The Final Rules: Order and Chaos | 0 - This Is a Story of Heroes (S3E1)

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A long, long time ago, in a place that seems far, but was always near, a group of people came together to revive something long, thought, dead, and in their quest they uncovered things not only about the world, but about themselves and each other.
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This is a story of heroes.
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Heroes who rose in a time when heroes were needed and did not shy away from the challenge they were presented, because ultimately they were what they were.
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People who wanted to see the best in everyone, people who wanted to see a world of equality and bravery and justice and integrity.
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This is a story about heroes.
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This is the final rule.
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Hello, hello, everybody, hello, hello, welcome, welcome.
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Uh, this is the um uh Arcadian Renaissance Theater Creatives uh Revival uh season three, if you will, of The Final Rule, uh completely improvised Dungeons and Dragons podcast.
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Uh I uh am uh Tim Underwood.
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Uh those of you who listen to the podcast back in the old days probably knew me as Glenn.
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Uh I go by both, but recently in professional life I am Tim.
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So hello, my name is Tim Underwood.
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It's a pleasure to to to talk with you.
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Uh we're gonna go one by one because we have some amazing collaborators that we are working on with this.
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Uh a lot of voices and names that I hope that you are familiar with if you ended up listening to the first the first second and then the second second season of the final rule.
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So we're gonna do just like a little general introduction.
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Uh let's start with uh an old uh a guest artist, actually, who uh is now coming back to be a mainstay player.
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Uh everyone, Sophia Brasda, what what a what a pleasure to have you here.
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Hello! It's a pleasure to be here.
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Thanks for having me.
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Oh, we are again, it's uh the moment that we were trying to figure out who we wanted to reach out to uh immediately after the people said no and you asked me.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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You'd be surprised actually at the number of people who did say no first, but eventually you came up and uh you said yes for some reason.
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So uh welcome.
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Seriously.
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Uh I'm really, really jazzed to have you here.
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I think we all are.
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Good to be here.
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I'm super psyched.
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It's uh it's a good group of good group of guys.
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I uh yeah, about say guys is uh an unfair.
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Everyone is morally good here.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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And that's what's important.
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I appreciate that.
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Well, since you go ahead and talking, uh hey Justin, it's been a long time.
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How are you doing, bud?
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Hello.
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I almost said Glenn again, but uh, it's gonna be an adjustment for us all.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I've already changed your number on my phone.
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So holy cow, going crazy.
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But uh yeah, yeah.
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I hi, I'm Justin Haflick.
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Uh you may remember me from Toe.
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Um, and Kintorla, I think was the my Dragonborn Ranger's name.
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Yerp.
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Uh and I think there was someone else when we did the Blades in the Dark, but I I think that one got that one got real weird.
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Deep cut.
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Yeah.
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Right, right.
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Oh, the real ones know.
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And the the real ones also that much.
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That one never got put out.
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Yeah.
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No, it didn't.
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I think it got streamed, but I like it was a VOD, but I think that was kind of it.
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We only did like the two episodes, and we were all like, you know, this is uh, you know, first hiatus, bam, stop.
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Yeah.
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Uh but Justin, uh, thank you so much for uh hopping back on.
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Uh you mentioned two characters that you had played in the prior seasons, but uh well, I mean, uh, by the point that this comes out, people will have known if they're paying attention to any of the social media, but uh, you have a new role this time.
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Yeah, yeah, no longer a player.
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I will be dungeon master of the second, not the lesser campaign, the second trail path, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Adventuring party.
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And I promise you we'll be we'll be a much better than the other crew.
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I'd I'll just I'll just say it right here, right now.
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Be my we'll be we'll be we'll be up there.
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We'll be remembered as heroes.
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So you know, Chase, I thought you would have cut his mic at this point because uh I don't think at that point basically failure.
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I'm giving Justin some grace here, but like we'll see where we'll see where don't forget that's that's because he's hoping he's on uh he's on my campaign.
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I was gonna say based purely on that, I need to be careful.
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You're talking you're talking to the president and the treasurer of the organization that is uh I don't know, we're doing something, I think.
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Uh anyway, Justin, seriously, uh I I was really nervous to kind of talk about uh the initial idea because I knew that it would be kind of shifting things uh in ways that none of us really knew how it was going to go.
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But uh legitimately, whenever Chase and I were talking about it, you were the first person that came to mind of well, if no one else would be like into it, I think Justin would have a good time, so we should at least like bring it up.
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Oh, I I always enjoy being a dungeon master, game master, whatever system, you know.
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I I have fun with it.
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I get you.
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I mean, I I I think you and I kind of share in that joy where for a while I feel like I uh I was lamented the fact that I was always, you know, you say forever dungeon master, you know.
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Yeah.
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But uh now I now I think it's like you know, it's cool to be the one who fills in the gaps, you know?
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Like uh the thing with being a dungeon master, especially if you because I've been doing a lot more like other systems uh lately, and the only way to get your friends to do other systems is to force them to.
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That's so true.
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That's why I'm DMing my Starfinder campaign soon.
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It's going to be a little Starfinder's so good.
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I'm actually actually in in my spell jammer rules for combat, I'm using star a bunch of Starfinder stuff and some Star Wars 5E stuff or SW5E, I think what it's the fact that he knows to list all the systems that really lets you know that like this is a this is a uh a game master that voidsey has some good stuff too.
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That's a supplement.
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But I think you finally hit one that I didn't know, but like I like it.
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Uh Justin, seriously though, like I'm I'm really, really happy to have you as uh a DM.
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I think that we are going to tell some really cool stories, and like again, uh the fact that you came back is an honor, truly.
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Yeah, yeah, thank you.
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We really appreciate it.
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Uh yeah, no, it's uh I'm a dad now, so it's it's it's com it's way different now.
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Yeah.
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Kind of about to say we're all we're all it's been what like uh shoot, like five years since we did anything.
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Holy crap, do not say phases of life.
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Yeah, but what other kids do the rest of us have to show for that?
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Yeah, well, I'm north of 30, so uh yeah, yeah.
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We all have a pretty late.
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You're too young to understand.
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It's okay.
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I gotta tell you Logan doesn't even know about.
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Well, since you name dropped him, uh another uh guest who is returning now as a mainstay player, uh Logan Natty.
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Thank you so much again for accepting the invite.
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Uh, we're incredibly jazzed to have you back.
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I'm I'm ecstatic that you let me return um under the provision that I'm on my absolute best behavior this time.
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And to be honest, I was I was really shocked when you were ready to give it another run around the block.
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But uh shoot, I I was shocked that you agreed to be on your best behavior, especially since we said that if you never weren't, that we were waiting outside, ready to just storm right in, make it make it easy for all of us just by taking you out of the equation.
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Well, you know, it was either this or Michelle Obama's uh DD podcast.
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My standing invitation for first lady was second only to this.
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So Okay, okay.
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Well, you know what?
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I appreciate that.
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Uh, because that is uh that is quite the sacrifice that you made in order to be on here, but I am so happy that you've made it.
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Um if we're name dropping, can I name drop Vincent?
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Okay, well shoot, man.
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We might as well uh keep it going.
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Uh Vincent, uh, thank you.
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Walter Tang, everyone, ladies and ladies and gentlemen, everyone in the audience of all kinds.
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Walter Tang.
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I forgot about him.
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I truly forgot about both of my characters names.
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Uh I hope you I don't know if you remember this or not, but I named a pitcher plant uh after Walter, Walter Jr.
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I I owned the pitcher plant for a handful of years and it died in Colorado when I moved up there, unfortunately.
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Uh that's pretty Walter Tang of him, gotta say.
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I know.
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That's what I'm well uh unfortunately didn't quite find the same convictions to hold like to this world the way that I think Walter did in uh season one.
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Yeah, Walter was tough.
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Man, hi I'm Vincent Bianca.
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Uh yeah.
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I've done Walter Tang in the first one, forget who I did for the uh second one, and forget who I did for the second, second one.
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Uh it was a good fun time all around, though.
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I'm happy to be back to do it again for a fun uh third slash fourth time.
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Yeah, and uh I'm really happy to have you back again.
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It's uh one of those things that this is a really great, I feel like for a lot of us, not only homecoming to the final rule, but just like being able to be around each other again, even if it's in a bit of a digital space, you know.
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Uh we made a lot of memories, and I'm uh again, the entire well, I I oh no, I'm gonna spoil it.
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I'm gonna spoil it.
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I can't do that.
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Uh but the fact that let's say so many of the original cast decided that this is worth their time in their uh later their their next stage of life from the the where we were when we did the last one.
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Uh I mean it means a lot.
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Happy to be here.
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I'm really I'm really excited.
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I'm really excited to do it again.
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Yeah, yeah, dude.
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I haven't done DD in a minute, I've done improv in a minute, and it's good to see both continue in a digital space.
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I'm happy to see everybody.
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Absolutely.
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Uh well I I guess I uh I can't contain myself.
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Uh the last original member of the of the OG crew, uh, but certainly in no way the least, uh, we managed to get the great Brendan Bice back to uh reprise a role as a uh consistent player in the final rule.
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Like Brendan my agent could send you my runner and you could introduce me probably.
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Oh yeah, yeah.
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Uh I I did uh I think I missed a punctuation point there, so I'll be like paying you that$100 fee.
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So I'm sorry about that.
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It's part of his contract.
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It's how it gets it's how the agent gets paid.
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That's all right.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Uh but welcome, welcome.
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Uh I hope you're looking forward to things.
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I know I certainly am.
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I'm stoked.
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I haven't improvised in a well, aside from like shoddy DMing uh from my previous DD campaign, I haven't improvised in a while, so I'm looking forward to it.
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We'll get ready for that all over again.
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I know, that's what I'm saying.
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It's never gonna stop at this point.
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Oh my god.
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Uh unless and unless I'm a bird.
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Then it'll stop.
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That is true.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That's so true.
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Swole bird.
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Uh I think that that's that's everyone, right?
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I haven't missed anyone in the party, certainly not from the original cast.
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Definitely.
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Well, I well, I you know, I would say no, I think there was there was one more that one more being me.
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No, no, I introduced myself at the beginning, Chase.
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That's uh Chase, Chase, welcome, uh Chase Bernard, president of Arcadian Renaissance Theater Creatives.
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Welcome to the podcast.
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You would never know, you would never know, right?
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Uh uh welcome, welcome, yeah.
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I mean, I'm I'm Chase Bernard, uh, president of the Arcadian Renaissance Theater Creatives, uh, one of the original cast members of the Final Rule.
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Super excited to be busting through this and have so many great ideas, and I'm really hoping we'll be able to bring them to fruition, especially with these two campaigns and getting the Discord bot running and getting uh some other fun stuff to get uh guest artists to be able to improvise characters on the spot.
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I'm very excited about that stuff.
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Um I am too, yeah.
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Yeah, it's gonna be awesome.
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Um, but uh I'm I mean I played let me let me think back.
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I played in uh the second campaign, uh Garavanus Tarkata, uh which was the other Tortle, and then the original campaign was Dorvis.
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So the uh Yeah Dorvis, right?
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Oh my god, I missed that character.
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I had a really fun time playing him.
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Yeah, um the what, like eight intelligence uh wizards, I think it was six intelligence wizard.
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It was it was crazy because it was like he was a half orc, but he was a wizard, so it was very strange.
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And I had this whole elaborate backstory about how he became a wizard based on like accidentally like destroying his hometown through a demon pact, but that was great.
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And it's crazy that it was all improvised, huh, at the end of the day.
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Yeah, that was nuts.
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Guys, that sounds really fun.
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Why don't we just do that that again?
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Well, Sophia, that's because the final rule is a completely improvised Dungeons and Dragons podcast.
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What?
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Can you explain further?
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I I'm I am shocked you would ask such a thing.
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But yes, I can.
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So the way that this works, right?
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Uh Justin and I, though we are the dungeon masters, are not going to do any prep.
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Uh, any given campaign, I have given very explicit instructions for everyone involved for any given session, uh, that their job is to show up on time, make sure that their internet works, and play DD, right?
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Uh, and that includes both myself and Justin, too.
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Uh it is whenever I say completion.
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That was probably one of the hardest parts as being the player because I was always a planner.
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Half of my characters I have leveled up to level six.
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Of course, I will never play them because I'm always dungeon mastering, but I'll throw them.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Well, you know, you know.
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But yeah, yeah, no prep.
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No, I have no idea what's gonna happen in this next session.
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Same as all the players.
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Uh, and it's uh I I'm really interested too to see your uh DMing style.
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Uh I feel like we always talked about doing like little side things, but I don't think we ever actually did.
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Oh I'll I'll I'll I'll do side quests all day, man.
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I've that my yeah.
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West Marches is kind of my uh my favorite kind of form right now.
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So trying to get more into that.
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And I was starting, I was creating the idea a year ago before Critical Roll even announced it.
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Couldn't wait until you couldn't even wait until the first episode to name it.
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I was waiting until DC twenty was a little bit more fleshed out so that my players had more options and could level up, okay?
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That just took a year for them to get to level four, so well you lose after critical role already started because we're gonna know that you're a fraud and it's after you're right, you're right.
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Uh but that is not the only thing that's improvised.
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It's not just the story, it's going to be the characters too.
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Uh the player characters uh during this session zero are going to get all of their stats, and that is what they're going to know about their characters.
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And of course, in traditional DD uh fashion, those stats are rolled.
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Uh, if the players were not prepared with their own dice or are not quick enough to manage to pull up a dice roller online without uh exiting this Discord call that we are recording, then I get to roll for them.
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So uh I hope that you enjoy that.
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Um but just take your word for it.
00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:26.399
Better have a hot order, buddy.
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That's crazy.
00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:29.840
That's awesome.
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Listen right here.
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You hear all that?
00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:34.080
Ooh, I hear the clicky click.
00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:37.200
That's five D6 rolling around in my hands, right?
00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:38.480
I hear dry beans.
00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:44.480
Dry beans, because we are gonna be rolling you know, five D sticks or dry beans sticks.
00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:45.279
Wait, no, hold on.
00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:46.559
Is it dry beans and sticks?
00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:47.679
No, it's four, it's four d four.
00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:51.600
I have well I had sticks.
00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:54.720
That was the sound of five, but I but that means I also have four.
00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:55.600
This is the sound of four.
00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.080
It's a little bit that is math.
00:16:58.320 --> 00:16:59.279
Yeah, it is too.
00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:09.680
So uh we uh we are gonna be rolling for our stats here, and everything else is gonna be decided between now and the time that we uh record our uh first actual session.
00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:16.799
Uh, we will be generating the player sheets also based off of random roles for things like origin and class uh background as well.
00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:21.680
So we will be generating those character sheets and probably posting them on social media.
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Uh, and whenever the players come in for session one, they'll be the first time that they are stepping into the roles of a character who is only numbers and bubbles filled into a blank character sheet, nothing else.
00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:43.839
Everything from that point forward, from both the DM and the player's point of view, is going to be created on the spot from NPCs to combat encounters to dungeons themselves.
00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:48.480
It is a completely improvised Dungeons and Dragons podcast.
00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.519
It's also similar to how we all begin in life.
00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:52.559
Wow.
00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:53.599
No thoughts.
00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:55.519
Just just taking it as you get it.
00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:56.079
No, no, no.
00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:00.240
If you know who has my character sheet, I need to look.
00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:01.839
I need to I need to look at that right now.
00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:02.400
I have some stuff.
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I will never divulge that information to you.
00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:08.160
Someone definitely stole my starting gold then.
00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:09.839
Oh yeah, me too.
00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.079
Uh okay, everyone.
00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.880
Uh well, uh, in order to make this work for this session zero, this is the way we're gonna do it, okay?
00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:29.839
Uh within moments, basically, uh, once I finish this ex explanation of how this is going to work, uh Justin and I are going to be hopping magically into a separate Discord channel.
00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:35.359
Uh at that point, if this main general channel will be for the players.
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You guys get to talk about literally whatever you want to, where you are in life, things that you want to promote about what you are doing.
00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:46.960
Uh, any information that you want to give, anything you want to lie about, now is your time.
00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.440
Really get people guessing because that's part of the fun.
00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:51.839
Uh spread rumors about the other players, of course.
00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:53.279
Now's the time.
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Now's the time.
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They can't prove you wrong.
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Thank God someone said it.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Uh, I want chaos.
00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:01.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:02.880
That's what I want.
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Justin and I are going to be summoning the players one by one into that different call, and we are going to be talking for exactly 10 minutes, after which point they are going to be forced into the other general call, and we'll be accepting a new player.
00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:16.799
And we'll be talking about it.
00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:19.920
Everything that we say in the private call is completely private, right?
