heck did that Pelipper find you, Walter? I don't know. I mean... It's Pelipper. They're unexplainable. They find you wherever. They're very dedicated to delivering mail. I'm going to give you guys a minute. He just backs off into the employee-only room. Yes, thank you. Yes, please.
00:39:43
Speaker
He peeks out, rock up, slam. He, Walter holds up the envelope and it says it's from his, it says from mom, urgent, like in big red ink. And Walter opens the envelope and I actually forgot to write something down so I'm just gonna go, whatever. It just says, this is from my mom, guys. Here, let me read it. And this is what the letter says. The letter says,
00:40:13
Speaker
Walter, come back now. I don't know where you're at, but something terrible has happened. I just got back to Gale Beach. The house has burned down and I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened. I, he's gone. I don't. And it trails off and it says, uh, Walter's mom. It says from Veronica. He's gone. Like he ran away. The house has burned down.
00:40:39
Speaker
What? Why did Sami surprise you? Because we sent people to go put the fire out. I don't know. I think he should head back guys. Maybe not. I don't know. I mean, what if they know we did it? Maybe you should head back and we should continue our investigation trying to find this book. Is this not fair to Walter to send them all by himself?
00:41:02
Speaker
No, I'm sticking with you guys. I'm part of this whole thrift thing he says under his breath. Yeah, thrift squad. I'm not leaving you guys to deal with this by myself. I never see you guys again, and I'll never know what happened. If you guys are going to be investing, so am I. If we're going to go back to Volkenburg, you guys are coming with me. It's either all of us or nothing. And I'll put my foot down on that. Are you guys coming, or are we staying? I'll leave it. Well, we can put it up to a vote.
00:41:31
Speaker
I say we go back. My mom is going to freak the hell out if we don't figure out what's going on. And I say figure out what's going on. I mean, we already know what's going on. But, well, we probably shouldn't be acting like we know what's going on. Yeah, probably. Yes, Walters. Mom, we burned your house down. Can anybody overhear us? I think it was just the curator who walked away, right?
00:42:00
Speaker
Uh, there was a curator that was the reboot. Her name was Clarice. Clarice, I think her name was. Yeah. Uh, actually Clarice does overhear you. She walks up to you guys. What? Did you say a building burnt out? Are you guys okay? Clarice, it's time to take care of it. Please go back to work. Thank you Clarice. Okay, I'll be sure if you guys need me. She looks very worried. Just don't call the cops.
00:42:28
Speaker
Nothing. Have a good day. Thank you for all your help. Right. I'll be here. Everything's fine. We were walking past and we just saw that we were walking past a building that was, we noticed it was burning. Someone started a fire inside and got out of control or something. We sent some water Pokemon and some ground types to help put it out.
00:42:59
Speaker
and the situation was under control when we left it so everything should be good as far as we knew it was done it was taken care of we did as far as we knew that fire was out okay i'm not gonna have you guys roll deception because that is technically the truth uh i'm gonna have for real insight though to see if you guys oh she can tell that something is wrong she can tell that you guys are holding back something and she looks at you a little bit quizzically like
00:43:29
Speaker
I feel like it's something you guys aren't telling me. You guys weren't behind us, were you? No, of course not. I don't think I ever got your guys' names. Does it look like we could set a building on fire? Don't look at bros. Does it look like we could set a building on fire? Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:44
Speaker
don't let go bruce bruce's flames are not out bruce's flames are not out the entire time he was in the museum because you know museum big important place don't want to set anything on fire on accident no flames so yeah clewis asks uh can i get you guys's names by any chance team at all
00:44:08
Speaker
This might clear things up. You know, have you ever heard of the Flamebacks? Oh yes, yeah, they donated lots of money to this museum. Oh yes, of course we know the Flamebacks. They're great people. I'm Bruce. I'm the son of the Flamebacks who started the corporation.
