Buckle up, folks, because part two of "A MOUSE enTRAPment in Paris" is a wild ride! In this episode, our eclectic crew—comprised of Merida from "Brave," Beorn from "The Hobbit," Blastoise from Pokémon, the kaiju Mothra, and Nehemiah from the Hebrew Scriptures—teams up with Basil from "The Great Mouse Detective" to clear Remy of the murder rap he’s been framed for. As they navigate the bustling streets of Paris, the gang uncovers a web of deception that leads them straight into a showdown with some seriously shady characters, including a not-so-charming South Park version of Mickey Mouse and a host of animated villains. With clever strategy and a sprinkle of chaos, the team must prove Remy's innocence before it’s too late. So grab your dice, and let’s dive into this exhilarating adventure filled with friendship, food, and, of course, a dash of danger!

In this captivating continuation of A Mouse Entrapment in Paris, the Geeks on a Roll team delves deeper into a riveting narrative filled with animated nostalgia and light-hearted humor. The stakes are high as Remy faces severe accusations, and the team must unravel a web of deceit while exploring the charming yet perilous landscape of Paris. The cleverly crafted dialogue and relaxed tone invite listeners to join in on the adventure, as each character brings their flair to the investigation. The episode expertly balances humor and tension, showcasing dynamic interactions between animated icons and the team members. As they gather clues and encounter bizarre adversaries, the camaraderie among the characters shines, highlighting the themes of loyalty and courage. The episode wraps up with an unexpected twist, leaving fans eager for the next installment of this delightful animated escapade. Through clever storytelling and engaging character development, this episode captures the essence of friendship and the thrill of the chase in a fantastical setting.

Takeaways:

• In this exciting episode of 'A MOUSE enTRAPment in Paris', our eclectic characters tackle a murder mystery involving Remy, while blending the charm of animated classics with the thrill of tabletop role-playing.
• The players' unique character choices, from Merida to Blastoise, add a layer of creativity and humor, showcasing how diverse personalities can come together for a common goal.
• As the investigation unfolds, the group discovers clues that lead them deeper into a web of deception, highlighting the importance of teamwork and friendship in overcoming challenges.
• The unexpected appearance of iconic villains like Darth Vader and Thanos creates a delightful chaos, reminding listeners that even in dire situations, humor and camaraderie shine through.

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Professor Ratigan from the Great Mouse Detective once told his gang. My friends, we are about to embark on the most odious, the most evil, the most diabolical scheme of my illustrious career. A crime to top all crimes.

But today, in part two of A Mouse entrapment in Paris, our friends are about to see if there's an even more odious crime afoot.

As tj, Tiberius, Juan Blackwell and Michael Morelli continue in Geeks on a Roll, this campaign where they are helping the great Mouse detective Basil of Baker street investigate a murder that Remy from Ratatouille has been framed for. Can't wait to jump back into this one.

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I want you guys on back before we we get out of this intro what happened last episode and who are the characters that we are playing with today on this episode of Geeks on a Roll.

So far we've taken our team of Bjorn, Nehemiah, Merida, Blastoise and Mothra from the Hobbit, the Bible, Brave Pokemon and the Godzilla franchise respectively, through the streets of Paris. Nehemiah Shrunk down, went with Basil under the streets of Paris to uncover some evidence.

And then Blastoise, Myrda and Beorn have all arrived at the restaurant to investigate. At the same time, Mothra is circling Paris. They're waiting on the beck and call.

Now we've acquired a few magic items that may help us if someone figures out how to use the Pym particles. That'll be helpful.

Yeah, yeah. So good stuff. Investigating a case you Saw that the health inspector was replaced with the health inspector from Bob's Burgers.

And your teams decided to have miniature tiny Nehemiah be the one to approach him and ask, what's going on here? So fun investigation going on. I'm loving this because we get Great Mouse Detective and Ratatouille in the same thing.

That's literally was the premise. That's how my brain came up with this, is I was like, what if Great Mouse Detective and Ratatouille happened?

Well, the only thing just came from that.

The only thing that would make this better is if Fievel and Fievel goes west appears.

Stuart, man, I would have thought of that earlier. That would have been great.

Could have this whole death of the health inspector been an accident? A stray bullet from Fievel?

Who knows?

We didn't even. Yeah, we need to. Okay, first of all, yes, Nehemiah is small, so should we grow him?

So before we jump in, I do also want to say Mothra is still flying outside of Ferris. Not with the rest of the team yet, I bet.

It's so majestic over the City of Lights.

It's beautiful.

And Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, is the City of Lights, thank you very much.

It's fine.

It's fine. The Garden City.

And the only clue you guys have found so far, if anyone's missed it, you found a patch of fur that the rats believe smell like mouse fur. And the animation is different. It's not Pixar. It seems more to be like 2D Disney Animation. But it's not a rat, so we don't think it's Ratigan.

Or do we? Okay, so Miniature Nehemiah is gonna go up to the Bob's Burger health inspector. And what are we asking him exactly?

Well, I'm guessing that he's aware that the other health inspector has been murdered.

Yes.

Okay, so let's ask him, you know, have you heard anything? This murder also will get to the fact that people are experiencing acute heartburn in the restaurant.

We'll get there, but first, holding their chest. We're not sure if it's heartburn.

Holding their chest. Yes. First things first, though. Hello, health inspector. I work with a great detective. Don't mind my size.

Yeah, we're just everyone's.

