Hello players who will kill themselves before they give their DM a shred of satisfaction.
And first time DMs who have no idea what setting they want to play in, so they instead make
a setting where you can do ALL of them.
Welcome back to Table Talk.
I'm Maddie.
And I'm Robert.
What are we talking about today?
So today is more of a goof episode.
We prep for the next couple ones, which there's going to be one that's very exciting coming
up with a guest artist.
We're going to start having guests on, but the next one hopefully after this will be
either Combat or the guest episode.
It just depends on which one happens first.
But I want to prep a little bit before I just start making shit up, which kind of happened
a little bit in the last few, and it just makes it difficult.
So today we're just going to talk about our previous campaign, the one that myself and
Madison have played in, or I guess IDM'd.
Madison's first official campaign going all the way through.
And just kind of shooting shit about that, talking about where it started, story points,
things we like, things we didn't.
This might be a two-parter or three, just depends.
Because there were technically two halves of it that we split between two separate semesters.
So there was episode one and episode two, or section one, section two.
I never came up with a formal way to like...
I just called it volume one and volume two.
Yeah, volume one and volume two works.
Which that in itself is kind of a fun topic.
How do you go about participating in a campaign that could potentially go longer than you
have the available commitment to participate in?
Because it's still very much we could pick this up and keep going.
We could go back.
There are enough plot hooks that we could continue that storyline.
Indefinitely.
Fuck, what would have been January of 2022?
Oh my god.
Yeah, because 2021 December...
That makes me want to vomit.
Well, I always remember 2021 December was when I got money for a project that worked
on for a very long time.
So I always remember that like 2022 in January was when we went.
It's also where I had my 21st, because I'm always a year behind whatever year it is.
So if it's 2046, I'm 45.
Okay.
Yeah, it's just a...
Well, ADHD, fun things, or fun ways of remembering.
You always find like weird...
If it's like something that's 30 minutes away, it's not actually 30 minutes away.
It is like six, five minutes away.
No, dead ass.
It's like it's five minutes away.
Five minutes to the car and 10 minutes down the road away.
It's not 20 minutes.
Yeah.
It is...
That got me through dance classes as a child, because I have a very complicated relationship
with dance, and it would always be me looking at the clock, and I'm like, okay, we don't
have 45 minutes left.
We just have five minutes several times.
Yeah, that's what gets me through some of my classes.
I mean, the one class I'm in, shout out to Social Problems with Placoon.
I love it, but sometimes I just zone out, and so the only way I can get through it is
like, oh, look, there's only 10 minutes until 3.30, which means it's only 30 minutes away
from 4.
So if I could just write out this 10 minutes, I'll be a little closer to getting the fuck
out.
Yeah, that is very real.
And then I just...
Ignore the can sound.
Nope.
Nice.
It was so loud.
And then I just play itag with the clock.
But anyways, it is this odd thing about playing D&D, sitting down for a campaign that has the
potential to go on for over the long time, and it's the bane of a lot of tables.
Is that people don't have the time, or they turn into adults, or they suddenly get new
jobs in different schedules.
Yeah, I'll say this was the perfect setting for a D&D campaign to begin, because we were
studying abroad, we were all living in the same building, and we didn't have cars.
Like we were basically in a boarding school for several months.
We're always in the same place with the same group of people.
So I didn't have to go through the experience of trying to wrangle schedules or...
Not until the next semester.
Not until the next semester, where I had to start letting people...
Well, not letting people, where I had to start writing people out every other session, because
they just didn't schedule properly or their lives were too busy.
Or we found out last minute that someone had tickets to a concert, or was leaving town
and didn't tell us.
It's difficult.
I mean, anyone that's played the game, or who's even attempted to play the game, understands
that the bane of starting is the fact that people have lives.
And it's a multi...
Just don't have a life.
Just roll dice.
It's at minimum a two to three hour activity.
So you gotta figure out two to three hours at the same six.
I mean, at what average size did the table is like five to six?
I would say four to six.
Somewhere in four to six.
So God forbid you have six people scheduled, but you have to line up the same three hours
weekly.
Yeah.
If we played for longer than that, we would play like...
No, we played for six, seven hours.
Because we would pick a date during the week where we weren't traveling, we weren't doing
anything, and then we would just write it until I was essentially out of shit to do.
Yeah.
And then it would be like, cool, goodnight.
Yeah.
And then I would just be like, well, that's all I can come up with, or this is a suitable
cliffhanger and I don't know what to go off of because I haven't done any writing past
this point.
So see you next week.
There was a TikTok you sent me.
It was like when the party finds out a plot hook and then you're like, well, we've gotta
keep going for another 30 minutes so I can wrap this up.
And that's like a very real thing that happens at D&D tables.
Well, you in particular are always asking fucking questions, like expecting me to just
slip one of these days and give you the answer.
Yeah.
And like that was the TikTok.
It was basically like, the player asked the DM, so why was this guy immune to being
charmed?
And he goes, yeah, he was because this.
And then he dropped his race.
And it's like shape shifters are immune to being charmed.
Yeah.
His answer was shape shifters are immune to being charmed.
And it was like a major PC.
So then it was like, well, looks like we have another 30 minutes of play to go.
So I can figure that one out.
One of these days I'm going to ask, and you are going to slip up and I'm going to get
answers.
Yeah.
But it's always, it's always fun trying to like get your DM to slip up and be like,
so yeah, this is, here's the answer.
Oh, well, fuck.
I don't want to tell you that.
Um, which.
Players do that all the time at our table.
Oh my God.
All the time, man.
All the fucking time.
The amount of time.
All playing is difficult, but like also remember your character like holy fuck.
It happens so many times in our current campaign, which isn't even what this episode was supposed
to be about.
But I feel like I need to share this story because it's so funny, which is one of our
characters is playing like a really edgy, like an edgy guy.
Batman light.
Batman light character.
And he is siblings with another character in the campaign.
And none of us are supposed to know that.
And the only reason we do is because like we're present at the table when other things
are being discussed.
And he immediately first session in goes, oh yeah, my brother.
And we went, who?
And he went, oh yeah, my brother.
So in such, we were like, what?
And like the character is supposed to be very like close to the chest and like a secretive
and I mean Batman like, and he just blesses little heart.
He didn't get that.
Just immediately like, and that was like, oh, I'm also rich.
Do you guys want me to like pay your tuition?
Yeah, your medical bills.
And it's, it's just a fun, he's very much like a dad Batman character in that like he
doesn't, he's a nice person in real life to a fault.
And so it's not really in his repertoire to play like a more cold kind of meaner character.
Like he's just nice all the time.
And then he's like, I'm going to go torture somebody real quick.
And we're like, wait, what?
Yeah, here's 20 bucks.
Go get ice cream.
And then we're like, what's the heck?
It's so it's a fun like little character thing because he's basically just like dad
Batman, like fully leaning into the dad side of things.
But to get back on track, we started when we were studying abroad and the intro like
my the intro was talking about first time DMs that don't know what setting to do.
