Not Another D&D Podcast - Trinyvale Two-Shot: Merry Metal Mayhem - Pt. 1
Episode Date: December 9, 2021It's Crittermas time in Trinyvale! To celebrate, our heroes head to the pocket plane of Mobius to visit their old pal Keychain, but are greeted instead by a familiar blue hedgehog and news of... a great tragedy! Jens finds a father-figure, Onyx adapts a porcine persona, and Nyack tussles with Tails as Part 1 of the Merry Metal Mayhem saga unfolds! CREDITS Sound Design, Engineering & Post Production by Daniel Ramos (@Schubirds on Twitter & @Dr.Schubird on IG) Inspiration for this story provided by "Sonic the Hedgehog Adventure Gamebook #1: Metal City Mayhem" by James Wallis MUSIC: "Trinyvale Intro and Outro" by Emily Axford “City in the Clouds” by Emily Axford “Where the Mountain Meets the Sky” by Emily Axford "The Journey of the Three" by Jens Christian Tvilum See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Welcome to Trinnovale.
Trinnovale!
Oh, it's so good to be back home for the holidays in this wild winchery world.
A world where a season of celebration has begun.
And so my friends, let me be the first to wish you
a merry, critter-mus and happy hedgehog latais.
Oh no.
Oh no.
No.
Hedgehog latais is one of the most cursing words
I've heard in a while.
So make sure to use it with your parents at home.
OK. Yeah, the holidays are dead. in your wild. So make sure to use it with your parents at home.
Yeah, the holidays are dead.
It's only the Hedgehog Lidays do not explain it to your parents.
It gets worse the more you hear it.
It just feels like there's extra letters in there.
Hedgehog Lidays.
Yeah, it's just that extra G that really just comes up the word.
It does a lot of work in there.
So as I mentioned, it is crittermas in Trinaville.
The holiday where the critters of the world host feast for all their humanoid neighbors.
And this year our heroes, the Trinaville triplets, are spinning it in the place where the hedge
hog latais all began.
A shutter.
I grow stronger every time I over-pronounce the G.
Happy Aglities, everybody.
It's best said with a big mouthful of eggnog,
so you can just go hedgehog glutes.
A-ha.
This year, the Trivial Tripletz are spinning it
in the place where the hedge hog glides all began.
The pocket dimension of Mobius.
Oh no.
Please see.
After saving the world, the trio's robotic companion, Keychain. Ah, there we go.
So-called because you can shrink into a portable Keychain form.
It all ties together.
It's so tight, it's here.
This is fucking tight, called wall.
Ha ha ha.
Don't try to poke a hole in this shit, man.
It's a wiffle ball.
Ha ha ha. The holes are there on purpose.
Uh, Keychain moved here to live amongst his people in the robotic capital of circuitropolis,
or, as it's more commonly known, Metal City.
God damn it.
And so, without further ado, let's rejoin Retrievalval Team 22, and let the Mary Metal Mayhem
accommence.
Woohoo!
Oh no.
It's everyone excited for a little
a Caridermus adventure?
I haven't even made it through one of the adventure books
without dying, so I gotta think that Sonic
is not gonna be good for me.
I'm half excited.
I'm trepidacious.
I've never seen one of these books before,
but it's reputation has caught up to me anyway.
Yeah, well, before we begin,
I should explain that this session is based on
Metal City Mayhem, a Sonic adventure game book
written by James Wallace.
We played through it a few times
on our old podcast, Ape It Book Club.
And now I have translated the adventure
into five of the hopes that we can finally defeat it.
So Onyx is going to meet Dancer?
Yeah, at least, at least Gens is strong.
The, it's true.
Oh my god, the mechanics of these adventure books
are insane.
If you've ever listened to us play through it,
it's literally like, they set up a whole thing
where you get rings and you have lives,
but then also you can just get a game
over forever.
Right, you know what?
I think you're right.
I think this is our chance.
This is our chance.
Yeah, right.
Well, cause now Sonic doesn't have magic,
but you have magic.
So I think that might help.
That's gonna say, Sonic can't fucking dimension door.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
But before we get to the adventure,
we should introduce ourselves proper.
I am of course your dungeon master aka dunkel, Colable Tanner.
And I am joined by Brian Murphy.
Can't put this elf on a shelf.
Jen's in Dell.
Okay, that was a really good Emily Axeward, uh,
living a dream as go queen on X-Limiar.
I didn't have a holiday theme one.
That was such a great one.
That's okay.
Wow, thanks.
You know what, you got to be a queen year round.
Nice scrambled as we were doing Trit-E-Vell.
I was like, oh, no, I'm a player.
I need a rhyme.
El Shelf, it was good.
It was quick.
It was all it was great.
It was a whistle ball, dude.
Jake Hurwitz keeps his triplet siblings near
so he can spread that hogly day cheer.
Nyak of the Rana 4.
Oh, hogliday is happy hogliday is everybody.
I pivoted as soon as I heard hogliday.
There you go.
Folks, happy hedgehog glides.
Get your loved ones close, but not too close
because they are hedgehogs and they're very spiky.
Now that we're all feeling ourselves,
we're all in the hoglet-day spirit.
I think it's time for us to get into it.
As I explained you through now on your way
to visit your old robot, Palke Keechain.
A few days ago, you received a text from him
inviting you to a feast in Critter's Hollow,
an animal village outside the gates of Metal City.
And so you boarded what I imagine is some sort of
jet blue, interdimensional jet blue fly.
Yes, the two are caught at chips, just one, thank you.
I will take over flying again.
Please, I have no idea how to fly this thing.
You see the pilot is so scared
because you're going through a wormhole.
His pilots are terrible, but the planes are beautiful.
Everyone's talking really loud.
I have my noise canceling headphones on.
The pilot is just screaming,
I can feel the teeth in the back of my brain.
Oh!
What?
This is just a normal human who is not made
for interdimensional travel.
So like he's doing constitution checks and he is failing miserably.
Onyx doesn't understand that.
He looks at Nia and says, take care of him.
He's ruining my brother's sugar ray experience.
He's trying to be immersed in sound serve.
No!
I'm existing in two places at once.
So the pilot passes out from the stress.
Onyx, of course, lands the plane beautifully.
You touch down in an area known as the Green Hill Zone.
Above you, palm trees sway as the gentle breeze.
Russell's the grass on the titular hills for which the zone is named.
And of course as the wind hits your noses you smell hints of chili dog and see a large dark plume
rising from the valley beyond. According to his message that location where you're seeing the
smoke rising is where you're supposed to meet key chain for the great feast of
crittermus.
So you're on the ground, you're in the Green Hill Zone.
Critter's hollow is just right over that hill.
What would you like to do?
There's smoke, is it smoke like fun barbecue or smoke like the town is on fire?
I want you to give me your perception check.
I will also do this. Okay, great. That's a nine.
Nine? Nyaq will take a gander. Okay.
That is an 11.
Nyaq got a 16. Great. So,
Jins starts climbing the hill and is wearing high heels and trips.
Wow. Onyx trips over Jins. And then both of them create kind of a like a
humanoid tower for Nyak to scramble up so you can look over the hill.
I protect myself from getting hurt during this with the
moonicorn baby swaddled. You brought nothing?
Matt. Oh, oh wow.
Thank God I'm not wearing shoes.
I am babysitting.
Oh, so obsidian's for obsidian.
Obsidian's not here.
Obsidian is on a date.
Oh, a hogly day date.
It is crittered by us after all.
So we're babysitting obsidian's.
That's so nice.
Great, so you have nothing.
Obsidian's moon and horn baby with you in a Bjorn or maybe a Moby or
maybe an Ergo.
I don't know whichever carrier you desire.
A Swadal.
Swadal.
Right.
This is a fresh baby and it's a Swadal good call.
It doesn't even have a horn yet.
It just looks like a tiny horse.
It's disgusting.
In my getty's horn today.
Oh my God, it gets it all in one day.
We're on horn watch, it's very painful.
That's where they learn to speak as well.
Their voice is a primal shriek
from the first time they horn.
Onyx, go ahead and roll a constitution check
for nothing with disadvantage
to see if that horn's popping through.
A3 and an 8.
Sorry.
Yeah, you see that nothing,
nothing is just snuggled up close to you.
I'm not seeing any horn, barely even a nub on nothing.
All right.
Okay.
So while you're distracted by looking at nothing
and checking their soft spot to see if a horn's gonna burst out of it,
you see Nyak crest the hill, and as you do Nyak, you are greeted by a nightmare.
Below in the valley are the charred remnants of a great outdoor feast.
Hot dog buns are scattered everywhere.
In the center of the scene, a large fire consisting of tables, chairs,
and the ceremonial, critter-miss cactus burns brightly.
And nearby an overturned vat of chili,
you see the charred remains of what looks like some sort of pig man.
Oh my God.
Parker Harris.
I was never gonna be able to eat anyway.
I had a chip on the plane, but still,
the beast is ruined.
Oh my God.
I guess I care a little bit.
Let's go see what happened here.
Did they just...
At the very least, you must come see Bacon Man.
Yeah, I look at Jens and I'm like, What happened here? Did they just at the very least you must come see Bacon Man
I look at Jens and I'm like does this big man mean something to you?
Absolutely not okay
You know
Kichain did you do see what happened Kichain?
Your party sucks dude. Why would you show this to us? What happened Keychain? Keychain! Did you say that? Did you say that? Did you say that?
Did you say that?
Did you say that?
Did you say that?
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Did you say that? Did you say that? Did you say that? Did you say that? Did you say that? Did you say that? Did you say that? They had a baby and they do a song good for his show. Why?
What is with all this nature it's disgusting out here?
Keachan, where are the babies?
You scream and you scream and yet nothing.
Keachan does not respond, no unresponse.
The only thing you hear is the flickering of the flames,
slowly consuming all around you.
Why don't you give me investigation, Chair?
Okay.
Yeah, I look around.
At first, I'm like, you know what,
this was suspect in the first place
because why would Keychain invite us to a holiday feast?
It seems much more likely that Keychain would invite us
to try to cover up a murder.
So maybe Keychain did this.
Naya got a nine.
Nine.
Uh, 12. 12. So maybe keychain did this I got a nine nine
12
Not one Keychain
In some more
Okay, can you help me I'm not dumb
Okay, I think you are
But it's fine, brother.
If one of us were dumb, it wouldn't be me.
That's all I'm saying.
Nothing can give one of you the help action.
Great.
They're all too worse.
All right, Jens, you had a 12 the first time?
It's 12.
We'll just take the 12.
Call it a day.
I can cast invisibility and this guy's self at the wheel.
So I go and study is this pig man? Yeah, and I will disguise myself as you. You realize that it's like the
charred remains of a pig man. Yes, so I do take some Okay. Yeah, go ahead and give me performance or deception.
We'll see how good your disguise is.