Embrace the disbelief of my hand.

The Bob burger.

Bring me to your ear.

Picks you up. As he does, he's pointing at the giant turtle in the restaurant going, they have animals in here. Very upset about that.

And it just kind of explains he heard the other health inspector was murdered and that in the midst of all that, the review got dropped and he knows this restaurant needs to be shut down, so he came here to prove it. He's looking for fur and anything he can to shut this place down. Clearly something's wrong. People's holding their chest. This is not right.

Okay, well, hold on here. Nehemiah says that turtle is actually for turtle soup, so that's an ingredient. You're just seeing a delivery. Okay, don't mind the likely store.

We'll remove those for the food prep. That's why we do food prep. All right, so nothing to see here.

All right, all right. We're going to brush past the blastoise in the rhino.

And I know there's a very hairy sort of misanthropic man.

That's France.

Yeah, yeah. He fits in. He's not even transported a bear.

Yeah.

So he.

Yeah, he's going to brush past all that for you because, you know, why not? And he's going to go to the thing. He's really aggravated. He knows the place needs to be shut down. He's doing this for a fellow health inspector.

He really can't find anything wrong, though. Like, all the food seems perfectly fine. The place seems clean. He is going to say, you know, like, people are clearly experiencing chest pain.

There is something wrong. I know it. So he's investigating. He's going to the kitchen. He's looking for what's causing all the chest pain. The health. People's clearly not being.

Their health is not being attended to. So he is trying to figure out why, because he feels honor bound to shut the restaurant down for his fellow health inspector. He also.

I'm gonna use one of my two rolls now, 13. Heck, yeah. He also is really concerned that this isn't even a proper restaurant. Look at all the Nazis.

There's no way that this is just a normal restaurant.

And as you look around that the people he's pointing to, there are several people sitting down, eating that just have, like, the red band with the Nazi symbol on.

So we're in occupied France, then.

No, that's why he's so confused. He's like, what are these people doing here?

Okay.

Makes no sense.

Humanitarian crisis. This isn't like.

Well, yeah, he's just really concerned.

Okay.

And he keeps giving. He says, my anger and all my negative emotions keep getting worse.

And I don't know if it's because I'm surrounded by Nazis or if something else is going on.

Right. Yeah, that is. And Nehemiah expresses concern as well.

I do also Say you do overhear, of course, a bunch of people pointing. The Nazis are pointing at Nehemiah going, oh, I was one of them. And several of the other customers sitting around. You hear them.

A lot of them are pointing at Merida.

Isn't he?

Isn't she one of his. I don't know. I don't think so. Not technically. So you got a lot of that going on.

Okay, so first things first. Nehemiah is like, can I follow the health inspector to the kitchen? But on the headset, he's just carrying you? Yeah. No, in his pocket.

That was going to get there. Because he's like, can you just, like, put me in your pocket?

He's just hanging out there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think the health inspector would be fine with that.

Yeah. Okay. And meanwhile, Nehemiah, assume Basil knows to.

Hide when the health inspector goes into the.

Exactly.

Kitchen.

Yeah.

And meanwhile. So these National Socialists, like, they are a problem.

However, Blastoise, Merida and Bjorn are kind of doing Boba Fett thing, you know, where they're just kind of like standing. They got their hand on their blaster or the equivalent of their blaster. So everybody's like, you make one move,.

The giant turtle that's there for turtle.

Soup is just like. Like the. Just like the cannons are armed and Merida, like, has not one, but, like three arrows on her string. Right.

And Bjorn is just standing there with his arms crossed. And that's enough to just keep everybody calm, collected, copacetic.

She will. Merida.

Nobody's. Nobody's calm, but, like, fake calm.

In response to the chatter, Merida will ask who they're talking about, whose issue?

I assume she Is she going to normal customers or the ones with the Nazi bands, or the ones that all look identical for some reason, or the.

Ones holding their chest, the normal customers who were like, isn't she one of his.

Okay, yeah, well, you know the King. The King owns, well, everything. We can't talk. You cannot talk about him. And, you know, the tables are chattering and that's about as much as you get.

Some of them will get the king and then everybody else will be like, shut up, shut up. We can't talk about him.

And the Nazis.

Are you going to ask the Nazis who is.

I'm just going to ask the Nazis. What's up?

They are here on the demands of the King and are prepared for battle.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

So who's your king?

We're not privileged. You're not privileged to that information.

Can we throw a persuasion roll? You can Charisma roll. Do we want to. Is that a waste?

We have more.

Okay. Charisma persuasion. Who's going to be most persuasive? Well, be my. In the kitchen.

And he's really not going to be able to get anything out of the people that hate his people. So. Merida.

Yeah, yeah. It's not Bjorn and it's definitely not Blast.

Although we could do an intimidation, but I don't know if we want things to pop off here. Let's let'. Persuasion.

Yeah, I'm not sure they like people with red hair either.

Yeah.

All right, we got a 10. Okay. The most you'll get is you. You know, the one who owns the franchise. Owns all the franchise, right? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Okay. All right.

And everyone who is having chest pains, are they all eating the same thing?

No, no, they're all eating different stuff. You also do notice that some of their chest seems like there's movement. Like something inside them, maybe.

Oh, interesting.

Now let's go to the kitchen.

Yeah, let's go to the kitchen.

So Basil is hiding. He's done some investigating, but you're not able to speak to him right now because you're with the health inspector.

