1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,640 Hello players who will kill themselves before they give their DM a shred of satisfaction. 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:10,480 And first time DMs who have no idea what setting they want to play in, so they instead make 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:14,240 a setting where you can do ALL of them. 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,120 Welcome back to Table Talk. 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:17,240 I'm Maddie. 6 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:19,000 And I'm Robert. 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,880 What are we talking about today? 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,680 So today is more of a goof episode. 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,440 We prep for the next couple ones, which there's going to be one that's very exciting coming 10 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:29,440 up with a guest artist. 11 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,640 We're going to start having guests on, but the next one hopefully after this will be 12 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,240 either Combat or the guest episode. 13 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,520 It just depends on which one happens first. 14 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,200 But I want to prep a little bit before I just start making shit up, which kind of happened 15 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,720 a little bit in the last few, and it just makes it difficult. 16 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:50,520 So today we're just going to talk about our previous campaign, the one that myself and 17 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,720 Madison have played in, or I guess IDM'd. 18 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:57,520 Madison's first official campaign going all the way through. 19 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,600 And just kind of shooting shit about that, talking about where it started, story points, 20 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,320 things we like, things we didn't. 21 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,280 This might be a two-parter or three, just depends. 22 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,920 Because there were technically two halves of it that we split between two separate semesters. 23 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,840 So there was episode one and episode two, or section one, section two. 24 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,920 I never came up with a formal way to like... 25 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:16,920 I just called it volume one and volume two. 26 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,200 Yeah, volume one and volume two works. 27 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,320 Which that in itself is kind of a fun topic. 28 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:28,440 How do you go about participating in a campaign that could potentially go longer than you 29 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,160 have the available commitment to participate in? 30 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,640 Because it's still very much we could pick this up and keep going. 31 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:35,720 We could go back. 32 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:40,840 There are enough plot hooks that we could continue that storyline. 33 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:41,840 Indefinitely. 34 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,840 Fuck, what would have been January of 2022? 35 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:45,840 Oh my god. 36 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:46,840 Yeah, because 2021 December... 37 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:47,840 That makes me want to vomit. 38 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:53,240 Well, I always remember 2021 December was when I got money for a project that worked 39 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:54,720 on for a very long time. 40 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,720 So I always remember that like 2022 in January was when we went. 41 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,360 It's also where I had my 21st, because I'm always a year behind whatever year it is. 42 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,560 So if it's 2046, I'm 45. 43 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:06,560 Okay. 44 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,560 Yeah, it's just a... 45 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,720 Well, ADHD, fun things, or fun ways of remembering. 46 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:11,960 You always find like weird... 47 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,240 If it's like something that's 30 minutes away, it's not actually 30 minutes away. 48 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,640 It is like six, five minutes away. 49 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:20,600 No, dead ass. 50 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,600 It's like it's five minutes away. 51 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,320 Five minutes to the car and 10 minutes down the road away. 52 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:26,920 It's not 20 minutes. 53 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:27,920 Yeah. 54 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:28,920 It is... 55 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:33,040 That got me through dance classes as a child, because I have a very complicated relationship 56 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,200 with dance, and it would always be me looking at the clock, and I'm like, okay, we don't 57 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:37,200 have 45 minutes left. 58 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,800 We just have five minutes several times. 59 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,000 Yeah, that's what gets me through some of my classes. 60 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,880 I mean, the one class I'm in, shout out to Social Problems with Placoon. 61 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:50,000 I love it, but sometimes I just zone out, and so the only way I can get through it is 62 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:55,040 like, oh, look, there's only 10 minutes until 3.30, which means it's only 30 minutes away 63 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,040 from 4. 64 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,640 So if I could just write out this 10 minutes, I'll be a little closer to getting the fuck 65 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:00,640 out. 66 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:01,640 Yeah, that is very real. 67 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:02,640 And then I just... 68 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:03,640 Ignore the can sound. 69 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:04,640 Nope. 70 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:05,640 Nice. 71 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:06,640 It was so loud. 72 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:09,120 And then I just play itag with the clock. 73 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:14,480 But anyways, it is this odd thing about playing D&D, sitting down for a campaign that has the 74 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:19,880 potential to go on for over the long time, and it's the bane of a lot of tables. 75 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:24,080 Is that people don't have the time, or they turn into adults, or they suddenly get new 76 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:25,320 jobs in different schedules. 77 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:31,480 Yeah, I'll say this was the perfect setting for a D&D campaign to begin, because we were 78 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:37,480 studying abroad, we were all living in the same building, and we didn't have cars. 79 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:42,320 Like we were basically in a boarding school for several months. 80 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,720 We're always in the same place with the same group of people. 81 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:50,760 So I didn't have to go through the experience of trying to wrangle schedules or... 82 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:52,040 Not until the next semester. 83 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:56,280 Not until the next semester, where I had to start letting people... 84 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:00,840 Well, not letting people, where I had to start writing people out every other session, because 85 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,360 they just didn't schedule properly or their lives were too busy. 86 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:08,160 Or we found out last minute that someone had tickets to a concert, or was leaving town 87 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,800 and didn't tell us. 88 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:10,800 It's difficult. 89 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,360 I mean, anyone that's played the game, or who's even attempted to play the game, understands 90 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:19,480 that the bane of starting is the fact that people have lives. 91 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:20,480 And it's a multi... 92 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:21,480 And it's a multi... 93 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:22,480 Just don't have a life. 94 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:23,480 Just roll dice. 95 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,160 It's at minimum a two to three hour activity. 96 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,280 So you gotta figure out two to three hours at the same six. 97 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:31,800 I mean, at what average size did the table is like five to six? 98 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,600 I would say four to six. 99 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:34,600 Somewhere in four to six. 100 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,640 So God forbid you have six people scheduled, but you have to line up the same three hours 101 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:39,640 weekly. 102 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:40,640 Yeah. 103 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,160 If we played for longer than that, we would play like... 104 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,120 No, we played for six, seven hours. 105 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,640 Because we would pick a date during the week where we weren't traveling, we weren't doing 106 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,920 anything, and then we would just write it until I was essentially out of shit to do. 107 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:53,920 Yeah. 108 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:54,920 And then it would be like, cool, goodnight. 109 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:55,920 Yeah. 110 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,000 And then I would just be like, well, that's all I can come up with, or this is a suitable 111 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,600 cliffhanger and I don't know what to go off of because I haven't done any writing past 112 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:03,600 this point. 113 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:04,600 So see you next week. 114 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:05,600 There was a TikTok you sent me. 115 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,360 It was like when the party finds out a plot hook and then you're like, well, we've gotta 116 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,880 keep going for another 30 minutes so I can wrap this up. 117 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,760 And that's like a very real thing that happens at D&D tables. 118 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,960 Well, you in particular are always asking fucking questions, like expecting me to just 119 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,160 slip one of these days and give you the answer. 120 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:23,160 Yeah. 121 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:24,160 And like that was the TikTok. 122 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:29,000 It was basically like, the player asked the DM, so why was this guy immune to being 123 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,000 charmed? 124 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,840 And he goes, yeah, he was because this. 125 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:33,840 And then he dropped his race. 126 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:36,200 And it's like shape shifters are immune to being charmed. 127 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:37,200 Yeah. 128 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:38,560 His answer was shape shifters are immune to being charmed. 129 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:39,960 And it was like a major PC. 130 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,360 So then it was like, well, looks like we have another 30 minutes of play to go. 131 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:45,000 So I can figure that one out. 132 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,560 One of these days I'm going to ask, and you are going to slip up and I'm going to get 133 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:49,560 answers. 134 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:50,560 Yeah. 135 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,800 But it's always, it's always fun trying to like get your DM to slip up and be like, 136 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,360 so yeah, this is, here's the answer. 137 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:56,360 Oh, well, fuck. 138 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:57,960 I don't want to tell you that. 139 00:05:57,960 --> 00:05:58,960 Um, which. 140 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,080 Players do that all the time at our table. 141 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:02,080 Oh my God. 142 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:03,640 All the time, man. 143 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:04,640 All the fucking time. 144 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:05,640 The amount of time. 145 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:12,160 All playing is difficult, but like also remember your character like holy fuck. 146 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:17,680 It happens so many times in our current campaign, which isn't even what this episode was supposed 147 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:18,680 to be about. 148 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,680 But I feel like I need to share this story because it's so funny, which is one of our 149 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,720 characters is playing like a really edgy, like an edgy guy. 150 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:27,720 Batman light. 151 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,000 Batman light character. 152 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,960 And he is siblings with another character in the campaign. 153 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,800 And none of us are supposed to know that. 154 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,240 And the only reason we do is because like we're present at the table when other things 155 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:41,880 are being discussed. 156 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,800 And he immediately first session in goes, oh yeah, my brother. 157 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:46,800 And we went, who? 158 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,400 And he went, oh yeah, my brother. 159 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,520 So in such, we were like, what? 160 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:56,160 And like the character is supposed to be very like close to the chest and like a secretive 161 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:00,160 and I mean Batman like, and he just blesses little heart. 162 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:01,720 He didn't get that. 163 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,960 Just immediately like, and that was like, oh, I'm also rich. 164 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,440 Do you guys want me to like pay your tuition? 165 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:08,960 Yeah, your medical bills. 166 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,200 And it's, it's just a fun, he's very much like a dad Batman character in that like he 167 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,440 doesn't, he's a nice person in real life to a fault. 