Be me: Alan, Riolu
Be not me: DM; Lena, Alolan Vulpix; Eve, Eevee
we wake up in a grassy field
Alan wakes up mumbling about what happened last night… he notices his paw-hands… he looks down seeing his Riolu body and screams.
Meanwhile Eve is frolicking about looking for elemental stones…
Lena is looking surprised as well wondering how she got from the beach to here.
Eve looks over to the two of us and comes to investigate.
Alan isn’t taking his transformation well but after a short while asks where he is.
Eve replies telling us that we’re in a field just out of town.
“What town?” - Alan
“Greatoak.” - Eve replies.
There’s a little bit of talk about the town including how some pokemon like to mess with non-flying types under the tree it’s named after.
Alan decides to play along with this… whatever is going on and offers to help find stones if the Eevee will show us back to town after.
Arriving at a dungeon Eve comments on not thinking one was so close… which prompts questions about dungeons and a short explanation.
We decide to head in and look about for one of the special stones our Eevee is after.
“So who are you too?” - Eve
“My name is Alan.” - Alan
“My name’s Eve… I mean Lena.” - Lena
“No, you’re Lena, I’M Eve.” - Eve
“Nice to meet you two.” -Eve
With that we press onward!
We encounter a group, somebodies from the guild.
They ask why Eve is out here and she explains that she’s looking for stones.
Alan chimes in “I’m lost… I figured following somebody who probably knows where they are is better than wondering about on my own.”
Lena hums an affirmative to Alan’s summary.
The guild members tell us it can be dangerous in here but they’re not going to stop us so long as we promise to be out before dark so they don’t get set to get us anyway.
Eve comments about guild people trying to push normal pokemon around… and that they were likely only Trainees.
“Wait they’re only trainees?” Alan asks
Lena chimes in about them seeming to be concerned for our safety and Eve comments that they’re probably just trying to keep the special stones to themselves.
“Well we’ll just have to find them first.” Alan states.
We find our way to a pictogram map etched into a wall.
We take note of the directions then backtrack to the first room to try and follow the map to, presumably, the treasure.
Winding through the dungeon we come upon a group of starter pokemon, a Squirtal, Charmander, & Bulbasaur
“Excuse me, red-guy, your tail’s on fire.” - Alan
They don’t look amused… in fact they look aggressive!
“Hi, are you guys another team from the guild?” - Eve
“No? Who’re you, are you trying to take our food?” - the starter squad.
“No, I’ve got food back in town.” - Eve
“They’ve got food, get 'em!” - one of the starters.
It’s a fight!
Eve acts first giving Alan a helping hand as it looks like as confused as he is he gets it’s time to fight.
Alan goes for a Quick Attack slapping the Bulbasaur for a point of damage!
“Whoa… how’d I do that?” - Alan
“That was quick!” - Eve comments
Lena throws ice shards battering the Bulbasaur further.
Eve then follows up with Baby Doll Eyes debuffing the battered Bulbasaur.
Lena makes it snow whittling down their health further.
Alan flubs Foresight.
Eve runs up for a Sand Attack… and wiffs.
Charmander uses ember at Alan.
Alan manages to dodge and is momentarily unsettled by something spitting fire at him.
Squirtle uses water gun, getting Eve wet.
Bulbasaur uses Leech Seed… and misses.
Eve uses Helping Hands buffing Lena as she asks her to make it snow again.
Alan goes in for another Quick Attack… and gets clashed v Squirtle
Lena fails to make it snow… how do you not roll even one 4 or greater with 6d6?
Alan manages Foresight keeping Squirtle in his sights.
Eve tackles Bulbasaur taking them down… or not.
Charmander uses Ember again, and flubs it.
Squirtle flails about ineffectually.
Bulbasaur is looking rough as they try to Vine Whip…
Eve goes for the Pocket Sand again… and misses.
Top of the round and Eve can’t help but pour their success into Helping Hand
Alan gets Squirtle with a followup Quick Attack, “I’m getting used to this!”
Lena succeeds in making it snow! She freezes the three of them out of the fight.
The Squirtle was wearing some slick looking shades… they’re Alan’s shades now.
Eve finds useful things with the other two, a heal seed & apple.
“Oh my gosh you guys are so cool!” Lena
“Yeah… yeah I am cool!” Alan
“Ow… it hit me. How could it hit me, I’m cute!” Eve
Moving on to the next room… it’s a pile of food!
“I wouldn’t touch that if I were you.” Eve
“It’s a trap!” Alan
“Things can be trapped?” Lena
Dm clarifies we didn’t see the trap, retcon commentary.
“Anyone got a bag?” Eve
“Nope, only thing I’ve got is these shades.” Alan says, referring to his loot.
Alan steps forward to try and take something from the food pile
Yep; It’s a trap!
Alan just barely evades the trap as the net surges up…
Eve asks if there’s anything valuable in it as Alan spins the net… nothing special.
Alan climbs up and severs the rope so we can use the net as a bag.
Moving on with all out loot we find our way to a large room!
There’re two more bags in here… actual bags not bags of net.
Significant store of food in each!
Eve is disappointed there’s not a special stone but given how much we’ve looted comments that she might be able to buy a stone in town.
Lena looks around for a second pictograph map but there is none.
We find the other team and they ask if we’re OK. We confirm we are.
They suggest we might want to sign up for the Guild ourselves.
As we enter town one of the Murcrow that harass people tries to drop something on Alan.
He manages to catch the pebble and return-to-sender. Seeing the pebble come right back at them the Murcrows decide to bother another group… for now.
Now in the town Lena and Alan make their way to the tree where the guild hall is to see what all the buzz is about… Eve joins us after not finding anything worthwhile in the shops.
The secretary is a Dartrix and asks what our business is here.
Eve speaks up first, “Apparently, we want to join the guild. What’s it cost?”
They comment that it doesn’t cost anything and they’ll swap Alan’s net-bag for a proper bag.
They give us the rundown of the rules and perks for being in the guild.
They include that we’re to get back before night and Eve asks what happens.
The secretary explains that the dungeons begin to change and that makes it much more likely to get lost, so they want us back before dark to mitigate that.
We’re told we have access to the Unwanted Items box and the Storage Box in addition to the other perks.
Decide to call it here and pick up another time