Full Transcript for S1-Ep.0: The Show, The Game, The World

00:02:48.360 the superheroes. So that's the that's the goal. 38 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:51.800 I'm excited. 39 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:56.840 Uh huh. The SoundBite I've heard is that there. It's 40 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:01.039 it's the modern day mythos. That's what people say, that's 41 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:02.039 superos all the time. 42 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.759 Yes, Oh it's super true our current pantheon. 43 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:09.439 M m yeah, modern day mythology, that's for sure. We're 44 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:10.319 going to add to that. 45 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:16.000 We're gonna have like one one more little altar in 46 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:17.599 the in the square. 47 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:20.840 Yes, square, We're going to blow out the blow out 48 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:22.360 the sidewall of that pantheon. 49 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:23.800 Put on a little chapel. 50 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:28.400 Yeah, exactly to us. You're thinking bigger, you're thinking bigger, 51 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:30.919 you're thinking chapel. I just wanted like one little, one, 52 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:32.800 little fountain, maybe a. 53 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:37.360 Little shrine, Yeah, just a corner of existing structure. Yeah, 54 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:42.639 so we this what is this show? That's the first 55 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:46.800 question we're answering. We're all improvisers. We've been improvising for 56 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:49.039 over a decade each of us. 57 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:55.639 Right, mm hmm, this is my twenty year Oh wow anniversary. 58 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.919 What is the twentieth anniversary for improv I would assume 59 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:02.319 it's like a chair. 60 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.400 Yeah, you finally get it, finally get it that doesn't fold. 61 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:10.879 Yeah, it's a real chair chair, a wooden chair painted 62 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:16.279 black like the stage. Wow. Congrats, dude, classy. Thanks, And 63 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:23.040 it's crazy because I'm only twenty two years Get all 64 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.560 to you. You're a baby. Yeah, it was a baby 65 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:29.680 when I started doing. 66 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:31.920 So. 67 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:37.959 We're all improvisors. We all in our own ways love superheroes. 68 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:46.639 Yeah yeah, definitely, quick quick round of favorite superheroes. 69 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:51.839 Oh sure, pressures on my Like. One of my oldest 70 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:57.839 loves of superheroes was Starfire on Teen Titans because that was, yeah, 71 00:04:57.879 --> 00:04:59.240 like something I watched as a kid. 72 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:05.399 Hell yeah, yeah, I'm a I'm a Daredevil stand forever. 73 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:08.600 I just read a new Daredevil book last night. Not new, 74 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:12.360 but it new to me that I had never read before. Ben, 75 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.240 you ever read End of Days Daredevil? End of Days 76 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:19.519 have not damned? Maybe that's why I couldn't sleep last night. 77 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.720 I kept me up. I couldn't stop reading it, and 78 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.319 it fucking knocked my ass off. It was amazing. 79 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:29.959 Highly recommend I slept through all of that, the ass 80 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:33.439 falling off through all of it. 81 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:35.240 That's good. It wasn't pretty. 82 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:38.720 Oh my gosh. And Raven. How could I not shout 83 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:43.240 out Raven from Teen Titans? Yeah, both of those ladies. 84 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.439 Yeah, heart agree. We were at Batman House growing up, 85 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:51.120 so teen Titans is an extension of that with Robin 86 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:55.319 as the leader, but the best Robin. Wow, I don't 87 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:57.040 you know, Dick Grayson shout out. 88 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:01.800 I feel like, yeah, I don't like. My context for 89 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:04.800 Batman was like Teen Titans and then Batman begins. 90 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:06.360 That was. 91 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:10.920 Well Batman the Animated Series is like one of the 92 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:13.759 best superhero things that exists. 93 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:17.439 I keep hearing that it is. Maybe I should watch it. 94 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:18.240 We can watch it. 95 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:21.279 I'm not done, and then I can record my thoughts. 96 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:25.480 Yeah, if I want step to watch Batman Beyond, that's 97 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.279 what I want. Step to Batman Beyond. 98 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.199 You get to earn Batman Beyond, you do, though, that's 99 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:33.600 the problem. Batman Beyond is very much like a spiritual 100 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:37.040 sequel to Batman the Animated Series, So that would be 101 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:39.720 a fun trip for us. All Right, the podcast has 102 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.680 a new direction now if you guys want us to 103 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.959 listen to watch all of Batman the Animated Series and 104 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:47.319 then review. 105 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:51.800 Yeah, just through Batman the Animated Series, the New Adventures 106 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:55.439 of Batman and Robin, the Batman and Superman specials in 107 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:57.319 Justice League, and Batman Beyond. 108 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:00.480 Just let us know, because well, we'll do it for 109 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:01.240 five dollars. 110 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:05.240 I did watch Under the Red Hood when our improv 111 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:08.000 team in college. I watched it together in that dark classroom. 112 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:11.720 It's a great follow up questions about thanks to Ben 113 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:12.319 and

Johnny. 114 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:17.319 It's a great movie that holds up. So what is 115 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:20.160 this show? Though? We've I think we've answered the question 116 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:21.279 my favorite Spider Man. 117 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:24.519 Oh yeah, yeah, I mean yeah yeah. 118 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:26.279 Is there more you want to say? 119 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:27.279 No? 120 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.800 No, I was really tor between Batman and Spider Man, 121 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:33.439 but Ethan taking Batman really freed me up. 122 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.279 So thank you, You're welcome. Spider Man's great. 123 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:39.639 Yeah what I just thought? 124 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:40.000 That was it? 125 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:41.560 Spider Man's great. 126 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:45.800 Spider Man's great. So this show, they'll never release a 127 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.839 Spider Man thing that we won't want to see. That's 128 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:53.759 my take. Have you watched Marbius, No, that doesn't count. 129 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:56.839 Have you ever watched Craven though? Those don't. Have you 130 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:00.519 watched Medimal Web? Spider Man is not in though movie. 131 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:05.360 He's implied it's Spider Man adjacent. All right, I get 132 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:10.800 that they're villains. I understand they're bad. Anyway, what's the 133 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:14.120 show about? I think we answered it. It's a long 134 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:24.560 form improv show about superheroes. We want to tell superhero stories. Yeah, 135 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:27.319 we want to tell superhero stories where you're playing team up. 136 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:31.600 That's the new exciting part YEP, that's the next part 137 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:36.679 of this episode. Is what game are we using? So 138 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:38.120 in this world of play shows. 139 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:39.639 I was taking a breath like we were all going 140 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:40.240 to say it together. 141 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:46.039 Your question, what game are we using? Team Yay? 142 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.480 That was cute. Thank you for doing that for me. 143 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.000 In this world of we teamed up, in this world 144 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:56.960 of play shows, with all of these different game systems 145 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:00.120 you can use, we have decided to create our our 146 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:05.919 own called Team Up and Smart. Yeah, it's the easiest 147 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:07.360 thing to do. It was a lazy thing to do. 148 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:09.840 It is a lazy thing to do. Even though it 149 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.799 took me so long and so much hard work. It 150 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:14.559 is lazy. 151 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:17.399 It was so lazy for you to spend hours and 152 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:21.600

days and years at your computer building a game. 153 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:27.480 Yes, very lazy, but hey, I did it. We're using 154 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:30.240 Team up to tell the story. Team up is built 155 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:36.320 to tell stories. It's specifically built for this kind of 156 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:40.759 format to get to tell stories together. What are some 157 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:45.519 things about Team up that make that easier for us 158 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:49.440 to make that accessible to like, get to tell stories 159 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:49.919 in this way. 160 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:52.399 I mean, the first thing that comes to mind is 161 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.879 getting to pick my own superpowers. I'm not having to 162 00:09:57.320 --> 00:10:01.240 like Cheehorn a hero that I want to play into 163 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.919 other things that are already created for me, or trying 164 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.240 to skin something. It's just this is like the kind 165 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:11.399 of hero I want to be and I write it 166 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:15.399 down and there she is. Yeah, it's cool. I'd also 167 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:18.120 say that combat for this game. I mean, any ttrpg 168 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:23.039 has combat, but the Team Ups combat is very reactionary, 169 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:27.480 it's very interwoven. It like lends itself to collaboration. And 170 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:32.120 also each player's turn is super quick and simple, and 171 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:35.320 so there's not so much downtime in combat. It feels 172 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:38.240 every every player's turn feels like a comic book panel 173 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:40.480 to me, where it's like wham baff like it just 174 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:43.039 flows in a much faster way than I'm used to 175 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:45.039 for other TRPGs, which is exciting. 176 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.399 Wambiv bamp Yeah, wambib bamp. 177 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:55.639 Bamp take that out please, I don't know how to 178 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:56.159 say it again. 179 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.960 Okay, all right, let's just all say our favorite super 180 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.840 we're here on a monopiea sounds that they make on 181 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:04.600 the kind of three one two three. 182 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:07.320 Fab Maria Bamford, how. 183 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:12.399 Maybe pop actually pop? 184 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:22.320 So yeah, we're using Team Up. We have episodes. They 185 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:23.840 won't be in this feed, but if you want to 186 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:26.519 go to our patreon you can see them for free. 187 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:29.799 They are how to play Team Up episodes, which we 188 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:34.559 really encourage you to go check out because if we 189 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:37.480 start kind of moving into this story and you're really 190