So they do all of them was exactly what I did.
We've talked about this a little bit in previous episodes, I think in our session zero where
we kind of introduced ourselves and how we started playing together.
But it basically was just a big group chat for everybody that was there.
And then it was like, here are a few random group chats for people that were interested
in playing D&D.
And then of course the question is like, who wants to be a DM?
And I had played in a campaign before only one.
And so of course I was like, yeah, I'll DM why not?
Didn't have any experience with it.
I had no idea what I was doing, but I mean it worked out a lot of fun.
But I finally get a group together.
The other group falls apart and it's just like me and four or five other people.
I mean three of them, two, yeah, technically three of them I knew beforehand, but there
were an additional two.
Not that well.
Yeah, not that well.
There were an additional two that joined that I ended up getting to know pretty well.
One I had already knew from university and the other person I had just seen around.
But anyways, a full group of people.
And so I'm literally just like Googling stuff in my spare time while I'm in the middle of
classes.
I take notes on my laptop and I'm just like settings to play D&D.
And of course like you get like the, like the Faye room places, you get the Faye wild,
you get every fucking source book wizards is put out ever.
Yeah, Sword Coast.
Sword Coast of course, huge.
Your favorite, which like Carnival, Fairhaven, which is ended up being a pretty central location.
There's just.
Unintentionally.
If you understand anything about D&D or the wealth of knowledge that exists out there
about it, you know that there are a lot of places that you could potentially plan.
Theater of the mind, it's endless.
So I was like fuck it.
What if I just like had a place where you could go anywhere?
Because that would be a cool way to introduce everybody to the game.
And it actually ended up being exactly that, which is pretty fun.
But I ended up stumbling upon this place online called the World Serpent's End.
It was mentioned in third edition a few times.
Kind of just like is it's throw away location.
Where like the whole idea was that the room is always filled with smoky blue mist and
like you can never really see from like one end to the other.
And there are like beings from all these different planes.
And then there's one bartender who's like always there.
And then there are these doors that lead to like everywhere.
But there's never like a way to figure out what door leads to which.
With the exception of like this big central set of double doors that opens up routine
like periodically to different locations in different times.
And so I was like, yeah, why not take all of that on for the first time?
Instead of doing.
It was definitely a choice.
Instead of doing like Goblin Hunters and a dungeon in Toric Coast.
I was like, what if we just did the multiverse?
Which worked out, but like looking back.
It was a crazy choice.
It was a bold choice on my end.
And then yeah, but just sat down and made the characters.
I mean, Madison is always, you've always liked D&D.
I've always like had interest in D&D.
I came from and I've kind of mentioned before a lot of my background.
I make a lot of characters and I make a lot of stories and universes.
But I'm not a writer.
I try to be.
So it's a lot of the time these things kind of either sit in my head or I do really embarrassing
things with them on TikTok.
I am now out of necessity.
Yeah, I mean like you've converted.
But I have wanted to play D&D for a really long time and I had this idea for a character
and it did not end up being that character.
I wanted to make like a jester, like a little jester character and that's definitely not
it why I ended up playing.
But it was really fun and it was also cool to be given the freedom of like make a character.
The setting that you make them in the time doesn't matter.
So irrelevant.
So it was always like very confusing.
So I was like, I'm just going to make a character and then can you like give me a location?
And he was like, yeah, you're going to be in this place called Fairhaven.
And I was like, cool.
So I like looked up the books and I was like plugging some of that stuff in.
But I was like, this isn't going to be relevant.
Right.
Just another very generic like location with a lot of people in it.
Yeah.
And your idea for the character was kind of like steampunky.
Yeah.
And like some of the clothing.
And so I was like, cool.
Well, time to Google steampunk locations and fit the addition.
And Fairhaven came up relatively quickly.
So you had a cool ass outfit.
Yeah.
Fairhaven came up pretty fast.
It's set on a larger world called Eberron.
And Eberron is basically just it's just another fantasy universe.
Steampunky, there's a lot of war.
There's a lot of war.
A lot of war.
A lot of like, they're originally a large nation and then I got broken up into five
and a very airbender-esque in that way, but Fairhaven in particular was like the one place
that always stayed very technologically advanced.
Used a lot of like steampunky kind of stuff.
Magic isn't like the most prevalent.
It's more like mechanical kind of stuff.
They have airships.
They have a royal family, like all that kind of fun stuff.
So I made a high elf sorcerer named Magnolia Bonnie.
That was not her real name, but that was like kind of her chosen name that she gave herself.
And so wild magic sorcerer with a negative two to Arcana.
And she was not a bard, thank you very much.
She was a performer, but stop fucking mistaking her for a bard.
And that was probably my favorite character introduction of all time at our tables, which
was-
She burned down a fucking house.
Yeah, it was, we had like watched Legally Blonde a couple of nights before and I mentioned
that it would be funny because she was like a serial dator for it to open with her like
getting dumped or something.
So it opens with her getting dumped in a tavern and it was like immediately so real.
Like I guess that's what, like I was initially like, oh this isn't like a game.
Like dumped me and I was like, all right, I'll dump you.
It was like personal shit.
It was like your fucking family doesn't love you.
You're not a real magician.
Like you're a half ass jester who flunked out of magic school.
It was messy and I was like, okay, we're immediately in this bitch and it turns into
her like, and it opens Legally Blonde of her getting dumped in a very public tavern and
he's like, people are staring at you.
And she like throws a wine glass at him and like it's messy and then she decides, yeah,
I'm gonna go burn down his house.
His family house, by the way, that was also his family flower shop.
Yeah, and she was like-
It's not just like a cottage in the middle of fuck nowhere, it's like a legitimate house
that holds people.
Yeah, it's like downtown and everyone else's character introductions, we're like pretty
chill, it was like you're hunting in the woods and you come across a building and then it
was like-
Not everybody wanted that fun of an intro.
Sam was like, I wanna be like basically legolas but a lot less cool in the woods, which is
a Lord of the Rings reference.
He's basically just a fucking guy with a bow and an elf and he's really good and he jumps
on rocks midair, bow and arrow, whatever.
And then you had Rayon with Dakota who was basically just a half orc who just liked to
hit things.
Yeah.
And then you had a wizard.
A wizard and a bard.
And a bard.
Oh yeah, we did have a bard, didn't we?
But yeah, I decided to really have fun with it and it immediately went off the rails and
it was wet, so you're gonna burn that, you're gonna break it into the shop and burn the
house down.
And then it was like, cool, sirens start going off.
And I was like, oh fuck, cop.
The fire brigade.
And immediately she just kind of gets like KO'd out of there because a magical flower
shows up and is like, do you wanna leave?
And I was like, yes.
But that character's introduction was very fun.
So my idea for that going into it was I was like, if we're gonna do the multiverse, let's
multiverse it the fuck out, man.
So everybody's character intro started in a different realm or at least different location.
The fucking, the Simeon, our bard.
Shout out to David.
Ancient Greece.
