Hey, everybody would welcome back to What the Fuck of Fools? Quest?
One point five? Yeah, this is gonna be our last one for the
campaign. Okay, a little a little better sweet situation here, um as
always. Uh, we start off with the d M, the Wonderful,
the amazing, the incomparable Tony. Yeah it's true, I know he plays
Tony the Lion, m um. And then we have uh, the one
and only grumpy Goblin played by six Yeah. And then we have Pilsner,
the kind of air headed that the love of a oath, some would say,
played by my col And then we have the one the only, uh
ass smelling teleporting wren played by Nico Rebigus. I'm sorry that everyone else had
kind of an endearing one. And then like the poopy smeller. I mean
that's what happens when you teleport. It was well established, little yeah,
that cannon, it's natural listens natural, um, and I'm your host,
Shamus, and we were going to dive right into these last uh Forpisos is
like a nice sweet ending episode, a little bonus, little little tid bit
at the very end, uh, something that I was personally surprising excited for.
Um. But we'll get to that. We'll get to it in a
little bit, um, I hope. So first and foremost, before we
jump into these these episodes, what did you guys think about this? Uh,
this campaign. We'll start with the players first and then we'll get to
to Tony. But like this campaign and kind of how it wrapped up and
everything in its entirely, Like, what did you feel about it? Were
where were I don't know, best attributes you thought about it or or things
that you really enjoyed being able to play out, um and things that you're
excited you know, possibly for the story to go in the future if it
does pick up. Well, I loved it. I had a blast,
and I really enjoyed the fact that, um it got a lot of us
that have played before together back together and uh just had that that old school
chemistry right off the bat. So that was that was that was good to
play with. Like, that was one thing I noticed the first session was
like, you know, usually it takes time to build that that chemistry with
the characters, but it didn't with you guys. It was great. It's
like we hit the ground running. Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, because
I mean, honestly, I mean with the exception of like me dming the
first campaign, Like Tony wasn't you know, in a campaign with Mike last
time they were on opposite sides. Dexter wasn't here, So yeah, I
mean really it was like a whole new group getting together, which was pretty
cool. Yeah, we had a total of one session together. Oh and
then the Christmas episode. Yeah, no, I guess sorry, No,
I was gonna I was gonna say that. I thought it was like really
cool, um to see what Tony had put together and put into put into
play for the story and some of the like round work and cannon that he
built into the world and the lore because it kind of changes a little bit
of things and what will happen in campaign two, Right, So he took
stuff that happened in campaign one and built his campaign one point five around that
and then added to it. And then I'm going to be adding on to
it later. So it's just kind of a fun collaborative storytelling event. I
guess I don't I don't know what else to call it, but I thought
it was really cool community storytelling, all right, Jesse. I thought that
me personally, I thought that you did a phenomenal job bringing Pilsner into into
the story and writing that that fine line between trolls deep like like you were
the in In my opinion, you were the perfect example of like that near
trollsy character that a lot of us have played um while still actually contributing to
the plot, contributing to the actual storeline, and not not actually be control,
not actually ruining anything. Um. What was your favorite favorite aspect of
bringing pills? I'm sorry, it's fine, and I remember the show I
watched. I watched the audio, watched every episode I watched. I paused
on my favorite scenes. It's really boring. It was like three scenes on
rewind. Oh this is why people don't let me do things. Okay.
What was your favorite part about bringing almer Um into this group and what do
you think was his his most beneficial attribute to the group? Uh? His
most by official aspect? I don't know what he did to help the group,
honestly, looking back, chuck stuff, that's what. Yeah, I
don't think that's what I did though. Really Now, my favorite part of
playing it, though was I was just talking to to tell me about it
the other night. Is the fact that, like what it started, he
was just supposed to be like a cranky goblin. And then you know,
Ren started calling me a charlatan, and all of a sudden I was like,
oh, I guess I am now, and just right I was like,
I didn't realize that's what I made, but you know, I am
yeah when you're right, You're right. I really did love the evolution of
that of el We're just becoming the Sage Lee person who had like no business,
the most unqualified person to be a Sage Lee figure. Um okay,
great charismatic, cranky old guy. Um all right, so season six I'm
sorry, yeah, episode eighteen and offer we can't refuse. We're gonna right
into this, um can. I want to start off you guys. You
guys began setting up I believe he called it the bargain bin. Your your
warehouse. You're like, yeah, Remy's discount magic item warehouse. And it
reminds me of a place that I should have those like wacky wailing inflatable out
front, several of them, like in front of the door entrance, just
flapping their arms. Yeah, and then heaven, oh what is I'm I'm
blanking on the name. What was the the head that Elmer put above the
door o the do you feel like it? But then you just have the
body of the flailing tube man and then the number hole heads just out side
the doors, like Chris Temple is this, I don't know what about we
left that in the house to a booby trap, not a ceiling fan.
But we'll get to that later. Sounds don't jump ahead of the story,
all right, sorry? Uh yeah? And then and then immediately the slime,
yeah, which is which as I was looking to it, I thought
of soup in a cup. But what were your did you have plans for
this? Was there? Was there anything behind it? H plans for No?
I don't think I planned very little in this ire like viscus something material.