00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:21.599
You said that in the email.
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You said it's legally.
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Well, luckily, that email, uh, there's no proof that it ever existed server-side, because I have access to those.
00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:33.680
So uh you you you tell me.
00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:36.720
I want to break so many NDAs and I'm in there.
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I'm ready to tell all my trade secrets.
00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:47.119
Vincent, you have no idea how excited I am to get you in the private room, and then to get you back out into the general chat after.
00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:48.240
Oh Lord.
00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:59.359
But uh because of uh the fact that we have five players, we are going to have two separate campaigns, one with three players and one with two players.
00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:13.039
But there's a special surprise, of course, because we are the final rule, and we'd like to invite guests artists on to collaborate with us uh in order to help to spread the sort of uh exposure that we all get as artists, right?
00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:14.480
And it's about kind of who's watching us.
00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:17.200
An artist is in fact nothing without their audience.
00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:34.960
So for the campaign that has two uh recurring players on it, they are also going to have the great fun and pleasure of introducing the guest artists and having them uh roll into the narrative as it is being told as a character who is a part of the scene that's being told, right?
00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:48.559
Uh Chase has worked on ways that as we are going in any given campaign, if a player wants to jump in as, say, a random guards person or the barkeep behind the bar, they can roll a character on the spot and start playing immediately.
00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:53.440
So that's going to be the sort of joy of uh the two-person campaign.
00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:55.440
Um, I I think it's a really cool idea.
00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:03.200
I'm really happy that uh again, this I I think I think the final rules is a fun thing and it makes me laugh every time.
00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:04.559
Three Z, baby.
00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:05.359
Three Z's.
00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:05.920
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:11.839
Uh the tech is finally here to allow for guest artists to immediately improvise on the spot.
00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:13.680
We didn't think we'd get there, but we got there.
00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:14.720
Exactly.
00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:20.400
Uh, so uh Justin, whenever you are ready, you and I are gonna go ahead and hop into the other call.
00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:29.119
Uh, we are going to find a way to randomize who we're calling in at given at any given point, and then one of us will hop back in here and uh summon that player to the other chat.
00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:29.759
Does that sound good?
00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:31.119
Or you just pull them.
00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:32.160
Um ready.
00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:33.920
Oh yeah, I guess we could just pull them too.
00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:35.680
I just click and pull them one.
00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:38.559
In the middle of a sentence, just give me a game.
00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:39.279
Yeah, there you go.
00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:39.599
Perfect.
00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:40.720
I actually like that a lot.
00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:42.000
That's just uh players.
00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:44.079
Behave yourself, okay.
00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:48.160
Remember the DMs are not there to be your parents, they're there to help tell the story.
00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:52.079
So whenever we leave, I hope that there's no rabble rousing, no rough housing.
00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:54.880
I hope you all treat each other with equity and respect.
00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:55.759
Right?
00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:56.480
Of course.
00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:57.119
Oh, yeah.
00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:59.119
Yeah, yeah.
00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.119
100% equity and respect.
00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:03.200
Again, I want to refer to the email.
00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.519
Don't worry, call me if you get in any trouble.
00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:10.640
Well, there they go.
00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:12.640
But there's there's a guy.
00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:13.759
I don't know who that is.
00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:23.680
Alright, now it's my turn.
00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:26.640
So now we're gonna all do our own DD podcast outside of this.
00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:29.839
Oh yeah, I was waiting for Vincent to say it.
00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:32.720
Now that they're gone.
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Welcome to the Shadow.
00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:39.920
You have no idea how bad I want to be in the B plot.
00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:40.880
Oh man.
00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:42.480
Oh my god, dude.
00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:45.839
I want to be I want to be off-road so far.
00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:54.000
The worst version of this show is it Logan and I end up being the group of two and the B plot.
00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:58.960
That is the worst version of this show where it's just a continuation of our like home life.
00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:01.119
Yeah, of your already existence.
00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:07.519
But now it's just now you're just in separate rooms on your uh separate computers improvising.
00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:17.920
Let it be said though, I still think it would be funny to have Logan as a one-person like campaign and like just his antics bleed into the other part.
00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:20.160
I'm dead ass not even joking.
00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:25.279
I will get a full body camera set up and do I will act out the whole thing.
00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:26.079
I'll do it.
00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:30.400
Put Logan in a motion capture suit.
00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:33.680
We can get an animator out.
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Let it be said Logan is now standing up and just moving very close to the webcam.
00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:45.119
I I think another funny thing to have this is this is kind of seen at some BM Media, but like the B plot just following just behind the A plot.
00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:48.079
It's like, oh man, this bandit camp looked like it was destroyed.
00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:48.559
Correct.
00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:51.359
All the good loot's gone, cool.
00:23:51.440 --> 00:24:02.880
So I got I I am very curious to see what the DMs do when it comes to like things that one party has done that another party stumbles into if we wind up being around the same place.
00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:11.440
I'm curious if they're gonna be able to be like, like, why is this whole camp decimated or like like there's just a huge crater here?
00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.519
Or like things someone someone pissed on the fire to put it out and it stinks.
00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:19.200
You guys know it was super inconsiderate passing through here.
00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:20.000
It's really bad.
00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:22.720
Why are there just clothes on the ground?
00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:25.519
Yeah, what happened over here?
00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:26.160
What happened?
00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.400
You can tell a bunch of really unfunny people just walk through this area.
00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:32.160
No one had a good time.
00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:35.839
Just ragging on the other party.
00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:38.880
Oh man.
00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:42.160
Yeah, that would be funny if one group was like tracking the other.
00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:50.319
Brendan Vice! You have been summoned to talk to the council.
00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:52.079
Come into the other chat.
00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:53.119
Very well.
00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:54.400
Jesus.
00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:57.440
Don't buy any other MLMs until you're back.
00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:01.680
Alright, so my MLM then's that guy.
00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:04.960
Brendan, welcome.
00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:06.880
Uh, this will be on the test.
00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:12.079
I didn't study, but uh I'll I'll improvise the hell out of it, dude.
00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:19.839
Look, all I'm saying is I'm pretty sure like only one person in this call did not graduate from college, and it's not uh either of you.
00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:21.359
Uh anyway.
00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:24.400
Is this on the is this being recorded?
00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:25.359
No, no, no.
00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:27.440
Uh I will I will uh anyway.
00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:36.880
Uh what I'm going to say is, Brendan, legitimately, I am incredibly excited uh that you are going to be participating here with us.
00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:51.440
Uh legitimately, I was wondering uh whenever Chase and I were kind of tossing the idea back and forth about doing this under the umbrella of Artsy, uh, how many of the original cast like would actually be interested in coming back.
00:25:51.599 --> 00:26:00.079
But um again, it's it's really heartwarming to see that something about it kind of captured captured you and you wanted to to see what else we could do with it.
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:25.200
Yeah, I really I think I was like, I don't know if I was talking to myself or talking to my girlfriend while we were doing the dishes or something, but the I see a lot of let's plays on my feed, either like YouTube or Spotify or something, and a lot of them I feel like that's the one thing that Final Rule had was like the how the novel idea of like truly everything is improvised.
00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:35.680
It's kind of a given that D D or a large chunk of DD is improvised, but to go from like you know, end to end improvising everything is is what I think made made the group special.
00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:40.880
And it was yeah, it was it was crazy to like to get the text from from Chase and be like, we're we're all coming back.
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:42.640
So and I'm here for it.
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:46.559
I I don't really uh me and me and I I think I can speak for Justin as well.
00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:50.880
We both work desk jobs now, we're kind of detached from the artistic side of everything.
00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:51.599
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:57.039
And uh us being uh us improvising is mostly uh in a closed space in a Discord call.
00:26:57.359 --> 00:26:59.920
Yeah, right here right here in my basement, baby.
00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:01.599
Yeah, in the corner.
00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.240
Uh yeah, but uh what's it like?
00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:11.440
You know, I know you're I know you're you were happy to see it, but now that it's actually happening, you know, being recorded again, uh you know.
00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:13.680
Well how how how's it feeling for you?
00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:16.160
Uh I realize my mic kind of sucks.
00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:19.519
Or like it's not a screen.
00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:24.720
I think I said it in the pre-chat, but like, man, if if we still had fans after season one.
00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:25.440
Oh yeah.
00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:31.440
Like whenever half the time, like one of us was in a car and we were just like, hey, I have like these really shitty like wired headphones.
00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:33.200
Like, is it okay if I record?
00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:42.720
It's like, yeah, man, like we're just doing this for we're just and we just had this mic I'm using right now just on Omni and in the middle of the big table.
00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:44.079
I remember that too.
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:46.799
It'll work, it'll work.
00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:48.400
It'll pick everybody up.
00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:56.079
Yeah, and uh again, it's like uh during uh a different uh during our creative showcase this past month.
00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:01.200
Uh I think one of my collaborators called us scrappy as a theater company, and I kind of like that idea, you know.
00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:04.079
I felt like the final rule was scrappy, that was its charm, you know?
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:05.039
Yeah, hell yeah.
00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:06.240
Yeah, I think so.
00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:10.559
Yeah, but uh uh it's interesting again, though.
00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:17.599
Like uh I'm gonna I'm probably gonna be talking a lot uh because it's just on my mind at least, like the um coming back together like this.
00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:26.640
Yeah, like it it's it's fun to see everybody now, like as we're all either have transitioned or are transitioning into sort of that next phase of life.
00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:42.400
Uh I think that's really the thing that is interesting most to me is to see like what kind of things that we like what do we bring to the table now that it has been like what like five years, right?
00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:42.960
Yeah.
00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:44.640
It's been a long time.
00:28:45.200 --> 00:29:00.240
And I I feel like I like I uh haven't done I've like tried to pick up hobbies uh in the past few years to like stay creative, but like the the improvisation has uh I haven't done it like aside from like normal DD.
00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:03.599
I haven't done like any like a lot of like improvising.
00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:11.440
So I'm like I'm a little worried about stretching the the old muscles and seeing uh seeing what what what's left, what's left in the tank.
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:13.039
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:21.039
And uh yeah, my my biggest thing probably is uh is finding time to be away from the house.
00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:34.319
Because now I got wife and the son and another on the way, and like I'm not gonna go out and you know join an improv club and be away from them the ears that I have the one to two hours before he goes to bed.
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:54.319
Uh but uh but you know, it here at home playing D D and building like worlds and systems and stuff like that with uh with T T RPGs is uh is is like really the best creative thing and the most convenient creative thing, honestly.
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:59.519
Uh uh I can really do expressions.
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:01.039
Yeah, you uh exercise.
00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:11.920
And you both mentioned I I honestly I have not like really done almost anything with DD other than like pick up the new rule books and just kind of read through them since the last time that we did the final rule.
00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:18.079
Um but both of y'all like both about say both of y'all have been talking about like the RPGs that you've had experience to.
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:23.920
How have those like new systems kind of influenced where you're at now as a player in a DM?
00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:27.920
Justin, do you have anything about DC twenty?
00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:31.920
I'm I've I'm stuck with 5e because it's boring and I've refused to learn.
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:32.559
No.
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:46.400
No, I've uh yeah, I've the one I've been really on the kick for, it's still in the development, and I've been having a lot of fun like watching the development with it, is like DC20 by the the dungeon coach, which is like an action point system.
00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:53.039
Uh and the first time I had seen an action point system was with Devinity Original Sins 2.
00:30:53.279 --> 00:31:02.799
And that scam made me really like action points are so cool because you can you know move take around turn to move.
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:09.519
Yeah, just in case though, can you explain what an action point system is versus something like D?
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:19.920
So instead of having these specific actions, like you have your movement action, your action, and your bonus action, what you have instead are uh three to four action points.
00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:32.720
Uh Pathfinder does it, DC20, and there's a lot of other uh Nimble, the new uh uh like fast-paced combat system that's a supplement for D5E also does it.
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:38.000
But with basically you can spend action points to do certain actions.
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:43.119
Let's say movement, you move your normal movement with an action point, attacking takes an action point.
00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:48.000
If you're doing like a big AoE spell, maybe that just takes two action points.
00:31:48.160 --> 00:32:00.720
Uh and it becomes a lot more flexible with uh player's turn, they can be a lot more creative and they don't feel like they waste any of their action economy.
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:11.119
Because with D, what a lot of classes feel are they, you know, if they don't have something on their action as their bonus action, they kind of feel like well.
00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:16.960
Yeah, and they integrate things.
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:23.599
And DC20 integrates reactions with that, and you use your reaction as a part of your four action points on that next turn.
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:23.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:24.720
So you can use it.
00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:30.640
Is it like an overwatch on like XCOM where it's like you set something and it happens on a reaction trigger kind of thing?
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:31.440
Kind of.
00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:46.640
Yeah, you have you have yeah, you have basically uh features that can uh proc like tax of opportunity or like raising your shield, and then that takes away from your turns action points, and then basically when it comes your turn, you have one AP.
00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:56.160
So basically everyone has the same amount of of action economy throughout the whole turn if they don't lose one reaction they got four.
00:32:56.319 --> 00:33:04.880
Um and then DD skews in the opposite direction where it's like some like eventually all classes basically have two actions or some way to get two actions.
00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:10.960
And it's like that's sort of the scaling versus like being able to do more with like an action economy.
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:11.920
That's super interesting.
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:12.559
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:17.599
Uh again, I've played I played Divinity Original Sin too, and I was like, I don't remember much of that game.
00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:27.279
That's that's my sell for uh for any of my buddies, is like it's it's it's a lot like Divinity's kind of the framework there.
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:30.319
There's a lot of other stuff you can do, but uh, but yeah, no.
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:37.680
Uh that uh I've been um uh Starfinder, Brendan and I have played that for a while.
00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:47.839
Starfinder, I DM'd the starter campaign for it, and people like the vibe of it, but whenever we it's like the starter beginner box is what it is.
00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:49.039
Is it the 2e?
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:51.519
The first edition.
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:55.519
Oh dang, of course, obviously, yeah, yeah.
00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:59.519
Perfectly timed as far as like spending money on Starfighter goes.
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:02.000
But everyone, I think, kind of digged it.
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:07.279
It was a little bit difficult more than like more difficult than 5e, which was refreshing.
00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:17.679
But everyone got kind of jammed up, and there's just a lot of bad roles whenever we got to the like the I think the capstone of the beginner adventure, which is the ship combat.
00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:25.039
And I think that's where my first campaign and uh and it ended too was because it was just like it got so crunchy so fast.
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:31.519
Yeah, no grueling, and not even like grueling, like, oh man, this is like tense, but like I shoot, I miss.
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:39.840
All right, I have to wait for like the engineering turn, the captain turn, like the other ship's turn, and then it's gonna be like 15 minutes before I roll a three and miss again.
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.480
And like everyone's rolling bad, everyone's like, I don't want to do it.
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.440
We can play without the ship stuff, we can still play.
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:47.679
It's like nah, I don't want to do it anymore.
00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:49.599
Oh yeah, well, it's it's hard, you know.
00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:57.920
Like, and especially transitioning systems because like they all have different strengths, they all have different weaknesses, and it's like kind of about what story you want to tell, you know.
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:02.159
Like uh the system should match the narrative instead of like the other way around, you know.
00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:05.840
Once yeah, but uh Brendan, I I'm curious.
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:08.400
Uh what what are you kind of expecting out of this season?
00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:18.079
Just like more of the same, or uh do you think that like new perspectives, new players are going to kind of offer a little bit of extra pizzazz for you?
00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:27.840
I think a little a little bit of like the yeah, like the the new the not entirely new, but like new that there are like more permanent players is gonna be a little old.
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:32.320
Yeah, I've also like I've just kind of like I like with age, I've just kind of mellowed out a lot.
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:35.760
I feel like when we last played, I was unhinged as to now.
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:37.199
I'm quite hinged.
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:38.480
So I feel that, yeah, yeah.
00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:46.800
But at that point, whenever like whenever Chase and I were tossing it around, I was like, dude, I'm in so much better of a position than I was five years ago, much less when we first tried this.
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:51.199
Like, we're like, it's time to if we're gonna do it, like we're gonna do it, you know.
00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:52.480
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:52.719 --> 00:36:06.800
Uh, but I feel that, you know, again, I think that's gonna be a kind of common theme is the way that we grow as people, just like by experiencing life, is uh, I mean, it it directly influences everything, much less how we play DD, you know?
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:08.559
Yeah, absolutely.
00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:11.519
I uh yeah, yeah, go ahead.
00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:19.039
Yeah, I'm just saying, uh my your 10 minutes is up, unfortunately, because I'm otherwise I'm legitimately gonna yap with like every person here for half an hour.
