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Norse Sinnoh E10: Prehistoric Potassium (The Ballad of Mr. Banana Neck) · The Multiverse Collective

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Sorry, I'm so fucking hungry. Everything's.
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Fine, you should eat before you're always.
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You can also if you want to keep eating, I can.
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I can do like I just Nile and Kyle's first if you want to keep
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eating. Yeah, I would love you forever.
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I'm going to mute myself so that Kyle doesn't have to edit out
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the sounds of me chewing like I appreciate you.
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Oh what the fuck man, why, Why would he lie to me like that?
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My whole life I've been trying to kill WEF and I find out today
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that the reason that my mum's dead is because my my dad just
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left her to be swarmed by demons.
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Oh fuck, I don't know what I'm doing.
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What am I going to do with myself now?
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Do I do I continue on this path of vengeance or got out?
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I need some answers. Hopefully I can find him at home
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and and figure some of this shit out.
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So after all that was party at WETS, you guys are on the road
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for a few days. So it is, you know, still for
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the most part, relatively well travelled paths, but you're
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definitely able to get into some some stuff you have you have a
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chance to, you know, go off the beaten path a little bit, find
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some Pokémon, you know, train, train your train your squad, you
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know, maybe find some find some cool items buried in the ground.
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So let's start with Brutus. Yes.
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So how you know, outside of like camping, camping with the with
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the Bros and you know, hanging out and and all that stuff as
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you're on the road, what are, what are you up to these couple
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of days? Brutus is still working with
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Brick and Nightshade. If he's going to have these
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these Pokémon, then he's going to try to at least get them in
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some sort of fighting shape. And Brick is showing a lot of
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promise for, you know, combat potential.
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So I think, I think what they're going to do is they're going to
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practice a new move on just some wild Pokémon around.
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Yeah, and you know, during one of these days you, you're able
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to come across a small nest of, of Atkins.
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You you see that the mother, the mother Arbok is, is gone to, to
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go out feeding. So it's a it's a good chance to
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to test your skills on some some lower, lower level caliber
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enemies. So what does this look like
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testing out this new move? So they've been working on
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practicing icy wind, which can hit multiple targets at once.
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So I think what they're going to do is they're going to try and
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just like sneak up on the on the nest and then he's going to try
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and have Brick take down basically the entire nest at one
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shot. Yeah.
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And I think, you know, this is this is definitely a work in
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progress, but I think near the end of the second day, you come
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across this nest of Ekins and I think it all goes well.
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So you have Nightshade kind of herd them into into one area and
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you see brick in the bushes. And as soon as the arm, they're
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kind of all gathered together, you see brick blast out this jet
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of icy cold air as Nightshade jumps out of the way.
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And you see these these Ekins slither away into the in the
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bushes. Hell yeah.
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Hell yeah, and he's going to give give the brick a a solid
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high 5 and Nightshade a good scratch on the head.
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Yeah. So at the end, at the end of the
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final day, as you guys are walking, you know, at this point
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it is it's like golden hour, right?
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You notice up ahead of you, you notice a a large quadrupedal
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figure standing in the road. The sun is shining, like shining
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at you, so you can't make out like a color, can't really make
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out anything more than its shadow.
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But you see, it's this very large quadrupedal creature.
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You see large fangs coming out of its mouth, and you see on its
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back what looks to be a cloud or, you know, something just
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kind of like flowing, flowing gracefully in the wind.
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He's going to just sort of stop and look down at Brick and just
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sort of be like stay calm. We don't know what this is.
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And he's going to take a couple steps forward towards it to see
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if he can get better, a better view of what, what he might be
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looking at. Yeah.
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And I think as you take a couple of steps forward, you see it's
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head kind of move over to look in your direction and you see
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you see a dark shadowed face, but you see these bright red
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eyes just kind of staring at you.
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It doesn't seem hostile, but it it opens his mouth to let out a
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a roar and the roar sounds like the crackle of lightning with
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with a Thunder clap just after it.
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I think Brutus is going to take a few steps back and look at
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Brick and be like, I don't think this fights for us, Brick.
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This is beyond us. Why don't you go ahead and roll
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2D6 plus plus special? 11. 11 With that, you can just
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kind of judging off of vibes. You can see that this Pokémon is
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very powerful, but it for one reason or another, it does not
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seem to be hostile And it almost you can you can kind of feel,
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especially with an 11, you can just kind of feel like the
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energy that it's giving off and it's like, all right bro, you
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can you can approach me if you want.
