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Will Mass. Hey, everyone, and welcome to Authors and Dragons side Quest,
the every other week non game where we do various things, including sometimes
talk about games. And there's no coincidence that I'm mentioning that, because uh,
tonight we're gonna we're gonna take a look back on our soon to be
finished game, Salty Bastards. My name is for Quilterion. Joining me today
are Steve Weatherall and Robert Bevin. Hey, guys, Hello, Hello.
I should just point out this is technically not a side quest. This is
a Salty Bastards interlude. We don't have many professional standards, right, we
got to keep it. Just forget about that introduction, like, oh,
no, I'm not changing it. I mean I don't care that. No,
no, I'm not telling you to change and tell people at home to
forget about it. What I go said, yeah, and I said interlude,
you do the edit in your mind, I'm not doing it and you
think I am. Yeah, we're we've come to the end of It's weird.
What Salty Bastards was always kind of I guess we just did it as
a little palate cleanser because we've been doing the main game for so long,
but because we only ever did it monthly, and because we just kind of
like put it down and come back to it now and then a good couple
of years. I mean, this has gone through Free States. We've toured
this bad Boy, Nashville, Charlotte, Portland. Yeah, we brought Jawserer
to all those fine places, with some in between, which I firmly mit
a good deal of that was like my fault. I kind of burnt out
last year after we did like it, after we did one game and it
was just like I couldn't wrap my head around dming. You know, it
happens. That's why I never started. But yeah, but yeah, Salty
Bastards started off. It was supposed to be just kind of like you know,
a you know, a short, a short thing Brian Moss, you
know, just to take a look behind the scenes. Was basically based off
of you know, the Salt Marsh, with everything radically changed, with everything
radically changed, because uh, you know, I made that mistake with Toriga,
and it wasn't making that mistake again. Yeah, yeah, fuck with
it. You called it a and I forgot how you how you introduced it
a palette cleanser. But I thought of it more like we we thought one
game isn't enough. We want to grow, we want to expand, and
then we took on a little bit more than we could chew. Yeah,
I think we forgot we're all massively disorganized and incompetent. That was the problem.
Well, here's here's the thing. It's not even the disorganization, but
also the characters quickly caught on and became iconic A and D characters like uh,
like, I mean, come on, it was only a few games
in We're like, you know, suddenly suddenly Jorcerer is are like you know,
is uh is one of our flagship characters. It was an overnight sensation,
which when you consider how we came up with the characters, because I
remember this, this was back in a Q and A ages ago, I
thinking maybe like second third season now, like, what kind of backup characters
do they have? I don't know, Stan Dandy lever Bev, I don't
know jaucer or a sorcerer. It's like, that's stupid, We'll never do
that. Yeah, and then uh and then like another class. Drew's metallic
exam which pretty much was like I've always felt, was his revenge against inflicting
him with silas. I think Drew for the entire campaign. In fact,
I think, and this wouldn't be beyond Drew, I don't think that the
entire campaign was just his plan to say fuck you guys for a change,
just to put the boot on the other foot and kick you with the balls
of it. Just blow off some steam because you don't come up a happy
man, doesn't come up with metallic as am. But I love I love
the fact that you guys stayed on the rails until you got off the ship.
Like for those of you are familiar with Salt Marsh, there's a lot
of political intrigue where you get there and you're supposed to be dealing with like
the townsfolk and like the factions and stuff. And my plan was to follow
that loosely Throughick. I felt so sorry for you in that courtroom scene.
You clearly set up all these options for us. We were like so many
options. Let's set fire to the court house. Well it became so here's
the thing, Like after a while, it just became a flick, this
running joke. Like when you got off the ship, there was this there
was this quagmire of like you found out that you were transporting slaves. But
it was like there was like a test to like you know, to test
your loyalty with the town. But it was like sanctioned and you guys basically
sunk the ship, murdered the slaves, killed everybody on board, and from
from there on it and it basically it was almost like it was almost like
a challenge to me of like okay, let me give you guys moral quandaries
and see you make the absolute worst decisions possible. It was a classic example
of how good intentions can go drastically wrong if you don't have any plan or
I guess coordination. But yeah, it was just immediately Rick would put his
in a moral quandary, and even metallic exam or col would just immediately murder
something. That's like as a solution, like I'd be dropping hints to cal
like you know, you're supposed to be lawful, good and this and this
is the law. He doesn't carried high ship. He doesn't know what's kind.