It was basically ancient Greece because I didn't really understand that Theros was the
location beforehand.
So now canonically there's Theros and ancient Greece.
It's Theros and ancient Greece.
They're two entirely separate locations because I rolled in the real ancient world god Apollo
from Greek mythology like it.
Listen, I definitely crossed some of the wires, but Theros...
Well you didn't plan that we were still gonna be playing this game a year later.
No, I didn't.
But Theros for the audience is basically, Wizards owns, I've talked about this before,
Magic the Gathering, which is like a cardboard playing game.
And they created this setting because they basically released their cards and blocks
called Theros, their adventures into Theros.
And because Wizards owns both Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons...
There's a lot of crossover.
Yeah, enough people were interested in the Theros setting, which is basically just like
an ancient Greece knockoff kind of deal that they decided to give it its own sourcebook.
And I didn't know that Theros was a place before I created ancient Greece in the settings.
So then they ended up actually going to Theros and I just kind of retconned a lot of what
happened with ancient Greece related things.
But yeah, that's where that started.
Then we had another person who was a wizard.
Oh, what the fuck was he?
You remember what his subclass was?
Not a fucking clue.
He hated us.
Son of a bitch.
Yeah, I can't remember what...
Character wise.
Ethan.
Ethan was his name.
Shout out to Spencer.
Oh, yeah, I knew his name.
I don't remember what subclass of wizard he was, but he was a wizard.
I feel like just the most classic wizard.
Yeah, he had all the utility spells, all the ridiculously high arcana checks.
He was kind of like a bookworm, like a scholar, so he knew how to read and speak a bunch
of languages and had a bunch of spells to identify things.
And so his intro happened in this cursed land of sand, basically this giant rock in the
middle of nowhere that's been turned into like, oh, what's the fucking...
It's a Star Wars thing.
Starlack.
Yeah, kind of like that area.
What's the place with Jabba the Hutsat?
Tatooine.
Yeah, it's more of a Tatooine place.
Like a seedy underground kind of thing.
Him and his pal, his partner go there to solve a curse or to investigate the place because
everyone says it's cursed.
And then it just kind of devolved into there.
His friend didn't, I'm getting sucked into hell.
Yeah, there was a whole lot of behind the scenes going on with that.
I was just trying to plug in a bunch of stuff in that.
The idea behind that was I kind of wanted to roll in hell like a little bit because
it was the idea behind the plot was that there were a bunch of deities and gods and goddesses
and basically just beings of the divine age where they were all very interested in the
broader story.
So I was trying to figure out how to connect Yphon to that story.
And so that was a pretty fun thing too.
He managed to roll really well and played his intro super good.
Like I said, Brayon was just a half-orc.
So we opened up with a war, which is pretty cool.
Like a lot of his family were dying and like brothers in war.
And then he goes into this like forgotten, like abandoned dwarvens, basically like Stronghold
to chase down one of his brothers who's gone missing in like the heat of battle and ends
up watching him like run through a door.
And so his immediate instinct is like, cool, like I gotta go get him and then runs through
the same door.
And then ends up in a tavern.
Along with everybody else.
Yphon also ended up in a tavern.
Magnolia also ended up in a tavern.
With shoelace having vomited, but also the only one to land on their feet and not get
knocked the fuck out.
Yeah, everyone else just kind of like kerplunked and went prone and a little unconscious.
And then rag bad, our Legolas elf.
Shout out to Sam.
Basically, he was just like, he was just there being a guy with the land using the bow and
arrow and was like investigating this house that likes people.
And then almost died immediately.
And it was a very simple puzzle, but a dear God guy could not roll to say his life.
So he basically almost got crushed to death in this house, came out of it mostly okay.
Ends up falling, whatever, whatever.
And then also everybody got a magical item in their intro as well, which was pretty cool.
I had a lot of fun with that.
Yphon got a book, which ended up being Jesus Christ.
It did nice for that book to be as central to the story as-
Can we come to the campaign?
Yeah, the book was the campaign.
Magnolia got her flower.
Which, remember that?
That comes back.
Also ended up being super big in the campaign.
Rag bad basically got like an arrow tip, like a magical arrow tip that he could then attach
to like other arrows and use them to do things.
He didn't use it all that fucking often if I'm being perfectly honest with you.
And it took him a while to figure out what it could be used for.
But part of that's my fault.
I wanted to make it very like, I don't know, I fancy myself as a kind of twisty person.
So I wanted it to be like, you're gonna hear the word that I say in the next sentence and
be like, holy shit that thing you said from the first session, it all clicked in place?
It didn't happen.
It happened a few times, but only because I like beat them over the head with it.
And I was like, here's this, I put in the fucking first session, connect the dots.
And then they're like, oh shit, that is how that works.
That makes total sense.
So I made my hooks more obvious going forward.
At the time I was expecting too much of a group of first players.
So bro tip for your DMs, don't make your hooks too confusing.
It's also one of those things that like you look like a fucking idiot if you start looking
for it and it's not there and you're like, this one inconsequential thing you said in
the first session and then you like keep bringing it up and then the DMs like, no fucking, no,
that's just a bank.
Oh, it's like, it's just a guy.
It's like fantasy high with Gorgug and his father.
Like it never really became a consequential thing, but it just became a bit.
So it's like every time he met another male person, he was like, are you my father?
It never played a significant role in the campaign, not once, but like it continued
to happen.
It's like the bad guy is his dad or something.
Yeah, or something like that.
And then no, it was just like a random.
Yeah, those kinds of things just get turned into jokes.
Like for real.
The last one shot we played this weekend, originally it was supposed to be a thing where my character
was asking people if they were religious and then people found that extremely funny and
then it was just like cool.
I guess I've committed to this bit of asking every single person if they're religious.
If they're religious.
Not a single person answered yes.
No, which in the world of D&D baffling took place in the city of Waterdeep, which is like
basically Gotham, but 5e.
So everyone's pretty much seen the horrible fucked up things.
And so there can't be a God or God's plural.
You know what I'm saying?
Like it's just not there are.
There are.
They get me.
Yeah, they're literally are.
This is a world in which gods very much exist.
This is not like me going up to people on the street being like, are you religious?
And then she was a paladin too.
So like her powers had to come from the deity.
I was a paladin angel like ASMR, but she was flavored to look exactly like a cartoon angel.
Yeah.
And it's like this very clearly a holy person.
There's like ethereal music playing and she's got giant wings.
She's like, are you religious?
And they're like, nah, there is no God.
And it's like what?
Yep.
Oh, Brian, our half work got the location that he's running through ended up being one
of the first major combat encounters they had, which was really cool.
And then his magical item ended up being like, oh, it kind of like a kind of like a suit
sort of deal.
Like he, he ripped off a piece of like a magical, basically a magical portal trying to get to
his brother and came to life latched on to him basically like a bit him.
It reduced his movement speed, but it increased his AC and gave him a bunch of other benefits.
So it's kind of the idea that like it was like the door came to life and it was parasitic
and whatever.