168 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:23,000 And so it's not really in his repertoire to play like a more cold kind of meaner character. 169 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,200 Like he's just nice all the time. 170 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,440 And then he's like, I'm going to go torture somebody real quick. 171 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:28,680 And we're like, wait, what? 172 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:29,760 Yeah, here's 20 bucks. 173 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:30,760 Go get ice cream. 174 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:31,760 And then we're like, what's the heck? 175 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,400 It's so it's a fun like little character thing because he's basically just like dad 176 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,360 Batman, like fully leaning into the dad side of things. 177 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:45,120 But to get back on track, we started when we were studying abroad and the intro like 178 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,720 my the intro was talking about first time DMs that don't know what setting to do. 179 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,560 So they do all of them was exactly what I did. 180 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,360 We've talked about this a little bit in previous episodes, I think in our session zero where 181 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,520 we kind of introduced ourselves and how we started playing together. 182 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,280 But it basically was just a big group chat for everybody that was there. 183 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,960 And then it was like, here are a few random group chats for people that were interested 184 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:06,960 in playing D&D. 185 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,720 And then of course the question is like, who wants to be a DM? 186 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,160 And I had played in a campaign before only one. 187 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:17,120 And so of course I was like, yeah, I'll DM why not? 188 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:18,120 Didn't have any experience with it. 189 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,960 I had no idea what I was doing, but I mean it worked out a lot of fun. 190 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:23,560 But I finally get a group together. 191 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,560 The other group falls apart and it's just like me and four or five other people. 192 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,600 I mean three of them, two, yeah, technically three of them I knew beforehand, but there 193 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:32,600 were an additional two. 194 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:33,600 Not that well. 195 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:34,600 Yeah, not that well. 196 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,360 There were an additional two that joined that I ended up getting to know pretty well. 197 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,320 One I had already knew from university and the other person I had just seen around. 198 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,400 But anyways, a full group of people. 199 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,480 And so I'm literally just like Googling stuff in my spare time while I'm in the middle of 200 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:47,480 classes. 201 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,920 I take notes on my laptop and I'm just like settings to play D&D. 202 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:56,680 And of course like you get like the, like the Faye room places, you get the Faye wild, 203 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:00,600 you get every fucking source book wizards is put out ever. 204 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:01,600 Yeah, Sword Coast. 205 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,480 Sword Coast of course, huge. 206 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:10,480 Your favorite, which like Carnival, Fairhaven, which is ended up being a pretty central location. 207 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:11,480 There's just. 208 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:12,480 Unintentionally. 209 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,400 If you understand anything about D&D or the wealth of knowledge that exists out there 210 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,400 about it, you know that there are a lot of places that you could potentially plan. 211 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,040 Theater of the mind, it's endless. 212 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:22,040 So I was like fuck it. 213 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,800 What if I just like had a place where you could go anywhere? 214 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,640 Because that would be a cool way to introduce everybody to the game. 215 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:32,280 And it actually ended up being exactly that, which is pretty fun. 216 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,360 But I ended up stumbling upon this place online called the World Serpent's End. 217 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,400 It was mentioned in third edition a few times. 218 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,960 Kind of just like is it's throw away location. 219 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,920 Where like the whole idea was that the room is always filled with smoky blue mist and 220 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,400 like you can never really see from like one end to the other. 221 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,880 And there are like beings from all these different planes. 222 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,880 And then there's one bartender who's like always there. 223 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,480 And then there are these doors that lead to like everywhere. 224 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,320 But there's never like a way to figure out what door leads to which. 225 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,240 With the exception of like this big central set of double doors that opens up routine 226 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:10,040 like periodically to different locations in different times. 227 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,640 And so I was like, yeah, why not take all of that on for the first time? 228 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:14,640 Instead of doing. 229 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:16,240 It was definitely a choice. 230 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,720 Instead of doing like Goblin Hunters and a dungeon in Toric Coast. 231 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:21,520 I was like, what if we just did the multiverse? 232 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:25,080 Which worked out, but like looking back. 233 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:26,080 It was a crazy choice. 234 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,520 It was a bold choice on my end. 235 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,120 And then yeah, but just sat down and made the characters. 236 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,600 I mean, Madison is always, you've always liked D&D. 237 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,360 I've always like had interest in D&D. 238 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,160 I came from and I've kind of mentioned before a lot of my background. 239 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,720 I make a lot of characters and I make a lot of stories and universes. 240 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:43,880 But I'm not a writer. 241 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:45,560 I try to be. 242 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:49,920 So it's a lot of the time these things kind of either sit in my head or I do really embarrassing 243 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:51,200 things with them on TikTok. 244 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:52,800 I am now out of necessity. 245 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:58,160 Yeah, I mean like you've converted. 246 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:04,640 But I have wanted to play D&D for a really long time and I had this idea for a character 247 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,800 and it did not end up being that character. 248 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:14,320 I wanted to make like a jester, like a little jester character and that's definitely not 249 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,080 it why I ended up playing. 250 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:22,200 But it was really fun and it was also cool to be given the freedom of like make a character. 251 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,080 The setting that you make them in the time doesn't matter. 252 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:26,080 So irrelevant. 253 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,680 So it was always like very confusing. 254 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:32,480 So I was like, I'm just going to make a character and then can you like give me a location? 255 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,440 And he was like, yeah, you're going to be in this place called Fairhaven. 256 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:36,440 And I was like, cool. 257 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,040 So I like looked up the books and I was like plugging some of that stuff in. 258 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,000 But I was like, this isn't going to be relevant. 259 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Right. 260 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,080 Just another very generic like location with a lot of people in it. 261 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:47,000 Yeah. 262 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,720 And your idea for the character was kind of like steampunky. 263 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,720 Yeah. 264 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:51,720 And like some of the clothing. 265 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:52,720 And so I was like, cool. 266 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,880 Well, time to Google steampunk locations and fit the addition. 267 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,360 And Fairhaven came up relatively quickly. 268 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:57,840 So you had a cool ass outfit. 269 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:58,840 Yeah. 270 00:11:58,840 --> 00:11:59,840 Yeah. 271 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:00,840 Fairhaven came up pretty fast. 272 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:02,240 It's set on a larger world called Eberron. 273 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:06,720 And Eberron is basically just it's just another fantasy universe. 274 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:08,520 Steampunky, there's a lot of war. 275 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:09,520 There's a lot of war. 276 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:10,520 A lot of war. 277 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,600 A lot of like, they're originally a large nation and then I got broken up into five 278 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,720 and a very airbender-esque in that way, but Fairhaven in particular was like the one place 279 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,800 that always stayed very technologically advanced. 280 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,000 Used a lot of like steampunky kind of stuff. 281 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,600 Magic isn't like the most prevalent. 282 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,520 It's more like mechanical kind of stuff. 283 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:28,520 They have airships. 284 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,200 They have a royal family, like all that kind of fun stuff. 285 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:37,040 So I made a high elf sorcerer named Magnolia Bonnie. 286 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,640 That was not her real name, but that was like kind of her chosen name that she gave herself. 287 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:46,560 And so wild magic sorcerer with a negative two to Arcana. 288 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:48,920 And she was not a bard, thank you very much. 289 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,200 She was a performer, but stop fucking mistaking her for a bard. 290 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:57,600 And that was probably my favorite character introduction of all time at our tables, which 291 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:58,600 was- 292 00:12:58,600 --> 00:12:59,600 She burned down a fucking house. 293 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,440 Yeah, it was, we had like watched Legally Blonde a couple of nights before and I mentioned 294 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:08,880 that it would be funny because she was like a serial dator for it to open with her like 295 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,080 getting dumped or something. 296 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,840 So it opens with her getting dumped in a tavern and it was like immediately so real. 297 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:20,480 Like I guess that's what, like I was initially like, oh this isn't like a game. 298 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,080 Like dumped me and I was like, all right, I'll dump you. 299 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,320 It was like personal shit. 300 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,840 It was like your fucking family doesn't love you. 301 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,080 You're not a real magician. 302 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:35,440 Like you're a half ass jester who flunked out of magic school. 303 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:41,320 It was messy and I was like, okay, we're immediately in this bitch and it turns into 304 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:46,120 her like, and it opens Legally Blonde of her getting dumped in a very public tavern and 305 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,880 he's like, people are staring at you. 306 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:53,760 And she like throws a wine glass at him and like it's messy and then she decides, yeah, 307 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,280 I'm gonna go burn down his house. 308 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,360 His family house, by the way, that was also his family flower shop. 309 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:01,360 Yeah, and she was like- 310 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,600 It's not just like a cottage in the middle of fuck nowhere, it's like a legitimate house 311 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:06,600 that holds people. 312 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:09,760 Yeah, it's like downtown and everyone else's character introductions, we're like pretty 313 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:14,960 chill, it was like you're hunting in the woods and you come across a building and then it 314 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:15,960 was like- 315 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,000 Not everybody wanted that fun of an intro. 316 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:24,280 Sam was like, I wanna be like basically legolas but a lot less cool in the woods, which is 317 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,480 a Lord of the Rings reference. 318 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,760 He's basically just a fucking guy with a bow and an elf and he's really good and he jumps 319 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,720 on rocks midair, bow and arrow, whatever. 320 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:38,960 And then you had Rayon with Dakota who was basically just a half orc who just liked to 321 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:39,960 hit things. 322 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:40,960 Yeah. 323 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,440 And then you had a wizard. 324 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,600 A wizard and a bard. 325 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:45,600 And a bard. 326 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,240 Oh yeah, we did have a bard, didn't we? 327 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,240 But yeah, I decided to really have fun with it and it immediately went off the rails and 328 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,440 it was wet, so you're gonna burn that, you're gonna break it into the shop and burn the 329 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:57,440 house down. 330 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,880 And then it was like, cool, sirens start going off. 331 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:01,200 And I was like, oh fuck, cop. 332 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,200 The fire brigade. 