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Yeah, I think as soon as it shows that it's going to be non
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aggressive, he'll sort of like pick Brick up and just sort of
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set him on his shoulder, like hanging off his hanging off the
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shoulder where he likes to sit and just sort of do the thing
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you do when you approach like a wild dog and just sort of slow
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steps with your arms out. Something he tried to pick up
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from Clyde at some point. And I think as you get closer,
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you're able to, you're able to see this thing in more detail.
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You're able to see that this is a this Pokémon has a yellow body
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with, with black stripes. This, this cloud is like a, a
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large tuft of fur that is, that is white.
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It looks like it looks like it could be made out of clouds
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itself. And it definitely regards you.
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And it it just kind of lowers its head just to denote like
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I'm, I'm not looking for a fight today.
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Yeah, Brutus, he's going to try and see how close he can get and
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if, if possible, he's going to try and pet this thing.
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Does he know what I mean? Can I, I mean, it's a it's a
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legendary. So would he have awareness of
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what this is? Yeah, why don't you roll 2D6
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plus special with advantage 88? So you, you don't quite know
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everything about it, but I think as you're able to get close
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enough and you know it, you kind of reach out your hand and it
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brings its head to your hand. You know it, it seems, and I
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mean this is, this is like it is giant.
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I mean it is almost, it is almost laying down to where you
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can reach it. You know, on even on 4 legs,
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it's probably 11 or 12 feet tall.
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And as you get a better look at this thing up close, you don't
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know a ton about it, but you know that this is the the
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legendary Pokémon Raikau, Raiku, Raiku, Raiku.
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And you wouldn't know, you wouldn't know everything about
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it, but you would know that you know well, this thing isn't a a
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God. It is certainly a very rare and
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powerful Pokémon. It is said that it has when it
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when it roars, it can summon thunderstorms.
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And I'm alone, right? Guynan and Clyde aren't here.
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Yeah, they're they're off doing their own thing at the moment.
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He's just going to chuckle themselves and go.
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Clyde and Guynan, you're going to be so jealous when I tell him
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of this. And Raiku kind of moves its
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head, like gesturing towards the the cloud on its back.
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You're just going to look at it and be like, are you telling me
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to get on or touch or touch? What were the vibes of this?
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Was he wanting to touch him or? Yeah, it it wants you to reach,
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reach in. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Hold on. OK, I just misunderstood.
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Yeah, Reach. Into he, he, he, he sort of
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reaches back and touches the thundercloud.
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So as you, as you put your hand in there, it definitely feels
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like you would expect a cloud. It's very light, but you know
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nothing kind of moves like as you, as you may have expected,
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nothing moves. But as you put your hand in it,
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you feel this tingle of static electricity and you feel a a
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circular like a spherical object that your hand touches.
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And when it does, you get just this, the slightest jolt of
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electricity. Not not enough to hurt you, but
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enough where like all your hair is standing on end.
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I will pull the orb out. So this orb, it is a it is an
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orb of Volt absorb and so you can give it to one of your
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Pokémon and it has it has four charges.
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No, I'm sorry, it has it has one charge.
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I'm balancing this on the fly. If you can tell this is this is
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all off the Dome. So it has it has a single charge
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and if a Pokémon is holding it and get and gets hit with a an
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electric type move, the move does no damage and raises the
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targeted Pokémon special attack by 1.
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So it adds like the plus one modifier to it.
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When you have this plus one modifier from this Volt absorb
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orb, if you use a normal type move, the next time you use a
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normal type move you can deal it as electric type damage.
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Shit, all right. And both of these effects are
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only available once per combat. Hell yeah.
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All right, well, Brick's getting that because he's fucking weak
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to electric. So sweet.
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Yeah. Yeah, he's just going to take it
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and hand it to brick, like here, keep this in your shell.
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Brick nods and you see as you know, as he's just kind of like,
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you know, tucks it away, you can see these these small arcs of
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electricity are kind of like jumping up a shell.
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Doesn't seem to hurt him, but just kind of like jumping up and
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down a shell. And this Roku nods.
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And you know, as as the sun begins to set on your final day,
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this Pokémon gives one more mighty roar and bounds off.
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Bounds off in a way. British just sort of waves and
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goes. Thank you friend.
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I appreciate a good experience with the legendary.
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So now we will go over to Clyde. Hello.
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Hey buddy, I know the the past day for you was was a little bit
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rough, but Oh yeah, for these these three days of travel, how
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are you? How are you?
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You know, spending time on the road, spending time with your
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Pokémon? I think you know, still focusing
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on Ellie and fan, you know, it the the training for Ellie's
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changed. Now it's more just if I can see
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you've failed or if I can sort of get a read on where you are,
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You know, he's training him to be hidden sort of everywhere.
