What's everybody? What's up? Everybody? Welcome to What the Fuck for April?
Um a fool's quest. We're back at it again. UM for all
of you beautiful people who are tuning in. Uh, this is it's for
our patreon, our patrons, uh who like to give us that little support
to get that little extra um our DM for this campaign is the one and
the only Tony, Tony say, Hi, I'm Tony. It's true.
Uh. And Elmer, the old krotchety goblin played by Jesse, It's true.
I wish I wish for the podcast you could see the ky look in
Jesse's face when I when I like motioned to him, he looks just as
old and angry as his character. It's amazing, I know he is.
Uh. And then that's all the people who are playing. We don't need
to worry about anybody else. Um Wren, who is a part of the
ex people. For sure. It is played by Nico. That's me.
It's true. And unfortunately Mike couldn't have be here today, but he is
playing Pilsner, who is a pretty rad dude. All right, Mike's out
surfing right now. I think, yeah, I'm doing probably catch them some
whites bro like Michigan in April. Oh no, having a great time.
Yeah, if you know, you know, out for the ice chunks,
they're just floating from all Right, We're gonna dive right into this beast um
with episode fourteen. Um. In this episode, it's it's just kind of
unfortunate because I really want to talk about some some of the aspects. Um.
This is the one you guys, you guys kind of hit a ghastly
entity. Um, you guys were down in the mocket mire. Uh.
And this is the episode where you guys saw coming from from the uh the
waterway. Um. Yeah, that that like ghostly sludge thing. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah that was that was a because of the previous episode they'd
found that, you know, used summoning circle from something from something you guys
chasing John Smith, uh, which I'm as a listener, I'm starting to
think might not be his real name. I'm I mean, I don't know,
it might be his real name. Like John Smith had to come from
somewhere, right, it's like a really popular name. So that's where people
you know, I mean ends technically. UM for this one, did you
guys, were you guys worried at all when you were hitting it, and
it's just like it seemed like I think for the first half of that nothing
was really landing. There's a lot of resistances. Um well, it dove
back down into the water, right, and then we had disadvantage trying to
hit it. And my spells and Elmer's spells are all like, we need
to see more throwing our spells at so it would be helpful. Yeah,
so I think. I mean, uh, you know, Pilsner was the
one who was having the most success stabbing blindly into the water while me and
Elmer were doing whatever the fuck we were trying to do. I've noticed Elmer.
I've noticed that his tactic is buff people and sneeze away. That's correct,
buff people, sneeze away, catapult maybe nothing to catapult. Okay,
that's that's correct. That's all I need to do. I don't I don't
feel any I'm like eighty, I don't need to be involved in this,
all right. I'm just here from wall Support and Gold. I gotta say
Jesse's done amazing with his limited spell lists, like yeah, limited, just
a transmutation. They've still surprised the just I can't tell you how many times
I've just been like, oh, all right, yeah you can do that.
I know, we say it like every time, but having one school
of spells and having to like finagle your spell book around for that, it's
like really fun. You're using things in ways you never did before, because
I mean at this level, I mean, he could just be fireball fireball,
you know, or you know, lightning bowl, but he doesn't.
He's got other random ship yes to do. And I think it's great.
Still get the job done. The same episode after the Demon, you used
control water to look in the sludge pool and yeah, find treasure. Yeah
he does. He does the control water and in some future episodes will talk
out. But that and another spell that was pretty uh pretty impactful. Um
kind of alters the way that you guys maneuver UM. And then I also
did notice that Tony, you were you were wise and up and you were
like, listen, you're in a spot where there's no loose debris, there's
you don't have any rocks, no, there's no chairs around. He's like,
I can't wait, I can't catapult anything crossbow bowl. I think I
think for a hot second it was like, am I gonna catapult this crossbow.
Yeah, no, I think it's good. I think Elmer's best spell
is some in Mayonnaise though out of all that correct that's true. I mean
everything else is like useful or whatever, but some in Mayonnaise is really the
nothing was driving the party forward. It's it's like the fifth cast member.
Really. I I absolutely speaking of man Is. It reminds me of Stu.
And I absolutely love Rend's just commitment. I want him to plan my
birthday party. He's just like anthro Knoxis. We have to get him a
birthday present. I was just like unebasgedly, like, hell no, we're
not doing this. I don't know that this is Rend's motivation, but I've
always assumed it's that. Okay, So like his his patrons and arch Faye,
and if they make a deal, they are bound by it. And
he made a deal to bring Anthronoxis back treasure, so he's he sees himself
as bound by it. That's that's That's what I've always assumed is his motivation.