You see some of the chefs, the ones you know, there are some that are controlled by rats, some that are not. Health inspector does not know that. Are you going to talk to him and try to persuade him to talk to any specific chefs or anything?

Or are you just kind of seeing what he sees?

Yeah. Do you want to start with see what he sees and then we'll get to talking?

Yeah, Because, I mean, they're still. They're not like, unconscious.

Yeah, yeah. So everything looks proper. Everything looks. Whatever. He's asking where the food comes from, all this stuff. Has there been any suspicious activity?

The most you get is like, well, yeah, no, everything's clean. Of course we check people. We do the. We do our hats ups before people come in the back of the store, all that sort of stuff.

The only thing that was weird, like, one time we had a delivery. I swear you could hear behind the truck, like, heavy mechanical breathing, like.

And some of our food on this last delivery had, like a red glow to it when it first came in, but it dissipated. So we thought we were just eating something. He's like, ah, you served contaminated foods. It's not contaminated. It was sealed, packaged, correct date.

And he proceeds to look at the kitchen. All the dates and everything checks out. And he's still really aggravated, but he's like, there's Nothing here yet. And he is getting ready to leave.

He has not found anything, but he's still wrote them up for a lot of stuff that he just kind of made up with fur and different things in the restaurant. A nice notebook full of random things mostly seem to be untrue.

Should we ask him about. Okay, so on the day of the murder behind the truck, they heard Darth Vader esque breathing.

I don't think it was the day of the murder, but it was before then. Maybe a week or two.

Okay. And that's all they heard? They didn't hear anything else?

No, no, they. They do say one of the chefs not being good. Well, I can't tell you that because you're with health inspector.

Nevermind.

Okay, can we just assume that your guy doesn't go with the health inspector to leave the restaurant?

Yeah, he hops out of his pocket and just is on the. On the little counter. Nehemiah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in the kitchen.

Basil comes back up and he's like, yo, through investigate, I think. Only one of the people here don't have a rat. And it wasn't several chefs, just some of the rats seem to be better controlling the chefs than others.

Only one of the chefs apparently is currently not being controlled, who's just moving like a normal human. And Basil wants to investigate and invite you to investigate.

Yeah, let's go.

Yeah, cool. He's like, yeah, my. My friend, I can't remember his name right now, but he hasn't shown up for a couple weeks.

Actually, since a couple days before the murder. Actually, I've not seen the rat who has been helping me cook, and he finds that really strange. But, you know, we can't tell anybody. It's a secret.

Mm. And do any of the other rats know the rat? We can ask one of the other rats who it was that was controlling him that is missing.

Yeah, but I don't remember his name is the problem. Oh, yeah.

Do we just call him Missing Rat?

Yeah, we'll call him Missing Rat for the rest of this.

Yeah.

Missing rat A. Yeah. No, but they know where he lives and everything, and you can.

They do know it.

Yeah, they know him.

Okay. Okay. They're.

One of them even swears that he's still back home. He just hasn't been coming to work.

Okay, well, I think we should go there and talk to missing rat or absent rat, let's say. Absent rat because he's not missing. They think he's there. But before we do that. Yeah, a few more Things we should.

Also regroup so that Nehemiah can actually give out the epirus, propose the pym particles. He doesn't know that. And the blastoise.

Yeah, yeah. So let's get Nehemiah to call them into the kitchen.

Now that the health inspector has left, the vibes are getting a little bit weird in the already weird restaurant dining place.

So they come in, and I think we need to ask, like, do you remember anything on the day of the murder of the health inspector that out of the ordinary? Anything that you think we should know?

Who are they asking?

The chefs and the rats that are helping them?

Just the red glow.

The red glow. Do you have any food? That is.

One of them said, wait, that was the delivery. And it went away. And they were like, well, yeah, but I saw it at the door that day. It just.

Just the door itself, like, I thought we said we just saw it for a moment. And now they're kind of bickering back and forth. But one of the chefs thinks that he might have seen it at the back door the day of the murder.

The food with the red glow?

Not the food. The door was glowing that day. The food was the delivery day. The door was glowing that day, dissipated.

The back door.

There's been several random occasions that they don't seem to get their story straight where some of them have seen red glow on objects.

Do you have any of those objects?

Well, the glow has already dissipated, but they could show you some of the objects. They just look like normal objects.

Now, though, did the health inspector take, like, a CO2 reading or carbon monoxide reading? Is this some sort of chemical poisoning?

No, he did all that. It all checks out. Everything's fine.

Okay, well, the only other thing is the. The fur sample. Should we. Do we have that? We got that, right?

No, that's actually being kept with other evidence at the rat pound where they're keeping Remy.

Okay, okay.

All right.

Well, should we go to absent rat's house then? Should we get the address, or do.

You want to go to the rat pound or both.

We should do both.

Are we going to split up or do one at a time?

Never split up.

Never split up. Let's do one at a time.

Yeah. As you are leaving the restaurant, a group of Star wars prequel battle droids appear. Roger. Roger. And begin shooting at your team. It's a group of 20.

Bear mode.

Yep.

Beyorn just goes straight. Bear mode. Mode. All right.

Blastoise's cannons, like, you know, go forward. Merida knocks her bow, and Bjorn's like, hold On. I got this.

Yeah, yeah. It's just not a fight at all. You guys destroy the battle droids.

But you do think it's strange that there was a battle droids randomly appearing outside of the restaurant?