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But then I think because of what happened yesterday and seeing
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the fire in Spen's eyes as well, it's gone like the training,
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like the strength training that we did last time has gone from
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like basic strength tone into like you see Clyde and Sven like
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doing 100m dashes and then push ups, setups, squats and then
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like doing a bit of sparring and then running again and then like
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both training together to to get stronger.
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Yeah, and I think, you know, Sven's taking this.
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I mean you you can tell that Sven will not necessarily as
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personal of a connection to to you know, your mother and Wes it
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definitely he I can say definitely like, you know, as as
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you know, has a has a stake in this game too.
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And so was also equally as shell shocked because, I mean, Spen
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was in an egg for God, probably 10 years a long time.
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So, you know, didn't really get to see much of this fallout, but
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you know, Sven is, you know, he's you know, he, he's going
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110% for you. He he knows what this means.
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And you know, he can tell that that this is this is getting
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serious. In the afternoon of the second
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day, as you and Ellie and Sven are doing some training in the
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woods, you notice a you notice a cave, you know, kind of a small
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cave peeking out of one of the sides of these these hills.
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I'm. Gonna.
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Gonna go in The Cave. Nothing bad has come from us
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going in a cave before on any of our podcasts.
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So I'm going in The Cave. So as you, as you venture into
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this cave, it's, it's a pretty small cave and you notice, you
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notice two things. The first is a very large worm
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that's just kind of like it's it's curling around.
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You can't really see it because it's it's much smaller compared
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to this worm. But you see this like a flash of
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like a red rock looking thing as you kind of look and this worm
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notices you and it kind of rears back and lets out this like
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weird earthen kind of like roar. It sounds like a minor like a
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rock fall. And it looks like, it looks like
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whatever this thing is, it's trying to protect it.
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OK, I'm going to use Ellie to distract this Pokémon.
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I'll probably have Ellie use leafage, but I'm not going to
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use it. It's like attacking damage and
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want it to like draw his attention away.
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So I'll Ellie use like leafage on like a wall of The Cave or
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something, you know, just to distract this Pokémon for a
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second. And then I'm going to have Sven
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use extreme speed from, you know, he's sort of gone from
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having this quick attack to from all the 100 meter dashes he's
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done. He can now do 100 meter dash in
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like 2 seconds. Yeah, so this this earthworm is
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the Pokémon you're looking at. OK, you know, it is it's big,
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but it's definitely slow. So it's it's not ready for this,
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this two pronged assault. And actually, as you, you know,
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as you command, spend to use extreme speed.
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So with quick attack, you were able to kind of see like motion
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blur of, you know, of, of spend as he goes to attack.
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Whereas with extreme speed, you completely lose sight of him as
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he moves to where he, you know, one second he's next to you just
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kind of squared up ready to go. And the next second, he is up in
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this orthworm's face off the ground, just, like, just
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pounding it with like, punches and kicks.
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And this orthworm, you know. It it it.
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Takes a it takes a few rounds of attacks, but after just a couple
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of minutes, it looks like you have you've certainly, you know,
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are on the precipice of besting this, this beast.
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Yeah, I'm going to throw a pokeball.
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Yeah. And as you do, you know, it's
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one of those things where I imagine you have are kind of
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using the same thing where you have Ellie kind of distracting
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it from one side. This earthworm isn't even paying
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attention as this pokeball is thrown.
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And as it hits the ground, it shakes once, twice and three
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times. And as you you hear a click, you
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are able to see what this earthworm was guarding.
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And it is a decently sized maybe like 8 inches, you know, the the
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size of like a kind of a standard hardcover book.
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And it is this beautiful like like dark red color.
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And as you pick it up, you kind of feel this, this very primal
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energy, not quite, not quite fire, more more like a draconic
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energy as you pick it up. Oh nice, I'm going to pocket
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that. Make sure that stays nicely
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tucked into my satchel for use at a later date.
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And finally, we will cut over to Gynan.
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Dynan just has the gang out and about.
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Kevin the Sprigotito and Joshua the Sandile are both just sort
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of frolicking. I mean I think Dynan is doing
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her usual degenerate ruin maniac shit where she's just like
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trying to go off the beaten path to find weird stuff to touch
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that she shouldn't be touching and putting in her pockets.
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Yeah. And so pretty, pretty early on,
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you're able to, to see kind of a, a hidden area, you know, in
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a, in a Bush, you're able to see some like some movement.
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And as you go to investigate, you are looking around in this
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Bush and you find a small satchel.
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Yeah, I mean, Guynan, as we all know, loves investigating Bush.
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God and. Thank you for that absolute
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T-ball, Matt. Yeah, she she grabs the satchel
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and she opens it up. She wants to know what's inside.
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This is exciting. Yeah, inside there are a a
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smattering of these black pokeballs with yellow like or
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golden kind of accoutrements on it.