00:44:31
Speaker
And she uh brightens up at that and she it's like oh really house house What's your name? No, it's just my back, isn't it? Yeah, she's just this one. She's not a player character. She doesn't She has a last name but not a person. That's that's it. That's it You get a first name or not a last name or you get a last name but not a first name
00:44:57
Speaker
She goes, how's Ms. Plumbick doing? We haven't received a donation from her for, well, like eight years at this point. She used to donate a lot of money to us. Yeah, sounds about right. She was always into the museums and places. Yeah, she's doing good. She's been working hard, running the company after dead.
00:45:21
Speaker
passed. Oh, but I'm so sorry. Yeah, Clarice, you've heard of the flamebacks. I'm sure you must have heard of the pepperonis dough. You know, we're pretty fairly popular. I'm sure we catered some of your events here at the museum. Pepperonis pizza at the museum. I know. Okay, that's fine.
00:45:41
Speaker
Yeah, sorry about that one. That's okay. Yeah, I don't know what you guys are based out of, but can you guys tell me where you guys came from, where I can find you in the future? She says squinting her eyes a little bit. Well, we're trying to traveling on a journey right now, so we're never really sure where we're going to be. And you guys are traveling on a journey? Yeah, you're asking quite a lot of questions back, Larry.
00:46:10
Speaker
you know fair enough this is outside my job description actually uh back to i'm going to go back to work i'll be over here and she kind of waddles off to the other side of the room looking very serious we're only perception want somebody i'm gonna do that 17 three 17 with a 17
00:46:39
Speaker
I'm Bruce, wait, who rolled a 17, sorry? Yeah, Bruce did. Okay, okay. Oh wait, perception, that's a plus two, 19. Okay, well, we're definitely taking Bruce's roll and not... That was me, I did that. Yeah, that's where she rolled a three. Bruce rolled first, sorry, Eli rolled first, in a way. So with a 19, is it?
00:47:05
Speaker
yes okay with a 19 you can see Clarisse is talking to a security guard interesting well all right it's all you guys oh right actually walter uh looks at you guys and says are we staying here or are we are we heading back to gale beach well walter if you're not going back i think if you're not going back and you want to stick with us i mean i don't want you to go back by yourself so yeah we're sticking we're sticking to this
00:47:33
Speaker
It's kind of important. I know your mom's house is also important. This is tough. This is very tough. Unless you guys want to put it to a vote. I mean, I don't want to win my mom. This is big for you. What do you want to do? I want to head back to Gale Beach. I mean, my mom is clearly going through something. She had to send a letter like this. It's never something like that before.
00:47:58
Speaker
Oh, good. I'm also worried that we're gonna get in trouble and maybe go to jail. I don't know. I mean, uh, I think the best course of action would be to go to Fulkenburg. I mean, Gale Beach, we're already in Fulkenburg. Yeah, I'm with Walter. I hate to backtrack like this, but if this means that much to you, I've always put family first. I think we should go with him. It's really important to him.
00:48:24
Speaker
yeah okay okay yeah all right uh let's try and take the next train if we can it let's get out of here you can see walters clearly flustered after receiving this letter so you guys are you guys heading back to the subway station then is that where you guys explain us yeah yeah yeah
00:48:49
Speaker
Oh, yeah, you guys leave the museum. Luckily, the train station isn't too far away. Okay, it's not another hour and a half long. I don't know, 15, 20 minute walk? No, it's like 15, 20 minute walk. You guys get there, and you see the guy at the gate, and he's like, oh, do you guys have a ticket? We'd like one trip for four to, uh, where the heck do we live? Gail Beach.
00:49:11
Speaker
Where the heck do we live? Okay, four tickets to go. That'll be $240, okay? And the next trend is an hour twenty. Okay, thank you. I can't give you these tickets unless you pay for them first. Who's gonna pay? I only have...