I gotta I gotta say what watch watching Joe cut loose as cal was
like especially kind of like you know, he was playing straight man for like
so long as as Borg was. It was just it was just hilarious to
watch it was. I do think it was a good team. I think
we have a mean metallic as them. We've all got a real talent for
coming up with stupid names and brilliant characters. I don't know what you're talking
about. I did again, I don't know what it is. I don't
know how you manage this Bevan that everybody understood what Joys for the Saucer was
like as soon as you opened your mouth. I don't think they even needed
to see the character art work. Just like I don't know. It just
it's like you spoke him into being. There was a certain there was a
certain brilliance of like, you know, looking at the game board and you
all have hero Forge characters, but then there's georcer Is like talking that's a
yeah, that's the spirit of Doorser. Fuck that. I'm not doing all
that effort. I'm gonna try this character. Bastards was like a live action
performance. It'd be like one of those sixties Disney movies where one of the
characters is animated Pete's dragon, but it's jawser. Yeah, it was needlessly
chaotic. But and it just didn't stop either. It's like it just immediately
pedaled to the metal. Oh yeah, there was really no down times in
uh in Salty Bastards, there was always like, yeah, you're right.
It was like from from one bit of chaos to the next, and driven
entirely by by by by you guys just being completely unrelenting. I always for
that. So I'm playing a rogue, got so much intrigue and diplomacy.
If only ever had like five minutes between murders to actually think of a plan.
And it probably wasn't It definitely wasn't help because like, I don't know,
I guess I come from some kind of George R. R. Martin
school where like, you know, even like you know, even like the
good normal peasants all have this dark underbelly. Like it's like a Stephen King
novel where like you're reading it and like and and like every kindly old uncle
is a pedophile, like you knows, well, that's good. That means
you feel less guilt when they inevitably get caught in the crossfire. And that
one guard you guys killed, he didn't. Ah, well he was there
wrong place, wrong time, which just happened to be every place and time
we were a present. Well, so so what so what were some of
what were some of what were some of your guys? Like, I guess
most fun moments. I think when I when I rolled really well to convince
that that character, I reminded him of his dad. It's like I tried
to like pull a few diplomacy moves throughout the game most and blew up immediately
in my face. I didn't call what im just snapped his neck. It
just kind of like I was really convincing this guy dying of a heart attack.
I was appealing to his to his paternal absence in his life. What
am I over? And then yeah, alphons just came abide in the style.
My favorite was the courtroom. Yeah. I had this this big escape
plan worked out in my head, and I fucked it up every step of
the way. But somehow going one step forward, all right, I want
to cast this spell. You don't have any components, ship I need a
little bit of iron. Can I bite my arm and get some blood?
Okay, but you're gonna take damage five? All right, the spell works.
I forget what the spell was or what I wanted to do with it.
Yeah, all right. We never figured out I was able to escape
my bonds that way. See, I don't yeah, I don't remember,
like I was going to go, I was gonna go take a hostage and
that, you know. I forgot what happened then, But that absolutely did
not work. No. All I remember is I think it was Joe saying,
hold me close to tiny jawcer, and that just haunting my dreams for
a while. Yeah, I think I'd tried a couple of diplomacy moves.
It rarely worked out, but because I liked playing something other than a monk,
because I had a couple more options because Stan was swashbuckler slash barred,
so I got to play with a few magic spells and casting minor illusion,
which I thought was just kind of a crap spell. But you can have
a lot of fun with it in game because you can basically make anything appear.
In my case, it was georstra Are taking his shit twice in both
instances where I used it. It worked perfectly. They were quite rightfully distracted
and horrified by this image I had conjured of Jostra taking a shit on the
floor. It was the most possibly the most tactical thing I've ever done in
games. It's well plays with myself. I remember like about halfway through the
game I was I reached out the bop and I was like, hey,
Bob, what's like Georgier's backstory? And you gave it to me, and
I was pretty much just like, yeah, fuck it, you got these
cousins who are coming after you. That was a surprise turnout. That was
Charlotte. I think live those guys dropped, so I think people listening to
the audio they didn't experience the the graphic unveiling of the Jocerah family, which
was a shame. It was a sight to be old should have been there.