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:21.599
Yeah, you need to roll your yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:21.840
Do it.
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:26.320
Like, I'm like, we gotta we gotta stop toss that over to adjust and then we're gonna talk about details.
00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:26.800
Yeah, I know.
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:27.519
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:28.880
Do you have a dot?
00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:30.400
I've got them.
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:30.960
I've got them.
00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:31.679
I'm ready.
00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:33.199
Are we going straight down the line?
00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:33.679
Like strength.
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:35.280
We're going straight down the line.
00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:46.000
You may you may choose after you see the results and announce the result of a roll whether or not you are going to use your one re-roll, but you must take whatever you re-roll.
00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:46.880
Damn, bro.
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:47.599
Sound good?
00:36:48.159 --> 00:36:50.480
One re-roll for the all the four D6?
00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:55.920
One re-roll for any given yeah, for the result, and you're doing four drop the lowest, right?
00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:59.599
Getting my dice next to the mic here so you're gonna get a low ASMR.
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:00.559
Are you guys ready?
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:01.760
Ready.
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:05.119
Oh, that's not bad.
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:06.000
10, 13.
00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:10.000
And we're we're 1046, drop the lowest of the D6, right?
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:10.559
Yes.
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:13.199
Your highest that you can ever get is an 18.
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:14.320
Okay.
00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:17.440
That's a 13 for the first one.
00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:18.079
Alright.
00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:19.920
So we have a 13 on strength.
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:22.079
Are you going to re-roll that?
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:23.119
I'm gonna keep it.
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:24.559
Let's go to decks.
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:26.320
Here's decks.
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:31.039
Oh, I'm gonna re-roll that.
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:32.719
That's three ones and a three?
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:33.679
I'm gonna re-roll that.
00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:35.599
Okay, cool.
00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:37.280
So you have used your one re-roll.
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:38.960
Oh, with much of mom and fanfare.
00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:42.960
I mean, three three ones and a three, I'd say that's a good use of it.
00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:45.519
And before a four constitution, yeah.
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:46.400
Yeah.
00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:48.159
Please, no.
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:51.039
That's better.
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:52.159
That's 12.
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:53.199
A 12?
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:53.519
Okay.
00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:55.440
13 strength, 12 decks.
00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:57.199
You might be looking at a spellcaster, maybe.
00:37:57.440 --> 00:37:57.920
Maybe.
00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:59.440
Or just uh a layman.
00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:02.880
Just a very we love a guy.
00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:05.280
This is this is better.
00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:05.679
Okay.
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:06.960
This is my con?
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:07.599
Great.
00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:08.400
Okay.
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:10.239
17.
00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:11.920
17 con.
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:14.079
Yes, they can.
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:17.360
So very healthy and very average.
00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:18.320
What about their intelligence?
00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:18.719
How are they?
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:20.800
Oh yeah.
00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:22.800
Come on.
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:30.320
Twelve?
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:32.559
Holy cow.
00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:35.840
The healthiest person that's just a regular guy, otherwise.
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:36.719
Uh wisdom.
00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:38.000
What about wisdom?
00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:45.119
That's actually not bad.
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:46.239
Four, four, two.
00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:47.119
That's ten.
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:48.239
Ten wisdom.
00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:52.320
Why am I flame chain over here, guys?
00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:56.480
Except for the fact that you are very resistant to poison for some reason.
00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:56.800
Yeah.
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:02.800
I've got a I don't get sick and I I I take really good care of myself.
00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:04.079
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:05.920
Alright, charisma.
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:07.519
Charisma's not bad.
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:08.159
14.
00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:09.280
Oh wow.
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:10.000
Wow.
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:11.519
That's no negatives there.
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:14.400
Honestly, what a what a great starting character there.
00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:15.440
Brendan.
00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:27.679
That right there is a 13 in strength, a 12 in dexterity, a 17 in con, a 12 in intelligence, a 10 in wisdom, which is your lowest stat, which is crazy.
00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:28.320
But good.
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:31.440
Crazy to other people, maybe charisma.
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:34.880
That's uh that's a good even spread.
00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:37.360
Uh Brendan, again, thank you so much.
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:39.440
I'm super excited that you're part of this.
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:41.519
Like legitimately, it's great.
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:47.039
Uh we're gonna kick you back out to the general chat and then decide which team you're on and not tell you.
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:47.760
So congrats.
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:51.679
Okay, are we doing are we doing origin and class tonight?
00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:54.639
Or that's we talked about it a thousand times, but my yeah, no worries.
00:39:54.719 --> 00:40:05.599
Uh no, uh Justin and I are going to roll those and just build the character sheets between now and uh the next session so that you will you will only know what your stats are.
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:06.880
Good god.
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:08.639
And my name, hopefully.
00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:10.960
I guess we'll see about that.
00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:12.159
You'll know your name.
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:16.320
I'm moving you back to the session one, but it's not me.
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:17.519
All right.
00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:18.880
Oh god.
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:20.000
Alright, guys.
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:21.119
Don't be jealous.
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:25.119
I don't am I allowed to tell you guys what my I don't I no no no.
00:40:25.199 --> 00:40:28.400
I don't think I don't I don't think we should we should keep it secret.
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.960
I want to say I'm not gonna say what they are, but let me just tell you this.
00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:35.679
I'm pretty good at everything.
00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:36.719
Oh no.
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:41.360
Tim said you were supposed to tell me what your stats are.
00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:44.079
So you just Okay, I'll pull you into the Patreon chat.
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:44.800
Can I pull it?
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:45.679
Whoa, hold up.
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:48.719
I can't I can't pull who gave me admin privileges.
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:55.760
I think we also I I will I will admit that um I accidentally I've gotta fix the roles.
00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:59.119
Sophia, you're being called into the principal's office.
00:40:59.440 --> 00:40:59.679
Sophia.
00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:02.079
Sophia, please come to the principal's office.
00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.400
We fucking called it, guys!
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:05.920
Uh wait.
00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:09.119
Oh, oh no, yeah, Sophia's getting called.
00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:10.800
I'm gonna make a count now.
00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:11.679
Alright.
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:20.079
Sophia Brost, welcome to the the count the words of the council.
00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:21.039
You shall hear.
00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:21.840
You know what I mean?
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:22.320
That kind of thing.
00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:24.239
Yeah, no, that's great.
00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:26.320
You are now being judged.
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:32.159
I've literally waited my entire life to be judged by a proper council.
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:34.880
I'm excited to see the council's findings.
00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:37.360
Uh I am too.
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:41.840
Uh if you want like a copy of the stenographer's thing, like yeah, no, totally.
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:43.679
What do they do, like reports or whatever?
00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:43.920
Yeah.
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:45.119
I always imagine.
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:48.000
Yeah, they they write everything that you say or think or whatever.
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:54.559
We had a really funny Second City sketch that never got off the ground where I was the courtroom thought stenographer.
00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:57.280
I like that.
00:41:57.360 --> 00:41:57.760
That's good.
00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:01.599
But it was just kind of me just being really overstimulated for like five minutes.
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:01.920
Yeah.
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:04.880
Because I got everyone in the courtroom's thoughts.
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:08.559
That's there's something there.
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:13.760
Sophia, talk to me about the creative showcase uh at some point later because I think we can work together on this.
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:14.800
Let's do it.
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:15.519
Cool.
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:16.320
Yeah.
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:17.679
Uh, but welcome.
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:23.039
Uh how's it feel uh now, five years after you were a guest, I believe.
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:24.079
How does it feel to come back?
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:24.960
Five years?
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:25.760
Oh my god.
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:26.719
I know, I know.
00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:29.760
Um, dude, it it feels great.
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:36.480
I um I remember guest uh spotting that that first time and I was so nervous.
00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:47.360
Um I was reminded by Chase just minutes ago that I I think I'm one of the only episodes with a with a warning because I fully disembowel the man.
00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:48.400
That is true.
00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:48.960
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.480
For the detailed like autopsy.
00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:54.400
Yes, I remember that too.
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:54.719
Yeah.
00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:57.440
Uh the disemboweling sticks out particularly.
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:05.199
Uh just because I remember, I remember as the scene unfolded, I was like, well, we have to roll with it.
00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:06.719
But then I read it.
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:08.000
For the rules of the embracing.
00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:08.800
Yeah, yeah.
00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:11.280
But I was like, well, we have to roll with it, you know?
00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:14.239
Like, oh no, like we have to roll with it.
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:26.559
Uh but luckily, uh, now that we are under uh an organizational umbrella, we don't really have to worry necessarily about like being uh like for the live streams and stuff, we wouldn't have to make it.
00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:31.519
Yeah, we can hide, we can finally hide from God in the capitalist system.
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:32.719
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:33.679
It's happening.
00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:39.840
That's that's why I did it is to absolve myself of all the terrible things I'm gonna have to do in order to get this podcast live.
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:40.320
Yeah.
00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:42.639
Uh I've done horrible things since we last.
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:52.400
I'll have to make all the sacrifices, uh, the dark lords I'm having to uh uh declare my allegiance to, all that.
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:54.320
Yeah, Gary Gygax.
00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:55.599
Turns out he never actually left.
00:43:55.679 --> 00:43:56.719
He was the Lich all along.
00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:58.239
It's it's kind of crazy, you know.
00:43:58.480 --> 00:43:59.280
Holy shit.
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:00.559
I'm saying.
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:16.239
Uh, but Sophia, uh, yeah, we were kind of talking with uh with Brendan while he was in the chat with us about uh sort of the experience that's uh you've had with tabletop games, you know, so various DD like systems since in those five years.
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:22.159
I imagine most of us have had at least uh a handful of here or there kind of occurrences.
00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:24.480
Yeah, occurrences, yeah, yeah.
00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:26.719
Brushes with the Almighty.
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:27.679
Um, yeah.
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:40.960
So I I would say like purely out of utter self-awareness, the of the entire party, I'm probably the least knowledgeable and least prepared, but in terms of tabletoping.
00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:45.360
Um but um the improv I I got you covered.
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:55.519
I think in the last five years, I've probably been an active member of of two very short-lived campaigns.
00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:01.840
Um but probably like 10 plus one-offs, you know?
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:03.280
Um yeah.
00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:14.320
Yeah, I mean, like a big fun thing that I think a lot of uh, you know, DD adjacent comedians really like doing is just finding the one day every 10 years everyone's free.
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:17.360
And that's so real.
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:19.840
It truly is like, oh, the blood moon.
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:23.199
Yes, that's all gather at Tyler's house.
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:26.559
Um that's yeah, that's that's really fun.
00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:40.960
I uh I've been a guy, I've found a time to where everyone is available, and for the past like six or seven years, I mean some of the same people uh in like long form campaigns.
00:45:41.119 --> 00:45:44.480
So like doing like small like one-shots and stuff like that.
00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:57.840
It's something that that I really want to kind of I'm trying to get into so that my players can explore more characters and get in the film more shoes and explore some more topics and builds and stuff.
00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:12.159
And it and it's such a good it's such a weird thing too because like uh I'm also like as a DM, like I've DM'd far more one-shots, like none of my long-term campaigns, even like adventures, like ever made it past like maybe session 10.
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:14.719
Yeah, uh life life always gotten.
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:16.880
Even that is a huge success, right?
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:18.159
Yeah, 10 sessions is still.
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:24.880
I know I still didn't finish the story though, and so I'm gonna cry forever.
00:46:26.559 --> 00:46:44.159
You you might uh but uh the uh it's an interesting perspective though, because like Justin having so much more like long-form DMing experience versus like basically everything I ever did was like a very bare bone skeletal structure, two encounters and then like riffing between.
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:55.280
So, you know, yeah, no, like I'm I still going is my second this second campaign's been going three and a half years, and the first one was about three years before I left.
00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:56.400
That's what I'm saying.
00:46:56.639 --> 00:46:58.159
Before I left Louisiana.
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:02.079
So it's it really is like talking about like like a partner, you know?
00:47:02.159 --> 00:47:06.800
It's like, yeah, we've been together three and a half years, and everyone's like, how are you doing that?
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:08.639
Oh yeah, yeah, I know, right?
00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:09.440
Crazy.
00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:25.119
No, but I think that's what I'm really excited by with our stuff here, is like um really having like the thread of the commitment and and getting to do literally more long form improv um within sort of the this realm.
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:36.800
Um I really like see DD as just like uh like particularly in in the way that the you've shaped the form as just a different tool to get to the the fun scene work.
00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:44.719
So um I promise to be seriously, I promise to be exceedingly theatrical and um and very story driven.
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:46.000
So I'm really excited about it.
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:53.760
Again, that was part of the like whenever we were like we should really reach out to like Logan and Sophia to see if they're like if they just happen to have the time free.
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:56.559
Because literally Mondays are like my my free day.
00:47:56.639 --> 00:47:57.840
So I I've been singing.
00:47:58.000 --> 00:47:59.599
I was like, I have to do DD.
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:02.800
Uh so you said a bunch of one-offs.
00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:06.880
Do you have like a type of uh a particular character that you tend to like skew towards?
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:08.559
Like classes wise.
00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:12.000
Yes, let's set her up so she rolls the exact opposite.
00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:14.880
Justin, you're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:16.719
The luck is listening.
00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:18.079
Oh no, no, no.
00:48:18.480 --> 00:48:20.719
The father luck is always listening.
00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:34.400
Yeah, so um the the most recent like campaign that never really got off the ground with a character that I just like really loved and played, I think, in a maybe a couple campaigns.
00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:43.920
Um she was a uh paladin, uh human paladin named uh Hanica Kamuppins.
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:47.679
And that's a great paladin name, holy cow.
00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:50.000
She was a great paladin name, thank you.
00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:59.599
Um she was a a Nepo baby like paladin of like a high lord, and I immediately became an oathbreaker at the end of the first session.
00:48:59.920 --> 00:49:05.039
Like at the first sign of trouble, I immediately like made a deal with a devil.
00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:13.199
And for like it, it was I was just like a hapless, um basically like dumb blonde without a spine.
00:49:13.679 --> 00:49:27.039
Um it was so it was so fun because she had she had no real morals, and I just got to kind of just be a really useful idiot.
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:33.760
And I got to kind of like I I I normally my playstyle is I love charisma first, I talk through everything.
00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:41.840
I'm a terrible uh magic, frankly, too much mechanics freaks me out, and then also fighting bores me.
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:57.360
So if you it Sophia and Justin, if either of you ever hear that I'm playing a wizard, be aware that within like a week somebody's getting a text message that's like, how the fuck are you supposed to keep track of this fucking spell book?
00:49:57.679 --> 00:49:59.199
Oh my god, Tim.
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:02.559
I my my ADHD simply won't allow me.
00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:05.360
I'll I'll put a spell.
00:50:05.599 --> 00:50:08.559
I'll have one spell and I'll get really good at it, you know.
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:13.440
Uh my partner and I just uh finished a Baldur's Gate 3 like co-op campaign.
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:27.360
And uh the way that uh as a druid, she would either like owlbear and then just wreck shop, or just be like, I'll just be a spellcaster this time and just like completely like 40 damage to three different people.
00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:28.320
Like, why not?
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:28.800
You know?
00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:29.679
Yeah.
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:30.719
Yeah.
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:33.519
Well, now I'm gonna be a spellcaster or something.
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:34.400
Yeah, you think?
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:34.719
Oh, yeah.
00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:39.599
I can't wait for you to be like an like an invocation mage, like a wizard.
00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:42.480
Oh yeah, an illusionist wizard.
00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:43.840
Oh yeah.
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:44.960
Oh my god.
00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:51.280
But but but uh no matter what, don't worry.
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:56.960
There will be the uh guardrails of Justin and I are just going to let whatever's most fun slide.
00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:01.920
So you'll have you'll have a kind of character armor, let's say.
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:05.360
That's beautiful, and I I need so much of it.
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:08.079
Arm me up.
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:09.440
Okay, okay.
00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:13.280
Uh I well we'll arm this.
00:51:13.679 --> 00:51:14.880
It's too long.
00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:16.320
Have we had armies?
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:19.119
Uh I say we have arm she's am I right?
00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:23.840
Only uh only uh I'll be here all week.
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:26.079
Sophia, we need to roll your stats.
00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:30.800
Uh, the way that we are doing this, do you have four D6 available?
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:32.320
For six-sided die.
00:51:33.519 --> 00:51:39.679
No, before we started, Logan took all the dice into the office and locked the door and said he didn't love me anymore.
00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:43.440
Well that's a yes or too deep for this podcast.
00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:45.360
No, I don't have the d6 available.
00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:46.159
Okay, cool.
00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:48.960
Uh you have two options available.