I gave everybody a different piece of the puzzle to open the same door and then it just didn't
happen that way.
So anyways, the magical item notes from this, it's some of these interactions that I wrote
down are funny as fuck.
The magical item that I gave Simeon, our bar, CELF basically was just like a holy
loot that my mans could just play whenever he wanted to and also was like naturally alight
all the time.
So I just gave him like a permanent torch and then it's like secondary function was
being able to like identify like deity kind of like areas or locations or like figure
out like kind of point in the direction of something that's holy or unholy.
So kind of just like a divine metal detector.
And then that was my plot device because I had a very long thought which was going to
be like the loot was going to be instrumental to like healing something and it kind of did
but then he bailed just because life got too busy for him.
So that just ended up getting thrown away.
It was actually supposed to be a really big thing and it turned out to be nothing.
So much of that campaign went that way though.
A lot of, yeah, not the first semester but the second semester people were just dropping
like fucking flies man.
Yeah, it was bad.
Man, that's kind of how all the character intros went.
They all were in a different place and they all got to the same tavern basically like
kind of summoned there in a way and you know there's this idea that your goal as a DM should
be to get your party to like party.
You know what I'm saying?
Like do they all mean at the same time?
Do they know each other before?
Do they have the same mutual interest?
I have never seen a more dysfunctional and disinterested group of PCs in my life.
None of them wanted to be there.
None of them had interest in working together.
They all just wanted to go the fuck home and that's all their motivation.
It's not even like a way of like guys let's work together so we can get the fuck out of
here.
It was like, it was act, I fought every single member of the party.
They were literally forced together with divine intervention.
It was VVP at all.
It was.
And divine intervention was the only thing that kept them together because I kept forcing
them together.
They people kept trying to leave.
Yep and they just, it wouldn't work.
It didn't happen because I was like you can't keep running away from this.
God it was bad.
Yeah.
I don't even have a pro tip for that.
Like I don't know how to fix that.
And it didn't get better.
No.
It didn't get better and improved until the second semester because then we had some people
that were nice and kind.
Yeah.
And trauma bonded.
Yeah trauma bonded was so real.
It never happened in the first semester though.
Everyone was just like well if he's going to walk through the door and he's got a piece
that I need I guess I'm going through the door too.
It was never like oh yeah I like him as a person now.
We're going to hang out and solve the puzzle together.
Volume two we grew to like each other and most of us grew to like each other.
Volume one was basically just the first 30 minutes of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie
only they never get better.
It's just them trying to kidnap each other and shoot one another and like achieve the
same goal but through really ass backwards ways.
Like there was a healing each other but it was like not good.
Like I remember the specific instance where my character got shot by a dwarven ballista
and was harpooned into the wall several feet off the ground at zero hit points.
I was dying and I was like I had a fucking javelin through my chest.
And they were like eh she'll be okay.
And I was like can anyone come over and help me.
Everyone was like you'll be fine right?
And I was like I'm on death saving throws.
We eventually got one of the it was fucking rag bad that goddamn asshole.
Who had zero interest in doing anything for anybody.
Came over and one of the fucking bard had like done healing words so I was no longer
like dying.
And then got fucking KO'd by a spider.
Yeah immediately got KO'd.
But still stuck in the wall and I had like once again I had several negatives and I had
a significant negative to strength so I was like there's no way I'm getting off the wall.
And he came over and he was like oh well you're like alive again so I'm gonna go and I went
no I could use the help.
And this motherfucker legitimately wasted a real life turn walking over and then walking
the fuck away to avoid helping me.
And I think about that so often because what the fuck truly what the fuck was that.
Like there was no character growth there.
And it stayed that way until the end of the campaign.
Until the end of that character in particular.
His second character was a lot better.
Kind of.
Was he?
Yeah I mean like to an extent.
Did he ever have a character change?
No.
In episode two.
He dived into a portal of hell.
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Was that his last?
That was his last action.
No I mean did Sam continue to play with us after that or was that his last session?
No he played the vampire.
Oh yeah how do I forget about the sexy vampire.
That fucking character was hilarious.
We'll talk about episode or about a fucking I don't know what have you been calling it?
Something to.
Volume two.
We'll talk about volume two in a different episode but yeah he, Sam makes fucking so interesting
characters like they're either like drop dead boring or they're fucking hilarious.
And there's not in between.
Sure in between.
I don't think he has control over it.
No they're just two different versions of Sam.
One where he's vested and one where he's not vested and it just depends on kind of what
character and what personality you're getting that day.
So yeah but I mean he's fun to watch play to though because he's hilarious.
He says the funniest shit at the table.
I was about to say I would like to like scroll down and this is one of the things I have
written in my notes from the like the second session because I take obsessive notes.
She's the note taker.
She's the note taker to like the max.
I have three to four page notes for every single session.
More than I do.
I don't even have notes.
I just started putting notes for the campaign that we've that I've been running for like
take such a greatably detailed Robert will ask me character names.
I don't remember who the fuck.
I don't know what name I gave them details because I remember them obsessively.
But there was this period where they'd all gotten in and there were all little doors
that popped up that were clear to each person.
And that's where we got our magical items and everyone decided to go through this one
door and the big thing with the doors is that once you go in them you can't get back out
like you've got no control over the doors and they all go into this one door and then
the doors start and the door disappears and they're all just stuck in a room.
And it was like everyone in the party except for my character because I said I don't know
you.
And this was also me as a player not working with the team.
I don't know you all.
I'm not going in a room with you all.
I'm not going in a room with you all but if I don't know you.
Magnolia was a fucking obstinate in the first half of this.
It truly was pulling teeth trying to get the character to interact with another character.
I recognize that.
But I've grown.
You have grown.
I've grown a lot.
She grew a lot.
She ended up.
The glue in the second iteration.
Which sometimes unwillingly.
A lot of growth.
There was a lot of growth there.
Yeah the first one it was like I'm not trust.
I don't trust anybody.
And then you gave me trauma to not trust anyone.
So you just fed into that.
Well I didn't expect your character to be as obstinate and untrust worthy as she was.
So I had already planned that trauma in advance.
So it just got worse.
Yeah.
I mean I could have unwritten those plot points but they were tied to so many other
things that I was like I just kind of have to go through with it.
And it was this character that was learning to trust people and then I just took it all
away like multiple times.
Like it kept happening.
Like repeated.
And we'll get into that.
We can talk about volume too.
Volume too as well.
But so they're all stuck in this room.
They're all trying to figure out how to get out and their fix for it was hey magic.
So let's all hold hands and chant the word door over and over and over.
And it worked.
It didn't work.
I was on the outside and I rolled really really well.
Combined effort.
And this is like the one thing I've written down under like Ragnbad's character and like
an example of an interaction between the two.
And it was they're chanting the word door holding hands and Magnolia just walks up,
creates door, opens it and goes hello.