I'm gonna keep it, Yes, pretty much. It could that looks
like if it would go in a jar and look magically, then yeah,
magically water. I believe that. I believe the exact quote was potions of
water breathing, Yeah, because like, yeah, there you go, transformative
music, mukiss of water breathing. So when he was working on it,
but like, what was running through your brain as soon as I like I
could almost hear it as you were thinking about the constitution saves, he was
going to have to make Yeah, I was. I was really really hoping
he remember that he always had a temporary immunity that based on a potion that
he had swallowed. Um, yeah, yeah, it was. It was
a close one. Were you surprised at all that after the first check he
was like, no, I'm going to keep going. I was a little.
I was a little surprised, but not terribly. Oh man, I
think it's I think it's really cool that none of us played a character that
could heal, which is almost hard in a fifth edition, right, Like
almost every character can heal. There's so many characters that can heal. So
I thought it was cool that all of us didn't play one. And then
Jesse has this alchemist, but he makes the worst they're not even goods.
Actually, yeah, that's sounds gonna say. It's like, you know,
it's like that he takes good ones and then he makes them bad, cutting
it with oh yeah, yeah, hello, we going to meet the mob
boss, right, and then yeah that half work. Um my bass,
I'm playing on his name. But he had the fairy godfather patron. Yeah
is that fair to say? Yeah? Yeah, that was his patron,
and actually his name's just the boss name all right, sweet, I'm not
remember I'm not good at names. I'm just not I've got yeah, John
Smith. There's the boss, you know, the the goblin at the tavern
there. They never asked his name, but do you want to know it?
Sure? Yeah? Yeah, it's bar Keep. Yeah. And the
boss has two goons. Do you remember their names? Tom and Tom?
Yeah? Tom and Tom Tom. Yep. I'm not good at names.
I own that. It's kind of the that like, uh, like those
cult video games like Conquerors, Bad for a Day, you know, where
it's like you can tell. The developer was like, I don't I don't
know, guys, just just make it the flower I don't know here and
then you just meet the flowers. You're like, oh, okay, so
I think I think there's a place for it. Man. You just you
know, when you own it, it makes it so much better. M
Yeah, I think you've been AQ like style anyway, right, Yeah,
I felt like it. I felt like it worked for f Q. Yeah,
I'll loan it. Um. Yeah. No. They went to went
to make a deal with Remy and got you know, caught by Tom and
Tom on the way there, and then went then went to go see the
Boss at the tavern. Yeah, yeah, Mike. Oh the music in
the tavern is or any of the scenes with the Boss is just like dead
on. It's amazing. Well voice, you were hitting that that godfather vibe
with the voice, and I was like, yeah, I can set this
off. So I've just found some some like old school noir detective ish.
Yeah, the amazing city music and it's like, okay that fans. And
I would like to point out hats off to Mike for this campaign. We
got all of our episodes for season six on YouTube without any copyright flat.
I would just like to point out for for campaign one, I got about
seven minutes into the first episode. Yeah, that's amazing. Anyway, before
I move on, Mike, I'm sorry Nick. Mister mister Mead asked how
awesome was Tony as a DM SHU. I think, yeah, super good.
Hats off, like really really well done. There's a lot of fun.
Absolutely, thanks guys. You did a great job. Mike did a
fantastic jab putting them putting the Albiance together stuff. Tony absolutely killed. It
was seamless transition from Nico's campaign into this one. It was pretty great and
hilarious. With the notebook. I think I've heard at least twice where you're
like, I should just go digital iday I got, I got paper notes
for this. I mean, he honestly said that every session. It's just
there was only a couple of times where I left it in the podcast.
I did enjoy every time that, like he would, he would have go
into a vapor lock and looking for something or trying to think of a word
or something like that, and I would just like bring everything else to a
screeching halt and then let it play out. Yeah, that was great for
any of you listening at home if you did not listen past the end where
they had the bows. But here there's stuff at the end of these episodes,
So if you to go back and listen, they're pretty phenomenal. Lots
of bonus content, all right, So would that you guys dive down deeper
into the sewers, which is where everyone wants to hang out. Really,
I think Elmer's favorite place to be. Um and uh, I We're gonna
get into this, but I want to preface it by saying, I freaking
loved your transition into this. But the demon door the alcoholith Yeah, all
right, So Uh, Nico, what what do you think was going through
through Wren's mind? And what did you as a player you think of this?
First, We're gonna go through the players first, then we'll get to
Tony Um. I mean, I thought the combat was really cool. I
thought that, like premise was really cool. I think the Wren was a
little hesitant after meeting it or after talking to a fairy godfather, you know.
Yeah, so that kind of had him jumpy to begin with, and
then he went down to do this demon thing and he kind of, I
mean, to some degree, felt maybe a little responsible for the demon thing
down there because we kind of left it there. I don't think it was
our fault that it popped up, but I mean there was demon stuff happening
down below already, so we kind of missed it the first time and had
to go back and resolve it. So I think he felt a little bit
responsible, but definitely was weirded out by once we got there, and the
combat was really fun for Reren. But well we'll get to that later.
So yeah, before we moved on to other people, I want to touch
on this real quick because I kind of skipped over it, and that's my
bad. But what did Ren think when running into the patron the Godfather?
He was surprised, So, I mean he had some issues with warlocks and
he kind of alluded to it and the story. He had an issue in
that town with people from the school of um what school was that evocation?
