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Norse Sinnoh E16: My Eyes Say Yes, But My Ears Say No! · The Multiverse Collective

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  Yeah, I just see that saying just hey, look at my beautiful
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  magic carp. Oh no, I don't like it.
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  Here I do not feel safe. I'm in danger.
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  Don't worry it it it has a very strict diet of baby souls.
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  Yeah, I've, I've realized I've only spoke to two of my own
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  Pokémon. I've never spoke to Stellamore.
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  Or Ray you you pull out the magic carpet.
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  I was hawk universe and met Omena que in or soon to be daily
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  blow. It's just I will destroy this
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  universe and all. I will destroy this universe and
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  all beings. With it, yeah.
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  It's got like an orchestra in the background when?
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  You're singing it. Either that or like the Halo
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  opening music. Yeah, that would be perfect with
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  a really unsettling Latin. Oh my God, Oh, you got to do
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  that. You got to do that.
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  Now when you edit I I help if you want if you can't find the
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  assets and you don't want to use assets.
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  I and you don't want it to be new recordings.
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  Me, me and me and bees will just do the Halo.
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  Hell yeah. Oh, we'll do all the fates.
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  You decide. Oh.
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  My God, what have you is doing each and I just layer them.
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  Oh my God, yeah, we can do a remix, We can do a smash in
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  there. Sorry, I had to.
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  Get tequila. We're coming up with musical
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  gold. I got AI, got a rock, a piss.
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  I could not miss that. Master Serge, let me translate
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  for you. We collected Gynan when she fell
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  from the sky into Master Serge's arms.
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  Then we brought Brutus, Clyde and Gynan back to the World.
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  Treaty. Yes.
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  Yes, that's right. We had a meeting with Wernona
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  and Phoebe. Never.
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  Oh, that's right. You were very traumatized by
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  some evil, evil magic harp owned by.
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  I think it's Clyde. Yes, That's that's pretty much
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  it. I think that's all.
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  Is that all, Sir? Yeah.
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  Give it. Give it.
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  Give. It.
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  All right, so after a nice few hours of rest, you are able to
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  regroup in the war room with with your friends Serge, Winona,
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  Phoebe, and a bunch of talking Pokémon.
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  I'm going to give you a different Pokémon that addresses
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  you. You see this Glade very?
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  It looks like it will deliver justice.
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  Just it looks very just. Is the word cool?
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  I was pneumically. Was that hot?
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  No, I didn't. Ask Guynon.
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  Rolled 2D6. God damn it.
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  I didn't actually. Here's the question, Guynon, did
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  you find justice hot? Oh God that's a ten son of a
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  bitch. I really wanted to roll like
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  double ones. Tojo a joker I.
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  Tojo, I won't say. I will not say that you find it
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  hot. I will say that it is
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  objectively hot. OK, thank you.
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  I don't know if that makes it worse.
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  I poke about Joker for no. Joker for me it makes it a
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  calendar page. I think you calling a Pokémon
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  objectively hot maybe like a little bit worse for you.
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  Maybe. Maybe a little bit.
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  But I appreciate you taking the L for me on that one.
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  I've had a bad enough day already.
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  Kyle, can you can you strike this from the record when you're
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  editing? Absolutely not.
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  No. God damn it.
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  Yeah, I did. I did have a glade Cliff.
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  I'm. Editing this episode I'm going
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  to have you to do Pokémon Smasher Pass and post your
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  results. What are you doing for?
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  No, don't do the Kyle. It's a Pokémon.
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  Yeah, it was like the one of two Pokémon that survived the fight.
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  You can't stop me, Batman. All right, you see this.
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  Great job, gentlemen. You see this glade take one of
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  its arm claws and and and point at the table and you all feel
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  weird. You all feel as weird as I'm
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  feeling right now. Jesus Christ this is going so
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  poorly. Oh fuck.
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  World Quick 2. Minutes in and.
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  You told us that a sexy Pokémon makes us feel weird.
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  Object Bullion. I have I have conflicted
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  feelings. Hey, guys.
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  This better not wasting something inside me.
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  OK, it'll help. All right, all right, so you see
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  this Pokémon point at the table and it just looks at you and
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  says have you made your choice? I'm still pretty confused about
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  this to be honest. I don't know why the glade
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  sounds like she's Palpatine, but we're here.
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  I feel weird. I'm dying 'cause you're like,
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  yeah, this hot Pokémon comes up to you and all of a sudden it's
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  like, how you doing? Good, you gotta go over here and
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  see the shelves ready. Make sure to grab some candies
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  before you leave. My eyes say yes, but my ears say
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  no. That might be the episode title.
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  It's been like 3 minutes. That might be the episode.
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  Saying this to Aladdin work, you're listening to the podcast.
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  He was like, how many times have you have you just said something
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  like randomly and it's been made The fucking title of the episode
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  was like. It's usually you that's.
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  The best part? I was like, it just happened.
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  I'm not gonna lie, I was losing it because I was expecting like
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  a oh, what you must do is not hello there, children.
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  I wasn't expecting. A female Galain.
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  It's not a female galade. They can't be female galades.
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  It's even more. It's even more confusing.
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  I know I'm feeling feeling. Right now.
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  All right, all right. We got to get past this.
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  It's fucking hell. Would you like to go to the
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  siege tower or would you like to reduce the number of the
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  enemies? We'll we'll do the siege some
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  way if it just makes you show faster.
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  Can we split our differences or do we do one or the other?
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  It would be more timely if you did both all together.
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  All right. OK, do it.
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  OK guys, I feel like. If we do this mission, we're
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  going to have unlimited power. I feel like she's going to tell
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  us the story, the story of Darth Latius the Wise.