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So you have found a small satchel full of ultra balls.
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Fuck yeah, those immediately go into Gynan's special backpack,
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another surprise tool that will help us later.
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And as you kind of pull out of this, pull out of this Bush, you
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I'm in it on too. It's it's fun when I when I know
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when it's coming. You notice that Joshua and Kevin
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are both nowhere to be found. Shit, fuck son of a bitch.
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And further on into the forest, you hear, you hear Joshua just.
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Yeah, Guynan uses Joshua's cry to echolocate him.
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Yeah. And as you as you run over, you
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noticed Joshua trying and failing so adorably to to try
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and snatch a fruit off of the neck of a Tropius that's just
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kind of sitting there looking down at Joshua and Kevin, rather
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annoyed. Yeah, I mean, I would be annoyed
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too if someone was trying to snatch my neck bananas, but who
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am I? Aren't they Nanab berries in
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Pokémon? Is that how you say it?
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Nanab. I yeah, Nanab, I, I was
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thinking, I was trying to think of like a, a, like a, a more
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like a less tropical fruit. So actually, you know what?
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Instead of instead of like bananas, they're bushels of
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lingonberries. Oh, sick.
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OK, yeah, Joshua was definitely trying to get it.
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Those lingonberries, yeah, I think then is going to approach
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the Tropius very politely, because clearly her two idiot
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children have been pestering it. Hi.
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Mr. Tropius, I am so sorry about all of this.
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And she's like picking them up, one under each arm and like, you
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know, they're doing their dumb little children things.
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I just imagine them as like both unruly toddlers.
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Oh yeah. So there's like a lot of
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histrionics as she does this. I I'm so sorry to that.
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We, we bothered you, Mr. Tropius, actually, would she
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recognize it? I I keep saying.
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Yeah, I, I think, I think Ghan is enough of a nerd to recognize
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Pokémon. So I think this Tropius just
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kind of like looks down at you. You know, Tropius generally
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generally pretty like pretty jovial, pretty, pretty nice
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towards humans. So it sees you and it's face
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kind of goes from annoyed to like, oh boy, hey a buddy.
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And it kind of like leads. It's big old neck down and just
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kind of like looks at you and you see Joshua squirm out of
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your hands and just eat a big old bushel of lingonberries
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straight from the neck. This is why we can't have
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anything nice. And it's just this Trophius is
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just kind of looking at you. Yeah, I think Dinan has now set
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Joshua and Kevin the Sprigatito back down and is I think
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probably petting the trophy is trying to like ingratiate
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herself because she does have these 8 new Ultra Bowls and she
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would love to just bonk one against the trophies head.
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But she wants to make sure that he's like, you know, along for
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the ride before she just kidnaps him.
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Yeah, I think, I think as you like start to leave, you just
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feel like the, you know, the Tropius head, for as large of a
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Pokémon as it is, the head is not super huge, but it is
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attached to a very long neck. So you start walking and you get
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like 10 feet away and you just see like this, like in your
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peripherals, just like the side of this Tropius's face, just
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like, hey buddy, where are you going?
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Oh bud, do you want to come along?
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It looks at you and it just takes a couple of like lumbering
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steps in the direction that you're going.
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All right, OK, I'm going to try something.
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OK? Don't freak out.
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And Guy None reaches into her backpack and grabs one of the
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ultra balls and bonks the like. Gently bonks it against the
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Tropius's head. Yeah, Tropius allows itself to
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be caught up in this, in this poker ball, and you see it fall
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to the ground, It shakes once and it clicks.
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Fuck yeah, I'm going to call you Bradley.
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You feel from you feel from inside the Pokeball.
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A wiggle of agreement. Excellent.
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I love naming my Pokémon exotic names like Bradley and Joshua
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and Kevin. I think it really is unique.
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Yeah. And I think as they're on their
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way back, she keeps Joshua out. But we'll put Kevin away because
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he has a tendency to get into a little too much trouble.
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Sounds about right, yeah. And so after, after a couple of
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days of travelling, you know, you guys have been travelling
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together, maybe not like immediately together, but close
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enough to where you guys are, you know, camping together at
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making camp at night and, you know, setting off and going in
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the same general direction. But yeah, as you guys converge
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for the final time on this trip, it is the IT is the the evening
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of the third day and Brutus, you guys see Brutus ahead just kind
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of waving to a some figure that has that is not visible.
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I know I do weird shit like talking to Pokémon, but why is
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Brutus talking to fucking nothing but waving to Thinner?
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I wasn't going to say anything because we all like very clearly
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have something going on mentally.
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I don't know, maybe we see if he volunteers the information or we
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could ask him about it at dinner.