That was? No? No, yeah, School of Conjuration that was down
there. So he had problems in that same town. And then to find
out that not only were there warlocks in this town, but there was a
fairy godfather who knew my fairy godmother. He was like, oh shit,
you know, that's wild. So he was taken aback, but kind of
excited by it. I think little little clench booty cheeks probably, Oh yeah,
terrifying, Yeah, which you know we'll cover later. Yeah, that
comes up later. So Mike, what do you think was going through Pilsner's
mind and what did you think about the I really, I do really want
to touch on the transition, right, because you guys walked through that door
and then all of a sudden you're in Pilsner ended up in the abyss.
Yeah, he's like, whoa you know. Then Tony starts talking more timetables.
Okay, you've got how many worse savy throws. You're gonna make it
here, you know, so I'm like I gotta get out. Yeah,
yea, yeah. I do want to point out there was um I think
Mead asked a question about it or someone did in a previous WTF when they
had first gone down to the sewers and gone in that room, they all
had to make saves and someone had failed it, and it was the saves
against the alcohol it. Yeah, because it was there then, Yeah,
we all we all made our save that time. Yeah, I think I
think when you failed it, but it was like, it just gives you
disadvantage on your next basically your next irol and it didn't end up coming up,
so there were no consequences for it because you guys didn't do anything for
a while basically. But I was I was a little hesitant when we went
back in there, and it's like as soon as you said, there's an
open portal, and I'm like, oh fuck, not again, here we
go again. Not again? Yep, he said the p were I did,
Uh, Jesse, I did. How do you think that Elmer felt
about the situation and just being on the sewers in general? Oh, the
sewers were awful, but I think Albert was probably like the least horrified by
it because he's had to cope with the idea of being eaten a lot more
in his life. They always I always knew it was an option, you
know, when you're snack size. Yeah, see, this is just this
is just kind of how I figured it was gonna happen, you know,
right, snack privilege. It's just oh man, um so uh Tony,
where did you get the inspiration of using the the Alcalith Demon. I don't
know. I thought it was kind of a cool uh monster that like sort
of binds the dimensions together, and it was we were sort of following up
tearing apart magic, so I was like, you know, let's see what
the what we can work with there. But then I had to have I
don't know, I just thought I just thought, I just think they're neat.
They are really it's like a really big potato, you know, pre
salad. Yes, awesome into um the Slapstick Saloon episode. Um you guys
kind of finish up uh episode eighteen with vanishing right, Yeah, that was
using your your left hand instead of the right hand. Wren the last spell
slotting. Yeah, it was definitely a do or die moment, but that
was a lot of fun. I really wanted the Thanos to work, and
I tried not to do the same spell over and over again throughout the campaign
because I was like, that's kind of boring, you know, I try
to change it up, but I mean I just really really wanted to fan
of sap Bucker and yeah, I switched hands and it worked. I liked
that that fight went a little differently than the previous two as the d M
anyway like that one. The last couple of fights you guys had had,
which were you know, getting building up to this, you just rolled right
over them. Yeah, just stamped him. And this one was a lot
more of a challenge for you guys. It was. It was a lot
closer of a thing. I do think too like it. It did have
more of a climactic feel to it. And then there was no rest taken
when you guys go into town and everything's quiet, and then you find out
that the Inquisitions going around poking their nose in a place of bullying people just
being shit birds and speaking of multiple spells and stuff. You really did show
the versatility when you bust out the iron Man Ren. Yeah, yeah,
that's pretty dope. Um. I loved all the comic book segues. Yeah,
the music, the music for it right, and the sound effects were
on point. Yeah. Um, we got a lot of wild searches in
this one. But you guys, you guys just we're not having this.
Uh, these inquisitors being sassy, you guys bust in. I know that
Ren was trying to be kind of incognito, trying to keep his face married
in the in the hell. And then uh, Pilsner had a little bit
probably too much. I was feeling a little froggy. Oh yeah, Pilsener
was right there in his element. He loves good bar fight. And then
when when these guys rolled in and we're just being dickheads, He's like,
oh, now I know the saint happening here. But to start it all
off, Elmer was his own drunken slashed hand decides to just what was what
was the inspiration for presidigitating that inquisitor? He would be himself. Yeah,
but that's specifically you made him shit himself his pants. Yeah, he shit
the inquisitor's pants. Yeah, somebody you had my parents, Um, wasn't
there talk of trying to make a custom spell. There was there was there
was quite a bit of talk about uh oh, that whole fight in that
that I mean, Okay, first off, so I don't know if everyone
knows this sur if we've mentioned it before not, but Jesse does all the
titling. Jesse's come up with all the titles for these episodes. Oh yeah,
and that one's that one's just spot on slapstick. That was I mean
that that was what happened that episode, And like the way the fight scene
played out. When I listened to it, it was like watching an episode
of that old Batman showed Like I could, I could see the booms and
thousands and well, they probably didn't help it. I used a lot of
the old cartoon. Yeah, the sound effects also helped a lot. But
it was like it was it was. It was a heck of a thing,
and I'm like, oh, perfect opportunity of m hmm, yeah,
good stuff. The entire fight, all I could think is, this might
be the dumbest fight I've ever been apart of this is a lot coming after
the first fight in the same bar with the Lengo chairs. I loved every
body of it. And then we had the wild searches, right, and
so we had the shadowy tendrils coming out, and then oh yeah, redneck
hill Billy. Yeah, I know a whole lot of people know about squid
Billy, but I was really happy that you guys bought that up. You
just turned when Pilsner as a path of the wild age Barbarian anytime he enters
his rage, I roll randomly to see what wild effect that happened. There's
like eight different effects, one from each school of magic, and that one
just happened to be on that table with the the tendles that erupt, So
it worked out pretty good. You guys did dispatch them and the magmans.