00:49:38
Speaker
I can't actually tell if you guys... Yeah, we are, yeah. Yeah, we are. Oh, okay. I disconnected my headset, so I didn't hear half of that, so... We just let go of Walter, it's gonna pay or not. Okay, well, he wants 240 poke. Well, none of us individually have that much. Walter has 800. Okay, yeah, that's 60 a person, so... Kauru only has 30. Walter has 900. Yeah. Walter puts his head down, he's like...
00:50:08
Speaker
I guess this one's on me, isn't it? Because we had to go back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll pay for it. And he just pants over 240 poke, straight up. Real quick, did everybody deduct money from the museum? From their money? Yeah, just did. And okay, you guys are down in the train station, and there is.
00:50:28
Speaker
you see a bunch of benches you know basically same thing as last time the pierogi sands are still there you also see there is yep there's pierogies one and done and there's pierogies two electric boogaloo across and you can see there are two pokemon staring each other in the eyes across the tracks with binoculars hey guys i think they're gonna have a battle soon oh boy
00:50:51
Speaker
I think they're going to battle that out to see which one gets custody of the pierogi stand in the subway station here. So you guys can either get some pierogis or just straight up wait an hour and a half. It's up to you. I want to wait an hour and a half, but do something fun in the meantime. All right. You guys are going to play patty cake for an hour and a half. Is that all we see in the train station? Well, it should be. How long is the ride going to be, 12 hours again?
00:51:18
Speaker
I don't remember what it was last time. I think we did the overnight train last time. Yeah. I'm gonna say it's three and a half, four, it's been four hours since you guys left the hotel so I'm gonna say it's about noon and the train leaves at like 130. So you're telling me I can get breakfast at MacMocha McDonald's? You could have, yes.
00:51:46
Speaker
so what do you guys look around the platform like we're in the same train station right all right you guys look around the train plot for an hour 20 minutes all right rain shows up
00:52:03
Speaker
Can I roll investigation to see if I can figure anything out about the case of the missing book? Can I investigate like a newspaper station so they're hanging about the bank? Okay, let's deal with investigation first for the book. So Bruce will investigate. I can't wait, I know nothing about the bank.
00:52:26
Speaker
Yeah, so, so I roll a three plus one is four. So Bruce didn't find anything about the book in the train station. Oh yeah. What a surprise. If you want to, what a surprise. Turns out it has to do with ice cream. Oh wait, no, that's Sammy's role. Sammy influenced Bruce's role. So if you want to, are you actually looking for a newspaper or something based on- Sammy knows nothing about the bank. Oh, sorry. I thought that was Bruce. I wanted to do that as well.
00:52:56
Speaker
Okay. Sorry, Eli. I keep calling gays big character names. Okay. So the train shows up and it says Destin for Gale Beach. And if you guys have nothing else to do, you guys can get on. All right. Um, do we get a booth inside the train? I will fly on in. Uh, you guys can pick, you guys can pick a train car between one and five.
00:53:23
Speaker
One being the back one, and five being the one right behind the locomotive. All right. I think we should pick the fourth one. I vote for number four. Jinx! How? All right. Okay. I guess it's number four. That's the third time that's happened by this episode, by the way. How?
00:53:41
Speaker
so what's that all four of you guys get on train number four by the way Walter voted three but she didn't voice it so it doesn't matter he you guys get on to train car number four and you guys sit down the train takes off I need Sammy to roll me Constitution okay what's the modifier for that one again
00:54:05
Speaker
Actually, no, Roman constitution with advantage. Uh, let me see. That was no money. Cause that wasn't actually. No, but I remember he added one in the system. So we were just doing it.
00:54:18
Speaker
So actually, funnily enough, uh, we're going to go on a little bit of a tangent here. And it got back to me on that. Um, it turns out he, he, in his system, she lumps constitution into a strength, not wisdom because strength has nothing else. So constitution is a tough role. We are changing this. We are changing this. The system, you guys can write it down if you want tough as strength and constitution. Okay. Cool.
