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cost hi eron, Welcome to side Quest, the game we do between the
games. It's not really a game. Let's talking at each other as a
game. But that's kind of what we do in the games anyway. Anyway,
let's not get e destential about it. We're here with a special side
quest, I guess because we're just fresh from Indy Can twenty twenty three.
Fresh is definitely the wrong word. We are back from that car. I'm
where all I have with me today. Can guests Special con guests Robert Bevan,
MK Gibson and Judy Black. Hi. Yeah, hello friend everybody.
Yeah, So three days of madness and geekery in Portland, Oregon. It's
kind of I think Rick compared the con to New Year's Eve, whereas a
lot of build up, a lot of patches that you can't remember properly,
and then just about a week to get back to normal and fail whatever resolutions
you made. But yeah, how's everybody feeling? Well? Several days removed,
I'm rested. I wouldn't say rested. You're feeling best, but I'm
I'm normal, which is in a normal state of not rested. You had
a remarkable recuperative powers, Bevin. I've always said that about you. You
should be dead by now. Really that is true. It's inspiring. Yeah,
it was kind of a long flight for me. It's about ten hour
flight. Jet lack hit me hard both ways this time. So if you
did see him at a conn and I was a little space to out,
wasn't just a drugs I was gonna say jet lack for me, it was
total jet lag. I got up at the butt crack and dawned to fly
two am on the East Coast to get to the Baltimore Airport by four am.
Flew out at six am, got to touch down a Minneapolis, a
little layover. It got to Portland around noonish Portland time, hit the con
set of the table, go go go, And then by nine o'clock that
night, which would have been like I guess my midnight, I just Peter
Griffin into bed, just snored and dead, dead to the world. Just
just do it again and do it again. Yep, me too. Three
hours from the East Coast to Portland, and I did not think it would
be like that impactful, but yeah, the whole time, and then like
all this week so far up, and like I don't know what time it
is, I don't know what's going on. I'm here. I don't know
what more you want for me. I'm here, Yeah, I'm also east
coast or I don't. I didn't find that the time difference or the jet
lag was a bigger fan. It was just like Gibby said, getting up
for such an early flight, getting making a connection, and then you know
the stress of it all. I can't sleep on plans for whatever reason.
I can't stay awake on a bus. I don't know what that's all about.
But yeah, so didn't get a lot of rest there. That's about.
Say, I don't know what time it is. I still think it's
yesterday, but as it's after midnight, I suppose I still think it's Wednesday.
I don't know. And also I didn't talk to a single person.
I don't think you didn't have some kind of fuckery with that flight, some
kind of d I'm actually thankful mine with on time, zero problems. It's
just long, like and then the flyback that night, I left the con
right around four o'clock, got to the airport, got the security, flew
out at like I think it was like seven that evening, and then I
got in Monday morning at six thirty, because we're now jumping forward in time,
and I did that little break in like Salt Lake, and then drive
back from there to my house. So I got back to my house at
seven thirty the next morning and again hugged the family, hugged the dogs,
hugged the boy, took a hot shower, and passed out till two in
the afternoon. Bam, done, there you go fishing. But it was
it was a great time. Yeah. Yeah, enough complaining. I do
like complaining. Let's just complain about other things. Yeah, it was a
hell of a con. We had a great guest lineup. We had Matt
Denneman, Jeff Hayes, Matt Une, Mark, David North, so many
guests. It was a good time. There were old faces and new faces.
I met some new people. We put on a kind of I guess
the shows were a little different this time. Drew put on that quiz,
which was cool. We got to screen the Shingles movie, which was cool
unless you hated the Shingles movie. But then again, a couple of people
did I mean the projector seemed too because it died for quite even That was
good for me because I was I was with Steve doing a hero quest and
I got to catch the last half of the movie because it was delayed.
That was convenient. Yeah, Shingles, it's it's meant to be divisive.
We didn't make that movie thinking this is going to appeal to everyone. Yeah,
quite the opposite. I'm hoping the movie is some sort of stage of
the apocalypse. It probably is. Any time will tell well, someone's got
a rose that movie Movie forty two that everybody's like, oh no, somebody
has to take on Movie forty two. Someone's gonna do it. But yeah,
good point. Actually, the gaming that was different this year. We
always have gaming people do left to come and game together and have a nice
time with fellow nerds, but we're doing kind of more structured gaming this time.
