All right, everybody, welcome back, Thank you so much for joining us,
for what the fuck and the campaign one point five. We are here
with Dexter, who plays Elmer. Elmer, that's I think, I think,
Yeah I did, Yeah, I forgot Dexter, who do you play?
I play Elmer? It's just true, I see, dude. We
also have Nico who's playing I play Wren, and Mike who's playing Toolsner Altier,
and our infamous d m who is Tony. It's true he is.
And I have your host Shamus. UM. First one, we are going
to tackle the next five episodes, UM, starting with Chess from Chess preneur
est Chess. That's a mouthful. I don't know what that's like. UM.
So for this one, the group, the Gores kind of kind of
heads out, right, You guys head back out to the crossing, UM
with your lead. You're you're going after John Smith. Uh, don't quite
get there this this uh this episode, however, you do find something something
else. UM. Now, as far as this this episode goes, Tony,
what was your your prep? Like I guess to begin the the encounter,
like when when you're looking at um basically where you want the party to
be after they've kind of come this far, after they've made this leg of
the journey. Um, what was your prep like, Like, did you
have a plan or were you just kind of going along with it? No?
I a little of both. I feel like you should always attempt to
make the journey interesting, um, even you know, travel instead of just
gloss over it, make have have something notable, because when you're traveling for
three days, there's gonna be something memorable, you know, And so I
make sure there's some stuff. But it's also a lot of just just what
these guys find interesting or worth worth interacting with more, you know. Yeah,
And it's always it's always three is traveling at a fool s quest.
I feel like almost away it could be the town. It's the physics of
you for yes, speaking of interesting, it's it's a rough terrain and half
up hill anywhere you just walk a lot slower and you're like, come on,
guys, And there's those random random dragons, a lot of long rests.
Yeah I found it. Yeah. Yeah, Well I always like to
include a dragon. I mean we're playing dungeons and dragons. Yeah, we
have such a great name for the dragon too. Anthing Knoxus Anthony Knoxus.
Okay, where did that name come from? I have no idea. Out
of the ether. I was thinking about it a couple of nights ago.
I don't know where I got that. I don't know. Probably you just
like grab scrabbled pieces and just throw them on the table. I mean,
the Black Dragon should sound like Poisony and and and and I don't know,
this is something you need to shot forward to get rid of. Yeah,
yeah, that whole seems super amusing. I really enjoyed. Yeah. I
was playing through that written the Master Negotiator. Oh, just completely oblivious to
everything happening around him. That was the most fun. And then I was
re listening to refresh for this earlier and the sound effects you did for the
dragon's voice were fucking phenomenal. Oh yeah, they really were. Yeah,
but the work is amazing. Well half of that was was Tony, because
Tony puts a lot of inflection into the characters that he does, which make
just makes it easier on this end, because all I really did was he
had a little bit of reverb and dropped it down like six steps. All
I did was spend an hour working tears, and I did it once in
the copy and pasted the whole list of effects on everyone in back. Yeah
that's how editing works, yes, copy based. No, now that that
was a really fun scene though, with the soup and the dragon and and
now like dragons would love stew and Mannise so much. Well, it's not
a picky dragon, I don't. I don't think dragons are picky. I
think they're lead just about anything, right, So, yeah, especially young,
not not terribly powerful, and you guys were an unknown quantity with a
you know, yeah, it's probably tired of eating a party swamp the riverboat
of people behind us, we're all scared shitless running around like idiots. Ren's
just up there at the steering wheel, order in a chest. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, I'm throwing him a birthday party. Like at the
end of this, I don't like, I don't care what else happens unless
I die. My epilogue is going to be at Anthornoxis's birthday party. Friend's
gonna be a revenant. You'd be like, dude, what is your unfinished
business? And you're like, I need to get a cake. Like a
whole it's a whole size series where run keeps dying every day but comes back
so they keep keep accumulating the birthday, Mike, I saw that rather,
I heard that you fell into that that dire trap that people who do a
lot of impressions and accents and stuff fell onto. And then like you accidentally
immediately picked up on the bayou X. Yeah, you're like, oh wait
a minute, one or two, once or twice. I mean it's because
he Tony does it so well, doesn't he. And I'm and I've always
been kind of like a sponge for sounds and and things like that, so
it was easy to mimic to a point. And then it's but it's I
have to like tap the brakes in my head before it to keep so it
doesn't just come out. It's a it's a fun way, that's I guess.
Also did kind of a shopping a situation to begin with at the beginning
of the Oh yeah, I mean, what would go into town and AFQB
without shopping. Yeah, well, I mean that was when we were leaving
crossing or leaving uh runoff yeah, run off. Yeah, Tony was like
one more chancefer shop before you guys go fight a drag. We also went
shopping as soon as we got there too. Yeah, well I had to
get the chest. I already told you I needed to get a chest form
and so on. But I think that starts running into the next episode.
Yeah, yeah, it does. Yeah, what was for the party?
What was you guys as kind of uh conceptions for John Smith? Like what
we're not You're heading off to go find him? Right? Um? What
was kind of running through your guys mind of like what you might encounter when
you do meet up with John Smith? Oh man, So we've recorded a
lot already. Remember what I was thinking about back then two sessions ago.
Yeah, I was thinking probably back then more about the Book of Faces and
you know, the Facebook and figuring out what we could do with it more
than like what is John Smith? I just assumed John Smith was a shape
chapter from the get go, and that was my I just figured he was
like some slimy thieves guild type guy who just happened to fall in with the
the swag and stole some stuff. Thieves, thieves, what the thieves?