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I don't it. Doesn't seem like the very
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targeted kind of guy. Like no but.
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He randomly brought up that depressing story, like about his
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old Pokémon when we were, I mean, those two random guys who
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got beat up and left near our campfire.
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You know, that was, that was mental.
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But you know, he, he, he, we sat there, you know, eating and he
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just brought it up at the Blue. Maybe that's what we just did.
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We just wait for him to tell us where he's comfortable.
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I mean, and, and expanding on that thought, how do we know
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that wasn't another one of his hallucinations?
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Because he's like really into this.
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I mean, he's like active. He's like, do you see him just
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like reaching for nothing? Yeah, kind of weird.
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It is a bit weird. It's.
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Kind of weird. Do they see the orb?
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No. But I think you guys, you guys
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are able to take a look at Brick who's just kind of standing
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there and you see this like small arc of electricity just
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like come from like under his shell and like out and around
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and back in. Oh God, he's super Saiyan
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squirrel. Yeah, I don't want to unpack any
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of that. Did you do anything cool?
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I I got a new Pokémon. Oh my God, same.
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What'd you get? What'd?
27:08
You find I got I got an off worm.
27:10
They call him Stalimer. Stalim Oh fuck yeah, that's sick
27:15
man. Did you do anything cool?
27:18
Yeah, I, I found a Pokémon too. I found a a Tropius.
27:21
He's got like infinite lingonberries.
27:23
And now I think we have something that we can ride,
27:26
perhaps. Hell yeah.
27:28
Yeah, he also flies. He does also fly but he is only
27:32
level 1 so I can't imagine that I get to just auto teach him.
27:36
Fly. Not quite yet.
27:39
As absolutely fucking broken as that would be.
27:43
Hell yeah. Yeah, he's super.
27:44
Cool. I named him Bradley.
27:46
It's exotic. That really tracks it.
27:48
That is a really exotic name considering Menos so.
27:51
Yeah, yeah. I mean, Bradley, Joshua, Kevin,
27:54
I just, I really wanted to hit. Did all of you know?
27:57
Did did you? Have you ever visited England?
28:01
You know, I know we've sent a few long boats over there recent
28:03
in recent years, but. No, I've only heard rumours
28:07
about Galler. Yeah, Gala, that's the one.
28:09
I haven't. No, I haven't visited.
28:11
I my mom went a few years ago. So stories, you know, you have
28:17
these names for your stories. OK, that makes sense.
28:19
I feel like while you guys are talking, you realize Brutus has
28:22
just been standing there, like in the circle, not talking.
28:29
Jesus. Sorry, Arceus, where did you
28:32
come? From There's Such a Big Fella.
28:34
You may have been waiting for you to catch up.
28:37
Oh well, you just stood here and we just absent mindedly walked
28:40
into into your little circle. Oh great.
28:45
How you doing? How?
28:46
How has your last three days been?
28:48
Oh, very enlightening. Emphasis on the lightning.
28:55
That feels like an inside joke. OK, that's great, Brutus.
29:01
Yeah, glad to see you had an enlightened journey these last
29:05
few days. More of lightning.
29:09
I'm not going to ask. Anything I've got to unpack?
29:13
You ready to keep going? Brick like.
29:14
I say bricks got like a little bit of spark, like a little
29:17
spark comes off. Yep.
29:19
Did you find like a a menace or or a pulls?
29:25
Is it pulses? Is it plus?
29:27
Plus Lee and Minnan. Plus, yeah, that's the one.
29:30
Did you find some of them and like stuff it in like Brick
29:34
Shelf? No.
29:37
Or did you find it from the stone and stuff in brick shell?
29:41
That's a cool fear. The truth.
29:43
OK, but we'll leave it there. All right.
29:48
You ready to go? I feel like we're nearly nearly
29:52
up. Strand, kite and camp now.
29:54
You know it's not not far. Yes, let us get us going.
29:59
Awesome. Yeah, Clyde, you would know.
30:02
So Strand Kite and camp is it's more of like a research outpost
30:07
than it is a town. You know, I, I would say,
30:11
especially with the, the more kind of like recent expeditions,
30:15
it's, it's been becoming more of like a, a permanent settlement.
30:19
But it's still a lot of like tents and just kind of like
30:22
boxes, you know, kind of haphazardly around.
30:28
And as you walk into what, what you would call the town square,
30:33
which is really just like a big tent and some, some especially
30:37
large research equipment, you notice there are a cadre of
30:43
scientists kind of looking around like this big kind of
30:46
table where there are a couple of posters and you, you can't
30:51
really pick out what they're saying, but they sound very
30:54
excited. I'm going to, I'm going to walk
30:59
in to this tent and then we're like, what up, nerds?
