Beyonds Ago. During the age of the Magi, the world was something other.
Hello, everyone, everyone's in the wrong place. I just realized that
we don't need the thing. It doesn't we don't. We don't need the
intro video anymore. Ah, so we don't need to do the thing.
Switch. I set it up for John to be here, and he's not
here. Yeah, he's stuck in traffic, so we're starting without him.
Welcome to the Dark Fire Round Table. There's no more story. There is
no more story to be had, and because of that, we are all
doing a Q and a round table thing PBS in. Have you flipped your
camera around today? What? No, it's always this way, isn't it.
No, No, you flip it the other way, the other way.
I'm sorry. That's okay. Well there you go. Now you're in
the right place. It's because I don't have explain open. I just have
the camera, see all right. Well, as soon as John arrives,
it's all going to get destroyed again anyway, So it's fine for now,
I don't know. Welcome to the stream, everybody. It's the Dark Fire
Round Table Q and a session where we go over some of the things that
happened in the campaign. But we have so many questions that I've I've managed
to grab from the from the discord. And also I feel it's too quiet.
What do you need? What do you do? Roll twenty like some
sad he's got terror in music. Yeah, you can join. I'm still
using it. Also, there's a thing that you can do today. I
think Cougio set up a box. Also, I haven't heard from Kougio all
day. I don't know where he is, so I'm hoping it still works.
If you type Q exclamation point Q in the chat and then space your
question whatever you want to ask, it should log the questions for me and
we'll get to those ones at the end of the stream. Anything you want
to ask during the during the stream, Oh yeah, it works. There
you go, So thanks M and MF one. If you do have a
question, don't just type some bullshit in there, because it's going to be
annoying. Just if you have a question, a real one and we haven't
gotten to it during the first like half of the stream, then the second
half of the stream, I'll probably try and dedicate to any questions that come
through live on the on the stream. For now, we have a lot
of questions on the on the disc that people have been just submitting just throughout
the campaign, and this last week there have been tons. I think I
got the more questions I've been going in and out like just checking and scrolling
up and down and double checking, I think I caught every question. There
are definitely some in there that I can't answer, some that I won't answer,
And for the most part, I think I got them all. So
even if I don't answer them, I'll let you know. And of course
there's here they come. All the questions are coming in on my other screen
for the live Q and A. So I think it's probably best that we
all just I don't I don't know if any of you three have anything that
you want to ask outright from each other or me, or anything. You
want to wait till the break. Yeah, I want to see well yeah,
I mean I want to see if somebody else all right, I see.
I thought break you could have just asked me in the week. I
mean, as you like, I'd rather get to people that want O the
Yeah, okay, all right, so let's let's do it that way.
Then. I didn't really have any plan. My original plan for This was
just I know that there are so many questions that only I can answer,
and I was concerned that you three would just be kind of stuck their bored
out of your minds with nothing to do for a while. So I thought,
maybe we just do the I do the first half and then you come
in. I don't know, but I think just based on the amount of
questions there are, or just go down this list. I tried to figure
out a way to like show them on the screen, but it's just so
much effort to because they come from all different places and things, and they're
all different things, and I'm not good at making bots like Kugio, So
I'm just going to say them verbally and then where I have to get to
them. The first question I have came from pumpkin Berry, and I'm not
even kidding. Is the first thing I put in my Google doc that just
says questions would it have worked? Question mark? Yeah, it was the
first, Like it was like the first official question I got, and it
was in reference to the slitting of the throat when you guys were back in
time. Would it have worked? Yes, Yes, it would have worked.
There were three ways out of there unless you thought of something else,
go to the mountain, go to the forest, die with like the three
fail, Well, it was go to the mountain, go to the forest,
and fail your pursuit, because you could actually have made it through the
entire campaign still doing the pursuit with the with the brakers on and things.
I assume that going to the woods would have actually extended the campaign a little
bit. Probably wouldn't have. I think we would still be in the woods.
Now. Oh wow. I planned. I planned a decent amount for
it. I genuinely planned out like a whole other thing like I had.
I was like gearing up to end when you guys first went back in time,
and then I started to plan out the the ways that you would return
and I was like, this is like a whole other rose Guard level quest
that you're going to end up doing. So I had consigned myself. I
was like, oh fuck it, this is going on for another half year.
I was ready for it. And then you died and I was like,
oh no, it's not and we're back on track for my original thing,
which was weird, the the the stuff with the forest. I'm gonna
I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna reveal because I might use it still not
necessarily like in this or as a as a Dark Fight supplement, of which
there still might be stuff. I don't know. I can't I'm not guaranteeing
anything, but there might still be some little tidbits that we that we run
that are directly linked to Dark Fire. But the but the the forest was
planned out to the point where I'm like, it would be silly for me
to not reuse that in some way someday. And so I'm not going to
tell you what it was or anything like that. I can say that someone's
NPC that never got used was there and now is going to show up in
the beginning of Dying Order, or is going to show up in one of
the Dark Fire supplemental things that we do at some point. But somebody submitted
a little dragon that was designed to piss off Hero. It was a fairy
It was a fairy dragon. Is that what they're called? What are they
called? God? Where is he? I don't know what I did with
him? Now there was there was one of the somebody submitted a little you
know those dragons that warlocks can use as familiar as if if you have the
expanded warlock list dragon pseudo dragon. It was a pseudo dragon that somebody somebody
submitted that was literally just going to prank ero deer for like ever. And
I wrote that character in as the person who was like guarding the gate into
the Fay wild and it was going to be like Eerro would have to go
through all these horrible, annoying tests to get through to get everybody access into
the to the Fay Wilds, and then you all died. And now I
need to rewrite that character into something else, and we'll see how that works
out in the future. They will still be in it. I can't remember
who submitted it of I moved once I use a Patreon NBC, I moved
them out of the folder and it's probably lost in the campaign notes now,
so really long winded way to answer. Would it have worked? Let me
see if I can find a question for one of you LOT to answer so
that I can intersplice my endless DM notes with questions for you Lot, because
there are a few that came in when you have your list. Well,
one just popped up in the chat that I thought was pretty interesting and we
can each answer it, and that one you can, okay, what part
of your character do you identify with the most and what part do you identify
with the least? For each player from Christian six Yeah, Tiger, Yeah,
because you have to answer twice. Mm hmmm. This might sound really
word I can't think of right now, but nothing pretentious characters. There are
characters that I had made up that I am role playing. I really like
acting a lot, like I really love acting and I love improv. I
love them both a ton, so like, even though it's improv to me,
it's still acting, right, And I think that the best escape with
acting and improv and even twitch streaming and playing a character in D and D
is that I don't really have to play myself in the slightest like I don't
have to be anything as to what I am. I've never done a character
like that, even in like all the GTARP stuff I've ever done. A
lot of the time, it's just it's just I figure out an attitude for
a character and I play it because like, for a good example, I
played a character that was a pissed off, angry mobster type guy, and
there was almost nothing to connect me to that because I'm definitely not a pissed
off angry mobster type guy, and realistically, as far as like nineteen nineteen
was probably one of the like the big difference like him and like Poopu Cakes
when I originally played D and D for the first time with Brad was that
nineteen Poopa Cakes was just a dick. Nineteen was just like a confused little
boy basically, so I was basically like for the majority of the campaign until
I got that ring. Especially after I got that ring, I was just
playing like a pretty confused even after he was up in space. So I
don't know if there'd be really anything, especially with nineteen, and as far
as Oldest, definitely nothing because Oldest was just a pompous in my pampus.
Maybe that's maybe it's maybe there's like some maybe there maybe there maybe maybe I'm
lying about that one. I don't know. I don't really know nothing really.
For me, I'm acting, so I'm playing a character, so I'm
completely not who I am anymore. I'm that character. So what about you,
wack uh? I think the the confidence and cowardice aspect of Ero dear,
I'm actually a really non violent person in real life. I try really
hard not to be violent unless I'm like being defensive or someone's forcing me to
it. So I really empathize with that part of hero and kind of trying
to find ways around being violent. And I also have this like contrasting self
consciousness and extreme confidence, and I can't explain it. I don't understand how
it works, but it just it's kind of what happens with me when I'm
confident about something, like I'm like, I know I can do it,
Like I just know I can do it. And I'm also extremely self conscious
about certain things, and I'll get like really sort of I don't know,
it's depressed isn't really the right word, but like I'll get like really really
anxious about it. Maybe I don't know, I get in your own head
about it kind of yeah yeah, yeah, like cause because I'm a bit
of a perfectionist. So it's it's it's just like a fear of failure kind
of thing. I don't know. It's like I either know completely that I
can do something or I am like not sure about it. And if I'm
not sure about it, then I'm like, well, why am I even
doing that thing? Or whatever. So I empathize with probably those parts of
euro the most. What about what part do you identify least with Do you
think I definitely have like some body dysmorphia, so like the the ease of
the comfort, of the comfort level with his own body, I guess is
probably the part that identify with the least. E was sort of objectively stunningly
hot as well, right, Yeah, like he's like beautiful looking, like
Brad Pitt levels of hot. I'm not saying you're not, but also that's
probably part of his confidence. What about you, then, Pepe's a very
hand or Brad, you guys are everybody in here is very handsome or very
attractive people. Thank you for yourself, I think I for Rinn, I
probably identified with the this is gonna sound really weird, but sort of her
her surroundings when she was young, I probably identified with that the most,
and as far as the least her she was very pragmatic, and that's very
hard for me. I'm hebe I'm extremely emotional. I make very emotional decisions,
and she didn't really She everything she did was kind of just detached and
logical. I wish I could do that, but I can't. Oh that's
my answer. Sweet, Yeah, Well we'll try and remember any of that.
John can answer as well when he gets here, but for now,
I think we should answer for him. What part of his character do you
think he most identifies with John to Drift? How do they seem similar excitement
level? Yeah, it does seem like that. Yeah, the Drift was
into it whatever was happening. He was kind of into it regardless. And
I think John can be like that always, very very much like a roll
with the punches and be happy no matter what the situation. Kind of guy,
it seems like, yeah, and least wanting to suck someone's blood.
Whack can't cast spells either, though I had some private conversations which at YouTuber
TV John might be a warlock. Maybe that's how he got all those test
lists. All right, So the next question, I have them in kind
of chronological order, so just for the sake of time, I'll try and
get to the the ones that came in late. But one of the earliest
questions I got from Sammy was what exactly is Hasmol before this was way before
the campaign ended, and now we know he was. He was a phoenix.
They're a little different though, the guardians of these gates, they're a
little different. The next one in this same block of questions, he said,
what is dark Fire? Darkfire is a demon. Technically he's a he's
a he's a demon, but he's like a little he's a little demon.
So no one really got to this like where Darkfire was and what he was
doing. Originally, I was going to have him in, have him as
in the Shadow Fell or somewhere where he couldn't get out, because I really
wanted to explore the Fay Wilds, and the way that I set up the
Fay Wilds is a little different whack. I think he is the only person
who knows how the Fay Worlds work for me. In that one the different
courts, there was the Summer Court, and an outside of that was the
Winter Court, and outside of that was the Shadow Fell. Because in traditional
Forgotten Realm's Law and things like that, they're supposed to be kind of flip
and opposite each other, the shadow Fell and the Fee wild somewhat. So
I thought it would be called if they kind of existed on the same plane.
But it's all wishy washy. It's not quite as simple as just like
oh over, there's Chica, going over there's Detroit and you know, that's
just that it was a little more crazy. Originally that was my plan.
Later on, and I mean like pretty much like we were starting or we
were in the campaign, I changed my mind as to what I wanted Dark
Fire to be. He actually ended up being a demon. Each of these
places of power that the ancient MAGEI had have a little Pokemon guarding them.
Basically, they each have their own little Pokemon because they were crazy. These
these magi were kind of insanely covetous of their places of power in their homes,
so they wouldn't sleep and stuff. But if they did, they wanted
a really good guardian, someone who was linked to the place and would look
after it and also would protect their legacy and stuff. That's why Noodle lives
with you. Now, he's the same. Here's my Hasmo. Yeah.
The the thing with them is that each one has like their own different thing
going on, and each one thinks that their one is the best one.
So the the magi that created the fire, who I think was called marpel
Gend had Hasmol and he was like, it's genius, I'll have a phoenix
because then even if they kill it, it'll come back and carry on or
whatever. The demon that protects the night Storm place of power is a demon
that can adapt to any environment and survive in it. And so that's what
dark Fire was. And originally he's like a little and I had an image
and maybe I can show it at some point of this little demon who is.
That's all he does. He's just able to adapt physically to survive in
an environment he gets trapped in like a time nothing just he's locked in time.
He's not in a he's not anywhere physically, but this time thing just
a prison that's outside of time pretty much so that nothing can get to him,
no one can hurt him, no one can kill dark Fire, and
Darkfire just sits there with a bracer on until he until someone figures out how
to get him out. He's completely safe, and he's in this lock box
that this other Magi had put him in, and he's able to just sit
there and get stronger and more powerful in this weird time thing. So by
the time you guys almost let him out or like the or the Preterritor did,
he's actually kind of super powerful because he's been forced to survive in this
unsurvivable place that he's actually a really gigantic, enormous demon now, which is
why I wanted to big hand. I think he's fucking pissed. Ah,
you know he is, you know, but he's still there. He's still
there though it's not over. Really, he's still got his pursuit and everything.
So really the art so like, what are they? Their pokemon?
They're just little little things that God there. Each of the gate, each
one is different. Not all of the places have something quite as straightforward as
a phoenix or a or a demon guarding them. Maybe we'll explore that in
the future. We'll see Pybe has a question questions to go in like one
of the first episodes, I think with the second episode, Hasmal said when
I asked what he looked like, or who he was or where the door
was, he was like, I don't know what you see right now.
Can you just explain how that works? Because he doesn't really have a physical
form. Really, he was just part of the gate I left. Even
I don't know all of the answers to these things because I purposefully left a
lot of things outside of my realm of knowledge because I want them to be
alien, the ancient magi. I don't have a lot of answers. By
the way, everyone's like, Oh, it's these guys and it's this.
I actually genuinely don't know a lot about them either, because I want them
to be alien, even to me, so that even when I'm trying to
answer your questions, I would struggle. I don't want there to be any
definitive answers for a lot of the stuff, especially with that first dungeon that
you were in, because I wanted you to walk through it and be like
the same, the same feeling as if you were in an alien spaceship.
Nothing should have ever made sense, and it can't make sense, and it's
almost impossible for you to find out for that reason. So he I just
imagined him on like the he's just in the walls. He's on He's part
of the gate and he's just been there for years. He's part of the
flava. He's in everything, and he's shackled to it, and he was
he was just there, and Yeah, to to to create a physical form
of himself, I figured would be really difficult for him to do and he
wouldn't want to do it unless he really needed to. Ultimately, he did
have to do that and got his ask kick my dad singer in round one.
So that's kind of where I went with that. That was kind of
my plan with him there. And yeah, he just he was working on
feeling and echo location or something. I don't know, Like there's all different
types of cite in D and D and I wanted it to be like that.
But yeah, mostly it's just alien magic that we don't understand anymore.
You guys don't in this The era of Lacrine that I'm working with is very
different to the one from you know. That was the whole point. Let
me see I can find a question for you lot, because there's some good
ones. There was one on YouTube that I thought was pretty good. Oh
man, the YouTube comments for the last episode broke my heart. Yeah,
it was nice of you on YouTube. This is weird. It's weird for
me to deal with. I just I would never expect anyone to give a
crap about a silly little D and D game, you know, like and
everyone's like, I don't know how to live without it? And also what
the fuck was Hasmo to Brad and Tiger from Wandering Ignorance? Yes, would
nineteen have died if he wouldn't have taken another pursuit because he died before he
got his first pursuit. Would he have died if he hadn't taken another pursuit
at the end? Yeah, at the very end. I think when he
said yes and took it again, Um no, he would Oh what I
mean, he would have died naturally like everyone else would have died. The
thing with the War Forged is that when they become kindled, it's like the
beginning of the last cycle of their life. Nineteen was dying. The entire
campaign kind of you wake up. The magic that holds them together is just
like this borrowed life magic, and they don't live too long. They're very
very much ripped off. I mean sorry, borrowed sorry. Inspired from the
Black Majors in Final Fantasy nine. If anyone's played Final Fantasy nine, they
have the Black Majors in that, and they used to the very beginning before
we did the show. Yeah, and they they are just brought kind of
to life, and some of them kind of wake up and go and start
their own village, right, And I really love that and it's always stuck
with me. So that was kind of a huge inspiration for me on that.