Each member of the cast was kind of bringing something new to the table.
I think Drew did all red Flags. Dude, you did it like
a crash course in D and D. Right. Yeah, we ran a
game with like nine people. It was just complete in total chaosk that's a
lot of people to be really good game with that does sound last? Sounds
hard? I did the opposite of hard. I took Hero Request, which
is D and D stripped right down until you don't have to think, which
was ideal for like whatever time it was, I was doing it massively hungover,
Bevin, what did you play? I did Katan, because like a
week before the con, somebody on my discord said, oh, I'm looking
forward to your game, the game you're running. I thought, oh,
crap, I need to run I need to run a D and D game.
I can't do that. So I was stressing about it for a little
while. And then I told you, Steve about it, and no,
it doesn't have to be D and DO. You can do any game.
And that was like the day before I was supposed to leave. All right,
Katan just looked at a shelf sort of first time it was Katan or
Twister. Now, Steve, you ran a game for your first time.
I didn't get a chance to see because I was stuck doing something else.
But how'd that go? That's true. I run my first live event game,
not in the gaming room, on the stage with people watching. It
was a bit nerve racking. I was a bit nervous. I've never done
it before, but I kind of cheated. It was a bit more of
a I guess stripped down version of D and D. I used a power
point presentation. Let's put it out. I mean that's that's appropriate for doing
it on stage. Though, Yeah, I thought you can't have everybody like
looking up rules and what calculating about like ounce as a container for creating destroy
water in the middle of a live game. Like no, the arguments the
best part. But yeah, well people will get to judge whether the approach
worked. That should be. That is an advantage of the can we do
have like gobs of live content we've recorded. We will be releasing that for
out the coming weeks, so something to look forward to there. If you
weren't able to attend to can't Gibby you did kind of you did something a
bit special because you ran like a more traditional D and D game. Well,
I say traditional, but we lotteried off. We raffled off a couple
of free spaces on the game, so they had to privilege of playing alongside
Bevan and I. I was real happy about that. Drew is coming to
me afterwards He's like, your slots filled up really fast, so people run
a raffle they want to play in your game. I'm like, that was
very touching. I'm like, man, but you have no fucking clueture in
for because I'm not. I'm I mean there was, I was. Unfortunately
I was not wearing my glasses. I was wearing my contacts, and I've
reached that age now that if anything's real close, I can't see it very
well. So I missed entire plot points on my own notes, and I'm
just trying to like skip by it as fast as possible. I mean,
there was like when you guys were up there playing, there was one more
item He's supposed to find it to move one of the nights. Totally missed
it, totally skipped over, forgot about it after the until I got home
read by notes like Son of a Bitch. No one seemed to notice or
care because we were just having some dumb fun and I really liked the one
moment where I was I was going to kill one of the players I was
legitimately going to do it was April, but she made a great role.
Now I could have changed that role. No, no, no, no,
I mean perma dead, the creature I had had in bonus action to
make her perma dead, to absorb her, and I could have negated her.
She rolled the constitution safe, and I could have degated it because the
audience gave me a vito. But it felt so cool to see her because
she's like, I don't play very often, I'm not doing what the I'm
new with this and I don't know, so just bear with him and you're
gonna be fine. Yes, But but she made the saving and survived in
front of the audience and they applauded. I'm not that big a dick.
I just can't say welcome now, welcome to the graveyard. Yeah, but
it hell exactly. Well that's where you just like, now, charm her
and attack your party and make it good. But no, it went good.
It went well. I beg you too for playing in it as well.
And I'm glad you guys got in on the joke of parodying the authors.
And you know it was fun. It was fun. Everybody has nice
time. So much parody the author, but just played a pedophile. Stick
to the classics, Bevin, stick to what it was. Well, your
version of Rick was just so surly like I'm not. I thought you were
generally mad at me, Steve, because you were just saying there like you're
just really gonna role play or I don't want to be stuck here and this
is stupid, so you were just I don't already or that's how you think
are real experience of of rack Plague, DVD D and D is Silas Kane
and trying to destroy is in Salty Best. It's just like, just like
seventy percent of my interactions with Rick, So that's w I had to go
on. I know he's a nice guy in real life, but I don't
get any of that. Oh yeah, that was a fun one. Speaking
of live games, of course, we had the main game, Quest for
Competence, so that will be coming out soon. We have my sub game
that will be coming out. Why else did we have on the main stage?