00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.679 engaged in the story, but then we do a role 191 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:41.799 and you're like, why would they do that role? What 192 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:44.440 does that mean? It might not make much sense to 193 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:48.159 you at first, So we really encourage you to go 194 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:52.120 listen to those how to episodes and download the download 195 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:54.840 the game, and you can follow along that way and 196 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:58.399 bring Team Up to your own tables. Anything else about 197 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:03.279 Team Up, y'all want to say? I like it? Uh huh, Yeah, 198 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.399 it's good game. 199 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:08.679 It's built for telling these kind of stories, you know, 200 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.159 and there's a lot of systems that are made for 201 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:14.639 telling different kinds of stories, both in the role playing 202 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.759 and the combat. I feel like I'm echoing with Stephanie 203 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:21.360 Ethan talked about, but I've tried to, you know, force 204 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:25.799 superhero stories into some other systems. But I yeah, I 205 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:27.679 think building it from the ground up was the right 206 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:32.279 move so that we can yet marry a game system 207 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:34.279 with the kind of stories we want to tell. 208 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:40.960 Hey, Johnny here cutting in with something else that I 209 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.919 want to say about the game. I'm going to go 210 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:47.440 ahead and give you some Team Up game rules that 211 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:49.279 will come up a lot in the play show. You 212 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:51.480 can definitely go read the manual and listen to our 213 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:54.639 how two episodes on our Patreon, But this is a 214 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.559 quick little boot camp of rules just for you to 215 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:01.120 get by first. There are a lot of checks. You'll 216 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.200 hear me asking for checks. In the play show. Each 217 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:08.519 character has thirteen skills. They had to assign a specific 218 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:11.879 die from the polyhedral set to each of those skills. 219 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:13.679 So unlike D and D where you're rolling a D 220 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.559 twenty for everything and just adding a bonus, you put 221 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.000 a specific die like your D six or your D 222 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:21.679 eight on a specific skill and you roll that. But 223 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:25.720 then each character gets to create their own powers, and 224 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.919 then each of those powers gets a power die based 225 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.679 on how much energy it has, and you can add 226 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.840 that to those skill check rolls. That's called empowering a check. 227 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.759 So you're going to hear them do that a lot. 228 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:40.480 They're going to try to add their powers to a 229 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:44.240 certain skill check. Negotiate with me if they're allowed to 230 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:47.039 do that. And what they are trying to beat is 231 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:51.440 the game director's threshold. So every time I, as the 232 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.679 game runner, ask for a check, I also have to 233 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.120 roll a threshold die based on how difficult the check is. 234 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.879 The harder the check, the bigger the die. This makes 235 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:03.360 it fun because I can always roll low, even if 236 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:05.720 it's supposed to be a very hard check. It's really 237 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:11.200 geared towards those big superhero like fantastical moments, big swings. 238 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:16.360 Always try because there's a chance, always chance, you could 239 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:19.000 do it. They're gonna be rolling a lot of checks. 240 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:21.399 I'm gonna be asking for skill checks. They're going to 241 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:23.679 be trying to add their powers to those skill checks, 242 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.240 and what they're trying to do is beat my role. 243 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.720 Another thing that will be helpful for you to know 244 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:31.919 is that you'll notice when we get to combat characters, 245 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.720 turns can go very very quickly. That's because you only 246 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.399 get to do one thing per turn. In Team Up. 247 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:40.120 It's kind of like splitting up your whole turn in 248 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:41.639 D and D. So in D and D you have 249 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.519 your movement, you have your attack, you have your bonus action, 250 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:46.679 you have free action, and you can do all of 251 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:49.039 that in just your one turn. In Team Up, we 252 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:51.399 kind of split all that up, so you can only 253 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:53.879 do your movement, you can only do your attack, you 254 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.840 can only do a utility action. We find that this 255 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.519 makes combat a lot quicker and more reactionary, which is 256 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:05.000 great for a superhero story. Nothing ever against D and D. 257 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.279 We just wanted to do something a little different. You'll 258 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:12.159 notice also that sometimes we go into a series of 259 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:15.879 episodes that are downtime. Downtime in Team Up is there 260 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.279 to force players to make some difficult

decisions. This simulates 261 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:24.039 the superhero stories that we love that do the same thing, 262 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:27.639 where heroes have to choose between saving people or investing 263 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:31.399 in their life unmasked or resting, or keeping tabs on 264 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.480 the city, or going on a date with their girlfriend, 265 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:36.080 whatever it is. In Team Up, you have to give 266 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.279 a number zero four to each of these categories. That 267 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:42.039 means something's going to get that zero and it's not 268 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:43.840 going to get the attention that it needs. 269 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:44.440 Now. 270 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:47.879 Something else that might be confusing as you listen is l's. 271 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:51.960 L stands for length and it represents a cube of 272 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:55.120 about twenty feet. This is the system that Team Up 273 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:57.799 uses for distance. If a character is in the same 274 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:01.320 L as an enemy, there considered close up. If they 275 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.799 are three or more l's away, you're considered at range. 276 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:08.759 We use ls because superhero combat can be very vertical 277 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:12.879 and span over a great distance, so keeping those ls 278 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:16.360 in the single digit or very low double digit numbers. 279 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.039 It keeps us from getting into the minutia of having 280 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:24.399 to calculate hundreds of feet at one time. Also, because 281 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:27.600 being close up is within twenty feet, there is some 282 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:32.159 movement on a non movement turn that is allowed and 283 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:36.480 imagined within that l Now a true cornerstone of Team 284 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:40.799 up is energy points or you'll probably hear us saying EPs. 285 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:44.919 In Team Up, the players are given a set amount 286 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.679 of these energy points at level one and are given 287 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:52.399 more every time they level up. These EPs have two functions. First, 288 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.399 the max number of EPs of power has determines all 289 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.080 the stats of the power, like what die you roll 290 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:03.240 for attacking or empower checks it's range, how far you 291 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:05.480 can move with it if it's a movement power, and 292 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:07.960 how much support it gives as a buffing or a 293 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.000 healing power. So that's the first thing. The second thing 294 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:13.000 is that the number of EPs also acts as a 295 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:15.960 kind of currency forgetting to do special things with that power. 296 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.319 So you'll hear me saying that costs an energy. For instance, 297 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.559 if you want to team up with a team member 298 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:23.880 to do a very powerful attack, you can, but it 299 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.960 costs energy. If you want to attack twice in one round. 300 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:29.680 You can, but it costs energy, and there are some 301 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:33.440 other things that cost energy. But those are the main 302 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:36.039 ideas that I think will help you listen to the 303 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:40.480 Team Up playctio podcast without feeling like you're lost. If 304 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:43.319 you want a better grasp of all of Team Up's rules, 305 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:46.480 then read chapter two of our manual. It goes over 306 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.720 all the basic definitions in language for important rules like this. 307 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:53.359 You can find the manual at teamuparpg dot com or 308 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.799 download it as a pdf on Patreon dot com slash 309 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.319 Team up RPG. Okay, let's get back to this session 310 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:03.799 zero and have fun learning about season one of our 311 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:20.839 Team Up Play show podcast, The City of bones Hell. Yeah. Cool, 312 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:23.599 So that's what the show is, That's what the game is, 313 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:26.920 and now we'll get into the beefy part of this 314 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:30.240 episode is what is the world? 315 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:34.000 I already hate? Why why are you doing this so much? 316 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:41.400 Download before we record, had sick off colon. We we 317 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:49.920 have tasty teasers, and we have beefy lord dumb lord. 318 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:53.079 It sounds like a good super villain. 319 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:57.240 I'm like bf lord dump. 320 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:01.359 All right, So here's how the is gonna go. Ben, 321 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:02.160 you have a thought I. 322 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:05.920 Was just gonna say, beefy Lord dumplings sounded better. That 323 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:09.759 was just a joke, just a tag. 324 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:14.440 Here's how this is gonna go. I'm gonna give the 325 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:19.319 very general stuff that someone in this city we're going 326 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:23.480 to play in would know about history in this world. 327 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:26.400 That's what I'm gonna do. It's just gonna be pretty 328 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:29.759 surface level. Also, if you don't want to hear this, 329 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:33.160 you can skip this episode now and go to the 330 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:37.880 actual play show because you might just want to. You 331 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:41.200 might want this stuff to be leaked out

subtly through 332 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:45.880 our storytelling. This will be just an exposition dump if. 333 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:51.599 You just want your beefy Lord dumps juicily tantalizingly distributed. 334 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:59.960 Right, Yeah, now you need to be here. So yeah, 335 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:02.920 I'm just gonna give the general stuff. If you guys 336 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:06.400 have questions, please ask. I may or may not answer them, 337 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:09.640 but please do ask. I am ben. I know you 338 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:13.000 were interested in hearing kind of the timeline, so I 339 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:18.000 am going to give you years here as when things happened. 340 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:21.359 Please tell me there's you also have a PowerPoint to 341 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:26.160 show us no power point, I'm sorry. Uh. 342 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.200 And then once we get done with that audio medium, Yeah, sadly. 343 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:33.119 Once we get done with that, I am going to 344 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:36.079 ask you guys to help me build parts of the city, 345 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:48.880 and and I'm going to ask for those tasty teasers 346 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:51.240 if you guys have any, we can talk about what 347 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:52.119 we want to reveal. 348 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:54.119 If anything, My gosh, this is a pot luck, and 349 00:20:54.200 --> 00:20:56.160 he didn't tell me the. 350 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:08.880 Pot luck bring cheesy potatoes. Look, the basis of this 351 00:21:09.079 --> 00:21:14.519 world is built on that the Great Depression happened and 352 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:19.400 then got way worse instead of getting better both economically 353 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:26.920 and ecologically, the world just was used up and was 354 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:31.519 turning to dust all throughout it. It kind of spread, 355 00:21:31.720 --> 00:21:34.519 not just kind of locally, but the whole world was 356 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:39.920 suffering from this Great depression. The world responded in two ways. 357 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:44.960 There was a natural evolutionary response and then also kind 358 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:47.559 of a man made how do we get out of 359 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:51.319 this response? The evolutionary one is the birth of mutants 360 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:54.839 or evos were calling them. This was Ben's idea. The 361 00:21:55.000 --> 00:22:03.799 evos so sick, thanks, so the evos started to be born. 362 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:06.519 They started to be born right after the Great Depression, 363 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:10.279 or or I guess our year that the Great Depression ended, 364 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:14.920 which is in the early forties. That's when evos started 365 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.839 being born into the world. That's the kind of mother 366 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:26.880 Nature's response to the dusty world, the