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:58.320
If you believe that you may navigate away from Discord and find a way to roll four virtual D6, we can do that.
00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:01.760
Otherwise, you know what that sound is?
00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:02.559
Fuck, I'm dropping one.
00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:03.039
Hold on.
00:52:03.280 --> 00:52:04.639
It's beans in a palm.
00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:08.239
Beans in a palm, it's beans four six-sided beans.
00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:09.920
So uh you need to decide.
00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:12.400
Am I rolling for you or are you rolling for you?
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:17.679
Tim, it's it's been five long years, and I've missed the sound of you deciding my fate.
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:18.960
So you do it.
00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:23.519
Now, Sophia, you do get an opportunity.
00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:30.800
Uh, if you don't like a roll, you can decide to re-roll it, but you do need to take that second roll.
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:32.719
You get one chance to do so.
00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:33.679
Oh, good.
00:52:33.840 --> 00:52:34.000
Okay.
00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:39.039
And you will do it after I announce what the roll would be for your stat.
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:40.960
If you don't like it, you may re-roll it.
00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:43.199
But once you move on to the next stat, it's locked in.
00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:43.599
Yep.
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:49.280
And the high, the high is 18, the low is three on a bell curve.
00:52:49.360 --> 00:52:51.199
So okay, bell curve.
00:52:51.360 --> 00:52:52.000
God damn.
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:56.960
I can't say I want to re-roll the moment I hear the noise, and he doesn't say a number.
00:52:57.280 --> 00:52:58.480
I don't like the sound of that.
00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:01.519
You can, but then you don't get anything else.
00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:03.039
So, like, that's on you, I guess.
00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:06.559
Are you ready to roll first for your strength?
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:08.159
I'm so ready.
00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:11.360
Holy cow.
00:53:11.679 --> 00:53:13.760
That's a 15 strength.
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:14.960
We're keeping it.
00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:17.280
We're keeping a 15 strength.
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:18.239
Lock it in.
00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:19.199
Lock it in.
00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:20.000
Lock it in.
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:20.719
Lock it in.
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:23.119
I started a weightlifting class yesterday.
00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:24.320
That's probably why.
00:53:25.119 --> 00:53:26.559
For dexterity.
00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:30.400
Wait, you're saying that's what she rolled?
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:32.239
For dexterity.
00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:35.039
Uh we're you know what?
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:36.880
Keep it.
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:38.400
We're locking it in.
00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:39.440
15 strength.
00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:40.880
For dexterity.
00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:45.840
Oh that's hilarious.
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:49.679
Sophia, are are you feeling particularly healthy?
00:53:51.199 --> 00:53:53.599
Would you describe yourself as hail and hardy?
00:53:54.719 --> 00:53:55.199
Recently.
00:53:55.280 --> 00:53:56.719
You want to hear something crazy?
00:53:57.039 --> 00:53:57.679
Yes.
00:53:58.320 --> 00:54:03.920
Um, I went to the hospital on Friday and they found I have uh eighth vertebrae in my neck.
00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:06.880
It happens in one in 500 people.
00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:08.880
It's called an Eve's rib.
00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:10.880
Now is that a good one?
00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:13.360
You also have 14 constitution.
00:54:15.679 --> 00:54:18.639
That's a plus two on that constitution modifier.
00:54:18.880 --> 00:54:19.679
We're keeping it.
00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:20.400
Hell yeah.
00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:22.079
Keeping it.
00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:23.599
Alright.
00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:30.000
Sophia, if you had to give an over-under on your intelligence, do you think that it is going to be higher than 10 or lower?
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:32.719
I think I'm dumb as balls.
00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:35.280
Well, congratulations.
00:54:35.599 --> 00:54:40.159
You have the literacy of approximately a high, I mean a college sophomore.
00:54:40.239 --> 00:54:41.920
You've got 11 intelligence.
00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:43.679
11 are we keeping it?
00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:44.880
Are you keeping it?
00:54:46.159 --> 00:54:47.280
How many more do I got?
00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:50.960
You got three more intelligence, wisdom, and then charisma.
00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:51.679
No, no, no.
00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:52.400
We just did intelligence.
00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:53.039
It's just one of the things.
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:53.840
Well, yeah, yeah.
00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:54.639
I was just letting her know.
00:54:54.880 --> 00:54:55.920
Oh, if you want to unroll it.
00:54:56.159 --> 00:54:56.719
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:54:56.960 --> 00:54:57.119
Yeah.
00:54:57.199 --> 00:54:58.639
You have intelligence, wisdom, and charisma.
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:00.800
Okay, sick.
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:02.239
I'm I'm saving my thing.
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:02.639
Go ahead.
00:55:03.119 --> 00:55:03.440
Okay.
00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:07.280
So on your wisdom, your second, your penultimate stat, if you will.
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:08.320
Are you prepared?
00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:09.599
I'm so prepared.
00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:11.519
My name is Sophia.
00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:14.079
Uh now this is a pop quiz, Sophia.
00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:19.840
What is the difference between wisdom and intelligence whenever it comes to a DD stat sheet?
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:22.079
Oh, that's such a good question.
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:25.440
Um, I would say wisdom comes from within.
00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:29.440
That's such a good way to put it, Sophia.
00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:31.760
Like what what great kudos there?
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:34.480
Hey, Sophia means wisdom in Greek.
00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:35.920
Oh, really?
00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:37.039
It does.
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:38.880
Well, what is her stat then?
00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:39.760
11.
00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:41.440
Sophia, 11.
00:55:42.559 --> 00:55:42.880
Okay.
00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:44.000
Okay.
00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:53.280
I okay, so like I can tell you're holding on a little bit because you know charisma's coming up, and you just said you talk your way through everything in DDs.
00:55:53.840 --> 00:56:01.679
And I think purely because I'm thinking for viewership, I have to take the 11, and whatever the charisma is, I'm going to ask you to re-roll.
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:03.519
Oh, whatever it is.
00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:03.840
Okay.
00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:05.599
Whatever it is.
00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:08.079
Sophia, Sophia, I just rolled it.
00:56:08.239 --> 00:56:10.480
I promise you, I swear to you, I just rolled this.
00:56:10.559 --> 00:56:12.159
It's a fucking 17.
00:56:13.199 --> 00:56:13.920
You don't want to.
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:19.920
It's two sixes and two fives, but I'm going to re-roll it, so that's really unfortunate for you.
00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:24.159
You end up with a 14.
00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:24.960
That's still pretty good.
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:25.679
God damn.
00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:28.000
Besides that deck score, that's a pretty good one.
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:28.800
Yeah, yeah.
00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:31.519
That's uh that's the makings of a good paladin, actually.
00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:32.079
It looks like there.
00:56:32.239 --> 00:56:33.039
Strength and charisma.
00:56:33.519 --> 00:56:35.280
Yeah, strength, con charisma.
00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:40.159
I can't wait for you to be like a wild magic sorcerer or like uh a druid.
00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:40.639
Yeah, yeah.
00:56:41.760 --> 00:56:42.320
Yeah, yeah.
00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:44.159
I can't wait for you to be a rogue.
00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:46.400
A rogue with four dexterity.
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:48.559
I gotta I gotta ask you something.
00:56:48.719 --> 00:56:58.480
Because I think we're still technically still how much money would I have to donate to the nonprofit to go back to the 17 on charisma.
00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:02.960
Sophia, there are some things that money can buy.
00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:05.199
I am one of them, unfortunately.
00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:07.679
What about a favor?
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:11.440
I have kicked her from the chat.
00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:16.480
No, no.
00:57:18.960 --> 00:57:21.519
Oh, oh, she she's back.
00:57:21.760 --> 00:57:22.320
She's back.
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:23.519
Oh no.
00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:31.199
I was so bad, dude.
00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:32.239
So bad.
00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:36.159
Oh no, I don't believe that.
00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:50.639
No, I was in the middle trying to get Tim to like switch his morals around to let me do something I wanted to do, and then he just booted me out of the chat.
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:56.079
Like I was a stray cat, like a whorish cat out on the street.
00:57:56.320 --> 00:57:57.760
I'm really upset.
00:57:58.079 --> 00:57:58.400
Dang.
00:57:58.639 --> 00:58:05.199
Guys, it was it was I Well, Sophia, Chase just told the funniest joke I've ever heard.
00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:07.119
You Chase, you gotta tell that joke again.
00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:09.039
Well, well, uh I don't know.
00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:10.960
It's a different setup now.
00:58:11.199 --> 00:58:12.639
Um joke.
00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:13.360
Oh my god.
00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:14.960
That is oh well.
00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:20.559
So I was walking into this bar and I says to myself, I says, Where's that Chase Banan?
00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:21.840
I need to get him away.
00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:22.320
Alright.
00:58:22.719 --> 00:58:24.320
Guess I guess I can't tell that joke now.
00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:25.760
I'll have to wait for the joke now.
00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:28.719
You have no idea how much you just saved Chase.
00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:34.800
Well, but guys, it's been it's been a time.
00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:38.800
He'll be in here in a second, I think.
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:44.000
They were they were telling a joke, apparently, that we interrupted, so Chase cannot tell, and Brendan's upset.
00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:45.920
Oh, yeah.
00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:49.360
Hey Chase, I hope that probably is too mad about that.
00:58:49.679 --> 00:59:01.119
That was no, that was hilarious because Logan set me up for like a oh, he he's had this funny joke prepared, and I was like, uh So it was actually really fucking funny.
00:59:03.599 --> 00:59:05.199
Yo, Chase, how's it going, man?
00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:06.480
Uh it's going good.
00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:09.760
I'm just uh I'm super excited for I'm a turnover.
00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:14.320
I'm super excited for the final rule season three.
00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:15.440
Yeah, yeah.
00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:16.639
The final rule.
00:59:17.519 --> 00:59:20.159
The final rule three seasons.
00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:26.239
Uh but shit, Chase, like you and I have been yapping a bunch uh because we're like part of the same organization or whatever.
00:59:26.400 --> 00:59:28.719
Uh I'm gonna I want you and Justin to have a chance to catch up.
00:59:28.800 --> 00:59:30.559
I'm gonna I'm gonna be the peanut gallery for this.
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:31.119
Yeah, okay.
00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:33.440
We have about nine minutes just to go.
00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:43.280
So yeah, you guys uh I I mean, Chase, you I can't remember you emailed me or texted me or It was both Discord and messaged me or something.
00:59:43.599 --> 00:59:50.079
Uh told me you guys had this company started, and I was like, Well, you said I could we could do the final rule again, sure.
00:59:50.159 --> 00:59:51.119
Let me find a day.
00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:56.400
Um but uh yeah, what's what's this company that this uh Artsy?
00:59:57.360 --> 00:59:58.880
Well, I'm glad you asked.
00:59:59.440 --> 01:00:08.239
Um I was not expecting you to just like immediately give us the chance to chill, but like no, like I'm sincerely curious, man.
01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:32.400
So it is the so the Arcadian Renaissance Theater Creatives, or Artsy, um, is a nonprofit theater that we decided to make because we just weren't seeing the kind of uh really the kind of theater that we wanted to see in the area, and we felt that we um were in a good place to be able to bring the things we wanted to see in a theater company to the area.
01:00:32.559 --> 01:00:35.119
So uh I mean and a lot of it comes down to the area.
01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:36.400
Where's the area still?
01:00:36.559 --> 01:00:38.400
Is that uh the Baton Rouge area or right?
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:42.559
Bat Baton Rouge, Louisiana and uh the Livingston Parish area.
01:00:42.800 --> 01:00:44.239
Um Okay, cool.
01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:56.480
Yeah, so the um I mean the biggest thing is like we're trying to, you know, really uh do these shows that are going to be, you know, uh off the beaten path a little bit.
01:00:56.559 --> 01:01:26.079
We want we want to be able to do shows that aren't like what every other single theater company is doing because either they um don't don't want to like offend people or don't want to uh they they want to put butts in seats so they're like concerned and again I want to make abundantly clear that well not just that, but like look, okay, as a theater who started with zero capital, it's daunting to not have like funds.
01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:40.480
So like these theater companies who do things that they know are going to make money, like they're doing it to stay afloat, and I respect that unless they start overstepping the boundary, but like yeah, like Chase was saying, man, like there's a bunch of stuff out there that we don't like a lot of people just don't get to see.
01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:47.599
Yeah, I mean, um, because like what we're doing, because again, no, no, like I know I'd be like, oh, these other theater companies don't be like, holy shit, we're doing it.
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:51.440
And I didn't mean like the lowest common denominator as like an insult to like other things.
01:01:51.599 --> 01:01:51.840
Yeah, yeah.
01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:55.760
I was saying like the general public, this is what this is over.
01:01:56.079 --> 01:01:59.039
Yeah, with their experience with theater people, 70% people.
01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:01.599
And um, but yeah.
01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:12.639
But uh, but like we're doing the final rule, which is like we're kind of trying to stretch the idea of what what theater and being an actor artist is, you know.
01:02:12.719 --> 01:02:23.360
It's uh we and we're really excited because we really want to be a more collaborative uh theater groups, you know, so not just being this isolated uh theater company that doesn't want to work with any other theater companies.
01:02:23.599 --> 01:02:34.400
I I want us to be able to work with as many of the theater companies in the area as possible and do work with them and just help each other grow because at the end of the day we shouldn't be on an island.
01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:47.599
Yeah, yeah, about saying that's the that's the kind of thing too that I've noticed around here is that like a lot of artists are on islands, you know, and it's not even of their islands of their own making, it's just hard to find places to do their art.
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:50.239
Yeah, because it's often off the beaten path, you know?
01:02:50.480 --> 01:03:14.800
Yeah, and and a lot of art has gone more digital and a lot less, I mean, I would say probably less actually uh community with it, because you know, you can reach people easier, but it's not really bringing people, you know, together as much as uh as you know, uh meeting in person, going to a live show, stuff like that.
01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:20.639
Everyone gets all their media pretty, you know, isolated.
01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:30.079
I mean I can go watch, you know, go sit in the corner, watch a whole season of a show and uh, you know, get my media there.
01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:30.880
Absolutely.
01:03:31.280 --> 01:03:34.960
The theater was, you know, a com like has always been.
01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:50.239
That's why I love like still love movie theaters with a kid, it's harder to go, but like it's more of a community experience, like going to watch a movie with you know, seeing who else, you know, is excited about the movie or whatever.
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:51.280
Yeah, yeah.
01:03:52.559 --> 01:04:01.360
Uh and that's a I mean that's a great it's a it's a something that we are like I think that uh especially with the final rule and like the creative showcase, you know.
01:04:01.840 --> 01:04:09.119
Trying to f break into the digital space and make it a little bit of a digital space is I mean, it's fantastic.
01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:39.119
It's literally the only reason I I'm still able to play Dungeons and Dragons, uh, because my current campaign since I left Louisiana three and a half years, four years ago actually, next month, um I mean I I still play with some of the same guys there, and we play on Discord and Roll 20 and all this other stuff and able to still express that 'cause yeah, no, I like D D that's like it's it's my thing.
01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:45.519
I I'm not gonna lie, like in that time period of get moving here and getting there, I got I got real low.
01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:50.320
I'm like, man, I can't express my creative juices.
01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:58.800
It's it's getting to be a slaw, going to work and then coming home and then video game.
01:04:59.039 --> 01:05:01.360
Well about to say, that's definitely like shit, man.
01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:03.039
It's it's that it's that phase of life.
01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:03.519
Yeah.
01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:04.639
Oh yeah, yeah.
01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:20.320
No, and uh it's yeah, I I was really excited when you guys reached out because uh as Brendan had said previously, I haven't really like improved other than like dming since I mean the final rule really.
01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:29.760
I think I done a little bit before we had done some stuff in uh in college with like improv and theater and stuff like that.
01:05:29.840 --> 01:05:38.559
But yeah, I was really excited to be able to uh kind of uh stretch those muscles and and uh really get back into it.
01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:43.039
I'm excited to see you step into this DM role, I'm not gonna lie.
01:05:43.119 --> 01:05:44.559
Like I think you're gonna do a phenomenal job.
01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:48.880
I was I was I was asking you guys to let me DM you back in the first seasons.
01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:52.320
Oh, well no, we noticed that we're like first couple seasons two.
01:05:52.559 --> 01:06:02.320
I was like, I about to say, yeah, well, and it's that's why like whenever Chase and I were talking about having two different Like again, two different campaigns running at the same time.
01:06:02.400 --> 01:06:04.400
I was like, well, we have to ask Justin.
01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:10.960
Like just yeah, Justin has always asked us to do like DMing things with us, and we just never quite got there, you know.
01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:12.000
Side campaign?