333 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:07,600 And immediately she just kind of gets like KO'd out of there because a magical flower 334 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,200 shows up and is like, do you wanna leave? 335 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,920 And I was like, yes. 336 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,160 But that character's introduction was very fun. 337 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:21,800 So my idea for that going into it was I was like, if we're gonna do the multiverse, let's 338 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,040 multiverse it the fuck out, man. 339 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:30,600 So everybody's character intro started in a different realm or at least different location. 340 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,760 The fucking, the Simeon, our bard. 341 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:35,160 Shout out to David. 342 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:36,160 Ancient Greece. 343 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,240 It was basically ancient Greece because I didn't really understand that Theros was the 344 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:40,240 location beforehand. 345 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,200 So now canonically there's Theros and ancient Greece. 346 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:44,200 It's Theros and ancient Greece. 347 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:51,520 They're two entirely separate locations because I rolled in the real ancient world god Apollo 348 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,040 from Greek mythology like it. 349 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,000 Listen, I definitely crossed some of the wires, but Theros... 350 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,040 Well you didn't plan that we were still gonna be playing this game a year later. 351 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:02,040 No, I didn't. 352 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:07,280 But Theros for the audience is basically, Wizards owns, I've talked about this before, 353 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,360 Magic the Gathering, which is like a cardboard playing game. 354 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,920 And they created this setting because they basically released their cards and blocks 355 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,080 called Theros, their adventures into Theros. 356 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,760 And because Wizards owns both Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons... 357 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:20,760 There's a lot of crossover. 358 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:25,120 Yeah, enough people were interested in the Theros setting, which is basically just like 359 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:30,520 an ancient Greece knockoff kind of deal that they decided to give it its own sourcebook. 360 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:36,120 And I didn't know that Theros was a place before I created ancient Greece in the settings. 361 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,920 So then they ended up actually going to Theros and I just kind of retconned a lot of what 362 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,520 happened with ancient Greece related things. 363 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,200 But yeah, that's where that started. 364 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,600 Then we had another person who was a wizard. 365 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,920 Oh, what the fuck was he? 366 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,520 You remember what his subclass was? 367 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:53,520 Not a fucking clue. 368 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:54,520 He hated us. 369 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:55,520 Son of a bitch. 370 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:56,520 Yeah, I can't remember what... 371 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:57,520 Character wise. 372 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:58,520 Ethan. 373 00:16:58,520 --> 00:16:59,520 Ethan was his name. 374 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:00,520 Shout out to Spencer. 375 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:01,520 Oh, yeah, I knew his name. 376 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,520 I don't remember what subclass of wizard he was, but he was a wizard. 377 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,920 I feel like just the most classic wizard. 378 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:09,320 Yeah, he had all the utility spells, all the ridiculously high arcana checks. 379 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:13,440 He was kind of like a bookworm, like a scholar, so he knew how to read and speak a bunch 380 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,680 of languages and had a bunch of spells to identify things. 381 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,760 And so his intro happened in this cursed land of sand, basically this giant rock in the 382 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:27,000 middle of nowhere that's been turned into like, oh, what's the fucking... 383 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,840 It's a Star Wars thing. 384 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:29,840 Starlack. 385 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,920 Yeah, kind of like that area. 386 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,120 What's the place with Jabba the Hutsat? 387 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:35,120 Tatooine. 388 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:37,200 Yeah, it's more of a Tatooine place. 389 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,480 Like a seedy underground kind of thing. 390 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:45,800 Him and his pal, his partner go there to solve a curse or to investigate the place because 391 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,360 everyone says it's cursed. 392 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,680 And then it just kind of devolved into there. 393 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:52,960 His friend didn't, I'm getting sucked into hell. 394 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:56,240 Yeah, there was a whole lot of behind the scenes going on with that. 395 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,560 I was just trying to plug in a bunch of stuff in that. 396 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,800 The idea behind that was I kind of wanted to roll in hell like a little bit because 397 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:08,120 it was the idea behind the plot was that there were a bunch of deities and gods and goddesses 398 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:12,040 and basically just beings of the divine age where they were all very interested in the 399 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,240 broader story. 400 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:17,080 So I was trying to figure out how to connect Yphon to that story. 401 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:18,920 And so that was a pretty fun thing too. 402 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,680 He managed to roll really well and played his intro super good. 403 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,000 Like I said, Brayon was just a half-orc. 404 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,240 So we opened up with a war, which is pretty cool. 405 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,920 Like a lot of his family were dying and like brothers in war. 406 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:36,480 And then he goes into this like forgotten, like abandoned dwarvens, basically like Stronghold 407 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:41,400 to chase down one of his brothers who's gone missing in like the heat of battle and ends 408 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,200 up watching him like run through a door. 409 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,280 And so his immediate instinct is like, cool, like I gotta go get him and then runs through 410 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:47,280 the same door. 411 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:52,120 And then ends up in a tavern. 412 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:53,120 Along with everybody else. 413 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:55,880 Yphon also ended up in a tavern. 414 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,160 Magnolia also ended up in a tavern. 415 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:02,720 With shoelace having vomited, but also the only one to land on their feet and not get 416 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:03,720 knocked the fuck out. 417 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:08,680 Yeah, everyone else just kind of like kerplunked and went prone and a little unconscious. 418 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,680 And then rag bad, our Legolas elf. 419 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:12,680 Shout out to Sam. 420 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:19,000 Basically, he was just like, he was just there being a guy with the land using the bow and 421 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,600 arrow and was like investigating this house that likes people. 422 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,600 And then almost died immediately. 423 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:30,640 And it was a very simple puzzle, but a dear God guy could not roll to say his life. 424 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:37,680 So he basically almost got crushed to death in this house, came out of it mostly okay. 425 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,560 Ends up falling, whatever, whatever. 426 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:43,680 And then also everybody got a magical item in their intro as well, which was pretty cool. 427 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:44,960 I had a lot of fun with that. 428 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,960 Yphon got a book, which ended up being Jesus Christ. 429 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,800 It did nice for that book to be as central to the story as- 430 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:51,800 Can we come to the campaign? 431 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,560 Yeah, the book was the campaign. 432 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,600 Magnolia got her flower. 433 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,360 Which, remember that? 434 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:58,360 That comes back. 435 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:00,920 Also ended up being super big in the campaign. 436 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,920 Rag bad basically got like an arrow tip, like a magical arrow tip that he could then attach 437 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,160 to like other arrows and use them to do things. 438 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,040 He didn't use it all that fucking often if I'm being perfectly honest with you. 439 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,600 And it took him a while to figure out what it could be used for. 440 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,000 But part of that's my fault. 441 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:20,920 I wanted to make it very like, I don't know, I fancy myself as a kind of twisty person. 442 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:25,840 So I wanted it to be like, you're gonna hear the word that I say in the next sentence and 443 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,920 be like, holy shit that thing you said from the first session, it all clicked in place? 444 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:30,920 It didn't happen. 445 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,080 It happened a few times, but only because I like beat them over the head with it. 446 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:39,360 And I was like, here's this, I put in the fucking first session, connect the dots. 447 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:42,200 And then they're like, oh shit, that is how that works. 448 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,200 That makes total sense. 449 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,720 So I made my hooks more obvious going forward. 450 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,880 At the time I was expecting too much of a group of first players. 451 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:55,120 So bro tip for your DMs, don't make your hooks too confusing. 452 00:20:55,120 --> 00:21:00,520 It's also one of those things that like you look like a fucking idiot if you start looking 453 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:04,280 for it and it's not there and you're like, this one inconsequential thing you said in 454 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:12,680 the first session and then you like keep bringing it up and then the DMs like, no fucking, no, 455 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:13,680 that's just a bank. 456 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,200 Oh, it's like, it's just a guy. 457 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,240 It's like fantasy high with Gorgug and his father. 458 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,680 Like it never really became a consequential thing, but it just became a bit. 459 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:26,600 So it's like every time he met another male person, he was like, are you my father? 460 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,000 It never played a significant role in the campaign, not once, but like it continued 461 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 to happen. 462 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,920 It's like the bad guy is his dad or something. 463 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:34,920 Yeah, or something like that. 464 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,200 And then no, it was just like a random. 465 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,600 Yeah, those kinds of things just get turned into jokes. 466 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:40,600 Like for real. 467 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:46,040 The last one shot we played this weekend, originally it was supposed to be a thing where my character 468 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,440 was asking people if they were religious and then people found that extremely funny and 469 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:50,680 then it was just like cool. 470 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,760 I guess I've committed to this bit of asking every single person if they're religious. 471 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:55,760 If they're religious. 472 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,520 Not a single person answered yes. 473 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:03,640 No, which in the world of D&D baffling took place in the city of Waterdeep, which is like 474 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,560 basically Gotham, but 5e. 475 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,040 So everyone's pretty much seen the horrible fucked up things. 476 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,480 And so there can't be a God or God's plural. 477 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:14,480 You know what I'm saying? 478 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,480 Like it's just not there are. 479 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:17,480 There are. 480 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:18,480 They get me. 481 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:19,480 Yeah, they're literally are. 482 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,280 This is a world in which gods very much exist. 483 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,400 This is not like me going up to people on the street being like, are you religious? 484 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:27,560 And then she was a paladin too. 485 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,280 So like her powers had to come from the deity. 486 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:37,760 I was a paladin angel like ASMR, but she was flavored to look exactly like a cartoon angel. 487 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:38,760 Yeah. 488 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,040 And it's like this very clearly a holy person. 