We had Salty Bastards returning first of what I think will be a two
parter because we ran into our own Incompetence sing. Once again, we didn't
do anything in there. It's it's amazing we don't infected us into our to
our plans by now I did. I did less in that game then I've
done when I spent the entire combat peeing on something that's true? Which game?
You peeed in my game too? Yeah, but I did other stuff,
did you go? You've got to set new records now and then,
just to keep the challenge alive. Yeah, but we had a live reading
by Matt Dinneman and Jeff Hayes. We were a very cool couple of guys,
So that will definitely be something that people want to see. I really
hope we recorded that. And yeah, we had Scott Burtness doing an improv
writing a story by improv show, So hopefully we've got that too. If
not, it's not my fault you missed it, it's your fault. Next
time go to the corn. There was lots of cool stuff that wasn't captured
by camera. We tried to document as much about the defiling of the Rick
Carbot cardboard cut out as we could. Yeah, that was so good that
took that. There were so many people in the bathroom helping coordinate that shot.
It was an incredible amount of team efforts. Man following those pictures was
amazing him. Peeking under the under the stall was one of my favorites.
We nearly got kicked out of the elementary school. Well this is how art
is made. Yeah, for those who weren't like the can Rick unfortunately couldn't
make it. So somebody did a very disturbingly realistic carboard cutout in his place,
which was immediately and horribly assaulted the course of three days. Its good
times. Not that much different from a regular car that I think about it.
I had one proud moment during the con. It was if you never
did you get a chance to? I assume y'all met Andrew and Aaron at
Michael. He has that one card game he's creating. He's gonna try,
hopefully do it. Kids who slaughter land all so okay, So he brought
that over to us. I think something else is going on. We were
sitting in the you know, the author's alley, just kind of like hanging
out because there's very little foot traffic at the time. He said, hey,
do you guys want to try I'm like, I didn't payed again,
I'm like, yeah, I'd love to, just to find out. There
was looking at Deneman because Matt's never lost a game, He's always won.
So we were playing, We're playing, and then it came down to Matt
Denneman and me, and we were sitting there. We readjusted our chairs so
we're not only just face to face, we're like we've locked leg to leg,
like our knees that are intertwined like this, so we are eye to
eye and we tried to thumb in louise it. So we both ended up
winning. But Aaron says, no, per game rules are going to be
one person, so technically I won, and Matt signed a book for me.
Says dear Gibby, fuck you. I will destroy you one day.
Mattan that means you definitely, there's nothing technical about Heck, give you a
cut. I put the picture that on my on my author page on Facebook.
Even the fans react and even Matt chimback. He's like, you asked
all I will destroy you one day. You were by en. I mean
like I'm retiring. I am retiring. I've got a perfect record. I've
never been beaten. Yeah. That this slow was a cool slow house that
went down really well. I think a slaughter Land. We were trying to
pitch him a change, like how about you change the name to Peril because
half the game is while getting in and out of Peril like, I think
that'd be a dope name, but were But it's a great game and when
it comes to kick sure, I will totally back it. Yeah, it
was so fun. I only got to play one round of it, and
I yeah it was. It was incredible. I didn't get a chance to
play, but I think we are going to be hearing more from that as
well. And again one of those one of those things that we probably should
have filmed but didn't. Again, sorry if you couldn't attend to come,
because that it was me, Scott, Young, Burtness, one of the
kids, and then a couple of the people joined in, so I think
me like seven people sitting around playing that. It was a blast, such
a blast. Nice. Yeah, someone came and Kyle came and hunted me
down to join them when they were playing it. Yeah, it was a
really great atmosphere. And again I'm genuinely sorry if you couldn't make it.
But to all those who did show up, well done. You really made
the event. They all had a fantastic time and that wasn't down to me.
I put in very little efforts, so thank you, not at all.