Is that how you say it, the problem than the others? Yeah,
I remember, Yeah, Pilsner had erupt on my good thing. I was
raging. Yeah, the one time. I think this is probably the time
that you took the most my damage. Elmer. You were so you were
so safty about it. You guys are doing nothing like never mind. The
rest of the last the rest of the rest of the campaign, everything went
out was post give it take, It's only take. Oh man, what
a great time. Hey everyone, Nico here normally this is where we would
end the episode for you all and give the rest of the episode over to
our Patreon listeners. But because this is the WTF for the end of Campaign
one point five, we're going to drop the entire WTF in here, So
give us just a minute to drop a few commercials, and then we will
get back to the second half of our WTF. Bye um and the next
one. You guys had best laid plans um and this is like post uh
barroom brawl and Elmer's still pretty tipsy. I loved the retelling of the story
five times to Lefty he's the only one in the bar. I just love
that whole bit. You guys went in the whole tangent. I enjoyed.
I enjoyed Pilsner send it telling Lefty to send them to the swamp tone,
Oh my goodness, the like tie ins and the uh detours to Anthronoxi.
This is just it's been a great motif. That's been great, especially I
think because it's like immediately followed up by Almer's like reaction to it, which
is hell no, hell noways always everything Yeah mentioned the dragon, He's like
automatic Nope, I just don't understand what's confusing about it? I was just
hard to understand. I'm not going near the dragon again. It's not it's
not even a conversation I thought would need to be hap much less repeated.
A baffling. This was the absolutely guys wound up breaking in um to the
warehouse, right and going along the catwalk and scooting by um and uh found
some puppies, some some little singed puppies, right. Yeah. I love
how the two sneakiest people fail and the lumbering bar. Yeah. I like
Ninja and these break those all cartoons were The giant thing is like tiptoeing on
justin giant. It's okay. This this one was primarily a combat episode.
Um, so you gave us a long fight, yeah, fight, Yeah.
I guess what were the the aspects of it that you guys were kind
of worried about. I mean we had you could hear skirmish going on outside
of your fight, right, like there are people who were calling towards other
people when people were calling after them. Um, some kind of confusion going
on outside of that. But you guys were busy fighting some hell hounds.
Um, am I missing it? I think Okay, Nope, I think
the Arms of the Car was the next one, even not even this one.
Um, it might have been. I think it was the end of
this one and into the next one, because I think this fight lasted boat.
Yeah it did, yeah, yeah, yeah, and it was I
think it was pretty much both episodes were yeah yeah, so yeah. I
mean the arms of had Are on the stairs was brilliant because like m m,
it's just a brilliant spell. And then when they broke the stairs,
the hell Hounds are just stuck. Yeah. It kind of gave final fantasy
vibes of just like like in the combat, and then the environment changes a
little bit and now you have to not only transition to the next scene,
but you know its phase two. Yeah. Yeah, uh so we're gonna
have right into episode twenty one Foundations. Um yeah, this is uh.
I think you guys were still wrapping up with the hell hans um because we
had the key Master gatekeeper. Yea yeah, pretty classy, pretty good.
Um. But then we get the end introduction of the top hat guy,
which again, if you feel like when I'm listening to this, as soon
as he's coming in, I'm imagining it like like a close up of him
and then like the artistic style changes and then all of a sudden, just
in big Bolds like top hat guy, like, um, yeah, what
was his kind of build? What was his his deal when you threw him
in there? Tone? I honestly don't remember what his build was. I've
got it in that notebook, but it's somewhere else, which go to digital
I really should um Now, I just I thought, you know, magic
users need someone who can get up close and personal too, and that's what
he was for. I suppose did you make him kind of like a PC?
Right? I feel like you reference that in the episode, was like
that would be a what a PC would do or something among those lines something.
Yeah, I kind of made him like yeah, okay, okay.
UM. So for you guys playing, uh, what was your kind of
kind of take on it when you transition into fighting this this top hat guy?
Top hat Guy was fun. He was I love the theme with the
School of Conjuration, with the top hats and the U, the emblems with
the rabbit. That was that was great. But as far as Pilsner was
concerned, he was just you know, trying to take out the as many
of the Conjuration inquisitors as he could and and save the people down below and
help them out. So you know, he was going to do whatever he
could and whatever capacity he could. He he was. He was all over
the place. Yeah, yeh, the wild magic. Yeah, that teleplat
and then one of the coolest freaking moments, like we had Ren doing the
fingersnap then sounded amazing and then that was awesome. Yeah, and then you
like, very shortly afterwards, Pilsner is running full tilt at this guy and
then just blinks out in there pops behind. I was getting ready to let
me have it on the on the end when I was coming at him,
he was like, okay, well you're gonna need to make this like wait,
I rolled, I rolled it solid. It was teleporting so and I
read that often. He was like, oh well that changes things. That
was golden. Yeah, this one is terrific. Hell yeah, I loved
it. It was um me binging the episodes is very much like there was
a point where probably about two and a half three of these episodes were just
like one continuous transitioning fight. Um So that was really enjoyable to listen to.
H But at the end of all this, you guys wound up getting
some loop. You got two things in particular. Um, fire Rod called
this depository, which immediately got DIBs for Intronaxis Red. It was a big
bow birthday. How many birthday gifts did you get him by this? By
he filled the chest ball? Yeah, I remember one spot where Pilsner leaned
over to Elmer, and I think it was when we found all the gold.