But they're all kind of dying of natural causes. Now, that life
power that's holding them together was never supposed to be permanent. They aren't supposed
to be these immortal things. They were just a means to an end.
They were they were created to end the war, and once they that,
no one really thought about what happens after that. They were just like we
need army, were losing and they managed to create these war forged and here
they are. Once that war was won, it was like, well,
what do we do with them? Now We've still got a good army.
We'll just keeping around and then they start to wake up. But actually that's
them. That life forces just kind of again, I wanted it to be
kind of messy because it's ancient magi magic kind of and it keeps them like
they they live for a moment truly before they die out, like they burn
bright and then they and then they go. So that was the that was
the point of them. And I was hinting that a lot, especially when
you met Heavy Tiger when you were speaking to me, Yeah, he was
saying like, do you feel achy or creaky, or if you notice that
you're slowing down or anything, and you were like, no, not at
all, and he was like, ah, right, because he is one
of the first that kindled and woke up. So he was saying that a
lot. For that reason. It was my It was my hint to you.
Does the Ring have any other consequences that didn't get revealed? No,
but but it did do something else. Not I get brought back once?
Said that again. If I died with that ring? Un did I get
brought back to life once? No? Because I thought that might be what
it was, because remember when we fought the Orc. Yeah, yeh No,
he was just so fucking strong. He wouldn't die. He's just one
of those like I'm so angry, I won't die yet type characters that I
wanted. I guess I just gave him two rounds. He just had the
dark souls pips to you take one out, you had a face two.
It's a JRPG. He that was called the Ring of Infinite Intellect. It
gave you a twenty sixteen whiz and an eighteen charisma bond. While bonded to
the ring, you are able to cast dominate person on any other creature wearing
the ring. The wearer must make the original safe with disadvantage and you may
do this infinite amount of times. That's right, you thought it was your
ring. It was actually Death Singers ring. The whole time he bonds to
it, attunes to it, takes it off, and gives it to someone
else. It's still your ring. The first person that wore it, and
then the second person that wears it thinks it's their ring, they still get
the benefits of it. That actually, the wearer of the ring can create
a bond with the ring, allowing the wearer to remove it the next word
of the ring is granted the other effects of the ring well, not being
able to create the bond, which is what happened to you. So cool.
However, one thing you didn't work out, or you didn't try,
I don't think was the evil kamehameha, which is what I called it,
which the orc did to you. On a recharge of six, while wearing
the ring, the user can make an Arkana check and on a fifteen or
higher, which is pretty easy to do for a twenty whiz twenty. On
a fifteen or higher, the user is able to cast the devastating line of
necrotic damage, which is what the York did to you. A couple of
times, so you actually had like a big booming thing and yeah, you,
I don't think you. I think there was a point when I thought,
I think you were going to do it at the end of the pretty
second to last episode, like the penomenal one, and then you came up
with some different ideas in that final fight. So that's what that ring did.
It did have some other stuff, but the way it works is that
it was designed to be worn by one and then put to the other.
It's not it's not a magi ring or anything though. It's just a normal
ring, by the way, and the the the ice place that was in
the one shot that you guys did where you went to get the ring in
the first place it was was not a place of power or anything. It's
just a pretty normal It's just a ring that someone made and threw away or
whatever. I think that was what I wrote for it. But it's all,
yeah, it's all it's all funky. It's got some strong stuff going
on, but I think it was just a normal ring. I think I
have a question. Yeah, I had a few ideas for how I wanted
to handle death Singer and in general. Yeah, when I did that fight.
I had like three things. One was the polymorph, the other was
counter charm, which I was gonna try and use like Eero thematically as being
a Bard encountering death singer and if we would have like a fucking sing off
or whatever the reasons why Hero never sung, which that was gonna kind of
be my plan, like if he started to do that the death song,
if I would be able to do the counter charm to kind of like counteract
it, like if you would. I was wondering if you were going to
allow me to do that. Hmm. I'll be honest that that song was
a bullshit move that I knew was a bullshit move and was just a bullshit
DM move that I would never use on anything other than a one shot where
I didn't care if your characters died or the last episode. It really is
just an ability that forcibly puts characters that can that are near it that and
like I didn't even give it a distance or anything. I just I choose
who is suffering the effects of it to go on to death sabes So,
but within that, I think I would definitely have if you had done that
thing, I think I would have allowed you to do something to try that,
just because of how I run the game. If you a lot of
the time I do leave things open. I think a lot of dms right,
like specifically this is how to counter the bah, which is fine,
and also that's how for the most part, most of the things in D
and D work, like spells and stuff, and we get into that,
and I'm happy to do that kind of stuff too, but I also sometimes
just go blah blah blah. I hope they get out of it if I
can leave it, because I learned that lesson once by accident on Fractured Worlds
Tiger. If you remember when you guys were arrested and you were all locked
in the the te fling underground place, I forgot to write down how you
get out of that. I just started the session and then I was like,
you guys are all chained to the walls, and oh god, I
didn't write down how they get out. I went, how do you get
out? And that was it, and you worked it out. I think
it was actually you because you were a goat and you were like, oh
my legs flit through the thing the chuckle or whatever, and I think that
was how you worked it out, but I was like, oh god,
but I learned a good lesson there, Pybee spoilers over sorry, So yeah,
just I think if you had tried something, I would have probably rolled
something or something like that. But there was there was no mechanics to the
to the ability. Really it was just bullshit because I knew it was bullshit
and I but it works on everybody right, everything in the discord. The
only reason he did it, or was able to do it, is because
nineteen banished himself. Otherwise we would have had a finale without the death song.
I can't imagine that. Yeah, one of the things I knew about
it is that he can't pick who it affects. It just doesn't affect him,
but if anyone's near it. Originally, originally, originally it was going
to be if you could hear it, but actually by the end that wasn't
the case for me. And what are you laughing at? What have you
done? You guys might want to take a look at void smokers are on
this Twitter real quick, there's and they're both really wonderful. Well here we
are just pausing everything to go on to Twitter and the void smoker once again,
he did he did one of the hero's stories before? Oh, yeah,
I saw it. I'll I'll try and show them. There'll be a
point in it. Second pictures from like what it is? Oh? No,
that's the Goliath and the dwarf getting married tiger? Yes, why did
nineteen go for the queen at all? After how he reacted her during his
banishment? And already? So I think that there's just a slightly I think
I can add to that. Yes, please, because someone else asked just
why you why you made that choice? I think what was nineteen's motivation in
not going with the party in the end? Is his need for knowledge more
important than the bond with the party? And while you answer, I will
flip the other cameras around welcoming. I just left and then came back in
right, That should fix it? Yeah, yeah, carry on? Yes,
So is the question basically why? Okay, so I just kind of
preface this. So why did he make the choice to stay? And what
was the other part of the question? What was his motivation not going with
the party in the end? And and why did he go for the queen
at all after he reacted to her during his punishment? Oh, isn't like
Wow, Okay, so like kind of like why did he want to go
find her? I think just what was the motivations there at the end?
Yeah, so you think he didn't go with the party because he didn't go
at the party. Realistically, he didn't go at the party because one thing
that he realized you got to think about, Like when he was out in
space floating around, he had a lot of time to think and he you
also have to remember, like his relationship with the party, where it was
good with a couple people, his relationship with one person, specifically Wrin,
was not good. It was not a good relationship. For the most part,
it wasn't bad, and he still cared about her, but there was
a lot of distrust in between the two of them, sexual frustration, and
entirely in retrospect too. He was connected with everybody heavily, but you also
have to remember that he was pretty much banished to like a plane of existence
where he was just floated for what felt like years to him probably, and
when he came back, his big goal was I have the opportunity to come
back. I'm going to use my life for what I want, not for
what the party wants, not for what anybody else wants. So that's why,
like I remember some people in chat saying when he first hit down and
like everybody's like, holy shit, nineteen's back. Like the party was.
He didn't give a shit about the party being there. He gave a shit
about going up to the mountain and destroying everything that was evil in that place.
He didn't not care about the people in the party. It's just that
he had the realization that he wasn't there for the party. He was there
to do what has Maal's bidding was. And he realized that, and he
also realized that the reason so remember when he was like questioning, is that
was Hasmaal in his head. The reason he was questioning if that is Hasmal
in his head is because he wasn't sure it was dark fire not. And
the reason he was worried about that was because he found a trust in hasma
And because he had that trust in has Maal, he trusted has Maal way
more than he did Rin And he trusted Hasmaal with his life. And because
of that, he felt that the best thing he'd do with his life going
forward and the rest of his life that he had even though he had always
consistently been some kind of slave or working for someone. He realized that working
for someone like has Mal that is so powerful is a good choice. Now,
moving to the next part of that, he also you have to remember
that he just got that ring. That ring infinitely changed so many things about
him. I mean, he became super intelligent. I mean, a twenty
on intelligence is insane. So him having a twenty eight intelligence and being that
smart put him in this position where he's thinking way more clear. He's realizing
what is more important to him. He's realizing that has Mal has these great
powers that he can give nineteen and nineteen definitely for sure because of that ring,
probably got a little bit of like an evil incarnation on him, you
know. So he's thinking power equals you know, respect and all that kind
of stuff too. So he stays with Hasmo because he wants to be in
that position where he can continue to live his life and continue to learn,
because he's curious. Also, the reason he wanted to go after the Queen
was because he wanted to find out exactly what he was and why he was
and who he was and all of that kind of stuff. Trying to answer
as quick as I can so don't take too much time. I hope that
kind of answered. I think. So, yeah, in the same I
might as well just go down this list of questions and John's in. Yeah,
just some time. I muted. Hi, Hey, what's up?
I did get a haircut? Yeah at thanks. Thanks. You know,
I'm no longer Drift, so I decided to change up my whole luck.
And you know, I'm retired now. So we're just questions. And one
came in for you that says, how exactly did Drift survive as a child?
Was he teleported away? Did he kill the attackers through the first now
he did nothing. Yeah. So when Drift was little, he h he
was about to die. He was about to get stabbed. And what had
happened was as he was about to be stabbed, he grabbed for his doll,
this little doll that he had. And just as many kids do,
they reach for their like their teddy bears or anything and say like, just
like help me save me. But little did Drift know that this little thing
became his everything and it got him out of there. So it didn't teleport
him. It just gave him like the willpower and the strength to get up
stop being scared and as he was about to be stabbed, and he just
watched his mom die and his dad die and like literally all his village,
the village around him die. He just got out of there, like,
got up, I was about to get stabbed, rolled away from it,
ran through, closed the door on one of their heads, get him,
get him, jumped out of like like like the doorway, like everyone coming
around him, stop him, ran straight through the forest, knew the path
like around his house, and got out of there. I can help you
Drift, Oh god, yeah, I mean yeah, classic warlock. Really
yeah. And what I love is like Brad, Brad did not let me
get away with just being a chill like. I was just like, I
want to be a warlock. That sounds fun. You just get to have
power with no repercussions and aren't a haunted little like Raven teen Times character.
I'm like, dude, you're gonna be haunted. You're gonna have all these
weird, horrible situations through this thing where you help me that like all we
talked to Like I just told him I had this little doll, Like I
just was like, that's something I want to bring with me. He's like,
oh, perfect, swear to you like we never chatted about that at
all. So like when he made the drift doll, it made it like
my thing like that you know, had every It was just insane. It
was so cool that Brad did that. I like to do that. The
next question is to Whang, But as your attorney, I'd say maybe because
you've got some plans you don't you might not want to answer. I don't
know how you want to approach it. Whack. What's Ero's whole backstory with
the Summer Queen and why is he so afraid? Okay, so uh,
there's a lot of stuff I'm not going to answer about Hero in general,
because I'm I'm always a big fan of where people's minds go when they start
to go down that rabbit hole, you know, when they start to think
about the possibilities of what went on. What I will say is kind of
like re emphasizing some stuff that was said during the campaign, which is Hero
is the lover to the Summer Lady, not the Summer Queen. Technically,
a couple of people made that mistake to you realize that the Summer Lady is
the daughter to the Summer Queen. Brad and I and are you okay if
I explain a little bit as to how we like thought up the Fay wild
stuff. Okay, Brad and I he he basically came to me and he's
like, listen, you're basically going to make up what's going on with the
Fae gear because of what you did. And I was like okay. And
we both talked about some of the things that we like and we've seen with
the Faye and whatnot. And I'm a big fan of the Dressden Files in
general. I love the Dresden Files and I love Patrick Roethus and the King
Killer Chronicles. We kind of we kind of took like a little bit of
both of those worlds when we when we thought up that stuff. And one
of the things that really I find very like powerful and like under standable with
the Dress and Files representation of the Fay courts is that neither is good and
neither is bad. They are they're balanced. Like the Summer Court is very
intense and passionate and emotional sort of representative of summer, but it's also like
scary intense, you know what I mean. Like it's also overly passionate and
like very reactionary and like very very intense. It's just very intense. And
then the winter Court always had this air of like cold rational thought, which
could come across as evil, but not necessarily evil. It's more like rational,
what are we going to how how do we approach the situation in a
rational way? And it could just be like, okay, we need to
use these people as pawns. That's that's the way, that's the most rational.
The least amount of people will die if we do it this way.
You know. It's like that, like really, is that where he learned
his dominating kind of magic of controlling people. I don't think I want to
get into that, all right. I've dropped some hints as to Ero's feelings
on that kind of thing, and I think that people will have to judge
for themselves. Yeah, I think one thing that I will say about when
you guys almost went into that forest, it would for sure like I mean
into forest, but also there are access points to the Fay wild and certain
forests it's more heightened than that one that you were heading towards. One of
the things I think I told you PB but I didn't tell anyone else,
was that whatever emotion your character was going to be feeling as you stepped through
that gate, was going to be like tenfold will be your driving emotion for
the entire time you'd be in there. It would almost be like a flow
or a bond or an ideal one of these personality traits would suddenly be overwhelmed
by whichever state you were in when you went in there. What a disaster.
I just thought it'd be a really fun way and a twist on your
characters. At this point, because were quite late into the campaign. I
wanted to do something different and it was based on that kind of thing and
all that I sat and really thought about a lot more to do with the
Fay worlds, and then we never really ran it, but not saying I
won't, but yeah, next question, what happened to Olds? Can we
have a shortcut scene on him? No, But if we get enough likes
on this YouTube video, if we get four billion likes, maybe we'll do
something in the future. Everyone loved that is to be is going to be
pretty quick. What would each of the party do after they got to their
home? Do you think I will not answer that? That's one thing they
were like, I think that should be left left open. Yeah, yeah,
I mean who knows. I think like, you know, in a
year or two and there could be another campaign where we all come back.
So he gotta wait, get six billion likes, gets six billion lins on
youtube'll be coming out next summer, next summer, Brad, why did a
YouTube thing to do? Dude? I know, actually just like the impossible,
I do it all the time. I put that soul meter. Yeah,
oh my god, I think I put like, if this YouTube gets
a billion lins, I'll attack a man in a street. When I did
one video once, why did Drift become a human sized man? Because he
wasn't really Drift. I kind of treated it a bit like in dragon Ball
when Piccolo would stop being Piccolo and he becomes the namic and he just they
fused into one person a lot, and it changes them a little bit,
and and physically would have changed Drifts. So when he took on the the
first or the first was back, he Drift was his vessel, his body
super powerful, and yeah, it just it just boosted him and just grew
him. He just he just was big. It's crazy because like I feel
like that like didn't mess up my character, but like messed up sort of
like a lot of the feelings that I was feeling, Like towards the end,
I wasn't as like I must get vengeance from my family. It was
I was so messed up from every the vessel taking over and me leaving it
and like getting away and then trying to go back like those whole other like
you know what I mean. It was like it lost that like my innocence,
yeah kind of yeah, and sort of at the end I got it
back kind of, but never the same. No, I don't think you
should be That's what you said when we like, he was like, am
I small again? I was like, no, I don't think you are.
I think you need that change, like a scar almost like I learned
from these things. And then to Brad Pebee, you said that everyone in
dest Singer's group was specialized in something. What was each member's specialty was Walters
barred that merchant with the mask? Was that girl a substitute for Rin?
Why did she get told about the plan or did she get involved last second?