489 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,200 There's like ethereal music playing and she's got giant wings. 490 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,200 She's like, are you religious? 491 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,120 And they're like, nah, there is no God. 492 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:49,520 And it's like what? 493 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:50,520 Yep. 494 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:51,520 Yep. 495 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:57,160 Oh, Brian, our half work got the location that he's running through ended up being one 496 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:01,400 of the first major combat encounters they had, which was really cool. 497 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:06,640 And then his magical item ended up being like, oh, it kind of like a kind of like a suit 498 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:07,640 sort of deal. 499 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:12,640 Like he, he ripped off a piece of like a magical, basically a magical portal trying to get to 500 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:17,000 his brother and came to life latched on to him basically like a bit him. 501 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,840 It reduced his movement speed, but it increased his AC and gave him a bunch of other benefits. 502 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,400 So it's kind of the idea that like it was like the door came to life and it was parasitic 503 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:26,920 and whatever. 504 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,600 I gave everybody a different piece of the puzzle to open the same door and then it just didn't 505 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:31,600 happen that way. 506 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:38,000 So anyways, the magical item notes from this, it's some of these interactions that I wrote 507 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,960 down are funny as fuck. 508 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:46,720 The magical item that I gave Simeon, our bar, CELF basically was just like a holy 509 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:55,160 loot that my mans could just play whenever he wanted to and also was like naturally alight 510 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,160 all the time. 511 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,480 So I just gave him like a permanent torch and then it's like secondary function was 512 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:06,880 being able to like identify like deity kind of like areas or locations or like figure 513 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,600 out like kind of point in the direction of something that's holy or unholy. 514 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,120 So kind of just like a divine metal detector. 515 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:18,760 And then that was my plot device because I had a very long thought which was going to 516 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:25,440 be like the loot was going to be instrumental to like healing something and it kind of did 517 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,720 but then he bailed just because life got too busy for him. 518 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,400 So that just ended up getting thrown away. 519 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,520 It was actually supposed to be a really big thing and it turned out to be nothing. 520 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,640 So much of that campaign went that way though. 521 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:42,680 A lot of, yeah, not the first semester but the second semester people were just dropping 522 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,240 like fucking flies man. 523 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,240 Yeah, it was bad. 524 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,880 Man, that's kind of how all the character intros went. 525 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:53,160 They all were in a different place and they all got to the same tavern basically like 526 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:59,200 kind of summoned there in a way and you know there's this idea that your goal as a DM should 527 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,200 be to get your party to like party. 528 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,320 You know what I'm saying? 529 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,920 Like do they all mean at the same time? 530 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,280 Do they know each other before? 531 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:08,960 Do they have the same mutual interest? 532 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:16,480 I have never seen a more dysfunctional and disinterested group of PCs in my life. 533 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,200 None of them wanted to be there. 534 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,480 None of them had interest in working together. 535 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,760 They all just wanted to go the fuck home and that's all their motivation. 536 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,560 It's not even like a way of like guys let's work together so we can get the fuck out of 537 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,560 here. 538 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,000 It was like, it was act, I fought every single member of the party. 539 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,240 They were literally forced together with divine intervention. 540 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,600 It was VVP at all. 541 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:41,600 It was. 542 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:46,080 And divine intervention was the only thing that kept them together because I kept forcing 543 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,480 them together. 544 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,200 They people kept trying to leave. 545 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,560 Yep and they just, it wouldn't work. 546 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,960 It didn't happen because I was like you can't keep running away from this. 547 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,120 God it was bad. 548 00:25:58,120 --> 00:25:59,120 Yeah. 549 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:01,040 I don't even have a pro tip for that. 550 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,040 Like I don't know how to fix that. 551 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:04,040 And it didn't get better. 552 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,040 No. 553 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,280 It didn't get better and improved until the second semester because then we had some people 554 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:09,880 that were nice and kind. 555 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:10,880 Yeah. 556 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:11,880 And trauma bonded. 557 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,440 Yeah trauma bonded was so real. 558 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,040 It never happened in the first semester though. 559 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,320 Everyone was just like well if he's going to walk through the door and he's got a piece 560 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,080 that I need I guess I'm going through the door too. 561 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,960 It was never like oh yeah I like him as a person now. 562 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,520 We're going to hang out and solve the puzzle together. 563 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:33,400 Volume two we grew to like each other and most of us grew to like each other. 564 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:38,240 Volume one was basically just the first 30 minutes of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie 565 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,080 only they never get better. 566 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:46,080 It's just them trying to kidnap each other and shoot one another and like achieve the 567 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,840 same goal but through really ass backwards ways. 568 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,280 Like there was a healing each other but it was like not good. 569 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:58,680 Like I remember the specific instance where my character got shot by a dwarven ballista 570 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:05,520 and was harpooned into the wall several feet off the ground at zero hit points. 571 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,680 I was dying and I was like I had a fucking javelin through my chest. 572 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,680 And they were like eh she'll be okay. 573 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,680 And I was like can anyone come over and help me. 574 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,680 Everyone was like you'll be fine right? 575 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,920 And I was like I'm on death saving throws. 576 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,720 We eventually got one of the it was fucking rag bad that goddamn asshole. 577 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,600 Who had zero interest in doing anything for anybody. 578 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:36,120 Came over and one of the fucking bard had like done healing words so I was no longer 579 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:37,120 like dying. 580 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,480 And then got fucking KO'd by a spider. 581 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,080 Yeah immediately got KO'd. 582 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,560 But still stuck in the wall and I had like once again I had several negatives and I had 583 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,520 a significant negative to strength so I was like there's no way I'm getting off the wall. 584 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:55,440 And he came over and he was like oh well you're like alive again so I'm gonna go and I went 585 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,040 no I could use the help. 586 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:03,680 And this motherfucker legitimately wasted a real life turn walking over and then walking 587 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,680 the fuck away to avoid helping me. 588 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:17,680 And I think about that so often because what the fuck truly what the fuck was that. 589 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,680 Like there was no character growth there. 590 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,960 And it stayed that way until the end of the campaign. 591 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,920 Until the end of that character in particular. 592 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,480 His second character was a lot better. 593 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:32,480 Kind of. 594 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:33,480 Was he? 595 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,480 Yeah I mean like to an extent. 596 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,120 Did he ever have a character change? 597 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,120 No. 598 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,120 In episode two. 599 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,000 He dived into a portal of hell. 600 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,080 Hey this shit sucks. 601 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,480 Do you have something you want to send in to make it better? 602 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,320 Criticisms, topics you'd like to see discussed or an advertisement you'd like to run. 603 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,360 Or do you even want to sponsor an episode? 604 00:28:55,360 --> 00:29:04,760 If so shoot us a message at mc460 at evansville.edu or dms on instagram at crescent magazine. 605 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,360 Or we'll never get better like these fucking guys. 606 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,360 Was that his last? 607 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,360 That was his last action. 608 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:16,720 No I mean did Sam continue to play with us after that or was that his last session? 609 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,720 No he played the vampire. 610 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,880 Oh yeah how do I forget about the sexy vampire. 611 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,120 That fucking character was hilarious. 612 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,360 We'll talk about episode or about a fucking I don't know what have you been calling it? 613 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,360 Something to. 614 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:30,360 Volume two. 615 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,280 We'll talk about volume two in a different episode but yeah he, Sam makes fucking so interesting 616 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:39,480 characters like they're either like drop dead boring or they're fucking hilarious. 617 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,480 And there's not in between. 618 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:41,480 Sure in between. 619 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,040 I don't think he has control over it. 620 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,120 No they're just two different versions of Sam. 621 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,920 One where he's vested and one where he's not vested and it just depends on kind of what 622 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:54,120 character and what personality you're getting that day. 623 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,920 So yeah but I mean he's fun to watch play to though because he's hilarious. 624 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,640 He says the funniest shit at the table. 625 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,120 I was about to say I would like to like scroll down and this is one of the things I have 626 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,840 written in my notes from the like the second session because I take obsessive notes. 627 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:08,840 She's the note taker. 628 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,240 She's the note taker to like the max. 629 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,160 I have three to four page notes for every single session. 630 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,760 More than I do. 631 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,200 I don't even have notes. 632 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,640 I just started putting notes for the campaign that we've that I've been running for like 633 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,720 take such a greatably detailed Robert will ask me character names. 634 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,480 I don't remember who the fuck. 635 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,480 I don't know what name I gave them details because I remember them obsessively. 636 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:36,560 But there was this period where they'd all gotten in and there were all little doors 637 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,480 that popped up that were clear to each person. 638 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,080 And that's where we got our magical items and everyone decided to go through this one 639 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:50,160 door and the big thing with the doors is that once you go in them you can't get back out 640 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:55,480 like you've got no control over the doors and they all go into this one door and then 641 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,400 the doors start and the door disappears and they're all just stuck in a room. 642 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,800 And it was like everyone in the party except for my character because I said I don't know 643 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:03,800 you. 644 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,440 And this was also me as a player not working with the team. 645 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:07,440 I don't know you all. 646 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,880 I'm not going in a room with you all. 647 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:14,400 I'm not going in a room with you all but if I don't know you. 648 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,080 Magnolia was a fucking obstinate in the first half of this. 649 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:21,680 It truly was pulling teeth trying to get the character to interact with another character. 