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  You see this Candra look at you and and just be like shakes his
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  head and was like, why did you say unlimited?
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  Power. There it is.
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  Execute order 66 is the next one.
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  I I guess we'll go to the tower first.
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  Very. Well, I shall teleport you out
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  of the tree. Oh good.
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  You must all be touching me. Oh, even better.
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  I'm just. Going to walk.
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  Why do I feel like you're going to give me a cigarette?
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  You just hear Serge crying in the background.
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  And as you awkwardly hug this glade.
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  I'm not hugging, I'm touching with one finger.
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  Yeah, I'm sweating. You didn't know I'm sweating?
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  I'm laughing so hard. Where are you sweating?
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  So fucking hot. You see a flash of white and all
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  of a sudden you are outside of the tree and outside of the the
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  final line of root defense. So you're, you're out of like
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  the main circle and the Glade Bowers very deeply, very deeply.
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  And it's just like until we need again.
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  It will be too soon. Hopefully never.
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  Please tell me it's going to be. Never.
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  No, no. I'm.
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  Just going to start walking up. I'm not even going to walk in
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  the right direction. I'm just going to do the
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  direction walk. So we, we're defending against
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  things here, right? That's that's our goal.
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  Is the destruction one right? Oh, OK, OK.
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  Yeah, So this is, this is kind of like the like the final kind
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  of scouting missions and like seeing how much you can fuck up
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  before they mobilize and and move to like actually do this.
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  Assault Brutus will look at Clyde and go.
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  I wonder what kind of damage a metronome can do.
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  If we're lucky, maybe we've got another magma storm.
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  Well, fingers crossed we will get another magma storm.
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  If we don't, you know, we could get like, reflect.
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  An earthquake would do wonders as well.
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  We'll just have to see what we can pull out of the bag here.
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  I don't know how to make Sven use a particular move with
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  metronome. We'll just have to hope for the
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  best. Is there a way?
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  I don't know. Oh hey now that I have a ball
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  toy, just out of curiosity, I haven't officially signed moves
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  yet, but self destruct would be one of those moves.
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  What's what's my ability to recall my ball toy after it's
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  self destructed? Maybe like in a siege tower?
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  Just. Get I like the way you think it
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  just I mean it faints like you you will have I'm I'm not going
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  to make you like dig through. No, I'm just just curious, I
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  guess. I'm, you know, you know, you
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  think about like a grenade launcher sort of situation here.
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  I just we we can assume like anime rules.
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  I don't know if they've ever used self destruct in the anime,
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  but we can assume. They have, but it's basically an
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  like the Pokémon doesn't actually explode.
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  It won't. It does, but it doesn't blow
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  around. Yeah.
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  Although there was that one Pokémon card that had the goal
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  of literally blowing into that is.
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  True, that is a sick fucking card though.
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  It is I I feel like we can pretty safely say that the move
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  self destruct is just. It's an explosion that knocks
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  you out, yeah. Right.
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  Cool it, it expends all your energy to make a big thing.
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  Cole, I just wanted to confirm that before I started making
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  suggestions about throwing Reginald into a siege tower like
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  a grenade. I, I often throw my turtles, so
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  I don't see why that would be an issue.
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  All right, so I assume our our marching order is we're going to
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  attempt to see what we can get with a metronome followed up
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  with a self destruct, and then I can do some shit with one of my
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  Pokémon probably. Yeah, basically I was going to,
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  I had written down that this was going to be a skills challenge,
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  but I like this idea better. I I kind of like actually, I
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  like, I mean, what are your moves?
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  But. Skills.
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  Yeah, truly. True.
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  So as you as you guys are walking in the direction that
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  was that was pointed out as towards the siege tower, you
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  don't see a ton of Pokémon. But what you do see is when they
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  were talking about like the corrupted wastelands or whatever
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  I said last episode, you you see the grass is turning from green
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  to brown to this like this purple.
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  You see the trees, they start losing their leaves until they
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  are just bare. And you feel this like this
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  light mist similar to the mist that you guys saw in The Cave
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  when Gynan picked up that fun stone that she had to throw
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  back. Not nearly as thick, but just
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  kind of like a like a purple mist collecting at your ankles.
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  We brought Surge, right? We know.
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  We know he's. Got surges with you?
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  Big moves going on too, so all right, yeah, this shouldn't be
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  much of an issue. So as you guys keep walking over
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  the horizon of the trees, you see.
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  And when they said massive and shoddily constructed, they were
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  not lying. This thing is probably several
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  100 feet tall, but it looks like it is held together by a couple
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  of nails and a prayer. You know, it's these big.
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  Is it made out of wood? Just just a question.
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  Yes, it's made out of like what you can see.
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  It looks to be these like purple, like these purple kind
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  of corrupted wooden boards. And you see on the outside it's
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  made of wood and it looks like just big pieces of like plywood,
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  like nailed on, like nailed on the outside of the structure.
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  It looks like one of those things where it is just sturdy
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  enough to stay up, but like it does not look to be very like
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  strong. Yet another situation where if
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  we had a fire type Pokémon it would be very helpful.
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  No, I was thinking of yourself, but be man, I don't even have to
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  use Pokémon. What if I just go to the side
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  and start a fire? Awesome.
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  Why don't, why don't we start and see what we get with
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  Metronome? We might get a fire move, yeah.
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  All right, so here's how this is going to work.
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  As you guys get up to the get up to the base of this board and
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  it's it's pretty quiet. You really don't see any like
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  any Pokémon hanging around here. Surprisingly, it looks like this
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  was kind of built for speed and has just been left there for the
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  time being. So we are going to do a skills
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  challenge. And the way that this works is
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  that each of you are going to be able to roll either a move or a
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  like a stat that you have and you can flavor it however you
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  like. Depending on how many, depending
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  on what the final value is, we'll determine if it's like a
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  group success or fail. And depending on, I think there
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  will be two rounds depending on what you can do, you can do
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  damage, You can do, you know, mess with the environment.