And how long did that Dessinger live into own wives obsession? So Peebe
kind of Pebe made a good portion of this campaign's driving story motivation in well
I think you fleshed out an idea I had, and then yeah, we
talked about it and I said I was interested in doing the you know,
redeemed cultist background. And then it was just like spitballing and you're like,
oh, this and that, and then yeah, it was kind of hard
to give you information and also hide the fact that I was going to be
using it a lot more. Oh, you didn't tell me at all at
first. You were like, Okay, go write this thing, and then
I just happened to write you a fucking novel about it. I knew that
I wanted to have I was going to have multiple factions in the beginning.
They ended up all being kind of controlled by one. Even though there were
still multiple factions. There was going to be the prey territory of the Company
of Masks, with the two main antagonists, the two separate leaders, as
two separate villains throughout the entire thing. I found it easier to condense into
one simplify it because dn D is hard to run and convey. It's not
a movie where people can find metaphors and twist things and I can put complex
stories in. I think simple stories are easier because it has to go from
my brain to you via dice rolls and weird modulistic things, and then to
an audience separately who have to digest it. So it's I think the ND
is quite hard to digest if you over if you make it over complex,
some of you can probably do it. I definitely can't. So I ended
up condensing a lot of this stuff in and pray Terrator became a lot stronger
than I originally intended for them to be. Each of the people in the
end, didn't. They each had their own thing stifle. The guy with
the mask is somebody that I have a little more information on because he is
he is a he's a merchant lord and a and a powerful member of the
Lenardellian Council, and he is well if you want to see him, listen
to our MP three the Silver City, because he is in it very early
on and he's sitting up there. You have Athena. She was she was
just in charge of She was like I see, I trying to kind of
I tried to kind of see them as like a company, like a like
I was like, well, who's in charge? And then who's doing what?
Because dead singers strong and intelligent and stuff, but he's not doing everything.
And also I saw him as the type of person that would just disappear
for years at a time, and because he had to train himself or he'd
have to go get a time stamp and go back in time and fight you
all and stuff like that. So he just had a lot of powerful people
in powerful positions. Athena was just in charge of the Prateretor movement in rose
God Jaguar submitted Zahara, who was the half drow as an NPC, and
I needed someone when you first got to Rosegard to be continually stalking rin because
there was just no way she was going to get away with it. And
actually I rolled at first. They didn't know you were there, but I
remember rolling very early on. It was all planned. I loved that about
what happened with Rinn that everyone was like, oh, man, she's like
this mastermind arranging all these things, and I'm like, dude, man,
she's fucking on the run. Yeah, he's on the run. And when
you first arrived, I think you just you got caught by chance. So
I was rolling random. I was rolling a lot of random shit. Well,
the whole time you were in rose God for people looking out for you
and the other group looking for nineteen and you got Cort pretty early on.
And also you bought some stuff that was like hot goods that the prey territor
would be like, well, there's only one reason someone's buying cole what on
our AaB And then yeah, that was pretty much what happened there. I
do. I did just pull up my notes for the beginning of this,
and I think it's really funny because you sent me your aon's ago during the
age of the Magi, like just to your little bit, because I had
asked you for information on the world and you sent me that, and my
note just says, how cool would it be if there was a group of
people that were trying to get those artifacts and bring this back? And I
think that that just like that's where that hole came from. Yeah, and
then the praise territor just became well there. I always I wanted someone who
I wanted a cult that were interested in doing some sort of world ending bullshit
like bring back the Magi, and you came up with a cult that was
really interested in ancient art facts and I was like, well, there they
are, and I'll just because I love integrating your characters into the main story.
I think it's a fucking brilliant way to motivate your characters by far with
you with your story. If you're running something, I think that's like the
most fun. To the best of my ability, It's kind of hard sometimes
it's like do I really like Early on, I was like, do I
I need to kind of figure out a way to forcibly send them to the
Fay Wilds if I want hero to have some hardcore hands on backstory stuff.
And that's not the intention with D and D. You're not really post to
run it that way. Your background is just a thing to inform your character.
You're just like, I'm a cleric and that's why I have the acolyte
background, and that's it. But I like to I like to use it
for as much much as for you, Brad, because like, Fractured Worlds
wasn't as much like that at all. Oh no, it wasn't the way
that I ran. This is really different. But while I was doing Fractured
world at the end of or during Guardians, I was also running a show
called Dust Fail, which was an experiment show where I was like, what
happens if I spend one half of the campaign letting them do what they want,
to build their characters, to see what they do in any situation in
a complete sandbox, pretty much with just a few little tidbits of story and
narrative bullshit that I want to put in. And then the second half I
go, well, there's the rail tracks. Now you're playing my game.
Now you're on my story. But you're going to do all of the things
that I've planned, all the main story things with the most informed characters ever.
All of your decisions will make sense and you're not just like it says
on my character sheet seven, So you know, like you start playing probably
too. Yeah, that's exactly how I did it. Dustball was my experiment
to test that, and this one I went into it on purpose. Although
the thing with Fracture World is it was supposed to be like a It was
a huge scale, so there's not much time for character development because you've got
to travel around the whole of two worlds, was my initial intention. So
I look at it, so it's right, so you you do, you
don't you? But you had to build your characters as you were already on
the fucking train and going. So that's kind of how this one went,
and I'm glad I did it that way. I think it actually ended up
working out perfectly for this campaign. I have a question for you going in
in the very beginning, and I don't think I want to talk about what
it was that happened, but in the very beginning, you wanted my character
in a certain like emotional state for the start of the campaign. And Whack
and I were talking about this the other night and we think it actually really
shaped kind of how things went. Did you know what you were doing when
you did that? Like was there did you have a specific reason why you
wanted my character in that specific emotional and mental state episode one? Because you
specifically asked me for that. You were like, can we do this?
And I was like, yeah, okay, what was it? Well that
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, if you don't want to say it,
yeah, because it was a long time ago, and my brain is
yeah, remember this. Don't worry guys, I'll let you know what they
type going to the restroom quick, damn it. I don't know if I
if I if I intentionally expected that to have like if I had like a
string theory. Okay, okay, where I was like, if it's this,
this is the way it will go. That was one of the defining
moments that shaped the relationships of the group. I think that's why we were
talking. We were like, Brad is a fucking mastermind. I don't know.
I mean, if I'm honest, I can't remember very well. Is
this like when you snapped the callboard's neck and you were like that was episode
one? Yeah, So I will just say he asked if I could be
close, if I could have had something happen that day that that morning to
cause me to be close to a psychotic break. I mean, I assume
I had a reason for it, but I don't know if I was if
I like, it's definitely not something I can remember now. Really cool because
that did shape and or like being a little away from the group and me
looking up to you hardcore and being like this Cal's crazy, But like does
I need to like she's my big sister kind of like she's going to take
care of me, mama. I don't know. I don't know that it's
possible. I remember when I first started this, the first couple months of
it, I was in a weird place irl, I was like, I
was super I was super not with it, and I was I was struggling
to run this in the beginning, not I really enjoyed it. And I
was, and I had done a lot of prep that really helped me to
do it. And I've been GMing enough that I can kind of just do
this with my eyes closed if I need to. But the first the first
couple of months of this were a bit weird for me because I was in
a kind of a weird, odd place. I spoke about this to Zychotocus
on this podcast like the other day, and there was a point where you
were like, hey, Brad, this week's the episode was really great.
You were like really on it. Yeah, And that was one of the
first weeks where I felt kind of pretty normal mentally again, and I was
like, ah, And then you were like, it's been so great recently,
Brad, and I was like, yeah, because I'm not freaking out
all the time. So weirdly enough, but also I think it means at
the beginning of this campaign, because I was thinking a lot of these questions
have been coming in and I've been thinking about it a lot, and I'm
like, I don't really remember even writing this thing down and then someone's like,
oh, the motivation for the bit, and I'm like, I don't
know. I can't remember because I just you normally don't do stuff like that.
That's why I ask. And specifically, I remember remember being like,
oh, you know, like okay, and you said no, no,
you like you don't have to, but I think it might turn out to
be pretty cool if you were. Yeah. I mean that sounds like I
had a reason for it. You had a reason for it. I can't
remember it, but then I don't always. I think sometimes I have.
I'm very like these next couple of episodes focused, and so when we get
to the end of it, I'm like, I remember my overall plans really
well. I know what I wanted death Singer to be doing. I knew
where the Terrotori were moving, I knew what the orcs were doing. This
whole time, I've been desperate for you to move and do this, and
that works. But yeah, the little things to try and motivate you,
I'm not too sure we could go around this for days anyway. How long
did death Singer live in total? And why his obsession? I think he
kind of explained that in the end. He just his original story. He
was. He was around like I think I think his he was around during
the first King's reign when Rose God was a little village. That thing is
somewhere around six hundred years old, which is very old for an elf,
especially in my setting at elves are supposed to live to about five hundred.
I don't really have them do that. I never really gave it like a
hard you don't live to five hundred as an elf, but really they actually
don't live that long. But he was a scholar. He was a very
intelligent young man, and he befriended another very intelligent young man, leoth Oldis,
and the two of them just became very interested in what came before because
they were just they just were part of a society that was super fresh,
and they were like, well what came before us? And they looked into
it and they worked it out and they started writing books together. And he
was already into it, and he was just obsessed beforehand in a very healthy
way, with what these magi were, Like what were their powers? What
could they do? Like you all are half of you people asking me questions
in discord, like look with the magi, would they did. I'm like,
I don't know, man, but you're all interested in them, and
so was he. And it was so coold that you were all interested in
what eons ago? What with the magi doing? What was this? Because
I'm like, you're all death singer, all of you. You're all little
death singers waiting to be told by someone else. All you need is someone
to go, Oh, I can grant your wish for the thing dark Fire
wanted to give him, give him the opportunity to meet a magic to see
the extent of what their world was like. And he just became more and
more obsessed. And then one of the other reasons is that they killed him,
and that I think I think that twisted him. The way I see
it is he kind of he almost has his own sort of PTSD. He
suffered a terrible trauma when he was very young, just after he'd discovered all
of these things, just before it all went, just after he got his
pursuit. You lot kill him in the snow, and it's a It was
a tough time for him, and then he was left. He was left
in a desert for a year to fix himself and to work out what he
wanted to do, and he was like, and he just set himself on
this task, and that's how I see him. He spent one year where
he was like, I am going to become a person that does this thing.
So there you go. That's that's how I saw him the entire time.
Yeah, what would have happened if we would have killed him? Oh
my god? Yes, HP or some ship. What would have happened?
You couldn't. That's its simple answer. One HP was how you you did
kill him? One h P was the minimum thing the event. Yeah,
okay. The thing with time is that it's too fucky. And as much
as I love time travel personally, I'm a big fan of it, and
I would love to run something that was just time travel stuff, it's very
hard to do in D and D because there's too many variables. It's it's
hard to write as a screenplay or a book or something without leaving endless plot
holes and paradoxes. So with that, I knew that the way that you
defeat you either defeat him down to activate cut scene final Fantasy style where he
basically it was when you get him to like minus ten HP. Next thing
is to do the time stop spell and then fuck off, because you can't
do shit against time stop pretty much apart from account spell. And I don't
think you had it. What level was that nine, isn't it? Yeah,
it's this big bullshit move. He actually doesn't have that as a spell.
That was actually part of the time travel bullshit yet going on, So
you did win. There was only a win option and a lose option,
and you activated the win option, and then the lose option was that you
all sort of slid his thrup too. Yeah, I mean I knew that
it. You kicked the fuck out of him. I thought he was gonna
I thought he was going to run you over, and yeah, you just
you just ruined him. But yeah, there's times when I'm like, well,
I'm not I'm not a fan of doing it as a DM, but
there are times when I'm like, there's just nothing. It will ruin the
entire campaign if I try and come up with a paradox here and try and
deal with it. And I'm sure there are ways around it, and people
more intelligent than me can do it. But I knew that that was the
wing condition whack from Piranha plant, our head inquisitor who basically guessed all of
these things that were answering questions for you, said Hero. He said,
Hero has been one of your favorite characters to play. How has he been
different than other characters you've played before. I think a lot of it is
mechanics, It's a I mean, it's a comany of mechanics for the bard
in general, as well as empathizing with a lot of the way that I
played Eero. I guess like a lot of the characters that I made through
the years all have like little parts of my personality kind of peppered through them.
But I think that Eero probably had the closest to my a lot of
my personality in general, a bit more confident, a bit more confident in
his body, and like a little bit more flamboyant than me. But yeah,
I think in general he had a lot of the traits that I that
I think I have, And I don't know, it was just it was
a different character to play. I went from a non violent perspective with the
character, so it was just like, Okay, how am I going to
get out of this fight? Was how I generally started any situation with Ero,
Like if he was about to get into a fight, how am I
going to get out of it. How does it feel sitting in the passenger
seat for once in a longer running campaign. Good? I mean, you're
predominantly known as a GM. Even before you were on table story, you
were running your own passenger seat. Wow. Yeah, it's it's good.
It's good. I Mean. One of the reasons I became a d M
was because and this isn't really to pooh pooh the d ms that I had,
because some of them are great people and whatnot, but they were I
think, like, I'm I'm such like a control free that I have to
kind of run things the way that I want to run them. And if
I see who people doing like their own way of dming and it's not really
my thing, then I just kind of like, get I gotta do it
this way, you know, I fuck it, nobody's gonna do it.
I better do it, you know, Like I get into that mindset.
So I'd just been a DM so much because I wanted to run things a
certain way because I'm a control freak, and I feel like a lot of
the good dms are. It's just like you have this really specific way that
you want to do things, and and how many times you can be honest.
Did you want to strangle me as you being the DMA? None?
None, O, that's good. Yeah you pass. I mean, are
there like, are there situations where I would have done stuff differently? Yeah?
Probably, but like I'm, I'm there wasn't a time where I was
just like fuck you, Brad, like I would like you know me,
I would tell you, oh yeah, I know, I knew. There
was no like fuck you times. There was a point where when Iro was
dead, when I would looking at him like he's gonna kill me? After
that episode, yeah, but he's like I hate when dms just kill you
and don't give you a chance, like no option. Yeah, it was.
It was a purposeful misdirection and a lot of bullshit. I talked to
Brad after that though, and I was like, I knew you were going
to do something. I was like, I'm I'm also very patient, so
like I will just wait to make sure before I blow up that I is
justified in my head, Like yeah, yeah, we just hold it back.
John. Yeah, was there any aspect of Drift that you felt you
didn't get to explore or dive deeper into He's still from Piranha planet from someone
else I'll shout it out. You know, what I think for me,
what I want to get better at in my next DN is it wasn't Drift.
It was like jaunt me and my time and like spending time on you
know. I felt like the character was good, everything was good. I
loved Drift, but I felt like I didn't choose some other correct options as
far as like playing him, because I do feel like Drifts sort of fell
off, you know. I felt like there I wasn't comboing him correctly,
like you mean in the character shit, because there were people discussing that in
the U saw those discussions like choosing hex Blade Warlock. But then there was
apparently some what's it called not spells but cantrips that I could invocations as well.
The way you took. Most people take agonizing blast, which means that
you add a charisma bonus to your eldritch blast. Yeah, whereas you took
the push and pull options, both of the push and pull options, and
that's very useful in several situations. Super fun, and I knew I wanted
to do like that scorpion type thing or the push, but I feel like
Drift like the only thing, like I would have loved to have like gone
out and done is like like for I don't even know if I ever said
it, but like Drift was raised by Gnomes. He was never he was
adopted, Yeah, he was never. He never knew his real family he
was Yeah, I might have said it. So he was raised by Gnomes.
So I would have loved to like Leslie and Otto were his parents' names,
and like I would have loved to have talked about that a little more,
or like just you know, like talked about just his experiences with the
Gnomes and just you know that because that's what he know. And and never,
I don't think even once actually I brought him up, but I never
said his name. Fibu is my Noome. He was like my sense,
He was my everything. He's the one who taught me to how to fight
and trained me and like taught me everything in this Nome village. So Brad
and I had talked about maybe like leaving him alive, so if I ever
ran into him or something would be really cool. But that was one thing
I would have really liked to have seen. Yeah, I think the bank
story that we explored with you was with the first and not with your irl
stuff which I love, which I think is so much to give me to
get It was better for me, different for me, you know, it's
like very easy to go like the Hallmark Channel Lifetime movie about my family and
what I had to endure and stuff like that, but like doing this side
was way cooler. What was going through Drift's mind when he realized he himself
set his own awakening in motion by calling out to the First after drinking the
dragon blood in the frozen wastes. Holy shit, what say it again?