I didn't leave the hotel unless I was forced. Man, yeah,
speaking about having a fantastic time, did you guys get to sample to Portland
nightlife? I I sample of the local cuisine during the day, but become
again again come like eleven o'clock. That's my two am, and I'm just
I'm dead at that point. So I was a good little boy. Went
to bed at a decent hour most nights, you know, I think midnight
is my latest ice stayed up and you know, two drinks later, I'm
like, oh, I'm sleepy. So I've learned two valuable lessons. If
you want to find out where the best bar is to follow, if you
want to feel like absolute dogshit the next day. Drink with Matt Dinnoman.
I heard about it is that the Old Crow's story. I heard a little
bit about that. He was weirdly trashed the next day. Every time we
went out, inevitably we'd end up bumping into Matt about two am, and
I'd be like, oh my god, it must be two am. There's
Matt. I'm going immediately home. The next day he was fine, Like
is if nothing had happened like a ghost in my military days, I could
have done that, but I'm not that theres are many years removed, like,
I don't bounce back, so I don't try. No, I still
haven't bounced back. I doubt I ever will. My intention was to drink
beer in the hotel every night I was there, but I was dragged to
a bar and immediately cut off. I heard about Now, I heard how'd
that go? I've drank with you a few times, Bevin, and I
got to say, in this instance, you're right, it was an injustice.
You did not deserve to be cut off. That was just a very
surly barmaid. Yeah, it was, and I think we have to reviews
to back up, so I'm going to call it. That was an injustice.
Justice for Robert Bevan, did you really need another Portland's IPA? And
when all you really wanted was like not that I wanted to go back anyway.
I had a cooler full of beer waiting for me. That's true in
a way, you cut her off. Oh, since she's here. I
just want to say thank you to Judy for allowing me to join you in
the rest of the group during that game. That was very much appreciated.
It was just when when on Hartness sat next to me, He's like,
hey, we're a person down. How good are you it? I'm like,
you need to go on that stage, don't you. He's like,
yeah, get your ass up there. Oh no boy, And I'm looking
at you. I'm looking at the other people like they have they have a
cohesion, they've got a timing. I'm gonna fuck this up. Oh you
give us far too much credit. Well, now that i'm listening back to
the episodes, yeah i am. But the point is it's a lot of
fun. But no, it was a lot of fun. You guys did
great, and I'm just glad I got to play along. Yes, I'm
to look forward to listeners again. Quest for Competence a surprise insert from Gibbey
as an extra player, so keep an eye out for that. Very intimately
familiar with one particular player. Very Yeah, well there you go. Yeah,
listenership for just doubled Yep, that one's something. Yeah, ah,
that was hard. So cute. Well, it's so cute. They've met
in the Andy Discord and then like the first time they met in person was
at A and Dy Vegas, so it's like so sweet. I keep on
telling people that if you want to find true happiness, you have to listen
to our podcast the only way. Very few people listen to me, but
you know, it's living proof. Are you allowed to naming them by name
or is that not no bueno on the podcast? Uh? You know what,
I'm not sure. Okay, I can name it by their discord names.
Maybe because they're not real names. You know what I'm going to say.
We just leave it in the magic of the moment. And if you
didn't get into the con, join you. If you join the Patreon and
sign up and join our discord, perhaps you will meet these elusive people who
were engaged. That's true. You can join the Patron. I do recommend
joining the Patron actually if you haven't, not just because I'm greedy and I
want your money, that's true too. But it was really cool to have
so many people who kind of had this consistent relationship just meeting up in real
life. Nothing felt forced, nobody felt like a stranger. There's this big
group of welcoming and welcoming people who knew each other, really nice vibe,
and I think the Patron played a large part and that so that was nice.
Yeah, it was. And then you see someone and you're like,
oh my god, you're so and so on discord. We've played Jackbox a
million times together, so it was it was really nice to kind of like
have that already built in. It was cool. Yeah, speaking a nightlife,
I did not make things easy for myself at all. I think I
got lost about three times in Portland, once per day. And it was
hot out there. Oh my god, it was so nice. I don't
even want to hear it was hot. It was unusually hot. I don't
like I always complain about not getting a summer in England, but this was.
There was something about the heat and being in a city where I just
felt like I was constantly in a dog fut, just trapped in a dog
fut. But you know, nice city, but just like in an oven
full of dog anus. Yeah, no city, that's a one world.