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  You can like attempt to keep yourself hidden or otherwise
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  obfuscated to do more damage. And we'll go 2 rounds and we'll
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  see where we're at from there. All right, cool.
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  The only thing is that you can't do the same skill or the same
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  move twice in a row, and you can't double up on skills in the
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  same turn. So if somebody does strength.
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  Don't even worry about people, Strength's not even a stat.
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  God bless. All right, Yeah.
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  So it is you in the siege tower. How do you start taking it down?
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  Do you want to start with a metronome guy?
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  You might as well see if we get a fire move off the top.
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  All right, so I'm going to throw the the beautiful baby boy spin
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  out and be like, I'm just going to nod at him.
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  He's going to know what to do. I'm going to use metronome on
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  this Sage tower. I can't remember.
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  We don't add anything to this, right?
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  It's just flat. Yeah, the first roll is what'd
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  you get? In 11.
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  On 11. All right, great.
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  That's going to be that. How many?
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  Pick a number between 1 and 335 please.
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  Fucking hell you got this. Come on, come on, come on, come
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  on. What was the number 335?
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  Correct. 214. 214. I like the high ones, the high
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  ones getting deep into the good mood.
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  Yeah. Yeah, what did I use last time?
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  Like like 320 lamps or something.
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  You used some kind of like custom move that I've done.
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  OK Romy, 2D6 plus attack. Great, it's like one of the only
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  things has a fucking zero in. Wouldn't matter because that's a
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  12. That's a 12.
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  That's a natural 12. Yeah.
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  Dear God. All right.
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  So once again, you see this, this white energy materialized
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  into this giant alabaster and gold like a spike, like a
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  morning star. And it's giant.
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  And Spen is able to like pick it up and swing it around and just
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  hit right on the bottom of the like the bottom of this
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  structure. And immediately you just hear
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  all kinds of creaks. And you see, like the bits of
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  plywood fall off. Actually, I'm gonna need Clyde.
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  I'm gonna need you and Spen to make 2D6 plus speed both, yeah.
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  Instead of them doing that, can I have phalanx make a circle of
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  protection around them like a Dome of?
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  Shield yes all right so you see this phalanx is able to they.
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  Just make a circle and a bubble appears.
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  Yeah, is able to make this the shield as these pieces of
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  plywood come down around you and spen, saving any damage you may
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  have taken from shrapnel. But this because that was a
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  natural 12 and the effect is to make the target flinch.
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  I'll give you an extra move on the on the back end.
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  You'll get a third turn. Yeah.
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  What was the move? Divine Flail.
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  Nice. I think you got Divine Lance
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  last. Side.
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  That's right. That sounds great, yeah.
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  It's a homebrewed move. If you if you want that protect
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  it can be my move, otherwise I can do something else.
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  I was gonna say, I think that's gonna be, that's gonna be your
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  move. That's fair, That's fair.
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  So, Guinan, what are you feeling?
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  Oh, Guinan is going to let Reginald the ball toy her
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  freshest Pokémon out of his balls?
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  I love him. He comes out and he just is
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  slowly spinning on his little axis and he's just looking like
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  a cute little clay guy. Yeah, absolutely.
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  He is fucking adorable and I love him.
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  So that's why I'm. Going to.
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  Throw him directly into the siege tower and tell him Reggie
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  baby please explode and because self destruct isn't actually in
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  the move pool that we have access to right now I'm going to
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  use the stats for explosion I think, if that makes sense to
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  you the. Same thing I think.
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  Yeah, I think it functionally it should be the exact same for our
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  purposes. Basically.
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  Cool, yeah. So you and Gaiden would like to
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  use Brutus's arm or actually I would like to eat like let Surge
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  throw him because I fully believe that Surge can get him
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  the hardest. Yes.
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  So you see Surge pick up this little guy, you tell him to very
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  nicely explode and you just hear or Clyde, you just hear in your
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  head. Yes, Mother, as Serge throws him
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  overhand into like. Well, actually I see.
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  I would like to just add a little flavor.
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  I want to, I want to shot like Olympic shot put him.
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  I love it. So you see this this shot put
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  ball toy just go flying into this into the siege weapon or
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  the siege platform. You see it breaks through one of
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  these like plywood armor plating and you just see this massive
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  explosion happening. You know, maybe like 40 feet up
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  and you see you hear some some tumbling and out of the bottom
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  you hear you. You basically hear that times
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  1000 just nice and you see Reginald pop out singed and does
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  not look to be able to do too much more.
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  Yes, Guynan recalls her sweet little baby boy.
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  I like the fact that you're a ball tie is just cops.
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  Guiding. Go ahead and roll 2D6. 2D6 Oh, I
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  don't want to do that. Yeah, just straight 2D6.
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  And that's A7. All right, You don't see
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  anything else happen with that explosion other than just a
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  whole bunch of material comes off.
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  Serge, What? What are you up to here?
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  I think for now, let's see, there's there was a boom, boom,
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  some just angelic fuckery trying to think who the best would be
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  for this right now. You know what he's going to grab
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  his poker ball. He's going to just drop it next
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  to actually he's going to toss it to the side because it's a
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  big ass Pokémon. So you see that Tropius come
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  back out and then he's just going to look at the building,
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  look at the Tropius and we're we're going to do that.
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  And the Tropius like looks at the building, leans back on 2
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  legs and then slams its feet down.