650 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,600 I recognize that. 651 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:24,600 But I've grown. 652 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:25,600 You have grown. 653 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:26,600 I've grown a lot. 654 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:27,600 She grew a lot. 655 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:28,600 She ended up. 656 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,600 The glue in the second iteration. 657 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,600 Which sometimes unwillingly. 658 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:33,600 A lot of growth. 659 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:34,600 There was a lot of growth there. 660 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,280 Yeah the first one it was like I'm not trust. 661 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,080 I don't trust anybody. 662 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:43,160 And then you gave me trauma to not trust anyone. 663 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,640 So you just fed into that. 664 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:51,160 Well I didn't expect your character to be as obstinate and untrust worthy as she was. 665 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:55,200 So I had already planned that trauma in advance. 666 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,520 So it just got worse. 667 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:58,520 Yeah. 668 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,920 I mean I could have unwritten those plot points but they were tied to so many other 669 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,720 things that I was like I just kind of have to go through with it. 670 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,480 And it was this character that was learning to trust people and then I just took it all 671 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,720 away like multiple times. 672 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:12,960 Like it kept happening. 673 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:13,960 Like repeated. 674 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:14,960 And we'll get into that. 675 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,440 We can talk about volume too. 676 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:17,440 Volume too as well. 677 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:18,840 But so they're all stuck in this room. 678 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:23,120 They're all trying to figure out how to get out and their fix for it was hey magic. 679 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:27,320 So let's all hold hands and chant the word door over and over and over. 680 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:28,320 And it worked. 681 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:29,320 It didn't work. 682 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,000 I was on the outside and I rolled really really well. 683 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000 Combined effort. 684 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,420 And this is like the one thing I've written down under like Ragnbad's character and like 685 00:32:38,420 --> 00:32:40,520 an example of an interaction between the two. 686 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:46,320 And it was they're chanting the word door holding hands and Magnolia just walks up, 687 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,520 creates door, opens it and goes hello. 688 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:56,320 And it says that it was like Ragnbad was just saying that goes hey as he's holding hands 689 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,220 with these people and they're chanting the word door. 690 00:32:59,220 --> 00:33:01,140 and she's just like what 691 00:33:01,140 --> 00:33:02,980 the fuck was that 692 00:33:02,980 --> 00:33:09,260 and that was it was it it was a lot man it was it was bad 693 00:33:09,260 --> 00:33:10,140 yeah it was 694 00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:14,460 uh... it was also like unnecessarily convoluted behind scenes 695 00:33:14,460 --> 00:33:17,780 dear god there are so many plot points that like you will never touched or got 696 00:33:17,780 --> 00:33:20,940 a hold of reput together 697 00:33:20,940 --> 00:33:24,020 and the more we talk about it more like it sounds like we just hate 698 00:33:24,020 --> 00:33:25,100 volume one 699 00:33:25,100 --> 00:33:28,700 i didn't hate it was a lot of fun it was just it was new for all of us and so a 700 00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:33,300 lot of our decisions both as player and dm were just like first time things that 701 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:36,220 you probably would never do in a kind of like another campaign 702 00:33:36,220 --> 00:33:37,380 yeah like 703 00:33:37,380 --> 00:33:40,540 i would never play a character that edgy again 704 00:33:40,540 --> 00:33:42,980 and i know i continued to play her for a year 705 00:33:42,980 --> 00:33:44,620 but she had growth 706 00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:47,540 well i was just like in my mind i was like this basically just female batman 707 00:33:47,540 --> 00:33:50,780 but there's kind of an equivalent with like cat woman and cat woman is also the 708 00:33:50,780 --> 00:33:52,980 same like never gonna trust a person 709 00:33:52,980 --> 00:33:54,700 we're friends psych bitch i've robbed you 710 00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:55,700 yeah uses 711 00:33:55,700 --> 00:34:00,340 and she was that she was actively like a harming other members of the party 712 00:34:00,340 --> 00:34:04,540 she got into a physical altercation with every single member of the party every 713 00:34:04,540 --> 00:34:06,340 the every person for themselves thing 714 00:34:06,340 --> 00:34:08,900 gets old quickly and you know what i mean 715 00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:13,340 co-operate like that so it was just worse it was just a me and wasn't 716 00:34:13,340 --> 00:34:16,940 simian was like hey guys let's be friends i'm like a cool beach bro and 717 00:34:16,940 --> 00:34:17,940 everyone else is like 718 00:34:17,940 --> 00:34:19,380 get fucked 719 00:34:19,380 --> 00:34:21,280 and glad that you're happy 720 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,180 actually know i hate that you're happy 721 00:34:23,180 --> 00:34:24,260 i'm unhappy 722 00:34:24,260 --> 00:34:25,980 yeah let me go home 723 00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:26,860 and like 724 00:34:26,860 --> 00:34:28,420 and looking at them and 725 00:34:28,420 --> 00:34:31,140 and if i was just excited to be there is like a 726 00:34:31,140 --> 00:34:34,220 of scholar he was like this is so fun to figure out and learn 727 00:34:34,220 --> 00:34:36,540 two people were excited to be there 728 00:34:36,540 --> 00:34:37,900 and three were not 729 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:39,580 and three were not 730 00:34:39,580 --> 00:34:43,340 two of those three actively hated each other 731 00:34:43,340 --> 00:34:46,580 one guy was i want to go home because i just left in the middle of a war the 732 00:34:46,580 --> 00:34:47,780 other one guy was just like 733 00:34:47,780 --> 00:34:50,060 i don't really vibe with this setting 734 00:34:50,060 --> 00:34:51,940 i don't know why i'm here 735 00:34:51,940 --> 00:34:55,940 this is really an important to me as a person and i have no interest 736 00:34:55,940 --> 00:34:57,340 and then you were just like 737 00:34:57,340 --> 00:34:58,900 i don't what i what is happening 738 00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:02,980 i was i was like i kind of fuck with the location but i don't fuck with these 739 00:35:02,980 --> 00:35:05,020 people 740 00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:07,860 a location where you can reinvent yourself and go anywhere any of the 741 00:35:07,860 --> 00:35:11,660 yeah i was like that's my dream come true that's literally exactly what this 742 00:35:11,660 --> 00:35:13,140 character wants 743 00:35:13,140 --> 00:35:15,940 uh... however these bitches are not 744 00:35:15,940 --> 00:35:20,180 so the vibes were rancid to get into a little bit of the plot or at least the 745 00:35:20,180 --> 00:35:23,340 uh... the setup uh... i just played 746 00:35:23,340 --> 00:35:25,860 uh... the the gotta worry remake 747 00:35:25,860 --> 00:35:29,220 loved it that like played it start to finish i've flattened it on playstation 748 00:35:29,220 --> 00:35:31,740 like i have all the trophies i've played on the hardest difficulty i spent 749 00:35:31,740 --> 00:35:33,460 twelve hours on a boss fight 750 00:35:33,460 --> 00:35:34,960 like i 751 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,760 love that game i love the game that came after it 752 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,900 and i've always liked mythology hence why there were multiple mythologies 753 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:42,580 present in the campaign 754 00:35:42,580 --> 00:35:45,860 uh... ancient norse being one of them and then of course ancient grace which i 755 00:35:45,860 --> 00:35:49,860 just fucking retconned once apollo showed up i was just like cool he's gone 756 00:35:49,860 --> 00:35:50,360 now 757 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:55,700 i loved in and this is jumping forward in volume two during one of our big fights 758 00:35:55,700 --> 00:36:00,460 uh... apollo was there in that also helio it was there so it was like how to 759 00:36:00,460 --> 00:36:04,820 watch the their own equivalent of apollo so it was 760 00:36:04,820 --> 00:36:09,540 it was like this and apollo had a child because it's the helio it is like i 761 00:36:09,540 --> 00:36:14,020 believe that i'm the best and the strongest and should have like dominion 762 00:36:14,020 --> 00:36:15,740 over everything 763 00:36:15,740 --> 00:36:19,380 so his powers are light based so it's like everything that touches the light 764 00:36:19,380 --> 00:36:22,740 boop boop boop boop boop boop but then like he's also got the Zeus complex and 765 00:36:22,740 --> 00:36:24,700 where it's like i'm better than all of you 766 00:36:24,700 --> 00:36:27,260 yeah it was the most great that incest and 767 00:36:27,260 --> 00:36:30,820 if like Zeus in jupiter were like in the safe room 768 00:36:30,820 --> 00:36:36,660 yeah it was uh... it was a lot but yeah i i had to tie that off because i was like 769 00:36:36,660 --> 00:36:39,820 david had a balance because of personal things and so the character of semi-an 770 00:36:39,820 --> 00:36:43,020 who actually played a huge fucking story role with everything 771 00:36:43,020 --> 00:36:44,140 yeah just 772 00:36:44,140 --> 00:36:48,380 fucking poofed out of existence yeah canonically uh... i can't we had killed 773 00:36:48,380 --> 00:36:51,340 a little we had a really cool fucking like 774 00:36:51,340 --> 00:36:54,180 pre-session excited precession everybody to talk about whether or not they 775 00:36:54,180 --> 00:36:56,220 wanted to play the same characters 776 00:36:56,220 --> 00:36:59,220 or not and i had a really cool precession with him and i he basically 777 00:36:59,220 --> 00:37:03,060 went on like a spiritual journey were like he picked up powers from like 778 00:37:03,060 --> 00:37:07,060 hendu religion and like different religions like across time very 779 00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:10,460 traditional to like earth nothing super crazy outside of that but like 780 00:37:10,460 --> 00:37:13,620 it was gonna be really cool and then it just fucking wasn't as many had a bounce 781 00:37:13,620 --> 00:37:15,460 so i was like how do i 782 00:37:15,460 --> 00:37:18,660 how do i pull on him really what happened was my players were getting their 783 00:37:18,660 --> 00:37:22,980 asses kicked uh... by too many enemies and one that was really big and really 784 00:37:22,980 --> 00:37:25,860 powerful and i was like this is appropriate time 785 00:37:25,860 --> 00:37:29,500 to bring in david's character for like one last hurrah and i was like you know 786 00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:30,620 how we're gonna intervene 787 00:37:30,620 --> 00:37:31,620 apollo 788 00:37:31,620 --> 00:37:34,780 though like the physical versions is gonna show up and like 789 00:37:34,780 --> 00:37:36,740 one v one many team at 790 00:37:36,740 --> 00:37:41,420 which is exactly what happened it was sick it was a really sick like it wasn't 791 00:37:41,420 --> 00:37:45,420 sick as fuck and it was the exact boost that they needed to like kind of win that 792 00:37:45,420 --> 00:37:48,860 individual fight anyway it's not a suck because no one in that part i'm getting 793 00:37:48,860 --> 00:37:53,220 too far and i know i know um... but that's a really bad and so 794 00:37:53,220 --> 00:37:56,380 i had this idea that i wanted to be like involve a lot of different 795 00:37:56,380 --> 00:37:59,700 mythologies and i also wanted to be kind of multiverse and you guys are already 796 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:01,380 heard a little bit about like 797 00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:04,060 how they all came from different places and i don't want to fucking work 798 00:38:04,060 --> 00:38:06,860 together is like they basically all that kidnap from their homes and then i'll 799 00:38:06,860 --> 00:38:09,540 want to go back and so it was kind of like 800 00:38:09,540 --> 00:38:11,940 yeah except for she was the person that was like you know i'm actually cool 801 00:38:11,940 --> 00:38:14,340 being here like you all can go and i'll stay 802 00:38:14,340 --> 00:38:17,180 except she also ended up being a really like 803 00:38:17,180 --> 00:38:20,580 i could required peace to progress the story 804 00:38:20,580 --> 00:38:24,900 uh... which was also like me going hey you can just fuck off and drink and meet 805 00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:26,780 new people you have to participate 806 00:38:26,780 --> 00:38:30,300 yes and i was given a power that robert regretted 807 00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:32,580 immediately ended up taking it away 808 00:38:32,580 --> 00:38:34,620 uh... for a very 809 00:38:34,620 --> 00:38:37,060 you never gave it back volume to 810 00:38:37,060 --> 00:38:39,220 never got it back deadass 811 00:38:39,220 --> 00:38:44,460 but i never got it back i told that i could keep rolling it would get better 812 00:38:44,460 --> 00:38:45,420 did 813 00:38:45,420 --> 00:38:46,780 i stole it fully 814 00:38:46,780 --> 00:38:49,700 anyways uh... so it involved around 815 00:38:49,700 --> 00:38:51,960 involved around like the world tree 816 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,100 uh... or it's also called the address on norse mythology 817 00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:58,300 now much for those that are unfamiliar it's basically like a tree that that 818 00:38:58,300 --> 00:39:00,140 uh... spans the nine 819 00:39:00,140 --> 00:39:03,540 the nine being the nine traditional realms in uh... in norse mythology i 820 00:39:03,540 --> 00:39:08,500 don't remember them all i remember fuse farter hyme niefel hyme moose will hyme 821 00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:11,340 and then there's midgard which is like traditional earth and then there are the 822 00:39:11,340 --> 00:39:15,220 other fucking five of them that i don't remember no care to remember no matter 823 00:39:15,220 --> 00:39:18,500 helheim places like that like that just like land of the elves land of the dead 824 00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:22,660 land of the giants land of the like it's just they're all different places anyways 825 00:39:22,660 --> 00:39:27,060 uh... the the background for this the setup was basically that like this place 826 00:39:27,060 --> 00:39:28,740 called the world serpents and 827 00:39:28,740 --> 00:39:32,980 uh... it's ability to jump to different places 828 00:39:32,980 --> 00:39:36,500 stem directly from its connection with the address of which has been ripped out 829 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:38,040 of its like home 830 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,300 like location 831 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:43,220 and stuck in a place in between and then the serpents in itself was constructed 832 00:39:43,220 --> 00:39:47,900 to be like a vehicle to then drive the roots like to go to different realms 833 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:51,180 uh... except for a lot of fucked up things happening like the back story in 834 00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:54,280 the preamble to it were like a spell went wrong 835 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,580 no one expected the giant snake to protest like it was all 836 00:39:57,580 --> 00:40:02,900 it all went bad and so instead of it did not know any of this yeah instead of 837 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:04,980 having like 838 00:40:04,980 --> 00:40:08,060 at full control over the vehicle that you've just spent literally years of your 839 00:40:08,060 --> 00:40:11,340 life making somebody basically through a wrench in the engine it was like piece 840 00:40:11,340 --> 00:40:12,780 mother fucker 841 00:40:12,780 --> 00:40:16,980 and then i i i i know your own spell proceeds to blow his brains out and 842 00:40:16,980 --> 00:40:19,660 you're like cool what he's gone now 843 00:40:19,660 --> 00:40:21,620 but 844 00:40:21,620 --> 00:40:26,860 and that's the way that that