And it says that it was like Ragnbad was just saying that goes hey as he's holding hands
with these people and they're chanting the word door.
and she's just like what
the fuck was that
and that was it was it it was a lot man it was it was bad
yeah it was
uh... it was also like unnecessarily convoluted behind scenes
dear god there are so many plot points that like you will never touched or got
a hold of reput together
and the more we talk about it more like it sounds like we just hate
volume one
i didn't hate it was a lot of fun it was just it was new for all of us and so a
lot of our decisions both as player and dm were just like first time things that
you probably would never do in a kind of like another campaign
yeah like
i would never play a character that edgy again
and i know i continued to play her for a year
but she had growth
well i was just like in my mind i was like this basically just female batman
but there's kind of an equivalent with like cat woman and cat woman is also the
same like never gonna trust a person
we're friends psych bitch i've robbed you
yeah uses
and she was that she was actively like a harming other members of the party
she got into a physical altercation with every single member of the party every
the every person for themselves thing
gets old quickly and you know what i mean
co-operate like that so it was just worse it was just a me and wasn't
simian was like hey guys let's be friends i'm like a cool beach bro and
everyone else is like
get fucked
and glad that you're happy
actually know i hate that you're happy
i'm unhappy
yeah let me go home
and like
and looking at them and
and if i was just excited to be there is like a
of scholar he was like this is so fun to figure out and learn
two people were excited to be there
and three were not
two of those three actively hated each other
one guy was i want to go home because i just left in the middle of a war the
other one guy was just like
i don't really vibe with this setting
i don't know why i'm here
this is really an important to me as a person and i have no interest
and then you were just like
i don't what i what is happening
i was i was like i kind of fuck with the location but i don't fuck with these
people
a location where you can reinvent yourself and go anywhere any of the
yeah i was like that's my dream come true that's literally exactly what this
character wants
uh... however these bitches are not
so the vibes were rancid to get into a little bit of the plot or at least the
uh... the setup uh... i just played
uh... the the gotta worry remake
loved it that like played it start to finish i've flattened it on playstation
like i have all the trophies i've played on the hardest difficulty i spent
twelve hours on a boss fight
like i
love that game i love the game that came after it
and i've always liked mythology hence why there were multiple mythologies
present in the campaign
uh... ancient norse being one of them and then of course ancient grace which i
just fucking retconned once apollo showed up i was just like cool he's gone
now
i loved in and this is jumping forward in volume two during one of our big fights
uh... apollo was there in that also helio it was there so it was like how to
watch the their own equivalent of apollo so it was
it was like this and apollo had a child because it's the helio it is like i
believe that i'm the best and the strongest and should have like dominion
over everything
so his powers are light based so it's like everything that touches the light
boop boop boop boop boop boop but then like he's also got the Zeus complex and
where it's like i'm better than all of you
yeah it was the most great that incest and
if like Zeus in jupiter were like in the safe room
yeah it was uh... it was a lot but yeah i i had to tie that off because i was like
david had a balance because of personal things and so the character of semi-an
who actually played a huge fucking story role with everything
yeah just
fucking poofed out of existence yeah canonically uh... i can't we had killed
a little we had a really cool fucking like
pre-session excited precession everybody to talk about whether or not they
wanted to play the same characters
or not and i had a really cool precession with him and i he basically
went on like a spiritual journey were like he picked up powers from like
hendu religion and like different religions like across time very
traditional to like earth nothing super crazy outside of that but like
it was gonna be really cool and then it just fucking wasn't as many had a bounce
so i was like how do i
how do i pull on him really what happened was my players were getting their
asses kicked uh... by too many enemies and one that was really big and really
powerful and i was like this is appropriate time
to bring in david's character for like one last hurrah and i was like you know
how we're gonna intervene
apollo
though like the physical versions is gonna show up and like
one v one many team at
which is exactly what happened it was sick it was a really sick like it wasn't
sick as fuck and it was the exact boost that they needed to like kind of win that
individual fight anyway it's not a suck because no one in that part i'm getting
too far and i know i know um... but that's a really bad and so
i had this idea that i wanted to be like involve a lot of different
mythologies and i also wanted to be kind of multiverse and you guys are already
heard a little bit about like
how they all came from different places and i don't want to fucking work
together is like they basically all that kidnap from their homes and then i'll
want to go back and so it was kind of like
yeah except for she was the person that was like you know i'm actually cool
being here like you all can go and i'll stay
except she also ended up being a really like
i could required peace to progress the story
uh... which was also like me going hey you can just fuck off and drink and meet
new people you have to participate
yes and i was given a power that robert regretted
immediately ended up taking it away
uh... for a very
you never gave it back volume to
never got it back deadass
but i never got it back i told that i could keep rolling it would get better
did
i stole it fully
anyways uh... so it involved around
involved around like the world tree
uh... or it's also called the address on norse mythology
now much for those that are unfamiliar it's basically like a tree that that
uh... spans the nine
the nine being the nine traditional realms in uh... in norse mythology i
don't remember them all i remember fuse farter hyme niefel hyme moose will hyme
and then there's midgard which is like traditional earth and then there are the
other fucking five of them that i don't remember no care to remember no matter
helheim places like that like that just like land of the elves land of the dead
land of the giants land of the like it's just they're all different places anyways
uh... the the background for this the setup was basically that like this place
called the world serpents and
uh... it's ability to jump to different places
stem directly from its connection with the address of which has been ripped out
of its like home
like location
and stuck in a place in between and then the serpents in itself was constructed
to be like a vehicle to then drive the roots like to go to different realms
uh... except for a lot of fucked up things happening like the back story in
the preamble to it were like a spell went wrong
no one expected the giant snake to protest like it was all
it all went bad and so instead of it did not know any of this yeah instead of
having like
at full control over the vehicle that you've just spent literally years of your
life making somebody basically through a wrench in the engine it was like piece
mother fucker
and then i i i i know your own spell proceeds to blow his brains out and
you're like cool what he's gone now
but
and that's the way that that line and with my character that being so fucking
perfect
yeah and i want to work out very well but the idea was that uh... the
yorming under who's also like another greek myth uh... not greek sorry
norse character uh... who has like basically is
long enough in mythology and big enough to swallow the world whole and is like
his destined to fight thorn ragnarok and blah blah blah blah blah
world shit yeah i mean he's called the world serpent he's traditionally seen
as a kind of like an evil or kind of like chaotic neutral character is like
he's destined to eat the world he's also a child of low key because low key
also has a bunch of other children low key be fucking and low key to be fucking
low key turned into a horse and it took back shots from a man like it's
really fucking interesting when you read all of the things
in norse mythology
it's not the version i wrote
wish i could have seen his face as he said that that was the most serious thing
i've ever seen this man deliver in his life so all this super convoluted
complicated like all these different concepts basically turn into one
kind of solid idea and that was that low key being the trickster god he is
essentially fell in love with a like a mortal
brought him brought them back to like uh... ragnarok the way it's supposed to
happen is it's a cycle and all the characters always reborn in their
destined like it's basically destined to happen every time
everything goes bad all the gods get killed if we get everything the first
human is born again from the tree and then all the gods are to pop up again
and they don't they can't remember anything
uh... and i really like the idea of maybe somebody like being able to break the
cycle and of course who fits that better than the person that like is tricky and
mischievous
uh... so low key has a kid named your mingunder and then your mingunder has
like the ability to essentially speak a language that only he can speak and that
allows him to like travel between different dimensions
uh... so i kind of took like that world serpent concept in like really
elevated it
uh... and so low key is actually a lot of it's yeah yeah i sorry i am the guy
that elevated method i made it
cooler and bigger than it was
so low key being like the adventurous mischievous god he is uh...