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  And when it does, it just fires a almost like a a hurricane of
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  leaves towards this building. And I would like to do leaf
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  storm. Perfect.
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  So go ahead and if you could mark the minus for special
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  attack. OK, what?
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  As you see this just this massive gust of wind, wind and
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  leaves just fly through and put this put the siege tower at even
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  more off balance. So as this is going on you do
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  hear some Pokémon and some movement from behind you and on
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  the second turn you are able to see you're able to see a a small
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  group of shadow Pokémon. They don't look to be nearly as
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  strong as the ones Clyde and Brutus that that you fought
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  earlier. They just look to be some some
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  scouts that were in the area heard a commotion and are coming
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  over here to figure out what the fuck is going on.
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  So it's it's not necessarily going to be like a Pokémon
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  battle, but now you have to deal with a group of shadow Pokémon.
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  Easy peasy. All right, so you see there's
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  like four of these shadow Pokémon and one of them is going
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  to be a Sneasel. It kind of nods to the others
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  and it looks like it's going to start to to run away unless one
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  of y'all are able to. You sort of got 2 moves for this
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  one, right? No, it's it's just one move, but
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  you're going to get like a an extra move at the end because it
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  flinched. Do we care about that when
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  running away or should we just let it get away?
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  I mean it, it's clearly going to be a little snitch and tell
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  people. OK.
• 25:15
  And I want to throw brick at it, all right?
• 25:18
  I like that we use Pokémon as ranged weapons.
• 25:22
  I mean, yeah. So I'm, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
• 25:24
  throw Brick. And while he's in there, he's
• 25:25
  just gonna use Aqua Jet to continue the momentum.
• 25:27
  Yeah. All right, cool.
• 25:28
  Give me, give me an Aqua Jet. 11.
• 25:32
  All right, so with an 11 brick just hits the back of the head
• 25:36
  of this sneezle as it's like trying to run off in the trees
• 25:39
  and it's just, it's out. Got it.
• 25:43
  And you see these other, these other two shadow Pokémon or
• 25:46
  three shadow Pokémon. Again, nothing too crazy or
• 25:50
  anything to write home about, just some assorted shadow
• 25:53
  Pokémon. They kind of looked to you, they
• 25:55
  looked to brick and they one of them shrugs.
• 25:59
  And I guess they just kind of run and and charge you.
• 26:02
  Oh, I know what I'll do. Oh, great.
• 26:04
  Got it. What are you doing?
• 26:05
  Guinan is, now that she's recalled a sweet, sweet baby.
• 26:09
  Reginald is going to send out Joshua the Crocker Rock isn't
• 26:13
  that exciting, and she's going to ask him to use dig around the
• 26:17
  base of the siege tower. I love that.
• 26:21
  Yeah, go ahead and roll, roll for dig.
• 26:25
  OK, I rolled an 8, but let me look at my sheet to see what
• 26:30
  that actually means. Ha ha ha.
• 26:33
  That means I rolled A9. All right.
• 26:37
  Yeah, With a nine, what does this look like?
• 26:40
  Or I guess, what is Joshua trying to do?
• 26:42
  I think Joshua is trying to dig directly underneath one of the
• 26:45
  corners of the tower so that he can destabilize it completely.
• 26:51
  Because obviously if it's only sitting on like if it only has
• 26:54
  three points of contact with the ground, it's going to tip, tip
• 26:56
  over. Yeah, with a nine you do see
• 26:59
  Joshua kind of do that and dig. However, from the trees you see,
• 27:05
  you see another group shadow Pokémon come in.
• 27:08
  One of them, being a sand slash, recognizes the trail of Joshua's
• 27:14
  digging and goes to goes to do the same.
• 27:18
  No, my son. So Joshua is going to take.
• 27:23
  I didn't think I was going to need more dice for this, but
• 27:26
  here we go. So Joshua is able to dispatch
• 27:29
  this Pokémon, but it's going to take two ticks of HP.
• 27:35
  You fine, you win. I will take two ticks of HP.
• 27:46
  All right, bees, what? What are you guys up to?
• 27:50
  So it looks like there's another group of shadow Pokémon
• 27:52
  advancing from kind of behind the siege tower, and then
• 27:56
  there's one that came from position like behind you.
• 28:01
  Well, Serge is going to look at the group that's coming from
• 28:04
  behind. He's going to look at his
• 28:08
  Tropius. He's going to just point up and
• 28:11
  then grab a poker ball and toss it out in front of him.
• 28:15
  So as he points up, you see the tropius like look up into the
• 28:20
  sun and just close its eyes. And as it's focusing, it starts
• 28:26
  to get really hot outside and the sun starts getting really,
• 28:29
  really bright. Sunny day.
• 28:33
  I said wait, let me see. Damn it.
• 28:34
  Do I? Yeah.
• 28:35
  Sunny day. Yeah.
• 28:36
  So he's doing sunny day. And then when the poker ball,
• 28:39
  the second poker ball hits the ground, it bounces and then that
• 28:43
  light comes out. And from it, you see another
• 28:48
  bird, this really big bird. But so with this bird, this
• 28:53
  giant bird that comes out looks like an albatross almost.
• 28:56
  But you'll notice it just has a massive, I mean massive Afro as
• 29:02
  it comes out of the ball and it has on its claws on its talons
• 29:08
  look to be padded gloves but like fingerless gloves so the
• 29:12
  claws can still come out. Oh my God.
• 29:15
  So as this bird comes out, it just like stretches its wings
• 29:22
  and like does like that little Bob and weave and then just
• 29:26
  looks around and take a take A to just take in what's going on.
• 29:32
  What is this? This is a braviary.
• 29:35
  Oh, OK. You threw me off with the
• 29:37
  albatross. I was like, it kind of looks a
• 29:40
  little. Like a albatross?