dying world. Man's 367 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:31.359 response or humanity's response, I should say, was let's get 368 00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:34.039 to space. This planet isn't going to keep all of us. 369 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:38.759 Let's get out of here. And so the rest of 370 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:42.799 the I don't know, almost the next century is like 371 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:46.720 the world funneling all of its all of its smarts, 372 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:49.920 all of its money, all of its resources into getting 373 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:56.240 to space. There's kind of a retrofuturist vibe in the 374 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:00.519 city we're going to be in, and it comes from 375 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:06.480 that kind of hindering of of everything else. So there 376 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:10.400 wasn't as much focus quite on on the science as 377 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:15.440 we care about, certainly study of the mind, study of 378 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:20.000 the body, other things. Entertainment is certainly not up to 379 00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:23.599 the level that we understand it because everything was funneled 380 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:25.799 into like we need to get to space. That's kind 381 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:29.400 of the idea. And it was a world. It was 382 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:32.440 just something kind of like in a recent Fantastic Four 383 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:36.160 movie when the whole world came together to like do something. 384 00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:42.279 Together spoilers, sorry it didn't work, super spoiler. 385 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:53.240 Vanessa Kirby was a vision in blue spoiler. Yeah, they 386 00:23:53.319 --> 00:24:02.759 wear Vanessa was stunning. Don't add us about the spoiling 387 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:08.000 Fantastic four you can. I don't know what was I 388 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:11.440 saying about space travel? Yeah, poured our resources into space 389 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:18.880 travel in the world. It was a global action initiative. Yeah, 390 00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:22.720 global thing the world came together to do. 391 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:24.599 You gave him initiative and he went with things. 392 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:29.319 Hey, there's initiative is a thing. I couldn't think of 393 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:32.319 the word I was trying to think of. But it's okay. 394 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:35.599 Sometimes that happens to me, happens to all of us. 395 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.559 Let's see here. What else do I want to say 396 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:42.640 and not say? So with all this, a couple enormous 397 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:46.480 things were created. Number one is the the Bowl b 398 00:24:46.680 --> 00:24:50.480 o L. This is the bomb of life, and in 399 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:55.119 it was just the means to terraform planets. So we 400 00:24:55.279 --> 00:24:59.319 were looking directly into our solar system. Uh so we 401 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:03.200 art shooting these

bombs of life at different planets in 402 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:06.279 our Solar system. While at the same time we were 403 00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:10.759 building space barges. And that's the other thing. The sb program, 404 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:15.319 the space barge program. The really important thing about the 405 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:18.920 space BArch program to our show is that it happened 406 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:24.039 in a city called New Babel. If you're familiar at 407 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:28.720 all with the biblical story of Babel, the people of 408 00:25:28.839 --> 00:25:31.119 the world, of the known world at the time, this 409 00:25:31.319 --> 00:25:34.400 is the legend to come together and say we're going 410 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:36.480 to build a tower so high that we're going to 411 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:41.279 reach God. And then God came down and confused all 412 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:44.839 their languages and split up the split them into tribes 413 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:49.759 because they couldn't understand each other anymore. That's the legend. 414 00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:53.359 So this New Babel is this kind of secondary like 415 00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:56.640 God is dead, we have killed him. We're going to 416 00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:01.519 go up to space. We don't care about God's punishment 417 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:04.720 anymore because we are we are modern people. 418 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.160 I'm sure people will at us about spoiling Fantastic four 419 00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:08.960 and not about that. 420 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:13.759 Yes, sorry, well at us for spoiling Genesis eleven. 421 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:19.319 Yeah, sorry for spoiling the Bibles. We spoiled the Bible. 422 00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:25.720 But yeah. The idea of New Babbel was we will 423 00:26:25.920 --> 00:26:28.920 reach God. We will build these space barges big enough 424 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.359 and strong enough and with enough science to go up 425 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.440 into space and reach God. So New Babble was created. 426 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:40.359 America gave the world a big chunk of land in 427 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:41.440 the great plains. 428 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:43.680 Hey, can we just pause and appreciate the Bomb of 429 00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:47.359 Life as like a superhero mcguffin thing that is that 430 00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:48.400 is just really fun. 431 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:51.240 Yeah I love that. Yeah. I mean, you guys could 432 00:26:51.279 --> 00:27:03.400 stumble on the Bomb of life somewhere. What was I saying? Yeah, 433 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:07.640 big chunk of land. America gave the world this big 434 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:12.759 chunk of land for New Babel. It's on the Nebraska Kansas, 435 00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:18.359 Colorado tri point and it was a city for the world. 436 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:22.559 It kind of acted as a city state. It wasn't 437 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:25.480 an American city or it was just a city of 438 00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:32.039 the world. So New Babbel started being built and created 439 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:35.319 while these space barges were being built, while these bombs 440 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:38.599 of life were being created and shot up to space. 441 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:41.519 There might be a couple names that you guys know 442 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:46.799 involved with all this. A man named Brock Danton, who 443 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:52.799 is most famous for his work in the with the 444 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:57.319 Bombs of Life. That's kind of the biggest name of 445 00:27:57.400 --> 00:27:59.519 that time. He would have been he was excuse me, 446 00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:04.319 he was an evo, a British evo that built these 447 00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:09.480 things and had a big influence on the science of 448 00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:13.440 the time. Evos of the time were not just kind 449 00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:17.480 of superpowered people like X Men. They weren't just heroes. 450 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:20.599 There were some that kind of took up a hero path, 451 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:25.200 but for the most part, it was just you know, 452 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:29.480 if Storm gave her all of her energy to helping 453 00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:33.240 grow crops and rebirth the world, like it was like 454 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:36.680 it was a kind of a humanitarian effort to like, 455 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:39.680 let's do it, like, let's make this a better place 456 00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:46.000 to live. So there were economists and politicians and scientists 457 00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:48.079 of all kinds that the evos were just kind of 458 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:54.400 smarter and just like better that next phase of evolution, 459 00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:59.200 and they they they it worked. So what's the timeline 460 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:02.880 looking like where we are, Yes, your New Babel. The 461 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:06.000 city of New Babble was completed thirty years after the 462 00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:10.640 Great Depression, So seventies, early seventies is when New Babel 463 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:16.000 was finished, and that means both the station and the 464 00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:19.640 campus of New Babel to launch these big space barges 465 00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:23.079 was complete. So they launched these things right out of 466 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:27.079 the middle of the city. Very arrogant, very silly, very stupid. 467 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:30.839 But these giant space barges were ported into the city 468 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:32.480 and then launched out of the middle of it. It 469 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:34.599 was like a big to do in a big celebration. 470 00:29:35.119 --> 00:29:39.599 So we're looking at the early seventies. The bowls, the 471 00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:44.200 bols bombs of life were started to be shot off 472

00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:52.799 right after that, and then a thing happened right after 473 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.519 that that you probably wouldn't know the details of, but 474 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:03.240 people started to be chosen for this mission. So the 475 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:06.240 world was getting better, but humans were still like, we 476 00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:08.160 still need to get a bunch of people to space. 477 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:13.640 And it was decided again you don't know how, but 478 00:30:13.880 --> 00:30:16.400 it was decided that two billion people needed to be 479 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:21.519 sent off to space to keep our world healthy. 480 00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:23.480 And so. 481 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:32.039 That didn't start happening until the late eighties early nineties. 482 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:36.640 So we finished the bombs of life. It seems like 483 00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:40.480 the bomb that hit Venus worked very well. All the 484 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:44.119 reports coming back from that were really good. Venus was 485 00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:51.079 the place to be settled, and we started sending people 486 00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:53.720 up there in numbers of thousands. It took a couple 487 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:56.200 of years to get two billion people off there, but 488 00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:00.160 there was a group of people that was chosen. Again, 489 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.000 you don't exactly know how. That's probably a well kept 490 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.400 secret or so sort of well kept secret, but all 491 00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:10.400 of these people were sent up to space as soon 492 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:15.079 as the last space barge with people on it left. 493 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:22.000 All communication from that group was cut off. That's also 494 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:26.920 a great mystery. So they're known as the silent Pilgrims. 495 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:29.440 We don't know what happened to them. They might have 496 00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:31.960 gone to Venus and are doing good. They might have 497 00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:34.759 gone somewhere else. They might all be dead. You guys 498 00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:39.119 don't know. It's a secret. That completed in what ninety 499 00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:46.920 five complete silence from the Venus colonists. And then right 500 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:50.839 after that was a really really sad time. It's the 501 00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:54.039 Evo War, So there were still a lot of Evos 502 00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:57.279 left and the world turned on them and said we 503 00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:01.200 don't need you anymore. Please get your weird stuff out 504 00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:05.640 of here, and they forced them all to New Babbel 505 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:09.880 and sent them to space. It was a bloody time, 506 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:15.119 a lot of battles, basically a lot, I mean a 507 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:18.319 bunch of people died on both sides, a lot of 508 00:32:18.599 --> 00:32:22.839 just like the world just put their numbers again, you know, 509 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:26.599 because one Evo could take probably take you know, ten guys, 510 00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:30.000 but not a thousand guys. But you kill a lot 511 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.920 of those thousand guys before you know that Evo was 512 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:35.599 forced to do something. So it was a very bloody 513 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:42.160 time and a very horrible time for the world. These 514 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:46.000 evos were forced to New Babbel because there was two 515 00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:50.079 space bar space barges left, and they were forced into 516 00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:51.960 one and then shot up into space. 517 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:56.839 Are there comes with that ship? No? 518 00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:02.920 Okay, Yeah, that's more of choice. Yes, that's more of 519 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:07.599 a choice based on both parties. Yeah, so that means 520 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:11.519 there's one space barge left, correct, and it just hangs 521 00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:15.000 out in the middle of the city and in fact 522 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:23.160 has been has been repurposed. Yeah, as living spaces people 523 00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:23.680 living there. 524 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:25.079 All right, So. 525 00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:31.000 With the exodus or the what's that's not the best word, 526 00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:36.440 what's the better word when you deportation of the evo's expulsion? 527 00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:41.400 Expulsion getting them off also came with that kind of 528 00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:48.119 a wanting to isolate and forget about New Babble as 529 00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:51.039 a city. It was like used to be the shining beacon. 530 00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:56.359 It almost had thirty five forty years of being like 531 00:33:56.519 --> 00:34:01.079 an incredible pinnacle of science and movement in the world, 532 00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:06.480 and then because its job was done, it was kind 533 00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:09.880 of left tarat. The world no longer wanted to fund 534 00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:14.360 the city, and so it became this kind of random 535 00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:16.599 city state in the middle of America that was not 536 00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:22.559 attached to America but just was. And that's the city 537 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:26.360 that we are going to play in, the city of 538 00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:32.360 New Babel. About So about the year two thousand is 539 00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:35.800 the beginning of the evil less world and an emptier world, 540 00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:40.199 having sent two billion people away. Our story doesn't begin 541 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:42.800 until sixty years after that, so we're in the year 542 00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:48.679 of twenty sixty. Again. It's going to be very retro 543 00:34:48.840