You in the past in the snow, drank the blood of the dragon and
then activated the First, who was at that point in dark Vale. It's
like two continents over and he sensed you, and he sensed well, he
sensed himself and he didn't know what the fuck was going on and you,
and he was like, I'm coming to find you ready for this? I
just realized that right now because that's me, that's me as a person.
Holy shit, that's amazing. Are you serious? Yeah, that's what happened.
That's amazing, paradoxy thing that I lost my shit over. I was
like, when did we talk about this? What do you think he was
calling you? Calling you up? Like Yong who you remember? He called
me? But I didn't remember that happened right after I drank that blood,
I think. Yeah, he was like who are you? And you were
like what do you mean? Yeah? I thought you were just roll playing
it out because time John like me, I'm very I'm not okay, I'm
very street smart, but such book like I'm just like not, I'm not
illiterate, but like I'm just like, I don't know that extra I'm a
very like what's up? Like a lot of charisma but not a lot of
intelligence. Like you know what I mean, I know exactly what you mean.
Awesome, I've just so I love TV. There you go, that's
nothing nothing, nothing was going through. You saved your own life in a
way. Yeah, you said, after what happens if I didn't drink the
dragon blood? Yeah? See, Wife's there's the paradox I got. Maybe
let's see, but given that nineteen and old old desk shods of you?
In a way, did you get to walk in that shoes long enough to
get a favorite? Mm hmm. It's just it's just so choice here,
you know. I think I really genuinely liked both of them, evenly,
even though I played Oldest for a short period of time. I really loved
that character. He I mean asked Brad about some of the backstory we worked
up for him with his family and stuff like that, like, oh my
god, like the backstory we worked up with his family in Lennondelle, and
like all that ship was so beautiful that they were both respectively really so Nineteen
didn't really know his past, right Oldest did, which allows me to really
enjoy both characters. You have the mystery of nineteen, you have the knowledge
of Oldest, but you have them. I mean there were very separate characters
too, Like they were very different like nineteen and were nowhere near the same
character. I remember. It's something that was really important for me. Just
to bring this up, Tiger, if you're cool with it. But like
Tiger called me and was so because all right, oh yeah, yeah,
can I tell this Brad, Tiger? Is this okay? I don't know
what Brad gave to share the option, oh right, yeah, yeah,
to bring Oldest back or nineteen. Yeah, and Tiger chose, and like
he called me and was like not distraught, but just like I don't know
what to do. I don't know. I'm loving oldest so much, like
I'm enjoying him and like he's like just starting to like get his foot in
the door. He's starting to break through some of the characters, and like,
but like nineteen's like this like has already created this like feeling that I
think a lot of people like for the people, for the people. Yeah,
yeah, I mean choosing nineteen was dope. I would have chos him
potentially either way, but it was fifty to fifty both. I'm not lying.
You canna ask Brad. I asked Brad if I could play both characters.
I'm not went. He went back and forth four days, and I
was like, I hate to push you on this, Tiger, but I
have to get the overlay and stuff sort it out. You have to pick
one, and I have to plan for which one it is so I can
justify how to get And he was like, yeah, yeah, I'll get
you an answer, and then and then he'd go for another existential crisis like
I don't know where's want to care and then yeah, I think you went.
It was tough, it was, and obviously it was so hard.
It is hard, especially when you're not finished with a character and you have
to potentially let go of one. Sorry, I mean he just came out
long run. I think I made a good choice. I think both would
have been fine. I think bringing Oldest would have been great. I think
bringing nineteen would have been great. I just think that the majority of the
fans that watch the show would have much rather seen nineteen back. And I
much this is for us, you know, like this is for us.
We're playing D and D together and having fun. I also this is a
show. This is a show that we are producing for you, that we
are making for you, and that we are enjoying ourselves. But there is
also choices like that that come in to make me go, Okay, well,
what would what would the fans of this show like to see more?
Would they like to see more of Oldest or they like see more nineteen.
Most people are gonna say both, but in retrospect, more people are gonna
want the character that they saw from the beginning to and I just felt like
nineteen could do his character arc. Someone said this was like there wasn't time.
I felt like there wasn't for Oldest to like really develop and you get
to know everything about him and fall in love with them or hate him,
like the whole thing. There was no time. There were already on our
like music starting to blair and like Dent, Dent, Yeah you were coming,
you were really in those Yeah. Again, it was my half of
the game. I see it. I see you guys have a half where
are you as sandboxing? And my half not where I'm telling you what you
do And there's no script, nothing, but it was like I was pushing
you towards my narrative or you were gone, you were on that train.
So it was it's hard to explore a character. And that's kind of what
we said earlier on Who knows. Maybe you'll see all this again. Maybe
you will, maybe you'll see nineteen again. You won't. He's unfortunately he
was eaten by a white dragon. I don't know. I have no idea
what happened to him. There's so many questions like what happened to and I'm
like, I don't know. I don't know either, because we will never
know. Maybe it's just the end of the game. John and Tiger,
I almost don't want to ask this question. How much would you say Brad
has improved as a GM given you both played under him before worse? Yeah,
Downhill, No, like I was like I was saying, I didn't
see what he was talking about the Fracture world I I felt. By the
end of Fracture Worlds, I was like, I'm glad the show's over.
It was really long but really good, but like I'm I'm glad it's over.
Like it was one of those things where like I wanted it to end
a couple months earlier, like it it felt like it was dragging on a
little. But this, dude, this show, I'm like, I want
to play more, like let's keep going. But like Brad was like,
no, now, like it just end episode forty nine fifty like it's it
was perfect. I don't know. He's getting better and better and it freaks
me Outrad's really he am so good of a narcissist, so he doesn't think
he's good at anything, but he's very, very, very very good at
GMing. And I would say between Fractured Worlds and now and without getting his
head bigger than it already can't get because it can't get big because he's a
narcissist. Is the z O. Brad, Yeah, he's good at what
he does. He's enjoyable, but he doesn't know how good he is.
No. I think he knows how good he is. I think he's just
won't admit it because it's hard for his brain. Here's something that I actually
spoke to Zicotocus again the other day about the weird thing about GMing is that
I don't see anything when I'm playing. I can see chat and I can
get feedback, and I can kind of speak to the other players and stuff.
But when I'm gmming, I don't really see anything because I'm spinning too
many plates. So I come out of a lot of episodes with complete imposter
syndrome like that was awful, and everyone's like that was the best. Man.
I'm like, I don't remember what happened, and I'm like, oh
God, what have I done? Like I don't really know, And again,
I just I don't feel like I do anything amazing. I truly think
that, Like if you if you just gave me four people who sucked at
being players, then I wouldn't be able to like lift them up to that
point. Like it's like I see it completely as a team effort, Like
this show was not good because of me at all. In my head,
I'm like I barely did anything. I feel like all I did was just
facilitate you guys through something that you did. And I was there like,
yeah, there's a there's a thing over there, and oh you need this
stick for that, and there's that thing. I'm just a lens for that.
So I don't I don't like that, Like that's what I mean.
Like for me, like I love the idea of a GM or a DM
who is whatever happens happens. If I want to jump off a ledge in
that moment, I can do it. If I want to go down Like
there's a lot of I feel like I see a lot of gms who they're
so they want their story told exactly how they worked so hard, so many
hours, twenty thirty forty fifty hours, Brad, If I decide not to
go down that hallway that he put ten hours in, and I just jump
over to the side down this slide, no problem. It's not even like
a motion of like well are you are you sure? Guys, like because
like really you really you know still land okay? Great? Yeah, no
problem the campaign and you'd be like, I don't care, do whatever you
want. So cool, and that like for a player is like the coolest
feeling in the world because you really do feel like you're in I think there's
only two times I did that in this whole campaign, and one of them
was just when you couldn't really kill death Singer because it would create too much
a paradox that would potentially ruin the whole thing anyway. And the other one
was just the final episode where I was like, yeah, the death song,
and there's all these kind of versions of an ending, but like that
was it, really, I don't. I feel like there was a lot
of still I thought that when I was worried that when you when you failed
your pursuit and lost the braces, you wouldn't do anything that I wanted you
to do, and you just go and do something else, and we'd end
up doing like Rose Guard Part two, where you just go and fuck around.
It is what's going to happen. They're not going to do the thing,
and like in the colner of the world and you guys that will be
knocking about hunting down telt a blood grip. I think I think that's a
really interesting point in general, that a lot of gms and dms have issues
with that letting go of, you know, their stay true to the story
kind of philosophy because it's a group story. It's not just one person's story.
It's a group story. And I think one of the reasons that gms
are good at that that are like able to just kind of say, Okay,
even though I made this cool stuff, uh you know, they're not
using it is because they love the process of creation. They actually just love
to make that stuff that is, in itself is an extremely fun aspect of
this process. I myself, I fucking love doing that shit. Yeah,
I mean just I mean one of my favorite parts of the campaign is like
before it even starts, where it's just like, oh my god, I
have so many ideas that I'll create all these ideas or like somebody has this
crazy backstory thing that they want to work on and we go down that route,
you know, like it's just it's this And that's why I know I
don't want to be a GM truly. I don't care about that stuff.
I don't even I love improv I love on top being on just thinking on
top of my head, but I don't like planning anything, Like I don't
want to think about it. For that. By the way, John,
Yeah, I'll play those I'll GM those a lot of the Apocalypse world stuff,
I think. I mean, that's the thing. A lot of people
approach it differently, and I kind of try and approach each game differently.
I know that I have the meme where I just rip off a new final
Fantasy every time, which is generally kind of still true with every campaign ever,
but I still kind of approach it differently to the best of my ability.
You're probably going to see that with Dying Order, because I feel like
I'm just undoing all of the Like Everyone's like Dark Fire was like the perfect
way to GM a campaign. I'm like, yep, man, I'm going
to try and remove all those foundations and structures and lessons that I've learned and
do something different. Kind of We'll see, but I think, yeah,
Like for me, I am very much like that. I like my story.
I have that control issue and I like to tell it. And I
still had a story in here and I managed to do my part playing my
character, which was my story, and you're always playing in my world,
which is my other character kind of and but like I don't, I don't
put too much stock into my story anymore. It's fucking great. I feel
like I go in there with and I'm like, there's not enough here.
But then I also know that you guys can fill the blank areas. You
can fill the rest of it out with your stories and what you do.
And half of the story is just the journey. More than half, actually,
I think probably about seventy five percent of it is just the journey and
what happens in all the moments between my little Oh, here's a book to
read that gives you some of the story, or here's a final boss fight
in a thing. I don't know how much of this game was even my
story. It was motivated by it a lot, but I don't care about
it anymore that much. I'm way more interested in the journey. But I'm
also just like, I feel like sometimes if it doesn't have a central,
main story arc to follow, it's just kind of all over the place and
it's no fun to watch either. I think from a show perspective, I
think it needs to have a central driving story. So that is all I
think about. I really only think at the beginning and the end. In
the middle, I'm like, there, let's see where they go. They're
gonna go left or right? Yeah, anyway, So I haven't improved at
all. All right, let's see pebe yes, Brana Plant says, oddly
enough, I've learned most of rint even though she's been perceived as the most
secretive. But is there a fragment of her character still unknown to us that
might be a shock her? Oh? Yes, come on, give me,
give us something. Oh, come on, right, a little can
we get, like just something that will make Piranha like ooh, like just
start like give him a little zap? Okay, yes, okay, I
can. I can tell you something got you, I got you, I
got you, homie. I can tell you a little bit about Wrin,
Like the name Rin honor stone is actually a mark that Wrinn had in Green
Hill. That's it. Last one to everyone, Did any of you know
that you all had powerful blood lineage when the first dropped the bomb? No,
not a clue. Nope, includes nineteen Mmmm no, there you go.
Noodle Leath asked the question, what was the monkey thing that they found
in the snow that wasn't actually a monkey? I know he really wants this
one answered, It was a Pokemon monkey. It was a Pokemon mankey.
It was a monkey spelt with a U with an umlaut. Honestly, my
original intention was that it was a baby yet, but I don't think it
is anymore. Like that's the thing with is like I will, I will
write stuff down with things, but that was my I'll tell you what that
what that was That was Brad not able to find a list of stuff to
like pick from in like that specific moment. And it's the first fucking thing
I think so if I remember correctly, a YETI was one of the random
encounter things, and that's I think maybe where I got it from, Like
there was a it was possible for you to encounter yeah. Instead you guys
rolled for two dragons. Basically that's what happened there was insane. But all
my random account is I think there was a yeah in Yeah. I mean,
it probably was somewhere in there where I just went, yeah, it
was a baby YETI in front of you, because you know, it all
seems like I've planned everything, but a good GM would never plan one hundred
of their thing, and I just just go, yeah, there's a in
the front of you, there's a monkey, and then that's that's what's happening
now. And even I'm like, oh god, why did I say that,
I would say on a scale of one to ten, Brad, I
would say it would be a nine. But if we would have ran into
those cyclopses, the three of them, oh god, we would have died.
I think the game, I think we would have died. I mean
I put stuff in there now that you aren't supposed to be able to defeat.
Yeah, there was just before you got to Rose guy. There is
stuff in there that here's a difference between fractured worlds, and this is that
in fractured worlds you were scaling Final Fantasy style, so the game scaled with
you, so that everything was defeat defeatable by you. In my head,
I was like, well, it's how you defeat it, how you approach
the things. Some things were really fucking hard. Some things. Do you
remember the the fight there was an elemental based fight just to not spoil anything
where you guys never you just couldn't work it out because it wasn't, you
know, like a thing that you could do. It was how and how
you do it? Now I don't do that. It's completely different now.
So I will put ship in front of a group that they cannot defeat by
just hacking away at it because I want you to think around. If they
were next to you and you definitely cannot win, how else can you get
out of it? You have so many more tools at your disposable, at
your disposal in the in the game, or to just keep on running then
just being able to eldritch blast and cast spells and fight and stab things.
You should you are also able to use all of your other skills, and
should be able to use all your other skills to do other things. So
I put stuff in that you cannot defeat, sometimes with the intention of you
figuring out another way out of it. The dragon was not one, by
the way, that mummy dragon. If you had all three of you just
gone fuck it and just fell for it, I think you could have burst
it down. To be fair, though, we were in a situation where
we couldn't really see it, we couldn't see each other, and it attacked
me first, which was kind of like a trifecta of bad. Like most
of these situations that we got into as a party, if I go down
like that was so bad for the group, and it was usually like a
okay, we lose kind of moment, unless with the dragon, I was
like, oh, This is because I randomly rolled for a blizzard and then
and then you randomly rolled a D four or something to head. It was
a layer. Honestly, just considering it was, I can't remember, but
I just know that it was like three bad roles and I was like,
oh, well, now I'm gonna have to be the asshole who puts a
giant dragon in front of them. But technically, I honestly I don't think
you guys would. In the back of my head, and this is the
GM back of my head. When I'm a player, I don't ever think
like this either. But the GM part of me was like, well,
they are dragon slayers. They know how to defeat a dragon now in character,
so I wouldn't feel like meta, you spread out and you burst the
thing down, and that's how you defeat a dragon really in D and D
because it's you stand together. You're fucked. The breath weapon is way too
strong. Yeah, but you didn't. Lack of sight was really but it
was tense as well, Like the other side of me is like, well,
it's intense, and that that sometimes is needed even if it's not.
Enjoyableness is gone there un Like that's the lesson. It's kind of character,
like, such a good character who like we're getting to know and we have
no idea happen after that? Can I say something about that though without giving
too much away, even though there's not really much to give aways, like
things a lot of people I don't think realize with him running is like,
firstly, the first encounters with you guys with him were awful. He was
treated with but fault that That's what I'm saying. It's like it makes sense
though, right, So like to him, he's just like there's a huge
fucking dragon about to eat all of us, and I have the opportunity to
get the fuck away. Oh he owed no one in that party anything?
No, he was done, yeah, no one. Yeah. It's it's
hard sometimes to role play because I think a lot of D and D groups
don't always justify that decisions on what that character would do they got because I
think a lot of people play D and D like they're playing what's that game?