• 29:41
  Or am I? Am I stupid?
• 29:43
  Hold on. It's more.
• 29:44
  Eagle. Yeah, it's supposed to.
• 29:45
  It's supposed to be like America.
• 29:48
  Oh shit, yeah, no, it does not look like albatross.
• 29:50
  I am wrong. I was thinking of wait, you know
• 29:53
  what, hold on. Were you thinking of like
• 29:55
  kilowatt roll? No, I was.
• 29:57
  I was thinking I was getting really confused with OK, I was
• 30:02
  looking at I think this is like the no, not the Histuian
• 30:06
  bravery, the regular one, the black 1.
• 30:08
  And I got it confused with the storm, the albatross from Sonic.
• 30:14
  So that's where I was pulling my thing from.
• 30:17
  Please excuse me. Not all of my brain cells came
• 30:20
  to work today. I still love that it is an Afro
• 30:23
  in figures with gloves. Oh yeah.
• 30:25
  You also still have yet to reveal any of these nicknames,
• 30:28
  which are. Oh oh, actually none of them
• 30:32
  know. But since Gynan can has the
• 30:34
  little, the little translate. Sino translate, yeah.
• 30:39
  Yeah, the Sino translate. You'll know that you'll you'll
• 30:42
  be able to see there. When he summoned the Tropius, he
• 30:45
  called it Banana Hammock. Son of a bitch that's way better
• 30:48
  than my Tropius. His name?
• 30:49
  Fuck God damn it. And then the bravery when he
• 30:54
  when he when he threw the poker ball out, he called it Afro
• 30:58
  Thunder. Solid just across the board.
• 31:02
  Solid. No notes.
• 31:07
  All right, Clyde, you see this happen.
• 31:14
  OK, how does the the siege have a look in?
• 31:18
  Not good. OK, I'm going to throw, I'm
• 31:22
  going to throw Stalimore out, which is my off worm, and I'm
• 31:27
  going to be like, yo, use something to fucking knock the
• 31:31
  top down and he's going to use smackdown, right?
• 31:34
  2D6 plus attack. Oh no, that's a dirty 11.
• 31:41
  All right, Yeah, You see, what does this look like as Stalimore
• 31:44
  smacks this thing down? I think it like, I mean like
• 31:48
  when you see a snake like Coil, it sort of starts like that, but
• 31:52
  then it keeps rising until like he's on like the end of this
• 31:58
  body is Carapace. And then he just falls straight
• 32:01
  into the siege tower just like absolutely like going straight
• 32:06
  through a wall and just decimating everything in his
• 32:08
  path. Yeah, and I think a couple of
• 32:11
  these, these shadow Pokémon, you know, as as this is going on,
• 32:15
  you see there are more and more shadow Pokémon kind of popping
• 32:19
  out of the trees and they're starting to encircle you.
• 32:23
  But you see Stalimore take down part of each tower as well as
• 32:28
  like 2, I don't know, shadow gold bats that are like in the
• 32:33
  unfortunately in the path as this happens.
• 32:37
  Brutus, I need you to roll 2 D 6 + 12 or plus 12.
• 32:43
  Jesus 2D6 plus Special 10. All right with a 10.
• 32:52
  You get not a good feeling as you take a look around and you
• 32:58
  realize you are quickly becoming outnumbered.
• 33:01
  Oh yeah, I didn't mean the roll. I was about to.
• 33:03
  Say we should get out of here before we get surrounded.
• 33:06
  That being said, as you. Say that you see a It almost
• 33:11
  looks like a gust of wind. It's ethereal.
• 33:14
  You just see like a a line of the shadow Pokémon just get
• 33:21
  knocked up and out giving you guys an escape from you.
• 33:27
  Gotta stop talking about Pokémon like that man.
• 33:29
  I don't want to hear about them getting knocked up, knocked up
• 33:36
  that. Way, everybody, let's get out of
• 33:39
  here. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:41
  Oh boy, and as you. As you escape from this, this
• 33:47
  group of shadow Pokémon, you're able, you know they they give
• 33:50
  chase for a while, but between you and your Pokémon and Serge,
• 33:53
  you're able to pick enough of them off that you're able to
• 33:56
  completely lose them. And Brutus, as you're leaving
• 33:59
  the scene, you just feel a a hand on your shoulder.
• 34:03
  You look down. You don't see anything, but you
• 34:05
  just feel a nice hand on the shoulder.
• 34:09
  All right. He looks around.
• 34:13
  Is. That Are we taking the weird
• 34:16
  creepy glade back? No.
• 34:19
  No, no, no. We've seen the map.
• 34:22
  We can. Just we can just walk to the
• 34:23
  next mission. Yeah, the the next.
• 34:26
  Mission you remember from seeing seeing the map that it's
• 34:29
  basically it's basically like a straight shot downward.
• 34:33
  Is it? Is it June off?
• 34:34
  Diamond snaps to the direction. I didn't even need.
• 34:38
  To say it. Just tapped diamond, right?
• 34:41
  Yeah. All right, so as you guys walk a
• 34:54
  little bit more, the sun's getting lower in the sky.
• 34:58
  You come upon a hill, and as you Crest it, you see a staging
• 35:03
  ground for what looks to be a massive army.
• 35:08
  You see. You see Pokémon of all forms,
• 35:11
  you see, You know the, the bulk of the army, it looks to be, I'm
• 35:15
  just going to use army terms. So the bulk of the army looks to
• 35:18
  be made-up of infantry. You see Pokémon with, with like
• 35:23
  makeshift kind of weapons and Shields, kind of training and
• 35:27
  getting ready, you see. Hey, I got a question.