line and with my character that being so fucking 845 00:40:26,860 --> 00:40:27,740 perfect 846 00:40:27,740 --> 00:40:31,900 yeah and i want to work out very well but the idea was that uh... the 847 00:40:31,900 --> 00:40:35,940 yorming under who's also like another greek myth uh... not greek sorry 848 00:40:35,940 --> 00:40:39,340 norse character uh... who has like basically is 849 00:40:39,340 --> 00:40:42,660 long enough in mythology and big enough to swallow the world whole and is like 850 00:40:42,660 --> 00:40:45,900 his destined to fight thorn ragnarok and blah blah blah blah blah 851 00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:49,900 world shit yeah i mean he's called the world serpent he's traditionally seen 852 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:53,140 as a kind of like an evil or kind of like chaotic neutral character is like 853 00:40:53,140 --> 00:40:56,460 he's destined to eat the world he's also a child of low key because low key 854 00:40:56,460 --> 00:41:00,260 also has a bunch of other children low key be fucking and low key to be fucking 855 00:41:00,260 --> 00:41:04,620 low key turned into a horse and it took back shots from a man like it's 856 00:41:04,620 --> 00:41:08,900 really fucking interesting when you read all of the things 857 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:10,180 in norse mythology 858 00:41:10,180 --> 00:41:11,700 it's not the version i wrote 859 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:15,980 wish i could have seen his face as he said that that was the most serious thing 860 00:41:15,980 --> 00:41:20,140 i've ever seen this man deliver in his life so all this super convoluted 861 00:41:20,140 --> 00:41:24,100 complicated like all these different concepts basically turn into one 862 00:41:24,100 --> 00:41:28,340 kind of solid idea and that was that low key being the trickster god he is 863 00:41:28,340 --> 00:41:30,540 essentially fell in love with a like a mortal 864 00:41:30,540 --> 00:41:33,980 brought him brought them back to like uh... ragnarok the way it's supposed to 865 00:41:33,980 --> 00:41:36,660 happen is it's a cycle and all the characters always reborn in their 866 00:41:36,660 --> 00:41:39,620 destined like it's basically destined to happen every time 867 00:41:39,620 --> 00:41:42,580 everything goes bad all the gods get killed if we get everything the first 868 00:41:42,580 --> 00:41:45,260 human is born again from the tree and then all the gods are to pop up again 869 00:41:45,260 --> 00:41:47,100 and they don't they can't remember anything 870 00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:50,020 uh... and i really like the idea of maybe somebody like being able to break the 871 00:41:50,020 --> 00:41:53,980 cycle and of course who fits that better than the person that like is tricky and 872 00:41:53,980 --> 00:41:55,420 mischievous 873 00:41:55,420 --> 00:41:59,180 uh... so low key has a kid named your mingunder and then your mingunder has 874 00:41:59,180 --> 00:42:02,860 like the ability to essentially speak a language that only he can speak and that 875 00:42:02,860 --> 00:42:05,820 allows him to like travel between different dimensions 876 00:42:05,820 --> 00:42:09,260 uh... so i kind of took like that world serpent concept in like really 877 00:42:09,260 --> 00:42:10,580 elevated it 878 00:42:10,580 --> 00:42:15,380 uh... and so low key is actually a lot of it's yeah yeah i sorry i am the guy 879 00:42:15,380 --> 00:42:17,300 that elevated method i made it 880 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:19,620 cooler and bigger than it was 881 00:42:19,620 --> 00:42:24,220 so low key being like the adventurous mischievous god he is uh... 882 00:42:24,220 --> 00:42:27,180 essentially starts to speak that same language as a son 883 00:42:27,180 --> 00:42:30,420 and uses it to travel to different places falls in love with this woman in 884 00:42:30,420 --> 00:42:34,220 fair haven brings her back and then doesn't realize because he forgets that 885 00:42:34,220 --> 00:42:35,580 there's a cycle 886 00:42:35,580 --> 00:42:39,740 uh... so that cycle goes off ragnarok happens he dies warming underdyes 887 00:42:39,740 --> 00:42:44,140 undies the whole like norse myth off like the whole norse tree dies 888 00:42:44,140 --> 00:42:45,420 but so does she 889 00:42:45,420 --> 00:42:48,420 so then he comes back and he starts to remember things because she wasn't a 890 00:42:48,420 --> 00:42:51,660 part of the cycle and so his immediate response is to be like cool let's speed 891 00:42:51,660 --> 00:42:54,820 up this process let's teach my son how to speak the language quicker and let's 892 00:42:54,820 --> 00:42:57,740 go back and find like basically my wife 893 00:42:57,740 --> 00:43:00,820 and then he realizes very quickly the mistake he's made which is he brought 894 00:43:00,820 --> 00:43:04,460 somebody that wasn't a god that had the ability to be reborn 895 00:43:04,460 --> 00:43:07,940 into a cycle that kills things she was just an elf 896 00:43:07,940 --> 00:43:10,660 yeah she was just an elf that he like fell in love with and brought back 897 00:43:10,660 --> 00:43:12,700 a dude so then he realizes 898 00:43:12,700 --> 00:43:16,180 well i've lost my wife and i basically made the mistake that killed her so now 899 00:43:16,180 --> 00:43:20,300 i'm gonna do everything humanly and godly possible to try and go back in time 900 00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:23,660 and bring like basically saver stop him from making that mistake is like mr 901 00:43:23,660 --> 00:43:24,260 freeze 902 00:43:24,260 --> 00:43:27,540 yeah essentially like it's the whole like time travelers dilemma that that whole 903 00:43:27,540 --> 00:43:29,020 thing so his immediate 904 00:43:29,020 --> 00:43:32,460 go his immediate like thought process then is like okay how do i bully my son 905 00:43:32,460 --> 00:43:34,820 into allowing me 906 00:43:34,820 --> 00:43:38,300 do the time travel part of this too and his son being like a good neutral 907 00:43:38,300 --> 00:43:39,860 character your man gunner goes 908 00:43:39,860 --> 00:43:42,980 i can like i can go back in time or forward 909 00:43:42,980 --> 00:43:46,540 you cannot like you will fuck everything up that's just who you are as a 910 00:43:46,540 --> 00:43:48,020 person father 911 00:43:48,020 --> 00:43:52,420 so sorry shit i love you a lot not gonna let that happens he goes you know what 912 00:43:52,420 --> 00:43:53,700 fucking bet dude 913 00:43:53,700 --> 00:43:59,140 uh... and basically starts traveling the multiverse finding that looking for 914 00:43:59,140 --> 00:44:01,780 incredibly powerful sorcerers like 915 00:44:01,780 --> 00:44:05,420 uh... deities gods anybody that has a vested interest in being able to travel 916 00:44:05,420 --> 00:44:07,460 the multiverse is like who the fuck wouldn't 917 00:44:07,460 --> 00:44:11,780 yeah uh... in his like i'm gonna use all of your power for one big spell in 918 00:44:11,780 --> 00:44:13,980 basically rip the tree 919 00:44:13,980 --> 00:44:17,740 which is what you're gonna use to travel rip the tree out out of all the nine 920 00:44:17,740 --> 00:44:21,340 and then i'm gonna find my son to uh... like a place in between 921 00:44:21,340 --> 00:44:23,820 drive the tree through my kid 922 00:44:23,820 --> 00:44:27,340 uh... so that way it's basically just a fucking spaceship in the multiverse 923 00:44:27,340 --> 00:44:30,780 power with an infinite engine in an elevator and then i'm gonna drive it 924 00:44:30,780 --> 00:44:33,140 manually by going into his brain 925 00:44:33,140 --> 00:44:36,140 uh... making a house situation 926 00:44:36,140 --> 00:44:41,140 i can't tell you how i came up with this really convoluted story i think i just 927 00:44:41,140 --> 00:44:43,940 kind of made it up on the go because now that i'm saying it out loud it sounds 928 00:44:43,940 --> 00:44:45,220 fucking insane 929 00:44:45,220 --> 00:44:48,300 and a lot of this back story i didn't come with i didn't come up with until i 930 00:44:48,300 --> 00:44:49,820 already made the end 931 00:44:49,820 --> 00:44:52,500 so that i just started plugging in pieces but that's everything that happens 932 00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:53,980 previous to 933 00:44:53,980 --> 00:44:56,260 uh... like campaign started 934 00:44:56,260 --> 00:44:58,700 previous to the campaign starting and then there are a lot of characters that 935 00:44:58,700 --> 00:45:02,140 are in there uh... like the the people like fray who 936 00:45:02,140 --> 00:45:05,860 married uh... who married loki his wife like there's a ring that they find it's 937 00:45:05,860 --> 00:45:07,100 kind of like 938 00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:09,940 keloi two and i can't remember the fuck her name was terion 939 00:45:09,940 --> 00:45:13,740 yeah terion uh... and i that was the first indication that like there was 940 00:45:13,740 --> 00:45:18,260 something that's the end of that campaign and we had this nothing had no 941 00:45:18,260 --> 00:45:20,940 fucking clue what it could have meant they were just like oh sick and the 942 00:45:20,940 --> 00:45:23,940 rag-back picks it up and it's like you know a pocket this yeah 943 00:45:23,940 --> 00:45:27,740 and then the character fucks off uh... and i was like well 944 00:45:27,740 --> 00:45:29,780 i'm just gonna say that he didn't take the ring 945 00:45:29,780 --> 00:45:30,460 you have it 946 00:45:30,460 --> 00:45:34,020 yeah cuz i was the only fucking person that 947 00:45:34,020 --> 00:45:34,900 that could have 948 00:45:34,900 --> 00:45:39,620 and now know or like anything together so now that i've told you this incredibly 949 00:45:39,620 --> 00:45:43,140 convoluted back story that has an absolutely nothing to do with norse 950 00:45:43,140 --> 00:45:47,380 mythology outside of three characters which roughly are three concepts which 951 00:45:47,380 --> 00:45:49,580 is a tree that can span realms 952 00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:51,620 uh... serpent 953 00:45:51,620 --> 00:45:54,900 sorry serpent that can speak a language that allows him to travel realms 954 00:45:54,900 --> 00:45:59,220 in a really jaded loki which he always is but this one was a little 955 00:45:59,220 --> 00:46:00,740 extra jaded 956 00:46:00,740 --> 00:46:03,900 so he gets all these people together and he's like listen i mean all of you to 957 00:46:03,900 --> 00:46:07,780 basically like recite the same spell from different points in the multiverse to 958 00:46:07,780 --> 00:46:11,580 to bind my son and the tree in the same location i'm gonna make a house basically 959 00:46:11,580 --> 00:46:14,900 an elevator that can go wherever you want it to go whenever you want to go 960 00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:16,540 cuz that was the important piece 961 00:46:16,540 --> 00:46:17,500 time 962 00:46:17,500 --> 00:46:21,620 uh... and then we all just get to use it like is partners in the system like if 963 00:46:21,620 --> 00:46:25,140 you help me make it like if you're shareholder in the system 964 00:46:25,140 --> 00:46:27,860 i'll give you a door and that door will take you to the serpents and then you 965 00:46:27,860 --> 00:46:31,220 can do whatever the fuck you want with it go cause multiversal chaos 966 00:46:31,220 --> 00:46:35,020 uh... pages handed it out willy-nilly to anybody that had basically like an 967 00:46:35,020 --> 00:46:38,940 ounce of power that was gonna help you want to keep sure yet that s like you 968 00:46:38,940 --> 00:46:41,660 gonna give me your power for thirty seconds and then we're all gonna be rich 969 00:46:41,660 --> 00:46:44,060 me on our wildest dreams you can get whatever you want 970 00:46:44,060 --> 00:46:46,180 uh... so he starts to spell 971 00:46:46,180 --> 00:46:49,460 and then your main gunner being intelligent is like you know 972 00:46:49,460 --> 00:46:52,420 something's a little suspicious about this 973 00:46:52,420 --> 00:46:55,900 i'll really trust him not to fuck around and do something 974 00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:59,620 so then can i glee what happens is he essentially starts making plans in 975 00:46:59,620 --> 00:47:04,220 fucking up and several people's lives to essentially get them to do what he 976 00:47:04,220 --> 00:47:06,540 needs them to do to break him out of this 977 00:47:06,540 --> 00:47:11,860 yeah so he like purposely sabotages magnolia's life he purposely sabotages 978 00:47:11,860 --> 00:47:15,900 ragmads life and e-fonds and brains like he essentially opens doors and 979 00:47:15,900 --> 00:47:18,460 portals to places that they shouldn't be open 980 00:47:18,460 --> 00:47:22,140 so that they become like innings like basically tied to him 981 00:47:22,140 --> 00:47:26,300 and their only way out of this fucked up loop is to essentially help him break 982 00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:30,020 free of the spell that his like son loki binds him in 983 00:47:30,020 --> 00:47:32,620 uh... in part of the way that he does that 984 00:47:32,620 --> 00:47:36,660 as the essentially cuts out his own heart and then sends it to be bound in 985 00:47:36,660 --> 00:47:40,100 and descendant of terion his love interest because 986 00:47:40,100 --> 00:47:44,260 that process is hill he's gonna search everywhere for it but he's not the look 987 00:47:44,260 --> 00:47:45,540 at like his 988 00:47:45,540 --> 00:47:48,500 i don't know like fucking granddaughter three times removed like great great 989 00:47:48,500 --> 00:47:50,660 great great great great great grand daughter like surely he's not a look 990 00:47:50,660 --> 00:47:51,200 there 991 00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,320 yeah doesn't for a very long time 992 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:58,940 uh... so one starts causing problems until that in the particular grand 993 00:47:58,940 --> 00:48:02,300 daughter along with the other several like mischievous party members and 994 00:48:02,300 --> 00:48:05,960 starting like some real multi-versal chaos and that's basically just a flair 995 00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:10,120 being like hey look at me I can do things that you want to be able to do. 996 00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,400 And then you know the granddaughter shows up with papers confirming her identity. 997 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,400 Yeah confirming her identity and then he ended up... 998 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:16,400 He's dead to him. 999 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:19,360 Yeah yeah yeah yeah and he was like the bartender the whole time too. 1000 00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,360 He basically like consumed the bartender's identity and then took on... 1001 00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:26,600 So remember the whole thing was said about like my character being like jaded and not trusting anyone. 1002 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,360 Cause she was like, cause she was a jaded motherfucker. 1003 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,960 And like she had her heart broken a million times cause she was always dating around and blah blah blah. 1004 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:37,760 And so she didn't trust anyone and then we introduced... 1005 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:38,760 Oops! 1006 00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,960 Shapeshifter, everyone that you thought was your friend... 1007 00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,960 To definitely not have been your friend. 1008 00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:49,360 Was actually the bad guy the whole time and no one's ever liked you. 1009 00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:50,360 Yeah. 1010 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,960 So that was a fun discovery. 1011 00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:59,200 Yeah the twist was basically that in an attempt to like Loki goes 1012 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,360 crazy because I liked... 1013 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,760 I wanted to play more on the idea of like they're supposed to die in Ragnarok. 1014 00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:10,960 Like there's a reason why they get reset and it's like that their bodies and their brains well godly 1015 00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:16,560 can't handle that many like that much time worth of information. 1016 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:21,360 So what ends up happening is like basically there at the very end he's going insane. 1017 00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,640 He's got his plan together like I mentioned Jormungun or Sabotaged at last second. 1018 00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,260 He's like cool you're gonna kill me. 1019 00:49:26,260 --> 00:49:28,640 I'm gonna kill me first. 1020 00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,560 And basically yeah I mean just kind of beats him to the punch. 1021 00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:35,080 So everything goes off without a hitch with the exception of the heart which is the one 1022 00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:38,760 thing he needed to basically be able to go back in time. 1023 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:40,520 So then Loki goes nuts. 1024 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,880 He's like well I can't handle this. 1025 00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:49,160 I just spent centuries of my life putting this plan together to like see my wife. 1026 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:54,240 I can't do anything anymore and basically just goes into like safe mode and his brain 1027 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:56,520 just fully shatters. 