31:04
The prodigal son has returned to Strunk.
31:10
Come and camp. You see these guys fully like
31:14
all, there's probably five of them around this table and they
31:18
fully just kind of like jump back.
31:20
They're like, oh, one of them is just like, oh.
31:23
Father, you scared me. Next time, not before coming in.
31:27
It's a 10. What am I supposed to knock on?
31:30
On the wood beams. He makes a good point, Clyde.
31:35
OK, I'm just going to reach up to a wooden beam, just.
31:42
Hello, Yes, thank you for making yourself known.
31:46
Who are you? I'm Clyde Allison Allison,
31:53
successor of the Ranger name. Oh, oh, you mean that weird guy
32:00
who lives on the outskirts of town?
32:02
Yeah. The one, The one who you know
32:06
when, when this settlement first started and it was a Ranger
32:10
training camp before you fucking nerds came and started
32:13
excavating everything, it was like the most accomplished young
32:18
Ranger. He's a weird guy now, don't get
32:21
me wrong, but back then, you know, he, he, he was the shit,
32:27
as they say. Well, he, it hasn't really come
32:32
into town in probably, I don't know, 10-10 years at least.
32:36
So forgive me, but I'm sorry. Where are my manners?
32:42
My name is Nard and I know I, I don't know why, but everybody,
32:51
everybody gives me that reaction when I say my name.
32:54
I should really find a a nickname or something.
33:00
Yeah. Well, focus on that.
33:02
Change your name. Elsa Brutus is in the 10 now.
33:09
Well, you, you have, have come at at a really exciting time as,
33:16
as you may or may not be aware, we've been excavating the site
33:20
for years at this point. And you know, we've, we've found
33:26
some scraps and some artifacts, but really only until now have
33:31
we been able to translate what we're, what we're seeing.
33:35
We still can't necessarily decipher it, but we're we're
33:38
able to, we're able to understand kind of the, the gist
33:41
of what's going on. And as you can see, he.
33:45
Kind of opens his body up so that you all can see this table
33:50
and on it they're about. They're these 4 like paper
33:55
posters in various states of like decay and they all have
33:59
these stylized gothic writing on it in a language that you can't
34:04
understand. It's kind of like it's kind of
34:08
like looking at Cyrillic where it's like you can kind of
34:12
understand a couple of letters, but like most of it's just
34:14
gibberish to you. So from from what we can
34:19
understand, we've been able to find out that.
34:23
These this, this city, before it was turned into the state that
34:28
you can see it in, it was a, it was in, it was in conflict.
34:33
It was in some kind of. War.
34:34
And as you can see, these these posters, they seem to be kind of
34:39
like rallying cries for, for the inhabitants that at one point
34:43
lived here. You know, these there are
34:46
numbers that that we can read, but they, they still don't
34:49
really make sense. And.
34:51
You know, you, you look at this one piece that is a it's a white
34:55
piece of paper, a collection of white pieces of paper with very
34:59
small writing on it in this same kind of gibberish thing that you
35:02
can't understand. But at the top you are able to
35:05
see a set of numbers that says like 05.08.1941.
35:17
And Nard continues and he says, you know, I, I, we, we're not
35:22
quite sure what these numbers mean, but on, on this, on this
35:26
piece here and on several others that we found these, we, we've
35:31
seen a similar sets of sets of numbers.
35:36
So I I believe this is significant somehow.
35:39
OK, OK. I see you, ma.
35:42
I see you, Ma. Yeah, that that's really
35:49
interesting. I'm going to look at Brutus in
35:51
the eyes in black. No, I've.
35:54
Got fucking ugly what he's talking about.
35:57
I've got some bad news for you though, NAD.
36:01
What? What's that?
36:03
OK, so, you know, with the woman who's been funding your whole
36:07
operation to do these excavations and historical
36:12
findings, you know, do all this stuff.
36:14
Her, she won't leave us alone. She just wants things.
36:18
Yes, well, we've been sent to tell you that she's cutting
36:22
funding and you're going to have to find support from elsewhere
36:25
from now on. And as a citizen of Strand Cat
36:30
and Camp, that means if I see you digging or taking anything,
36:34
I will take it as personal conflict and I will stop you
36:37
personally with these fists. Do you understand?
36:41
Well, this is, this is unacceptable.
36:44
This is for, for science and for, for the betterment of
36:48
society. And I can't believe that that
36:50
Weth would do that. I mean, she knows how important
36:53
this is. You know what we're going to do?
36:56
We're going to March right up to drags.
36:58
Home and we are going to find her and we are going to tell her
37:01
off isn't that right? And looks at these other
37:03
scientists who are just like. Shine In is just laughing.