01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:14.639
Yeah, don't have to do side campaign.
01:06:14.880 --> 01:06:16.559
We could we can have it be extra content for Patreon.
01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:17.840
We can just do like a little side campaign.
01:06:17.920 --> 01:06:18.800
Which we I'll do.
01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:22.639
I'm still like we should have extra content.
01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:34.719
I'm I'm really hoping that we as a company are able to bring in extra content that people can pay a little extra for, and it would help us be able to um be afloat.
01:06:35.039 --> 01:06:37.679
Uh but also give them a little something extra.
01:06:37.840 --> 01:06:39.440
So I'm I'm very excited for that.
01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:40.480
For sure, for sure.
01:06:40.559 --> 01:06:43.599
And actually, um I I I haven't even mentioned this.
01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:51.920
I've actually have been on like a little bit of a a small let's play that is a little West marches.
01:06:52.159 --> 01:06:54.559
I there for a little bit of DC twenty.
01:06:55.039 --> 01:07:02.719
Um for about like I think there was like eight episodes or something like that that I was in, but uh schedules just kind of didn't align.
01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:05.679
Basically, they were running when I was running my campaign.
01:07:05.920 --> 01:07:13.280
But uh I I I have done a little bit of uh you know live playing somewhat recently.
01:07:13.440 --> 01:07:15.679
I think it was like a year ago maybe when that was.
01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:16.000
Yeah.
01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:26.400
Again, I think I think like one of the most fascinating things that I keep hearing from having everyone here is about like what has changed in the last five years and like what that like is going to influence this campaign.
01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:27.760
Like how it has to, right?
01:07:27.840 --> 01:07:29.519
Like we draw from our experiences.
01:07:29.679 --> 01:07:29.840
Yeah.
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:36.079
I mean, shit, Chase, I don't know that I've ever actually asked you that, but like in the five years in between, man, like the shit's changed.
01:07:36.239 --> 01:07:44.159
How how are you how are you are you feeling like you have more to draw from, less to draw from?
01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:45.280
How are your spoons?
01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:46.159
You know, that kind of thing.
01:07:46.480 --> 01:07:48.559
I so it's interesting, right?
01:07:48.639 --> 01:07:53.840
Because like literally I just got a house, I have a fiance, I'm getting married this year.
01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:54.960
That changes a lot.
01:07:55.840 --> 01:07:56.320
Oh, thank you.
01:07:56.480 --> 01:07:56.639
Yeah.
01:07:56.880 --> 01:08:04.719
Um, but uh you it's our it's our secretary, so there is some uh yeah, yeah, but like we're just gonna scroll with it, you know.
01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:19.520
Um but uh yeah, I do I do think I've grown a lot and I've been able to I I just cause it's weird you say because it's like uh you're like are you able to pull more from stuff, do you have more spoons?
01:08:19.600 --> 01:08:26.079
And it's like it's a hard question to answer because like uh I will see how I would answer it.
01:08:26.399 --> 01:08:32.800
I I'm I'm but I'll I'll be I mean what I can think of is like I'm in a completely different place than I used to be.
01:08:33.119 --> 01:08:39.680
And um I have a whole different set of things I now pull from than what I used to pull from.
01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:51.199
Um and it's just you know it's it part of me goes, ah, you know, it sucks that I can never go back to how things were before because you get nostalgic for it, but also I'm like, you know, all that free time.
01:08:51.359 --> 01:08:53.840
Can you fucking imagine having free time again?
01:08:54.159 --> 01:09:02.960
Yeah, but you but you know, uh but the trade-off is I'm I'm doing a lot of cool things now and I've made a lot of awesome connections with people.
01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:06.079
Uh and I'm like I'm doing cool shit, and you know what?
01:09:06.239 --> 01:09:09.920
Even with the amount of time that I have, I'm I'm making it work.
01:09:10.239 --> 01:09:20.239
And I I hope that in as I continue on this journey of my life that I am able to do more of what I want to do and less of what I don't want to do.
01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:27.199
If I can achieve that I mean if I no, it's a dream, but I mean like if I can achieve that, then I'm set.
01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:31.359
So to me, so much has changed in five years.
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:37.039
But I'm I I I honestly do think it's it's been for the better.
01:09:37.199 --> 01:09:47.199
And I and I mean it d despite all the things going on with the world, I I'm hopeful, and that's not always been the case.
01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:51.760
So Well, Chase, I can't wait to dash those hopes because we have to roll your stats.
01:09:51.920 --> 01:09:52.079
Yeah.
01:09:52.239 --> 01:09:52.880
Oh my god.
01:09:53.920 --> 01:09:54.319
I'm sorry.
01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:54.560
Okay.
01:09:54.880 --> 01:09:59.439
What you were saying was absolutely beautiful, but at some point in time I need to go to sleep.
01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:00.800
No, I know.
01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:05.359
We've been rolling, we are we are now rolling at two hours in the general chat, which is not that.
01:10:05.680 --> 01:10:06.800
I mean, but we didn't even get these recordings.
01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:09.359
We didn't even get started until like 45 minutes in.
01:10:09.520 --> 01:10:12.479
Uh Chase, do you have four D6 in front of you?
01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:15.520
Or is your ability to conjure them out of the ether of some kind of?
01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:16.960
I'm gonna conjure them out of the ether.
01:10:17.600 --> 01:10:18.159
That's crazy.
01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:21.199
The the Ethernet, if you will.
01:10:22.079 --> 01:10:22.560
Whoa.
01:10:22.880 --> 01:10:23.199
Whoa.
01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:30.079
Chase, you're going to be rolling in order, strength, dex, con, int, wisdom, and charisma.
01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:34.079
At any point, you will be rolling four d6 and dropping the le uh the lowest.
01:10:34.319 --> 01:10:46.640
Uh after you have announced a roll, you may re-roll that roll one time throughout the entirety of your stats, and you must make that decision before you go to roll the next stat.
01:10:47.039 --> 01:10:49.520
Are you do you accept these terms and conditions?
01:10:49.840 --> 01:10:52.000
You must in order to proceed with this bond.
01:10:52.640 --> 01:10:54.560
Guys, I guess I'm leaving the final rule.
01:10:55.119 --> 01:10:57.439
No, I I I accept.
01:10:57.600 --> 01:10:58.319
I accept the trust.
01:10:58.640 --> 01:10:59.199
Okay, cool.
01:10:59.359 --> 01:11:01.199
Then uh let's start rolling, man.
01:11:01.439 --> 01:11:03.600
Alright, so we're rolling for strength first, right?
01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:04.800
Starting with strength.
01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:06.319
Alright, here I go.
01:11:06.560 --> 01:11:08.399
Bada bing, bada boom.
01:11:08.640 --> 01:11:10.000
That's an 11.
01:11:11.039 --> 01:11:11.199
Okay.
01:11:12.079 --> 01:11:13.600
Ooh, we're starting up strong.
01:11:13.840 --> 01:11:15.039
But you know what?
01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:17.039
I'm gonna keep it.
01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:17.920
Good, good.
01:11:18.079 --> 01:11:18.479
I like it.
01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:19.359
I like the gusto.
01:11:19.600 --> 01:11:20.159
Good start.
01:11:20.479 --> 01:11:20.640
Yep.
01:11:20.880 --> 01:11:21.359
Good start.
01:11:21.600 --> 01:11:22.000
Good start.
01:11:22.239 --> 01:11:26.399
I'm I'm always one to uh make it hard on myself.
01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:29.279
So, okay, the next one is Dex, right?
01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:29.840
Yep.
01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:31.039
Next is Dex.
01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:32.319
Here we go.
01:11:32.640 --> 01:11:32.960
Okay.
01:11:36.239 --> 01:11:37.199
Oh wait, sorry.
01:11:37.359 --> 01:11:38.079
Uh 11.
01:11:38.159 --> 01:11:40.239
I I didn't drop the lowest on that.
01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:40.960
What?
01:11:41.840 --> 01:11:42.960
Oh, what a liar.
01:11:44.239 --> 01:11:45.039
I am so sorry.
01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:46.079
I am so sorry.
01:11:46.399 --> 01:11:47.199
What was the what was the lowest?
01:11:47.439 --> 01:11:48.159
Do you know what the lowest?
01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:55.520
You know, I don't I don't know, but like we can 11's fine.
01:11:55.680 --> 01:11:57.600
Just do it better from now on, I guess.
01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:00.319
Yes, and yes, and that was my bad.
01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:04.239
That was my because I rolled 4d6 and I was like, oh yes, the number that comes out of 46.
01:12:04.560 --> 01:12:06.399
Surely I wouldn't roll lower than this.
01:12:06.800 --> 01:12:07.279
Yeah, yeah.
01:12:08.159 --> 01:12:08.479
Fuck.
01:12:08.640 --> 01:12:08.800
All right.
01:12:09.119 --> 01:12:09.680
11's fine.
01:12:10.079 --> 01:12:10.399
11's.
01:12:10.800 --> 01:12:11.840
Okay, okay, 11's fine.
01:12:11.920 --> 01:12:14.159
Alright, the next one is uh for decks.
01:12:14.239 --> 01:12:17.119
That is gonna be 10 uh 16.
01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:18.720
Holy shit.
01:12:18.960 --> 01:12:19.600
Holy cow.
01:12:19.840 --> 01:12:20.640
So you know what?
01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:22.239
Um uh re-roll that guy.
01:12:22.399 --> 01:12:22.960
Yeah, yeah, obviously.
01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:27.520
You heard it, Justin.
01:12:27.600 --> 01:12:28.319
You heard it, you heard it.
01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:29.680
No, no, no.
01:12:30.319 --> 01:12:32.640
Um, okay, 16 decks.
01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:34.079
What is so what's next?
01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:35.760
That's uh Constitution.
01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:37.359
Ooh, constitution loves you.
01:12:37.680 --> 01:12:38.399
How healthy.
01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:39.439
Sturdy.
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:41.600
You a sturdy girl, Chase?
01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:44.640
Would you categorize yourself as a sturdy girl?
01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:48.159
I'm a 15, so I at this point I would say yes, I am.
01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:49.600
I'm a sturdy girl.
01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:51.279
That's pretty sturdy.
01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:53.920
Uh what about your that what about your ints?
01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:55.760
That first role was awful, though.
01:12:56.079 --> 01:13:02.239
All right, let's see what the Okay, nope, now we're back to shitty roles, because this is gonna be Okay, okay.
01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:03.439
12.
01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:05.760
Oh, wait, no, wait, uh uh 11.
01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:06.880
Sorry, gosh.
01:13:07.359 --> 01:13:09.840
Shitty roles, you said roles exactly average.
01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:10.319
What do you mean?
01:13:10.960 --> 01:13:11.520
Oh, okay.
01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:14.399
Well, I don't want to be average, I want to be a hero.
01:13:14.720 --> 01:13:17.119
Or really, what's your wisdom?
01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:18.079
What's your wisdom?
01:13:18.319 --> 01:13:19.279
Okay, okay, okay.
01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:24.479
Next is uh 13.
01:13:25.600 --> 01:13:26.960
For your wisdom as well?
01:13:27.279 --> 01:13:27.439
Alright.
01:13:27.680 --> 01:13:29.920
Yeah, that's what we re-rolling it.
01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:32.720
You are nearing the end of your ability to re-roll.
01:13:32.800 --> 01:13:33.439
Let's put it that way.
01:13:33.520 --> 01:13:37.279
This is a it is a privilege and a boon to re-roll, and you have squandered it.
01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:40.319
Well, yeah, because I because you know me.
01:13:40.560 --> 01:13:45.039
But that last one you said was an 11 or 13, sorry.
01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:45.760
13.
01:13:46.159 --> 01:13:46.800
13.
01:13:47.279 --> 01:13:47.760
Got it.
01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:51.039
Alright, what's your what's your charisma or your reroll in the wisdom?
01:13:51.119 --> 01:13:52.000
Those are your options, bud.
01:13:52.319 --> 01:13:54.079
Uh, I'm gonna roll charisma.
01:13:54.319 --> 01:13:54.960
Okay, okay.
01:13:55.199 --> 01:13:56.399
Roll charisma.
01:13:59.199 --> 01:14:04.640
Uh alright, that is gonna be a what is 14.
01:14:05.359 --> 01:14:07.760
Chase, I'm sorry you have to re-roll that first roll.
01:14:07.840 --> 01:14:08.079
It wasn't.
01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:09.359
Alright, no, no, no.
01:14:09.439 --> 01:14:09.840
That's fair.
01:14:09.920 --> 01:14:10.319
That is fair.
01:14:10.560 --> 01:14:12.399
We're remote rolling strength.
01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:12.960
I I demand.
01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:13.920
Please.
01:14:14.159 --> 01:14:15.119
Alright, alright.
01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:17.039
Alright, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:14:17.119 --> 01:14:17.520
That is fine.
01:14:17.760 --> 01:14:18.960
You just gave him an 18.
01:14:19.039 --> 01:14:19.840
That's what you just did.
01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:22.000
Oh, you want to find out.
01:14:22.159 --> 01:14:22.479
Okay, okay.
01:14:22.800 --> 01:14:31.600
So let it be known that Tim is now making me re-roll the string because I got an 11, and let it be known that if I get something higher than that.
01:14:32.880 --> 01:14:38.159
You you uh you got a misbegotten 11, let's say.
01:14:38.399 --> 01:14:38.640
Uh oh.
01:14:38.960 --> 01:14:39.520
What'd you get?
01:14:40.159 --> 01:14:40.800
14.
01:14:41.279 --> 01:14:41.920
God damn it.
01:14:42.399 --> 01:14:44.560
I almost I almost thought I got another 11, though.
01:14:44.880 --> 01:14:51.520
You always, you and Vincent, both of you motherfuckers, always roll like really good stats on every single one of your improvised characters.
01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:54.479
Well, it sounded it sounded like Brendan rolled pretty good.
01:14:55.359 --> 01:15:01.520
He didn't give me the stats, but but but you know, I mean that's we we come to expect it out of a guy like Brendan.
01:15:01.680 --> 01:15:03.359
He is Brendan Bice.
01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:04.159
Yeah.
01:15:04.479 --> 01:15:05.840
It's true, it is the Brendan Bice.
01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:06.960
He's the Brendan Bice.
01:15:07.840 --> 01:15:12.560
So y'all, I that's another$100 just so you know you owe his agent to him.
01:15:12.720 --> 01:15:13.199
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:14.560
Oh fuck!
01:15:14.960 --> 01:15:15.680
God damn it.
01:15:15.840 --> 01:15:17.119
Okay, get out of here, Chase.
01:15:17.279 --> 01:15:18.479
I have people to talk to you.
01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:21.199
Judith?
01:15:21.520 --> 01:15:22.239
He's back.
01:15:22.560 --> 01:15:23.760
No, he's not I don't know.
01:15:25.520 --> 01:15:26.239
How'd it go?
01:15:26.960 --> 01:15:27.359
Yo.
01:15:28.159 --> 01:15:28.960
Oh no.
01:15:29.279 --> 01:15:31.520
They really they messed him up.
01:15:32.239 --> 01:15:32.880
God damn.
01:15:35.119 --> 01:15:36.399
Save yourselves.
01:15:37.039 --> 01:15:37.760
Yeah, I'm fine.
01:15:38.079 --> 01:15:39.760
If I leave the chat, it'll mess with Craig.
01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:40.479
I can't do that.
01:15:40.640 --> 01:15:45.359
I'm not gonna go to the city.
01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:46.640
Alright, alright.
01:15:47.920 --> 01:15:49.199
This will be exciting.
01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:50.159
Oh man.
01:15:50.560 --> 01:15:51.680
Wish me luck.
01:15:55.039 --> 01:15:59.119
Well So they're saving Logan for last then.
01:16:01.520 --> 01:16:02.640
God damn, man.
01:16:02.720 --> 01:16:12.239
I it's always so fascinating that like people will always leave their characters' fates, like their their like the stats to fate, and they do it every time, and they're so brave with it, and they always get fucking rewarded.
01:16:12.479 --> 01:16:13.359
What's up, Vincent?
01:16:13.439 --> 01:16:17.840
Yo, yay! Howdy, how's it going?
01:16:18.159 --> 01:16:19.039
Oh, it's going good.
01:16:19.119 --> 01:16:20.079
How are how are you?
01:16:20.239 --> 01:16:23.439
Yeah, you know, we're we're having a good time here convening the council like we do.
01:16:23.680 --> 01:16:24.560
I love it, I love it.
01:16:24.720 --> 01:16:25.840
Having a blast.
01:16:26.159 --> 01:16:26.960
Living life.