1028 00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:02,560 And so kind of the idea behind the character's power in particular was that Loki's a shapeshifter 1029 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:04,080 and so I took that to the extreme. 1030 00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:07,280 I was like how do we then turn that into a gameplay element. 1031 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:12,040 Essentially any creature any being I mean literally anything. 1032 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:16,160 Anything that he had ever seen that was living he could then shapeshift into. 1033 00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:20,480 The issue was is his brain is very much like a library and it was at capacity. 1034 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:25,520 So when he started to go crazy because he wasn't dying all of those personalities all 1035 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:30,000 of those beings started to fracture and you never knew who he was going to be in the next 1036 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,560 like instant you saw him. 1037 00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:36,680 So he essentially goes into like a hibernation mode and ends up taking over the personality 1038 00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:41,880 of a bartender and basically bartends the serpents in for I've never figured out I 1039 00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:43,480 can never came up with a specific number. 1040 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:44,680 I was assuming eons. 1041 00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:49,280 And untold yeah basically eons like he sits there at the world serpents in it's fucked 1042 00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:54,280 up you can't choose where the doors go you can't choose the time of the doors either 1043 00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:58,480 but he just sits there and he waits and his brain waits basically in like a safety mode 1044 00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:04,040 trying to piece himself back together until our protagonists from now he finally catch 1045 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:08,680 up to like the first campaign our protagonists finally show up with like the keys to the 1046 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:09,680 door. 1047 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:10,680 Yeah. 1048 00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:15,120 He's essentially what he needs is he needs all of the pieces that Jormungunder has through 1049 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:19,160 fucking up their lives given them to basically free him like the same pieces that would be 1050 00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:24,240 required to free Jormungunder are the same pieces that Loki or Keyloy would need to then 1051 00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:25,880 lock him fully up. 1052 00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:26,880 Yeah. 1053 00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,200 And so they walk right into it and Magnolia who's the most consequential piece to the 1054 00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:32,200 whole thing. 1055 00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,560 If you haven't picked up on quickly be friends the bartender. 1056 00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:36,560 She had the heart. 1057 00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:37,560 Yeah she was the heart. 1058 00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:39,560 She was basically the heart of the circle. 1059 00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,200 Jormungunder killed her when she was a fucking baby. 1060 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:43,680 And then brought her back to life. 1061 00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,880 Brought her back to life which is yes fucked up. 1062 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:47,880 Fucked up. 1063 00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:49,040 Yeah this whole campaign was fucked up. 1064 00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:53,880 It was but I also loved at the table getting to ask the question wait so does did so. 1065 00:51:53,880 --> 00:52:01,360 So did Jormungunder kill a baby and then Robert getting to go uh yeah technically. 1066 00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,360 Yeah he did. 1067 00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:04,360 Basically. 1068 00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:09,520 And then like it's almost like a curse like Voldemort but it actually worked you know 1069 00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:14,240 instead of it being like a lighting scar it's like no kid fully got murked and then got 1070 00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:19,600 brought back to life like yeah the heart of a world servant heart of a god. 1071 00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:23,840 And so like this is his moment like he's like fuck yeah like the pieces of just falling 1072 00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:25,320 directly into my lap. 1073 00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:26,320 Yeah. 1074 00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:30,360 Um and he didn't really play like a super consequential part to the campaign at all 1075 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:31,520 until the second half. 1076 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:32,520 Like he wasn't. 1077 00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:33,520 No because we were all. 1078 00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:37,440 He was never present they never put the pieces together I never really gave them enough leads 1079 00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:41,320 to like really put it together like it would have been a leap from one of them to go I 1080 00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,760 think there's one individual behind everything that's happened. 1081 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,840 Yeah that would have been crazy. 1082 00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:50,520 If someone had just came out swinging with that I mean Spencer got pretty fucking close 1083 00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:51,520 there at the end. 1084 00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:58,080 The closest they got that we got to kind of like figuring everything out was um we there 1085 00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,280 was a part of the campaign where we had gone down and we were like walking through Yorming 1086 00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:02,280 Gunder. 1087 00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:08,080 Yeah and I kept making some interesting checks with the flower that I had which was we come 1088 00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,640 to learn like another like portion of the heart of Yorming Gunder. 1089 00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:16,120 It kind of got split into like two parts because turns out that she was a bastard and she was 1090 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:17,920 born into flower shop and blah blah blah. 1091 00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,240 Yeah there was a whole lot of fucked up backstory with that. 1092 00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:24,600 Yeah Robert made it so she cononically fucked her half brother which was not a necessary 1093 00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:25,600 portion that we needed. 1094 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:27,600 No go ahead laugh at the mic. 1095 00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:34,080 That was just a fuck you to me as a person to be like haha I'm putting that on you now. 1096 00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:40,400 I didn't like intended to be a fuck you as a person it just lined up with a story and 1097 00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,880 then I realized that the implication of that story point was that you would fuck your half 1098 00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:45,880 brother. 1099 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,640 And I said that at the table and you were like. 1100 00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:50,640 Tensionally. 1101 00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,280 Oh wait yes. 1102 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:54,360 Technically yes that is what happened. 1103 00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:55,960 But that's besides the point. 1104 00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:58,200 Yeah that's in the second half. 1105 00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:02,280 But they were in the snake and I was making some interesting checks because I still had 1106 00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:06,080 I finally got rid of my negative to Arcana and I was just leaving. 1107 00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:09,400 She also had zero like preservation of life skills. 1108 00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,000 No those didn't exist. 1109 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:15,000 So I was just like can I vibe check the ground and he was like what does that mean and I 1110 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:16,240 went like I don't know just touch the ground. 1111 00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:17,720 I want to touch the ground. 1112 00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:20,240 And like see what it's feeling. 1113 00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:26,360 And such an interesting thing which it worked and learn a dead snake and she goes I want 1114 00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:27,360 to touch the ground. 1115 00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:34,120 What is the ground feel like but like not feel as in like the material like cold like 1116 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:38,200 what is it feeling right now which doesn't make any fucking sense. 1117 00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:43,960 It's dead which I mean it did make sense but I didn't think she was going to go let me 1118 00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,160 just vibe check the fucking floor. 1119 00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:47,920 That was the right move. 1120 00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,360 Yeah yeah I guess it was. 1121 00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:54,280 But that's what they basically learned through Magnolia's flower then beginning to grow through 1122 00:54:54,280 --> 00:55:01,760 her body and room most fucking snatches her and try to kill her and be like oh you're 1123 00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:02,760 home. 1124 00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,440 Yeah and she was like no the fuck I'm not. 1125 00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,200 I'm from Elfland. 1126 00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:12,040 That's when she learns that she's in the words of the flower because someone had talked 1127 00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,240 to plants and it just worked out clutch. 1128 00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:19,440 I could have fucking punched Sam in that moment when he goes yeah I want to use talk to plants 1129 00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,720 on the flower and I go what do you mean you want to use talk to me. 1130 00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:25,640 Yeah I have talked to plants like I can just speak to a plant. 1131 00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,480 Sure sure you can do that. 1132 00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,240 Sure why the fuck not. 1133 00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:31,840 And so then we learn. 1134 00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,360 She wasn't theoryating. 1135 00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:37,600 Well the flower says no she was never born. 1136 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,600 She's not real. 1137 00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:41,600 And that's what they tied in there. 1138 00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:47,240 She's in existential crisis for Magnolia because she's like I definitely remember having childhood. 1139 00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:49,600 My mom says I was born. 1140 00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:51,560 She's like sobbing. 1141 00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,040 Someone like taps her on the shoulder and she immediately hits him. 1142 00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:55,040 It was like a crisis. 1143 00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,080 I traumatized Magnolia. 1144 00:55:58,080 --> 00:55:59,840 So many times. 1145 00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:00,840 For what. 1146 00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,000 Yeah I know I know. 1147 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:08,680 But she kind of learns or at least gets a very large hint that she has the soul. 1148 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:10,240 It's not what it seems. 1149 00:56:10,240 --> 00:56:12,680 But yeah I'm a little more than meets the eye. 1150 00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,760 Yeah and everyone in the party is just kind of looking at her like that was fucked up 1151 00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,880 anyway and then immediately move on. 1152 00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:23,360 Yep she's like hey guys I could have died in that moment also I think I spoke to a spiritual 1153 00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,520 snake that said it's my father but like also not. 1154 00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,120 And they were like that's interesting I guess. 1155 00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:30,120 Let's keep walking. 1156 00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:31,720 Yeah there was no. 1157 00:56:31,720 --> 00:56:35,800 Yep no one took the time to be like wow that is really odd I wonder if that's connected 1158 00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,440 to the rest of us that also have all these random magical artifacts that kind of line 1159 00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:46,480 up with a snake that are all snake themed. 1160 00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:50,440 They never tried like putting them together they never tried like tapping them to one 1161 00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:51,800 another. 1162 00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:55,400 They're just like yeah this is my magical artifact that I guess it's just like cool 1163 00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:56,400 to use. 1164 00:56:56,400 --> 00:57:00,440 Because I mean I wanted it to be more than like here's a piece of the puzzle that you're 1165 00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:05,280 going to keep in your person and is not functional like the flower allowed her to teleport. 1166 00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:09,640 Rayon's Bracer gave him a bonus to AC and a bonus to strings. 1167 00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:14,800 Like Tooth basically allowed him to poison enemies and like always track something because 1168 00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:15,800 it's a fun ranger thing. 1169 00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:17,560 Because I don't think he ever used. 1170 00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:21,840 Yvonne was his book allowed, gave him spells. 1171 00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,600 His book gave him spells. 1172 00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:27,640 So the way that I rolled, every one of these magical items had like an actual backstory 1173 00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:32,240 so the tooth that Ragbad uses is actually a chip of the tooth off of the world's serpent. 1174 00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:36,840 Basically what it touches can't like it can be found, it can be tracked anywhere, it has 1175 00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:42,760 like kind of like yeah like it's like a multiverse tracker. 1176 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:44,880 And of course my Nolini's flower, yeah it's an air tag. 1177 00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,000 And then of course my Nolini's flower is like half of the serpent's heart but also allows 1178 00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:49,000 her to teleport. 1179 00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,000 And it was also like a sprig of the world's tree. 1180 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:57,040 So she was just fucking walking through this bitch like it could do whatever she wanted. 