How well you're able to recreate
forensically this pig man.
Okay, deception.
Sortein.
13.
I have a plus 11 to deception, but I got a two.
Oh God.
You do your very best, but this looks like a very bloody
Halloween costume version of a dead pig.
Okay, I know.
I know where it is.
He looks exactly like him.
I went out sadly.
Alright, so Onyx, you're dressed as a dead pig while standing next to the dead pig.
Jins, well Onyx is perfecting a bad costume.
You okay, in shame I go invisible.
Okay.
You take a knee and you kind of like survey the surroundings.
I imagine a niac is helping you with this investigation a little bit.
And you see several pairs of uniform footprints as well as scrape marks from a variety of critter
paws and claws. But you do notice that one pair of claws
looks way more fabricated in nature.
They look more square and geometrical
than the other sets of claws,
but they are still scraping along the ground
as if they're being dragged away.
You try to follow the footprints to see where they go,
but after a few feet, they all mysteriously vanish.
Huh, okay. So there's some robot claws and some credit claws.
Okay, can I look at the impressions of their feet to see if when they vanish,
it looks like they like pressed in further because they were like teleporting or they were picked up by something.
Yeah, give me a insight or nature.
Okay.
There was a fight here.
Yes.
Good call.
Okay, I have plus one to insight plus zero to nature.
I'm going to go nature.
Yeah.
18.
Okay.
With an 18, yeah, you study the place where the prints disappear and you realize the prints
are deeper there.
It's almost as if like there was like a big push of force and then they like launched
off.
So maybe they took to the sky.
I guess some sort of like misty step or.
Alright.
I guess we look around in the air.
Yes.
Do we need to get back on this jet blue flight?
I can't fly it.
I only lost one wing.
Okay, well, we only have a wing.
You see that the fire from critters hollow
has spread to the jet blue and it is on fire now.
Ah, yes, we should have landed so close to the fire.
Okay, actually down to no means.
Oh wow.
Should we do something about the fire?
It'll burn itself out, doesn't it?
Yes, this seems all natural.
It's a controlled burn and an uncontrolled way,
but that's ultimately good.
So as you're arguing about how on fire your plane is.
Did everyone get all of their personal effects
out of the plane?
Oh my god, Nia, oh my, my personal,
I don't have a back.
Did you lose the gloves?
The back, the back of gloves.
Nia, dead sprint, a dead sprint
back to the burning plane.
They're in the overhead compartment.
So maybe check them, check them.
Chance checks his phone, that's N a heck, runs into the fire.
No, I've shooted out a plane window and tried to dive through.
Give me a, yeah, acrobatics or athletics to see if you can get out of this plane.
That's a 19.
19, yeah, okay.
No, this is kind of where you excel. So you like dive in one window.
You somehow with your thick head managed to break through
like the super pressurized glass,
you dodge roll into the plane, grab all of your personal
effects, all of Jins's bags,
and then you jump out a different window for some reason.
I'm the slide.
Absolutely, I'm the slide.
Absolutely the slide, you're right.
Oh.
Great, I have the bag.
So you return to Jins and Onyx and nothing with the bags.
And as you do, you hear a crackling...
as the sound barrier is shattered.
And suddenly, standing in front of you is a blue hedgehog in bright red sneakers.
The hedgehog looks at you
with a mixture of anger and rage
and points his gloved finger.
Who are you?
What are you doing here?
Are you with Robotnik?
Who the fuck is Robotnik?
Who said the fuck up?
Why are you pointing at me?
You little fucking piece of shit.
I come out of invisibility looking like
but I'm gonna disguise how dead man who is still calling me
I slap him with a glove
Up here as a dead bloody
Nobody puts a glove finger at my brother
Why the hell are you wearing shoes?
What? What?
So much happens at once
I'll be asking the questions around here
Did you start this fire?
Where does your get your gloves?
You ask where did you get your gloves and of course you are wearing the dead visage
of Sonic's friend, Parker Harris.
So he goes, Parker, what happened to you?
It's me, it's Parker.
Oh Jesus, did they do this to you?
Did they do this to you?
No, they saved me from this. It's just they it's Parker! Oh Jesus, did they do this to you? Did they do this to you? No, they saved me from this.
It's just they saved you?
Yeah, they saved me.
These two people saved me and they saved me.
Yes, I can't believe they have the same voice.
Are you sure?
Not truly.
Our best friend, Parker.
They said they saved me and they just need a little bit of money.
We just need some cash. We've lost more than anyone today, our plane.
Our jet-blue flight home is still late.
We almost lost our bags.
We don't own the flight, so like,
nothing bad is gonna happen to us,
but we're gonna have to wait hours
for them to send a new one.
Yeah, so just give something happened to your larynx.
You sound French for some reason.
Don't you see I got some messed up they stepped on my throat.
Yeah, something happened to porkers larynx. I actually saw it.
We were able to stop it before porkers lost porkers voice. All right fully. I was getting a little heated. Sorry
I run a little hot. That's just my whole deal. Yeah, is that studdlies deal?
I'm Sonic, that's my deal.
Oh, okay.
A move fast, a move quick, sometimes I get a little carried away,
that's my bad, but I see that you folks also like gloves,
you points at Jinsons Collection of Gloves,
and you've also...
I hide it.
Is it on fire?
You've also suffered a lot of great loss today. So I understand we're coming
from the same place. Maybe we can help each other out. Yeah, they just need a
little bit of my. Yeah, the thing is we flew we flew mint here and we we kind of
want to fly mint back. That's the problem. Is that the return? Just trying to get
our plan back at this point. I'm so I don't have any money on me.
I came here and I thought there would be like a hotel or something and I'm so I don't have any money on me because I came here and I thought there would be like a hotel or something
And I'm just here and there's like trees and stuff
Well, there used to be a hotel over in metal city until Robotnik took it over and turned it into this big massive mechanical fortress
Oh, that's all my friends are now
That's not really nice
Do you see stuff? I kind of like TV's there?
Instead of a shitty hotel?
No, it's a big kid there
You can't live in there because it's a big hit. Yeah, we could stay there.
You can't live in there because it's all gears and cogs
and pipes and tubes.
Yes, they like toilets.
That's great.
Once a hotel, there's probably still like TVs and pool.
Oh my god, they have a pool.
There's probably a pool, but it's full of bubbling oil.
So like, does that sound good to you?
A hot tub?
Yeah.
Yeah, that sounds fine.
Listen, Sonic, whatever your name is,
we're here to see our friend, Keychain.
We thought we were going to get some free food,
and instead we've had to walk around with, frankly,
if you're the host, you're a terrible host.
I'm looking for Keychain.
I don't know who you are.
This all just just, Sonic, I don't know what this is.
Sonic, thanks for second Keychain.
Yeah, he was the one bot that was at the party.
And he was right over there with, Sonic looks over by the bonfire and then sees the corpse
of Porers. That was
someone who was impersonating porkers. I step slightly to the right to obscure his view.
You're looking at the real porkers now. Me, her, him, this one. Yeah, as they destroyed the
person who's trying to kill me and as they destroyed Zeparson,
tried to look like me in a very, very good spell.
Go ahead and give me a deception check.
Can I give Honest the Health Action
by just doing a thumbs up next to her?
23.
Ah!
Oh, yeah, you see this really trips Sonic up.
He thinks for a second and then says,
I knew that Robotnik had the ability to create
metal versions of critters,
but now he can totally mimic a critter.
He can create a lifelike cyborg organism
that's still a robot on the inside.
This is bad news gang, we gotta get in there.
The guy does sound awesome, I would love to meet this dude.
I think it looks to Nia and Jen's with fear in her eyes that she can't stop lying.
Either one seems that way, right?
Jen's just looking at his phone.
Niaq shrugs.
So anyway, Sonic, where is our goddamn friend we're pissed
This is like imagine if you were going to some non shitty party like at my place
I have a cool off
Really good parties and not enough people went to oh really I sleep under a tree and just kind of eat chilly dogs all day
You sit in a tree?
Oh, nothing wrong with that.
You're disgusting.
Where is Keeching?
Because this is frankly rude.
We were invited to a party, not to save your god damn town
or whatever you call this.
Yeah, my brother had a party once and no one came.
So he had all the food to ourselves.
It was awesome.
And then we come to this door.
He said, it must have been all the food.
It was really.
It made a mistake on the invitations. All right, all right. It was called out. It was 7 to this door. It's still in all the food. It was really. We made a mistake on the invitations.
All right, all right.
It was held in.
It's, yeah, it was 7 p.m. to question mark
as in it would go really late,
but we waited till question mark
and no one showed up, but it was great.
Well, it was just the way it was.
It could still be going.
So did no one show up
because the cable guy came to next day.
I could only say about the question mark
but why didn't that?
Why are you angry brother?
Why?
I angry because I was supposed to be
at a goddamn party eating free food. and instead of talking to this fucking guy
Whoever that is okay, well, where is key chain guy? Why don't you take us to the hotel?
Yes, we'll go to whoever the sobriety guy is he sounds
He sounds wonderful. I need to take a nap. I need to reset. It's been a long day
It's just we need a shower. We all need to take a nap. I need to reset. It's been a long day. It's just, we need a shower.
We need a shower.
We all need to take a shower.
I could soak.
I could also do the soak in the hot tub that you said.
I could do it.
Oh, I all soaked it.
Okay.
You must continue that after I shower.
It's, that's after.
All right.
We can maybe find a shower or something in Metal City.
Let me explain what happened before we proceed.
Okay.
All right. Of course, friends.
So everyone in the Green Hell Zone was busy preparing for the Grand Critter Miss Feast.
When suddenly this army of badging bots appeared, they were merciless.
They captured all my friends except for tales who managed to fly away.
And if I wasn't distracted playing like Game Gear, I could have saved him.
My white gloves are stained forever red.
Yeah, now this is on you, my man.
Damn.
You saw, I have that game gear.
Yeah, give me your game gear.
Can I take a whole world of this game gear?
And if you're worried about the gloves being stained,
you can just put them in this bag.
Well, help you.
Well, help you if you give us your freaking game gear.
Give me the game gear.
I want the game gear.
Sure, this thing only holds bad memories for me.
Sonic tosses you the game gear and then dives into Jens' glove bag.
All right. I said you could leave your gloves in this bag.
Not through it.
You made a hack.
You see Sonic comes out wearing two arm-length white gloves
with a frilly lace at the end.
I tackle him.
Wait, wait, wait.
You can pull them off.
We can't fight.
You're not the enemy. I'm not the enemy. Robotnik is the enemy.
The guy with the hot tubs?
The hot tubs are deceptive. Everything about him is deceptive.
Okay.
You gotta believe me. He's got your friend, Keechain. He's got my friends.
Tails, my buddy, who's a flying fox. He flies by spinning his tails together.
Sure, we don't care. Keep going.