So I just put that away before Red sticks it up. That's the
next one. That's the coin purse, right, Yeah, it's just like
I love you, Elmer. Do you remember your response to that? I
think I don't remember. I know I took it, he said, he
said, what coin pers don't worry about it immediately Stunt. Yeah, you
see a thing. Oh he's so quick thinking on that stuff. That's great.
M M. I loved h I love the reaction from mob from the
boss right, Um, what did you guys think about when I was like,
oh would you guys were supposed to were completely forgot about him. We
dropped in through the ceiling and just started kicking ass. We get we get
the captives outside and we're like, oh shit, they got a whole bunch
of guy. Why did we use those. Oh oh well, too late.
Now It's like, yeah, I loved you guys. You guys kept
referring to like, were we supposed to signal people what they can hear us?
We're not being quiet. Nobody came in, so nobody discussed the saying
is that I mean they're making noises? I don't know. Oh my god.
Um. Yeah. But then right after that, the Boss decides to
give you guys a mutual kind of deal, uh protect and keep tabs on
on them lockies. Ye, keep the keep the inquisitors out. Yeah,
that's pretty dope. I really like the Boss. I think that the the
the whole vibe was set by the Yeah, basically the accent and then and
then everything you kind of portrayed the whole personae I got. The fairy Godfather
is possibly the joke I'm proud of stuff. Oh that's not the crowdad jokes.
I mean, the crowdad jokes are great. Fairy Godfather, but then
he's actually the Godfather. But then also that immediately followed by the glue Jesse
Omer's glue. Yeah, sure, oh my god, so go ahead.
I was that was just a joke long in the making. Yep. Um,
let's see this is somewhere ready here here. It all came from mayonnaise
to ye yeah, and and snail shells yells. And I think when we
first got ahold of that alchemy and jar and like, why does it make
you know? Five gallons of man, he's a day who needs five gallons
a day. He's like, whatever I'm gonna make it, it must be
a yeah, it must be logic. You can't beat it. So Kevin
Uh from our discord community, what harm could an old goblin with near unlimited
amounts of super glue and a mobile house too? He is, it's gonna
be the first real door to door salesman, because my door comes to your
door. If you don't buy it, he'll glue it. Just take take
the door with You'll open the door. I blew you in. Move from
soiling pantsue like the bottom half of the door. I'll have one of those
reechy arm things that you squeeze a long, didn't get didn't get platform choose
at one point, I'll press the digetation it up there or something, because
because you made that like reach your arm thing though, it would just be
like two rulers that are like taped together. It works. See how he
turns the TV on? Oh man, oh it's perfect. All right.
So, uh, we're going to the last episode Bitter Sweet, Sadly um
My, probably one of my favorites, and that is a birthday party.
Yeah yeah, yes, the last episode that was like, you know,
just kind of wrap ups and goodbyes and then yeah, the birthday party was
was the the epilogue I suppose. Oh. The other part though, was
was Elmer and Pilsner got to meet Wren's fairy godmother. Oh yeah, yeah
yeah, just before that that was that was fun. The picnic, the
picnic, that was a good time. Well so before that, I had
you guys were kind of wrapping it up, and you guys were talking about
the Golden Girls and there's a whole bit of screaming they're fired. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Actually actually um Mead asked a question in the in the discord,
he said, did the swags have actual names? Yes? They did,
Yeah, yep. Their names were were Granny Rose and Granny Dorothy.
And then the third one that they that they actually knew was a hag was
named Granny Blair. But they never asked her name. They're just stuffed things
and just um, you guys were planning on giving the house back. I
felt like it was it was time. And then this is where you guys
decided to do the pranks, like unhinging one of the hinges from the doors,
so they Okay, I want you to understand that these guys hadn't been
drinking but dming bad episode was like babysitting your friend who got you drunk,
the freaking head being put on the ceiling fans and then Mike's just like interpretation
of that just I mean, I'd like to blame it on alcohol, but
really sound sober. Yeah, it was just mad we were losing the house
and I wanted to be spiteful, and Patty I wasn't done, went doors
onto it. It reminds me a problem child. You home alone in their
own home. It's like if Kevin broke into the house while they were on
vacation, home alone, that motherfucker and then left so that when they got
back. Yeah, oh my god, were we supposed to fight them?
Tony the hags, Yeah, I mean they're pretty neutral. So it was
like it was I gave it about a fifty fifty. I expected you to
fight the first one, though not necessarily kill her. And I also expected
you to let her talk though instead of put things in her mouth. So
we didn't want to kill. But there was no there was there was there
was There was ways to go either way, but um I was kind of
glad you didn't. It was it was fun that way. Yeah, she
was the first dragon were we supposed to fight the dragon. The dragon also
was one of those things that's like, you know, I want to we'll
see what you guys do with it. I didn't have it said as a
fight or as not a fight really, you know. Yeah, yeah,
there's very little that I'm like, they have to fight this, and it's
usually just like like, I mean, you didn't even fight the rest monster.
I do have to say, from an objective like third party perspective,
if anybody is out there and is like stressing about being a DM, like
worried about their story being ruined, that approach that Tony took, in my
opinion, is probably the best approach to take, where like have encounters ready
but don't don't have anything hinging on it right because like anything could happen,
and I do think that if you let it happen the way that Tony DMed
it. It makes for arguably a better story and everyone having such a great
time because we could tell you guys were having a phenomenal time to playing the
story out we did, and I really do think that it comes from the
style of dming that Nico and Tony have portrayed in these campaigns. Well,
let's your players make decisions and have outcomes from those decisions versus you know,
I mean, if you're going to homebrew a campaign, the best part of
that is being able to adjust the campaign depending on what your players do.