essentially starts to speak that same language as a son
and uses it to travel to different places falls in love with this woman in
fair haven brings her back and then doesn't realize because he forgets that
there's a cycle
uh... so that cycle goes off ragnarok happens he dies warming underdyes
undies the whole like norse myth off like the whole norse tree dies
but so does she
so then he comes back and he starts to remember things because she wasn't a
part of the cycle and so his immediate response is to be like cool let's speed
up this process let's teach my son how to speak the language quicker and let's
go back and find like basically my wife
and then he realizes very quickly the mistake he's made which is he brought
somebody that wasn't a god that had the ability to be reborn
into a cycle that kills things she was just an elf
yeah she was just an elf that he like fell in love with and brought back
a dude so then he realizes
well i've lost my wife and i basically made the mistake that killed her so now
i'm gonna do everything humanly and godly possible to try and go back in time
and bring like basically saver stop him from making that mistake is like mr
freeze
yeah essentially like it's the whole like time travelers dilemma that that whole
thing so his immediate
go his immediate like thought process then is like okay how do i bully my son
into allowing me
do the time travel part of this too and his son being like a good neutral
character your man gunner goes
i can like i can go back in time or forward
you cannot like you will fuck everything up that's just who you are as a
person father
so sorry shit i love you a lot not gonna let that happens he goes you know what
fucking bet dude
uh... and basically starts traveling the multiverse finding that looking for
incredibly powerful sorcerers like
uh... deities gods anybody that has a vested interest in being able to travel
the multiverse is like who the fuck wouldn't
yeah uh... in his like i'm gonna use all of your power for one big spell in
basically rip the tree
which is what you're gonna use to travel rip the tree out out of all the nine
and then i'm gonna find my son to uh... like a place in between
drive the tree through my kid
uh... so that way it's basically just a fucking spaceship in the multiverse
power with an infinite engine in an elevator and then i'm gonna drive it
manually by going into his brain
uh... making a house situation
i can't tell you how i came up with this really convoluted story i think i just
kind of made it up on the go because now that i'm saying it out loud it sounds
fucking insane
and a lot of this back story i didn't come with i didn't come up with until i
already made the end
so that i just started plugging in pieces but that's everything that happens
previous to
uh... like campaign started
previous to the campaign starting and then there are a lot of characters that
are in there uh... like the the people like fray who
married uh... who married loki his wife like there's a ring that they find it's
kind of like
keloi two and i can't remember the fuck her name was terion
yeah terion uh... and i that was the first indication that like there was
something that's the end of that campaign and we had this nothing had no
fucking clue what it could have meant they were just like oh sick and the
rag-back picks it up and it's like you know a pocket this yeah
and then the character fucks off uh... and i was like well
i'm just gonna say that he didn't take the ring
you have it
yeah cuz i was the only fucking person that
that could have
and now know or like anything together so now that i've told you this incredibly
convoluted back story that has an absolutely nothing to do with norse
mythology outside of three characters which roughly are three concepts which
is a tree that can span realms
uh... serpent
sorry serpent that can speak a language that allows him to travel realms
in a really jaded loki which he always is but this one was a little
extra jaded
so he gets all these people together and he's like listen i mean all of you to
basically like recite the same spell from different points in the multiverse to
to bind my son and the tree in the same location i'm gonna make a house basically
an elevator that can go wherever you want it to go whenever you want to go
cuz that was the important piece
time
uh... and then we all just get to use it like is partners in the system like if
you help me make it like if you're shareholder in the system
i'll give you a door and that door will take you to the serpents and then you
can do whatever the fuck you want with it go cause multiversal chaos
uh... pages handed it out willy-nilly to anybody that had basically like an
ounce of power that was gonna help you want to keep sure yet that s like you
gonna give me your power for thirty seconds and then we're all gonna be rich
me on our wildest dreams you can get whatever you want
uh... so he starts to spell
and then your main gunner being intelligent is like you know
something's a little suspicious about this
i'll really trust him not to fuck around and do something
so then can i glee what happens is he essentially starts making plans in
fucking up and several people's lives to essentially get them to do what he
needs them to do to break him out of this
yeah so he like purposely sabotages magnolia's life he purposely sabotages
ragmads life and e-fonds and brains like he essentially opens doors and
portals to places that they shouldn't be open
so that they become like innings like basically tied to him
and their only way out of this fucked up loop is to essentially help him break
free of the spell that his like son loki binds him in
uh... in part of the way that he does that
as the essentially cuts out his own heart and then sends it to be bound in
and descendant of terion his love interest because
that process is hill he's gonna search everywhere for it but he's not the look
at like his
i don't know like fucking granddaughter three times removed like great great
great great great great great grand daughter like surely he's not a look
there
yeah doesn't for a very long time
uh... so one starts causing problems until that in the particular grand
daughter along with the other several like mischievous party members and
starting like some real multi-versal chaos and that's basically just a flair
being like hey look at me I can do things that you want to be able to do.
And then you know the granddaughter shows up with papers confirming her identity.
Yeah confirming her identity and then he ended up...
He's dead to him.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah and he was like the bartender the whole time too.
He basically like consumed the bartender's identity and then took on...
So remember the whole thing was said about like my character being like jaded and not trusting anyone.
Cause she was like, cause she was a jaded motherfucker.
And like she had her heart broken a million times cause she was always dating around and blah blah blah.
And so she didn't trust anyone and then we introduced...
Oops!
Shapeshifter, everyone that you thought was your friend...
To definitely not have been your friend.
Was actually the bad guy the whole time and no one's ever liked you.
Yeah.
So that was a fun discovery.
Yeah the twist was basically that in an attempt to like Loki goes
crazy because I liked...
I wanted to play more on the idea of like they're supposed to die in Ragnarok.
Like there's a reason why they get reset and it's like that their bodies and their brains well godly
can't handle that many like that much time worth of information.
So what ends up happening is like basically there at the very end he's going insane.
He's got his plan together like I mentioned Jormungun or Sabotaged at last second.
He's like cool you're gonna kill me.
I'm gonna kill me first.
And basically yeah I mean just kind of beats him to the punch.
So everything goes off without a hitch with the exception of the heart which is the one
thing he needed to basically be able to go back in time.
So then Loki goes nuts.
He's like well I can't handle this.
I just spent centuries of my life putting this plan together to like see my wife.
I can't do anything anymore and basically just goes into like safe mode and his brain
just fully shatters.