I do think of that strange. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I just. Apart from the stranger, I'm more excited to have Bjorn destroys some battle droids.

Oh, yeah, yeah. No, we don't even need a roll. He just tears them up. Do you want to describe in detail how you think it went, or just. He tore him up violently?

He went Honey badger.

It was. It was violent mode. Praise God. All right, so where are we going first? Absent Rats House or the rat?

I want to say tj. What do you think? Absent Rat House. I want. I want a little bit of, like. I want some evidence before I go talk to Remy.

Yeah, we'll make sure Mothra is still good. On our way.

Yeah, yeah.

Mothra's just chilling. Mothra did express to you that she wished that she could have had the shrink ray. She wanted to be with you. She misses you all.

Yeah, it would have been fine. Yeah, but, I mean, Pym Particles are technically capable of doing both. They're not separate particles.

But they're already in a disk. They already have a function. You just don't know what the function is. Because these characters wouldn't know.

I don't think any of these characters would know.

No.

Blastoise feels. I don't know. Blastoise might be able to sense it, but I kind of doubt it. He senses a similar. He senses a similar energy to.

Of the Blastoise Night and the Pym Particles. So Blastoise feels as though it probably makes you bigger. Just because. I want you guys to know that.

Okay?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, we're sorry, Mothra. You're gonna. Don't worry. You'll have your time. Right now, you're just being majestic. Rest up. We'll call you in.

We just felt like Nehemiah needed to take the lead on the shrinking thing.

She understands.

We'll include you. Yeah.

Okay, so we're appearing at Absent Rat's House. He's just chilling, man. Like, he's sitting on a big cheese wheel and he's down at a bunch of Turkish Delights, and he's like, this is great.

I'm in heaven.

So why hasn't he been going to work?

Oh, you know, that nice lady gave me these desserts to not go in. I could just eat all day. Why would I go to work?

Who's a nice lady?

Oh, I didn't Catch her name. She had, like, a white dress and, like, a pointy hat. Really chilly. I don't know. When she's in the room, it was, like, cold.

But she gave me these candies. They're so good. And he's just chomping down some Turkish delights.

She's a witch.

I don't know. She was nice.

Did she have a dwarf who was very surly?

I don't remember. I just remember the nice lady in the food. How pointy was that and it being cold. I don't know.

Kind of like, you know when the girls come in the restaurant with, like, the little princess hats with, like, it being pointy, but, like, it was like. I don't know, maybe it was ice. It was, like, white and it was weird.

The Snow Queen, did she ask you.

To do anything for her in exchange for the cheese and candy just to stay here?

Oh, the cheese is mine. She only gave me the Turkish delights.

Okay. Does she ask you to do anything for her?

Just to not go to work, which I could do that. I love not going to work and eating candy.

Fair enough.

Yeah. I'm trying to think if anybody here would know. No one would know. So I would.

I would ask him. Are you aware that there's been a murder at your place of work?

What? See, more people should stay home and eat candy.

Okay, so like, perception check here. Is he genuinely surprised or is he play acting? Is he just like, inside check.

Roll. Let's see.

Or inside check. Yeah.

15 Super. No. Yeah. No, he's very genuine. Completely just unaware. Was really just so obsessed with the candy, he did not recognize anything else.

Okay. All right. So he's genuinely surprised. Is there anything that you think we should know about now that you're aware of this murder?

Is there any information that you think would be helpful for our investigation?

He'll share that. There's no way Remy did this. He's such a good guy. He cares so much about food. He would never do anything to contaminate food.

He'd be willing to go on record on the stand for that.

Of course.

Yeah.

Remy's great guy. Will there be candy there, too?

If you. If you are a good witness. No, that's bribing. Yes, there'll be candy. No strings attached.

Candy, no strings attached. He just delights at the courtroom.

He agrees. Yeah.

Okay, let's go to the.

It's really easy. It's really easy to slip on your ethics.

Yeah, it is. It really. It is. Right in this game called life. Okay, well, let's Go to the Rat Pound, then, I guess. I don't know.

Is there anything else we should do, tj?

Let's compile a list of black mice that we all might know.

Is that racial profiling?

No, I was just thinking, amongst your characters, which of them would know any black mice? I mean, Blastoise might know some Pokemon.

Yeah. Alolan, Rattata. Meredith knows Mickey Mouse.

Why would she know Mickey Mouse?

She should know of Mickey Mouse.

I mean, fine, I allow it. Why not?

They include her.

Okay.

Yeah.

In the parties.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They include her. So she knows Mickey. Okay. She knows Steamboat Willie.

There's no way that they would do any of that, though. Pete maybe, but he's not a mouse.

I think he's a mouse.

I thought he was a cat.

Is he a cat?

Someone let us know in the comments.

Let us know what Pete is.

Oh, like from. From Goofy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right.

He's like a really big mouse.

Yeah, I thought he was a cat. Are we going to move to the old.

Yeah, we're going to go to the Rat Pound.

Rat Pound. Let's go.

Our suspect list is currently Mickey Mouse.

All right, you go to the Rat Pound, you're able to meet up with Remy. Of course. He's saying, there's no way I did this. I wouldn't have never done that. Whatever.

We believe you, Remy.

What's his alibi? I don't believe it.

The animal. The animal. Police give you the rat fur? I'm trying to think. They have a Turkish Delight that was found at the scene.