Electric in the moment, as I said, I kind of I kind
of burnt out last year and just all all over like I dropped out of
like the other game I was playing, and I needed I needed like a
mental break. But the real the reality is I had, like I had
a lot of a lot of fun dming this game because you guys. You
guys very much did keep me on my toes. So every game I came
in with a whole ship ton of maps, being like, okay, I
might need one of these. Keep you ad your toes. Drew went into
that game with the sole aim of destroying you, Rick. I'm convinced kick
damage. I just loved his solution to like I said, the slave ship
coming up from below, burning a hole through the bottom and sinking it,
drowning all the down. He did stop the slave ship, Oh yeah,
just you know, just resting on the curses of a lot of slaves,
I guess. But oh well, it was a victory of sorts. I
think that's one of the main things I'm going to regret about Salty Best is
coming to the coming to its end, is we never really sat Metallic and
zammed down and said, what is your fucking deal man? Any position him
to do that? I love I love the fan theory that was out there
that that Metallica exam is some future incarnation of Silas reimplanting a robot body.
Because I'm I'm sure Drew had a backstory for the guy. He kept hinting
at things that were quite intriguing that he was he was sent there by the
Crown. But no, I guess we'll never know unless it all comes blurting
out in the final episode. Like it it's just the final episode, it's
just forty minutes of Metallica. Sam And said, well, I was I
was born a poor robot to a human family. Oh that would be creative.
Like the final episode is just a forty minute melt Metallica zam like soliloquy,
you're six seconds in this battle? Are up? You know that?
Right? Ah? Yeah, who knows how it's going to end? I
mean I do looking forward? Well, no, no, I don't,
because who the fuck knows? You guys are Yeah, never know what's going
to happen. Rick, your best laid plans of d MS full to ashes
at the feet of a bizarre psychotic robot and his pedophile friend. Oh my
god, I put so much work into like those various townsfolk and stuff.
There was like like I mean, in our to our credit, we did
interact with them all. Yeah, we touched them. Like there was actually
a backstory, and since we probably going to get to it, I can
just tell it. There was a backstory where if you guys hadn't just ruined
everything and become like outlaws and become like wanted wanted men. There was this
essentially a backstory that was going to be That was it. God, I
forgot what I called them most like the Licka the way of the Sloth,
who were basically the temple of the many fists, like arch enemies of like
pretty much a bunch of guys who like just believed in taking over the world
in the laziest fucking way possible. I could get behind that. They were
they will they will. They were infiltrating down and since you guys weren't there
to stop them, my assumption is eventually they won. Eventually they got round
to it. I guess playing along Gay the last one, the last member
of our opposition, finally died of old age, so I guess that leaves
us victorious. I'm just going to say, we were talking about the possibility
of an A and d Art, but I don't know it's going to happen.
I think some of my favorite art from the last Chronicles of Calamity because
we've done free issues now and when we if you don't know, when we
released these comics on Indiegogo, you can back them. You get perks and
we do post guard art like original art JLD. But the comics are great.
But some of the original art he came up with the characters, it's
fantastic. Yeah, I got to say some of my favorite ones because we'd
already done the main characters twice for we'll do Salty Bastards, and the Salty
Bastards character was pretty sweet. Well, that's the thing. It's like the
ad. The artwork, the original color glamory art was really good. There
was a lot of like browns and grays and like j LD like wet nuts
with the colors, like you know that like like like Metallica Zams is like
blues and stuff I have, like you know, yellows, like all of
them are like super bright and like and cheery despite the fact that they're like
the hint of disturbing to all of them. Yeah, oh and speak speaking
of the comic. One thing I tried, I tried to do sprinkle in
as a DM was I was taking like you know, like hues from things
you had written in the comic, like the Kingdom of Zamel things like that,
and making sure that like you know, I mentioned that, so anybody
with like sharp ears, which turned out to be nobody would like would realize,
Okay, these are taking place in the same world you dropped hints,
But I don't know we were moving. I think we were moving too quickly
to ruminate on it as players. I'm sure the listeners have picked up on
it. They're they're pretty good at that sort of thing. Oh my god.
There were so many times I was just like, I can't wait to
tell you guys this character's backstory. Nope, you're busy snabbing them. Well,
like I said, there's a lot of fast paced, decisive characters in
this one. Y very very very much so. And it was it was.