That's one way of saying it. Yeah, that's a description I liked.
I'm gonna say I like seed undergrown bars and artisanal coffee shops. I'm easily
pleased everything else. You know, it's just spaces in between those things.
The only NSSA wasn't a dog I'm not being literal as being metaphorical, but
there was there that happened on one of the times that Bevan and I got
lost. We're going. The first day, I just started marching out confidently
Withdrew, and this happened every time we went on we're going to go to
this place, and we got there eventually, Oh it's closed, Okay,
we'll go this direction. Oh that's close to it. I'm like, I've
been walking for two hours. It happened the next day with Bevan and we
saw her an Anis, and the third day with Brenda McGinley, who you
may know from the old crack days and man Cave days. He came over
and we're good enough to step out with me for a little while. But
yeah, I got very sweaty and lost, so I missed like large chunks
of the can just by trudging around a city, a hot city filled with
surprise adis. I think it was somewhere on Saturday. Jeff Hayes is like,
I'm hungry, you go something eating? Like yeah, sure. He
and I walked out. We walked in a direction and we eventually passed the
street market and we're like, we're we just found the once we found the
first spike fish and chips place, like, let's just eat here, let's
just go Yeah, that's it, and we just sat down in that delicious
fish and chips. Was very good, but it was I don't know where
we're going. We passed like a couple of bazaars, like a lot of
like local Portlandians, So it was it was. It was an interesting walk
about. Yeah, it's always an interesting walk about. I think Paul,
I can safely say, without risk of being made this out unfair that in
Portland you can walk down a really nice street, then you can take a
turn and just walk through something that looks a bit like mad Max, complete
with like ass less chaps and yeah, not being native, I didn't really
know how to navigate that. So it was I like to think I experienced
the full available culture of Paul. Yeah. I wandered into a peda protest
trying to find bubble Tea. So that was exciting. It's just like,
what's happening? Why are people yelling about her? Oh, at least you
were looking for bubble Tea and not, for example, an affordable fur coat
just come out of the fur coat and burger shop or Pandavisa. That sounds
delicious, Oh my god. Yeah, so an interesting place, but we
did. Yeah, we went to some cool bars. That's some nice places
to eat. Where is that restaurant we went to? Was the oldest restaurant
in Portland? Uber Cafe? Was it? No one else remembers nothing to
do with your story. It may not have happened, don't know, Bevin,
you were definitely there. Help me out. Yeah, somebody bought me
a slice of pumpkin pie. Maybe it all right? I don't remember that
placeres called it and I was the oldest restaurant in Portland. Enjoyed my meal.
Maybe somebody just told me that I was lying to me. I'd no.
I remember the pumpkin five. It was good pumpkin pie. I had
a bite because you didn't want at all. No, Well it was a
good pumpkin your first time. Well, we've had a very large argument about
the necessity of making pie out of what essentially looks like like if that alien
out of Nope had testicles. And so my argument is is like, yes,
he did make a good pie out of this abomination, but you could
have made a pie out of anything else and it would have been just as
good, if not better. So while I did appreciate the gesture, and
I do feel like I've been educated somewhat, I'm still choosing to be bitter,
as I often do on this podcast. Unlike that sweet pumpkin pie here
here in the good old USA and or of a, it is becoming pumpkin
season very quickly, and all my closest friends, family and peer group,
no, I hate this time of year when it comes to the pumpkin pumpkin
spice U and they intentionally mocked me. And I've got four pictures on my
phone today of friends sending me, Hey, the pumpkin spice lattes back and
blank and blank, Hey, I got this pumpkin spice whatever, Like I
hope you all get diabetes. I say this with love, but when your
foot falls off from the cinnamon, the sugar of the manilla and all that
crap, I'm gonna call you stumpy and make fun of it. And I
love you. You're my friends, but truly see, big Pumpkin knows that
this average flavor could be year round. If we could have orange year round,
we have a pumpkin year round. But they don't because they have an
average product and they know it. They towed it out once a year,
sprinkle some nutmeg and cinnamon on it and call it special. It's average at
best. Gibby gets me, you could have the entire kind of pumpkin spice
being without the pumpin It's just it's just no, there is no pumpkin pie
that's better than a cheesecake. And I put my foot down that. Yeah,
it's bait for guff girls. That's it's oh, it's it's got the
spooky fruit. It'll just eat something nice, eat something that doesn't look like
it's been pro lapsed out satan. This is where the sorority girls and the
goth girls can meet in the middle and actually have an armacist. Because of
the pumpkin Girls become known for pumpkin spice. What Halloween awesome. They're out
there sitting on pumpkins already. My roommate's yelling about something about pumpkins spice.