--> 00:34:52.960 futurey vibe. It is significantly our you know, in our future, 544 00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:56.559 and the world outside of New Babel is probably further 545 00:34:56.719 --> 00:35:00.480 along than New Babel. But there are things because we 546 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:04.760 focused on space programming that that there were parts of 547 00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:08.719 technology that did come to fruition through the space program. 548 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:11.960 So all of that is in New Babbel. So kind 549 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:19.719 of a weird town, but very very fun. What any 550 00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:25.239 questions or thoughts we said town? Yeah, yeah, from my understanding, 551 00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:27.599 it's like the size of a state. 552 00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:33.039 It's probably not that it's not that big. No, no's 553 00:35:33.079 --> 00:35:35.519 like the population, yeah, like do we we don't stretch 554 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:39.000 to the mountains, no, no, no planes. 555 00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:44.360 Yeah, So it's the city. Is I have the papers 556 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:47.400 somewhere Ben, How long did I tell you? The shoot 557 00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:48.679 was twelve miles. 558 00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:52.480 Yeah, you said the shoot was about twelve miles long 559 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:54.119 and about a quarter mile wide. 560 00:35:54.519 --> 00:36:00.320 Yes, so the the shoot takes up runs half of 561 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:03.360 the city's length, So it's twenty four miles and which 562 00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:06.079 is like double the size of like Chicago. It's like 563 00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:09.280 a big old city, but it's not. It's not a state. 564 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:10.360 Gotcha. 565 00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:15.079 When you say retro future, yeah, do you mean kind 566 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:18.880 of like like where like from the esthetic perspective and 567 00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:21.880 the kind of stuff we should expect floating around the city. 568 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:25.599 What would you say is like a good reference for us? 569 00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:28.760 Is it, you know, kind of fifties e's stuff that's 570 00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:32.079 we're looking at, but it's obviously more modernized. 571 00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:36.639 Or what do you Yeah, probably fifties to sixties kind 572 00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:41.960 of era technology. Everything, all the screens are still tubes. 573 00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:46.599 The clothing of that era is very in vogue. But 574 00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:49.000 there are some things that we that have come up 575 00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:52.920 in your origin stories. There are hover bikes and hover cars. 576 00:36:53.840 --> 00:37:00.360 There are floating lanterns, there are floating platforms, some other 577 00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:02.679 things and just some stuff that is one of the 578 00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:05.039 things I want y'all to help me come up with 579

00:37:05.719 --> 00:37:10.400 for the city. But yes, there is a very basic 580 00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:12.880 version of the Internet that makes it to New Babbel. 581 00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:18.679 It's mostly encyclopedic for common use. But it's one of 582 00:37:18.719 --> 00:37:21.000 those things where it's like, sure, the Internet was around 583 00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:23.000 when we were kids in the nineties, but we didn't 584 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:24.960 really know about, like we didn't. 585 00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:25.480 Really have it. 586 00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:29.480 You know. It's kind of that vibe and it's a 587 00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:32.079 very it was boring, right, Yeah, you. 588 00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:35.840 Know it might be a fun alternative that might just 589 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:39.000 be just slightly faster than Internet. In New Babble would 590 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:40.280 be pneumatic tubes. 591 00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:43.840 Yeah. Perfect, that's the kind of thing fun. I just 592 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:44.679 love the food. 593 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:48.559 Yeah, you know, that's the sound. It changed it from pop. 594 00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:55.679 It's I was gonna let each of you come up 595 00:37:55.760 --> 00:38:03.519 with a thing in New Babble that would that's a 596 00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:03.960 great thing. 597 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:06.320 Now I want to go back and re record from 598 00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:09.039 my origins so I could be using more dramatic tubes. 599 00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:17.519 Sorry. Yeah, there's pneumatic tubes now, which is awesome. Stuff 600 00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:22.960 like that. Yeah, other questions or thoughts about the world. 601 00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:27.400 We hope to get to do this for a long time, 602 00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:30.719 and so this is one of the tasty teasers I'm 603 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:34.599 going to give. So buckle up, unbutton your buttons and 604 00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:43.079 your belts, my pants are off. My dream is that 605 00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:47.559 season one takes place in New Babel. My other dream, 606 00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:50.480 and this is a big spoiler from the lore that 607 00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:54.639 I just said, and I made a point to say, like, oh, 608 00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:57.559 we don't know what happened. But my next dream is 609 00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:02.199 that season two happens on the planet Venus space space. 610 00:39:03.559 --> 00:39:08.599 We take a pneumatic tube to space. So season two 611 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:12.599 is supposed to be in Venus. And then I love that. 612 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:17.000 I'll keep going, but because more of this will make 613 00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:20.159 less and less sense. But my hope is that there's 614 00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:24.599 a tiny season, a little quick banger in between season 615 00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:28.360 two and three that happens on the Moon, just a 616 00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:33.920 mini moon season, moon Sea shot, a moonshot that'll probably 617 00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:38.599 end up being like twenty five episodes, because I'm a disaster. 618 00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:41.239 Beautiful it is twenty eight because the moon phases. 619 00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:48.119 Oh damn, We'll try, all right, try, And then that's 620 00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:50.519 all I'll say. I have more seasons planned in my 621 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:56.679 dream house that is in my brain, my Johnny dream house. 622 00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.199 But I hope season two can be in Venus. I 623 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.880 hope season two point five will be on the Moon. 624 00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:08.920 I love that, sweet, I love that too. Then, yeah, 625 00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:15.039 I would like to oh. I also want to talk about, like, well, 626 00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:19.280 let's do this first. Let's do tasty teasers from you guys. 627 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.559 We can decide what we want to give here, but 628 00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.920 I kind of want to give the people something about 629 00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:30.199 your characters. You guys don't know each other's characters yet. Yeah, 630 00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:33.159 recorded origins for all of you. We still have some 631 00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:36.760 to do for Ben and Steph, but you all know 632 00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:39.480 what your characters will be for this first season, and 633 00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:43.239 I'm I want you guys to tease something. But we 634 00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:45.239 can choose what we want to tease and what we don't. 635 00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:48.039 We could do like your sheer human name, which is 636 00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:52.280 very nothing. We could do one power you have, which 637 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:56.599 is a lot. We could do anything in between where 638 00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:59.880 you live, blah blah blah. What do you think? Any 639 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:02.480 thoughts about what we want to say, what we don't. 640 00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:09.440 I love being surprised in reading other characters. 641 00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:12.719 I think you all do. Yeah, we all do. 642 00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.519 Yeah, So that not me. 643 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:21.320 I want to know everything, But that's fine. We could do. 644 00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:25.800 You can do your hero's superhero name. Well, well, I 645 00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:29.199 guess we can't because I think Ben doesn't hasn't decided yet, 646 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:32.400 which maybe that's a spoiler. In and of itself. 647 00:41:33.800 --> 00:41:37.719 I'm going in real improv into these origin sessions. 648 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:38.039 Guys. 649 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:39.360 That's great. 650 00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:40.840 A note, I'm going in blind. 651 00:41:41.639 --> 00:41:45.639 That's fun. Oh, now I do want to know more. 652 00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:50.119 We'll just do one little tiny