Yeah, there's no guilt, no guilds, the group, He's a member
of the family. Just put a hand away the group, the group,
the game. Yeah, m hm. Nico feeling that that train of thought.
Um what I guess same question before the Facebook, right, like,
what what were I mean I imagine that it wasn't just Nico thinking that that
was probably the item of interest. What were the preconceptions for that one or
the implications you guys are trying to like maybe uh implement later on, like
how how you could apply it. I mean, we didn't know exactly how
it was powered and what it could do, so, I mean, we
knew it was supposed to do some extra magic shit, but we didn't have
really any idea and honestly, we didn't even know if magic scrolls would work
outside of our own schools. Well, I mean, for ren, obviously
they will because but but we didn't know if we wanted to even try that
because we're like, m you know, that's dangerous. So the Facebook was
really just gonna be like, well, I mean, what would do do
we get it? Once we get it? Is it mostly just going to
be a lot of you know, a cesspool full of like commentary from you
know, John Smith, Oh, I mean get a little bit too real
world advertisements for stuff that you just just were talking about just mentioned that's your
goal we'll bring us something. Yeah, books on scroll book sounds, scrolls,
dowrowth all um to order them, you can just use Travis's card,
right, that's not that's the next one, I think so, yeah,
that's the next episode that. Uh. I fully expected you guys to take
advantage of Travis's card. Hopefully we didn't disappoint in that area, not the
least you h you went less wild than I expected to be honest. Yeah,
Tony, for Anthronoxis, do you intend us to see him again?
Like, is there going to be a time where we're heading back to Runoff
or are we done with Runoff? Nah? I think most likely. Well,
I mean that's you know, yeah, ultimately after you guys, but
there's there's definitely you could you could wrap that loose end up with Anthronoxis.
Yeah. Well that's good. I got more shit to collect for him before,
you know, to put in his chest before I go visit him again.
I don't want him to be disappointed with a small hall, you know
what I mean? You know, uh, the the Travis's card episode,
Um, there was something in there that I don't think you guys noticed at
all because it wasn't your money. M hm, oh m. Whose money
was it? Well, well it was Travis's right, or the trading companies?
Yeah, the trading company. So all that falls back on the trading
Oh shit, I can't think of the name now, Grand Tarpin, Great
Terrapin, Great Tarrapin. Yeah. Yeah, well that'll be a thing later
on. It hasn't a lot about money yet, So give you any ideas,
right, Tony, how do you what's your method for bringing in encounters?
Um? So when I prep, I usually try to, you know,
prep the heaviest for what I think they're going to be doing. Um.
In this case, it's a fool's question. They're at a new town,
so I had the shops ready to go, and then it's like you
knew, yeah, But for for like encounters, I I don't like random
encounters as a DM very much other than travel checks. Travels should should have
random encounters, I think, and like in a dungeon there should be the
chance for random encounters. But just in general, I don't prep random stuff.
So I'll just have you know, like this episode was was mostly just
role playing there and like I'll have the shopkeepers and I know their personality and
what their goals are. Or whatever and just just work around that. Occasionally,
if I've got exposition or something, I'll actually write that out, but
for the most part, it's just just what is this characters, what does
this end PC's goal, or you know, what's their attitude in general,
and just reacting to the players for the encounter types specifically, do you have
any sort of like like other media that you're you're watching that might inspire you.
So, for instance, I will go like my one of my favorite
things to do is to go through like random D and D lower channels.
They'll like go through like they'll do Pathfinder and three point five books and four
point zero five point er books and they kind of go over like a random
random I don't NPC's basically or beasts ornot, and it always gives me like
a cool inspiration to like put my twist on for maybe a later campaign.
Do you do kind of the same thing or is yours a different different method?
No, I absolutely do that. Like I'll especially like maybe half the
time, you know, I've got something specific in mind already, so I
don't do that. But if if it's something where I'm like I need to
add something here or whatever, Yeah, I'll absolutely steal it from stuff.
I mean not really, but you know, I'll look through random encounter tables
or or campaign settings and stuff like that just to get ideas, and then
usually that'll that'll inspire something. All right, So what was your guys' favorite
part with dealing with with the dragon? Was it the soup? For me?
It was for me, it was the mannase Definitely, for Elmur it
was none of it. Yeah, or doesn't enjoy things. He's too well,
it's small. So I did just refuse to protect during that in comment.
Well, I forget which episode it was, and I think it's what's
already been aired. But Elmer did make the comment that everything we've encountered so
far has tried to could possibly eat him in one bite. And he wasn't
like, yeah, that's one of Yeah, that's I want to say,
that's Travis's car. Yeah, we got the time. I was like,
I'm minding. I hate it because Elmer carried on about that dragon for a
couple sessions. Well, somebody keeps bringing up the traumatic incident over and over
again. Yeah all the time. Yeah, we keep tribute. Elmer's got
PTSD about it. Ren made a new friend and Elmer made a new nightmare.
Correct, that's awesome, and like you were you were the resident.
Elmer's the resident, like I don't know, the wise man, right,
the one that everyone knows it goes to for advice because you've been around there,
Like, how did you not know? Well? Ish he likes you
to think so yeah. Yeah, well he's the oldest of the group as
far as we can tell, so we defer to his Uh, well,
my wisdom was I'm not talking to a dragon because it's a dragon. Yeah,
insatially curious though, yeah, and super innocent about everything because he's like,
I mean, the dragon could have gotten mad, and he's like,
you know, don't you know how dragons get their names? And runs just
like no, tell me go ahead. It's probably the smartest thing, get
the dragon talking about himself. You're you're good. Yeah, arguably they paid
off right. Yes, it's pretty great flattery Hill. All right, that
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