I'm not Aussie's football.
He's doing reconnaissance.
I've been running all over the zone to see if there's anyone left,
but it seems like the badnik's got everyone.
So tails hasn't come back yet and I started to get a little worried about him.
He's just a little guy.
So we should probably go check on him.
So if you're ready, follow me.
Okay. Yeah, we saved your friend, Parkerer I think we can save tails too yeah one for
one so yeah just it'll be done money as I first
yeah so we got a game year and then if we could get our flights
comped back because again this party not really much of a party I don't have
any money but I do know a place we can maybe get some rings.
How does that sound?
Is that sounds like a YouTube?
Yeah, I would do rings.
I should have lived with that.
Yeah, okay.
All right, then let's jet.
Do you see that Sonic blasts off towards a group of palm trees about 60 feet away?
And I assume you all follow?
Yeah.
We circle up and just say, should we definitely go?
Because he's all the way over that we
can go home now. He just ran so far ahead. I really think we
can fleece this guy. Yeah. He already gave us a game gear.
All right. Yeah, let's go see what else we can milk him for.
I think the con is strong right now. So I like want to keep
milking. Oh, we have you. If you want to go back to your regular
form, we can just tell him, we have a new one. If you want to go back to your regular form,
we can just tell him that we left Porker over that.
I can't actually guess this guy's self at will
so I can become Porker whenever I want.
But do I not look good?
Like this, does someone ever mirror?
Of course, I have 12.
Nyex searches through the bottom of the glove bag.
There's a tiny little compact, and I show it to you on it.
Onyx ponders this and decides she really likes a dead pig look.
He keeps it going.
Okay, I'm ready, let's go.
All right, let's go.
We've got a game gear.
Let's see if we can get any games.
I think she basically just lifts the disguise self
so that she's wearing her frilly Victorian front.
It looks like the dead pig.
But it looks like a dead pig.
So you walk over to the palm trees where Sonic is
and you see that he's curled into a ball
bashing into the palm tree.
And as he does this, the fronds thrash violently.
And then suddenly this giant spring
and three computer monitors fall to the ground.
Sonic gestures you over.
Whoa, porker, look and fresh.
That's like, yeah.
Well, you keep giving us real electronics.
That's gonna scream.
What are you doing with these computers?
Is it a gal?
It's actually a gateway, my man.
Oh, dude, you're getting a gal. It's actually a gateway, my man.
Oh, dude, you're getting a gateway.
It's okay.
I can move this product.
Back when Dr. Robotnik was the kindly scientist, Ovi Contobur, he installed these monitors
all over the zone.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
What?
Yeah, what?
Who?
I don't even know who robot is.
It's my man.
He was a kindly scientist that love critters until one day
Something happened to him and he changed into the evil wicked doctor Ivo robot Nick
What he like grew up. Yeah, did he just evolve?
Nobody knows some some say that maybe he got too close to the power of the chaos emeralds or maybe he too many
He rotten eggs. Oh
Emeralds you can face them in emerald there are emeralds you've heard
Saw that gets deadly serious you've heard of the chaos emeralds. I've heard of emeralds
Garth I have yeah, I am boyker. I know what emeralds are. Yeah, they're insanely powerful gyms
Yeah, not to be trifled with yeah, yeah, it does
So second or third on the list for sure.
You got diamonds, you got,
nothing trifling about.
Nothing to be about.
It might be above it, but emberleds.
Is that fire?
Emberled is up there.
Yeah, is it top 10?
Elon Musk, I think that's where his wealth came from.
I did hear that too, yeah.
Well anyway, now they're all agreed about the sanctity
of the chaos emberledsroads and that you can't just
Take them and treat them like any normal gemstone. They're too powerful for that. Right. Uh, here's what I got to show you
Sure, so far you need a soul for a lot go on your stupid guy was a different stupid guy before
You see the sonic yeah gestures to the monitors and says before you win evil
Dr. Abbotting installed these around the zones
so that the critters would always have the rings and food and powerups they needed
so they could go on fun adventures.
So, you do as supposed to be good, but then it was like, bad.
Exactly. You started out good and then became bad.
You know, kind of just wanted to live for himself and be selfish.
I don't know if that makes sense.
I can't relate to that at all. I don't even know what you're talking about.
Okay, so this guy, he put...
Onyx is just shared a picture of Sonic 2, Trinstagram.
While he was selling this painful backstarts.
Just question mark.
Question mark, question mark, what is this thing?
Who is it?
Can anyone identify? People think it's a deep fake.
Okay, well, what do you think says we should do, Sonic?
So he put the computers there.
Yeah, I'm going to take a bounce on this big spring so I can survey the zone and see if
I can't find tails.
But if you want to go through these monitors and get some power-ups,
so that you'll be ready for our adventure,
I think that'd be super smart and super cool.
Okay, I'll totally do that.
Can I get the first bounce?
You want the first bounce?
Yeah, go for it.
Okay, I'm bouncing on the side.
Do you want me to hold the bit,
oh, she went with the baby.
Wow.
Porkers get some moves.
Actually, yeah, Onyx, do you want to give me a...
Reception?
Acrobatics check when you jump on the spring.
Mm.
At 20.
Oh my God.
Whoa.
That's beautiful.
Holy shit, okay.
I think I throw, I like take the baby out of the swaddle,
throw them into the sky even further above me,
as I'm like reaching my center. Oh my god, that's not how gravity works. You're not going to catch up
to that baby. And then I am doing flips and then the baby catch the baby with my roller skates. How
did that happen? How did the baby fall faster? Did anyone else see that? The baby fell faster than Onyx.
What is going on with gravity here?
Things are just a little cooler on the pocket plan of Mobius.
Kisses your cheek.
So Onyx, when you're up in the air, you don't even have to make a perception check.
You fly high up into the air with nothing.
The zone around you seems to be deserted,
but at the edge of the horizon, you glimpse
a flash as the sunlight reflects off
of this huge metal structure in the distance,
which without a doubt you know is metal city.
And as your eyes focus more,
as you're doing multiple flips with the baby,
you see in the foreground a two tailed fox fighting for his life
against three spike covered silver robots.
Okay, I land and then like go do my power up and then say,
oh, I almost forgot to say your two tailed fox is fighting for his life.
What?
My little buddy, he's in a real pickle in a bind, we gotta go!
Peacolind back.
All of us are just you, because you said you were gonna look for it.
We had to go through the power-ups, so we were gonna do the computer thing.
We're gonna take...
Well, Smash and Crab game, we gotta go!
You see Sonic takes off and gestures for you to follow.
So let me explain what's in the monitors for you real quick.
There's three options.
There's the gold ring, the red shoe, and the stars.
What does everybody want?
I take the gold ring.
OK.
I think I take the stars.
Nice.
Naya, because not wearing shoes.
Perfect.
So maybe they'll come in handy.
I'll go with red shoes.
OK, so write this down.
Jens, you get 10 gold rings
These will prevent you from taking damage
And if you manage to do a successful dexterity save
You will regain the rings and can prevent damage again
Sweets, the way it works specifically is you'll do a DC 25 deck save to grab the rings after being hit
But you can add the number of rings
you have to your bonus.
On a success, you're able to grab
half the rings you had rounded down.
Sweet.
Cool.
The red shoes instantly cast haste
for 1D4 rounds, no side effects.
Awesome.
So just roll a D4 to see how many rounds
they only work in combat though.
And the stars are invincibility for 1D4 rounds.
Whoa. Three rounds. Oh.
Three rounds.
I think we can all agree that I got the best one.
Ha ha ha.
Cool.
So is there anything else you want to do
or are you going to take off after Sonic
towards Metal City?
I think.
We mosey, we walk.
I.
OK.
So it looks like we are going into a battle.
Yeah, probably.
You with a Nat 20, I'll say, you saw tails like, basically about to be captured.
There's these three silver robots,
and from that distance, you wouldn't normally be able
to make this out, but with a Nat 20, I'll say,
you saw one had a giant arm cannon,
and the other had a like red hot like wrist blade mounted
on it, and then the third was like hovering in the air somehow.
It almost had like two like a jet pack sort of thing fused to its back.
They were all modded out.
Okay.
I just we cast free-dum of movement on myself.
Because I do that at will because ultra chin vocations.
Are they one-use shoes?
I won't be able to use them again after this battle.
They'll burn up after the battle.
Okay, great.
But I have them on right now.
Right, you have them on, but it's honestly like
pebs, the APS, GIPP boots, you gotta activate them.
Okay, but that's a, I'll let you do that as a free action.
Great.
And then the last four, three rounds.
Awesome, cool.
Thank you.
Yep, you're welcome.
All right, let's go.
Oh wait, I guess I'll give,
I'll give each of you guys part of Conspiration.
Oh, you know what?
I'm gonna give an inspiring speech. Okay.
Alright everybody gather up, huh? Oh, yeah
We're in another stupid place full of stupid people doing stupid shit
And honestly, we don't deserve this. We should be at a goddamn feast right now at a hotel. I would have assumed they would put you up.
You know what I mean?
A tear rolls down, Nikeschi.
Yeah, and you know what?
We need to find Keychain to make sure that he pays up
because he owes us a god damn hotel and a meal
and a library of game gear games for this new game gear
that we got from that little fucking freak.
Also, who rob brother? Also, can I say I think we should get this emerald. Oh
Yeah, and of course we'll get the emerald. Yeah, definitely the emerald
What if I unleashed upon Mobius and
I said leashed upon mobius and
Inspiring speech you guys are all gonna get temp hit points equal to my charisma modifier plus my level So you got everybody gets 20 HP. Whoa sick. All right. Let me know when you're ready to move on
So let me see if there's anything else from that it takes 10 minutes. I love the idea that it's a
Sweet yeah after 10 minutes. I love the idea that it takes us so long to get there.
So yeah, after 10 minutes we walk over. It's such a funny amount of time to wait.
You get over there, yeah.
You see that as you arrive,
tails is just bleeding on the ground.
Sonic is holding back the robots,
dashing around all of them, being like,
where were you?
This wild fox is attacking these beautiful robots.
Look at this.
No, that's my little buddy, dude.
That pulls back a bone.
Stand down, stand, Parker.
Make your friends stand down.
What?
I'm going to keep the sham up.
Parker, Parker, where are you?
Oh, I'm right here. Oh, I'm right here.
Yeah, I'm right here.
Can you point to something the direction of the Emerald?
I have to imagine the Emeralds somewhere in the city,
but we got to take care of these baroozers first.
If they stand in the way of us in the Emeralds,
then let's kill them.
Okay, now I attack him, robot.
I go in after Emerald, robot.
All right, everybody roll initiative.
12.
24.
Wow.
23.
Okay.
Oh, let me roll for Sonic as well.
Ha ha ha.
I can't wait to see you.
Find out what, I mean, it's gotta be a monk, right?