It was a good diverse group with regards to like, you know,
the characters and such. But let's be let's be honest. The personality is
like you know Rand the show. Yeah, they didn't particularly gel well in
overall vision combat wise, if you wanted, like ship destroyed. Pretty effective
group. But yeah, I know we're even going forward to the new games,
we're not. We're not optim players. It's it's more about the personalities.
But you know, I found Salty Masterards be a transitional period for me.
Like going from the original game where Klaus Richter would just pee on something
or masturbate most of the time, you know, part of most of Georgia
or the Sorcerer was a silly name I came up with on the spot and
then yeah, the picture I drew. But while we were moving on to
that game, that's when I started really building up my website and actually educating
myself on a lot of these things. And I was like, well,
you know what, I'm a spellcaster. Now I've been learning about all these
spells. Maybe I should put some effort he and yeah, so I did
try to pick spells that I don't typically use or like, you know,
I picked sleet storm instead of Fireballs, a third level spell, which,
yeah, it was regrettable then, you know, objectively the wrong decision,
but yeah, it was fun for me to try and try some new things
and actually, you know, put a little effort in and I look forward
to more of that. Well, we don't definitely saw the growth because I
remember I remember our very first battle of me asking you what your fucking armor
class was? Where is that? And I'm just like, because like a
quit now that's the feet I don't I'm glad you picked yourcer's spells based on
whether there is a humorous angle to using the spell. Another reason as well,
I tried to pick spells that I could make sound dirty. Yeah.
I don't want to super competent chaucer. That would be no. No,
no, that was never the name. You know, more competent than close.
Yeah, I mean with class, it took you seven years to figure
out how to work impromptly and then figure the last two episodes, you were
like a devastating sniper. Yeah, something you discovered, like, you know,
sneak attack and it was like, it's like class the seventy two damage.
Yeah, what did I discribe? Oh yeah, I figured out how
crossbow Expert works and I was seventy damage? What to his own dick?
What do you mean? What's going on? Yeah? You were mupping up
in the last two episodes. Yeah. I probably could have done that at
anytime. Well then that one, it would have been fun. No,
it was a nice reveal. At the end. I was like, how
come we haven't done this before? I was hoping you'd all die. I
had the thing there. It took him, It just took him that long
to sober Uh, seven years later. That's how this crossbow works. He's
finally not seeing two of everything. Yeah, I don't know, a very
competent daucer. That's worrying to me. The world doesn't need that. It's
too much, don't worry. Devastatingly effective is not something I want to put
in the same sentence as Jowser at the Saucer. There's some roots that should
not be traveled. I'm looking forward to to playing alongside, like you know,
alongside Grocer as Moog and Stan as well. Well, that's a good
point, I suppose if people have been paying attention, if you're listening to
this and you're not part of our Facebook group or even bear part of our
discord, just fight spoilers. Yeah, there's some spoilers. Well, the
arts out there now, and it is very good art, so we haven't
seen it yet. Get on the Facebook or even better still, get on
the discord, give us money, get exclusives, hang out, stop being
lame, and yeah, we've done some artwork in preparation for the new game.
We can't tell you spoiler spoiler that for the end, and so best
as I get or possibly not, anything can happen in a world of wild
Magic. There will be a couple of returning characters. We shall be seeing
Moog Face Etera from QFC, who last you saw was murdering a princess with
an exploding rock. I believe we will be seeing the return of Jawcera and
Di Storcerer and Stan Dandiliver over what shape they will be in and what has
happened to him remains to be seen. And we'll also be seeing a returning
character for James fans. If you've been wondering what Claudia, a Lady of
Layers is up to, we shall see. And Drew will be joining us
with a brand new character you've never seen before, so be excited for that.
Be curious to see. If he's even more nihilistic than Metallic Exama.
Then years have just made him more bitter. Yeah, Gibby's got to be
dming. As far as I know, Gibby hasn't done anything to piss you
off yet, But maybe you'll just come in with another fucking matter robot shaped
one. This just walks in there. He's just eating a small child.
Like Drew spends all this time being a nice guy. He needs a he
needs a release now and then yeah, so dicey bastards. We don't have
a start that yet. But I guess in the spring watch for our coming
I should have said no, maybe you shouldn't have said that. No,
No, I probably shouldn't have too much. People deserve better for me.
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna miss the town of uh of of Brian Moss.
But uh yeah, what's left, what's left of it? But at
the at the end of the day, it didn't quite go out that way.