Some ice particles that don't melt. I think that's all the evidence that they've collected so far.

Interesting.

Okay, well, then should we let them know that we have met with absent rat who has interacted with somebody who also gave her candy, and there's some mice stuff going on.

Yeah. They'll ask for description, if he knows anything, who the person was, name, all that kind of stuff.

For now, we're just calling her the White Queen, which.

Yeah, the White Witch.

The White Witch, yeah.

Sure.

Yeah. They're like, okay. He didn't ask for a name before he accepted candy from a stranger. Don't do that, children.

He said he's a. Yeah, he's a credulous mouse.

Yeah. All right.

He thinks with his. His. His stomach.

Yeah, yeah. Remy swears he didn't do it. He was actually late to the restaurant that day because he was preparing for a big award.

They were going to reward his restaurant for the top. I don't know. Pasta In Ratatouille Place, in all of Paris. He was about to get all kinds of accolades. They were having people come in that day.

The health inspector did a surprise visit because of course he always wants to try and close Remy down. But he wasn't even at the restaurant yet.

Do you have an alibi? Someone who could.

He's with the other rats. He was with the other rats.

Okay, right.

Some of them already went to work. The rest of them were helping him prepare for all of the many rewards he was about to get.

Okay, so his alibi is backed by multiple witnesses and he's still in the pound.

Well, they're not going to ask rats that can't understand them.

Is there anybody, Remy, that you would say this person has it out for me, that they would want me to be framed?

The health inspector.

But he's dead, right?

Skinner. The old head sheriff.

Oh, yeah, Skinner.

True.

He would say that TJ knows. Right. All right.

And since we have limited time, we're gonna go ahead and move on, I think back to the restaurant is that's where everything's starting to compile. They want to go back and look for more evidence. The pound police, etc.

And they heard something was going on there at the restaurant now, so they want to go investigate what's currently happening. And I assume you guys would also want to go so that we can.

Yeah.

Blastoise will nudge Nehemiah towards using the Pym Particles.

Ah, is that that we're going to use them for? Make Nehemiah normal sized again.

Should we.

Or.

Or do we want to keep Nehemiah small? Could that come in handy later?

That's why I didn't say it before.

Yeah. And do we want to see something cool like Mothra getting even larger?

Super Mutt, Super Bjorn.

Super Bjorn? Or Blastoise with the Blastoise Knight plus Gigantamax.

Blastoise. Gigantamax Mega Blastoise.

Oh, my gosh, the possibilities are endless here. Let's save the Pym Particles and Nehemiah hops on Merida's shoulders. Do we feel good about that decision?

Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Okay.

All right, cool. You go back to the restaurant. There's some chattering people going on.

The Nazis have all stood up and are lining themselves on the sidewalls along with the people who all kind of look like the same face. But now you notice they're also holding these white helmets that cover their whole head. They're stormtrooper clones. You know, for those listening.

You know, Clones. They're clones. Okay. Yeah, they're all Lining up.

And you'll notice some of the people who are getting really angry at the restaurant, including the old health inspector, suddenly start becoming these shadow creatures or some of shadow creatures along with nobodies. And the ones who are holding their chest xenomorphs emerge from their body from their chest, exploding out.

So we have heartless nobodies, Nazis, clones, and xenomorphs all emerging in the restaurant ready to attack you guys. Here we are.

Let's go.

All right, so I think we might use the Pym Particles and the Blastoise Knight on Blastoise.

Mega Giant Supra.

Yeah, he's gonna blow the roof off and Mothra's gonna be able to.

Yes.

All right. I just don't feel like you need a roll for that either. Like, there just seems to be no reason why that wouldn't work.

The only thing I'll add just for a flour to. Okay, so, yeah, Blastoise, like, blows off the roof after ingesting st. Just makes him like Super Blastoise.

Merida lights an arrow on fire and shoots it into the air.

And that's using her old bow, or did she pick up the bow that you had?

New bow. She doesn't even need to light anything on fire. The arrow just lights itself on fire because of the bow's powers.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. No, no, no. So it's like an exploit. Is it like an explosive arrow? So she, like, shoots an arrow into the sky. That's the signal for Mothra.

And Mothra's like, it's go time.

Mega Super Blastoise. Mothra's flying in. Merida has a bow that can kill God and man. You wipe all of these little villains out. When Mickey Mouse from South park pulls up.

Yeah, the South Park Mickey Mouse. He pulls up and explains his dastardly plan. Because that's what villains do, right? They explain their bad guy plan before the big fight.

And he was deeply afraid because now that Mickey Mouse has become public domain, Disney was thinking of picking a new mascot. And Ratatouille was too perfect of a film.

He knew they were going to choose Remy, so he had to get Remy framed so that he could take Mickey's spot as the big one in charge of all of the franchises. So what did Mickey do? He grabbed his favorite franchise that he owns, all of the bad guys, to help him keep you guys from uncovering his plot.

So if he kills you here, no one will ever know the truth. So as he's doing his dashboard plan, of course, the people he has recruited are going to now join him and appear.

So you have South Park, Mickey Mouse, Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet, the White Witch, Darth Vader. The White Witch is from Narnia. Darth Vader is from Star Wars. People should know that. And the Titan Kronos from Percy Jackson.

That's Surtr in that picture.

Don't assume, tj.

We're gonna lose a bad guy in Marvel. Yeah.

Okay, then Surtr appears from Percy Jackson as well. Sure. Does it matter a lot?