tease for the people, 653 00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:54.480 for the listeners. All right, I can, I can start. 654 00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:59.960 I'll start with small. So I'll say his name's Jason Turner, 655 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:04.559 which is a pun based on that's a clue. His 656 00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:08.119 name is a clue, okay, and super stuff. 657 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:13.360 Yeah, and he lives in the like the like apartment 658 00:42:14.079 --> 00:42:17.440 atrium above the library of New Babel. 659 00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:20.480 Oh, cool city library live in. Yeah. 660 00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:28.320 I also chose my h nonu my my birth name intentionally. 661 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:35.679 And her name is Veronica mars No. Her name is 662 00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:37.199 Veronica Canter. 663 00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:38.440 Mm hmm. 664 00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:42.639 She's not a horse girl. Also spoiler. 665 00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:45.800 Not a horse girl. 666 00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:50.800 Yeah, she's not a horse girl girl horse. 667 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:00.840 That was good. 668 00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:02.719 That was that was too good. 669 00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:14.079 That's definitely planned. I'll say yeah, I'll say my character 670 00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:16.079 splits his time. 671 00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:16.679 Uh. 672 00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:20.079 He lives partly still with his parents and partly in 673 00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:21.960 a communal living situation. 674 00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:23.280 Mmm. 675 00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:29.559 So he's the richest man in the uh. Quite the opposite. 676 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:32.519 He's a boy horse. 677 00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:42.159 My character is not wealthy. Spake spoiler as well. Man, guys, 678 00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:48.639 really we're really really leak out these the lower dumbs 679 00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:57.280 took off the shroud, took off the saddle. Yes, oh 680 00:43:57.360 --> 00:43:58.880 my god, are we all horse themed? 681 00:43:58.960 --> 00:43:59.199 Guys? 682 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:04.280 Did we all horses? Power hoops? Were all horses, which 683 00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:09.760 make so much sense for the city we love. Oh man, 684 00:44:11.079 --> 00:44:12.599 I do want to talk a little bit about the 685 00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:15.800 state of New Babbel, so like what state you guys 686 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:20.719 find it in, so please ask questions about this. There 687 00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:24.159 are four quadrants. There's the Colorado North quadrant which is 688 00:44:24.239 --> 00:44:28.800 called Kono, Colorado South quadrant, which is called KOSO. There's 689 00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:33.960 the Nebraska quadrant which is called ask, and the Kansas 690 00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:39.960 quadrant called SASS. I'm just going to give incredit like 691 00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:44.320 like every city, every kind of part of a city 692 00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:48.880 has kind of a vibe about it while also being 693 00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:53.119 the people within it are so variable and like you 694 00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:56.480 could never say what the whole whole part of the 695 00:44:56.519 --> 00:44:58.519 city is about. But I'm just going to give the 696 00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:03.039 very blanket idea for each quadrant. KNO is the fancy 697 00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:06.920 part of town, the nicest part of town. Colorado North, 698 00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:13.119 Colorado South is where most of the workers lived during 699 00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:17.280 the time of building of New Babel and then the 700 00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:20.559 space program of New Babbel and so there was a 701 00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:24.519 lot of like project housing there for people to come 702 00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:29.239 there and work. It is the most it is the 703 00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:31.559 kind of poorest part of town as well as the 704 00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:37.400 most like variety part of town. A lot of variety 705 00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:41.519 in insity diversity. Yes, I don't know if this is 706 00:45:41.599 --> 00:45:45.920 like adding to the it's it's not adding to the world. 707 00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:47.639 But maybe think of like when we used to live 708 00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:50.400 in the Cleveland Acrone area and there's like the old 709 00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:56.280 like Firestone neighborhoods I can't, like the tire Factory neighborhood. Yes, 710 00:45:56.599 --> 00:45:58.880 and all the houses like looked identical and they all 711 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:02.079 had like the same tree I think in the front. Yes, 712 00:46:03.719 --> 00:46:04.679 that's what I'm imagining. 713 00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:11.519 Yeah, definitely Nebraska. The ask part of town is is 714 00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:16.920 where the New Babble Technological University was n BTU, And 715 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:21.559 so if you want to think about kind of academia 716 00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:26.239 education in that side of town, you can. That's where 717 00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:30.760 your library is, the pen Dragon Library. I like to 718 00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:35.039 think of all the people that live and ask as assholes. Assholes? 719 00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:38.519 Is that like they like wear it proudly, like yeah, 720 00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:39.199 I'm gonna ask whole. 721 00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:41.760 I think so if I'd imagine if there were separate 722 00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:42.920 license plates, that's what. 723 00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:45.719 A lot of the vails and sassholes. 724 00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:53.800 I don't think there would be like license plates. Okay unfortunately, Yeah, yeah, 725 00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:57.719 but that's like that's what they call people assholes. Yeah, 726 00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:04.119 we're academic, you know, or snooty assholes. Kansas. The SaaS 727 00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:07.360 part of town is it would be described as artsy 728 00:47:07.559 -->

00:47:12.119 in the broadest sense. It is where the zoo is, music, theaters, 729 00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:17.360 food culture, sex, museums, art, all that stuff. Obviously there's 730 00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:19.760 other stuff like that in the rest of the city, 731 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:23.480 but that is kind of the most concentrated place where 732 00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:26.239 you if you're gonna get the best burger, you gotta 733 00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:28.480 go down to you know, Sass. 734 00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:30.159 Kind of Sasses in Sas. 735 00:47:33.719 --> 00:47:36.320 I'm just like, are you saying like sass is in Sassin? 736 00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:37.679 Is that what you're trying to say. 737 00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:44.360 No, No, it's the restaurant is called sasses, like possessive sasses, 738 00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:49.360 and it's in Sas. But I'm really glad we took 739 00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:49.920 the time for this. 740 00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:59.360 Again, I'm almost following. The last part of town is 741 00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:03.039 kind of the downtown area, the station and the shut 742 00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:07.400 so that is all one part of town. The station 743 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:11.320 is where they launched these big space barges from. There's 744 00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:14.639 still a space barge there. People have moved into there 745 00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:18.519 when they were displaced from the whole city shutting down. 746 00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:23.119 But they have also moved into the chute, which is 747 00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:28.800 a concrete tube that basically the fire belching from these 748 00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:33.480 launches was forced out into the Colorado Desert. 749 00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:36.159 Incredible big style, incredible. 750 00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:39.880 Style, big exhaust channel. Basically a huge exhaust channel which 751 00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:43.360 is twelve miles long and a quarter mile wide, so 752 00:48:43.400 --> 00:48:47.800 it's huge, and people have started to build housing units 753 00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:50.960 in there, and that's where Ben's characters. 754 00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:55.639 Are They like entrances, Oh spoiler, are there entrances like 755 00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:59.719 along along the chute? So you're like you have to 756 00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:01.519 go in at the middle or the end. 757 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:05.920 Certainly now sixty years later, it would have been nice 758 00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:09.119 and tight when they were doing the actual space book 759 00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:09.960 barge launches. 760 00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:11.519 Keep that exhaust tight. 761 00:49:11.800 --> 00:49:26.039 But now there's they've they've but but now that you 762 00:49:26.079 --> 00:49:29.320 know it has they put plumbing in there. They've cut 763 00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:33.360 into the shoot for entryways. Like you're saying, there's a 764 00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:38.400 road that runs through it. There's one of the electric 765 00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:42.280 rails ride there's a station for an electrical rail there, 766 00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:45.719 so like it has certainly been broken up. 767 00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:46.440 Now cool. 768 00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:49.800 The interesting thing about the station and the shoot is 769 00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:53.159 that the police and the powers that be in the 770 00:49:53.199 --> 00:49:59.480 city are not allowed in there. It is protected very vaguely. 771 00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:03.440 There's not much more to that, but the police and 772 00:50:03.719 --> 00:50:06.280 the again, the powers that be at the city are like, we. 773 00:50:06.360 --> 00:50:09.760 Can't go into the shoot. That's a common knowledge, common knowledge. 774 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.800 That's a lawless place, yes, or I. 775 00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:19.559 Should say laud or ruled by the gang called the 776 00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:21.880 core CEO r E the Core gang. 777 00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:25.440 What is the political structure, the governing. 778 00:50:25.119 --> 00:50:32.519 Structure, great question. There's a mayor. His name is Adrian Stephenson. 779 00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:38.239 My son, oh, because your name is steph. 780 00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:44.119 Yeah wow, uh my sweet baby boy, Atrius. 781 00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:49.960 Here's what you know about Adrian Stephenson. He used to 782 00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:52.519 be a New Babbel oil tycoon in the south part 783 00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:55.199 of the city. He made a lot of jobs and 784 00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:58.559 his family kept oil in New Babel when it was 785 00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:03.000 cut off from the world. And then he became mayor 786 00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:09.400 four years ago from when we began. The city council 787 00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:12.960 moved to extend the term of the current mayor under 788 00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:15.679 the banner if it ain't broke, don't fix it. 789 00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:21.960 Well, something came up in in our origins that you 790 00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:26.000 mentioned is there's a pre term election to see if 791 00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:27.000 we get an election. 792 00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:29.840 Yes, that came up in my. 793 00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:35.719 Yes I'm not political, did not come up in mine, 794 00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:36.679 and not yet. 795 00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:42.480 Yeah, there's so there's a few things that after. So 796 00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:45.519 he he won the election as an oil tycoon and 797 00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:47.840 was a pretty good mayor for the first four years, 798 00:51:48.519 --> 00:51:52.360 and then he won again under the if it ain't broke, 799 00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:55.800 don't fix it, And the law that was passed was twofold. 800 00:51:55.960 --> 00:51:56.360 It was. 801 00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:01.280 There had to be a vote to even hold an election, 802 00:52:01.440 -->