With all that speed.
You know what, I mean, he's got to be a monk, right? With all that speed? You know what, I'll give you a peak blind
the screen, mid fight.
Sonic is based off of a monster called the Quickling.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Short rest, Father, indeed.
So Sonic is gonna get a 19, so,
okay, despite the fact that Sonic is the fastest thing alive,
Jens and I are, we'll go before him. And Onyx is still invisible. Jens looks at him
really judgmentally. We're actually really fast when we try. We just don't try
that often. I'm a little tired. I've been here for 10 minutes fighting. We were
by the computers. That's hard too. You could have walked with us. Were you checking
your email on those things?
I was checking whoever was logged in last email.
Yes.
It's probably porker.
Okay, so as you join this battle,
you do see these three silver robots.
They're these big like bipedal robots
with spikes all over them and a big slit visor.
They even look like they have a metal mustache
that's been stylistically placed over their mouth
where a voice box would be.
And you see that one has this giant arm cannon.
Another has this red hot wrist blade
and then the third is hovering in the air
with the help of a special jet pack.
Okay.
So I believe Jins you are first.
Sweet.
I step out and by eyes speaking, going white and I just start speaking in tongues and I cast chain lightning
at a six level at three of them. They all need to do deck saving throws. Okay
great. What do they need to beat? DC-18.
You see that their legs are very clunky.
Great.
Even the one that's flying, it's like so heavy
that it takes a lot of effort to get this thing off the ground.
They have a minus two to decks.
There we go.
None of them passed.
Great.
So I do 28 lightning damage to all of them.
No!
Wow.
I'm just gonna roll this online because too many dice.
53 damage to all three.
Jin's finished them.
No!
All of them?
I, all three.
Be careful with the lightning. I of them? I, all three.
Be careful, is the lightning.
I really want that jetpack.
I'm just, I'm gesturing at Sonic.
Like, what are you, what is this?
Careful, they're super dangerous.
Oh, you see these big bolts of multi-colored lightning
strike all the robots overloading them.
And they all just fall to the ground dead. Multicolored lightning strike all the robots overloading them and
They all just fall to the ground dead smoke starts pouring out of the various events on their bodies
Okay, I can now you all pat out this smoke and try to take their equipment
Yeah, um go ahead and give me let's see here. Um, an investigation check
Nine yet party conspiracy too,
if you want to use it.
Oh!
If you want to use it out.
What is that?
That D12 these days.
Mm.
I'll kick one of the dead robots in hopes of helping honest.
Yeah, I'll just kick it over onto its back.
I'll let you give the help action.
Great.
Okay.
I got an 11 on my party conspiracy, thank God.
So that is a 23 now.
Incredible.
So the first time you reach down,
you do get shocked from some of the residual lightning.
Oh, porkers, hearts.
But then you use an eye actor grounds you,
and he absorbs most of it.
I wear sneakers now.
And you realize that these modifications, like the Jetpack and the sword, there's almost
like a circuit line that lights up that seems to be traced back to this little cartridge
slot in their backs.
You can see that each one has a different light that lights up and then traces the path
and that corresponds to the different power up they have.
So are these game gear cartridges?
Can we move the cartridge?
You can remove the cartridge.
I can remove the cartridge.
And I guess just like put it between my butt cheeks.
Jesus Christ.
Parker, okay.
You can keep that.
Parker, which one did you remove?
Did you remove the jet pack?
Okay, so you remove the cartridge that says
tear egg dactyl on it.
No, that is not bad.
This is bringing back haunting memories.
As you do, you see that the jet pack folds up
and back into the robot.
Almost in the same way that keychain can kind of fold up.
And then you pull out the cartridge and the circuitry light that was connecting it to the jet pack disappears.
And you have this cartridge which says tarrag ductile.
I take you as our cartridges as well.
What does it say?
They say egg-sterminate. That was the one with a cannon.
And they say blitzkrie egg. And that was the one with a sword. So you know, these three cartridges and
these just fried robots. You get the sense after you investigate them that they're kind of all
glass cannons. Like they could do a lot of damage if they maybe rolled better on their turn.
But they don't have that much HP.
And if they didn't face Genes, then that's right.
Lightning fast.
What's up with your friend here?
I point to the tails bleeding on the...
You got your ass kicked by these three glimps.
Glimps, glimps.
You see that Sonic is doing CPR.
Oh, is he dead?
I can all do cure wounds.
Hahaha.
You seem so indignant about saving him.
I don't like touching fuzzy animals there.
Nayak is our injury, doesn't like animals.
I like the forest pure.
You get out like one of those little like hamster bottles, uh,
and you deliver a couple of dew drops, uh, into Tails' mouth and he goes, Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, Whoa, Parker, you don't look so good buddy, are you alright?
Speak by yourself, you look like shit.
Yeah, you look like shit and you look idiot.
Hey, don't insult my friend, Parker.
Yeah, cover your mouth when you cough.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, it was just, you know, lying there dead on the ground for a while.
Yeah, we saved your ass. Do you see me?
You smoked those dudes.
I haven't even gotten so much as a thank you, let alone any cash or gifts.
Yeah, we came to your goddamn party.
Ha, ha, yeah.
And all we got is our planes set on fire at a game game.
No, that's a thing, Tails.
As I saved my life, we need to give some cash.
Yeah, where is it?
Even if you don't have cash true blue points will at least
you want to see it. Point is still who has the true blue points. Can you transfer those? I don't know if
that really works for them. Yes, you can transfer them. Yeah, you can give to them. Next time we find a
monitor, maybe I can transfer those points. There's one right back here. Come with me. There's a monitor over here.
You might still be logged in. Yeah, we were in your email
You see Sonic is doing that thing where he crosses his arms and like taps his foot. He's like come on guys
We got a hurry. I'm not the one stalling
I'm sorry Sonic our friendship is long you would have been strong, but you're in a mood
You would have been running around for another 10 minutes if I didn't smoke those guys
Okay, do you see do you see what this guy just did?
This is what he did to save my life before our which is why we owe money. Yeah, exactly. It's okay Sonic
I'll take him back and I'll log in to my gem blue account
I'll give the volumine points. It's the least I can do but after that we really got to get back to investigating
Mel's Yeah isn't it?
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.
Okay, great, great.
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.
All right, fine.
You see that Tails takes to the sky
and Sonic hops on and gets carried by Tails
back over to the monitors.
Tails logs into his jet blue account
and transfers, let's see.
We're just sitting there refreshing this on the honest speaking stuff.
Unfortunately, Tails can fly, so he doesn't actually use jet blue that much, but he had 1,100
points.
You can't even get a drink.
That's not you.
We can take a regional flight for that.
I can't get by a wife.
I was that?
I'm sorry, I can't get to the ran-of-for one way with that.
Like, porkers logged in over there. You can see a porker as any points.
Just give us the password to your account.
Maybe, oh, that's good. Maybe I just like can book from your account.
If we can't do it, Blue, we'll just take your credit card. That's fine.
I don't have a credit card. I'm a little far away.
It's a good idea that we should look into Parker's account when we, when we can't
later.
We're barking up the wrong tree, okay?
Keychain invited us to the shit party.
We need to get reimbursed for our flights from Keychain.
That's right, Keychain.
Yeah, you know, Keychain.
You know, Keechain.
You know, Keechain.
You know, Keechain.
You know, Keechain.
You know, Keechain.
You know, Keechain.
You know, Keechain.
You know, Keechain.
You know, Keechain.
You know, Keechain. You know, Keechain. You know, Keechain. You's why we need to see him. Well, and Cash.
As soon as the bad ex came, I took to the sky,
and I watched as the bad ex.
So you watched.
Excuse me.
As soon as the bad ex came, you flew away,
you took to the sky.
I'm not a fighter, I'm a reconnaissance guy.
I'm sorry.
So actually, I actually remember that now
because I was at Sephardi, I'm Parker,
and I actually, I thought that you got killed.
I'm so glad to see you.
I said, these two saved me,
which is why we love some money.
But I remember you doing that now,
and actually I kind of wanted to tell,
look, I can confront you about that.
I just thought it was like really uncle.
You know what, maybe you're right. Sometimes I let Sonic fight all my battles for me and I need to stand up and
Stop running away and maybe maybe be stronger like my friend Sonic in and my new friends. What are your names?
Shut up. I'm
My name is Nyak and I think you owe your friend porkers some cash
Where is G-Tame?
He's shaked nails.
There will be time for cash later.
I'm sure there's an ATM somewhere in, inside Metal City.
I don't have any cash because I'm just a little far.
What do we, why didn't you save that?
Oh my god.
I had to be considered.
If I could fry these robots
You say that was an ATM let's go let's go
Okay, let's go yeah if we would like exterminate into it made a cannon. We turn an ATM into a cannon shooting money
Yeah, that could maybe work. I see you got some of those cartridges. Need you know, let's give it a shot.
Okay.
You're not part of this.
Okay, but it was the three of our idea.
Yeah.
I think that ideas are best when teamwork is involved.
Yeah, it's between the three of us.
Three of us.
Three more.
Teamwork makes the three more.
Have you ever been in like a group project where like a couple of people just
absolutely sucked and three people did all the work.
You see that Sonic has been inside the city for 10 minutes.
Let's go get keychain so we can get our jet blue points back.
What's he got in the ATM?
So you make your way up to the city and you see that the city walls are made of this gleaming silvery metal.
They're not straight but at like a slight angle and set into them are two huge
steel doors. Each door is like 30 times the height of sonic retails and they are
firmly shut. Above the doors is a massive sign which says metal city. Abandoned
hope all ye who enter here that goes double four hedgehogs
Why doesn't everybody give me a perception check? Okay? Oh
That's a 24 for Naya. Ooh it
Just a 14 and with nothing
For some reason Jen's is really indignant about the sign during the hog latais
really indignant about the sign. During the hog latays.
They would say this.
I know, some people are just so rude.
We get it, we're on the same page here.
Shut up.
Who?
You see the like tails is like trying to get Sonic's attention,
but Sonic only wants to hang out with Jens.
Okay, Niaq fucking clocks that. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha you come to me. Ha, ha, ha, ha. All right, we pass cool. Tails, go talk to Nyak about where to buy gloves.
Oh, come on.
I'd love to know.
You see Tails pulls out a little note pad.
Not now.
Wow.
You guys are kind of similar, Nyak.
I didn't realize.
Oh.
Nyak closes his eyes and nods.
Ha, ha, ha.
So with a 24, Jen, you got the 24?
I know.
Niac did.
So Niac, with the 24, you're sick of this conversation.
So you look up at the doors.
At the top of the wall, you can just make out a bunch of flying drones.
Since you're on the ground, they don't seem to have noticed you, but it seems like it
would be hard for tails to fly up and get past them.
Next to the doors, you do see a small slot, like the ones in the backs of the robots, you just fought.