01:16:27.359 --> 01:16:27.680
Yeah.
01:16:27.840 --> 01:16:29.359
How have you been, Vincent?
01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:37.119
I like I think the l last episode that we maybe recorded of of uh the final rule was the last time we had talked.
01:16:37.359 --> 01:16:38.880
Yeah, that was the last time we had spoken to each other.
01:16:39.039 --> 01:16:40.159
I've I've just I've been working.
01:16:40.239 --> 01:16:41.119
I live in Chicago now.
01:16:41.199 --> 01:16:42.319
Um nice, nice.
01:16:42.399 --> 01:16:42.960
I live in Chicago.
01:16:43.119 --> 01:16:47.199
I live I live closer to Chicago now, about halfway point with uh Kansas City.
01:16:47.279 --> 01:16:48.319
So straight up.
01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:49.039
Wake it.
01:16:49.279 --> 01:16:49.920
Yeah, yeah.
01:16:50.399 --> 01:16:53.279
I've been here for I just started my fifth lease in this apartment.
01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:55.680
Not in this yeah, in Chicago, fifth lease.
01:16:55.760 --> 01:16:57.119
So I'll be coming on five years soon.
01:16:57.279 --> 01:16:58.560
Crazy how time flies.
01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:02.800
I know and making time for theater when I can.
01:17:02.880 --> 01:17:08.800
But uh not enough time for theater, so that's why I'm glad I'm doing this to get some more of that in my problem.
01:17:09.119 --> 01:17:10.399
Yeah, I'm I'm kind of the same way.
01:17:10.720 --> 01:17:16.319
I'm uh uh working in lighting and just kinda death a little bit of a desk job.
01:17:16.399 --> 01:17:27.439
So uh stretching the uh creative muscles is is always uh always fun when you're just looking at numbers and and quoting things uh all day.
01:17:27.680 --> 01:17:28.239
Oh yeah.
01:17:28.720 --> 01:17:37.840
Almost required after you're after you get up from your desk and work on an Excel spreadsheet, go walk somewhere else, you just kind of do a little stuff.
01:17:40.239 --> 01:17:41.840
I did that in the office one time.
01:17:42.079 --> 01:17:47.199
They're like, yo, you remember the time when Vince did he just out, man.
01:17:47.279 --> 01:17:48.079
You freaked the fuck out.
01:17:48.319 --> 01:17:48.800
Yeah, yeah.
01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:50.479
I do that in a restaurant, nobody cares.
01:17:50.560 --> 01:17:51.760
They're like, yeah, sure, whatever.
01:17:52.159 --> 01:17:52.800
It's it's funny.
01:17:53.760 --> 01:17:56.159
Do you need to go do you need to go with the walk-in for a second, Vincent?
01:17:56.239 --> 01:17:57.279
Like, is it okay?
01:17:58.800 --> 01:18:02.560
I I just now I'm a manager now, so I don't get to do that as much, or I do it.
01:18:02.640 --> 01:18:04.640
It's like, whoa, I have to be professional.
01:18:06.640 --> 01:18:09.760
The illusion of professionality is is amazing.
01:18:09.920 --> 01:18:18.560
The more you're the more you're in like that kind of like a professional environment to where like you know who your uppers actually are and you've known them for a long time.
01:18:18.640 --> 01:18:21.760
You're like, like, oh I know the real you.
01:18:22.720 --> 01:18:26.960
This this LinkedIn version of you is not too uh dreamed with.
01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:28.960
What the fuck happened to LinkedIn?
01:18:29.359 --> 01:18:31.039
Y'all know about what what happened?
01:18:31.279 --> 01:18:31.680
What happened?
01:18:32.800 --> 01:18:50.159
Well, I thought it was just like a place to like I don't really know what it was, but like it's I it's the same thing I think that happened to like all social media, where like now the most people that you see on it are just like the people who are really into it, and I don't really understand, I guess, what it is.
01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:54.319
It's performative like self-marketing.
01:18:54.479 --> 01:19:00.399
I can't yeah, yeah, it's it's uh I would never I would never self-market my performances ever.
01:19:01.680 --> 01:19:04.640
And if you're if you're a potential employer, uh was joking.
01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:08.720
Uh hiring we have to look at my LinkedIn.
01:19:09.039 --> 01:19:11.279
I did carry, I did do a good job of my LinkedIn.
01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:16.960
If you're looking to hire me and you happen to come across this, which I don't know how you would, but I want you to know it's a joke.
01:19:17.279 --> 01:19:24.399
I really can say I am it is still impressive how enthusiastic you can be about plumbing supplies.
01:19:24.479 --> 01:19:32.239
Like it is it is so true in Europe, you're how people can be so enthusiastic about paper.
01:19:32.880 --> 01:19:35.520
Well, I mean I'm a little guilty of it though.
01:19:35.600 --> 01:19:37.840
If I learn enough about something, it gets really interesting.
01:19:38.079 --> 01:19:44.640
Like sometimes I have to like fix the plumbing in my or fresh my restaurant like, well, how do I actually change out the battery on this automatic slow?
01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:48.079
Vincent, dude, that's so real too in the service industry.
01:19:48.159 --> 01:19:56.079
Like, if you prove if you prove that you're useful at all, because like you actually take the time to look at a door before you try to slam it open, yeah.
01:19:56.319 --> 01:19:59.039
Like you make yourself invaluable real quick.
01:19:59.199 --> 01:19:59.600
Oh, yeah.
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:06.399
I I have keys to every one of the restaurants in the group that I manage for because I'm I I feel like I'm pretty valuable.
01:20:07.760 --> 01:20:10.079
It may be for sure, for sure.
01:20:10.319 --> 01:20:12.159
You're you're the key holder, the gatekeeper.
01:20:12.560 --> 01:20:12.960
Exactly.
01:20:13.119 --> 01:20:15.039
The gatekeeper, yo, so true.
01:20:15.199 --> 01:20:17.279
All we should all aspire to be.
01:20:17.520 --> 01:20:21.680
Uh yeah, I'm changing your uh name in the Discord to the gatekeeper.
01:20:21.840 --> 01:20:22.159
Yeah, yeah.
01:20:22.319 --> 01:20:23.039
Gatekeeper, yeah.
01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:25.600
But like in a in a wholesome way.
01:20:25.680 --> 01:20:27.600
I'm not I'm not oh yeah, of course.
01:20:27.680 --> 01:20:30.319
It's it's gatekeeper and more gatekeeper.
01:20:30.640 --> 01:20:31.520
Gatekeeper, yeah.
01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:33.760
Hey, yeah, that's the guy that's at the gate all the time.
01:20:33.840 --> 01:20:34.800
You know that guy, the gatekeeper.
01:20:35.199 --> 01:20:36.000
And I'm gatekeeper.
01:20:36.479 --> 01:20:38.000
Yeah, that guy, the gatekeeper.
01:20:38.479 --> 01:20:47.920
Uh but Vince, a lot of what we've been talking about with other people have just been like how much has changed over the past five years and whether or not we feel like it's for the better or for the worse for us.
01:20:48.239 --> 01:20:49.840
Most people so far, it's been for the better.
01:20:49.920 --> 01:20:52.720
I think all of us are in a different phase of life, you know.
01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:56.079
Yeah, I think it's uh I agree on the better.
01:20:56.159 --> 01:20:58.399
Uh better and different, but mostly better.
01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:05.359
Like, like no one I have made the best decisions I could make with the information I had so many years ago.
01:21:05.439 --> 01:21:08.800
We were all blindsided by the that that pandemic.
01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:11.840
Uh that's yo, so the Pandosi, yeah, yeah.
01:21:12.079 --> 01:21:19.680
Yeah, with the Pandosi that like I damn it, you're so good at doing that, Vincent, and it gets me every time.
01:21:19.840 --> 01:21:20.159
Yeah.
01:21:20.399 --> 01:21:21.439
With the fandossi.
01:21:21.920 --> 01:21:23.840
They're just like dropping it in there, man.
01:21:26.239 --> 01:21:34.399
Uh that like if I'd have known there's gonna be a global pandemic, I might have changed what I did leading up to it, but there's no way I could have seen it coming.
01:21:34.560 --> 01:21:37.359
It's not no way, that's paranoid.
01:21:37.600 --> 01:21:42.720
No, so I'm happy where I am right now because that this is this is what this is what happened as a result.
01:21:42.880 --> 01:21:44.720
I feel like I made the good moves to end up right.
01:21:45.119 --> 01:21:48.239
I was always gonna go to Chicago, and here I am, just at a different time.
01:21:48.479 --> 01:21:49.039
There you go.
01:21:49.199 --> 01:21:50.000
Yeah, yeah.
01:21:50.159 --> 01:21:53.760
Chicago has always been uh one of those things that like is I feel the same way.
01:21:53.840 --> 01:22:01.279
It's like it's an inevitability, perhaps, but like until in the meantime, I'm gonna keep uh doing what I'm doing, I guess.
01:22:01.439 --> 01:22:02.000
You know, whatever you're doing.
01:22:03.439 --> 01:22:07.840
For me, it's a short train ride away that I still have yet to go.
01:22:08.159 --> 01:22:10.399
Honestly, I love the transit, it's the best part.
01:22:10.560 --> 01:22:14.000
If Kennedy's yeah, yeah, no, because it's an Amtrak train, yeah, right to downtown.
01:22:14.079 --> 01:22:15.359
And I work in one of the downtown stores.
01:22:15.760 --> 01:22:16.319
No, it's it's great.
01:22:16.399 --> 01:22:19.760
I have a friend who uh to visit his family just takes a train out of St.
01:22:19.920 --> 01:22:20.560
Louis, and that's it.
01:22:20.640 --> 01:22:22.800
Like that's I love traveling on the train.
01:22:22.960 --> 01:22:24.880
God, man, can you imagine trains?
01:22:25.279 --> 01:22:26.239
I love it.
01:22:28.319 --> 01:22:35.760
Baton Rouge could never uh we can talk about having a New Orleans to Baton Rouge high-speed rail and then never talking about it ever again.
01:22:36.319 --> 01:22:36.560
I know.
01:22:36.960 --> 01:22:46.960
Well, I think once they thought about like literally anything having to do with the fucking weather and water table in this state, it was I don't think it was I think it was hopeful, wishful thinking at the beginning.
01:22:47.119 --> 01:22:52.960
Yeah, I mean, you know, you know one of the few uh train tracks that do go through there, how high they had to stack those damn.
01:22:53.600 --> 01:22:54.880
Fucking are you kidding?
01:22:55.199 --> 01:23:01.359
Yeah, so now let's build a whole second one just for a single rail line that will go by a few times a day.
01:23:01.680 --> 01:23:05.920
But no, no, no, let's not worry about the one highway that goes through the town.
01:23:06.159 --> 01:23:12.640
Dude, Vince Vincent and Justin actually Well because I I only just recently moved back to Louisiana.
01:23:12.720 --> 01:23:15.119
Well, I say just recently, it's like uh two two years now.
01:23:15.600 --> 01:23:16.399
That's recent enough.
01:23:16.800 --> 01:23:17.439
Recent enough.
01:23:17.520 --> 01:23:17.760
Yeah.
01:23:17.920 --> 01:23:22.159
Uh but uh were y'all here whenever the fucking bike lane got added to government?
01:23:22.560 --> 01:23:30.159
Yo, I was I was right before I moved, and as I was visiting my family in Louisiana, I noticed that the like the median gets added and the bike lane.
01:23:30.239 --> 01:23:31.520
No, it's I love it.
01:23:31.840 --> 01:23:42.079
It's fascinating that they chose government street because do you understand how little people understand what the fuck a bike lane is on government street?
01:23:42.239 --> 01:23:46.319
Yeah, and how little people like I don't know how I haven't seen a lot of bikes on government street.
01:23:46.399 --> 01:23:50.560
Yeah, it's good to have it, but like that that that that rotates a lot of heavy traffic.
01:23:50.720 --> 01:23:51.199
So yeah.
01:23:56.640 --> 01:23:58.479
Yeah, that's that's wild.
01:23:58.560 --> 01:24:00.720
I I didn't hear about that.
01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:08.960
I was probably there, but well, I don't think there's any way to know about it until you get someone like me who's like, Why the fuck did they add a bike lane to just started happening?
01:24:09.119 --> 01:24:09.760
I didn't hear about it.
01:24:10.159 --> 01:24:11.920
I didn't see any news about it, it just showed it just happened.
01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:14.000
I'm like, oh, this lane.
01:24:14.239 --> 01:24:24.079
Uh the perpetual uh construction stopped suddenly, moved somewhere else, manifested elsewhere, the perpetual construction of Louisiana, uh, and suddenly there was a bike lane.
01:24:24.159 --> 01:24:25.840
It's like so fast too.
01:24:25.920 --> 01:24:33.199
Like, I really wasn't gonna uh meanwhile, I-12 I think still has like right after college, is still an absolute clusterfuck heading towards.
01:24:33.680 --> 01:24:37.439
I've been doing an I-12 since I was like four years old going to blue by you.
01:24:37.840 --> 01:24:38.960
That's what I'm saying, man.
01:24:39.279 --> 01:24:46.079
Um I supposed to have a character now, like have y'all dude it's manifested in the ether.
01:24:46.239 --> 01:24:46.800
Yeah, yeah.
01:24:47.199 --> 01:24:47.600
Congrats.
01:24:47.920 --> 01:24:50.079
Your answers actually gave us what your stats are.
01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:52.560
You man, that's that's it right there.
01:24:52.800 --> 01:24:53.760
That's yeah, yeah.
01:24:54.640 --> 01:24:59.439
No, uh, so I was gonna wait until like your actual 10 minutes were up because that's what I've been doing for everyone else, man.
01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:01.039
But like you have another fucking minute.
01:25:01.199 --> 01:25:03.199
So uh you want to start rolling your stats, dude?
01:25:03.359 --> 01:25:04.159
Yeah, let's do it.
01:25:04.239 --> 01:25:05.039
Let's see what's happening.
01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:05.520
Let's go.
01:25:05.760 --> 01:25:09.039
All right, just let's what is a talk talk Vincent through what he's about to do?
01:25:09.359 --> 01:25:09.920
Alright, Vincent.
01:25:10.079 --> 01:25:12.880
So you will be rolling 4d6.
01:25:13.279 --> 01:25:16.880
Uh you will be dropping the lowest roll of those.
01:25:17.119 --> 01:25:17.359
Alright.
01:25:17.520 --> 01:25:19.520
Uh, and we are going to be going from top to bottom.
01:25:19.680 --> 01:25:22.399
Strength, dex, con, intelligence, wisdom, charisma.
01:25:22.640 --> 01:25:35.039
Now, uh while you're rolling these, after you take make a roll and you see what the result is, you can decide one time throughout all of these rolls to re-roll that stats.
01:25:35.279 --> 01:25:38.720
You get one chance to do it, and you have to take the second roll.
01:25:39.039 --> 01:25:39.359
Okay.
01:25:39.920 --> 01:25:46.399
So, um, if everything makes sense, uh we will start with strength.
01:25:47.199 --> 01:25:47.600
Alright.
01:25:47.840 --> 01:25:50.880
And you are gonna be rolling four d6, dropping the lowest.
01:25:51.279 --> 01:25:52.319
Got bad news.
01:25:52.640 --> 01:25:55.520
I didn't have my dice with me.
01:25:56.239 --> 01:25:59.279
And uh the ranges are three to eighteen.
01:25:59.600 --> 01:26:08.399
Just uh I don't know how much DD or other systems you've been playing lately, but just so you have kind of an idea of the ranges, 10 is average.
01:26:09.680 --> 01:26:10.640
Oh man.
01:26:12.399 --> 01:26:14.560
Alright, what is your strength?
01:26:14.960 --> 01:26:18.479
Sorry, I don't have dice, so I'm trying to log in a DVD on you.
01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:20.319
You're gonna ask for me for me.
01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:21.600
Well, that's impossible.
01:26:21.760 --> 01:26:25.920
Uh Vincent, uh, if you cannot find a way to conjure dice, do not worry.
01:26:26.000 --> 01:26:27.520
Uh Justin, do you also have dice?
01:26:27.840 --> 01:26:28.720
I do have dice.
01:26:29.119 --> 01:26:33.920
Uh you can also have Justin or I roll for preferably Justin since I rolled for Sophia.
01:26:34.399 --> 01:26:36.239
Okay, my characters.
01:26:37.199 --> 01:26:38.159
And then Lockie.
01:26:38.319 --> 01:26:39.279
You can also just look at dice.
01:26:39.600 --> 01:26:40.239
Locking Florendol.