37:08
Yeah, all of all of ego, every single person who's part of this
37:12
excavation team just because, as I said, if I see anyone digging
37:17
here, I'm going to take it as a personal attack on Strank and
37:20
camp because you do not have the permits anymore.
37:23
But, you know, you go and do what you need to do.
37:25
Go speak to WEF. I'm sure she will, you know,
37:29
have a change of heart if you bring up these excellent points.
37:32
You just made it. Show her the posters in that
37:34
weird language and she might. She might change your mind then
37:39
once she knows this this significant number thing at the
37:42
top. Well, we're going to go, we're
37:46
going to go right up there and we are going to demand continued
37:49
funding. Is it that right?
37:51
And these five guys are just, you know, not in agreement and
37:55
walk off and it seems that the, the site of this archaeological
38:02
dig is open. And as you guys walk out of the
38:06
tent and you are able to kind of fully see it.
38:09
Clyde, I know you've probably been around this before, but
38:12
Ghana and Brutus, you see this sprawling landscape of, of
38:18
buildings. Some of them are made out of
38:20
what looks to be stone, some of them out of out of wooden half
38:24
timber that look kind of similar to some of the some of the newer
38:30
buildings in in some of the capital cities that you may have
38:33
you may have visited the the style of architecture.
38:37
It looks simultaneously very, very contemporary, but also
38:42
there's the sense of decay. You know, you see buildings with
38:45
roofs that are crashed in and, you know, windows that are that
38:49
are busted. And, you know, there, there are
38:52
a few buildings that are just rubble and in various states of
38:56
disrepair. But this is a This is a very
38:59
large area. Guynan immediately starts taking
39:04
frantic notes. We've got 6 days I'd set give or
39:10
take to to poke around. Yeah, I think it's going to be
39:15
longer than that. I think the chances of them
39:16
actually making it onto the property and not getting eaten
39:19
by Ragnar pretty soon. I mean, I didn't think that far
39:25
ahead. He was, he was chill with us.
39:28
But yeah, he's not very friendly towards strangers.
39:34
I mean, there's there's a reason that my mom just like lets him
39:37
run around out there. It's not.
39:39
So that he can have, I mean, I mean, I've dodged him once
39:42
before. So you know, that wasn't a fun
39:45
time. Yeah.
39:47
He's a he's got a good nose on him, I'll tell you that.
39:50
No. And he smells like cinnamon
39:51
rolls. So it's like, it's really this
39:52
deceptive thing. You'd think he would smell like
39:55
the viscera of his victims, but he just.
39:57
He doesn't. But yeah, we've got six days on
40:02
this dig. I'm saying we use five days to
40:07
you guys can use six days. I'm going to use five days to
40:09
help you poke around. Then on the 6th day, I'm going
40:12
to go and beat the shell of my old man.
40:14
Sound good? Sounds great.
40:23
As you consult this this map that that Wes had given you
40:29
inadvertently, you are able to make out kind of near the city
40:32
center a few buildings. So the most important in the
40:37
center of town, you see this cathedral and this is marked on
40:41
the map as a priority, priority one.
40:45
You see a couple other buildings.
40:47
So one of them, as you walk by, you see this very, this long,
40:52
long building made out of stone and what looks to be like this
40:57
brown rusted metal. And so in some of the rubble
41:01
you're able to see, you're able to see some, well, I don't think
41:05
you would know necessarily what they are.
41:08
But in addition to this, this kind of 1 long building, you see
41:13
these, these smaller buildings in the back again, kind of made
41:16
of stone, unassuming. You're able to see what looks to
41:20
be kind of laborers barracks inside of these buildings.
41:24
You see these these very small wooden bunks very close together
41:28
looks very utilitarian, very, I don't know, not comfortable.
41:33
So that's that's one kind of complex you see as you're
41:36
walking, you see another another building here that looks like
41:40
this big, this big building or a big collection of buildings with
41:44
different biomes in it. From what you're from what you
41:47
can see, it almost looks to be some kind of like Pokémon study
41:50
preserve. It looks like these different
41:53
biomes can can be holding different Pokémon in these
41:56
different areas. And where, you know, there there
42:00
are some paths like clearly man made paths where what you assume
42:04
to be scientists can be, you know, can walk around and study
42:08
these Pokémon in their natural environment without them having
42:11
to be in their natural environment, if that makes
42:13
sense. You see, you see these this one
42:18
large building, it's probably one of the more held together
42:23
buildings out of all of them. It is this like white marble
42:26
building. The main building has a couple
42:29
of wings with some smaller, smaller buildings on top.
42:32
They all have these these big domes with with little Spires on
42:36
it. And outside you're able to see a
42:39
collection of books that are strewn about on the ground.