00:52:05.360 which is what you're referencing, and the city council has 803 00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:09.239 to like confirm and affirm the vote. So this is 804 00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:13.320 the political structure. The mayor is king here basically ah 805 00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:18.679 and controls a lot of things. Controls now oil, which 806 00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:21.519 wasn't always the case, but now does control the oil 807 00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:24.360 in the town because New Babbel is cut off from 808 00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:27.159 the rest of the world, so they're not getting imports really, 809 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:32.960 so if they're gonna have oil, it's gonna be from him. Also, 810 00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:40.159 digit you're getting villain vibes. Just a good guy. He 811 00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:43.920 gives my sweet baby boy, I'm getting he could be 812 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:49.679 a great guy. I can't say villain vibes. The other 813 00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:53.719 thing he controls is the mint. The mint, which is 814 00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:58.920 a big deal. New Babbel has its own money. It 815 00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:03.360 does not use an American dollars. And the mint is 816 00:53:03.400 --> 00:53:07.159 controlled by the mayoral office. So and it's money in 817 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:10.639 our day and age is very uh it's like ethereal right, 818 00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:13.519 it's just like out there in in in the in 819 00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:16.880 the cloud, in the computer. In New Babbel. The amount 820 00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:19.519 of bills and coins you have is the amount of 821 00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:23.280 money that you have. And I mean, of course yeah, 822 00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:26.280 and of course like equity and homes and things that 823 00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:34.559 you might own. But nope, just money, just cash. Uh So, 824 00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:37.559 controlling the mint is a big deal because the more 825 00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:41.039 you you know, the longer you live, money disappears. It 826 00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:45.159 gets stuffed into people's banks, it you know, gets thrown away, 827 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:49.360 it what it breaks. Uh So, controlling that mint can 828 00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:54.199 certainly keep your people poor when inflation in New Babbel 829 00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:57.039 wouldn't matter as much cut because it's separated from the 830 00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:00.599 rest of the world. So yep, yep, yep, yep. That's 831 00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:04.679 the the police. We could talk about a little. I 832 00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:11.719 want to say too much. The police quadrants basically have 833 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:15.119 been the mayor's office like doesn't want to deal with it. 834 00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:19.440 So it's like the police chiefs of each quadrant have 835 00:54:19.639 --> 00:54:22.960 like a ton of power within their own precinct and 836 00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:27.480 within their own quadrant. So like some some places when 837 00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:29.719 you call the police, they'll show up. In some places 838 00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:31.880 you call the police and they don't show up, and 839 00:54:32.760 --> 00:54:36.480 vice versa and all that. The Catholic Church is here 840 00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:48.639 and proud there's Christianity. But the funny thing about the 841 00:54:48.719 --> 00:54:51.880 Catholic Church being here is that when New Babble was 842 00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:53.760 cut off from the rest of the world, the Catholic 843 00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:57.559 Church was kind of stuck from communicating with the Catholic Church. 844 00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:02.960 So there's a guy called called Mitchell Nichols who is 845 00:55:03.119 --> 00:55:14.000 the silent Pope in New Babbel. What else do I 846 00:55:14.039 --> 00:55:21.280 want to tell you? Oh, economically, it's really interesting in 847 00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:26.760 New Babbel. So there is a dry port in ask 848 00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:32.880 where the world is kind of quote unquote like forced 849 00:55:33.159 --> 00:55:36.480 or America mostly is like forced to provide the people 850 00:55:36.519 --> 00:55:39.719 of New Babbel with essentials. So there's some food that 851 00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:44.599 comes in can goods, products that people need, et cetera. 852 00:55:46.639 --> 00:55:52.440 But recently there has been a ton of there's been 853 00:55:52.480 --> 00:55:56.480 a huge movement in the small business community of like 854 00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:00.679 growing our own things and like making our own things 855 00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:03.599 and having factories that aren't enormous, but like, what if 856 00:56:03.639 --> 00:56:05.920 I can make a little shop that sells underwear out 857 00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:08.920 of my house, like stuff like that, like small mom 858 00:56:09.039 --> 00:56:15.199 and pop shops kind of everywhere. Mac Weldon, what's that? 859 00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:18.000 I said, Mac Weldon? 860 00:56:19.079 --> 00:56:22.360 It was an underwear joke. That's an underwear brand. I'm 861 00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:22.880 so sorry. 862 00:56:24.639 --> 00:56:27.840 I'm sorry that I don't know that mac Weldon is 863 00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:29.639 an underwear brand. 864 00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:33.119 So, yeah, there's been quite a movement towards that. That's 865 00:56:33.159 --> 00:56:37.000 happening a lot more. And I think that's most of 866 00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:40.360 any questions, any thoughts you guys, things you want to know. 867 00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:44.960 You mentioned that there's like screens that are like Cathrode 868 00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:49.440 ray tube screens. So what's the media situation, Like, is 869 00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:51.719 there like news and like does new Babel have its 870 00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:55.960 own kind of situation for media and communication that way? Yes, 871 00:56:56.079 --> 00:57:00.840 certainly

the major there's certainly TV. Again, it would be 872 00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:03.159 kind of a thing where it's like, oh, my rich 873 00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:09.119 friend has a TV, but not everybody has one. There 874 00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:17.440 is a TV news company NBTU New Babbel TV something 875 00:57:17.639 --> 00:57:23.239 what is it called stand by oh. NBN is New 876 00:57:23.280 --> 00:57:26.519 Babbel News and it's the TV news source. It's also 877 00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:30.559 kind of the broadcasting news source for other TV programs. 878 00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:34.239 There is a level of entertainment and media done in 879 00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:40.199 New Babble also sometimes through that dry port with essentials, 880 00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:43.920 like some old movies will come through, and like some 881 00:57:44.079 --> 00:57:47.360 old VHS staves, and like some old books and stuff 882 00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:50.280 come through. So there is some stuff where you guys 883 00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:53.199 can kind of keeme up with the rest of the world, 884 00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:57.920 but probably ten to twenty years behind because these just 885 00:57:58.039 --> 00:58:03.840 old things you're getting. And then there is a NBT 886 00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:08.039 which is New Babel Tower and it controls the newspaper 887 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:13.760 which is very potent or very prevalent in New Babbel, 888 00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:20.840 as well as the radio. Other questions nothing I was saying. 889 00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:23.599 I didn't have a question, but I had a little 890 00:58:23.679 --> 00:58:26.760 idea if we can add something to the lore. 891 00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:30.599 Yes, So that's the next phase of this is No, 892 00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:33.559 don't be I have some specific questions, but I'm also 893 00:58:33.760 --> 00:58:35.400 happy to hare anything. 894 00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:41.800 One idea I had was maybe some kind of anarchist 895 00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:47.920 American gang that like one culture joined America and you 896 00:58:48.039 --> 00:58:51.519 could either make them like vague American, you know, kind 897 00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:55.400 of idealizing this like time that they and even their 898 00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:59.199 grandparents don't remember of like when this was part of 899 00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:04.880 Ken's call it kind of idealizing, like I bout the Topeka. 900 00:59:08.679 --> 00:59:09.039 I don't know. 901 00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:10.000 I think that'd be fun. 902 00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:14.760 That's great some like people who kind of idealize, like 903 00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:17.320 we wouldn't have all these problems of America. 904 00:59:18.360 --> 00:59:20.599 I think that could be a fun group. Yeah, I 905 00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:24.440 love that idea. We can totally have an anarchist gang 906 00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:31.400 that wants to be part of America. I love it. Oh. 907 00:59:31.480 --> 00:59:36.920 Also there's robots. There's a race of robotic people called 908 00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:42.679 the day Dae and they are. They showed up very 909 00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:47.559 soon after the Evos left. They just showed up in 910 00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:51.000 New Babbel. It felt very random. But then it does 911 00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:53.480 seem like they are people. They they it seems like 912 00:59:53.559 --> 00:59:57.840 they have soul, which is the There was a lot of, 913 00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:03.480 you know, conspiracy theories. They are are. There's a couple 914 01:00:03.639 --> 01:00:07.840 churches built around it based on the coming of these people. 915 01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:10.480 It is a very weird thing, but they're kind of 916 01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:15.719 part of society now. Okay, my specific questions are I 917 01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:19.519 want you guys to think about laws like strange laws 918 01:00:19.639 --> 01:00:22.679 that might have gotten grandfathered in that was like it 919 01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:26.320 maybe made sense for this to be a law when 920 01:00:26.440 --> 01:00:29.239 there was a space program, but now that nothing's happening, 921 01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:31.800 it's just still a law. So it could be like 922 01:00:31.960 --> 01:00:35.880 a commodity that's illegal that like shouldn't be, or I 923 01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:37.360 don't know, weird laws like that. 924 01:00:38.679 --> 01:00:41.239 I feel like there would be some kind of like 925 01:00:41.679 --> 01:00:45.199 alarm system or like when they were launching the barges, 926 01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:50.239 because obviously it's going to be loud they have the shoots, 927 01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:54.440 but I assume there would be like some safety concerns 928 01:00:55.239 --> 01:00:58.360 with a city size spaceship blasting off into space with 929 01:00:58.519 --> 01:01:01.559 people around, So it makes sense that there would be 930 01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:04.199 some kind of like alarm system or like a shelter 931 01:01:04.360 --> 01:01:06.440 in place kind of thing. 932 01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:09.679 Just speakers are like you know, emergency broadcasts. 933 01:01:09.960 --> 01:01:13.760 Yeah, kind of network that's still there and then still used. 934 01:01:14.079 --> 01:01:15.079 M that's cool. 935 01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:15.440 Yeah. 936 01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:20.000 I don't know if it makes any any sense with 937 01:01:20.119 --> 01:01:23.440 what we've already got recorded, but the I think I 938 01:01:23.519 --> 01:01:27.119 always love the idea of any kind of prohibition. I 939 01:01:27.159 --> 01:01:29.920 don't know if a full stop prohibition makes sense for 940 01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:32.599 New Babbel but maybe like there's a curfew on booze 941 01:01:33.559 --> 01:01:36.599 and so like at a certain point some places turn 942 01:01:36.679 --> 01:01:37.559 into speakeasies. 943 01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:37.960 I don't know. 944