Like, if you're going to play a module, obviously that's a lot more
you know, direct path, right, You've got to follow the module,
you I mean, you can deviate a little bit, but it's not super
easy to deviate a module, because what happens if you deviate on chapter three
and you've got sixteen more chapters to go, You're done, you know what
I mean. So, but if you're gonna homebrew, like that's the benefit
of doing a homebrew is that you can tailor it to your players and their
decisions actually have you know, repercussions or or you know, yeah, beneficial
cause and effect, like as as a DM, I know where I want
them to go, but we're gonna get there together. Yeah, that's going
to happen. Yeah, And I will say Tony had a couple of short
nights where Tony was like, we played for like two hours and he was
like, well, I need to I need to prepare more now because I
we we just skipped a whole bunch of stuffs that happened. I know in
those cases too, if you guys aren't done playing, you know, if
this is just a regular chill game that you're not recording and putting out,
um, you know, those are the times where you can always do some
role playing, do some like side shenanigans or whatever, right, like you
can do filler stuff. Um. There are definitely things out there, mini
games, uh, you know, drinking contests, stuff like that that your
players can always get into to fill the rest of your guys time playing is
you don't necessarily have to be done if you're just playing with your friends.
But yeah, I just want to touch based on that because I think that
that's something that you guys are emulating phenomenally, um, and it shows how
much fun the group is having because of it. And I just want to
point that out. Well, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna segue into the
next part, which is you guys meeting the fairy godmother and having a little
chat um. Before that, we're gonna hit on some questions from Kevin Bryant.
He said, showing more of the impact of what the fools did to
magic and the turf for now between the different gods was great to see and
played out as the backdrop to all this arc um. He asks, will
this play will this play out more going forward? As far as like uh,
as far as like the god like kind of what the gods are fighting
over the world of you Frey and the schism between the magic and anything.
Yeah, it's a backdrop. M This is less of a question but more
of a request. And I second it, please do more of this Warlock
guild than their god god parents. Yeah. With that, we're gonna jump
into the encounter um where I think Wren may have possibly once or twice mentioned
she's probably in passing to not make any deals and don't you need freaking food?
That was great because Elma and I are just sitting there salibrating like fiends.
They were like, why can't we eat it? It looks great,
you know, and he's like when she comes out and brings out churches,
you know, it comes out and brings out some KFC. She just basically
laid out a cracker barrel spread right. Yes, he's like, you're telling
me that's just wrong. Can't we do that a little bit? No,
they didn't. They didn't listen to me at all. They didn't. They
didn't listen to me about eating food. You were and saying, hey,
let's check for trapper before I kicked the doors. So I think sometimes you
guys were like, hey, Red with that over there, and when he
turned, your guys were like, he was like, you're too slow.
You should have said suitors Like you guys, you know, there's something I
probably should have already known as a DM. But was Ren proficient in thiefstools?
I don't remember, look real quick, I don't know. No,
he wasn't he because he was he was a scholar, so he had like
the cartographer kid. Yeah, I didn't think he was. Like that's why
the only traps I put in were more like puzzles. And that was like
the umber whole head and the bass lists there, because you guys didn't really
have anyone for it or that's what I had, That's why I assumed.
But then I was like, wait a second, Ren was always checking,
um, yes, you guys laid all that out Almer and then Almer in
very true old man fashion, besides to critique it, give it a two
starry yell for view, and then somebody who was not asking for There was
no other way. There's only one right thing. It's not my fault.
It could have been hotter. I will say. I feel like the only
time Tony ever forced the story was when Mike was like, I need to
go find a wood smith to cut me important to like it's closed. Mike's
like, I'm sure there's somebody in Tony's like they're closed. Had that plan
because I already had that plane. It was in my notebook and everything.
I was like underlining it like you're closed. It just could have been ninety
time. Uh, speaking of it could have been hotter though, I'm just
curious because on the other episode and the other episode when you guys were at
the bar, you had asked for spicy milk. So was that hotter,
like temperature wise or spice wise? Yes, either way. The big I'm
so old that my mouth fairly works. I couldn't feel or taste anything.
One of the two has to happen. Spicy milk, he said, And
Captain Morgan pose, I'll have you spices milk, Like we don't, we
just have the swell. Still we don't. Was that right after he got
his boots. Yeah, it was say that to my face. I really
think that that was his character development. Was him just getting a bit taller,
gave me all the confidence to cock in the world marketing. It's like
one of those goals on his characters. I will say, I don't think
Elmer really did like change a lot. I mean, he loves an acid
character. He was. It's pretty steady, it was. It was for
Elmer. It was less of a change of character and more of a change
of backdrop, right like it's like, oh, what is this crazy little
Baplin is rich now? Exactly what it was his own company. He could
have gotten better than the other alchemist and like taken over the business and then
run off. And he was like, no, I'm not doing that.
I just I just want to go back to my swamp hut and be alone.