And you also notice a nearly invisible hatch that almost looks like the door to a cuckoo clock, directly above the door.
It's not open now, but with a 24, you can see that it might be some sort of security system.
Okay.
All right, should we just...
Well, I have these cartridges.
Mm.
Oh, there was a slot, right?
Oh, yeah.
What do we have?
We have tear egg dactyl.
Oh, we have a jet pack.
We have, what are the three?
Egg, stermon, terminate and let's create egg
So I sort of think like cannon and swords sound like zool would like attack us, right?
Mm-hmm. I don't know whether we give reason they're a deck though. Um, give me an insight check
Yeah, there are the there are the drones up there. Oh
Okay, only have plus one, but a 20. A 20. 30, 20.
While you're thinking about this,
you also look in the back of the game gear
and you see that there is another cartridge in there.
Okay.
Oh shit.
But this cartridge is just the botman cartridge.
It's just a video game that Sonic was playing.
He's like, it's pretty good.
Jins, if you heard of it.
Oh no, this is bringing back memories.
He hasn't heard of your petty little game.
It's for losers.
Oh, this is so funny.
My brother goes to parties and nightclubs.
And I have people over all the time.
Fancy events.
It got at a 9.0.
Don't even talk to him, brother.
I'll talk to.
I'll tell him.
I'll leave you alone.
Nia, tell Sonic, what is his weird little game?
Is it gonna help in any way?
Could we just stick this cartridge?
Sonic, Niaq is so happy.
Yes, Sonic.
But Brother, I want to know what your weird little game is.
Array, geez.
And why don't we, yeah, let's talk
without out of your shop from him.
He doesn't need to waste his time with you, Sonic.
Well, all right, onyx with a 20 insight,
you think that using a non-native cartridge probably wouldn't work,
but any of the cartridges that are registered to Robotnik would probably signify you as
a fellow robot.
Oh!
It's almost like an ID card, so we'd be putting, like, I'm the taradactyl guy.
Okay.
Or the berserker guy.
Okay.
I think that taradactyl is going to be safest.
Okay.
So I give it to Sonic and then take a wide birth so that if anything happens, I'm not affected.
It's all you, Sonic.
Yeah.
Sonic gives it to Tails.
You got it, Tails.
Oh, boy.
I sure love little gadgets and gizmos.
I can't wait to see what this does.
Tails wiggles his butt. what a clingy little loser.
Tails Wiggles is butt and twist up his tails and start helicoptering into the sky, flies
over to the cartridge slot, puts the tear egg dactyl slot in. You see the little eye
stock that was beneath that panel I told you about pops out, looks down, says,
verifying, verifying, verifying, welcome,
tear egg doctoral units, return to base,
and you see the doors,
shh, shh, open up, and you are granted access to Metal City.
I was waiting.
Tails, make sure to bring the cartridge back.
It seems like it's stuck in there.
I don't think I can get it.
Okay, well, that sounds like a you problem.
That's your good stuff to figure out.
Yeah, you can just stay out here.
It's fine.
I just think you're a lot stronger.
Maybe you can tug out the cartridge.
I'll give it a shot.
Okay, yeah, give me a strength check.
It's an 18.
18?
Yeah. Yeah, within 18, I'll. It's an 18. 18? Yeah.
Yeah, but then 18, I'll say it's like when you put your credit card
into one of those card readers that like swallows it a little bit,
you like grab it at just the last second before it swallowed all the way,
and you manage to tug it back out.
So you have the tarot, ductile cartridge that's...
Okay.
See?
See how good I am now take me to an ATM.
I can do the same exact thing.
Oh yeah.
Like, I immediately as soon as I walk through the door
to a perception check for ATMs.
Ha ha ha.
Yes, go for it.
And then I'll describe Metal City.
Ha ha ha.
Got a nine.
A nine.
Oh.
They must all be inside.
Here's the thing.
You see a lot of those ATM vestibules,
but they've got like the credit card reader out front.
You don't see any that are just like out in the open.
You have to have your own credit card to get into these ATMs.
Brutal.
So yes, you pass through the door
and enter the outer ring of Metal City.
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At first glance, it seems to be a huge city or possibly a huge machine or both at the
same time.
Currently you're in like a small steel courtyard but directly ahead of you, massive mechanical
buildings start cropping up so thick that you can't see in any direction except forward.
And as you take in the site, you see a lot of small little bronze robots scurrying to
and fro, carrying beams and girders, and little bits of construction equipment,
totally ignoring you as they go.
You see, some of them are wiping the windows
of the ATM vestibules.
Some of them are drilling girders together.
Some of them are hammering and nailing.
They're very cute and small,
and they're all like busy at work,
and they totally ignore you.
I've pointed one that goes away away and I whispered to nothing,
is there goes your fuzzer?
So,
ah.
Guess what I'm doing inside check for nubbin?
Ah.
It's a 12, you know, it's a baby.
I probably believe you.
Ah.
Ah.
I just grabbed one of the worker bots. Where's key chain? Yes,
we are looking for key chain. Hi. Hi. Must work for Robotnik. Must work for Robotnik. Must
build metal city. The greatest city on earth. Okay. Well, he Robotnik wants you to take
us to the hot tub and tell us where key chain is. Is there like a picture, like almost like a dictates or picture of robot Nick?
Uh, give me a perception check.
Okay.
Nine.
Another nine.
Uh, you, you do not see any propaganda in this ring.
Okay.
I'm keeping an eye out for it.
Okay.
Yeah, you can see that this ring is like comprised of this like forest of like mechanical buildings.
There's like no walkways even between them. The only thing you can see is this like big
central pathway that leads deeper into the city. But you do see that eventually the little bronze
robot you're holding like starts squirming and says, must return to progress, must make preparations for
the teeny-beenie machine. This is teeny-beenie machine. I'm sorry, I'm the teeny-beenie machine
This is teeny-beenie machine. I'm sorry. I'm a teeny-beenie machine It must make preparations for father robot next teeny-beenie machine. You're dead
Dr. Robotniks mean being machine of course. I'm
I turn I'm gonna turn the little robot around see if it's got a cartridge in it. It does have a cartridge. I rip it out.
Okay.
Give me a strength check.
Oh, God.
Can I give, is a help action?
Yeah, please.
Super people trying to pull the super little cartridge out.
Oh, okay, 16.
Great, 16.
These are pretty weak.
So there's no like fail safes or safeguards on them.
So you manage to get out the cartridge
It is a fab reg Kate cartridge. Okay. This is just a little construction bot. Great. I just wanted to
Free the bot from feeling like it had to
Had to build a little city. You do see that the bot is depressed now. What?
My life has no purpose. No, it does have a purpose now you can lead us around I guess yeah, let us be our purpose
Whatever do you what it's pretty cool. We flew mint here and you get to help us how many miles do you have oh my god so
few honestly
We honestly just did a big trip and like a big train
We honestly just did a big trip and like to the big train our points. Where would I even go them?
What's the fucking point? No, look okay, and it's not what I want. This is not what I want.
You're depressed to make other people your purpose. So just do that.
You're saying I could give you a fantastic tour of Robotnik's incredible metal city.
Exactly. I think you're more of a thirvot. give you a fantastic tour of Robotnik's incredible metal city. Exactly, and please just, yes.
I think you're more of a thirteenth spot.
Believe that.
I'm minor illusion, a cartridge that's like,
tour bot and like, put it in and pretend like I'm putting it in.
Yeah, this is the last thing we're going to try
because otherwise, I think we should just give up,
but it's not even worth it.
Okay, here goes nothing.
Go ahead and give me a deception check with advantage
as you lie to this depressed robot.
And that one, but also 12, which becomes a 23.
Wow.
You see the robot like tricks itself into believing you.
It was any, it was any all along.
There you go.
Right this way, right this way.
What would you like to know about Metal City?
Keychain, we like to know, yeah, we are.
We are a famous keychain.
Keychain, I'm gonna do an insight check.
Oh, and ATMs, we need a card, it seems to get
into the vestibule.
I'm gonna do a history check for this little drone. There are definitely robots that
know who keychain is, but it's not information that all the robots would have. I'll give it the help
action by being like, you probably got dragged here by a bunch of other robots. There were critters
also. There was sort of a whole menagerie of people who got kidnapped because no one can take care of their own business except for me and Naya can on ex
who's on ex?
sorry
or
Porker of course who's on ex? I don't know. He didn't say on ex. Sorry, I said Sonic's I said Sonic's
If you want a my name to be on ex, I changed my name dude
Sonic who's getting got it man I got a my name to be on it's that change my name dude Shhhh Sonic Sonic
Who is that?
You're getting gothic man
Sonic, what are you doing?
This is like you
I don't know what the hells you kind of have the same relation to Sonic is that Sonic is having to gents
I actually think tails is kinda cool
What?
Shhh
Shhh, he's alright
Hey, do you want to ride? No Shrouds. Shrouds. Shrouds. Shrouds. Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds.
Shrouds. Shrouds. Shrouds. Shrouds. Shrouds. Careful careful terrified of birds and this is birth like behavior If you are any louder you will attract the other robots if you don't put down my brother
I'll cast favorite enemy on your ass right now. Oh, yeah, we're so scared of them. You should have I smoked three of them at the same time
Listen, do you know where a goddamn sword of friend is? Hmm. I do not know a key chain God damn it But if they are as important as you say they would be further into the city
We must go down this main pathway. Okay, okay
What is it? What is your name by the way? My my normal name is
Constructo bought two two seven four
Do you like that because you can be called anything? Yeah anything anything you want you can be yeah
Do you want your name to be any junior?
Jen's junior
No, I do not want to be that what about Jen senior
Now that sounds sexy no no
I'm not
Wow
Wow. Okay, Jen's a thrash violently.
Okay, Jen's senior.
Do you have anything that you want me to carry in this bag?
Jen says a toddler meltdown.
That attempt is the bag of gloves.
Please, Carrie, all of my gears and bits and bobbins.
Let's put them in.
Put them in, yes.
Jen's senior.
Mack, what are you doing?
Tails, get over here.
Yes, you only need.
So this is your dad, huh?
Just not.
You see Sonic starts charging up a Sonic spin towards Jen senior.
Just let me at him.
What? Why?
I don't know, dude.
What do you fucking want from me?
Sonic, you are unhinged.
You're insane, dude.
You're being weird, man.
Right, all right. Let's just go further into the city, okay?
All right. This is not systemic. I have used to having picnics with.
Yeah.
Yeah, Parker.
This guy used to be cool, Parker.
Parker, I'm sorry.
Things are weird. Most of our friends got kidnapped and they're somewhere in this city.
And who knows what's happening to them, right?
Sure. Look, I've got a lot of projecting
that I could do with various father figures.
So Jen's senior, Papa, why don't you lead us
into the city?