Yeah, it matters a lot.

It matters so much.

It matters so much. Okay.

Okay. Well, this is who you're fighting. Do you want to explain what happens?

Do we think that Thanos, with a reality Stone, can be beaten by a Mothra and a giant Super Blastoise?

No.

I still don't think he can either, actually.

So I don't. Yeah, I don't. I don't think so either. So who's going to take on? Who's going to take on who? Is the question.

Merida is going to try. Merida's going to shoot him with her appearing bow.

He's going to just wave, and the arrow turns to dust on the way to him.

Yeah, I think they just.

And now Vader are just marching up to you.

So let's. Okay, so Nehemiah is still small, right? So he. He's like. He just launches into action. So he scurries.

He scurries up Thanos's leg and, like, gets right in his ear. He's like, the reason why you are this way is because your dad didn't love you in the way you needed.

As he's doing this, Vader reaches his hand out and uses the Force to pull Nehemiah away and begins to crush him with a Force joke.

Bjorn's like, that's not happening. He's like. He's just like. He's still a bear. He didn't transform back into him. He's still a bear. He's just been walking around like a bear. He's like.

Like, just walking through bear is, don't touch my Nehemiah. And, like, just tackles Vader. Vader. Does Vader get knocked over?

I'm gonna say yeah. And at that moment, the White Witch has a blizzard fly in, blinding you all.

And the Titan begins to tower over everyone except for Blastoise and Mothra to crush you all. Thanos, meanwhile, has the gauntlet pointed directly at Mothra and shrinks Mothra down to about humanish size. He's going to swat it like a bug did.

Okay, but looking up Blastoise's moveset.

Okay. Was I before? So did Bjorn, like, distract Vader enough for Nehemiah to get that, like, psychology play on Thanos?

In, like, was he able to whisper into Thanos's ear, or did we miss that opportunity?

I'll say he was. I don't think it's going to have much effect. We can. Yeah, yeah.

Just as of GM being kind, though, I will say, I do not think your team can win the fight straight. But I would like to remind you the goal is not to beat these guys in a fight, but to prove Remy's innocence.

Yeah. Is the health inspector still alive?

Oh, he turned into a heartless and nobody. You already killed him.

Well, who are we trying to prove this to?

You just have to present that evidence to court or something. As long as Basil can get away with the evidence, he will prove Remy's innocence.

Right. And Basil is here, like, he's heard everything, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Basil's just been hanging out with Nehemiah in somebody's pocket or on their shoulder or whatever.

Right, okay.

Right, Right, right, right.

Blastoise is muddy water.

Wait, what?

Blastoise is going to use muddy water and fill the area with muddy water.

Yeah. So, yeah. So mega, super giant Blastoise Ex. Just muddy water. Everything everywhere, Everything.

Basil, being a mouse, is a really good swimmer and is able to hold his breath for up to three days.

Right.

I can get down with that.

Okay.

And him and all the other rat chefs that didn't transform, they all know what's happened. They got to go tell what's happened.

And now, at this point, our team, they're like, chances of survival, odds of survival are, you know, 1 million something or whatever, you know, and someone's like, don't tell me the odds. But they're. They're willing to sacrifice themselves so that, you know, the truth can get out. So, like, get out of here. Get out of here. Right.

Bjorn's fighting Darth Vader. Nehemiah is trying to get in Thanos.

The muddy water is pretty effective.

Oh, it is. Okay.

Yeah. They're like, yeah, we. I'm gonna. Well, actually, let me. Let me roll.

Okay.

I think we have one last roll and 10 minutes left. We have another re roll, because that was a one, and that's just sad. Okay, 18. I'm gonna take it.

Yeah.

Everybody at least temporarily, completely blinded, unable to get to you. But you do know that Thanos is probably able to wipe this all away.

So you don't know how much time you have, but they are blinded the biggest problems I see is giant Super Blastoise and Mothra are huge, so them getting away seems harder.

Didn't Mothra get shrunk, though? Mothra got shrunk.

Oh, that's true. Mothra is like suicide.

Yeah, yeah, but I. But now we got a shot with the bow. Because if Thanos is blinded, he can't see that. That bow shot coming from Merida with the God killer bow.

It's true.

All right, I'll break the rule. So instead of escaping, you're going to try and do an O. I will say, if it fails, they will find you. You will die.

No, if it's successful, he will die.

No, he. Blastoise is not trying to escape. Yeah, it's not in Blastoise's character to do that.

Merida is gonna stay with Blastoise because it's not in her character to abandon people.

Right. And Bjorn is in bear mode. He's like, I'm just here to destroy things.

Basil is trying to get away. Nehemiah is trying to get away.

Yeah, yeah, Nehemiah. Little Nehemiah is on Basil's back.

Nehemiah, Basil, try and get away. What's human sized Mothra gonna try and.

Get away or human sized Mothra will help them try and get away?

She's gonna. Yeah, yeah.

So they can all probably, since they're tiny, fit on Mothra and fly away pretty easily. As long as it can swim over to Mothra.

Yes. I think Mothra is gonna be successful.

And then we'll see what happens to Merida, Beorn and Blastoise with the roll. I'm gonna give you a 50. 50 Shots on a 20 sided dice. Higher than 10, it lands. Thanos is killed.

Lower than 10, you miss because muddy water also affects you.

Right.

Thanos wipes the water away and they smash you like little bugs.