00:54:49
Speaker
So, I want Sammy to roll me tough. Tough as strength, athletics, and constitution. With advantage. With advantage, yeah. Okay, with advantage. 18 plus one is 19. Okay. Um, yeah, that roll meant absolutely nothing. Nothing happens. Uh, right. And moving on, the train tumbles on.
00:55:15
Speaker
Oh yeah, there's nothing going on with that role whatsoever. No foreshadowing there at all. I'm guessing it had something to do with how much food he ate at the Boca McDonald's. I'm not saying. So you guys get to Gale Beach after like 12 hours. It's about midnight at this point. I don't know if you guys did anything on the train. Did we sleep this time? If you guys slept or whatever.
00:55:41
Speaker
I don't know. Did you sleep this time? I'll leave that up to you this time. I definitely will. If I say her slept. OK, so. I think Bruce stayed awake for most of the time, probably went to sleep when like the rest of the passengers were starting to go to sleep. OK, so Bruce and Hikaru fell asleep. What about Sammy? You know, Sammy fell asleep.
00:56:10
Speaker
Okay, Walter did not fall asleep. He is too worried about and anxious about arriving at Gale Beach. And you guys arrive at Gale Beach. Walter shakes all three of you guys awake like, hey guys, we're here. Come on, let's not miss our station. Okay.
00:56:31
Speaker
And he especially punches Sammy in the arm because he knows it's hard to wait. Okay. Yeah, I got it. I'm getting up. Dang. Well, it was hard enough for you to wake up last time. Come on. Let's go. I know. Mr. Stop. All right. See you guys are on the station. It looks identical to the for Volkenberg. It's just underwater. I don't have any original ideas. Oh, yeah. And there's an underwater underwater dome above you as the ceiling. Is that the the Volkenberg one wasn't underwater, right?
00:57:00
Speaker
No, it was not. It's almost like we were here less than 24 hours ago. Okay, what are you guys doing? There's pierogi stands. There's nothing else down there. And it's midnight. Oh, we haven't had dinner, right? So pierogies? No, you haven't had dinner. I'm going to say there was like a train trolley, but they had like snacks, like chips or whatever. Nothing like a full meal. Okay.
00:57:28
Speaker
So, like, Hikaru's house is on the beach. It should be closest to the train station, right? Can we just bunk it to Hikaru's? Yes. Hikaru's house is very close. How Hikaru's parents feel about us just crashing into place at midnight. I don't think they'll mind. Well, it's like either that or we find a hotel in our hometown. I'm not paying for a hotel here. I'll just go home.
00:57:56
Speaker
okay so are you all for heading home or are you all heading to one place let's uh you guys can crash at my place i can explain i'm sure my parents will be okay with it if we we can just explain the situation oh no i know i haven't been to your house in so long has your mother been
00:58:15
Speaker
she's she's fine i mean running the store is kind of tough but you know it is what it is i hate i hate to interrupt but it is at this moment that someone comes barreling through your group and knocks all four of you guys to the ground oh hey watch where you're going hey i was just talking with my friend ikaru about her mama
00:58:36
Speaker
And he scrambles up and continues sprinting. He's like, oh, I saw you. I'll see you. I'll see you guys. Bye. And he just sprints down the tunnel. Not up the stairs, but down the tunnel, down the pass the subway. He said he'll see him. Can we know that guy? Who was that? I don't know. Probably not important to the story. Let's just get going.
00:59:06
Speaker
Do you have to break the fourth wall again? Yes. Who are you talking to? Me. Oh, Sammy said, yeah, okay, okay, I gotcha. Yeah. So, uh, right, so you guys head into Hikaru's place, all four of you. Yeah. Because Welch is willing to do whatever you guys are. It's midnight, he doesn't have a place to stay, he's staying silent.
00:59:37
Speaker
I think we're all gonna act casual. Just walk in like we own the place. Okay, you guys. Yeah, we're all going to Hikaru's. You guys enter Hikaru's place and you guys enter the storefront. The bell jingles jingles. There is nobody. The house is completely dark. It's a little bit chilly. It's like your mom turned the thermostat down for the night.