But I was thinking if we went into a second season, it would
be more of like, it would be more centered around the Hall of Flesh
and the Dare I say, fleshing out that a little bit more? But
you've already ruined that part. Perhaps it's for the best. The Adventures a
five Man who lived in a pain of shaped tower, Well, I didn't
get to ruin it in the way I wanted to. No, that would
be that I'm kind of grateful I got it. Rick. We didn't ask
you what was your standout moment of the campaign? That that little side adventure
where you guys were underwater. Yeah, the giant the giant toilet because you
have the toilet shark that that was that that that that was That was a
lot of fun because it was pretty much like you know, the town was
just like, okay, we we have we have a job for you,
and if you die, that's okay. Yeah, this was our chance to
ingratiate ourselves with the towns folk. Didn't work out that way obviously. Look,
yeah, that was a good one. That was unusual and unexpected monster
to be fighting. No one came out of that one clean. But as
I said, there was like, you know, like it was it was
fun for me just like you know, just seeing where you were every week
and just like just trying to bring enough stuff with me for each game.
So you guys had plenty of paths to like, you know, to choose
from, you know, trying to have some of the NPC's guide you slowly
on rails and then immediately like jumping the tracks and going off in a different
direction. You're like, all right, let's see what let's see what happens
here. I don't think it helped that we took an immediate dislike to every
MPC we came across. Pink Slip, for example. I don't know what
John's problem with pink Slip is, but he was determined to murder that For
a man, I maintained Pink Slip was the victim here, so I was
like, hey, here's this WACKYNBC I came up, but we were like,
nah, that's kidding. It was one of the the most memorable NPC
was everyone like Pink Slip, but a difficult voice to do for a long
time. I should imagine, yeah, and what what what's what sucks is
I don't know if I can do that voice again because I had I wound
up with with COVID at the beginning of the year, and afterwards my voice
I can't get my voice to go up that high anymore. So maybe so
maybe it's maybe, maybe it's for the best. Ah, it would be
a shame if we don't get to see John murdered at frog Man. We
really didn't have a reason to dislike that guy as much as we did.
But then again, I don't think there was a single NPC we met who
we didn't try to kill, So I guess that's just a breaks he was.
It's funny. He was probably the only NBC who really didn't have a
deep, dark secret. I mean, he was just he was basically essentially
the coun sleeve, and you just like should have been started immediately kicking him.
Everybody else is a lackey doing his job. We're like, fuck this
guy. But yeah, I definitely Georgia R. Martin a lot of the
MPCs, or it's every time you'd meet somebody and you'd like, you'd get
in good with them, and then they'd be like, yeah, well you
know, it's like, hey, let's let's let's let's go and set orphans
on fire now. So I just like it almost became a running joke,
like giving you guys those moral quandaries of like, you know, you could
go this direction and it's bad, or you could go this direction and it's
worse, and then watching you guys pretty much choose the far worst option.
You don't know what worse means. I'll show you how bad this can get.
Ah, Yeah, they feel bad. There was a lot of intrigue
around, and we were very much about fuck that intrigue, let's kill this
NPC. But you know, we progressed as free again one dead bureaucrat time
until we were I don't think we met anyone significantly more awful than we are
until Joser's family ambush just I think it was a whiter the fighter. It
was like, oh dad, I was coming up with very with various rhymes
there, and I came up with that one. I was like, that's
awful. I kind of yeah, yeah, you can't sleep on there.
It's like, what's worse than Jocer about Jostra if he was a white supremacist
and like and of course, like I'm pretty sure the Discord came up,
like I think if I called the discord came up with the idea of Gizzard
the Wizard. Now I saw I saw that. I saw that on the
Discord, and I was like, at one point, I was like,
I gotta make that a reality. Jesus the Wizard. Oh god, there's
a name to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies. Yeah. I
had a whole list that I was going through. It was I was like,
no, okay, most of which didn't make it. It was like,
okay, there was one of them was going to be Queaf the Thief,
Queaf the Faith. Oh man, you should have kept that one to
yourself. We could build an entire franchise around Neverick. Oh man. Oh
that's that was a missed opportunity, something you gotta put on the back burner
in case you need them later. Queeth on the back burner. Yeah,
with a lad in his trunk. Not only doesn't that scan well, but
it's all it makes me feel sad. Yeah, I guess. I suppose
like with the Chronicles of Calamity reaching its conclusion, the Jane's wrapped up,
QFC has wrapped up. This is the last, I guess of the the
OG games until we go into the new season. So it's uh, I've
enjoyed the Solly best it is. It was always the kind of I guess.