Wo they put a little jack skeleton on the cup. I'll pay ten dollars.
Well, okay, I'm gonna go hunt down my local hot topic and
see how many people have pumpkin spice in their Well, they probably just have
pumpkin freaks, vegan pumpkins vegan. It feels not it feels like they shouldn't
be that's something about a pumpkin. It just looks horribly animal to me.
It is a meaty like plant pie. So yeah, very anybody, I'm
getting wildly on topic. I had had the pie. It was nice.
It wasn't served to me by a gulf. Nobody started singing this is Halloween.
That would have enhanced the experience. They really let you down there.
It probably would have. Actually, I should leave them a bad review.
I will as soon as this podcast is done. Did anybody else try anything
interestingly culinary? I know that like pumpkin pie is not exotic. Rachel and
I had the cock and Ball's vegan donut and Kyle and j l d yeah
sort of video. You guys really made it uncomfortable. We sure did.
It was it was okay. It was not. The regular donuts I had
from Voodoo were much better than that one. That one was not very tasty
at all. If I'm honest, It was no salty. It was yeah,
yeah, turgent so plane filled with good Uh yeah, I think lists
you can probably track that down on social media. I'm not going to tell
you where it is. I don't want to part in this, but if
you want to see Ari car deep throating a doughnut. You can get that
now on the interweb. You don't need to write a fan fix. You
don't need that's out there in the world. Beautifully shot, the video done
for it was just a lovely Yeah, it's probably the most highly produced piece
of content that was produced at the car. That and making it look like
somebody jezzed on Rick's face. It's just there's a lot of artistry going on
at this card rich reactions to that or the best Oliver social media, like,
I don't know who fouled short, but damn it, he knew he
could have guessed. If he'd spent like a couple of minutes thinking about it,
he would have narrowed it down to one or two people and both of
them would have been bevn Yeah. I remember seeing a message from It's like,
I know the other day I was waxing sad about not being able to
make it at the car, but now I'm glad I didn't go. I
said we'd like kidnap him and force him into a Cuba pool if he wasn't
a cardboard cut out, I do it because he couldn't fight back. But
yeah, I got a voodoo donut Lamplighter from the Discord brought me an old,
dirty bestard. I don't know what she's trying to say, but yeah,
I ate the entire thing and immediately regretted doing that as delicious. But
I don't think you're supposed to eat that much. You got one scene.
Yeah, she brought me one with butter butterfinger sprinkles on it. That was
good. It was a small one. That what was that donut called you?
You fucking prick? Maybe if it was tell me this. You absolutely
brought around like the box of the mini versions around to all their's alley list,
right, and I had one with fruity pebbles on it and that just
but it was like a little tiny ones. So I like four. So
I wonder because I was so damn good. You got to mix and match,
you got to do a paddle of donuts, very poor flight of donuts
and flights. Yeah, maybe the donuts don't actually have offensive names. Maybe
they do. Maybe that's just O good all right, now, I'm not
taking me less personally. It's done. It's called Steve is a dick.
Yeah, I don't think I have my phone with me. But they had
a whole carousel of them, and I just stood there like transfixed because I
was sleepy and easily hypnotized. So whirling combination of sugar and filth. Ah.
If if anything else sums up the coming better, I don't know what
it is. I'm glad everybody else had a nice time. I certainly did.
It was interesting. I met some wonderful people, got some terrible hangovers.
And you know the stereotype about Portland beer, Yeah, it's true.
They do some good beer everywhere we went, add some some nice selection of
booze bar they actual hotel in sorry to bar in the hotel because I don't
know if they had any good alcohol. Because the barman there was every time
I went to him, he was making like twelve John Collins or something.