01:00:04
Speaker
uh you can no there's nobody i've got one more guys i've rolled more background dice in this in this episode than i have in any other story in uh in the back actually how do you get to the living room hikaru how excellent whatever your name is hikaru up the stairs up one flight okay okay and where are these stairs located
01:00:31
Speaker
um in the back of the store just behind the register okay it's similar to how uh same yeah it's like back back behind the camera are you guys attempting to go up these stairs quietly or are you guys just walking up like you own the place i'm gonna go up quietly i should make
01:00:52
Speaker
Bruce was just gonna like wait in the entrance area, whatever, I guess in the main store. Until we have permission to enter. Until like, Hikaru... Yeah, we have permission to like, stay here. Hikaru made sure that we had a place to sleep for the night. Okay, is that... I think Hikaru is the only one going up the stairs. Unless Walter's going. I guess so.
01:01:21
Speaker
Hey Hikaru, what's your game plan then? Hikaru's game plan? Uh, Hikaru's game plan. Are you going to wake your mom up? Are you just going to secretly make a bed for everyone? What you doing? Just sleep in the store. Yeah. Well, I want to find, yeah. Just sleep in the middle of the floor. I'll sleep in my room, but I want to make sure that you guys are okay with sleeping wherever you are. You don't need me to make a bed for you.
01:01:50
Speaker
any pillows. It'd be really nice to carl i don't know if we'd feel feel super comfortable with like coming in the house at like 12 o'clock at night when your parents are sleeping but we don't it'd be kind of weird only a little bit. Sammy, roll the coop over the knife. Which i believe is dexterity. Five. Yeah okay you guys can stay on the first on the ground floor that's cool.
01:02:13
Speaker
Oh, a skeleton. Hide behind the register. It's a cool role. You got five total? Yep. You can hear some fumbling around upstairs. Somebody is awake. Are you guys doing anything about that? Who's that? I slapped Bruce in the gut. Hey, it sounds like somebody's awake up there.
01:02:32
Speaker
And as you say that, it suddenly gets a lot louder. And you see your mom coming down the stairs. She's like, what is, what is, what is going on? What are these people? Oh, hey Walter, what are you guys doing down here? I took Scottish snow.
01:02:54
Speaker
I know this is coming. Why are these people in my room? Why did you bring these people here without permission? You didn't let us know in the meantime. Why are these guys standing in my house? She runs upstairs. She's furious. Mom! Sorry, Mom. I can explain.
01:03:17
Speaker
you get up here you can explain next you can explain with me you leave those guys downstairs they don't and she's angrily okay uh i'm gonna i'm gonna scamper up the stairs
01:03:33
Speaker
not really worrying about wake years. Okay, your mom is awake. Okay, your mom's awake. And now everyone else is awake. You can see Quinn. Yeah, you can see Quinn is in the living room with your mom and your dad, who is now wearing two ties. Two red ties is standing in the room. And it's clear that your mom has just explained everything.
01:03:59
Speaker
Okay, mom, dad, I can explain. Walter had a family emergency, so I had to bring him home as soon as possible. A family emergency at midnight? This is your dad. I don't remember his voice. I never remember anyone's voice. Yeah, something, his mom sent him a letter. It was urgent, so he had to come back to Gale Beach.
01:04:27
Speaker
Uh, then why isn't he going to his place? It's midnight, Hikaru. You can't just be bringing random people over. I mean, even if Walter had a family emergency, why is- do your parents know who Sammy and Bruce is? Uh, they know who Sammy is. Okay, do you think they know who Bruce is at all? No? I don't think they would know.
01:04:51
Speaker
If they knew Bruce, it would only be cut be from like, you know, flame back corporation. Yeah, I don't think they would know Bruce specifically. They would know that like, they would. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I think he carves. He carves dad is a business person. So he would know about the flame back. Oh, yeah. He sells real estate. Yeah. Yeah. He sells real estate, not technology. I don't think he'd have any connection there. No.