01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:40.119 Yeah, I love that. 945 01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:41.679 Yeah, that's great. 946 01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:48.360 Booze curfew. It'd be like stupid early, like it's like seven. Yeah, yeah, so. 947 01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:50.559 Lots of people are started doing it, but like it's 948 01:01:50.639 --> 01:01:53.239 technically against the law, and so it kind of gives 949 01:01:53.239 --> 01:01:54.920 you a little bit of that twenties thing. 950 01:01:55.079 --> 01:01:58.079 Yeah. I think maybe it cut off is seven and 951 01:01:58.159 --> 01:02:03.920 then it's like something stupid like no weekends, like seven 952 01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:07.159 on the weekdays. And because someone did a research of 953 01:02:07.239 --> 01:02:09.159 like when are people the most drunk and make the 954 01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:13.559 most stupid decisions after seven and on the weekends, So 955 01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:17.360 like that's when booze is out. Laws. Yeah, no weekend 956 01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:23.480 warriors allowed. Yes, cool? Any other ideas for laws that 957 01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:27.960 are still in place if you think of them later, 958 01:02:28.039 --> 01:02:29.880 you can. I'll just give you the next prompt. 959 01:02:32.159 --> 01:02:35.480 Would there be maybe still on the books some crazy 960 01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:41.360 evil laws where it's like evos are just like can't vote, 961 01:02:41.840 --> 01:02:46.360 not real citizens, they're busy evil laws that like aren't 962 01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:51.280 relevant since evos are gone, but would still be technically 963 01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:54.159 part of the law, as like a weird oddity of 964 01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:55.639 this past time. 965 01:02:56.280 --> 01:03:00.280 So it's at an interesting thought, I think certainly. But 966 01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:08.159 also New Babbel was the one place that evo's found 967 01:03:08.440 --> 01:03:17.840 some level of sanctuary during the Evo War, because another 968 01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:23.840 important name in history is William Blainer, who so the 969 01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:28.679 two big Evos were Brock dan and William Blaaner. And 970 01:03:28.880 --> 01:03:32.239 Blainer was like, hey, everybody show up to New Babbel. 971 01:03:32.320 --> 01:03:34.480 They'll keep us safe and then we'll all go to 972 01:03:34.559 --> 01:03:37.360 space together. He was like, let's just leave, let's just 973 01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:41.599 get out of here, whereas brock Danton was very much like, no, 974 01:03:41.760 --> 01:03:44.159 we're fighting this shit. We're not leaving here without a fight. 975 01:03:44.519 --> 01:03:49.119 And so anyways, that being said, New Babbel even I 976 01:03:49.199 --> 01:03:51.480 think for a time was like, yes, Evos are welcome 977 01:03:51.519 --> 01:03:54.599 here while this transition is happening, but there could still 978 01:03:54.639 --> 01:03:57.079 be some weird rules in place about evos for sure. 979 01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:01.000 Yeah, it kind of sounds like then like Bleaner, like 980 01:04:01.159 --> 01:04:04.800 some people would have viewed him as like a like turncoat, 981 01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:08.079 absolutely like giving up. So maybe like some of those 982 01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:10.480 laws did exist, and he's like, yeah, I'll just submit 983 01:04:10.559 --> 01:04:13.440 myself to this for my own safety, right and then 984 01:04:13.480 --> 01:04:15.760 get out of here. So that I can be free, 985 01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:17.960 no doubt. 986 01:04:19.039 --> 01:04:23.760 All right, you can keep thinking. My next prompt is sports. 987 01:04:24.840 --> 01:04:25.079 Fun. 988 01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:27.599 So I have not I have not come up with 989 01:04:27.719 --> 01:04:30.280 any sports that are in New Babble. It wouldn't be 990 01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:32.719 a traveling thing, right, we can't like go out and 991 01:04:32.840 --> 01:04:37.920 play you know, Colorado or Utah, Like, like, what sports 992 01:04:37.960 --> 01:04:40.639 are active in New Babbel? Is it a quadrant thing? 993 01:04:40.920 --> 01:04:40.960 Like? 994 01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:44.280 Do the quadrants each have you know, a fucking rugby 995 01:04:44.440 --> 01:04:46.880 like some weirds? Like is it a rugby team like 996 01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:51.840 cricket or like, I don't know what what what horse 997 01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:52.760 horse racing? 998 01:04:56.480 --> 01:04:59.400 It's very important to my backstory that there is horse racing. 999 01:05:01.360 --> 01:05:03.880 There could be some weird rocket based sport. 1000 01:05:04.880 --> 01:05:06.800 Yeah, I was thinking like, yeah, if there's if there's 1001 01:05:06.880 --> 01:05:08.880 hover cars and stuff like you could have like hover 1002 01:05:09.039 --> 01:05:12.440 ball or kind of imagining a big, you know, final 1003 01:05:12.519 --> 01:05:16.679 Fantasy ten style dome where people can like three dimensionally 1004 01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:17.760 play soccer. 1005 01:05:17.800 --> 01:05:23.599 Like a hover ball something crazy awesome. Let's let's iron 1006 01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:29.559 that out. Okay, so everyone everyone rides a horse obvious, 1007 01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:33.960 but yeah, I would say like probably two hover yeah, yeah, 1008 01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:34.559 hover polo. 1009 01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:38.400 I think hoverball. 1010 01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:44.239 Would be right. Damn well, no, so what are we 1011 01:05:44.320 --> 01:05:47.360 hovering on. So there are hover bikes, there's a little 1012 01:05:47.400 --> 01:05:51.480 hover cars. Maybe they just have like hover platforms on 1013 01:05:51.599 --> 01:05:53.840 their shoes that they can kind of skate with like 1014 01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:59.920 force the gravity below them over skates. And I wore 1015 01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:03.079 roller Derby to still be a big thing. Oh yeah, 1016 01:06:03.559 --> 01:06:07.320 that'd be cool. Yeah, just make

it hover roller derby. Well, 1017 01:06:07.400 --> 01:06:10.679 but I'm also thinking real roller derby. But like people 1018 01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:11.280 bring like. 1019 01:06:12.039 --> 01:06:15.360 Billy, Yeah, they have mods to their skates so they 1020 01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:18.559 can like you could do you could do roller Derby 1021 01:06:18.639 --> 01:06:20.440 in the shoot like shoot ball. 1022 01:06:20.440 --> 01:06:22.400 All like you go like all the way you do 1023 01:06:22.480 --> 01:06:28.119 like loop loops, yesh, shoot ball, shoot ball. I'm open 1024 01:06:28.239 --> 01:06:30.440 to a few things, Like it doesn't have to just 1025 01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:34.480 be one thing. But I think, like I think, uh, 1026 01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:37.800 normal sports, I like, I don't I don't think people 1027 01:06:37.800 --> 01:06:42.800 are playing basketball, you know, might still be sure, but yeah, 1028 01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:48.880 but uniquely new babbles like shoot ball, hover ball with 1029 01:06:49.039 --> 01:06:53.559 hover skates, roller derby with weapons. 1030 01:06:55.519 --> 01:06:58.840 I don't know anything about this, uh kind of the 1031 01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:03.559 part of this country that we're uh that we're set in. 1032 01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:07.719 But in my mind, my Midwestern stereotypes of the planes 1033 01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:11.760 involve a lot of hacky sack. So I like to 1034 01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:19.159 imagine like when cabble broken evolved into some like maybe 1035 01:07:19.239 --> 01:07:23.639 like art form more more than sport. 1036 01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:29.760 There's another gang on the streets, yeah, the sackers. 1037 01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:33.800 Just someone's playing violin and there's some woman hacky in 1038 01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:36.280 next to the violinist, and they're just like, yeah, that's 1039 01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:37.000 like street art. 1040 01:07:37.119 --> 01:07:38.039 That's what people do. 1041 01:07:39.079 --> 01:07:40.800 You play hacky sack. But then you also put a 1042 01:07:40.840 --> 01:07:42.800 hat out for people to throw coins into. 1043 01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:47.000 Watch it. Yeah, that's beautiful, it's beautiful. That's awesome. 1044 01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:48.400 Cool. 1045 01:07:48.679 --> 01:07:53.679 My last prompt is about retrofuturist tech. That's here. Uh, 1046 01:07:53.840 --> 01:07:56.960 you guys already know that there's hover stuff, there's uh 1047 01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:03.239 like floating lights. There's what else. We got pneumatic tubes. 1048 01:08:04.280 --> 01:08:06.400 Where are we at? I mean, like the day have appeared? 1049 01:08:06.440 --> 01:08:09.159 Where are we at with like AI or like robotic assistance? 1050 01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:12.920 Like is that because the day are there? That's like 1051 01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:18.159 taboo because good questions, like the robotic people have personhood 1052 01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:22.840 or are they like oh

no, that's like that's different 1053 01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:26.800 if there were to be like a little little robot buddy. 1054 01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:31.079 It was a big part of the Space program that 1055 01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:37.479 there was like AI concierge built for the travel, So 1056 01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:41.039 there could certainly have been some of that left behind. 1057 01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:46.399 Maybe just like a home like bought for the wealthy, 1058 01:08:47.159 --> 01:08:49.880 but probably not a physical thing that walks around. 1059 01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:51.479 But that's just like in the house. 1060 01:08:51.560 --> 01:08:54.520 Yeah, smart house, smart house, but not in the way 1061 01:08:54.600 --> 01:08:58.199 we see it. Smart house, but I don't think there's 1062 01:08:58.319 --> 01:09:00.880 like robot survey and swapping around. 1063 01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:04.079 Yeah. I want the thing in back to the future 1064 01:09:04.279 --> 01:09:07.479 where the food is growing in the ceiling and it 1065 01:09:07.600 --> 01:09:11.520 comes down out of the kitchen ceiling and there's just 1066 01:09:11.640 --> 01:09:13.119 grapes and stuff growing on it. 1067 01:09:13.920 --> 01:09:18.600 Great ceiling gardens. Yeah, ceiling grapes. 1068 01:09:18.920 --> 01:09:24.880 Yeah, specifically the grapes y spathetically pleasing, just to have 1069 01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:26.960 some grape vines draping out of your ceiling. 1070 01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:30.439 Anything else that comes to mind, like day to day 1071 01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:36.239 retrofuturist tech that is kind of commonplace. We got pneumatic tubes, 1072 01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:37.680 we got ceiling grapes. 1073 01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:44.520 Like since the like the bombs, the bombs of life, Yeah, 1074 01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:48.600 there's got a Was there any technology left like that 1075 01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:52.359 used on Earth or did it have to be in 1076 01:09:52.560 --> 01:09:55.439 giant bomb form? So are there places where that are Like. 1077 01:09:57.039 --> 01:09:58.880 Even though we're in the middle of this dense city, 1078 01:09:59.000 --> 01:10:04.119 there's like this beautiful green space because of terraforming tech. 1079 01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:08.720 A great question stuff. We'll just have to wait and see. 1080 01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:09.159 On that one. 1081 01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:13.079 I think, okay, if if so, if New Babble's kind 1082 01:10:13.079 --> 01:10:14.680 of cut off from the rest of the US and 1083 01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:18.880 the world, is there is there a physical wall around 1084 01:10:18.920 --> 01:10:20.880 the city or is there some sort of like a 1085 01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:24.359 force field or like does it minefield? Like what's the 1086 01:10:24.720 --> 01:10:27.680 reason people don't just kind of freely? What's the border 1087 01:10:27.760 --> 01:10:28.079 look like? 1088 01:10:28.159 --> 01:10:32.920 I guess yes, there is there is a