Just before you roll, Mothra drops them off and comes back. This is important.

I don't think you have enough time for that.

Dang it.

Yeah, I'm just.

She can fly at supersonic speeds.

This is like a split second thing, though. The shot of a boat, man, just 18. It lands. Thanos is dead.

So now all that's left is whoever that Titan is, the White Witch Vader and South Park Mickey Mouse. And at this point, Mothra could come back by this point. Yeah, I'll say that. Currently you have Mothra, Beorn, Merida and giant Super Blastoise.

Okay. Merida will move her attention over to Vader because famously, lightsabers are not that effective against physical.

Yeah. Projectiles. Vader is immediately reaching out to force choke Merida. But all the other people would see that.

And now you know what that move is because he's already done it to.

You once, and Bjorn is still right there. Yeah.

So Beorn's just going to jump on him. Not allow that.

Does he, like, tear Vader's helmet off?

Like, just. Well, I think as he's trying to pull him, Merida gets the shot off, is able to kill Vader.

Okay.

The other three left the White Witch, of course, bringing in a higher blizzard. So you can't see Mickey Mouse is starting to run now because South Park Mickey isn't that powerful. He knows what's gonna happen.

And all that's left is the White Witch and the Titan and Mickey is running.

Okay,.

That's hard.

Okay. Merida's merit. I mean, Merida is gonna have to be the one to take out the Titan because she's got the enchanted bow that can kill her.

But yeah, that bow was too op. I shouldn't have. I maybe shouldn't have done that.

It was very generous. We can't let the villain get away, though. So I feel like Mothra's gotta go and like, swoop and get the villain.

Okay. I like that Mothra is able. I'll say. Even with the blizzard. Cause Mothra is Mothra.

Yeah.

Yeah. Well, because human size, maybe.

Blasphemous. Mothra. Yeah. Is focusing on the White Witch then. So, like, he.

Yeah, he distracts her.

He's gotta fire something at her.

Killing the Titan. Mothra grabs Mickey. All that's left is the White Witch. Now there's three of you. Do you want to describe how the White Witch gets killed too?

Tj, it's all you.

Gigantamax Mega Hydro Cannon.

Oh, my goodness.

Heck, yeah. All right, so you beat the villains.

Basil and Nehemiah were able to report to all the authorities, get word out, get it in the paper that Remy is innocent. He is, of course, freed. Your mission has been a success. Congratulations, fellows. All right, everyone being freed.

Nehemiah, or you know right who, he wants to cook you all some food. He's excited to open his restaurant back. Even though you destroyed was fixed pretty easily because Mothra magic.

And because the man in the cloak came back and said, oh, the king, the real king brought a gift and some construction crew came and rebuilt the whole thing. No problem. The man in the black coat was also Riku from Kingdom Hearts. He's a good friend of the real Mickey. You get the place built.

They're cooking the food. Everyone's living happily. Do you want to describe what your team does, having succeeded in their mission or anything from here?

Michael Bjorn, being a avid, you know, beekeeper and food, you know, grower, has set up his own business providing produce and such to the restaurant.

Big Meat guy.

Opening up new possibilities for this restaurant in terms of its menu. That's all I got.

Human sized Mothra quite likes the city of Paris.

Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

Opens up her own show.

Yeah. Okay. All right. I'm digging it. Digging it. All right, well, we'll go ahead and move on to the bonus points then, starting with the negative points.

You would have lost three points if no one used the shrink ray. No one did that. Minus three points if no one tried any of Remy's food. You didn't explicitly say it, but I just feel like someone probably did.

He just fed all of us just now.

Yeah, yeah, you're not gonna lose point for that. That'd be crazy.

And we're in business with them now.

Yeah. And then minus five points if you left, got separated, or let Basil die, which you did not. So we didn't lose any points.

Before we do what points you gained, I should actually rate you on the criteria. So I'm leave you in suspense for just a minute longer here. Zero to ten mission status. I gotta give it a ten.

I was really afraid it was gonna be a terrible grade because I was like, oh, man, they're gonna try and stay behind and defeat these. And they were overpowered. There was no way you were gonna win. You pulled it out somehow. That 18 roll. Insane. Insane.

So I'm gonna give you a 10 on the machine status.

Yeah.

Yeah. That's pretty good teamwork. Everyone worked together really well too, man. I don't think there was any snags in the teamwork.

Like, everybody was pretty amicable. I'm gonna give it a 10. Also sustainability as far as, like, them sticking around together.

I mean, I don't think any of them became best friends, but they all enjoy Paris. You described them enjoying Paris. I don't think anyone's like, I never want to see you guys again.

Bayorn's kind of a loner, but Merida loving animals and bears. She's probably still willing to do that. Blastoise being an animal, Mothra being an animal.

I just don't think it takes away that much from sustainability. I'll give you an eight.

And Nehemiah loves to build. He's so excited to help rebuild Rat.

Nehemiah helped rebuild the restaurant. I forgot about that. Absolutely.

And he also built an excellent case.

We made a cup. Oh. Oh. Indeed. Strength. Since you got Mega Blastoise. Super Mega Blastoise. I think it really helped on the strength end.

Yeah.

And Mothra, like, I still think you could have been stronger. Like, the bad guys you faced were more powerful than you.

So I'm not going to give you a 10 on strength because, like, you could have had stronger people here. You could have Superman's out of Nehemiah. I'm going to give that a six because it's still on the strong end.