01:05:20
Speaker
uh not enough to know they brought some of uh the the company properties for i also think that both of their both of hikaru's parents would vaguely know that like the that bruce is one of the students uh i think it's a stretch to say is that sure for simplicity we're gonna say he knows who everyone is okay uh
01:05:46
Speaker
So he's like, oh, and even if Walter had a family emergency, why is Bruce and Sammy in here? What do they have to do with this? Well, we were all traveling together and we just had, we just decided to come home together. You just decided to bring them over. No reason at all, huh? No, no, no. Um,
01:06:10
Speaker
see i don't know if you remember but um some like there was a fire in town a day or two ago do you believe never read about them in the news no not he wouldn't have read them in the newspaper uh i do believe i heard about that when i headed out to work yesterday yeah yeah well what does that have to do with this
01:06:35
Speaker
Well, it appears that Walter's house burned down. Oh, I didn't realize. Is he okay? He's shaken. I think he'll be okay for now. He just needs to come home and he just needed to come back to town to see what's going on.
01:07:01
Speaker
Oh, I mean... He puts his... He basically does a force for me. He's like, okay, okay, look. Well, fine. Walter can stay for an hour or two until he gets everything figured out. I take it he doesn't have a place to stay then, right? He doesn't. Oh, okay. Well, what about the other two? What do they have to do with this? Well, the four of us were traveling together. We all traveled together. Wait, do they have the wrong places to stay?
01:07:28
Speaker
They do. You know, we don't have a big house. We don't, we can't hold up. I mean, I don't know. We can't just have three people show up in the middle of the night to stay at night. We're not a hotel service. Can they stay on the ground floor? Uh, for water's sake, I guess there's a chair down there, a couple chairs down there they can
01:07:55
Speaker
Ugh, I'm too tired for this. Just go make them up after something. Yeah, I'll get them into the storage room. Storage? Can you count stock before they enter? I don't need anything, you know, going missing. They're my friends. You can trust them. Yeah, well I don't know of them so I can't trust them because I don't have an experience with them. Alright, fine. I'll just have them sleep behind the register.
01:08:23
Speaker
Okay, just make sure they're not there when the store opens up because that'll be quite a story to tell to customers. All right, thanks dad. Walter can have, he can sleep on the couch. We don't have, as you know, we don't have a spare bedroom. We don't, we can't really, hell there's this many people, but I guess Walter can sleep on the couch until he gets things figured out. I can understand his situation.
01:08:45
Speaker
Alright, thank you. Okay, just... So, I'm gonna go back to bed. Goodnight, Dad. Goodnight, Quinn. Goodnight, Mom. And they all head out. Yeah. So, I'm gonna head downstairs again and tell, um, tell the gang what I agreed to with my parents. Okay. Okay, yeah, you don't have to go through all that again unless you want...
01:09:09
Speaker
After all that, Bruce is gonna, like, just say, uh, like, I think this caused a lot more commotion than we anticipated. I think I'm just gonna head home for the night and I'll meet you guys back here tomorrow morning. You sure Bruce, it's such a long walk. Sounds good. It's only like half an hour, it's not that bad. And maybe for you it's only for half an hour, okay yeah. Yeah, I do walk a bit faster than you do, Sammy. It's done.
01:09:37
Speaker
Okay, so Bruce is gonna head out? Yeah. What about Sammy? Yeah. Alright. I don't want to be a bird and I'm... like, I was parents. Okay, so as you guys head out the door, you guys open the door, but there was somebody there. Do you happen to be part of Walter's family? No. No? He sees Walter there in the door. He's like...
01:10:07
Speaker
I need to speak to you alone. Who is this person? It is an Empoleon and he is holding a hat over his, a military hat over his chest. Oh. Is he a detective? Military hat. He's got some sort of military hat, I don't know. He doesn't seem to be a detective to you.