I didn't want to go back to the other as alchemist's shop. He
made me feel like bad about myself. I didn't like that secure. He
could have been more accepting of others. He could have been less crotch even
not No, I do love the elmer's like potions when when they were like,
aren't good at all? That it wasn't his fault. It wasn't the
potion's fault, like it was your fault. That it wasn't you must have
taken the counter agent before him. Onions before this. Oh you can't eat
onions before it has to build up in your Yeah, onions counteracted that it's
the safety measure because onions are so common. So if you have an allergy,
you could just you know, get none in. But did you wait
thirty minutes before swimming? Oh your problem? You need multiples? Did you
drink this in a swamp? Oh yeah, I know we're completely surrounded by
swamp. But yeah, oh you drink, you drink the whole thing.
Oh yeah, you know you're probably fine, You're probably fine. Yah,
it's all good. It's you guys having the water shenanigans telling telling Ren to
go go in a direction and him just pay thing over there, not getting
that and just frightened the water. Yeah, well they were. They were
having fun with the water standings because of finally got a chance to do some
surfing. His his reward from Ren's ferry god mother, and then uh and
then Elmer got his reward from there eventually too, I did. Yeah,
yes, I got my door to door sales. Ye, yes, I
love you want to talk about talk about that. Pilsner's the reward and how
long have you been planning that, Tony and everything else? Um, I
didn't plan that all that long. I actually, you know, I had
to talk with these guys about what they wanted for their characters about um,
maybe like halfway through the game, I was like, what's something you definitely
want to see happen? And that was something that Pilsner definitely wanted to see
happened. Was was to serve Yeah, okay, yeah, he wanted to
hit some beach Rens was that he wanted Pilsner and Elmer to meet his fairy
godmother and then Elmer's wash to to what Kevin asked, why did Pilsner,
I'm sorry, Plizna want to go sand surfing? Oh in Charvosi U.
Yeah, yeah, that's the joke because that he didn't realize. Actually I
knew it was a desert, but I figured that would be kind of funny
for Pilsner to think that there was someplace called Charbosi with amazing surf because he'd
hear about he'd heard about the boats that go out there, and there's a
lot of sand on the beaches and and uh so he just he thought that
would be pretty cool. He'll figure it out later when he gets here,
He's like, there's no water, What the hell. Yeah, he's gonna
probably wind up being an entrepreneur, starting like the first st surfing company.
Yeah, be like his dad, but different. Um Meade wants to know.
I'm going to see more of Pilsner and Wren because they didn't get an
epilogue, So the birthday party kind of was intended as everyone's epilogus and Pilsner,
uh Pilsner was heading off to Charbosi in that way and you know,
riding off into the sunset that way, and Wren was off to start the
Warlock Dragon cult cabal. And then Elmer's obviously with body who Billy's ess.
Elmer's b DA card to the Dragon caught me off guard. I loved it
so goddamn much. Oh oh oh um, I did notice? Uh so,
Mead asked, was there there's something about your characters that was never mentioned?
There's something about Elmer that was only mentioned once and it was the most
ridiculous thing. And that's his last name and it still cracks me up up,
it's so stupid, Elmer fun. You should be the only time that
you mentioned that too. Yeah, yeah, no, it's because it never
came up. And then we were getting to that, I was like,
wait, everybody has a last name. I don't have a last name.
Oh yes I do. My name is Albert. It's fun, it has
to be that. Why not in game it's gonna be Fudd's glue though it's
not even gonna be it's gonna be funds glue. Oh man, Olmer's glue,
and he's gonna go into the burger business and call it Fuddruckers. Mead
wants to know. Will Jesse be returning yep, recording in season two.
We're in campaign two seven, so yep, yeah, and he plays an
entirely different character that isn't a cratchy old man. He's versatile. Yeah,
Now it's an ornery old lady, charming, boy charming, Alvira Fudge,
um, like those words together. It was a There was a hint that
the Golden Girls maybe green hacks, which I feel like it's like like a
blatant like if you guys were to walk into a cave which is like a
bunch of red signs and neon signs saying don't go here in danger there's a
bunch of hacks and you guys were like, no, the Golden Girls,
I feel like that's been the whole scenario since they enter. Yeah. Um,
I don't think they ever realized. You guys didn't never realize that.
Yeah. Yeah, And then we wanted to make sure that we dropped a
couple of hints that that was the inspiration. Yeah, yeah, so dangerous.
We didn't do great with the communication with the hags or the shop ladies.
That was actually the something that the players missed in the campaign. Yeah,
yeah, that girls. Yeah meat as Yea. They never asked the
one hag's name, and had they, I think then then they would have.
Yeah, because the one that the first one we caught was Blair and
we were making jokes about Blair Witch with the uh them. We had already
been making the blur witch jokes that that's probably where we would have went with
that. Oh yeah, the Golden Girls may have taken them further away from
it, and we never latched onto run anything else. Yeah. Yeah,
anything about you guys as characters that was never mentioned. I don't think so.
I think I put everything out there about yeah, Wren Truck. Yeah,
did you ever mention or did anyone ever figure out that your character's name
is Kurt Wagner backwards? Oh? Al, I figured it out like the
first episode. Yeah, mister Idrap for comic books, which is I'm not
shaming anybody, but what a weird name, mister ill for comic books.
It's a thick man now. He guessed it right away. He was just
like, oh, yeah, of course you're blue and you teleport around or
purple or running color. Right. We also did talk about it in one
of these two because Nico had to spell it out for me, almost literally,
like, look, idiot, you just moved these around and it makes
a different name. And I'm like, oh, that's just read him.