But I don't know if that's right. Any benefit of the doubt.
He pet dragon buddy. I just I think that, I mean I made
him so that he was not I mean, he's not a Fay right,
so he's not like right Fay realm. But he's also like very whimsical in
nature and like curious almost. I think that's probably why the Fairy Godmother would
be interested in having a uh, you know, servant like him, is
because he's got some of the characteristics that intrigue her, where everybody else is
like nope that he's like, oh, I'll bring you more gifts for your
birthday. Oh yeah, birthday press. Yeah. I think it's great.
He's so childlike and he's like he has a however you want to say it,
naivete or naivete, how pretentious you want to be. But he has
time. Um, Harry Potter and the Chamber of co Shamer of Commerce,
so that we don't even probably best they're just like for fourteen chapters go on
the difference between the currencies and the exchange. Um anyway, Harry Potter,
the Land anyway, these books hit different. Um yeah, so I I
I'm really thoroughly enjoying um because you guys are sticking with just the silliness of
a fool's quest. But I think that as a show and as a group,
um, it really does sound like you guys are bringing a fair amount
of depth to your characters, which is really great to listen to. Uh
yeah, especially with like in speaking about Wren and all this stuff, you
can you can kind of see that not only is he kind of like a
kid that's kind of coming through this um and he is kind of special,
but he's also kind of a badass, Like like he takes zero time to
be like, all right, I'm gonna go in there and take care of
this um, which is something you might not you might not readily see,
especially with the party playing so cautiously and smart about encounters and running away sometimes
and like the rust monster you guys from the last episode from thirteen, a
little rusty right, um left alive just snuck around. It just there's been
a lot of times when I expected a fight and then they've just been like
nah. And a lot of the times it's because Wren's character makes no assumptions
about the NPCs, Like they met a dragon. He's like, hey,
what's your name? You know, yeah, everyone else is crapping their pants.
He's like, hey, buddy, the hag they were they were sent
they get the hag And he's like, I don't know if we should kill
her, because what should really even do? Yeah, yeah, like then
the he just doesn't assume it's great. It's made me have to adjust that
all three characters have maybe had to adjust things as the DM from from my
original plans, which is I think that Tony has done a really good job
to dming this in the spirit of AFQ right like it is. It's a
very whimsical story. It's meant to be a comedy. We come after all
the tropes. We are super dumb, but everything that we do is to
push the narrative forward. There's no just dumb fuckery just for dumb fuckery.
Like everything pushes the narrative forward and has a story that all the characters can
be invested into. And I think, you know, Tony's done a really
good job creating that environment for us, where I've listened to a lot of
podcasts where that's not always the case. Either they you know, are going
off the rails doing completely wild stuff and the dms like, oh my god,
I hate my life, or or the DM's like no, no funny
business ye for reels, And I just I think it's really impressive that Tony's
been able to hop in, you know, with this little one point five
campaign and maintain that that vibe that AFQ has. I think it's kind of
a difficult thing to do, and you're doing great. Yeah. Also phenomenal
job with the rule of cool, Tony, because you can definitely tell when
things are just again episode thirteen, when you when you had to reccond the
ladder and stuff, and you're like, you know what, No, I
love everything you guys are doing. Just you keep you keep doing you,
you keep doing us. You guys are doing great. You're you're adapting really
well, You're improving. Is great to see and it's super entertaining. We've
talked about that in our discord too, because when we first started, a
few people were like, oh, Wren shouldn't be able to teleport around as
he does, and somebody had said that in our discord and Tony was like,
I don't care. It's funny. Shut up, it's funny. So
I mean, yeah, it's good, it's a good time, and it
doesn't break the game, right, Like I'm not trying to break the game,
and yeah, yeah, that's the I mean, that's the best part
is none of us are trying to break the game. You know, none
of us are trying to play adversarially. I guess which is mixed. Things
flow a lot smooth, a lot more smoothly when you when you do a
lot of things like that, you know it, Right, if we didn't
all tried not to break the game, we wouldn't be able to do things
like that, right, Yeah, Yeah, you don't have a group full
of murder hobos. And then it's not it's not DM versus players who are
the DM's trying to kill people, you know and make it so difficult.
It's you all are working together to tell out an awesome story and to have
a lot of fun, which is the point of D and D. Yeah.