01:10:33
Speaker
He gestures out the door for Walter to follow him. How he found Walter? I don't know. He's finding Walter so easily. This is the easiest game of where's Walter? The two bellippers that delivered his mail. Where's Walter?
01:10:54
Speaker
I tell the person it makes sense. They just do that. They do their job of delivering mail way too well. Random Empoleon, however. He just had to show up at Alola's Morning Goods at the middle of the night. Midnight. That's a little sus. Hey, well, Bruce, this is a little weird. You want to tame him and see what's going on? Yeah, I'm allowed to.
01:11:24
Speaker
What? I... I don't... Uhhh... What can you go and say? That wasn't Tommy. I was talking to Bruce. I was like, oh God, what are you doing? Get out of here. Okay. And he heads outside. And it is at this point we are going to do a... Do you guys... Are you... Before I start this mini cutscene, are you guys doing anything inside? Walter has left the door. Just dying from laughter because I was trying to talk to Bruce. Oh.
01:11:56
Speaker
Um, he car is still lingering at the foot of the staircase leading up to the apartment. Okay. But she's, you know, she was about to go to bed. Okay. Unless you, so you guys are good. You guys are heading to bed. Oh, I don't know. Now we were leaving. So well, we're going to be heading out.
01:12:18
Speaker
We're going to be heading out. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's why I was trying to ask Bruce since we were heading out to go home. But Walt is like, hi.
01:12:40
Speaker
sorry about that uh so right uh and i guess i'll slightly are you are you guys that's going to attempt to leave yeah yes we are trying to leave to go home okay so this is what happens outside of the hatsumi house there is the empoleon he's like so uh i heard you guys had some interesting things happen lately
01:13:10
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, with the house gone and everything, that's why I'm staying here for the night. Do you not know? Do I not know what? It's at this point that the door opens and Bruce and Sam come out. I'm sorry to inform you, but your father is dead. He passed during the fire. I'm sorry, I have to be the one to have to deliver this to you, but we couldn't find you.
01:13:37
Speaker
Your mother didn't know exactly where you were. If you need a minute alone, that's fine. And... Walter looks over at the Empoleon. And Bruce and Sammy could see this.
01:13:49
Speaker
Walter looks so happy. He looks like he's about to start jumping for joy. And the Napoleon is so confused. And in fact, he starts looking a little bit suspicious, but Walter looks so happy. He says, I am free. It's over. And he sees Sammy and Bruce over there and he looks at you guys and he's stuck.
01:14:15
Speaker
guys it's it's over i i i don't and he falls to the ground crying sammy just kind of looks at bruce with suspicious eyes like what what do you mean just bruce just looks confused at this yeah we're just confused
01:14:37
Speaker
Bruce just gets confused because Bruce also did not know anything about Walter's home life. Oh, that's true. Aside from the whole note on the door, that was Bruce's only knowledge of anything about his home life. That is true. Kukara's the only one who actually knew anything. So Bruce can actually, like, real look confused, not be faking anything. No, you've got a point there.
01:15:07
Speaker
So, the Empoleon, uh, puts his hat back on his head. He's like, um, if... Do you guys... He's just drawing towards you and, uh, Sammy and Bruce. Uh, are you two his friends by any chance? Yeah, yeah, what's up? I... I don't know how much of that you guys just heard. Can you... Are you able to take care of him? I'm sure he can tell you. It's...
01:15:37
Speaker
I'm only supposed to tell, and he just starts walking away, because he's clearly confused, embarrassed, and he is out of there. He just starts walking
Podcast Signing Off
01:15:48
Speaker
down the path towards the road. Okay. And that is where we're gonna end this episode. I've been Dakota, your PM, your DM, your GM. I'm Evelyn, playing Hikaru. And Eli, playing Bruce. And I've been Sean, playing a now very sad and confused Sammy.
01:16:07
Speaker
Thank you for listening to this episode. Peace.