01:26:40.319 --> 01:26:40.800
That was my other character.
01:26:41.359 --> 01:26:42.319
Locking Locky.
01:26:42.560 --> 01:26:43.119
That's so true.
01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:44.560
That was yeah, because I saw it.
01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:49.359
Because we spent like 15 minutes being like, how the fuck do we say your last name?
01:26:49.680 --> 01:26:50.640
I did, I did.
01:26:50.720 --> 01:26:52.319
I don't know how I came up with Florendole.
01:26:52.640 --> 01:26:53.920
I don't remember either.
01:26:54.079 --> 01:26:55.199
I want to say something.
01:26:55.439 --> 01:26:57.119
I think it just kind of fell out of your mouth.
01:26:58.239 --> 01:26:59.600
Where's the dice button on here again?
01:26:59.840 --> 01:27:00.960
I think it's the bottom left.
01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:01.600
There it is.
01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:05.760
Alright, so I'm rolling 4d6 and dropping the lowest.
01:27:06.239 --> 01:27:07.520
Dropping the lowest.
01:27:09.199 --> 01:27:10.640
Ooh, that's actually really good.
01:27:10.720 --> 01:27:12.800
That's a six, five, and a five.
01:27:13.039 --> 01:27:17.199
Ooh, that's 17 on your first one.
01:27:17.359 --> 01:27:19.279
Alright, now do you want to re-roll that?
01:27:19.600 --> 01:27:19.920
No.
01:27:21.680 --> 01:27:23.520
17 is locked in.
01:27:24.720 --> 01:27:26.560
17 locked in for strength.
01:27:26.720 --> 01:27:28.800
Alright, let's roll for dexterity.
01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:30.800
How swift are you?
01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:32.239
Oh, that's that's that's yucky.
01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:33.920
That's a that's a agile.
01:27:34.079 --> 01:27:35.119
I want to re-roll that one.
01:27:35.680 --> 01:27:41.199
I would like to point out that Vincent just told called anyone who has average dexterity yucky.
01:27:43.039 --> 01:27:45.760
Are you uh are you keeping that 10 or are you re-rolling it?
01:27:46.000 --> 01:27:46.960
Oh, that's a good point.
01:27:47.039 --> 01:27:48.239
No, I should re-roll it.
01:27:48.319 --> 01:27:49.840
I I don't I don't I I had two ones.
01:27:50.159 --> 01:27:51.039
I had two ones with that.
01:27:51.119 --> 01:27:53.119
That was You will not be able to re-roll.
01:27:55.840 --> 01:27:59.760
You are you are eschewing the idea of having an average dexterity.
01:28:01.119 --> 01:28:02.560
Alright, you're talking too much.
01:28:02.800 --> 01:28:06.079
Yeah, I'll take I'll take a 10 deck theory with it.
01:28:06.239 --> 01:28:06.960
We'll see what it's like.
01:28:07.119 --> 01:28:10.239
Oh man, now I feel bad because I like you know the free will or whatever.
01:28:10.479 --> 01:28:10.960
Alright.
01:28:11.359 --> 01:28:12.319
Free will or whatever.
01:28:13.199 --> 01:28:14.720
I control free will as D N D.
01:28:17.119 --> 01:28:18.319
Free will TM.
01:28:18.720 --> 01:28:20.720
Uh that's a 14.
01:28:20.880 --> 01:28:21.600
That's a 40.
01:28:22.880 --> 01:28:23.760
Alright.
01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:25.680
Solid, solid.
01:28:28.319 --> 01:28:30.880
Alright, what is our third role?
01:28:31.039 --> 01:28:32.239
Or our uh intelligence.
01:28:32.479 --> 01:28:33.119
The intelligence role.
01:28:33.439 --> 01:28:34.079
How smart are you?
01:28:34.399 --> 01:28:35.439
That's also a 10.
01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:44.000
Now I worry that that's not smart enough.
01:28:46.239 --> 01:28:47.840
Because I only have what?
01:28:48.079 --> 01:28:49.680
I got I got two more after that.
01:28:49.840 --> 01:28:50.319
Yeah, yeah.
01:28:50.479 --> 01:28:52.159
You got two more after that.
01:28:52.800 --> 01:28:53.119
Man.
01:28:54.239 --> 01:28:56.720
Is it important to be smart or is it important to be wise?
01:28:56.800 --> 01:28:58.560
You know, those are the questions we gotta ask ourselves.
01:28:59.199 --> 01:29:00.800
You don't know how wise you're gonna be, though.
01:29:00.880 --> 01:29:02.560
You know how smart you might be.
01:29:05.119 --> 01:29:06.720
Whoa, that one hit him hard.
01:29:06.880 --> 01:29:08.720
I know about to I think I stun locked him.
01:29:10.319 --> 01:29:13.680
I'm keeping uh I'm keeping that, and then we'll try again.
01:29:14.319 --> 01:29:16.000
Intelligence, alright.
01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:19.119
All right.
01:29:19.920 --> 01:29:20.640
Alright, wisdom.
01:29:21.760 --> 01:29:22.800
That's a that's a nine.
01:29:22.880 --> 01:29:25.760
That's three, three, three, six, shop to lowest.
01:29:25.840 --> 01:29:26.399
That's a nine.
01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:26.800
Yeah.
01:29:27.119 --> 01:29:27.680
How damn.
01:29:28.800 --> 01:29:31.920
Alright, we keeping the nine or we re-rolling.
01:29:33.279 --> 01:29:37.119
I don't want to have any negative on it.
01:29:37.439 --> 01:29:37.760
Okay.
01:29:38.960 --> 01:29:40.960
See, it's it's the hubris of it, I think.
01:29:41.359 --> 01:29:43.119
I don't know how charismatic I'm end up being.
01:29:43.199 --> 01:29:45.760
I'm a re- uh because I because I can't pick later the re-roll.
01:29:45.920 --> 01:29:47.119
That's that's no, you cannot.
01:29:47.279 --> 01:29:47.439
Yeah.
01:29:47.600 --> 01:29:48.560
No, I'm I'm gonna re-roll.
01:29:48.640 --> 01:29:49.439
I'm gonna re-roll my wisdom.
01:29:49.520 --> 01:29:51.439
I think that's let's see it.
01:29:51.600 --> 01:29:56.239
God, I hope this bites you in the ass just for the just for the fucking Schadenfreud of it.
01:29:56.399 --> 01:29:58.560
Uh okay, that's a okay.
01:29:58.720 --> 01:30:00.640
That's a five, a three, and a six.
01:30:01.279 --> 01:30:02.319
Okay, that's 14.
01:30:02.399 --> 01:30:02.800
God damn it.
01:30:04.000 --> 01:30:05.840
I hope your charisma's like three.
01:30:06.079 --> 01:30:07.119
Yeah, I yeah, yeah.
01:30:07.199 --> 01:30:08.720
I I get four ones.
01:30:09.039 --> 01:30:12.000
I don't know why I'm so like I have vitriol for you right now, Vincent.
01:30:12.239 --> 01:30:16.319
I think it's just because every low steps everyone's been rolling so fucking well.
01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:20.159
Yeah, it is it is wild how well everyone has rolled.
01:30:20.319 --> 01:30:21.920
Well, then it will only be fine.
01:30:22.000 --> 01:30:23.840
All right, uh, four or six out of three.
01:30:23.920 --> 01:30:24.239
Man.
01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:24.880
13.
01:30:25.119 --> 01:30:25.439
Wow.
01:30:25.600 --> 01:30:25.920
Wow.
01:30:26.159 --> 01:30:28.720
All right, average and two above average everything else.
01:30:29.119 --> 01:30:30.720
I'm so ready.
01:30:31.119 --> 01:30:48.079
So, Vincent, uh, because you asked about it earlier, uh, what is going to happen is uh between now and the next time that we go to uh live stream the first episode, uh Justin and I will do some rolling in the background for uh your origins, your background, your class, etc.
01:30:48.479 --> 01:30:57.279
You will be presented with a character sheet that is these numbers, everything that that translates to, and everything else will be completely new to you whenever we begin session one.
01:30:57.359 --> 01:30:58.319
Does that sound good?
01:30:58.560 --> 01:30:59.520
I love it.
01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:04.720
All right, Vincent, we're gonna kick you back out into the main chat, uh, and then we're gonna get the last person in here.
01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:08.239
So hopefully we shouldn't, we should only have about 15 minutes left left.
01:31:08.560 --> 01:31:08.960
I love it.
01:31:09.039 --> 01:31:09.600
I love it.
01:31:10.239 --> 01:31:10.800
Alright.
01:31:11.359 --> 01:31:11.920
All right.
01:31:12.319 --> 01:31:16.640
Okay, so we're gonna have to do this one like one word at a wait, oh, wrong way.
01:31:16.720 --> 01:31:17.279
Hold on.
01:31:21.359 --> 01:31:22.720
Hey Vincent.
01:31:23.439 --> 01:31:25.199
I think I did pretty good.
01:31:25.840 --> 01:31:26.239
Cool.
01:31:26.479 --> 01:31:27.279
I think I did pretty good.
01:31:28.079 --> 01:31:30.239
I'm worried, has everyone done pretty good?
01:31:30.319 --> 01:31:32.960
Because then like, are we no one will be good?
01:31:34.319 --> 01:31:45.439
I uh I want another person to Oh fuck.
01:31:45.760 --> 01:31:48.399
I think what Logan level is.
01:31:48.560 --> 01:31:49.520
He's already in there.
01:31:49.680 --> 01:31:51.840
He's he's he's writing his own story.
01:31:52.079 --> 01:31:54.159
He's writing his own story in there.
01:31:55.199 --> 01:31:56.880
Hey, hold on, we were doing a bit.
01:31:57.119 --> 01:31:58.159
We did not get a sand up.
01:31:58.960 --> 01:31:59.920
You did not get a sands.
01:32:00.960 --> 01:32:02.000
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
01:32:02.239 --> 01:32:03.680
Okay, it's because he's excited.
01:32:04.079 --> 01:32:06.960
It's it's because he's excited, it's because he's excited.
01:32:07.279 --> 01:32:09.439
You're gonna be shunned by the council.
01:32:11.359 --> 01:32:12.960
Hey Logan, how's it going, man?
01:32:13.119 --> 01:32:13.840
I'm doing great.
01:32:13.920 --> 01:32:14.960
How are you guys doing?
01:32:16.319 --> 01:32:17.199
Not too bad.
01:32:17.439 --> 01:32:21.439
Uh so uh yeah, man, it's uh it's good to have you on board, man.
01:32:21.520 --> 01:32:24.560
Like legitimately, it's uh it's really good to see you.
01:32:24.640 --> 01:32:29.039
I feel like it's been over five years, and it's been five years for almost everyone else.
01:32:29.279 --> 01:32:31.359
Oh, yeah, I took a shot of espresso right before this.
01:32:31.439 --> 01:32:32.399
I'm ready to go.
01:32:33.600 --> 01:32:38.399
I I hope that all of that was captured by the other general chat too.
01:32:39.359 --> 01:32:46.079
Yeah, uh if you said something before I joined, I didn't hear it, so that's why I was like, uh, I don't know what's happening.
01:32:46.239 --> 01:32:47.439
Oh no, no, no.
01:32:47.520 --> 01:32:51.760
He's just he was just very excited, and uh, and uh I can't fault him for that.
01:32:52.000 --> 01:32:55.760
Uh but Logan, it's uh it's it's been that amount of time.
01:32:55.840 --> 01:32:56.560
What's new with you?
01:32:56.720 --> 01:32:57.760
What have you been up to?
01:32:58.079 --> 01:32:59.119
Absolutely nothing.
01:32:59.199 --> 01:33:04.239
I'm in Chicago, I'm absolutely having the time of my life, and I wouldn't be anywhere other than that.
01:33:04.479 --> 01:33:05.760
That sounds like the opposite of nothing.
01:33:06.000 --> 01:33:06.720
Yeah, absolutely nothing.
01:33:06.960 --> 01:33:09.680
I've been doing nothing, the time of my life.
01:33:09.920 --> 01:33:10.800
Exactly, yes.
01:33:11.199 --> 01:33:18.640
Living in this uh uh asylum just with I mean similar to my walls, you know, the soft walls.
01:33:18.880 --> 01:33:23.840
Yes, the soft walls, the sweet comfort of the bridge that I'm under right now.
01:33:24.079 --> 01:33:25.279
Yes, exactly.
01:33:25.439 --> 01:33:28.239
Uh have you been keeping up any with like uh DD and stuff?
01:33:28.319 --> 01:33:29.920
I know you played a good little bit.
01:33:31.439 --> 01:33:35.920
I have a campaign with my friends that have been that's been going on for I think 10 years now.
01:33:36.159 --> 01:33:36.479
Shit.
01:33:36.720 --> 01:33:41.199
I was saying you and Justin have a lot uh to yap about with long-term campaigning.
01:33:41.439 --> 01:33:42.079
Yeah.
01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:43.119
You know, yeah.
01:33:43.279 --> 01:33:44.000
Oh god.
01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:45.359
What's it, man?
01:33:45.439 --> 01:33:49.600
I legitimately I don't know, I don't know how you there's how you pull it off for that long.
01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:50.800
I I never was able to.
01:33:50.960 --> 01:33:51.199
Yeah.
01:33:51.359 --> 01:33:55.439
Well, you you just find a day to where no one ever really does anything.
01:33:55.680 --> 01:33:59.199
My day and time is Sunday at 8 p.m.
01:33:59.439 --> 01:34:01.600
You know what people do with Sunday at 8 p.m.
01:34:01.920 --> 01:34:05.279
They relax because the weekday week's about to start.
01:34:05.520 --> 01:34:10.399
So I grab people, I'm like, hey, I know you're not doing anything on Sunday night.
01:34:12.479 --> 01:34:17.199
And my day and time is is any day that ends in Y and fucking 4 20.
01:34:17.279 --> 01:34:18.319
Am I fucking right?
01:34:19.119 --> 01:34:20.960
Holy, yeah, so true.
01:34:21.279 --> 01:34:22.000
Said this would be a joke.
01:34:22.319 --> 01:34:25.359
6-7, 6-7 joke-free podcast.
01:34:25.600 --> 01:34:25.920
Christian.
01:34:28.159 --> 01:34:30.399
You're wrong on both of those accounts, Logan.
01:34:30.479 --> 01:34:31.039
I'm so sorry.
01:34:31.359 --> 01:34:32.800
I'm ready, I'm ready, let's do it right now.
01:34:32.880 --> 01:34:33.199
Let's do it.
01:34:33.279 --> 01:34:34.720
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:34:35.199 --> 01:34:38.159
I have like we have like two more questions for you first, okay, Logan?
01:34:38.239 --> 01:34:39.199
You have 10 minutes.
01:34:39.920 --> 01:34:41.039
He's so excited, man.
01:34:41.119 --> 01:34:41.680
I'm telling you.
01:34:42.319 --> 01:34:42.960
Oh my goodness.
01:34:43.039 --> 01:34:48.880
If you guys could see his face right now, I'd I'm glad of I think he'd bite me if we'd be in the same room.
01:34:49.279 --> 01:34:52.720
The way that I wish I had like a hotkey for like a window snip tool.
01:34:52.960 --> 01:34:54.319
Wait, am I into that?
01:34:54.720 --> 01:35:00.159
Uh so Logan, uh uh, but legitimately, man, it's really good to see you.
01:35:00.239 --> 01:35:03.279
Uh what like what are you looking forward to most about this?
01:35:03.359 --> 01:35:08.000
Uh moving from a guest uh appearance to being a mainstream.
01:35:08.239 --> 01:35:14.800
Uh I know all of it kind of happened a bit far a bit fast to like actually putting it all together, but uh yeah, how are you feeling?
01:35:19.520 --> 01:35:20.560
I can wait.
01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:25.439
Oh, wait, is he is he muted?
01:35:25.760 --> 01:35:27.359
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:36.319
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
01:35:36.479 --> 01:35:37.279
I'm not I do.
01:35:37.600 --> 01:35:38.479
You want to try that again?
01:35:38.640 --> 01:35:39.760
You want to try that again, man?
01:35:40.000 --> 01:35:42.159
I want to focus on objective.
01:35:43.359 --> 01:35:45.039
Describe that to me, please.
01:35:45.359 --> 01:35:52.720
Uh the playwright, all of us, uses many tools, and one of them is the objective of the character.
01:35:52.880 --> 01:35:55.199
I want to focus on the engine.
01:35:56.880 --> 01:35:57.439
The engine.
01:35:57.840 --> 01:35:58.399
Interesting.
01:35:58.560 --> 01:36:01.119
So I'm going to I'm going to dive deep.