42:43
And then as you walk into the truly the center of this area,
42:48
you're able to see what looks to be a large ornate cathedral.
42:52
Again, you can tell that this is kind of a place of worship just
42:57
by the vibe, but it looks like the style of building looks
43:02
completely alien to you. Oh, you know what?
43:04
Sorry, there's one more building to that I want to that I want to
43:07
point out. So kind of across the way from
43:10
this, from this large, this large alien, what feels like a
43:15
House of worship. There's a there looks like a, a
43:19
husk of a building. It looks to have been burnt out.
43:22
You can see some of the stone foundation inside.
43:25
You can see some again, what looks to be religious
43:28
iconography. Can't really tell more about it.
43:35
You are standing in front of this large this large building
43:38
that, according to the street map, WEF has marked as your top
43:44
priority. I I've personally always wanted
43:48
to check out that cathedral I've never been allowed in, but now
43:52
the nerds are gone. Seems like a great place to
43:55
start. It's, it's the biggest building
43:57
I can see from from where we're stood.
43:59
It's the biggest building I can see.
44:00
So go big or go home, right? Sounds good to me.
44:06
Yeah, unless there's anything, you know, you want to start in
44:09
the smaller buildings. I don't know man.
44:11
I'm just here for the red and I'm the 40,000 pokey dollars.
44:16
Yeah, kind of marches off towards the cathedral.
44:19
I follow. Yeah.
44:21
So as you as you walk into this building, you see on on either
44:25
side, this is definitely as you walk in, you recognize it to be
44:29
a church, like a large church. You can see rows of kind of
44:33
dismantled what looked to have maybe been seating areas on, on
44:39
both of the walls. You see in the fading light, you
44:43
see these these stained glass murals.
44:46
Some of them are destroyed. But like you can kind of get the
44:48
gist of what's going on. It's, you know, mostly some this
44:52
like unintelligible mythos doesn't really follow anything
44:56
that you're familiar with from what you can get.
44:58
There's some dude and he dies and I don't know, I guess he
45:02
comes back to life. That's like, and and it just,
45:05
you know, follows him like the Life and Times of this dude who
45:08
dies and comes back to life. This guy was really egocentric
45:13
and self-centered. Who, Who a weird?
45:16
Story. From what I can tell, he he, he
45:21
came back to life to just go away after three days.
45:24
Who does that? A lot of this just doesn't make
45:30
any sense at all. It's.
45:32
Almost like it's cobbled. Together from a bunch of other
45:34
stories and just like cherry picked the ideas that they.
45:38
Like someone's been having some really bad nan and berries.
45:42
Like going on a trip to write this story.
45:46
So as you get to the front of this this building, you see an
45:49
altar and under the altar you see this wooden trap door that
45:54
looks to have been at one point covered by covered by a rug kind
46:00
of off in the corner that is that is open.
46:04
Obviously, Guinan. Trapdoor adventure.
46:06
It's like. Sprinting at it, Yeah, this is,
46:10
this is it. I'm going to go straight in as
46:12
well. More hold eye then maybe.
46:16
So you see this, this like metal ladder that you that you clamber
46:22
down and as you're down there, you you walk through some
46:26
tunnels that have some, you know, some puddles at the
46:30
bottom. These tunnels turn from what
46:34
what to be more utilitarian. As you kind of keep walking
46:37
through them, you see that there are like torches on the wall.
46:43
You can guess that the nerds have been here, but these these
46:49
corridors turn from utilitarian to more kind of religious and
46:53
more taken care of in in a previous life.
46:58
And as you as you walk through, you get to 1 a dead end of a
47:04
large room covered wall to ceiling in human bones.
47:13
Ah, sick. Seems like a nice place.
47:17
That's not awfully scary at all. And at the back wall you notice
47:22
a strange figure. It looks to be kind of crouched,
47:27
but you can tell that it is quite large and quite imposing,
47:31
made of this like black material, not close enough to
47:35
really tell what it is, but it looks to be just kind of like
47:39
squatting very reverently in the in in the like at the back wall.
47:46
I'm going to touch it. If anything we have done in this
47:49
campaign, it's touching. The weird, mysterious rock thing
47:51
is a good thing. Gynan will also send Joshua out
47:54
also, he's level 5 now. I don't know what that means.
47:57
We'll talk about it later. So as Clyde, as you go over and
48:02
as Joshua is released, you see a flash of of purple light emanate
48:08
from what looks like the face of this guardian, which stands up
48:14
to a full height of about 15 or 16 feet.
48:17
And you hear, you hear coming from it.
48:20
Astia Online. Laughing Sustainment.
48:23
Activia Premier Seal buying house shots.
48:27
And that's where we will end our session.
49:23
The.