It's like, hey, can I have just a beer? But yeah,
I'll get back to you when I've made eight D fifty year fifty two exquisite
drinks for customers you can't see. But so that was a bit of a
downer. But no, I had some nice porters out there, some nice
stouts. I wore my flat click cap, did the whole hipster thing.
Yeah, I felt very pretentious and smoke. It was great, did you
wear a scarf while you did it? No, I forgot Sky was too
hot for scarf. It's you just gotta get the little fans out there.
Steve needs a scarf. So can we get to go fund me for Steve?
It's too late. Now you're going to have a scarf and a hat
and it's going to be nowhere near any hipsters. It will be perfect.
Yeah, yeah, and they can they can come after me with pitchforks or
whatever. Those those people don't read books. Well, now we're not having
an Alabama get out, and they're going to cross the Atlanta the Georgia border
to come from bevin Son. George's defense is a tough man. We can't
be breached by Alabama's just it's just it's a dangerous one for Georgia. I'm
trying to figure whatever events was. I know we at Judy. You ran
a guest game and that was with actors and Jeff and oh who's the other
member? Oh the narrator Amy Langdon wasn't yeah Land, Yes, yeah,
it was good. They we had a talent show in Berovia and the loser
was supposed to die, but all the players decided that they would work together
to do a shadow puppet show as their talent. Actually, don't don't spoil
how that ended. I'm assuming they all died anyway. If I was an
audience member, I would have demanded their death. But yeah, heads did
roll, so the listeners will just have to wait to find out, because
I'm definitely sure we recorded that one. Yep. But yeah, it was
great we had We had a lot of fun doing absolutely nothing helpful for the
talent show actual portion of anything. It was great, brilliant. That's kind
of like how we do the convention as well, so it's fitting nothing helpful
for the tell but yeah, it's the wonderful time. Ben Robinson was there
again sorting our tech issues out. We actually had some pretty challenging tech issues
this time, so the guy really earned his peace. So I was so
glad the Salty Bastards one worked out because I was the backup DM for that,
and I was so not ready to do that because I found out I
was the backup DM for that like an hour before it. Yeah, we
managed to get Rick to phone in in the literal sense instead of the metaphorical
sense, and yeah, so there'll be a Salty bested game soon for everyone
to listen to resurrecting some some old favorite characters. Well one Height of Glory,
but yeah, I think that's it. I had a gig cos player,
which was like the coolest thing. Yes I saw, yeah, yeah,
that was cool. They knitted their own like horns and tail and it
was it was rad. So that was like a yeah, try it from
the highlight. Yeah that was cool. Yes, good. Not a character
was amazing. I'll be honest. It was fucking weird. They were out
of costume. I've met them out of the cons, but once they weren't
costume, I did not know that's who they were. I just Bevan's walking
around. I didn't realize it was them. I didn't realize it was that
particular family, and I just it was I was dumbfounded. I just mouth
opened and I'm just watching them go by. I'm like, okay. I
felt like somebody was planning like a Bevin them. Yeah. Yeah. When
they came in in the morning, I thought that I was still sleeping or
something. It was like, what app Yeah, it's just like what alternate
dimension have I stepped into what's happening? But they leaned into it because they
didn't. Just they didn't go, ha, we all dressed up as Bevin,
take a photo with Bevin, and then go all right, this is
stupid. Let's they went around the entire town for like the entire day just
having a bee go admire the MUCKs. Either, that was fantastic. I
didn't even do that. They tried to get Drake and they were all just
instantly cut off. I'm glad you kept the beard, because otherwise, man,
you could have really messed with them and gone to a barber and gotten
clean shaven while they were still in costume. Come back, no beard,
just a mess with him, just a rear, no wonderful gesture. It
sounds like something you do. No I did. I did the opposite though,
because they all had They were all wearing a T shirt that they were
confident I was going to have on me. I wasn't wearing it when I
first saw them, but next chance I got I went and changed into that
one because I did indeed bring it with me. You're a sweetheart. It
was the I think it was the compression, so it was a little touch,
and that they wheeled around with them. Yes, yes, it was
high commitment. Yeah, and lovely. How many had Zach of Old Trade
stepping up again? Last year he came as u Biek Bieldsen did a really
good job this time. Came as Silas Kane, complete with invisible arrows of
dorec. Yeah. That was that was great case committed. Yes he is.