You love? X com? You know, they look at the grid
and they go, well, what can my character do here? The best
way to min Max's situation. We almost all of our campaigns on Table Story
are very character driven, which is sometimes difficult and I'm not sure if it's
really calculated into the balance of D and D five V. Generally that every
decision will be made in character and not made with any sort of out of
character tactical planning. We very rarely do that, which does increase I think
a lot the encounter danger. For a lot of these encounters, I generally
find that I make you guys stronger than you should be, and then when
you die it's your fault. I'm like, well, you had a buster
sword, and you have vampire powers and extra pyromancy skills or whatever, and
I'm like, I feel like I'm okay to just throwhit at you. But
that one was definitely hard the dragon, But that one also I was like,
well, I rolled for all this ship, and that makes me feel
less guilty when it eats you all. I also kind of knew you how
to one up you know. You know what else is kind of great just
getting this out there is that there was not enough time for people to really
understand who Old this was. So like somebody in the chat said, but
he said he would he would fight for the whole group. Is Old as
a liar, yea truly the next. So there's a couple of questions that
I don't want to answer. Several people ask me about what would happen if
Drift had met with Muriel. I'm so curious about that stuff like that.
I think the only thing I'll tell you about if Drift would have met with
Muriel is that it would have brought forward a lot, a lot of the
revelations that I think we got anyway, just to do with, like who
the First is and and things like that she is. She is not a
warlock like you are very curious the first, but she she exists on his
power as well to a degree. And so did Walter the Red. He
was a He was a warlock, just like you were. You were the
you were un knowing rivals. Would he have tried to kill me if he
got me down on there, Walter? Yeah, n oh my god.
That that can be interesting. That can be only one. But Muriel was
not. Muriel was not in that rivalry. She was more of a pa
And uh, yeah, that's how that's that was the ship. So Brad,
if I just for fun, you don't have to say yes or no.
But if I didn't, if I chose not to kill Walter. Would
he have still came after me because there could be only one? I don't
think directly, in me idiately, I think he would have been in that
fight at the end. He would have been one of the Oh my god,
one of the guys there. Yeah, thank you for making it easier
for us. Rydon asked, that was from Sithis? Rydon asked, how
is the scribe of time chosen? I'm not going to tell you how exactly
did the first come to be? Is he just an old vampire? No?
Which makes him the first? I feel like he's slightly own brude.
He is very home rude, and does it make him caane like the first
vampire? No, he's not a vampire. He is not a vampire.
That's not what he is. That vampires don't exist. There was a point
where it was almost Drift was almost the first ever vampire. Yeah, but
I guess he's not. And we spoke about it a little offline. How
cool that would be as a situation. But again, I like to see
how things work out. Someone else becomes like the first still exists. You
didn't kill him, you didn't. He's not gone anyway. All you did
was purge him from Drift, and at some point along the way something happens
to do with the First and maybe another patron or something like that that creates
the first vampire. And then later on I ran another show called dust Veil,
and a lot of people have drawn conclusions and I'm not going to say
anything spoilery about that, but there are vampires in that, and they exist
in the world at that time, and dust Vale is set a thousand years
after Darkfire is, and so the First still either gets his wish or does
something to create vampires in And also what you never truly know, and I
thought about this a lot is when it was over, is we're all you
know, ran me, you know, Drift hero, all of us are
still together, and we had much more time together to become a family and
to just really any more adventures. And I always had like this thought of
like what if right when I got to where I was, I walk in
and there's the Drift thall like just sitting there, like it's not over,
Like what if there's more opportunities that the First wants to connect with Drift again
because I'm still his one, even though a god set me free from that,
or like whatever what does that mean? Really do anything got me out
of that moment, but yeah, not my pack and really preferring. I
was like, oh shoo, I don't know. I don't know, and
I don't know if we'll ever know. But that one thing, though,
one thing I do. I feel like it's just something random that I thought
of the other day when I gave when I was giving everybody sort of like
their final introductions favorite I gave, I gave Drift one that was shadows Sword,
and I realized, like, he doesn't have his powers anymore. Or
Hero probably would have thought of that, like after the fact and would have
probably bought you like a black sword or something along the awesome. Yeah,
I imagine that Drift you bought me a grisson anyways, Sorry, yeah,
I would have been that would have I thought that would have sealed the deal
with you coming with us, a deal for him doing a lot of cool
ship Drift there's like a level eight fighter now or something. Probably you know
that's what he That's what he would have, That's what he'd ended up being.
Ricardo asked what would the party found if they went to the mountains in
the in the in the snow. You would have encountered Hasmell and you would
have found past Hasmill and gone into the gate of Fire in the past,
and he would have been like, what the fuck is going on? And
then that's so cool. It would have and then together you might have figured
out a way. Oh, that would have been a lot of has Mao's
place. We would have been in there for a while and I would have
preferred the force, and that's where we were going. Yeah, you would
have had a whole other thing going on. There are there are only a
couple of ways that you can bounce around time, but it is possible.
And did Walter make up make a bargain for power with the first Yeah,
he had a very very similar to the story to to Drift. It was
the same thing, and I think I said it in the in the game
somewhere that he had he had like a caravan that his family were traveling with
and they got hit by it. During the war, they got hip and
his his family were killed by invading Alexandrians the enemy, and in that time
he called out and asked for help as well, and something answered. So
it was a very similar story. I think Walter and Drift are just very
different. What Walter is is way more like egotistical and narcissistic, and so
he he wasn't fighting for a purpose necessarily, but he did have some he
had he had a drive in him that I kind of allowed him to.
He was a survivalist kind of what happened to the mouth on Drifts and I
just couldn't I couldn't be bothered with it. I just said though in the
episode that it would disappear after in my in my head, it just the
spell ran out and it was I'm not I'm not micromanaging that forever. I
am not an enormous fan of sentient weapons and things, and everyone loves them,
but just for me to run I like them. If I get one,
like in rag Tags, I had one for Ages and it was hysterical
and I love it, but the for me to run it, it's just
an another thing that I can't be bothered to deal with sometimes, so I
don't actively go out of my way to to do it. So I was
like, well, this is it's fun for now, But to have a
sentient weapon or a hand that was separately sentient to you would be just annoying
for me to think about because again, you forget about it, and then
someone asked about it, and then I get annoyed that I didn't remember it.
Most of the other questions I think were just like tell us hero's bank
story for fuck's sake, and wa I said no, and let me just
check. I just want to check that I hit all the ones that I
wanted to answer. Jaguar asked, what's the political landscape fromrose God by the
end of the campaign, It's very similar. The whole point of the war
at the end was that the city was under siege by the company of Masks,
which were owned by the pro territor, and they were just distracting all
of the army that were nearby from interfering with their work at the outing.
They weren't sure it was going to go on at the Gate of Fire,
so they had to make sure that the strong arm of the law was distracted.
But other than that, I don't think much changes because you guys saved
to day. There wasn't really anything. The king and the men people of
Rosegard don't really know what you did. I don't think. I don't see
why they would. What the blood Grip's doing probably still just being awful Tari
in the Kosharian doing still trying to be the good awful assassin types King Wilmar.
Does he go on adventure? I think he does. I don't know
he The reason I purposefully gave him the smile during the battle was that he
finally felt alive, So that was why I gave him that little scene.
He's been fed up his whole life. And did the Inquisition ever take steps
against the Blood Crips because of the killings on the farm? I don't know.
I assume they would have tried. It's the Inquisition are quite a small
group and they don't have a good strong arm, is how I played them.
Otherwise they would just be owning everything. So I think I will move
on to the questions from today in the chat. Yeah, good, definitely.
The first one was is nineteen a deity now from Legan's life? No,
he's not. I don't know why you would think that. He's just
still nineteen with another pursuit, like he just has to do stuff. Do
you know other creatures with pursuits? Those little fire Newts that you fought at
the beginning with the milky eyes. Yeah, you know there's little pursuits that
you can do where it's just you know, we'll we'll extend your life.
He's his life was extended by the mask. Nineteen has a mask now that
will extend his life a significant amount. But I don't think it would make
him It won't definitely won't make him live forever. It gave death Singer maybe
an extra two hundred years max. So for nineteen, it might buy him
another twenty something like that. It depends how long Can I ask the quock
question on this line? Yeah, just to nineteen, which I was curious
about what Tiger, what what changed in nineteen beside like being in space?
Maybe just if that was it? I understand where like because I remember nineteen
got so excited about the idea of there being other of his kind and living
on that island or that that that place. Where Where was the change?
Where it was like now I want I want more power and I want more
you know, like you had any wish you could have had so you could
add the wish of being on that island. What was what was the change?
Where do you think it happened? The power stuff definitely came from the
ring, Okay, oh yeah, intelligent? But him being in space a
lot of the things that changed while he was out in space was the I
mean, like a man that you are in solitary confinement for a week,
right, That's not a week to you, that's probably like that feels like
months. Right. So he's out there in space often battling off these fucking
weird shadow figure things, and he's got nothing but time to think. He's
also got those books he had in Noma Sutra, one of those things where
like the entire time he's out there, he has nothing to do but think.
I mean, think about how often he probably thought of you, we'ren
hero, thought about how much he wanted to kill the Blood Grips. So
how about how he'd never get to see you guys again, but never kill
the blood Grips. Then let go of the fact that he'd never see you
again, then let go of the fact he'd never killed the Blood Grips,
and then suddenly came back, got permission basically to come back. And then
he realizes when he gets back that even though you guys are all great and
he loves of especially you, Drift like the character obviously had a very big,
strong bond with Drift. Yeah, the nineteen thing there's also the reality
of him making the realization that it doesn't matter how much he loves you,
guys, It doesn't matter how much he loves anything, because everything that he
loves doesn't matter. He has Oh my god, that's the absolute opposite to
where Rin's brain went. That's amazing. Yeah, that's pretty much yet.
I hope that answered it for the moment. Yeah. Another one kind of
along the same line from Christian. If old and nineteen would meet, would
they get along? I think so? Yeah, I think they would,
all right, Jack, I couldn't say that about a lot of characters,
but I would say that they'd probably get along. They'd probably get along because
oldest would probably be it will before pre ring. Oldest probably would have been
able to get nineteen to do whatever he wanted because he was so cunning post
ring nineteen would probably be. Oldest would probably be like, I want this
dude on my side. If that makes sense. Yeah, Jack, guess
said, what was the talking floating skull the first time the party was in
the Gate of Fire? That was literally a demi lit or whatever they're called.
Is that what they're called. It was literally one that didn't have any
memories and you could have gone and spoken to him. He was designed to
be terrifying as a token on the map so that you go, fuck that,
I'm not going near it, and then actually would have helped you out,
and he also would have he could help you so that the Gate of
Fire actually had a bunch of random secret doors and things, and there was
a bunch of random items and stuff in there that you that he would have
helped you find if you would have helped him. It's sort of terrifying being
like a low, low, low level character. Oh yeah, because one
one enemy quits you and you're basically down, like until you're level three or
so, you're just like a walking piece of paper. Yeah. Yeah,
I mean we proved that episode too, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean that was the point. It was there to scare you,
but in fact it was kind of that was one of those moments that me
wax Stephen knew what it was and Eero was also just playing terrified of it
that he wasn't going to go anywhere near that thing. So I was like,
oh, awesome, they align good for sure, And that's kind of
the point of it to a degree. It was to see if you would
have the courage to overcome that, or if you were stupid enough to just
walk up to it and see see how that played out. I didn't have
anything solid written down other than that there was some there were some things,
and MF one says, are Solomon and the first connected? If yes,
how are they connected? They are not. That's the end of that question.
I'm not going into it too much because it's all spoilery. Ryder DHD
Rider DHD. Who are the desert guys At the end of the last episode,
they are known as the Ancients. They aren't in but answers about them
are. So if you want those answers, Unfortunately you have to watch the
entirety of dust Veel damn. That's cool. Yeah, that's why some people
were freaking out. It's my whole thing where I'm desperate to keep these as
separate individual things that you can watch in any order, but also have some
crossover stuff for people who have watched the whole thing, and and it's you
know, it's also hard not not to have crossover because it's in the same
world. So some people are like, oh, I got Foulmosia, that's
from our last one. You know, you just know it dust Veil.
That's the name of our last campaign. That's what you sound like, chat
suck it up, clippling Sempi says, uh, Brad, do you seem
to like ending campaigns in a very open manner? What's your reason behind doing
it this way instead of having a clear cut end of the story. I
think this one was a lot more clear cut. But I am a fan
of ambiguous endings because I mean, we're doing it right now. But I
agree with Whack in a lot of ways. D and D is not a
TV show, it's not a movie. It's not supposed to tie up loose
ends. I don't think I think you'd go crazy trying to do it,
because there's just way too many variables where you're rolling dice to see stuff,
or we're improving things, and it's just like, I mean, how many
questions might have been Brad, what about this? And I went, Matt,
I don't know, you know, like, there's a lot of stuff
I do have answers for. There's a shit ton of stuff that I've written
down that will probably never see the light of day that only I know,
and that's just how it is. But I like ambiguous endings. Because one
it feels like it's not over, you don't need to have an ending.
The adventure still carries on. These we saw a glimpse of these characters' lives.
We didn't see anything before, and we didn't see anything after the part
we saw. But there is more, and you can explore that yourself and
D and D is in our heads. We're all just sitting around like kids,
making it up and playing up, playing make believe, and we've invented
the whole thing together. Regardless of who did what part, it was all
just all of it happened in our heads. Everyone sees zero differently in their
heads. Everyone sees what happened with the first differently in their heads. The
environments that I described, the things that your characters did that you described,
And I don't see why you can't just carry on doing that for yourselves if
you want, And that option is open to you with ambiguous endings. Although
I think this one was wrapped up pretty pretty neatly considering considering how much I'm
very willing to end a campaign ambiguously, and I've done it several times previously.
Yeah, five years from now, we come back, we make a
spoof the reality show. It's just me going, where are they now talking?
Everyone's fair Sala's d says, was that was the mask that nineteen got,
the Mask of Life. I'll give you some info on the masks because
they're not a big deal because they're very dark Fire localized info. They were
known as the five Ruins of the Magi, the Thelmesian Ruins. The grand
Aon Seal was was more just where dark Fire was locked in. That's what
that was. But it's almost a magi, wasn't he who dusting was almost
a magi? Wasn't Ruins he was? He was? Yeah, he was
close. He had just figured out ways to to you know, he was
the leading brain on everything Magi. He might still be two thousand years in
the future, the person who knows the most ever about them. There was
the Ruin of nine Storm yeah gone. After hearing that, I feel like
you should really read that light Bringer series brand Yeah, And a couple of
people suggested things to be like, oh, is he based on this character?
And I was like no, but that's cool as ship and now I
want to steal it from my next villain. There was night Storm Life Flow
and that was the mask you had the mask of life Flow. There's Star
Blood, Wind Spirit, and Death Song, and each one does different things.
Do you want to know what I do? I do? And also
I have a question, all right, I want to know how he got
the that song? Will we ever know that? I think you can imagine
that each of these ruins, these these places of power have their own bullshit
thing. This a gauntlet you have to go through. And you guys went
through one of them, Ninth Storm one, and it was a trial,
and it's supposed to be believably difficult, and each one is different, Each
one is a very different experience. I think Death Song is probably unbelievably harrowing.
I think it makes Night Storm look like like a day at Disneyland.
The ruin of Death Song is underneath Black Point, in a cavern that's just
below the ocean, which is very similar to night Storm, and Black Point
is where you've lived forever, and that's where it is, and obviously that
one. So the Death Song mask, obviously it allows you to do the
Death Song. The Wind Spirit mask allows you to fly. The Star Blood
masks allows the power of teleportation via basically like a large gate spell, which
is also an answer to how the Company of Masks are moving around and the
rose Guard people can't find them. They're able to teleport in huge patches and
squads and awesome. Actually very curious where all the rest of the Company of
Masks went, like where they watch city they burned? Yeah, and what
happened to Precareta after fucking Dusinger died. I don't even know. Okay,
I don't want to. That's a big yeah. The Life Flow Mask is
regeneration, but it also extends your life passively. And then night Storm allows
communication with everyone or anyone that you know. You know that I feel like
it. It's like whole thing was over so fast, Like when we talk
about it, I'm like, oh that chunk. He felt like like five
different things to make up this show, like five like mini series kind of
series kind of things. It's crazy wild Legan's life said. Having Captain Ward
Bunkler end up in the Tournament of Rose Guard, Captain Ward Bunkler ends up
in everything everywhere. He's just a he's a he's a meme of mine at
this point where he just he shows up in things if and when he's like
a he's like a Slider's time traveler type whose life he quantum leaps into into
new lives. Sometimes he dies, sometimes he's born in these worlds and it's
all very wishy washy and and I don't know how he ended up in the
in the Tournament of rose Guard. He was an easter egg. There's sometimes
sometimes some things are just easter eggs, and I don't justify them. I
just go, Yep, he's there. But he he is. He is
a captain, and he always ends up in some soldier role or militaristic role.