1181 00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:01,560 And then Rayon's Bracer is basically like a piece of a really important door that was 1182 00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:05,400 basically like the back entrance if you will. 1183 00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:09,440 And so it was kind of like an innate part of like the serpent itself and like kind of 1184 00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:10,720 like a scale almost. 1185 00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:16,300 And then Yvonne had a book and the book like mechanically gave him extra spells so over 1186 00:58:16,300 --> 00:58:22,240 time during like free time I would allow him to essentially read it and then if he passed 1187 00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:24,760 a check I would give him another spell. 1188 00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:28,240 So the way that I had like done it is that there have been wizards in like different 1189 00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:33,800 magical beings throughout history that have compiled notes on Yoramangunder's language. 1190 00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,760 It's a dead language nobody's ever spoken it with the exception of two people. 1191 00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,760 And that's Yvonne. 1192 00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:41,120 That's Yoramangunder and that's Loki. 1193 00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,200 But there are like runes that Yoramangunder leaves around. 1194 00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:47,400 I mean he basically like scattered himself like little like red crumbs to hoping that 1195 00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,560 somebody eventually would figure out what was happening. 1196 00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:55,240 And it just so happens that there's a particular breed of person they're called scholars that 1197 00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,440 like to put things together. 1198 00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:02,800 And so what I gave him is basically a book that people have been like that sorcerers, 1199 00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:08,040 wizards, warlocks before him had basically taken notes from different languages and trying 1200 00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:12,000 to figure out how to speak the language of Yoramangunder like figuring out what's up 1201 00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:17,840 with these doors and all these different like you know like multiverses in different locations. 1202 00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:21,400 And kind of the backstory behind that was that Yoramangunder every time like the book 1203 00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:25,320 would get left by somebody Yoramangunder would then go back in time fuck with something so 1204 00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:28,080 that the book would then get to the next person that he needed it to get to. 1205 00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:29,280 Yeah and that book ended up coming back. 1206 00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,800 He was kind of like scrying the future to figure out like who he needed to be where 1207 00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,800 to give himself the best chance to like get out of jail. 1208 00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:42,080 And it ended up in Yvonne's hands and Yvonne ended up basically dumping every possible 1209 00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,960 moment of role play and of learning how to fucking read it. 1210 00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:45,960 Truly. 1211 00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:50,120 And like the book had a lot of answers like the book had a ridiculous amount of answers 1212 00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:51,760 in it. 1213 00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:56,520 And so it like the book and the flower were easily the two most important pieces for a 1214 00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:57,520 while. 1215 00:59:57,520 --> 00:59:58,520 Yeah. 1216 00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:03,840 Because like one was like the semi like metaphysical manifestation of like the big key. 1217 01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:07,600 And the other one was like how do I the other one was like the book that tells you how to 1218 01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:12,160 speak the language that's also a very important piece of the story. 1219 01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:15,720 Yvonne eventually in the final session puts it all together. 1220 01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,280 And then that's when his partner from like session one comes back and is like you stole 1221 01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:20,960 my destiny a motherfucker. 1222 01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:26,080 And immediately just and then locks everybody out of a room and starts brainwashing Yvonne 1223 01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:30,560 and basically doing a modified like a different version of the modified memory spell and and 1224 01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:34,600 starts like implanting memories trying to force him to think that there's still pals 1225 01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,120 and like it was a whole fucked up thing. 1226 01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:43,240 It was fucked that combat encounter also crazy wild crazy. 1227 01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,640 We eventually all got in the room and it was like a small room. 1228 01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:48,560 It was like a 30 foot by 30 foot. 1229 01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:53,720 And we immediately I remember Robert got pissed because we like all had a spell to summon 1230 01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:57,200 creatures and there were just bodies in that bitch. 1231 01:00:57,200 --> 01:01:03,360 This was a tiny 30 by 30 room and these motherfuckers every two seconds to be like yes I'm going 1232 01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,520 to summon a companion and it's actually large. 1233 01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,400 Also I'm going to summon a companion and this one's also large. 1234 01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:13,120 Oh and also I have a companion from the spell I just got in its medium but I get to make 1235 01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:16,880 two of them so basically fucking large and it's like cool. 1236 01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:21,320 And now I got to start adding pieces to the room because you all can't physically move. 1237 01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:25,680 Yeah so then the room starts expanding and fighting and I remember different pieces of 1238 01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:30,000 different rooms start slamming into like the central room that they're in and yeah and 1239 01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,840 it was very scary and I also went through my own like personal hell during that time. 1240 01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,640 And the way that I roleplayed that behind the scenes like that was your woman gunners 1241 01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:40,760 direct like interference basically trying to give you all more space to breathe to like 1242 01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:46,080 survive the combat encounter because like Yvonne's partner specifically chose a location 1243 01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,600 in a room that like was mostly stable and that was small so that he can control the 1244 01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:54,480 fight he was a chronomancer so time magic and I he had like the way that I then he had 1245 01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:58,680 backup plan on backup plan on backup plan and then your men under starts basically 1246 01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:02,360 throwing rooms at the room that they're in and like giving them like a real chance to 1247 01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:04,680 move and spread and do things. 1248 01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:06,840 It was really cool it was really fun but it ends. 1249 01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:09,200 What he did in the counter was getting his ass beat. 1250 01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:11,840 Oh yeah no he got fucked up in the end. 1251 01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:13,880 He got really fucked up. 1252 01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:19,160 He was like hey bro Yvonne I still love you you stole my destiny like the book is supposed 1253 01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:23,160 to be mine but like I'm gonna make you think that we're friends and we're gonna live happily 1254 01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:27,080 ever after and everyone else in the party with fucking gang banged. 1255 01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:30,600 We said we're not gonna let that slide. 1256 01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:35,640 We came in and we killed everything died everything got killed very quickly and then 1257 01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:39,800 of course also the fight where I couldn't stay in the room and then as a wild like a 1258 01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:43,360 wild magic sorcerer Madison's rolling on this table every 30 seconds and gets like some 1259 01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:48,600 truly fucking insane like pops into the ethereal plane also gets like 200 points of health 1260 01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:53,480 like it's just oh my fucking god wow that was like cool I have no way to kill her now. 1261 01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:59,840 It was the one where it's like you roll dice and you take that much damage from every creature 1262 01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:02,280 within 30 feet of you and then you gain that. 1263 01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:03,280 You gain that in 10 pounds. 1264 01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:09,640 Well you have nine bodies within 30 feet of you and my very small room. 1265 01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:18,320 I like fucking level 10 if that character suddenly has and got a little fucking 200 and like 1266 01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:27,720 80 hit points and then I had cast a blink so I just blipped out with that much hit with 1267 01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:32,000 like that many hit points and it was something where everyone at the table I think I've got 1268 01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:37,080 a video of Robert crying and I can't remember if it was from like it was from that and I 1269 01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:42,120 can't remember putting my hand in my putting my hand in my my head in my hands. 1270 01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,800 I don't remember what it was from but there were many moments in the campaign like that 1271 01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:50,680 where I was just I couldn't I couldn't fucking compute that and then I also I like had four 1272 01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,920 wild magic searchers that fights I had that one and then I did one where I went to the 1273 01:03:53,920 --> 01:04:00,040 astral plane so I had like a fucking timeout where I was talking to the snake and then 1274 01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:05,960 at the end when we had killed the guy and then he went up there's one more backup plan 1275 01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:10,480 and he's gonna pull out this little bead which is the thing that chronomancy wizards can 1276 01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:11,480 do. 1277 01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,480 Yep they can put spells into beads and then use those beads. 1278 01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:21,560 And he did a polymorph and it was Robert set up gonna roll this d4 to figure out where 1279 01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:25,480 this bead goes because he wanted it to hit himself. 1280 01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:30,520 And Yifan gets a dexterity saving throw and basically fucking yeets it out of his hand 1281 01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:33,080 and I was like well it's going somewhere dude. 1282 01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:41,280 And it hit me and then I was a snake and I was the only bitch who could get us out of 1283 01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:48,800 the room and the room starts collapsing and I kept trying to be like can I tell them to 1284 01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:55,200 kill me and remember I was like no and I was like cool I think I'm just gonna start attacking 1285 01:04:55,200 --> 01:05:03,040 people then so they'll hit me and they weren't they were just like man she's cranky today. 1286 01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:06,840 Yeah it was a fucking time. 1287 01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,800 That might have been why you were on the ground with your head and your head. 1288 01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:11,160 That might have been a moment man. 1289 01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:16,240 It was a lot but her flower for reference basically the way that I kind of done this 1290 01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:22,320 mechanically and from a story perspective being like the heart of the serpent. 1291 01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:27,240 Like the brain essentially just the way that I kind of like to say it was the brain gave 1292 01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:34,240 the room basically the ability to go places like it had that innate ability to just travel 1293 01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:39,600 but it like without the heart without a drive without a want it could never really figure 1294 01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:43,280 out like where it wanted to go and so that's why the heart was so important because the 1295 01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:49,080 heart was basically like the drive behind everything and so the flower with the flower 1296 01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:54,000 basically what I allowed her to do was to act as the heart in that moment open a door 1297 01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:58,400 kind of where she wanted to go sometimes it was sometimes it wasn't basically like asking 1298 01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:02,480 the serpent kind of like in an odd way like hey homie this is like your heart recognize 1299 01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:07,360 that like let's go somewhere that I want to go and then like that was it and so that's 1300 01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:09,920 kind of how that works mechanically. 1301 01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:11,800 Which Robert immediately regretted. 1302 01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:16,720 Yeah yeah yeah so anytime we were anywhere I could just say what have we left. 1303 01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:22,080 Pretty much so we did yeah I think we got to wrap it up I think we're just about out 1304 01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:27,240 of time I mean that ends pretty much for campaign ones at I'll talk about like if on fate and 1305 01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,480 some of the things that happen behind the scenes there. 1306 01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:33,080 Which I'm so excited to finally here as a player because we didn't get to it. 1307 01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:36,280 And I told Spencer specifically not to tell anybody about it so. 1308 01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:37,480 And I tried to bribe him. 1309 01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,960 Yeah I told Spencer I'd send everybody out of the room and had an individual conversation 1310 01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:44,320 with him where it was basically him one on one with the serpent and I was like this is 1311 01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:48,320 like what what happens here never leaves this room this is a me and you thing buddy and he 1312 01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:51,800 loved that he loved the shit out of that and so like he only knows to this day what 1313 01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:53,920 happened maybe I'll talk about it next episode maybe won't. 1314 01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:54,920 No. 1315 01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,760 Into another episode of Table Talk we will see you next time I don't know what it's going 1316 01:06:57,760 --> 01:06:59,280 to be but we'll talk. 1317 01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:25,280 Bye.