• 35:31
  I got an answer. Are they hot?
• 35:35
  Why would that ever come through your head when we're talking
• 35:39
  about Pokémon? Mostly because I wanted.
• 35:44
  To see what the answer was or actually hear.
• 35:47
  You. Tell me the Pokémon were hot or
• 35:49
  not hot. All right, the answer.
• 35:52
  Is these are not not so much these are kind of out goes, OK,
• 35:56
  cool, carry on. So behind.
• 36:02
  Behind these legions of infantry you see you see Pokémon that
• 36:09
  look to be doing ranged attacks. These look to be kind of
• 36:13
  Archers. You see some smaller Pokémon
• 36:17
  getting ready with different kinds of ballistas and
• 36:20
  catapults. You know you, you even see like
• 36:22
  a a golem get in one of these large catapults and kind of
• 36:27
  testing it as another one you know cuts the rope of an empty
• 36:30
  1. You see a catapult just kind of
• 36:33
  fly out. So you have siege units, you see
• 36:36
  a group of Rapidash, and you see some Pokémon riding on said
• 36:39
  Rapidash for calorie. And from the back you are able
• 36:43
  to see a just like this massive twisting castle of what looks to
• 36:49
  be Obsidian, and atop it you see the piercing eyes of Shadow
• 36:55
  Olivia. Even from a while away, you're
• 36:59
  able to see you're able to see this bird pretty clearly.
• 37:05
  Client's going to turn. Around and look at Serge, and
• 37:08
  just like you, you and your compatriots there, expect the
• 37:16
  three of us to even the odds against the thousands of Pokémon
• 37:21
  here. Great.
• 37:26
  Yeah, I'm sick. They should have brought more.
• 37:28
  Wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
• 37:30
  clash. You on the back, right?
• 37:34
  I've, I've got a question for you as well, Serge, because you
• 37:38
  know, you, you said it last time.
• 37:41
  We're, we're brothers. You know, we, we both have the
• 37:44
  same deity. Why the fuck?
• 37:47
  Haven't you just brought? Requires us to to fight.
• 37:51
  You can summon the guy with the flu.
• 37:55
  He stops. Looks up for a second, strokes
• 37:59
  his chin. Looks back down at you with a
• 38:02
  confused look. I mean.
• 38:06
  I gotta do. What is it and the little?
• 38:09
  Chat off bounces and. Just goes, yes, I agree, Master,
• 38:13
  Sage asks. Where's the fun in that?
• 38:15
  You know what makes a? Good point.
• 38:19
  Not. Dying is the fun in that, you
• 38:22
  know, I've not got any goals. But this guy, he has a goal.
• 38:27
  I'm sure Gynan has a goal to do something that could not be
• 38:31
  applied. The reason that we're here is my
• 38:34
  goal. Yeah.
• 38:35
  Yeah. See.
• 38:36
  But then. You will admit our goal would be
• 38:39
  100 times easier if we had fucking requires her to help
• 38:43
  thin out the herd. He says that if he were to
• 38:55
  summon the Great Lord Requaser, it would take away from your
• 39:01
  training. What?
• 39:03
  What? Training.
• 39:04
  We're just doing the same shit. When are we doing You've not
• 39:08
  seen? Us back in Sinner we.
• 39:09
  Just fucked you up anyway. It's just the way we work and he
• 39:13
  just gives you. Two thumbs up and smiles.
• 39:17
  Great. OK, the the best strategy I can
• 39:22
  think of is to try and get rid of those siege positions and
• 39:26
  maybe take some of the Calvary out.
• 39:27
  That is probably the best attempt we're going to get here.
• 39:32
  So the way. This is going to work is one of
• 39:35
  you is going to roll AD 6 and we're going to see how many how
• 39:41
  many turns you each get you guys pick pick one person to roll AD
• 39:45
  6 to to see how many turns well, I rolled a 5 already so there
• 39:49
  we. Go, let's go with that all.
• 39:53
  Right. Great, SO.
• 39:55
  Within each of these five turns, actually that's perfect because
• 39:58
  there are four of you and 5 / 4 is 1 perfect quick maths.
• 40:04
  So what we're going to do is each of you are going to roll
• 40:09
  just a straight 2D6 and we will see what happens depending on
• 40:13
  whether or not you get a fail or success or a mixed success 8 an.
• 40:19
  8. OK, 12, 11.
• 40:26
  I just had to say it out loud because I rolled the dice and I
• 40:28
  got excited and I've been rolling pretty mid all day and I
• 40:31
  deserve a win God damn it. OK.
• 40:35
  So hang on, hang on to those numbers.
• 40:37
  We're going to go, we're going to go down the line.
• 40:39
  I'm going to start with Brutus. So you got an 8, Yes.
• 40:43
  All right. What like what area or what like
• 40:51
  army do you want to try and attack and what are you doing to
• 40:56
  attack it with? I am going to.
• 40:59
  Rush the the the catapults and. I'm going to.
• 41:04
  Use. Chamfer to.
• 41:08
  I think a good rock smash could destroy those catapults pretty
• 41:12
  effectively. Go ahead and roll. 1D four, I
• 41:19
  don't know. D4 I'm switching up the numbers
• 41:21
  I know. D43 All right.
• 41:26
  Oh. That's, that's good.
• 41:29
  OK, cool. What does this look like as
• 41:32
  Camphor goes in and basically halves one of these siege
• 41:37
  legions? Yeah, it's Rock's mess.
• 41:39
  So I. Assume they just like the the
• 41:41
  stone wheels. I think they just like rush up
• 41:45
  like surround it and just it just shatters in like several
• 41:49
  pieces using their helmets. Hell yeah.