Yeah, hold up to a mirror. Goddamnitarras, Why am I crying?
This is fine? Um? Yeah, I loved it. I can't get
over enough how well you guys did the epilogue. I loved the way that
it was like kind of a mixture. Um and uh, yeah it was.
It was very reminiscent of the interludes that we were doing for campaign one.
It was phenomenal. Which those are coming back in campaign two, Yep,
we'll have yeah. I Um, I just could not get those.
I couldn't figure out a way to get those without a spoiler. Yeah,
I say, yeah, well then, and I think I think that there
was more time and depth to Campaign one and this one was already going to
be just an in between her. So you had a lot less time,
a lot less like world buildings to deal with, right, so then you
have a lot less to work with as far as what you could get away
with NPC's to you know, introduce and conversations to have in the background.
Um. Yeah, it's fair for those of you listening because this is going
to be on the general public feed. We're talking about our NPC interludes,
which we do for our Patreon content. These wtfs are typically on our Patreon
content, but the interludes are bonus episodes that we put out every month that
has stuff that's happening with that PC's in the background, so um yeah,
a lot of world building, a lot of a lot of background stuff,
a lot of really like, I think it helps a lot of the community
to be able to exercise their their acting muscles, um voice acting. Have
a lot of people who have have never really done any of this stuff who
were doing just a phenomenal job taking hold of these characters and bringing life to
Yeah, it's fun the world. It's amazing. It's so fun. I'm
gonna miss playing and he was such a fun, fun little guy. Do
we do we have insighted a vision into will there be a two point five?
Is that in talks? Or do we not know? It's always still
got a lot of two points to go through before you consider something like that.
Okay, yeah, yeah, And I'm not sure where things are gonna
land with two point zero quite yet, Like I've got I've got it kind
of built out and what's going to happen, like the main storyline, but
there's so much that can evolve from it, and so many routes and paths
that the fools can take. And they're fools, so yeah, I mean
it may come to a thing where where you know, campaign too kind of
ends it, and then maybe we move on to you know, a different
type of game, you know, like Fools in Space or you know,
like a Final Fantasy Fools. You know, something we could do, like
lots of stuff. So I think it just depends on like if we get
to the end of this and I'm like, oh god, I've got this
great idea for more campaign, like a third campaign, then yeah, we
probably will put in a two point five because this break was wonderful for me
to be able to like work on other projects. Like I didn't stop working
on stuff. I just worked on other things for a little bit and refocused,
so like I was able to focus more on Ethereal Embrace To, which
will be coming out soon, so stuff like that. Like, yeah,
well I will need another break, So if there is a campaign three,
there will be a break. To answer your question, we also have its
archives you were working on getting that out there. Yea, there's a lot
of there's the miscreants for the patreons, anyone who's listening to this. We
have tons of bonus content for people who are patrons. We give them their
own RSS feeds for basically all these shows you get to Benjam, we have
different tiers, tons of different shows. Before we get to that whole deal,
I guess I want to ask a better question, and that is,
if there is an interim campaign like this one, Tony, how down are
you for heading that up again? Because you did an amazing job? Never?
Oh yeah, that's fair. You heard the last fire I got fired.
Yeah, absolutely, I'd be happy. He's so good at it.
Uh yeah, So Nico, do you want to kind of fill them in
on anything that I've missed as far as bonus content, patreons or anything like
that. Um yeah, I mean, like you said, we've got bonus
episodes and stuff like that. I'm not going to reiterate all that, but
we do have ad free listening, which is nice. So all of the
commercials and stuff that you hear on our main feed, they don't exist in
the Patreon stuff. We also do like poles where our listeners and patrons can
like pick stuff that is happening to the fools. So that's kind of cool
too. They can like choose some of the outcomes, and um, then
you get like additional lore. Uh. There's also if you have listened to
is Fat archives. There's a whole side story that's releasing this uh this year
with three episodes that that to kick it off of just like a bonus story,
completely only for our patrons, So lots of stuff there. Plus we
have merchandising tiers where you get coupons for free merchandise for us and then depending
on how much you want to give on Patreon. We do have an executive
producer tier where we recognize our executive producer right now is it's Nick Mead,
and that you know, his name gets called out on all of our shows
that we put together. It's in all the notes, and um, you
know. It's just a really great way. And we've got a really good
fan base that helps support us and keep our shows afloat, and we are
able to actually pay some of our voice actors for a job well done.
So I'm very excited about that. And we couldn't do it without our patrons.
So thank you, thank you everybody, Thank you me uh. You
guys have been phenomenal. I think this unless you guys have anything else,
Nope, I'm good. Thank you so much for making this journey from one
point five so memorable and amazing. I had a freaking phenomenal time listening to
you guys. UM, thank you everybody for listening, supporting. Hopefully you
go back and dive into other shows you might miss or re listen to things
that you might have missed the first time. UM, thank you for all
of your support. We love you all, and we'll come back on August.
We come back in August, so we're on a little hiatus. I
wanted to mention that, Okay, when I say listen, sorry, sorry,
sorry, thank you for being remember it then yea, and I came
home and studied because I was so I was like, was it cheers?
It's like no, that that's everybody knows your name. It was one of
those breaks where we just stopped everything, and I like that. The youngest
person remembered it too, person remembered what Golden Girls was. The oldest at
heart we could tell them. H thank you everybody for listening to this hot
mess. We love you all and we will see you in August for campaign
two. Thank you, thank you until next time. Bye bye