Yeah, that was a really good costume. Yeah, and he'd had
the voice too. I could do the voice too, which was really fun.
He didn't surprisingly accurate impression of uh yeah. I should mention for the
listeners if you didn't come to the car and again, sorry you didn't make
it. I hope we see you next time. But if you go on
our Facebook or Facebook group or hey the patron, maybe you should be able
to see all these photos flying around. We captured some of the magic.
And of course if you just listen to the podcast and you'll get to hear
some of the live stuff as well. Just to reassure you on that.
So closing thoughts, how did everybody feel about Authors and Dragon's Corn twenty twenty
three, Portland, Oregon. First you can go first. I had an
amazing time, but I'm kind of glad to be home, looking forward to
the next one. I felt like this is the first convention where I actually
was like a part of the authors and Dragon's crew, because the last ones
I've been to I haven't been, so that made it a very different and
very cool experience. And the fans just like people in the world. So
yeah, I was great. Oh I thought you would say this time I
was part of the crew and that made it suck. God, was the
worst I'd go on stage with those guys. It's a fair opinion. Gibby.
I had a blast because last year is the first year I got to
come out as a guest and that was amazing. But I also have like
such social anxiety. I put on a big smile and I talk a lot,
but inside I'm freaking the fuck out and give like there's kind of mental
blinders on. But this year it was like a reunion, like a home
coming, and there it was a Gibby and they knew me by name and
that was very cool, and I got a chance to like, I roomed
with heartness, so in the evenings, like he just if he had decides
he's going to talk to you about just business and writing, you shut up
in a listen, you know, And that was really cool. And then
one of my fans from my author page drove up from northern California with his
friend to come and see me there. They brought his name is Levi and
he's a cool guy and he makes homemade action figures and he brought me an
action figure of me to give to me, and it was like so badass.
He's like, hey, I booked. I'm like, I'll sign whatever
you want, buddy, you made the trip and it broke my heart.
And there were a few other touching stories that like, this was a really
good year and I'm very thankful that I am tangentially associated with ewall for as
long as you'll keep me so positive, then that's good. I have to
say. It was just just nice catching up with some cool people, like
talking to Matt and Jeff is really peging it about dungeon Crawler Carl Scott is
a delight. You know, I'm not exactly the most actively social person.
I'm kind of a Once I get in a crowd, I just kind of
bounce around. Doesn't help that I had a massive disassociative panic attack on the
first day after wandering around to city in the sun for two I was trying
to do drugs but yeah, that didn't work. That kind of that set
a tone for the entire weekend. But upshot of that, I didn't get
to talk to as many people as I wanted to. So if I didn't
get to talk to you, really sorry, I'll try harder next time.
Unless he didn't want to talk to me, in which case, thank you
or you're welcome, or however you deal with that rudeness. I do have
a good picture of you as Brandon, Gigi and Jild together to send to
you. Of course we didn't even mention Jld. Not only did Jild turn
up this time with his amazing artwork, but he did an entire figuring painting
class which went really having fun. Yeah, yeah, and that was so
cool. That was one of the highlight events. Glad I remembered it at
the eleventh Yeah, it's just so nice to see everybody. Such a nice
bunch of people were quite the lucky can Again. If he did show up,
thank you very much for making a wonderful time. If he didn't show
up, I'm sorry to hear that. I see you next time, Unless
he didn't show up because you think we're all bell ends, in which case
probably a good move. On your part show up anyway. It's fine.
We are all bellings. Buy a tickets and don't show up us. Just
send us, send us money that will show us being odd. Two.
Just trying to think of does anything I've left out? It was kind of
a whirlwind, kind of a blur. Oh we got to meet Ruby Bigfoot
from the Patron. She's been on a podcast a couple of times. Ruby
Tuesday. He sometimes steps into our at the movie's events. She was there
and she is the light. So sorry you missed out if you did.
No, I think that's everyone, right. I surely mentioned every single person
at the con. Bye now. If I did, I'm sorry. Yeah.
So that's it. I guess until we meet again. Can go is
see you at A and D con future year. In the meantime, enjoy
the live content. Goodbye, thank you, goodbye.