Of course, my son, let us proceed.
All right.
I whispered to nothing.
Sir, it goes to your father.
Jen's senior.
Pa?
You see that, like, Sonic is nodding along. Gen-Syn here. Pa! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
You see that, like, Sonic is nodding along.
Tails is, like, clearly upset about all this, but it's also smiling and nodding.
So Gen-Syn here leads you into the city.
It's like one of those, like, little cute bronze robots you'd see in, like, Star Wars,
like, the little ones that scoot around on the ground and go beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, I suddenly down this main central pathway of a tallion of silver robots and one massive
golden badnik march down the street.
Behind you, the large metal gates slam shut.
You see the golden badnik's eyes flash as it points a spiky finger at you.
You filthy critters and deeply unfashionable humans.
You are not welcome in Metal City.
Leave here or prepare to be rebutticized.
What about the fashionable humans?
Yeah, I'm actually really fashionable and I cast crowd of stars.
I have a little star thing around my head.
Pretty fashionable, yeah.
Scanning, scanning, scanning.
Does not pass fashion, master.
What are you wearing?
I am made of gold.
I am beautiful in the eyes of my father.
You are.
Wait, I'm sorry.
You're dothly made of gold.
I am one of them.
Wow.
You're done.
You've sealed your fate.
You've absolutely sealed your fate.
That's my being destroyed. Let's get him, Papa.
Melt him down.
The robot's eyes look back and forth.
Yes, we will battle here. I will destroy you and show the might of Robotnik, prepare to fight.
Yeah, no, you're going to get smelt.
Robotnik, prepare to fight. Yeah, no, you're gonna get smelt.
Yeah.
You're so fucked.
You see that there are 10 of the silver robots
you encountered outside and then this one mass
of golden robot.
You see Sonic looks at them and says,
we're pretty outnumbered gang.
We can maybe fight them, but I think maybe we should
make a run for the middle of the city.
What do you say?
Yeah, I mean, the silver ones aren't worth our time our time the gold one if we could just get the gold one
Maybe we could sneak up on the gold one alone later. Okay great idea tails
What wasn't tails idea? I don't want to cut tails in I think we should go for it. You want to go for it?
If we can kill just the gold one, then we'd be rich.
Yeah.
All right.
Everybody roll initiative.
Great.
Ha ha ha.
It's a 24 for NIAC.
12 for Onyx.
19.
Have I, would you say that I've activated the boots in the last fight?
No.
All right, great.
You can do it as an active choice.
All right, great. Okay. and as a free action choice yes great
Incredible so Sonic rolled a natural one. Oh great. Yes. You're so fast Sonic. I just really think this is a bad idea
You see it he hangs back with tails and says tails. Why me out of here. Why me out of here man
Gowered He hangs back with tails and says, tails, fly me out of here, fly me out of here, man. Goward.
And tails is gonna act like a familiar essentially. So as a reaction, tails can basically allow you
to fly for a turn if you want.
So you can basically just call on tails for that.
Otherwise, tails is just gonna take evasive maneuvers.
So first up, you see that the the golden robot is like
kind of thrown off by your
candor and like takes a step back and says um
silver badmix entrions advance you deal with these these are beneath me
no and get back here we watch your plating
No, get back here. No.
We want your plating.
And Iak, you're first.
Silver, we're not talking to you, silver.
Guys, no.
And Iak's gonna shoot his bow and arrow.
Actually, so I'm wearing these new red sneakers.
I have them laced up tight.
I'm going to cast favored enemy on the gold robot.
Yeah, that's right. That's what I want. cast favored enemy on the gold robot.
That's what I want.
And I will be taking four attacks all on the gold robot.
Yeah.
I love this.
I think we have ways to control the silver ones
and get them out of here.
Okay, that's a Nat 20.
No.
Yes.
As well as a 28 on the first two attacks. Good Lord. I crit against that
two-match 20s in a 30-20 on the second two. How many times does that hit?
That's fucking smog this gold robot. It hits all four times my friend. Oh damn, that's a lot of dice that I have to roll
Centraryons protect me protect me
He's fucking freaks are crazy get them away from me. You have no idea who you fucked with
Okay, and I you cast favorite enemy,
why don't you give me an insight to see
how much gold this thing is made of.
Oh my God.
I got a three.
It doesn't matter.
It could all be full-schooled.
It's shiny, that's all you know.
That's 82 damage on that reward.
And I shot all of those arrows just staring daggers into Sonic's eyes.
Holy shit.
Whoa.
Maybe you should be the one that wears the gloves.
What are you saying back there?
Yeah, so you unleashed these devastating arrows at this golden robot.
Somehow you manage to find all of its like gears and pinch points and fucking rip into
this thing.
You see small little explosions all over its body.
It like takes a knee for a second and then stands up.
Okay, no more messing around. are in for it good. I will bonus action hide
Incredible it was the guy with the tails hey what
Tales why did you want to fight these guys?
Go and give me a stealth check. I think
Guys. Go ahead and give me a stealth check.
I think, Niaq might have something.
Are you multi-class rogue?
I have bonus action vanish.
You can use the hide action as a bonus action on your turn.
Oh cool.
And I can't be tracked by non-magical means.
Shit.
So you can just hide, you still have to, yeah,
give me a stealth check still.
Okay.
Dirty 20 on the stealth check.
Good lord.
The Twinnies are here for you. Yes. Just a big out of the stealth check. Good lord. The 20s are here for you.
Yes.
Just a big bed of 20s.
Rolling around in them.
Okay, yeah.
So, Niaq, there's this central pathway and the buildings are so thick.
There's not even like alleyways or like little nooks, but you just like flatten yourself
and kind of perfectly fit in between a bunch of pipes and just kind of vanish.
There's a bunch of grease here, so this is my,
this is my fat, this is your aloe brie.
You see that the gold robot,
the gold robot is messed up, it's still doing pretty well,
but like that was a big chunk of change
that you just took out of it.
All right, and that is going to be,
Jens is turn.
Sweet, I'm gonna chain lightning again.
I'm gonna chain lightning again. Don't my son goes for a goal of you.
Thank you, Papa.
I'm weeping.
What are you doing?
Bronze, badnik, get back here.
You are a deserter.
So I have to, I'm bronze.
It's just like blowing all my high level spells.
I have to cast at a seventh level because I've used my 16th level of the day.
You're casting at an higher level because I've used my 16th level of the day. You're catching at an higher level?
I have to.
So it targets an additional one, so I'm going to do three of these silver guys and the gold
guy.
Okay.
So that's all right, four rolls.
Great.
I'll do the silver ones first.
I start flossing with my swords and then I call lightning down it hits my sword, and then shoots out at these guys.
They need to be in 18, I think.
Floss, my son.
Floss, I am so proud of you.
Weeping and flossing.
Here are the three silver guards,
the three silver badniks.
Okay.
Oh, one got a net one.
One crit, and then one got 16.
Ah, fails.
Okay, so two fail, one passes.
And then most importantly, the gold.
And then what did the gold guy get?
I'm rolling the gold now.
Let's roll the gold.
Oh, fuck.
They got, oh fuck, their decks is so bad, because they're so big.
That's a minus five to decks, that's three.
Jesus Christ.
56 damage to everybody who failed.
Wow.
And then half, so 28 to the one who passed.
This golden robot is looking pretty fucked up.
It's sparks are starting to fly.
Sweet, actually, because of all this damage,
you can see that it's like gold and armor
are starting to hang off and it looks thick.
Oh.
Oh.
It's like an inch of gold.
And then I'm gonna bonus action.
Porker, you used your inspiration before, right?
Ooh.
I mean, yes.
Right. I'll give you new party conspiracy awesome
Yeah, you see Sonic standing next to tail says like if anyone else needs more inspiration here's something cool don't do drugs
Drugs are awesome. I absolutely do drugs immediately
Pork or what?
I do drugs immediately. Okay.
Porker, what?
Porker, you have drugs?
Can I have one?
You see Tails is like, I'll try a drug.
I hand out drugs.
Okay, Jens, is that your turn?
Yes.
Great.
Okay, so it is the silver robots turns now.
Okay.
You see the silver robots look at their fallen comrades
and say, this will not do.
We must protect the teeny, beanie machine.
Go forth, silver bad necks.
You can also retreat.
Okay, so they are going to attack,
let's see, probably Jens, I would imagine.
Yeah.
Yeah, Jens and Niac are gonna be at the forefront
of their attacks.
Niac's hide. Niac's hide. Oh fuck, Niac, kid. Oh yeah, Jen's and Nyark are gonna be at the forefront of their attacks. Nyark's hide.
Nyark's hide.
Oh fuck my kid.
Oh yeah, Nyark's hide.
Just me.
This is fine.
I'm standing in Greece.
You attack your brother?
This is my papa.
I point to the little copper choice.
I am wearing a baby if you try to attack me.
So that's something you will have to kind of, you know, wreck it with.
Careful, because it can spread a horn at any minute.
All critters are abominations in the eyes of robotic.
Put on some pants, how dare you.
Okay, yeah, Jens, unfortunately, these are all coming for you.
Great.
All right, so just two hits. One was a crit.
Okay.
You see, Jens, these don't actually have any special cartridges
or anything in them, so they're just like standard grunts.
So they kind of come at you and just whale on you.
They just beat the shit out of you with their spiky metal arms.
Ah!
Jens is really dexterously dodging everything until he gets hit.
And then like a little rat, he starts rambling around trying to catch all the rings.
No, no my riches.
Brother, brother I'll gather them.
You shave yourself.
Uh, Jim's is going to be 34 points of damage on you.
Okay, so um, I lose my rings.
You lose your rings.
Yes.
I'm going to do a dex save.
There you go.
Okay. So you go. Okay.
So you can add 10 to that.
Rad.
So I have plus 20 right now because I have plus 10 to Dex saves.
So I got a 29.
Awesome.
That's above the Dex.
So you now have five rings.
Okay.
So you were able to grab five more successfully.
No.
No, my rings, my beautiful rings.
That means you take zero damage.
Rad, yeah, you see the other rings like fall
into sewer grates and whatnot nearby.
I'm only upset that I lost five rings.
Right, no, no.
Tails, get in there.
Five golden rings.
You see the tails reaches his little hand
down into the sewer grate.
There's something biting it.
So that's not the ring then, keep reaching.
It's biting really hard, Jens, should I keep going?
Yes, the rings don't bite, you need to find the rings.
All right, that is going to be the gold robots turn.
Okay.
You see it like stands up, there's little fire sprouting all over it, sparks are flying everywhere.
It kind of hits its chest.
Oh, good hammer texture.
Don't hit that gold.
Yeah, excuse me, we're trying to keep the integrity of this medal.
Please.
This will not do.
I will destroy all of you.
You see a wine appears on its arm, kind of like a pathway of red light, and all of a sudden
shink.