But I don't think it's like your team was not OP ed. You just played really well.

Yeah. I mean, it's almost one of those things where, like, we had so much strength. It. It.

It was almost like it kind of canceled each other out because you just let, like, one really strong character be really strong in the moment as compared to, like, combined forces all at once.

Yeah.

Yeah. And then fun Blastoise loved bead. Super mega giant Blastoise. Mothra had a good time in the city.

Yeah.

Nehemiah hanging out with the mouse. Had a good time. I think Beyorn loved tearing the people apart.

Oh.

No one here.

Destroying droids.

A fun loving, happy, go free character. But no one's like a stoic character either. So I'm going to still put that on the high end. I'm going to put that at an 8 as well.

So your base score before bonus points. 20. 20. You have 42 before bonus points.

That's good.

This is probably about to be the record. Probably about to be the record. But we got to see what bonus points you're going to get. You haven't lost any. Okay. You haven't lost any.

But what have we gained? Plus one if you got Dawson to join. No one tried, so we're not gonna do that.

Plus three, if you prevented the Xenomorphs Heartless and nobody's from appearing. We didn't get that. You got seven of the clues, but you. You also forced me to provide extra clues.

And some of the story I left out because we were going longer than I thought. So I'm gonna call it eight since you gave. You made me come up with clues that I didn't even think of.

So I'm gonna call it eight and give you six of the points you could have got for finding all the clues, which puts you at a tie for 48.

Man.

There's nothing to do about that.

Yeah. I'm gonna put it the tiebreaker. I'm still gonna give to you guys. So it'll still be 48 points.

But I'm gonna say this was the record simply because you were not meant to beat the bad guys at the end. And you did anyway. You did it anyway.

Wow.

So even though the score is the same, I think it's reflected in the story that this deserves to be the. The record breaking, record breaking team. Congratulations.

You get a point for killing fans.

We do. I mean, I'm. I'm totally fine, like, you know, doing around like. Like a. Like a tiebreaker of some sort. Creative. If. If they want to dispute it.

If Christian and Mark want to get.

On here and not creative, I have a separate idea.

I will do a Hulk Hogan leg drop. Virtual cornhole.

No, real cornhole. We all have to go to theology beer camp. Me and Michael and Chris, we have to get Christian there and Mark. Yeah.

So before we wrap this up, you know, you know, we talked about theology as play, and we don't we do this for fun. We do just do this for fun. But also, like, I feel like what's fun is seeing some of the different themes and stuff that came up.

So, like, I, from the get go was like, I know we're gonna talk about capitalism and identity because, you know, the whole thing with, like, the rats, and then we're talk about Nazis and a Hebrew character. You talk about, is she one of us? The Princess Merida. She's Pixar. Does she really count? So we have a lot of questions about identity.

You see the greed and jealousy of South Park Mickey Mouse come up. So we had a lot of different themes there. Michael, what.

What do you think as far as, like, the gameplay goes, like, what happened in the story, your crazy role? What themes do you think most stand out that maybe you'd like to highlight before we wrap this up?

I mean, you listed some great ones, but the one that stands out to me is friendship. Right. Everybody knew Remy and they just knew his character enough to know, like, it's impossible that Remy did this.

Beyond the alibis, Remy's character and his relationships were the best witness to him not being a murderer.

Yeah, I like that. That was good. That's good. Tj, anything to add?

No, that's it for me. It reflects well on what, like, I believe, like, if an allegation. If an allegation sticks to me, that says enough about your character.

Yeah, yeah.

The only other moral is, like, why go big when you can go bigger?

Yeah. Well, I also do think, and I'm not gonna sit on this long because we don't have Long.

But, like, I think too, just seeing how well the characters work together and what characters you chose actually really reflect on you guys. You know, you didn't choose Godzilla. You chose Mothra for a reason. You didn't choose, you know, Superman. You went with Nehemiah.

You didn't choose, like, you know, the more angry. Whatever characters you chose, characters that were more. What's the word? Amenable. That doesn't sound right. Whatever.

You chose characters that were more likely to get along, who aren't as aggressive, who aren't as violent. Other than Beorn, which even Beorn, though, has that caring for nature side. So I think it says a lot about you all, who you chose and why it works.

Worked so well in the first place.

Yeah.

And that bravery, too. Hey, we're fighting Thanos. We have an easy way to escape. But nah, we ain't doing that. I love it.

I love it.

All right then, guys, it is time to start wrapping this one up. So we are going to ask really quickly at the end for bonus, which character you might have chosen instead. If you know the story ahead of time.

But before we do that, guys, do you have any recommendations for those listening?

The bear. Watch the bear.

True, true. I've been playing Star Wars Outlaws.

I think if you go into it thinking of it as a platformer instead of a Star wars game, you'll probably enjoy it better. That's my recommendation. Play Star Wars Outlaws, but expect it.

To be a platformer since the Percy Jackson inadvertently came up. Check out Percy Jackson. Been reading that with one of my kids. It's really fun, actually.

Yeah, I remembered you mentioning that. And I was like, this is great, because I was just trying to think of what, like, what does the mouse own that I can throw in here? That's great.

Oh, the Nazis were from Indiana Jones. For those wondering. Right, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. That. That didn't get explained. My bad, guys. Anyways, I went married.

For a second. I was like, wait, is the great mouse detective said in occupied France, is this like something I missed as a child just overlooked?

It's fine.

Yeah.

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