• 41:53
  All right with an 8 as that is a mixed success you camphor is
• 42:03
  going to take bring it one. Tick of HP.
• 42:08
  As you see some of these some of these siege Pokémon notice and
• 42:12
  as Camphor takes out one of these giant catapults and, you
• 42:16
  know, makes it unusable, you see some of these these siege
• 42:20
  engineer Pokémon retaliate and and bang up Cam for a little
• 42:24
  bit. Yeah.
• 42:33
  Gannon, what did you roll? I rolled an 11.
• 42:36
  God bless. All right.
• 42:39
  So where do you want to? Where do you want to try and cut
• 42:44
  this army down? I think.
• 42:48
  Let me look at my move pool really fast.
• 42:49
  Sorry, I should have done a little bit.
• 42:51
  OK, I know what I want to do. I want to have Crocker Rock use
• 42:55
  Sand Tomb to slow down the central section.
• 42:58
  I want to try to make it so that all they can do is go around the
• 43:01
  outsides and flank us so that we're at least protected from
• 43:04
  one, one side, if that makes sense.
• 43:07
  Yes. Go ahead and roll AD 4 if you
• 43:11
  have it I God damn it. Matthew, I'll be right back.
• 43:14
  I want to be your dice at us, man.
• 43:17
  That's why I have several. Dice, just in case.
• 43:20
  Oh, we got a second sack. Yeah, it's the.
• 43:23
  Sack for my pit Vipers. You're all welcome. 2 sacks.
• 43:28
  Oh my God, I know. I.
• 43:29
  Own D fours, but OK, there's one finally that's a one baby.
• 43:35
  That's a one sick. Yeah, you.
• 43:38
  See. Joshua is able to go in and fuck
• 43:41
  up some of these kind of these like infantry Pokémon, you know,
• 43:46
  they're not super strong. So Josh was able to take out a
• 43:49
  few of them before before they're able to react.
• 43:52
  And Josh was able to dig underground before before it's
• 43:57
  able to be attacked. Good for good for him.
• 44:00
  All right, Clyde, that is. That is you.
• 44:03
  Hello I got a. 12:00 You got a 12 all right.
• 44:08
  Who we where, Where we dropping boys and how, how we dropping.
• 44:13
  So we've got the central. Covered and the siege machines
• 44:18
  covered. I'm going to go for the rapper
• 44:20
  Dash, all right? And who better to use than the
• 44:25
  boy who has every move known to fucking man?
• 44:29
  I'm going to get Suspend to use Metronome again.
• 44:32
  Hell yeah. So Romeo D4 metal or non metal
• 44:39
  mat? Give me a.
• 44:41
  Non medal this time. Let me see how that 3.
• 44:45
  Three. All right.
• 44:47
  You see Sven just go to town, you see a couple of these
• 44:50
  metronomes called down. You see a Thunderbolt you see
• 44:54
  you see a stream of water. You see a cool kick as as you
• 44:59
  see a a good chunk of one of these cavalry legions are able
• 45:04
  to are able to be taken down before before Sten is able to do
• 45:10
  some cool back flips off of the backs of these rapid ashes and
• 45:14
  back-to-back out of range beats. All right, so who do?
• 45:27
  Who do? We have left so there.
• 45:30
  Are there are infantry? There's still a good amount of
• 45:33
  infantry. The Archers have not been
• 45:36
  touched. The siege units, there's still 2
• 45:39
  legions. One of them is at half health, 2
• 45:42
  are at full. The cavalry is there's one that
• 45:45
  is almost completely completely decimated, but there are three
• 45:49
  more at a decent level. Gosh, I would like.
• 45:54
  I would like. To focus on the siege units and
• 45:57
  I rolled in nine, all right. So what?
• 46:02
  Happens is Serge sits there and just like does some hand signals
• 46:07
  to Afro Thunder Afro just goes off and starts like just
• 46:12
  whooping the shit out of random infantry and he's going to hop
• 46:15
  on the back of Banana Hammock and he's going to just start
• 46:20
  galloping towards the siege units as he does.
• 46:25
  It was very bright out for a second.
• 46:27
  I mean, for a while, like it got the the the sun got a lot more
• 46:31
  intense and everything was brighter and hotter.
• 46:35
  And then it all kind of dims down suddenly.
• 46:39
  And all of it as it dims down, there's just a little bead of
• 46:43
  green light in front of the tropias.
• 46:45
  And as it gets close to the siege units, you see that beam
• 46:49
  of light shoot, that little ball of light shoot up into a little
• 46:54
  beam, just a really thin beam. And then that beam explodes out
• 46:59
  into a giant blade, like a lightsaber almost.
• 47:03
  And then that thing swings and just slices through all the seed
• 47:09
  units in front of it as it does Solar Blade.
• 47:13
  That's so fucking. That is the most badass.
• 47:15
  Description of Solar Blade I've ever heard.
• 47:19
  Give me a you're a legendary warrior.
• 47:21
  Give me AD 6. You got it.
• 47:26
  Three. All right.
• 47:27
  Yeah, you see, you see this, this siege unit that was
• 47:31
  targeted down initially by Brutus, it is completely
• 47:35
  decimated. I mean, the catapults are
• 47:38
  destroyed, the ballistas are shredded, the engineers that are
• 47:43
  operating this, it's like they weren't even there.
• 47:46
  Delete it, They were there. They aren't Brutus.
• 47:58
  You hear an all too familiar screech as you see from the
• 48:02
  back. A Histuian Braviary flies from
• 48:06
  this castle at an astounding speed towards you.
• 48:11
  Like the plural you do. I get my extra move now.
• 48:17
  From the flinching. The.
• 48:19
  The the building. Oh yeah, fuck, I did forget.