wall, and 1089 01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:37.920 between the city and the wall itself is known as 1090 01:10:38.039 --> 01:10:40.920 kind of no man's land. It's kind of a dead space. 1091 01:10:42.319 --> 01:10:48.039 The biggest thing people don't like people coming in that 1092 01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:51.159 a New Babble, both the city folk and the states 1093 01:10:51.359 --> 01:10:54.359 surrounding it. The world wants to forget about it. But 1094 01:10:54.520 --> 01:10:59.960 there's also kind of a economic problem with the money. 1095 01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:03.079 So the rest of the money in the world kept 1096 01:11:03.199 --> 01:11:08.720 on growing in value, and the exchange rate for New 1097 01:11:08.760 --> 01:11:13.119 Babbel dollars went to nothing. So like, if money is 1098 01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:17.079 only based on the dollars and stuff you have the bills, 1099 01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:21.760 then trying to go outside of New Babbel is you 1100 01:11:22.159 --> 01:11:24.039 have zero like you would have zero money. So I 1101 01:11:24.079 --> 01:11:27.680 think people leave, but it's I would say it's very rare. Okay, 1102 01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:30.199 but it's a physical wall then too. Yeah, but there 1103 01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:32.760 is a wall, and there are like there's border patrol 1104 01:11:35.439 --> 01:11:38.800 and a level of like we don't really want you 1105 01:11:38.920 --> 01:11:41.359 to go, But there's also like legally not. 1106 01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:46.800 Much that like prevents people, like legally say, or is 1107 01:11:46.880 --> 01:11:48.159 there a lot preventing people? 1108 01:11:48.359 --> 01:11:51.359 It might be a state choice there, which is interesting. 1109 01:11:51.479 --> 01:11:53.920 I think the world might have given the states that choice, Like, 1110 01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:57.279 if you want to accept New Babbel people, you can Colorado, Kansas, 1111 01:11:57.319 --> 01:12:00.800 and Nebraska, but you don't have to. So maybe Kansas 1112 01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:06.680 and Nebraska are like no in Colorado being is like 1113 01:12:08.760 --> 01:12:12.119 I guess, okay, maybe that's how I'll say. 1114 01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:15.920 And there's no but there's no New Babbel law preventing 1115 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:17.640 its citizens from leaving. Correct. 1116 01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:21.880 And you mentioned oil as a thing. Is that the 1117 01:12:22.319 --> 01:12:25.079 like what's the energy situation in New Babbel, Like is 1118 01:12:25.159 --> 01:12:28.880 it all fossil fuels like oil? Or is there like 1119 01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:32.319 a steampunk thing happening? Is a nuclear retrofuturism? Like where 1120 01:12:32.359 --> 01:12:33.319 are we getting our energy? 1121 01:12:33.840 --> 01:12:38.800 Yeah? So there's two major sources, one being Stephanson Oil 1122 01:12:39.239 --> 01:12:43.319 who is your mayor now? And the other being Ellington 1123 01:12:43.520 --> 01:12:49.199 electric Manny Ellington is

a very famous man in the 1124 01:12:49.319 --> 01:12:51.960 city and he's supposed to be like the billionaire of 1125 01:12:52.039 --> 01:12:58.239 the people. He owns in that no man's land, these 1126 01:12:58.359 --> 01:13:01.920 huge turbine things that create electricity that he gives to 1127 01:13:02.039 --> 01:13:06.760 the city. And when the Mayor's when the mayor's second 1128 01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:10.640 term began and all the oil prices shot through to 1129 01:13:10.800 --> 01:13:15.000 hell to heaven, whatever way they shot it was bad. 1130 01:13:16.560 --> 01:13:20.319 Ellington kept the electric rail very cheap. He lowered his 1131 01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:23.159 prices because he saw that was coming. And he kept 1132 01:13:23.159 --> 01:13:26.319 the electric rail very cheap so people can travel and 1133 01:13:26.399 --> 01:13:28.800 get around the city. Still. So those are the two 1134 01:13:28.920 --> 01:13:30.520 main sources of energy. 1135 01:13:31.199 --> 01:13:35.399 Cool can there be cool water features? I know? I 1136 01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:38.159 know that, Like yeah, I like tried to start with, 1137 01:13:38.279 --> 01:13:41.199 like are there cool gardens? I just imagine lots of 1138 01:13:41.279 --> 01:13:42.439 like jumping fountains. 1139 01:13:43.359 --> 01:13:44.920 What's a jumping fountain where the. 1140 01:13:45.039 --> 01:13:48.920 Water sprays out of one spot goes into another. Yeah, total, 1141 01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:52.479 but in like separate ponds. To imagine lots of arcs 1142 01:13:52.520 --> 01:13:52.920 of water. 1143 01:13:54.239 --> 01:13:57.600 Just like it's the people, like the statues of people 1144 01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:01.159 doing hacky sacks one foot and. 1145 01:14:01.159 --> 01:14:03.800 Then there's real people doing hackey sack underneath. 1146 01:14:04.319 --> 01:14:11.880 Thanks. Yeah, perfect, great, that was great. So that that 1147 01:14:12.439 --> 01:14:15.560 is the world we're going to be playing in. It's 1148 01:14:15.840 --> 01:14:23.319 new babble. It's a retro futurist, weird, dystopian city that 1149 01:14:23.560 --> 01:14:27.279 is disconnected from the rest of America. And one day 1150 01:14:27.319 --> 01:14:30.079 we want to go to space. Yeah we do. 1151 01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:30.800 Yeah. 1152 01:14:31.279 --> 01:14:34.319 So what can you expect from the show moving forward? 1153 01:14:37.840 --> 01:14:44.720 That's a good question. No, I can answer it. You've 1154 01:14:44.800 --> 01:14:50.000 listened to this first session zero. What is coming? So first, 1155 01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:52.199 and this is very exciting. We're going to be releasing 1156 01:14:52.319 --> 01:14:57.039 the origins stories for each of our characters slowly over 1157 01:14:57.039 --> 01:15:01.239 the next three months or so, so look for those 1158 01:15:02.439 --> 01:15:05.800 in twenty twenty six, when we hit January. Those will 1159 01:15:05.880 --> 01:15:09.039 only be available through our Patreon and a subscription there, 1160 01:15:09.640 --> 01:15:14.880 and that's when we will begin the sessions proper. So 1161 01:15:14.960 --> 01:15:17.800 that's when we'll all be getting together and doing our 1162 01:15:17.880 --> 01:15:20.479 story together. And then if you want the origins, you 1163 01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:22.840 can go back to you can go to our Patreon 1164 01:15:22.920 --> 01:15:29.880 and listen to them there. But we'll be doing the 1165 01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:40.800 main show, so we'll have nay, so you have the 1166 01:15:40.920 --> 01:15:44.960 main show, and then along with those origin stories, if 1167 01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:47.199 you go to our Patreon and become a member there, 1168 01:15:47.800 --> 01:15:52.399 there will also be post show chats called the chat 1169 01:15:52.520 --> 01:16:00.199 Cave where we will talk about the episode in real time. Uh, 1170 01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:03.720 and we'll have a chat in the chat cave about 1171 01:16:03.760 --> 01:16:06.359 the episodes. So there'll be a bunch of stuff over 1172 01:16:06.399 --> 01:16:09.359 there for you to enjoy on the Patreon it's patreon 1173 01:16:09.399 --> 01:16:14.600 dot com. Slash team up RPG and what else we 1174 01:16:14.640 --> 01:16:18.359 want to say goodbye is there? We don't have an outro. 1175 01:16:19.439 --> 01:16:22.640 Oh, but I would love to encourage people to team 1176 01:16:22.720 --> 01:16:25.399 up in your real life community to make your world 1177 01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:26.000 a better place. 1178 01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:29.520 I'd like to advocate for vigilanti justice. 1179 01:16:30.960 --> 01:16:33.560 I mean, that's that's one way to team up with 1180 01:16:33.640 --> 01:16:34.079 your friends. 1181 01:16:36.079 --> 01:16:43.000 Everybody learn karate, you learn judah. That's all you need 1182 01:16:43.079 --> 01:16:46.079 to do to be a vigil some martial art. 1183 01:16:47.159 --> 01:16:53.000 I think that's important. But what's step said? What's that? Yeah? 1184 01:16:53.560 --> 01:16:57.000 Not I But also you also could take some judah classes. 1185 01:16:57.039 --> 01:16:58.399 But then maybe also volunteer. 1186 01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:05.000 See you can get special spiders to bite you, because 1187 01:17:05.039 --> 01:17:08.920 once you get powers, then all vigilanteism is okay. And 1188 01:17:10.840 --> 01:17:13.920 how you did it, I think is the moral. 1189 01:17:14.079 --> 01:17:16.720 We're telling people to get into street fights and to 1190 01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:19.159 look for spiders and roll around on. 1191 01:17:19.199 --> 01:17:25.960 Them getting the spiders. Hey, we love you and thanks 1192 01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:30.319 for listening, and we will see you as a group 1193 01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:38.159 in January. Bye bye bye. Thanks for listening to session 1194 01:17:38.319 --> 01:17:41.720 zero of our first season of the Team Up play 1195 01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:46.520 show podcast, The City of Bones. 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