And so kind of the idea behind the character's power in particular was that Loki's a shapeshifter
and so I took that to the extreme.
I was like how do we then turn that into a gameplay element.
Essentially any creature any being I mean literally anything.
Anything that he had ever seen that was living he could then shapeshift into.
The issue was is his brain is very much like a library and it was at capacity.
So when he started to go crazy because he wasn't dying all of those personalities all
of those beings started to fracture and you never knew who he was going to be in the next
like instant you saw him.
So he essentially goes into like a hibernation mode and ends up taking over the personality
of a bartender and basically bartends the serpents in for I've never figured out I
can never came up with a specific number.
I was assuming eons.
And untold yeah basically eons like he sits there at the world serpents in it's fucked
up you can't choose where the doors go you can't choose the time of the doors either
but he just sits there and he waits and his brain waits basically in like a safety mode
trying to piece himself back together until our protagonists from now he finally catch
up to like the first campaign our protagonists finally show up with like the keys to the
door.
Yeah.
He's essentially what he needs is he needs all of the pieces that Jormungunder has through
fucking up their lives given them to basically free him like the same pieces that would be
required to free Jormungunder are the same pieces that Loki or Keyloy would need to then
lock him fully up.
Yeah.
And so they walk right into it and Magnolia who's the most consequential piece to the
whole thing.
If you haven't picked up on quickly be friends the bartender.
She had the heart.
Yeah she was the heart.
She was basically the heart of the circle.
Jormungunder killed her when she was a fucking baby.
And then brought her back to life.
Brought her back to life which is yes fucked up.
Fucked up.
Yeah this whole campaign was fucked up.
It was but I also loved at the table getting to ask the question wait so does did so.
So did Jormungunder kill a baby and then Robert getting to go uh yeah technically.
Yeah he did.
Basically.
And then like it's almost like a curse like Voldemort but it actually worked you know
instead of it being like a lighting scar it's like no kid fully got murked and then got
brought back to life like yeah the heart of a world servant heart of a god.
And so like this is his moment like he's like fuck yeah like the pieces of just falling
directly into my lap.
Yeah.
Um and he didn't really play like a super consequential part to the campaign at all
until the second half.
Like he wasn't.
No because we were all.
He was never present they never put the pieces together I never really gave them enough leads
to like really put it together like it would have been a leap from one of them to go I
think there's one individual behind everything that's happened.
Yeah that would have been crazy.
If someone had just came out swinging with that I mean Spencer got pretty fucking close
there at the end.
The closest they got that we got to kind of like figuring everything out was um we there
was a part of the campaign where we had gone down and we were like walking through Yorming
Gunder.
Yeah and I kept making some interesting checks with the flower that I had which was we come
to learn like another like portion of the heart of Yorming Gunder.
It kind of got split into like two parts because turns out that she was a bastard and she was
born into flower shop and blah blah blah.
Yeah there was a whole lot of fucked up backstory with that.
Yeah Robert made it so she cononically fucked her half brother which was not a necessary
portion that we needed.
No go ahead laugh at the mic.
That was just a fuck you to me as a person to be like haha I'm putting that on you now.
I didn't like intended to be a fuck you as a person it just lined up with a story and
then I realized that the implication of that story point was that you would fuck your half
brother.
And I said that at the table and you were like.
Tensionally.
Oh wait yes.
Technically yes that is what happened.
But that's besides the point.
Yeah that's in the second half.
But they were in the snake and I was making some interesting checks because I still had
I finally got rid of my negative to Arcana and I was just leaving.
She also had zero like preservation of life skills.
No those didn't exist.
So I was just like can I vibe check the ground and he was like what does that mean and I
went like I don't know just touch the ground.
I want to touch the ground.
And like see what it's feeling.
And such an interesting thing which it worked and learn a dead snake and she goes I want
to touch the ground.
What is the ground feel like but like not feel as in like the material like cold like
what is it feeling right now which doesn't make any fucking sense.
It's dead which I mean it did make sense but I didn't think she was going to go let me
just vibe check the fucking floor.
That was the right move.
Yeah yeah I guess it was.
But that's what they basically learned through Magnolia's flower then beginning to grow through
her body and room most fucking snatches her and try to kill her and be like oh you're
home.
Yeah and she was like no the fuck I'm not.
I'm from Elfland.
That's when she learns that she's in the words of the flower because someone had talked
to plants and it just worked out clutch.
I could have fucking punched Sam in that moment when he goes yeah I want to use talk to plants
on the flower and I go what do you mean you want to use talk to me.
Yeah I have talked to plants like I can just speak to a plant.
Sure sure you can do that.
Sure why the fuck not.
And so then we learn.
She wasn't theoryating.
Well the flower says no she was never born.
She's not real.
And that's what they tied in there.
She's in existential crisis for Magnolia because she's like I definitely remember having childhood.
My mom says I was born.
She's like sobbing.
Someone like taps her on the shoulder and she immediately hits him.
It was like a crisis.
I traumatized Magnolia.
So many times.
For what.
Yeah I know I know.
But she kind of learns or at least gets a very large hint that she has the soul.
It's not what it seems.
But yeah I'm a little more than meets the eye.
Yeah and everyone in the party is just kind of looking at her like that was fucked up
anyway and then immediately move on.
Yep she's like hey guys I could have died in that moment also I think I spoke to a spiritual
snake that said it's my father but like also not.
And they were like that's interesting I guess.
Let's keep walking.
Yeah there was no.
Yep no one took the time to be like wow that is really odd I wonder if that's connected
to the rest of us that also have all these random magical artifacts that kind of line
up with a snake that are all snake themed.
They never tried like putting them together they never tried like tapping them to one
another.
They're just like yeah this is my magical artifact that I guess it's just like cool
to use.
Because I mean I wanted it to be more than like here's a piece of the puzzle that you're
going to keep in your person and is not functional like the flower allowed her to teleport.
Rayon's Bracer gave him a bonus to AC and a bonus to strings.
Like Tooth basically allowed him to poison enemies and like always track something because
it's a fun ranger thing.
Because I don't think he ever used.
Yvonne was his book allowed, gave him spells.
His book gave him spells.
So the way that I rolled, every one of these magical items had like an actual backstory
so the tooth that Ragbad uses is actually a chip of the tooth off of the world's serpent.
Basically what it touches can't like it can be found, it can be tracked anywhere, it has
like kind of like yeah like it's like a multiverse tracker.
And of course my Nolini's flower, yeah it's an air tag.
And then of course my Nolini's flower is like half of the serpent's heart but also allows
her to teleport.
And it was also like a sprig of the world's tree.
So she was just fucking walking through this bitch like it could do whatever she wanted.
And then Rayon's Bracer is basically like a piece of a really important door that was
basically like the back entrance if you will.
And so it was kind of like an innate part of like the serpent itself and like kind of
like a scale almost.
And then Yvonne had a book and the book like mechanically gave him extra spells so over
time during like free time I would allow him to essentially read it and then if he passed
a check I would give him another spell.