• 48:23
  About that, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me, give me one more as as
• 48:26
  you see this bird coming, Clyde, it looks like you have time to
• 48:29
  do one more action. I'm going to do it at the bird.
• 48:33
  Oh sweet. I'm going to have Sven use
• 48:36
  extreme speed to basically just full on fly at it, hit it
• 48:42
  several thousand times in a millisecond and fly back.
• 48:46
  Do you want me to 2D6 it again? Yeah.
• 48:50
  No, it's 11. All right, give.
• 48:53
  Me a give me AD 4 be going for the same numb metal.
• 48:56
  Again, yeah, I'm letting you choose just so so people can say
• 49:01
  I'm not excusing. That's a fall, all right?
• 49:05
  Yeah. You see this?
• 49:06
  Bird is just kicked off out of the air for a second and starts
• 49:10
  to spiral before it catches itself.
• 49:13
  And because you chose to hit the bird, it is going to retaliate.
• 49:17
  It's going to do 3 ticks of HP to Sven.
• 49:22
  And as Sven is able to return to you, you see this this bird land
• 49:28
  in front of you, and it just kind of looks at you and it's
• 49:31
  massive. I hear things squint and you
• 49:35
  just hear this will be remembered.
• 49:39
  The Mistress will take no mercy on you or that stupid tree of
• 49:45
  yours. Run now so that you can be with
• 49:49
  your friends as you die. You hear this?
• 49:52
  This. Braviary screech and you see
• 49:55
  these these troops begin to mobilize.
• 49:57
  You see this Braviary fly over and the troops that are
• 50:01
  remaining begin to mobilize and move out.
• 50:05
  It looks like the siege is on the move I think.
• 50:09
  That's RQ to get the fuck out of it, he said remembered.
• 50:16
  Let's go. This isn't.
• 50:17
  The time to go through. This.
• 50:22
  We've got to go and protect. The tree.
• 50:24
  And as the. Five of you are running back, I
• 50:29
  think between between the Banana Hammock, the Tropius and Afro
• 50:35
  Thunder, the Braviary. I think there's enough room for
• 50:38
  the for the four of you to hop on a couple of birds and make
• 50:42
  some make some distance back to the tree.
• 50:46
  As you guys are flying into the tree, sun finally setting below
• 50:49
  the horizon and a mass of corrupted Pokémon moving towards
• 50:55
  the World Tree of Arborea, that is where we'll end our session.
• 51:04
  Please plug yourself. Again.
• 51:08
  Oh. Yeah, it took my.
• 51:10
  Brain a minute you were like bees plug yourself I was like
• 51:13
  what I'm unplugged What the fuck is unplugged All right it's.
• 51:17
  Been a long game. Hello everyone I am.
• 51:23
  Bees, you're happy helpful Harbor you're oh, hi, I you can
• 51:26
  find me on my twitch channel at big under score Bees BEAZ.
• 51:31
  You can find me on my podcast network Across the Plains.
• 51:37
  We have a lot of wonderful shows.
• 51:39
  We have our our flagship show Across the Plains Digiverse,
• 51:44
  which is by the time this comes out, well into its second
• 51:46
  season. We have Dragons of Rulo, which
• 51:50
  is a wonderful fantasy setting written by the GM of the game
• 51:54
  who also created the system for that game, the artwork,
• 51:58
  everything. Tyson is ridiculously talented.
• 52:01
  And we have Hero Complex, which is a masked the next Generation
• 52:07
  game. There may be other things added
• 52:10
  to the network by the time this thing shows.
• 52:12
  We we don't know. This is past bees looking at
• 52:16
  future bees saying hey, get off your ass and do something so.
• 52:21
  Yeah. Thank y'all for having me.
• 52:23
  This is wonderful, this fantastic.
• 52:24
  I love playing Surge and I think we have what we have.
• 52:28
  One, we have two Pokémon left out of the the group that have
• 52:35
  not been shown yet. I guess that means you have to
• 52:38
  hang out with us. Again.
• 52:40
  Oh no. Oh.
• 52:44
  No. It's like that I, I forgot that
• 52:47
  that meme what it was about, but it it's when people complain
• 52:51
  about fantastic things, it's like, Oh no, my lobster is too
• 52:55
  buttery and my steak is too juicy.
• 53:02
  Yeah, well, bees. Thank you.
• 53:04
  For thank you again for jumping in always, always a pleasure to
• 53:09
  be able to run games for you at this is going to be you're going
• 53:14
  to be our first guest in 2026 when you were listening to this.
• 53:18
  It's going to be 2026 baby. Is this January or February?
• 53:22
  Is that the? Second one, this is January for
• 53:24
  20. 26 first day of the goddamn year.
• 53:28
  Wow. So it's bringing in June, We're
• 53:31
  bringing in 20. 26 with that 10 minute long questionable bit
• 53:41
  about Gana. That's the year that
• 53:43
  everybody's. Going to have sexuality.
• 53:45
  All right, don't worry. That's a great way.
• 53:46
  Happy 20. 26. Nobody's going to believe
• 53:49
  everybody. Being.
• 53:51
  A little. Bit ambivalent.
• 53:52
  About, you know, whether or not you sleep with a good wade.
• 53:58
  Well, we may be brought. Up from here till the end of
• 54:00
  time. I hope you know that.
• 54:01
  Yeah, I mean, and they're all Matt.
• 54:03
  Matt's bringing. In. 2026 on a list, so he is
• 54:07
  bringing 2020. Six up on a list.
• 54:09
  That's true. It's OK.
• 54:10
  I mean, he's on a list already, let's be real.
• 54:14
  I'm not as. Far from the worst.
• 54:15
  He said on the show, like, all right.