So I imagine that regardless of how he ended up here, he for
sure was part of the rose Guard military. And I think probably he just
you know, in Game of Thrones they did those like tourneys where even the
Guards would take place, and I think maybe he was just put in in
that same way. Kota Klan says, where do babies come from? I
have no idea, does anyone. I don't know. It is a stork
or something. Oh okay, they get birds, deliver them. Shy baby.
Will we see olds again? I will never say rainbow can rock for
wax? Stephen, what do you like most about hero? I kind of
feel like I answered this already partially. I think I think that I made
him to be a storyteller. He's he's a GM. He's straight up like
a GM kind of person. I think if he could have, he would
have invented like role playing games in this in this setting. Mazes and Monsters
six was the what popular character did you identify with? We did that?
We answered for you John pro screen, would you answer? What was the
answer? We said, the excitement and he's always happy to be doing the
thing, even if it was I mean, Drift wasn't too different from me.
Really, Drift was just like young me with his things. I wanted
to do that so bad because you know, I'd done Clutch, who was
like you know, southern did Akika did like Manny, which was like a
Hispanic like character like I've done, you know, I've always done like a
voice or like a little something different, and I wanted to just try playing
a character that was like just hey, talk you talk like. I also
like D and D players out there to know you don't have to have a
different accent or voice. I would say it makes certain aspects to really divide,
but like, don't be scared to play D and D if you're like
if you want to do your your normal voice, just take on the attributes
of the characters. Yeah, when you pick those lines out, that says
you're a very talky person who asked a lot of questions. There you go.
Now it's just you with like a little more you know, more questions.
Even half the time. You don't even need to role play. I
don't think if you're unsure, you can just say I want to approach this
person and say this with a smile, you know, and then you say
the thing. Yeah, there we got first. Pro scream says, did
has more changing forms to animals have anything to do with random encounters that could
have happened. No, it was him trying to to make himself relatable,
honestly to you, guys, I thought so, motherfucker. Yeah, oh
my god. He didn't know what you were, but he knows what stuff
out there looks like. So he was trying to shift and change, and
he was just as he was tuning himself to you and figuring out what's going
on the thing that has more Like you guys treated him like he is this
all knowing, omnipresent day, but he really wasn't. He's a middle He's
a middle manager who is trying to He's very neutral and he's he he is
doing a job like he's like a dude sat there and he's like, this
is my job. This is what I do and yeah, but he tries
to do his job effective. It was above well, the the magi that
bound him to the gate the no I'm kidding, I good magi, I
assume, right, But is that what I kind of assume, Brad,
there's like evil and good magi. Yeah. So the only here's some weird
ship for you because a lot of people were like, oh, blah blah's
a magi and this is a magi. I'll be honest, I'm not sure
we'll ever see magi. I don't. I don't. I'm still going to
run another campaign called Dying Order in Lacrine, but I don't. I don't
have any intention of bringing like a magi comes storming in because I just don't
want them. Even the information that I wrote for myself is people around la
Quin pulling together information so they're like, we think they did this. They
moved from place to place, hunting for power. There were types of them
that would stay and make these big fortresses and homes over these important points,
and there are those of them that would that would move around and range and
go out and then try and attack those points and take them for themselves.
I think they're very warring. I think they're very power hungry as a race,
just a general race. But I would imagine there are good ones and
bad ones. I don't I don't know. I don't know, and I
don't want to. I don't want to either. I like them being kind
of ambiguous to me, because look, I made looking up and I can
make up now if you want everything I want to make up. But I
don't really see it like that. It's it's not entirely my world, really
so and I'm okay with it, and it helps me to go, Yeah,
they might have done this and this must have done that, but it
was all different then my version. I'm I took over after them. I
came in with everyone else. So yeah, there you go. Is Old's
old Master himself who aged through the time shift from Legan's life ship to be
fucking sick. That is fucking wang Hage time travel stuff. But the rest
of us, like we'll see Shy Baby eighty three. What was everyone's favorite
and least favorite thing about each character. I guess we'll do your own character
because it will be your all night. It was about forty five different answers
in there. Say it again the question we'll go. We'll go with wak
first, your favorite and least favorite thing, quick fire around. We sort
of really did the favorite thing the least favorite thing about Euro? Uh.
I don't usually think this way. It's weird. Can anyone answer? Is
it like our least favorite, like John's least favorite thing about I think so,
yeah, Drift like I would imagine that was the favorite thing about Euro
is probably what what had to happen to him to make him who he is?
Same, I will say that same answer for Wrinn like you can probably
all answer that. It probably great. One of the best themes for me
to explore, and I noticed very early on, was that all of you
came from bondage, from being you know, shackled or manacled to something not
physically necessarily freed from that for a second, and then thrown straight back into
that same position but with a different Yeah. So yeah, maybe that all
right? We'll move on. Missile Monkey says, will we see references to
these and dust Fail characters in Dying Order, I will be I don't want
to do any hard crossover stuff because I just think it's unfair for anyone who
might watch Dying Order first and then want to go back. Imagine if you
wanted to watch this, but you knew everything that happened in it because you
watch some other thing. They're not sequels to each other at all. I
don't want them to be so Any hard referencing to any characters in this will
I try and avoid. I'm not saying it will or it won't happen again.
I'm not screenwriting Dying Order and preparing thing it will make NPCs. We'll
see how it goes. If you make an NPC of these guys, I
will change it and it will not be the case, because I just I
don't think it's worth doing, and I think it's very spoilery for anyone who
might want to watch them in any order. I want them all to be
able to be watched in any order, so if there is references to them,
it will be silly little easter eggs and nothing like. Like nineteen isn't
going to waltz in and be like, you don't understand, man, I've
been through the Wars. I'm two thousand years old. It's just not going
to happen because I think it's unfair for anyone who who comes in yeah and
watches them separately. DND is too long for that kind of stuff. If
this was a this was a thirteen episode TV show where I could be nice
and concise in things, I would it would just be season three. This
would have been season two of another thing and whatever. But it's not.
So. I'm sure there'll be easter eggs. I'm sure there'll be things here
and there, but I'm not planning on any hard reference to thing because I
just don't think it's fair. Shinto Kitsune, I know that usually that the
characters played I can't read or you can't write. I think my brain's going.
I know that usually that the players that the characters played have nothing to
do with each player's traits, But is there anything that each of you and
characters have in common? Do we kind of answer that? I don't know.
I think we did a little bit. Yeah, it was the second
that that threw me there. I'm sorry, Shinto, but I think we
kind of answered your question at the beginning. Shy Baby says, what drawed
everyone to the characters. The characters and such that they decided on. Oohs,
only one thing that drew each of you in start with whack. I
just I'm going around the zoom call for on the screen for you a lot.
It's different, but in the zoom call whack, it goes whack Tiger
John Pumpkinberry. So that's why I'm doing it, all right, So I'm
sorry, say it again? Yeah, is there anything that drew you to
the the again? I feel like I kind of answered this a little bit.
I wanted to, So I rolled for some stuff for like personality traits,
and then I took it another level further, which was like I really
wanted to play a character that was focused on illusion and whatnot. So that
was my first thought when I made Hero. I was like, I'd like
to play like a you know, like everybody I always see like these min
max things online, like if you play a bard, you should definitely do
lore. If you play a mage, you know, don't try and do
damage. If you try and play that, you know what I mean?
I hate that shit. It's so minuscule. I mean, I don't want
to I hate hating on people for like wanting to mind max. If you
like to do that, go for it. For me, it's not right.
I like to play a character that going to have fun playing every week,
And I guess the same thing goes with mid maxers. But I'm playing
for the role play I want to. I like doing weird stuff in a
fight. I don't like just trying to roll and hit a number, you
know what I mean, Like it's that's it's kind of boring. Like I
like having a lot of different options, so I focused the character around illusion
and then cowardice. Right, anything for you, taka, any reason you
want to, I guess with with nine taining pest to be like, I
want to be a cleric. I just want to play a big ass war
forged. Yeah, I mean we've we had spoken about it a long time
before that as well. Yeah. I like playing obscure characters. I like
playing things, you know. I don't want to just play a human.
I don't want to play an elf. I don't want to play a dwarf.
I especially don't want to play a dwarf. Yeah. I just want
to play characters that are unique in the fact that maybe they're not something you'll
see as often and I want to play a character that has some good diversity
that you could you could enjoy, and nineteen what I think Brad can attest
for this. One of the biggest things that was cool about nineteen is we
both know going into it that he wasn't gonna know shit. We were going
to roll this character as somebody that is kindled her as and become sentient,
and doing that allows for a really cool story. It lost a cool backstory,
it allows for all of that. And the reason I lean towards playing
the character the way that I did was because I wanted to play a character
that it would keep everybody guessing, even myself and even Brad honestly, because
I mean, like I mean when we were doing those roles for if I
Hit A twenty, I mean, Brad's making that shit up on the spot.
Yeah, it was really weird. And this was planned out, you
know, we were just like, we're gonna roll up tomorrow, We're going
to roll a quit perception check, and this is going to be the story
for it. It's like, like, why do I have this ability?
And I was like, oh, I guess as my cousins who got eyes,
And yeah, it's fun to me anything for you John, Uh yeah,
I mean for me. Originally I was going to when I was making
the character, I was gonna do a really pompous very drift was supposed to
be like very like thinks he's the best, thinks he's the shit. And
then Brad was like, you did have no problem, but just so you
know, we have someone else in the cast who's playing that a little bit.
And then I was like, okay, yeah it was Eero. I
was gonna be like a very euro type character. And then from there I
was just like, okay, what if he has like a lot of the
thoughts that someone whose pompous would have, but like is super young and nice.
And that's like where I was like, all right, this is gonna
be great. This is not how I was originally planning. And it got
cool when I could be a little more pompous, when I became this like
sort of stronger, more evil kind of character and a little more do she
kind of in myself, Yeah it makes sense as well, you're like drunk
compower a little bit, and I was playing with that on my side of
it. What about you, peebe? I think I originally, well I
knew I wanted to play a class I hadn't had a chance to play before,
and so I was intrigued by the monk. And I'm sort of the
reverse of what Tiger said. I like to Phil, I like to party
Phill like if we're missing something. I'm more intrigued to just kind of like
okay, and I like to be absolutely as boring as possible and then let
the story make me interesting. But it just didn't work out that way with
Rin's backstory. I ended up being pretty intrinsic to everything. Which also it
was like everyone had a mysterious background to a degree, but yours was placed
in front of everyone and it became a Everyone was like, oh, that
that background is mysterious. Heros was way more mysterious. Yeah, at the
end it's still is, yet you part of your backstory was almost as if
you had mysterious background, whereas Ero doesn't. He doesn't have a mysterious background.
That's just he just we didn't explore it and he never brought it up
too much, whereas I think yours was like purposefully mysterious to a degree,
and that's why people were like, well, why you know? And everyone
was really like hyper focused on it for a long time, and it's kind
of cool because again, I think it tied in your backstory, tied in
with the main story a little heavier than some of the others. I mean,
Drifts did as well. I think you getting that final kill on death
Singer was very apt, but if Drift had got it, it would also
have made sense. Yeah, yeah, because he was the reason that Drifts
family were murdered and whatever. But intrinsically the Rin was more dombrectly involved and
it was Yeah, it was good. I didn't have Yeah, sorry,
I was going to say, I did have an answer for another question that
was like, what was your favorite part of the character, And I think
mine is actually the satisfaction that I got because it was really hard for me
to play Rin in the beginning, because I'm a very emotional person, so
to play somebody super pragmatic and just like with this crazy cultish backstory was very
difficult. And you know, we talk about there was a lot of like
Rin hate on YouTube and stuff like that, which I took as like,
Okay, you know, I'm doing a really good job. But at the
end, like some of you have left really amazing comments about how like the
satisfaction of seeing Rin change so slowly over time. That makes me feel really
good. So that's my favorite part of Rint was her slow progression into who
she was. It's really cool to have a full character rock in something like
D and D because you can write that into stuff. You can have the
hero's journey or whatever. But it's fucking hant to pull out of inde and
I think we did that with pretty much everyone's character really, which is fucking
cool from my nerdy screenplay writing side of my brain. Yeah, Legan's last
says, what is the Drift doll? I think you answered already. I
think we did. But essentially, so the thing within Drift dolls, there's
three of them. That's what got confusing in the end. There were three
by the end of it. There was the original doll that Drift had in
his pocket no one knew about, and then became immediately confusing when he suddenly
had another one because of some bullshit that happened. So he had his original
doll, which he mentioned that he had that that was his doll from his
childhood that he kind of was a focus for the first Originally it was just
this horrible little doll right, it's a disgusting little thing, just such a
voodoo looking like, Yeah, it's one of those shitty dolls that like you
hold on to your whole life because that was like what you cuddled when you
were two months old, like no one you know, Yeah, and it
was two months old. Then there was the second doll, which came from
the the boxes and I can't remember what they were called. I called them
something very specific, but those boxes were very much like I knew what they
were. They were a bit like what the Magi used in Yeah, there's
the magical chest boxes that produced and slept in a box that locked. I
remember, I could have died and I could still be in there right now,
and I would add to re roll after the first episode. The boxes
were kind of like those things in Star Trek where they just need something and
they just type it in and it materializes the thing that you need. If
you think hard enough and you know how to use the box, you can
you could have materialized some like harmor of invulnerability from it, but there was
no way you could have known. And that's kind of a replicator, that's
what they're called. And they were a bit like that. That's kind of
their intention if you just open one at random. That's why we always rolled
on a table to see what random item you got from it, and each
of you got something weird. He slept in it. This campaign were amazing.
So yeah, I'm such a fan of randomizing things. That's why I
love D and D to a degree. The random causation effect stuff, chaos
theory. It's just great to me. I love it. So yeah,
the replicator thing, he slept in one. He slept in a replicator.
It's insane, and so when you open it, when you open it again,
what's going to be in there? And at the time it made loads
of sense to me, I can't remember if it does now, but basically,
it tried to create another one of him, and he had a little
dole in his pocket and it tried to create another one of him, and
it made this horrible doll and there was nothing weird about it. Everyone was
like, Oh, it's gonna come back again and a whole campaign. I'm
like, it's literally just a doll with like straw and I love that you
brought it back though, Yeah, they're used it against it. Yeah,
Rainbow Camera, can we have more about the postive erar Jesus, the question
I think here is crazy. Yeah, well, because it was the most
mysterious, I get it. I'm trying to think what I can say that
won't ruin the stories that people have worked out in their heads already. So
okay, you're going to open account of ones and say one more thing and
then it's going to be ten more questions off of it. But yeah,
yeah, yeah, no, no, no, you can give us one
more thing. I mean, I have a question. What's your question,
h McKinnon or your lady? What's going on here? Okay, so this
one I've actually been thinking about a lot. I've been waffling back and forth
if I want answer this, because I know that there was a bunch of
people that asked, yeah, I'm really curious, welcome chat. I just
want to waffle. So I think I will answer this because because Eroo said
when and when Eero did these titles for people, they were really important.
Eero is from the Fagelen. Names have power to him, so when he
did this, this was like almost binding these names to people in his head.
And if there was a way for him to imbue magic into these words,
he would have. And he's a barred and I don't know how far
Brad would take that, But he's the lover of the Summer Lady. He
is not. He doesn't understand monogamy because where he comes from, it doesn't
exist that so it's it's a difficult concept for him to realize. I don't
think he would acknowledge it as a thing with McKinnon, so it kind of
be whatever happens happens. But he's still the lover to the Summer Lady.
We spoke a little bit about that at the end of last week's episode or
at some point during the week, because I wanted to do some wrap up
stuff for each of you, and I gave you all little thing. I
was like, oh, these people approach and stuff. And I purposefully didn't
have McKinnon walking down the mountainside with her arms open towards Hero because I knew,
and I was like, I don't think I want to pick something like
that even at the end, because I don't. I mean, I don't
know either. Cithis. Wasn't dark Fire freed when they entered his prison?
If so, what did the party do to free and besides touching the mirror,
No, he wasn't you. You did break You broke a seal.
You broke the grande On seal, which is the first and largest seal on
and then the pray Territor went away and did the rest. So when you
arrived at the end there they had broken the remaining seals to allow him to
break free. The only other thing he had to do in this, I
think is a question as well that someone asked when nineteen was in the fire,
the next thing death Singer was going to ask you was, or command
you to do, was get in the fire and then open the gate.