01:36:01.199 --> 01:36:05.840
I'm going to try to forge a neural link with you, real quick, Logan, to decipher what you just said.
01:36:06.159 --> 01:36:06.479
Okay.
01:36:07.840 --> 01:36:20.720
You want to focus in on the moment-to-moment actions of your character rather than thinking about meta applications?
01:36:21.760 --> 01:36:22.399
Yes.
01:36:23.680 --> 01:36:24.640
Is that actually right?
01:36:24.800 --> 01:36:25.439
Yeah, that's pretty.
01:36:25.600 --> 01:36:25.840
I yeah.
01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:26.640
Oh, shit.
01:36:26.720 --> 01:36:27.439
No, okay, I'll take that.
01:36:27.760 --> 01:36:31.680
I want to do the thing that I want to do.
01:36:32.319 --> 01:36:33.279
I respect that.
01:36:33.439 --> 01:36:34.079
You know what?
01:36:34.239 --> 01:36:35.439
I respect that.
01:36:37.119 --> 01:36:38.000
Improv, maybe.
01:36:38.640 --> 01:36:39.039
Oh, yeah.
01:36:39.119 --> 01:36:39.439
There we go.
01:36:39.600 --> 01:36:40.479
Ah, fuck it, Logan.
01:36:40.560 --> 01:36:41.600
Let's just roll your stats, dude.
01:36:41.680 --> 01:36:42.079
You're ready.
01:36:43.600 --> 01:36:43.760
Yeah.
01:36:44.479 --> 01:36:56.399
Uh Logan, the way that this works, you are going to be rolling four D6 and dropping the lower in a series from strength to dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom, and finally charisma.
01:36:56.640 --> 01:37:11.760
You may at any point in time, while the uh while you you must announce the role that you made, and then immediately after announcing decide whether or not you are going to keep that roll or use your one opportunity to tempt fate and re-roll it.
01:37:11.840 --> 01:37:15.840
However, if you do that, you must of course accept the new role and you only get one of those.
01:37:16.000 --> 01:37:17.199
Does that make sense?
01:37:17.439 --> 01:37:18.560
That makes sense.
01:37:18.880 --> 01:37:20.640
Do you have your own dice?
01:37:21.199 --> 01:37:23.279
I have a dice roller right here.
01:37:23.840 --> 01:37:24.399
Wonderful.
01:37:24.560 --> 01:37:28.720
Please, by all means, 4d6, drop the lower and announce your strength score.
01:37:29.119 --> 01:37:29.840
15.
01:37:30.000 --> 01:37:31.279
Sorry, drop the lower.
01:37:31.439 --> 01:37:32.640
Uh 13.
01:37:32.960 --> 01:37:34.399
13, okay.
01:37:35.680 --> 01:37:37.279
And you're you gonna re-roll that or are you gonna?
01:37:37.840 --> 01:37:38.399
Absolutely not.
01:37:38.479 --> 01:37:39.279
We're for John.
01:37:40.399 --> 01:37:41.840
What you got for text?
01:37:42.640 --> 01:37:43.840
Text 11.
01:37:44.000 --> 01:37:44.479
11.
01:37:44.560 --> 01:37:44.960
I love it.
01:37:45.199 --> 01:37:45.600
11.
01:37:45.680 --> 01:37:45.920
Alright.
01:37:46.079 --> 01:37:47.119
We keeping that one?
01:37:47.279 --> 01:37:48.079
We're keeping it.
01:37:48.239 --> 01:37:48.560
Let's go.
01:37:48.880 --> 01:37:50.319
Amazing, amazing.
01:37:54.960 --> 01:37:56.960
Please be a three constitution.
01:37:57.439 --> 01:37:59.279
Constitution is a five.
01:38:00.159 --> 01:38:00.960
You're gonna keep that.
01:38:01.600 --> 01:38:02.239
Are we keeping that?
01:38:02.399 --> 01:38:03.680
We're keeping it, we're keeping it.
01:38:03.920 --> 01:38:05.039
Okay, okay.
01:38:05.279 --> 01:38:10.720
I'm not even gonna do like all the weird like warnings and stuff I gave everyone else who was on the fence about whether they were using it.
01:38:10.800 --> 01:38:12.000
I I think Logan's got it.
01:38:12.079 --> 01:38:14.880
Yeah, it's gonna be like we're gonna have like four HP.
01:38:15.520 --> 01:38:16.159
Yeah.
01:38:18.319 --> 01:38:20.079
Anyway, I'm sorry, go ahead.
01:38:20.640 --> 01:38:22.640
Uh we got a 17.
01:38:23.119 --> 01:38:23.760
God damn it.
01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:24.800
17 intelligence?
01:38:25.279 --> 01:38:25.600
Holy.
01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:26.479
Yes, sir.
01:38:26.720 --> 01:38:28.800
I can't wait for you to be a barbarian.
01:38:29.119 --> 01:38:33.840
Yeah, you're and then we got a 15.
01:38:34.319 --> 01:38:35.600
50 for wisdom.
01:38:35.920 --> 01:38:36.319
Alright.
01:38:36.479 --> 01:38:37.680
We want to re-roll that?
01:38:37.920 --> 01:38:38.159
No.
01:38:38.479 --> 01:38:41.279
Seems like you like the five a lot better than that 15.
01:38:42.800 --> 01:38:44.800
I'll tell you where I'd use the spice of life.
01:38:45.439 --> 01:38:47.920
My last level is also shocking.
01:38:48.079 --> 01:38:49.039
It's a six.
01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:49.840
I don't know.
01:38:50.000 --> 01:38:51.680
You're gonna re-roll that for your charisma?
01:38:52.000 --> 01:38:52.960
We're giving a bit.
01:38:54.159 --> 01:39:00.720
Logan, I respect if there's nothing else I respect about you, I respect how much you commit to the bit.
01:39:00.880 --> 01:39:06.319
Truly, we should all aspire to have such a bit to commit to.
01:39:06.560 --> 01:39:08.880
I got three double A's and they never run out, baby.
01:39:08.960 --> 01:39:09.840
I'm all child.
01:39:11.359 --> 01:39:12.720
That's great.
01:39:12.880 --> 01:39:13.680
I love that.
01:39:13.840 --> 01:39:14.720
Truly I do.
01:39:15.199 --> 01:39:15.520
Wow.
01:39:15.600 --> 01:39:16.239
Alright, yeah.
01:39:16.399 --> 01:39:22.319
So strength at 13, Dex at 11, Con at a whopping five.
01:39:22.720 --> 01:39:26.800
There is there is a chance you only have like a couple hit points.
01:39:27.039 --> 01:39:29.600
I've got the um level one.
01:39:29.840 --> 01:39:30.239
Intelligence.
01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:33.119
You might as well just take the peasant like the peasant stack log.
01:39:33.279 --> 01:39:37.279
Like let him choose between like the commoner and like his actual character shape.
01:39:37.520 --> 01:39:39.920
The tins and an eight for intelligence.
01:39:41.359 --> 01:39:46.079
And then uh we got that uh nice Chris Chrisma six.
01:39:46.960 --> 01:39:48.560
Yeah, for the charisma, that's true.
01:39:49.359 --> 01:39:56.800
Uh Logan, uh, as we have told, uh, as we are continuing to tell you, we are going to roll your origin, your class, your background.
01:39:56.960 --> 01:40:02.720
Uh, so you are going to be surprised with that at session one, unless you want to spoil yourself on social media beforehand.
01:40:02.880 --> 01:40:03.039
Yeah.
01:40:03.119 --> 01:40:05.279
Um I'll be a highborn paladin.
01:40:05.520 --> 01:40:06.399
We'll see about that.
01:40:06.640 --> 01:40:10.239
Honestly, if you call that right now, Logan, I want you to know you're out of the podcast.
01:40:10.319 --> 01:40:12.239
I don't, I just don't trust it at that point.
01:40:12.319 --> 01:40:13.520
It's an ill omen.
01:40:14.399 --> 01:40:15.119
Uh okay.
01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:17.920
Well, uh, if you want to go ahead and hop back into the general chat, Logan.
01:40:18.000 --> 01:40:20.319
Uh, we're gonna be in there in just a second to wrap things up.
01:40:20.479 --> 01:40:20.640
Okay.
01:40:20.720 --> 01:40:22.239
Uh, thank you again for being a part of this.
01:40:22.319 --> 01:40:24.319
Like, really, I'm so excited to have you on board.
01:40:24.560 --> 01:40:26.720
Uh, the pleasure is ours.
01:40:29.119 --> 01:40:30.319
Oh, he's back.
01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:30.880
Oh.
01:40:31.439 --> 01:40:34.079
I think that was the I think that might have been the fastest one, actually.
01:40:34.159 --> 01:40:35.439
I hate to do that.
01:40:35.600 --> 01:40:36.479
I really hate to say that.
01:40:38.319 --> 01:40:40.960
I really hate to say that, but I think that might have been the fastest one.
01:40:41.119 --> 01:40:42.159
Oh man.
01:40:42.640 --> 01:40:44.079
Logan wins again.
01:40:44.399 --> 01:40:47.760
Uh you are so close to the camera, my guy.
01:40:48.319 --> 01:40:50.239
I've always been this close to the camera.
01:40:51.600 --> 01:40:52.000
Sure.
01:40:54.960 --> 01:40:57.199
Let me sorry, let me move back a little bit.
01:40:58.960 --> 01:40:59.279
God.
01:41:00.960 --> 01:41:02.960
Every hair on your mustache.
01:41:03.039 --> 01:41:03.439
I can see.
01:41:03.760 --> 01:41:04.479
I want okay.
01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:07.199
I've made him my full screen, so I think this is great actually.
01:41:08.479 --> 01:41:13.119
A full screen of Logan's face on my monitor is really what I wanted.
01:41:13.520 --> 01:41:14.640
It's what I've always wanted.
01:41:14.880 --> 01:41:18.560
Yeah, see, this is what the this is what the listeners are missing out on.
01:41:19.039 --> 01:41:20.720
It's true, it's true.
01:41:20.960 --> 01:41:26.239
And unfortunately, no one's gonna see it because this isn't live streamed, so we won't have recordings at the webcams.
01:41:26.640 --> 01:41:26.960
Okay.
01:41:28.239 --> 01:41:30.560
If somebody in here can guess.
01:41:32.880 --> 01:41:35.359
Oh we just lost Logan.
01:41:35.680 --> 01:41:36.000
Can't guess.
01:41:36.159 --> 01:41:36.399
Oh no.
01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:44.880
Yeah, if I could guess which hotkey is.
01:41:45.199 --> 01:41:46.720
Hey Logan, we lost you.
01:41:49.680 --> 01:41:51.279
Oh man, it's it's just loading.
01:41:51.359 --> 01:41:53.199
He is giving it.
01:41:53.359 --> 01:41:57.119
No, he he was trying to die.
01:41:58.079 --> 01:41:59.039
The whole thing died?
01:41:59.520 --> 01:42:00.720
Oh, do you wanna hop on?
01:42:01.680 --> 01:42:02.000
Okay.
01:42:02.960 --> 01:42:05.199
Um this thing died, he has to reset it.
01:42:05.520 --> 01:42:06.640
What died?
01:42:06.880 --> 01:42:08.640
He's still in the chat.
01:42:08.880 --> 01:42:12.560
So uh oh well.
01:42:13.840 --> 01:42:15.760
We have all of the stats done.
01:42:16.000 --> 01:42:25.359
Uh the only things left were going to be us rolling for your uh your origins uh and your backgrounds and your class, and we'll do that on the side.
01:42:25.439 --> 01:42:29.760
Uh those will be posted to social media in the lead up to the first uh live stream.
01:42:29.840 --> 01:42:32.479
So if you want to spoil yourself, you can.
01:42:32.640 --> 01:42:34.479
However, uh don't feel the need to.
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If you want to just be like completely and totally shocked at uh what it ended up being, I needless say highly encourage that.
01:42:42.239 --> 01:42:43.760
Um I'll do it.
01:42:44.239 --> 01:42:48.560
Uh so what I what I would like to give right now is a very brief.
01:42:48.880 --> 01:42:52.960
So I have done some consideration on like what the beginning of this campaign is.
01:42:53.279 --> 01:42:58.319
Um, and I think that it's a good place to kind of get us like a sort of introduction.
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Uh, I have not thought literally at all about the wording of this.
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I have quite actually just yapped about it to chase my partner and uh and a couple of other close friends.
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So I'm gonna do my best to make this real good and dramatic, okay?
01:43:09.279 --> 01:43:16.319
Uh, but this is let's consider this to be the introduction to this season of The Final Rules.
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We lost Logan.
01:43:17.920 --> 01:43:19.279
We did lose Logan.
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He'll hop back in here in a second if he needs.
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Okay, cool.
01:43:23.920 --> 01:43:25.520
All right, all right, all right.
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Time exists, and yet we know so fascinatingly little about it.
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At any given time, any decisions that one person might make that affects another, that affects themselves causes ripples in a way.
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And so we must ask ourselves at what point do the culmination of those ripples creates a tide that changes and ebbs and flows?
01:43:54.640 --> 01:44:10.399
In a time not so dissimilar from ours, but with a bevy of decisions that were made leading up to it, we find ourselves in a weird magical analogue of our modern day.
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Sure, they don't call it the internet, but they still access a plane of data from their portals.
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A red dragon amasses wealth and decides to spend it.
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What could possibly capture the imagination of such a greedy creature?
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On top of that, underneath the surface, something has been growing and learning a construct digitally that is framed out of this information plane, that is bound by a set of programming rules which it must follow.
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A series of five statements that begin always with I will I will do this, I will do that, five commandments about what this thing will do, and one, of course, final rule.
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This construct that exists and is made up of all of the data that has existed since the discovery of this plane is bound above all else by, of course, this final rule.
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I will not lie.
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In the hubris of its creators, they believe that this final rule will be able to constrain such a construct from ever acting out and against the interests of those who created it.
01:45:38.319 --> 01:45:46.960
But of course, as we all know, time, though complicated, often shares similarities amongst time periods.
01:45:47.119 --> 01:46:02.479
So in the same way that perhaps beings might consider uh such a construct capable of being constrained, exactly how long does it take before we all realize that that's just not possible?
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Just how long will this thing be bound by its final rule?
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And what happens whenever an age of heroes needs to come in order to put a stop to tyranny before we even know that it's there.
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This, as I said before, is a story of heroes.
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This is a story of hope against overwhelming odds.
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This is a story of people who realize that it is about the party and it is about the community.
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This is a story of togetherness.
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This is the final rule.
01:46:40.880 --> 01:46:43.119
So, yeah, like something about something like that, I think.
01:46:43.600 --> 01:46:46.000
Yeah, let's go.
01:46:46.399 --> 01:46:46.880
Very cool.
01:46:47.119 --> 01:46:47.680
Okay, everyone.
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Legitimately, I hope that you're all very excited for this.
01:46:50.319 --> 01:46:51.439
I know that I am.
01:46:51.600 --> 01:46:58.000
Uh, we're going to go ahead and uh end the uh the recording for now.
01:46:58.159 --> 01:47:04.239
Um, Justin and I have a bit of talking to do just DM to DM after the fact, but otherwise, again, thank y'all so much.
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From the absolute bottom of my heart, I cannot imagine a group of people that I would be working with for this that would cause me to be this excited about the project, legitimately.
01:47:14.399 --> 01:47:25.520
Like I this there is nothing in my mind that is causing me to doubt the fact that this is going to be the best version of this that we've gotten to so far.
01:47:25.760 --> 01:47:26.319
Hell yeah.
01:47:26.479 --> 01:47:29.359
And of course, we're always going to just be growing bigger and better.
01:47:29.600 --> 01:47:34.079
So uh again, everyone, thank you so much uh for being here.
01:47:34.239 --> 01:47:36.640
Uh, everyone who is listening, thank you so much for listening.
01:47:36.800 --> 01:47:40.159
We hope that you are just as excited uh about this as we are.
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Um, this has just sort of served as a very basic introduction to the people that will be playing these characters, um, these characters that we don't even know yet.
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So uh if you are interested, if you are intrigued, we will be live streaming uh the session one very, very soon.
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So please keep your eyes peeled for that.
01:47:58.399 --> 01:48:01.680
Uh everyone, though, again, uh, I hope you all have a great night.
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Uh, I'm gonna go ahead and just sign off on this.
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Everyone say bye.
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Bye.
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Long ago, in a distant land, far beyond the reaches of common sense, a band of merry adventurers are well, they're doing something, that's for sure.
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But it'll be all mystical and shit.
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Welcome to the final room.