A big red sword appears from its wrist.
Is that Ruby?
Go ahead and give me an insight.
16?
16?
Yeah.
It could be Ruby.
You know, it also could just be Garnet.
It's Ruby!
I am going to turn you into so many bracelets.
All right, so with this sword, you see that like,
the golden robot takes a couple like slashes in the air.
Shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo.
I will injure in the name of the teeny-beenie machine prepare to be destroyed and it's gonna take two attacks at Jinn great
All right, so 27's gonna hit yep 29's gonna hit great
So this is gonna be two hits you'll you'll get another chance to grab your rings after this
Okay, should I just settle the ring stuff so you don't have the real damage because it doesn't matter, right?
Oh, yeah, cool. Yeah, you see that it slashes forwards towards you
But at the last minute the rings kind of jump in front and block the hit almost like you're shielding away
But they do scatter so go ahead and give me another dick-stirty save plus five this time. No, don't be heroes
I need to sell you. Why would they be designed to do that?
That's the power of the rings.
Knock it off. Shut up. Everything goes fast around here.
I only got a, oh only a 23. Ah, that's below the threshold. Unfortunately you lose all your rings. So
but you do not take any damage from that hit as well. Great.
What is with you guys?
Does it look like we're going to
Make more money off of the gold of this robot than the rings that Jen's is losing
I will go ahead and roll a D100 to see how much ring equivalent this robot would be worth
Okay, okay great great
Onyx you have enough trinstagram followers to create a shop. They'll let you sell direct from your profile.
Yeah.
This golden robot is worth 49 rings.
Wow.
Okay, this is good.
That's a lot.
So the golden robot wasted both of its turns
trying to hit Jins.
Nihik is hiding.
That is going to be Onyx's turn.
Onyx, you see this gold robot is looking pretty hurt
at this point.
There's still a lot of silver badniks around though.
Okay, with my bonus action, I'm going to throw
one of my stars at him.
Oh my God.
Okay, I don't think that's going to hit.
You have a D12 of Bardic.
I have a D12 of Bardic, okay.
Perfect.
Okay, is that is going to be 19 to hit? That hits. Okay.
So, 37 damage to the gold robot.
Parker finished this robot. Does it look like when I finish it, is that the other ones will stop fighting
or are they still going to fight?
It does look like the gold robot
is giving them direct orders,
so they'll probably have to radio base
and figure out what to do next,
so there will be a moment for you
to figure out what to do next.
Okay, I think I finish in by taking a big bite
to see if the gold is real
What were you doing stop that no
And I can I maybe like explode him into 49 different rings that land on both of
Gens's arms
It's beautiful. I'm like Winona Ryder and Edward Cesar Hans.
You get 49 rings, but they are just normal rings.
They're not power rings, so they wouldn't be able to block a hit,
but they are made of pure gold.
That's arguably better.
Yeah, as I spoke to Madder, it's okay.
Onyx, is that your turn?
No, I still have inaction, so I would like to zen gas mass suggestion on all of the
remaining silver robots and tell them to go get the chaos emerald for and give me to Jens,
me, or a Niaq.
How does this spell work?
You suggest a course of activity limited to a sentence
or two and magically influence up to 12 creatures
of your choice that you can see within range.
They do a wisdom saving throw.
On a failed save, it pursues the course of action
you describe to the best of its ability
for 24 hours is the duration.
The suggested course of action can continue
for the entire duration. If the
suggested activity can be completed in a shorter time, this bell ends when the subject finishes
what it was asked to do. You can also specify conditions that will trigger special activity.
I think I'm just going to because it can be two sentences. I'm going to say, I like put on my best trim flu answer kind of like look and I'm like, okay
Hi everybody
Okay, find the chaos emerald bring it to one of the three of us and if you see us getting attacked defend us
Perfect you want us to find the chaos emerald and bring it to the dead pig standing in front of us
Or or the elf who is also rings on his arms, his name is Jens, or, or the man
hiding his name is Niaq. Hi, yes, I'm covered in grease. You can see me though.
I'll come out from being hidden for this opportunity.
Any of us counts to be any any of us counts for these.
This command runs counter to our base programming,
searching database to see if it is acceptable.
They're going to do a role.
But I will say, as this is happening,
Jin senior scutes forward
and starts speaking in machine language,
and is gonna give you advantage on it.
So I'm gonna hold with disadvantage.
Thank you, Pop-up.
For their wisdom saves.
Yeah.
Okay.
And it's a lot of robots,
so I'm just gonna roll them all at once.
Hahaha.
What do they need to be?
19.
They rolled a net 20 and a 19,
but they have a minus three to wisdom.
Yeah, I was hoping they would have bad wisdom.
Wow.
Yeah, you see that they all bend the knee.
I use my crown of stars going around me
and I accept their worship.
I look like a Renaissance painting, but I'm a dead pig.
Oh my God. So at this point, we could maybe even just wait outside.
I have a feeling we've just sent these bots to their death.
I don't think they're going to be able to handle this task, but that's fine.
Yeah, you see they go down with robot Nick, chaos reigns down with robot Nick,
chaos reigns.
Oh, yeah, with robot Nick, chaos reigns.
Great.
Just the Parker is about it.
The King Parker less chanting more going away.
You see that they race down this path,
headed straight down this long road
towards this kind of like,
glinting silver object in the distance.
But as they leave,
you hear a strange voice
that sounds like the cracking of egg shells. Alright, I was content to watch and gather data, but I can't have you messing around with
any more of my precious machines.
Dr. Intober, there is still good left in you! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha You're all looking around trying to figure out where this voice is coming from.
But then you realize it's coming from Tails.
What?
I knew we should have killed this beast when we had the chance.
Piece of shit.
His eyes go red and his head rotates at an unnatural angle.
Suddenly he cackles loudly.
Tails, what's going on little buddy?
Ha ha ha ha ha! Foolish hedgehog. It seems despite your sharp
quills, you are too dull with it to notice that your small, too tailed companion has been
replaced with an exquisite robotic replica. Tails O Tron! Reveal yourself!
Ha!
I, Porker, totally knew something was going on.
Ha!
I was wondering why you are acting so different
than I'm used to!
Right, Sonic?
You see that underneath Tails' flesh, bright red beams start emerging, and suddenly his body transforms.
Patches of fur break apart to reveal mechanical gears and cogs underneath.
After the steam clears, you see an enormous metal version of Tails sporting a large red mustache.
I captured the real Tails and used his brain waves to create a perfect duplicate
Until I activated this robot this poor drone actually thought he was tails
Now I'll use this bot to egg distinguish this disgusting hedgehog what's and for all oh
Yeah, I'm do whatever you want with the hedgehog
You were not splitting the rings with you.
Yeah, because you did.
We're in this together.
We have to save our friends.
We earned Zoz rings.
We earned Zoz rings.
We earned the rings.
It's not about the rings. It's about saving your friends.
You don't want the rings either.
Yeah, that's perfect.
I'm here for three things.
I'm here for rings.
I'm here for emeralds.
And I'm here to have a happy haglidae. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha You see I've captured your friend Keychain and he's been showing me all of your wonderful
Trinstagram content and I've got a very special project in mind for you
Yeah, it's always nice to meet a fan
If it's a project that pays and we got maybe we work together
You see that he looks at you and goes yes, well, it's always nice to find someone willing to negotiate, but first I do need to kill this hedgehog.
Um, she's that's kind of heavy.
I looked at Jen's, it seems like maybe you're the one who saves the hog.
All right, no, I'd rather you didn't.
Just don't. So you see that the eyes on Tails Atron
start firing up through this bright, angry red beam.
But as that happens, everyone go ahead
and make a dexterity save.
Oh boy.
Ooh, baby.
Nice.
24, 27.
21.
Okay, so as...
Easy guessing is Bell.
I will tell you what's going to happen.
You see the eyes charging up.
I'm going to roll Dex for Sonic as well.
Sonic got 19.
So you see as...
As these eyes fire up, the metal panel beneath you gives, like a trap door. And you see Sonic plummets
into it. But you all managed to grab onto the sides. Before we even stop hearing the echoing of his scream, I say such a shame.
That's awful.
That's awful that that happened.
All right, Pete, let's have a moment of silence for a sonner.
Yes, on it.
Salt on it.
Solomon. Um, and from the depths of the pit, you hear a squeaky voice say, what are you doing hanging
on?
If you guys don't drop down here, you're going to get fried, but at robot.
Come on, I'm trying to save you butts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. Okay. You know, excuse me, it's me Parker.
Is this to save my life?
Do you have any money?
I got all sorts of good stuff down here.
Come on, there's things gonna fly you.
I drop, I drop.
Nah, let's go.
So all three, you drop.
Yeah.
Okay, and Jen, senior drops as well, I imagine.
Yeah, I scoop my papa.
So you all drop down into this trap door.
You see, as this happens,
a huge beam of deathly energy fires.
And just fucking leaves a huge hole in the side of a building.
But then the trapdoor
choop flips back up and you are saved and you slide down this long metal shoot into a damp cell.
And once you're there, you look around and you see that you're in essentially like a small prison cell,
but then from one of the corners, you see this strange creature emerges.
They're wearing big chunky pieces of robot armor,
but underneath that, you can see the body of a rat.
And they say, yo, I'm the rat, and that's a fact.
So don't attack or I'll fight back.
You're in my home with its walls of chrome,
so tell me swiftly, are you friend or enemy? I'm porker
And where with porker why did you not say phone that would have at least sort of rhymed
I get ready to cast chain white
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They're villains.
We're bad.
The band of boobs should fight the Trinneville triplets.
Yeah, they must be dealt with.
Oh, good Lord.
That is part one of Mary Metal Mayhem. Happy Hechogladeys, everyone.
Happy Hechogladeys.
Happy Hechogladeys, indeed.
This has been such a blast. I'm so excited for you all to get to interact with Boombox, the Steelplated Rats.
Oh, my gosh.
Just a little sneak peek of what's ahead. Does anyone have anything they want to plug?
Yeah, you know, we have a couple of live shows.
Is that so?
Yeah.
We have...
We have a couple of stall-off tickets.
Yeah.
Fewer sold out. San Francisco, Chicago, I believe are fully sold out at this point.
Yep.
They released a few more in Chicago, but I don't know what the odds are there.
Minneapolis, Seattle, those still have tickets available, and Vancouver tickets will be
on sale soon.
So keep an eye out for that.
Nice.
Cool.
I would love to plug if it's okay.
My friends, Yuko and Ananth just put out a book
illustrated by one second, JR Doyle,
called Pixels of You.
It's a book about two photographers in the near future.
One of them is a human,
and the other is a human presenting AI. And they arrive on photographers in the near future. One of them is a human and the other is a human presenting AI.
And they arrive at photographers in the future and it's a cute little sci-fi book that
they wrote and you can read a sample of it on johnnywonder.com.