That was the next command, opened the gate, and that would have been
it. That would have been what it took. So what you actually did,
you didn't free him, and I think a lot of you thought you
did in and out of character, but actually you didn't know. And also
the night Storm thing wasn't very it like. And again another thing I don't
know because it's all bullshit magi magic, but it didn't really happened physically to
you. I think a lot of everything that happened in the night Storm Temple
was in your heads somewhat, or you were projecting it, or it was
being projected onto you. That's why one of the first things I said was
that your AC is based on your whiz now, because that's almost always what
we use in D and D to determine, like mental defense from mental attacks
or you know, magical attacks and things like that. The night storm,
you access it, you physically go down there and you swim into it.
But then when there's that weird tunnel, as you're swimming down into the thing,
things get wibbly wobbly and stop being entirely a physical thing, which is
why things like Eero can die and just be back, and you know,
the mirrors. It was more about your choices and it was more about surviving
these attacks on your mind. That's why Leothaldas went crazy and des Singer made
it out and he never did. Maybe you wouldn't have come out physically,
you know. There's kind of like with what happened with nineteen necessarily, but
although you physically enter, it's not really entirely a physical thing. After that.
It's very much to do with sanity, and I wanted that to be
the case, and your HP and your things were all returning to you and
stuff because it was to do because it wasn't real, really it was more
about sanity than it was about physical things you were interacting with and doing.
And yeah, that was that was what that whole thing was about. I
really like that dungeon, but even I don't understand how it works fully,
but I do know that it wasn't entirely to do with that. So when
you freed him, you didn't. You didn't free him. That was not
all it took. It was way more than that. But you broke the
seal that his magi put on him to keep him safe, so that he
could then bring his magiveback. I would like to point out that Eros still
had that d buff from that dungeon the entire rest of the the show.
Yeah, yeah, I had a minus one to my deception, Intimidation,
performance persuasion roles. Yeah, rough the way that worked out as well,
because they were rolls on like a D one hundred or something that we rolled
for your because all you could do you you couldn't really die. I know
nineteen died, but he didn't even It was it was more how badly you
come out of it in the end, what what damage do you take?
Mentally? You know, it was a PTSD dungeon. It really wasn't a
type of dungeon where you were supposed to die necessarily. You chose to sacrifice
yourself and that led to a semi death, which was a failed pursuit,
which meant that you you know which question. Yeah, I want to let
you finish that first, but once you finished, yell at me, I
gotta ask you a question. I want to interrupt that because you're trying to
well. The next question kind of rolls off of that one. Mister Womble
said that with the rings you were wearing, if the if you died,
your soul would be trapped inside the ring. Nineteen got crushed in the underwater
dungeon, did a version of his sol get trapped inside the ring? Nineteen
didn't technically die. Then just before he passed over to die, he was
snatched up by a hasmol and gone, no, you don't get away that
easy. You failed me, and he flung him into another dimension because that
was the failure pursuit, and you would get sent somewhere else. So it
was like he he got to counter spell your counterspell God? What was your
question? I got a fun hypoth as a slash question. So when we
met with darkfire. He asked us to join him. We had the choice
to join him. I had all these thoughts in my head about when we
joined him, how cool that would because I love the idea of going to
the dark side. But I'm going to go ahead and guess that what it
would have been is us trying to open the fucking gate for him. Yeah,
you would have gone dark side one hundred percent and you would have joined
the That's what I'm saying is would we have just been trying to open the
gate for him? And if so, if that's all we're doing, who
would have been trying to stop us? All of your friends along the way,
the Kosharians, the King, the Rose God Army, the main them,
McKinnon and Stone sworn heavy. They would have kicked their ass. Guys,
did you see how much damage they did? It would have been all
of them. But you would have had the Orcs on your side. You
would have had a big kerat and you would have you would have had a
very different experience. Your brass would have turned black and blank. Death Singers
would have won. All goth girl would And I remember, and I don't
know if if you go back on the I don't know, if you go
back on like the VODs or whatever, if I said anything like this out
loud. I'm sure I mentioned it a few times to you guys, but
there was a I didn't have anything planned after that point, and it was
a really weird position for me to be in because I didn't know what decision
you would make. I figured generally people go for the good guys side,
but I wasn't sure with you guys. Yeah, I don't think either.
I think we were, honestly when it first happened. I think that three
of us minus Whack, we're all like eighty percent ready to join him,
right. Yeah. And it's cool as well, like I played fable that
the evil one was better, you know, like it's it's fun, it's
and it and it would have been very interesting to see. And that would
have been the rest of the campaign. Your pursuit would have been changed Dark
firel can hack the bracer to twist it to him and his pursuit free him
or whatever instead, and that would have been what happened. And yeah,
it would have just been this instead of you racing to stop him from being
freed, it would have been the fight and struggle to get there and complete
this the other side of it, and yeah you would, Oh you would
also that ding your final bus. Your final boss would have been Hasmol in
that scenario as well a whole other thing that's actually terrific. Oh my god.
All right. Like I was sitting there thinking about it, and I
was like going through all these questions and I was like, I want to
fucking know about that, because I don't really have a lot of questions because
I really just want to get to there. But I was like, when
I thought about it, I was like, I need to know because I
love I am a dark side. I am a kill the young lings.
I am a It's just that's just where I sit, all right. So
when when that choice happened, it was extremely hard for me to realize I
was playing a character and not playing Andrew. Yeah, I mean I get
it. I mean I wanted to see the well, you know, but
you well, I was telling John and Peb not to give me the dirty
looks after I said, and I have two kids. You said young lings
talking in a fake, unrealistic world. You write your name's Andrew. You
didn't even say Tiger or your character. I'm protecting my kids. Right now
right never the pot Oh my god, Oh my god. I used to
be like, yeah, younglings, kill them, and now I'm like,
what about really intense decisions like that in this campaign where I had to be
like stop and really think about what in that moment. Totally absolutely remember having
I think we all had those moments. Yeah, for sure in the show
that one at the end you were oh my god, John, where you
sat back and You're like, Okay, what would I do? Oh god?
It was so it was such a mind fuck where it's like John psychopath,
Now would I just sacrifice? Like God, I don't like me.
I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, there's a lot of questions
to go about twenty five minutes. Sorry, if we don't get if it
doesn't matter if we don't answer them, and you want to tonight and I've
missed one. Just you can any of us in the discord and we can
answer, well, is the wait after the day? Is the discord going
to move into past shows? Yeah? Realized after day I'm not going to
see you guys every Tuesday. Horrible. Do you know what was the worst
thing for me about today right now? It was me setting up the obs
thinking, oh, I have to delete all these scenes. Later on for
the day it sucked me up. I was like, oh, weird,
that's weird, just like you didn't you know, I don't need it,
Christian question. But maybe we'll come back or something for Wax. Stephen pous
Pratt, how did you come up with the story of Corundon? Was it
all improfit was really good? Yeah, it was all impressed. You're that
is the moment I was like, fuck, Wax really good, and that's
why everyone should want to play in Wax Steven's campaign. That's really good.
I know. I really would love to be GMed by Whack one day.
Most underrated GM on Twitch in my opinion, right there, thank you,
underrated GM on the entirety of Twitch. Everyone should know when Stephen like,
everyone's like, oh my god, Matt Mars and Matt Coleroll Whack Stephen should
be in that list in my opinion, and we're going to try and get
him there, right table story fam, that's right, household name Whack Stephen
twenty twenty seven, President of the United States of Dungeons and Dragons. Sith
this plays says, what did the other mask? No? Nineteen? Because
it's his story nineteen because it was freaked me out received do the one from
the Old Queen. I told you it's life based. It gives, it
extends his life and also would you know it heals him every round technically is
another thing about where Lock Other than the ending? What were your favorite moments
in the campaign? Try and quick fire this if we can, I guess
whack any standout moments. Favorite favorite moment in the campaign was the entirety I
think of Rose Guard. I just I really felt like it was a a
character shaper for all of us and it helped us fall into the roles of
who our characters would be throughout the entire campaign. And I just think it
was well crafted. It was well balanced and interesting. There was stuff to
do. We had shopping episodes, which I know, like you either love
them or hate them, but it was a lot of different things in rose
Guard. There's a lot of different kinds of stuff that happened. We had
intense like tournament action, we had stories, we had shopping, we had
intrigue with the blood grips and all of that stuff going on. There was
just a wide experience that happened, and I think that's what you want with
any big city in any you know, campaign, regardless of the setting,
D and D fantasy whatever. Yeah kind of answers, Oh no, please
go Drift versus Sir Sikh. Fucking I didn't speak at all during that episode.
I don't think, I don't care. It was my favorite episode.
I was just going to say, the most fun I've ever had in mind,
I always feel awkward with those I always want to do stuff where everyone's
involved. And honestly, the tournament I set it up with the intention that
rin Or nineteen was entered by the Kosharians and Drift and supported by Ero via
the Boulder Downs. Was that who the energy in the and that was my
plan. I really wanted there to be two of you being supported by the
other one, or maybe even three of you in a new Ero almost definitely
would not join it, so I was trying to figure out a way to
put him in. But I was like, it would be cool if all
three of them were in it, because I love the Dragon ball Z tournament
arcs. It was like, they would just be it doesn't matter who wins
or what happens or whatever. They are in it. And then only one
of you went in and I was like, oh no, this is there's
going to be at least one episode where it was amazing or whatever. But
it was cool as ship. And I to you guys, Diamond, all
of you were cool, but I was jumping up and you do not think
I was gonna bread After every tournament He's like yeah, He's like, I'm
really shocked. You beat the first one. That was great, but there's
no way you're beating the second one like it. I really like there's a
way. And I was like, no way. He's like, I mean
there's always a way, but realistically, man, like these are tough as
ship. I was like, all right, Like yeah with Euro Ero,
I mean Ero won that for me, like all of everything. Again,
I don't know how to balance one by ones very well, and I don't
know how to balance post level five very well, but that really is the
proof so good. Oh my god, yeah, no, you you destroyed
it. You've all done this to me a thousand times by now. Though
every every campaign I've run, my players have been like, well we killed
the big, bad, evil guy. I'm ruined, And I'm like,
are you now what the fuck a We're gonna you ruined my hug and that's
why I don't care about the story anymore. I'm with you. Who was
next on this list? Falling? Falling vampire not vampire battle? That was
fucking epic. That was so incredible. Yeah, that was so cool.
Saying that's not in any final fantasy was so good. And then they're gonna
get a complex now I'm like, oh god, that was and third and
final one, probably a little selfishly is like the the end, the absolute
very end? What about you, Tiger? Did you say one? I
just want to make sure I get back to this question. Was what was
our favorite moment other than the ending? Okay, what was your favorite moment
in the campaign or whatever? It's gonna sound maybe a little strange, Like,
I think my favorite moment was the scene of me behind the mirror leaving
the three party members. Dude, heavy as fuck? Shit was heavy.
I like heavy shit. I think that emotions are an awesome thing to play
with. Yeah, that emotions are like that was the hardest I cried during
the campaign. Wait wait, wait, which part when I was behind the
mirror of nineteen oh yelling at him? Yeah, Like I think that like
something I always love about, Like anything is is emotion, right, Like
we made people laugh, you know, like we made people laugh, We
made people, We made people have all types of emotions. And when I
go to like watch a movie, that's what I want. I want.
I want all of the emotions. And I feel like that entire episode was
just crushing, but also like there were things that made people probably like have
a nice, big ass smirk, like when me and fucking Drift said I
am nineteen together basically in that moment, like, yeah, some people are
crying because they're sad, but some people are just like, oh my fucking
god, that's heavy. That's fucking awesome. And I don't know, like
that was probably it was one of my favorite scenes. It has nothing to
do with like my acting or anything let or my improv. It has to
do with knowing that, like I caused an issue that made all the other
characters have to get emotional and find emotion, not just me. Library scene
was really good. To that episode where we basically just screamed at each other
the entire episode that was insane. That was so fucking good. When I
locked Mom and Dad in the room and it changed everything, I think it
was unbelievably important thing. Yeah, It was so good. That was one
of my favorite because contrary to the thing I said earlier on where I never
get to see Chat, I didn't say shit for three hours. I think
I was in it like twice where I went and this is what happened last
week. And then at some point you were like, where's that Gnome and
he was like, I'm out here, and then that was him done.
And then I just sat there with Chat. I was typing in Chat.
It was so fun. You guys were going through this thing and I just
shut the fuck up and let you guys work through it. And I didn't
do anything, and I got to enjoy an episode. There was one episode
of this whole campaign. I just got to enjoy the viewer entirely. Basically.
It was great. That was just to jump on that wave of that
one episode was cool for me personally. It's a GM player. What was
it called? Anybody know there is poopoo in my bum bum opisode special episode?
I don't know? Uh? Did John? Did you say a favorite
moment? Me? Oh, it was the tournament for sure. Like that.
That was the most fun I've ever had playing this game, and it
was so intense. I've never had, you know, and it's me and
the tournament and me and Era. But it was like just this like exciting.
I was excited when you presented it to us at the beginning of the
like when they're like, wait, you're gonna join and they like liked me
for some reason, and like because I did something back and like the other
city, like it was so cool they entered me in and then like they
were like looking at me, like you you little small twerp, Like no
way. The viewer hype between those episodes was immense as well. Like the
amount of excitement I saw coming from you guys in the discord or in the
chat week to week was insane. I think that that really, I think
that really locked a lot of people in for the campaign. I think a
lot of people at that point were like, this is great, and I'm
gonna watch this every single week, you know, just like I feel like
that was when a lot of people who were like I don't know, were
like, this is the best thing. I don't know, but it's the
hype around it outside of it was just insane to watch. For me,
as someone who's been running D and D on twitch for a long time or
a few years. So much going on right up to that too, like
with the Blood Grips and with Wrin and like in the Sewer and then like
Finger not coming not showing up because he was getting jumped, like and like
it was so many good stories happening at once. Yeah Ero and me doing
this turn and like them off and like dealing with like it was just so
because ah man, it was like a fucking amazing TV show. Like it
was. It was great. I really really enjoyed running it. And a
lot of that I had not planned for. I mean, the whole Blood
Grip storyline the nineteen got himself into was just completely off of a flippant quest
from a goliath I had not and make it all up. People underestimate themselves,
I think a lot with improv and they think, oh, I'm not
good at that. When you force yourself into situations where you have to do
it, your brain will cover you like it will happen yeah, and uh
you know you'll you'll come up with some crazy ship. So there's a there's
a contrast that I think a lot of d ms need to have in their
repertoire, which is you write a bit and you make sure that you leave
room for improv mm hm, and you you just see what happens because a
lot of times those moments that you think are the best in the whole fucking
series or whatever, one improv like just yeah whatever, you know, like
it just just comes out of your ass. You pull it out it right,
like situations, not not complete sets of things, like oh, I
want this character to maybe potentially experience this emotion, and then when you see
the opportunity come in the campaign, you go, oh, I can do
that right now because they're they're going that way, and I'll just present it
by having this character just show up and give them the opportunity or something like
that, rather than writing a whole campaign. Or they go to the inn
and then they go here and then they go that. So yeah, yeah,
I mean I think like that as well. I'm terrified whenever I have
to improv because I'm convinced I can't do it. And then you know,
again, whack is right. You will most of the time, your brain
will provide noodle leth asks which stout boots is everyone's fain the first one or
the second one, Maxius or stubby stubby Stubby? Wait, which one is
Maxius is the first one I told you all the stories on the car.
Yeah, that was his name that I just didn't he was exaggerating his war
stories. By the way, as we learned, am my answering is Wax
Steven or EO, Well, I guess they're different. We're both then,
Okay, Ero is Maxius because the stories were fic. Yeah, me is
probably Stubby because he saved her. He was so so strong, ridiculous every
role. I couldn't believe. It made me want to play like he's he
was a ranger, right, Yeah, he kind of did before you made
him look cooler. You made rangers cool. Yeah, he's super strong tiger
M. I feel like, okay, ask me for what it was.
One more term, which out boots is your favorite one? The first one
that told the stories on the car or Stubby who was saving everyone's ass at
the end, or just damage dealing random DPS character that was with you.