The story is why we all play it, you know. Yeah.
Yeah, And that's why Mike's not here because we kicked him out. So
fuck you, Mike, that's true. If he's back next month, nobody
say anything. Um, even with him gone, I do want to give
props to his editing skills, man throwing this stuff in there. He does.
He does a lot of work in trying to man. It really brings
it to life for sure. And um, and then I wanted to touch
base on his Elmo boys, have you guys I heard that voice before?
No, okay, yea. His letting skills are amazing. That whole dungeon
dungeon crawl was just so good and like he really set the atmosphere of it
with with the sound and the echoes and the drips and everything is amazing.
But the Elmo voice, yeah, it was his chef's kissing. Because like,
as as someone who tries to do Elmo right, like how can you
Mickey Mouse? But I can't. I can't do Elmo And this guy is
just nailing it the whole time, talking the most random shit. I'm like,
dude, he's killing it. He should have seen him in the Room
to Sea. He was like throwing his hands up and he's like that's all
I was gonna say. Bike's incapable, Just so everyone's aware, he is
incapable of doing a voice without acting it out. So anytime he's acted out
any of these voices, he looks like you think he looks. It's just
a lot of it is a cool emote, So wait, what what are
you doing? Pills? Or then is he like head cocked back and like
blazes, look, yeah, he tossed his head back and then he gets
so quiet. I don't like, I have to boost his microphone up like
seven or eight decibels when he starts talking like it is so much a pain
in the ask to addit him. He'll be talking normal like this and then
all of a sudden get real quiet, like, yo, bros, what
do you eat your mic for a second? Yeah, get into it.
But he's like, oh man, yeah, tell him, just tell him
to put it in his mouth. Yeah. He gets close to the microphone
for that, he tries to make eye contact. We've all learned to look
away, everybody. He's doing the thing. Just ignore it. It will
stop. Yeah, and he says it too, like while we're all talking.
He'll just keep saying it until until we recognize put it in your mouth.
Put it in your mouth, put it, put it in your mouth.
Yes, yes, it's my favorite bit. It's like a dog that
wants that cheese that you're eating, and you're like it, yes, I
see you eat your face where, yes, I see you. It's it's
it's my favorite bit. Yeah yeah, alrighty Hey Shamus, there is a
question here from Kevin in our discord. He said, why hasn't Elmer in
all these years ended up rich being able to make such powerful potions? Is
it because he's too nice? That's Elmer, That's that's why he'd go with
Probably, I like I like to imagine that Elmer has um made money but
subsequently been run out of town several times in his life, Like he's become
well established and then be run off because uh, well, eventually people start
noticing that when they drink his potions they grow like extra toes and stuff,
so that he has to move out of town with a quickness and start over.
Right, you find two new people to turn into crocodiles, and then
you get rich again, and you do it for a while, and just
all of all of Elmer's potions that he creates has like one of those really
long lists of like you may incur from all of these symptoms. Side effects
will include and side effects may include. I've got two separate lists. Yeah,
will include on one, may include on the other. Well, we're
going to wrap this up for the general Pabblis guys, you're gonna be able
to see this. Um, this is a bonus episode, all right,
this is what the fuck for a fools quest. You can find this as
and along with a ton of other bonus content that we're putting out for you
to say thank you for all of your support for being patrons. There's a
lot of different ways you can support us. If you don't feel like being
a patron is kind of your thing, you can also just kind of like
comment, share, subscribe on any of our social media platforms. Creative type
of We have a ton of shows out right now and coming out, so
our Patreon subs we get they get all of these episodes on a special RSS,
your own little feed. You can see them before everybody else. You
get to be the hipster cool kids, and you also get ad free listening
to all of the creative type of shows. Additionally, we have just launched
a Patroon only podcast series featuring Chris, Jess and Alan who's a new edition.
Our Patron subscribers are actually voting right now on the random events which happened
in that series in that campaign, and they occurred to the fools as the
adventures, so you can see it happen almost in real time. But you
get direct access to what happens to that campaign as it comes out, which
is pretty awesome. We also have our brand new audio drama The ISFiT Archives,
and a spinoff story called Beans and Butcher's. So check out our patron
and check out all the perks that are included. And I want to give
a special thanks to our Patreon level executive producer, the One, the Only,
Nick Mead. Thanks. Thank you guys for listening and for the rest
of this will be for all the cool cats who are patrons. Bye bye, audience.