I really like all of their stuff and I would love for you to check it out.
Oh, and I of course need to plug Daniel Ramos for sound mixing and music.
We need Daniel's one that did the whole soundscape for this and all of the songs.
He did an incredible job.
You can find Daniel on Instagram at Dr. Schubert
and on Twitter at Schubert.
That's SCHUBIRDS.
Thank you so much.
Awesome.
Sweet.
I'll plug our Patreon.
Hey, you can listen to our short rest
over on patreon.com slash nadpod.
That's NADD, D-P-O-D, don't sing.
Yeah. Wee. Don't do it. We slash nadpa that's n-a-d-d-p-o-d-d-d-don't sing. Wee!
Don't do it.
We wish you a happy holidays.
We wish you a happy holidays.
We wish you a happy holidays and a happy, sonic hog here.
Okay, well if that's all of our plugs, you can find us on social media.
I am at Callie.
Brian is at CH-Murph.
Jake is at Jake Hurritz.
And Emily is at EA-AXford.
We may or may not be over there tweeting.
You know, it's the head talk of the day
so anything could happen.
And if you would like to tweet about the show,
you can do so at hashtag,
nadpod.com, that's NADD-D-P-O-D.
Now, let us do it.
We are the HELLO!
You are the HELLO!
The HELLO!
The HELLO!
The HELLO!
It is time to thank the benevolent Council of Elders,
starting with Brad D. Jeffrey S.
Heldor Frostback, Steelbreaker, Matt M. and
Darby M. Critters who were attending the great feast of Crittermas, but got abducted
by Robotnik, sadly all of them had 20,000 true blue points that they were more than willing
to share.
No!
Jordan D.J. Cutter W. Jive G, Dylan B, and Dungeon Mama, Critter Profits who predicted that the
hedge hoglet days would be saved by three
triplets however the prophecy mentions nothing about whether or not they will steal a chaos emerald
in the process. You bet your ass. Danielle the dastardly dame Andrew M. Beardman Dan Scott D
and Danny P. Parker Harris' family who has overjoyed that he is still alive and can't wait to be
reunited with him. There are also extremely rich and own a chain of hotels which Porcar is set to inherit,
looks like the Connicks is on X. Nice.
Mixologist Michael Mick D. Vincent W. and Victor T. Boutnour's boy, not to mention Andrew,
B. and Justin I. Gold Artisans who crafted Jen's powerful rings, he's currently on a lengthy
phone call with them, inquiring about how to remove their power and make them as he puts it normal and sellable again.
Ragnar Faredwin, TJM, the Nombarbarian, Kaylee, E, Alina M, Traylee the Cray Thay and Jared
E. ATM droids wandering around Metal City, they attack by spitting money, have very little
HP, and technically defeating one qualifies as as bank fraud, but that has never stopped the triplets before.
Damial R, cyborg version of Josh the Cobald, gauge M, filbert the fabulous and Richard
X Machina.
Silver badniks currently on their way to steal the emerald from Robotnik, you might think
they'd be destroyed, but they just keep recruiting more robots to their cause.
Viva la roo Revolutioan. Michael L. Trast the Traveler.
Sir Carl, Jory S. and Caleb L.
Hotel Robots trying to stop the triplets
from taking a bath in hot oil.
They kept saying that it would melt their skin off
but on its just shouted shield and dove right in.
Jack L. Flaless Whale.
Sam L. Nicholas C.
Sam B. and Mike H. Survival experts who taught
Niaq how to hide and play in sight was actually just a 30-minute seminar where they poured buckets
of grease on all of the attendees, but they did provide a free lunch which of course, Niaq declined.
Yes, yes, very, very weak stomach. Uch Malik, the bronze dragon, Matthew E. Colton B. Adam G. Megan S. and Ne badger.
Nuffin's team of pediatricians, they actually recommend that a muna corn of Nuffin's age
due no less than five sick flips off a giant spring per day, keep up the great work on
X.
Panama James, Cummins the Bard, Captain sigil, Nathan C, Grace G, and Diana.
The makers of the chain lightning spell, technically they were trying to make a charged
phone spell, but Grace G jumped a little too much, pumped a little too much arcane energy into it,
and here we are, all the better for it. CC Lulu, Barnes and Nader, Michelle O. Alex W and Timmy R.
Onyx's D-Sky's self-glammed squad, Onyx brings the magic, but they bring the glam,
the keeper, Victorian, collars, stiff, and her craters contort. Oh yeah.
Jonathan W. The Crock-Waring Warrior, Lucas B, Aaron S. It's Kevin, and Bionic Pookie,
the makers of Jam Spam, the canned jam that's taking Trinvail by storm. They're trying to get
the coveted Nyak endorsement, but so far the jam man himself has yet to crack a can. It's very hard to
open.
New York, KDW, Cast, Steven C, Michael M, and Mike K, the ATM Mechanics of Metal City,
they are known to skim off the top of every machine they service, but since there are
no bags in Metal City, it's unclear who's actually using them. Taco, the queen of Curly, enjoy T, Jake L, Nick W, Brave, The Badger, and Esme M.
Porcard's family, who actually totally fell for Onyx's disguise self-spell.
Onyx has been able to milk a lot of true blue points out of them.
Kelsey C, Nathan, Kazmir, the all-knowing Big Bad Beard of the Mad,
Giant Monsters on the horizon, And Gulia, Julia.
Gen's glove manicurists, when you wear gloves all the time, you need something to spend
money on so you get a manicure painted on those dueling gloves.
It's actually perfect.
Thrath, Berli T. Percival, Fredericks and Vaughn Mussel, Kloewowski, De Rollo III.
Thank you for that.
Christian A. J. Dragonborn and Joe Rowe the Inepro Poe.
Chaos Emerald Jewelers, they deal in exclusively world controlling reality bending jewels,
setting only the most ornate bands.
Guaranteed to drive your betrothed mad with power.
Cody B. Liam D. the Sandrane, Ben A. Faldonis and Dave H.
The JetBlue flight attendants
who have all quit.
That's right, because of the triplets.
Mid-flight.
Do you know how awkward it is to quit mid-flight when you have to just sit on the plane the rest
of the way?
That's how terrible the triplets were.
Vivian, Koala Bear, Catherine S. David K. Christian S. And Dustin S. The makers of the
Moodlecorn Bjorn.
It's been tested by Olympic athletes to make sure your baby Moodicorn will stay snug
through the flips, twists, aerials, and back hand springs.
Very nice.
Keith Kay, Connor F. Hawkeye Pierce, Isabelle F.
The Time Walker, and two left eyes.
The JetBlue flight attendants who supplied the triplets with the blue chips.
They needed to get the job done.
You are the real heroes.
Those triplets, blue chips.
DPC is awesome.
Blair, the bug Blair. Those triplets, blue chips. DPC is awesome. Blair, the
bug Blair bar, Blairian, Cat C, Pork Chop, Chanel M, and the Lacey Raptor. Porkers
loving family who somehow went the entire Hoglet A season without noticing that Onyx was
impersonating him.
Mid-At F Pat L, a truth that A, Lauren H, Amber W, and Elias Hawthorne. Concerned critters
who are attempting to stop the war on critter miss by a costing anyone
who wishes them a happy hogly day.
Wow!
Alex H. Ryan S. the bone duster Robert Crisp, Brent Lee C. and Micah B.
Former Sonic stands, turned triplet stands after seeing the gang toast to the bots.
They're making the world an objectively worse place.
Bloops, Carly and Laurie P. Seth, A.J., excuse me, spam gaming the not-so-skilled gamer
and Connor Savage.
Inspired by Jen's senior, these robots have adopted emotionally needy elves to revive
them a truly happy, hog-lady.
Christopher J. Pepplepot, Logan S. Leviathan, Bioquart 7, Remington CD, and Amber Dextrous.
A gaggle of baddies that the triplets would have been lucky to fight.
They are a fighting force of sentient ATMs who shoot cash at their enemies.
Oh my god, let me at them.
Thrill of the fright, Sullivan H. Trubb, Hoppedropper, Sydney T. Matt Y and Alex C. The co-owners of
the hottest Jared Store on Mobius.
Each piece of their fine jewelry is embedded with chaos emerald
and has the potential to end the world.
Lindsay W. Juicy Key, we champ wild, Vailin, Sprite Pepsi, and Carlin C, the party planters
who helped put together Keychains, Shitty Party.
Wow, suffice it to say they are the triplets next target, hell yeah.
Sid B. Jake, C.C.A. Matthew J. T.R.A.P. and Noah, more of Sonic's
critter friends who were trapped in Metal City rather than risk being saved by
the triplets they opted to just join the bots in destroying the world. Fair
enough. Estelle Baron S. Soastian's romance partner from the Baronies
conflicted DM Justin L.B. Dandy and Jennifer R. Chefs making a jam-based
hoglet day fruitcake on NIAC's suggestion, and it looks
sport-er-line, inedible, but it's only because it is.
Richard G. M. Barber, Marcos P. Pupp-Kaelish Gabrielle M.
and learns the balance. Druid, run a moonicorn daycare,
and are all surprised that nothing wasn't dropped off this morning,
and instead was brought along on a super dangerous adventure.
Dakota JP Pago's The Self proclaimed they Prince Tracy P, the Crick L. F. Librarian, Andy
E. Lisa M. and Holly Hyena.
JetBlue flight attendants who actually staged a walk-off as soon as they saw the triplets
boarding the flight, it worked out though, because then they just had unimpeded access to
the bar cart.
Anthony A. Leah C. Abigail, May B. Egan Finitum, and Slawth
King 777. Traveled trim influencers who just arrived in Metal City and are even more
pissed than the triplets that the Bonvoy is no longer operational. Join our cause friends.
Cal just Cal, Commodore Galaxy, Edison N, a monk named Dillgo, Nios the novice monster,
Hunter Sonnick's critter friends who, uh, he's really
happy if not been around to see his descent into pettingness and low status, the longer he
hangs out with the triplets.
Laura Lai and Kira Frost, Morgan M. Sticker, Zachary A, Steven E. and Mr. Adams.
JetBlue baggage handlers who stole a couple of Jens' gloves, fortunately for Nayak, he
packs a ton, so no one's gonna miss them.
Megan F. James F. Jimmy A. Penguin Crusader. Cody Mixit, Mick Kaye, and Kappin Kappy. My God.
Hackers currently working at the triplets be haste to hack into JetBlue's true blue point system.
They suggested hacking into JetBlue's actual bank account, but were firmly rebuffed.
M4L Rigby M, the Dragon Ambassador, Wayfarer, Andrew B, and Dalton B. Badenicks who did
not have mass suggestion cast on them, but are going after the chaos emeralds anyway,
because they just owe Porker a favor.
Thank you, folks.
Thank you, folks.