I think I think that, I think that it's definitely it's definitely the brother,
the one that survived because he literally saved my life. Also, had
you you were with him for a little longer, you had a you had
a direct it could very well have just been YouTube going in to face the
reason. I thought the question again. For some reason, I thought you
included I thought you included for some reason, those monks in the library in
there, not the monks, but the library names. Yeah, there was
My brain was thinking that concerned there's nothing to do, there's a there's a
set of roles that would have led to a version of events where nineteen and
Stubby walked into that final encounter alone with no hope of the other three showing
up as well, which is kind of cool to think about. Whereas nineteen
Cat says, Legand's life still on the farm. He left him with what's
his name who was taking over the responsibilities of John's farm to keep him safe,
so he lives there, safe and happy. All animals have plot armor
in this game, unless they are specifically like a pack of wolves that are
attacking you on a random encounter like the Dire Wolves almost kicked the fuck out
of you early on, and or you actively send an animal in to fight
all animals in Parma A question based on that if we died in the fight
with death Singer, was or was there an Archimedes moment? Yeah, let
me play it out for you. That's why I saved Archimedes like mechanically,
Yeah, let me play out for your Ero drops, Eros fails his last
saving throw. Yeah. A Comedies says to you, you can save yourself
and one other. Who do you pick? What would he have done?
Holy? No way, no way, who would you have picked? Oh?
I'm not saying oh that's for sure, for sure not saying oh wait
no, because I'm like, no, I he probably would have. I
think it would have been written No. I think he would have picked it
would be mean or wrin because he didn't like what I became at all.
He did not like the dark energy, would falling in love with No,
no, no, no, no no, I just want him say it.
If he did, I think they got super wrong. I think I
didn't get that back written Hero Wrin and Hero and I told Pebe like we
talked about it way early on. I got like a duel leadership not happening
right vibe from it as well is a brother sister. I have the same
thing on a Thursday with Tuesday's character. Everyone thought our characters were kind of
in love, but they are absolutely brother and sister. One's a half walk
and one is an elf but we love love man. People love love.
Yeah, they love it. Wax Stephen, what's up with a Kayleas family
name and the research hero did in Most God? Can you tell more about
it from Patrick? Yeah, because I did talk about it a little bit
during the show. Iro was searching for his family. That was the reason
that he left the Fage line, was to search for his family, and
he inadvertently found one that was kind of his whole story. Well he found
one. Yeah, Well that's that was my point. No, I meant
us. I meant that. Yeah, I mean I have a ship.
I have a ship ton of info unlike specifics and things in case it needed
if you pushed it more, but you never did, which you can have
one day if you want work or not. I don't. I don't know
what you're like. You might not want it. I don't think so.
Missile Monkey says, does Dark Fire exist outside time? If you mean is
it possible for him to exist outside of his seal? Yes? But I
think you mean does he exist outside of time itself? Yes? He does.
He lives in a strange pocket dimension that's just created by the magi that
made the Ninth Storm Room. The Ninth Storm room is weird. Although you
guys could use it to communicate with anyone. It basically does that whibbley wobbly
thing where it has just a set ofdiculous amounts of power, and it can
dump you out in certain places. It can dump you out in the fucking
prison that Dark fires in, and it can dump you out in one random
point in time that is about one year before rose Guard is, before the
snow melts in the area where rose Guard is. That's where you were.
You were in the very last year of the snow of the frozen Age.
And it can do some other things. Is irrelevant. Roy says during the
battle between Drift and Walter. The first claim there was another who was a
vampire? Did he Did you have something planned for that me? I'm pretty
sure I didn't claim there was another that was a vampire. I think he
was referring to Muriel, who wasn't a vampire. But if I had said
that, I might have misspoke. I think I might have meant an undead.
So cool, Yeah, there there was. I think he probably has
other potentials around the world. The first I got, I got very uh
uh, and I think he got very Drift focused at the end because he
was that close with Drift. But the first Isn't you know he's not going
to put all these eggs in one basket. He for sure has all these
people. He's a warlock patron, he's the fiend, he's the arch Faye.
He's one of those you know people scream out help me, and he's
like, well, I want to get to your morel realm. I'll help
you out. But you know, if your body is strong enough to contain
me and I train you, I'm going to I will, I will show
out. I will show up. What happened to Old's find out next time
on Dragon Balls. For John, in the Battle with the First when you
jumped off the bridge, was that influenced by the live chat? Were you
thinking to do that yourself? Oh? My god, I was not looking
at all during that. Were they saying that I don't have any idea what
happens in chat? They were saying that too. No, No, were
people in chat saying to jump? I guess so I wasn't. I'm kidding,
yes, no, No. What what did it for me was I
can't remember exactly what you said, but I asked, did that? Did
I hear that? Was that set out loud Brad. It was something like
someone I think nineteen and ances like you. Yeah, and he said like
they just need me. And when I heard that on my next move I
jumped right because in my mind I was like, well, if he just
needs me and he's only going after me and he's killing my friends, I
just jumped. I was like, that's my only that's that's it. And
I also had in my mind that's why I asked if I can get off
with just my movement. I had misty step that I've never used. I
had the thing that could barricade me if I took any damage in like a
bloodshield, so I knew. I thought I could survive for sure, but
get him away from my friends who were really getting messed up. Yeah.
Yeah, so that makes sense because I think you did make that sort of
snap decision. I definitely. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, I
kind of figured you might do that, you guys as well, not jump,
but something the bridge. I mean, I just thought a lot of
the bridge thing was just that I thought it would be cool, and also
there was a map available to me. Sometimes I just completely reconfigure what I
have planned because there's a better looking battle map I got that looks dope as
ship, and it would be way better if it was set on a bridge,
And I think maybe I did that. And yeah, so the bridge.
I didn't think although jump off it necessarily, but I did also think
they might, and I thought they might all off it. What happens,
it could easily get pushed off it. What happens if Drift tries to pull
this bullshit throw the first off of it? Because I figured that was I
figured that was probably what you were going to do. Is that why he
was lemitating? No, that's the whole reason he could turn into a bat.
I was like, he needs He's based on a creature called the Herald
of Blood in the tone of Beasts. So I think he has some of
that bullshit. And I twisted him and he's got his he's some. He's
got something else as well that he can do. I can't remember what I
made him out of. He's a weird amalgamation, the first of a couple
of different creatures that I home brood love them. I love him as well.
I love them. Yeah, it's we're closing it pretty soon, and
I know we are. You have to play a certain song to close out
everything. And I think that Pep is going to be mad at me for
saying this, and maybe even Whack will be mad at me for saying this.
But what you already do it, Brad, Brad's on it. I
don't need to say. Okay, John, you said you used chair Oh
no, No. The only time I used chat was for remembering things that
I did, like just because I sometimes I just forget, like my powers
or like my special like plus three because I have this thing or charisma modifier.
So that's what I would always look to Chat for, like oh did
I forget? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. So there's a lot of more
questions in here. I can see them, but we're going to be at
time in a minute if we don't, if we don't call it somewhere,
I will. If your question wasn't answered and it was to me specifically,
I will endeavor to answer on the discord. I'm sure all the others would
as well. Yeah, I will as well. If you around that show
us the list of questions, Brad, I don't know, but probably i'll
Okay, Okay, I's do like a little video where I answer them.
It's a funky, it's a funky thing where I don't know because Cudio made
a bot on a page and I don't know into Brad's brain. Yeah,
and yeah, there's a there's a there's some good questions. I've seen a
couple come up in a chat. But this just will be here all night.
They'll just they'll be endless. So feel free if you want to re
ask questions in the discord, if you join our discord. If you don't
know how to use Discord and stuff, you can tweet us. You can
tweet either at table story, or you can tweet each of us in our
respective twitters. Or you can probably come by all of our varying streams and
ask people while they're live streaming as well. There are all the links that
you need for all of these fine people. Whether you're watching on the vod
or you're watching live, the links come up. Make sure you follow everyone,
and I'm sure using the power of the Internet and Google, you will
get your question answered at some point. I think the Discord is probably the
best way to do it, except not everyone is Discord savvy, because it's
weird really for people who have never used it. The first time I joined
Discord was like, what the fuck is this? And yeah, hopefully we
did a good enough job of making the show watchable. Everyone seems to have
enjoyed it. Did we did for sure? Yeah? I think it was
for me, it is. It is a big deal to complete a campaign
without missing a single episode. It's so great to be a GM that completes
a campaign. It's such a nice feeling because one of the worst things is
if you if you make a campaign and it doesn't you don't complete it,
or you've you're forced to end it early or even doesn't start. And I've
done it with several and it is just awful to run one episode and it
gets canceled or something like that, or things go wrong. So to actually
complete one is huge personally for me just who I am. It's crazy for
me to complete these things because I've always felt like someone that never completes projects.
So it's a big deal for me when I complete something that I thought
of brought you guys in on and then we together completed this fucking thing,
and yeah, it's huge, So thank you guys for being great players.
I've loved this campaign. I could sit and answer questions like this about it
all day as well, like, these three hours is nothing. I would
sit here for twenty four hours and answer these questions because I love it.
I live and breathe this campaign while it's running, and the next one I
run, and the one after that, and all the campaigns I've run before.
I just I love it. I'm immersed in it. My favorite thing
is to create these worlds. My least favorite thing is being the one person
that has to sit on the box of secrets for a year and I can't
answer any questions, and everyone's asking all this stuff, and a lot of
stuff inspires me to think of stuff, and a lot of questions that you've
asked in the discord have made me go, oh, I need an answer
for that. But having to sit on it is so difficult because I'm probably
the one person who wants to speak about it the most. I'm like,
I just want to tell you what's going on with the first and I can't.
So it's nice to be here at the end where I'm like, oh
God, it's a good feeling that reveal, actually, because I think that
was the first time I knew I knew death Singer was involved in the entire
campaign. Is the Christmas episode that I thought was like just a fucking one.
And Mary comes in and he's he's like fucking singing, and I'm like,
wait, what what happening? What his name was John? As well?
Because John wasn't gonna on my fucking character she what cover name for that?
And I never watched it, so I knew nothing. And the death
song went off, I was like, oh, this sounds nice. Tiger
wanted a death song? Here you go? Is this what you want?
Tiger? Oh my god, I've got another one that's pretty good. If
you had actually if someone had actually died, you want to hear the other
one? Okay, wait, wait wait, I do want to. While
you're finding this song, I do want to share a little tidbit that I
think you lore horrors out there might really like because I enjoyed it, so
listen, you will appreciate this. So on my character sheet, there's like
rumors of this where my Where's Rinn is from is Blackpoint, which is where
apparently the whatever he got the death song from. But there are rumors that
you could hear songs in the halls and that just when he said that it
was there at Black Point, I just lost my mind. Underneath the whole
time, Like fucking what I have to The thing I have to say leaving
this situation knowing I want me back here next with you guys, is that,
you know, it was really fucking cool as a full time streamer to
see is seeing everybody in the chat that we saw every week for a year,
that was always here to watch the show live. If you're out there
listening, I'm grateful for you watch listening, I am, but I want
to, like quick just shout out the people that are in the chat that
literally were in here live. Like when you see that when you're a streamer,
right, you're full time, you're sitting there every day. You know,
you get your regular regulars. When you see that ship in a D
and D campaign like this, it really means a lot. Especially so thanks.
I was going to get to it last, but the hype and the
people that have been on this show has been insane. Yeah, especially just
all the like there's a handful of people, in particular the inquisitors that I
called them, who knew everything that was going on, and really I had
to keep on my game as a GM and be like, well, I've
got to make sure that makes sense now because they're interested in it and they're
like they're questioning. They're like, yeah, but the paradox that exists now,
and I'm like, oh god, yeah that is a paradox. Well,
I got to make sure that that's not a paradox or whatever it was.
It was fun. I love that I actually enjoy being tested in that
way, because otherwise I might not. I will just get lazy and be
like, man, what the dragon magic? You know? So that was
really fun. So yeah, just the amount of support that we had on
this was ridiculous and I appreciate all the y'all I'm bad at doing this,
but everybody who commented on YouTube too, because there were people who commented on
every single episode every single week. And I'm not talking about here's when break
ends. I shouted this out, I think on like rag tags or something.
But the people that just if you're one of the people out there that
does the break time stamps just on any video, because they do it on
all sorts of podcasts and things as well out there, just you are the
unsung heroes of my whole life that find the break time stamps and put them
in. Yeah, shout out to those guys. Y'all. This is it.
Though. This is the end, the absolute end of Dark Fire.
There's no more. This music is for you PB oh God, this is
it. We've been on this road together. It started on a little cart.
It ended on a little cart. Apart from nineteen who's off to Yeah,
he's off to do some triple bank clips with a great sword into the
fat wild and maybe olds. But for the most part, I think with
both my characters, everyone else got closure. This is the end. Any
final words before we're done, I think I'll say something real quick, just
that I love you guys obviously in the chat, but I want to make
I really want more people to play D and D just because there there's no
better feeling in the world than creating something and getting out of your bubble of
life and just being whoever you want to be and just experiencing crazy journeys.
And I know it's nerdy and I know it's like different than like what maybe
a lot of your friends like, but definitely give it a try in your
life one time. If you watch it, especially too, like, give
it a try. It's It's magical, it really is. That's what i'd
say. I love you, guys. It's fun. I'll play it.
You've sold it to me, I'll give it a play. Uh whack any
lost words, any fine woods? So yeah, thank you, Brad,
thank you so much for making a wonderful campaign and uh something that I look
forward to every week. And uh, I appreciate you so much. And
I told you this before. I love you and I mean that, and
I love you Tiger, I love you John, and I love you peeb
h and uh I'm gonna be sad. Oh no, I'm gonna be sad
not playing euro anymore with you guys. And uh, just remember what Ero
would say. Mm hmm, there's always another story to tell. Oh,
cut it there not on any final words, Tiger, Uh, well,
Whack pretty much did everything I would say, genuine genuinely said everything I would
say. And just thanks to all of you. I'll miss you guys every
fucking week. I was already talking about. I was getting all emotional the
other day about it about how much I was like this is literally like I
love streaming, don't get me wrong, but having like a group, like
a con like comrades to come together with every week and like just produce content
is not something I have done a lot over the course of the years that
I've streamed, except with D and D. So every time one of these
shows ends, I'm just consistently just I feel a little lost, genuinely,
like because I don't I do. I feel a little lost because I really
fell in love with doing this shit. So it's like the sad part of
me isn't that I just missed the people to watch. I will miss playing
with all of you all, miss playing with every single one of you.
And this is a second show I've been with Brad Dming and it just gets
better every time. It's just good shit, and I'm an emotional shit.
So I'm not going to say much more because I'm not gonna cry because I
do enough of that already, all right, So I really appreciate all of
you. Thanks for letting me play with you, guys, and thanks for
always making me feel like I'm included in something, because that's what really means
the most to me, and pebe any final before we got that was really
final fantasy, Brad. That was really really fucking good. Oh Jesus,
Yes, and thank you guys. I was very intimidated to come in because
I knew that I would be not replacing, but I would be coming in
and in place of Speth who couldn't make it, and I was worried that
I would feel very left out, And yeah, you guys didn't make me
feel that way at all. He made me feel very welcome. And playing
Rin was really hard but very worth it. The story was amazing. I'm
really going to misplain D and D with you guys. That's it. It's
like, well, for me, it was a pleasure to run. There's
nothing better than having the bread. There is literally nothing better than having a
good set of players as a GM who you can rely on, Like it's
so nice to be able to show up every week and just go I don't
even need to present anything to them, and I know that they're just going
to knock out of the park. It takes so much pressure off of you
as a GM, which for me can be really stressful at times. As
much as I fucking love GMing, it can be scary and I can get
a little anxious and stuff. And I didn't feel it almost ever going into
this. Regardless, we put it on every week and it was just nice
being able to rely on you and again, everyone can say what they want
about what I prepared, But I really do think that you guys really brought
it, and I couldn't ask for about cast, and everyone that watched loved
it, and that is I don't know. There's no more that we can
say, I think other than thank you for watching. I mean, we
could say that we could talk for hours. We could, and if you
want us to, you can continue to speak to us in the discord and
things. But other than that, I think we're We're done. This as
a close fifty Dead episodes, just perfect, almost a perfect year, about
a perfect run, perfect cast, perfect game. Thank you very much for
watching everybody whack out back count one last time. Thank you very much everyone.
Good Note. When I was a girl, my father told me why
they outlawed Arkanai across the world after Thalmasia was taken into the sea. It
was said that ar Kani was too powerful, but somewhere out there someone created
an Arkani weapon strong enough to strike at the gods themselves. The problem is
this time, they answered