So the way that I had like done it is that there have been wizards in like different
magical beings throughout history that have compiled notes on Yoramangunder's language.
It's a dead language nobody's ever spoken it with the exception of two people.
And that's Yvonne.
That's Yoramangunder and that's Loki.
But there are like runes that Yoramangunder leaves around.
I mean he basically like scattered himself like little like red crumbs to hoping that
somebody eventually would figure out what was happening.
And it just so happens that there's a particular breed of person they're called scholars that
like to put things together.
And so what I gave him is basically a book that people have been like that sorcerers,
wizards, warlocks before him had basically taken notes from different languages and trying
to figure out how to speak the language of Yoramangunder like figuring out what's up
with these doors and all these different like you know like multiverses in different locations.
And kind of the backstory behind that was that Yoramangunder every time like the book
would get left by somebody Yoramangunder would then go back in time fuck with something so
that the book would then get to the next person that he needed it to get to.
Yeah and that book ended up coming back.
He was kind of like scrying the future to figure out like who he needed to be where
to give himself the best chance to like get out of jail.
And it ended up in Yvonne's hands and Yvonne ended up basically dumping every possible
moment of role play and of learning how to fucking read it.
Truly.
And like the book had a lot of answers like the book had a ridiculous amount of answers
in it.
And so it like the book and the flower were easily the two most important pieces for a
while.
Yeah.
Because like one was like the semi like metaphysical manifestation of like the big key.
And the other one was like how do I the other one was like the book that tells you how to
speak the language that's also a very important piece of the story.
Yvonne eventually in the final session puts it all together.
And then that's when his partner from like session one comes back and is like you stole
my destiny a motherfucker.
And immediately just and then locks everybody out of a room and starts brainwashing Yvonne
and basically doing a modified like a different version of the modified memory spell and and
starts like implanting memories trying to force him to think that there's still pals
and like it was a whole fucked up thing.
It was fucked that combat encounter also crazy wild crazy.
We eventually all got in the room and it was like a small room.
It was like a 30 foot by 30 foot.
And we immediately I remember Robert got pissed because we like all had a spell to summon
creatures and there were just bodies in that bitch.
This was a tiny 30 by 30 room and these motherfuckers every two seconds to be like yes I'm going
to summon a companion and it's actually large.
Also I'm going to summon a companion and this one's also large.
Oh and also I have a companion from the spell I just got in its medium but I get to make
two of them so basically fucking large and it's like cool.
And now I got to start adding pieces to the room because you all can't physically move.
Yeah so then the room starts expanding and fighting and I remember different pieces of
different rooms start slamming into like the central room that they're in and yeah and
it was very scary and I also went through my own like personal hell during that time.
And the way that I roleplayed that behind the scenes like that was your woman gunners
direct like interference basically trying to give you all more space to breathe to like
survive the combat encounter because like Yvonne's partner specifically chose a location
in a room that like was mostly stable and that was small so that he can control the
fight he was a chronomancer so time magic and I he had like the way that I then he had
backup plan on backup plan on backup plan and then your men under starts basically
throwing rooms at the room that they're in and like giving them like a real chance to
move and spread and do things.
It was really cool it was really fun but it ends.
What he did in the counter was getting his ass beat.
Oh yeah no he got fucked up in the end.
He got really fucked up.
He was like hey bro Yvonne I still love you you stole my destiny like the book is supposed
to be mine but like I'm gonna make you think that we're friends and we're gonna live happily
ever after and everyone else in the party with fucking gang banged.
We said we're not gonna let that slide.
We came in and we killed everything died everything got killed very quickly and then
of course also the fight where I couldn't stay in the room and then as a wild like a
wild magic sorcerer Madison's rolling on this table every 30 seconds and gets like some
truly fucking insane like pops into the ethereal plane also gets like 200 points of health
like it's just oh my fucking god wow that was like cool I have no way to kill her now.
It was the one where it's like you roll dice and you take that much damage from every creature
within 30 feet of you and then you gain that.
You gain that in 10 pounds.
Well you have nine bodies within 30 feet of you and my very small room.
I like fucking level 10 if that character suddenly has and got a little fucking 200 and like
80 hit points and then I had cast a blink so I just blipped out with that much hit with
like that many hit points and it was something where everyone at the table I think I've got
a video of Robert crying and I can't remember if it was from like it was from that and I
can't remember putting my hand in my putting my hand in my my head in my hands.
I don't remember what it was from but there were many moments in the campaign like that
where I was just I couldn't I couldn't fucking compute that and then I also I like had four
wild magic searchers that fights I had that one and then I did one where I went to the
astral plane so I had like a fucking timeout where I was talking to the snake and then
at the end when we had killed the guy and then he went up there's one more backup plan
and he's gonna pull out this little bead which is the thing that chronomancy wizards can
do.
Yep they can put spells into beads and then use those beads.
And he did a polymorph and it was Robert set up gonna roll this d4 to figure out where
this bead goes because he wanted it to hit himself.
And Yifan gets a dexterity saving throw and basically fucking yeets it out of his hand
and I was like well it's going somewhere dude.
And it hit me and then I was a snake and I was the only bitch who could get us out of
the room and the room starts collapsing and I kept trying to be like can I tell them to
kill me and remember I was like no and I was like cool I think I'm just gonna start attacking
people then so they'll hit me and they weren't they were just like man she's cranky today.
Yeah it was a fucking time.
That might have been why you were on the ground with your head and your head.
That might have been a moment man.
It was a lot but her flower for reference basically the way that I kind of done this
mechanically and from a story perspective being like the heart of the serpent.
Like the brain essentially just the way that I kind of like to say it was the brain gave
the room basically the ability to go places like it had that innate ability to just travel
but it like without the heart without a drive without a want it could never really figure
out like where it wanted to go and so that's why the heart was so important because the
heart was basically like the drive behind everything and so the flower with the flower
basically what I allowed her to do was to act as the heart in that moment open a door
kind of where she wanted to go sometimes it was sometimes it wasn't basically like asking
the serpent kind of like in an odd way like hey homie this is like your heart recognize
that like let's go somewhere that I want to go and then like that was it and so that's
kind of how that works mechanically.
Which Robert immediately regretted.
Yeah yeah yeah so anytime we were anywhere I could just say what have we left.
Pretty much so we did yeah I think we got to wrap it up I think we're just about out
of time I mean that ends pretty much for campaign ones at I'll talk about like if on fate and
some of the things that happen behind the scenes there.
Which I'm so excited to finally here as a player because we didn't get to it.
And I told Spencer specifically not to tell anybody about it so.
And I tried to bribe him.
Yeah I told Spencer I'd send everybody out of the room and had an individual conversation
with him where it was basically him one on one with the serpent and I was like this is
like what what happens here never leaves this room this is a me and you thing buddy and he
loved that he loved the shit out of that and so like he only knows to this day what
happened maybe I'll talk about it next episode maybe won't.
No.
Into another episode of Table Talk we will see you next time I don't know what it's going
to be but we'll talk.
Bye.