It was just kind of a nice break from playing the same characters.
Much as I enjoyed playing Brandon Firemester because it's a very easy stick to work
with. It was nice to try something a bit different. Well. The
other thing is is like with with Chronicles, with Clamoring, we were always
we were doing island hopping for so long there. So that's why I kind
of wanted to give you like one locale to let you know, to uh,
to center the game in, to destroy, to immediately excel us.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. My thought was eventually you'd like, you know,
become part of the town or so, yeah, I didn't think that
went threw very welcome. No, that was that was never gonna happen.
But yeah, I think we kind of like I look back on the Chronicles
Calamity and like some of our seasons were like twenty thirty episodes long. Just
when you think about like the Island of Champions and the the Animal Island,
there's a lot going on, and now that's wrapped up, and now that
Souy Beasts is wrapped up, I'm kind of it's I think this is as
redless as I've felt since we started the podcast, and we've never been very
redded as a podcast. So yeah, it'll be interesting to see what Gibby's
got for us. But the next season, I am glad we're bringing back
some some old favorites. Yeah, it gives us some continuity, but also
is like you know, it's also kind of like a fresh start. So
if if any of you know anybody who's like, who's like, I would
really love to listen to authors and dragons, but I don't want to jump
into the middle of like, you know, eighty seven, like you know,
episodes of a game. Tell them no, force them, Well,
this, that this is a good that this is a good place for them
to start and if they want to wet their whistle and chronicle and like what
was it two hundred up? So it's or more of chronicles the limit.
If that's too uh yeah, yeah, if that's too daunting, what is
there like sixteen episodes of Salty Bastards or so that's true? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, you can binge that in a day if you try hard,
if you really hate it yourself, if you really hate so you've got a
long road trip, do that crash your car into a tree? I suppose
yeah, I suppose. Uh, the Salty Bestards we've been running a long
time, but we've been running it quite sporadically. So yeah, there is
only like seventeen episodes. That is quite a nice little introduction. I guess
if you're not immediately put off by Joucera, that's the litmus test. It's
like maybe two minutes in Jocera speaks, and that's when you know if you're
down for it or not. That's when you find out if you're cool with
what we're doing. Yeah, salting is probably a good intro to, like,
you know, the attitude you're going to find on the majority of the
podcast. Yeah, you know, it's like seven seasons of chronics Lambity condensed
down into like a bite sized chunk. Everything we learned over seven years expertly
applied to fuck it up Rick's day. What do you mean you don't know
what your armor classes? Ah, nobody attacks the masturbailing rogue. That's true.
You always had your own sort of personal arm or classic. Yeah,
exciting times. I am sad just as our sad seacron calls of calamity come
to an end. Although it was, you know, inevitable, We've been
leveling up those guys for a while. It was either ended with you know,
potentiality for it to return to it or just keep playing until they became
guards, which would have been terrible. I suppose that would have been terrible
for everyone. Yeah, yeah, and the salty bestards. Again. Sad
to see it ends, but I am having fun with standand Deliver, and
I am uh glad he's going to be appearing in some shape or form in
the next season. Yeah. I'm happy to'd be carrying on a sort of
the Sorcerer. But someday I would like to make a father Moses Lester the
Cleric. Oh no, so youar God, that's out that if I ever
have like a dark patch, you know, if I ever feel like,
man, this is podcast is a lot of work and a lot of effort.
Is it worth carrying on? I'll say to myself yes, because we
need to get to the stage where Bevin can finally unleash the character that's going
to get us arrested. That's what finally gives us that email from like you
know, from Apple Podcast basically saying, you know, it's it's been nice,
but it's not us, it's you. It's a fair assessment. Of
course, that might the one that finally, you know, gets as an
email from Spotify and check for one hundred million, you know, so go
for it. Who knows what the demand is these days, these crazy gen
z is like anything, you know, we completely neglected Dimension. I was
thinking about sadly we don't have a a convention this year. Just it did
not stack up. There was no way we're going to be able to make
it work. We'll probably do maybe a digital convention please do keep posted.
But yeah, I think it was in Charlotte where we had the Marcher of
the Jawcerers, which might be the most horrible thing I've ever seen, but
it was like heartwarm in a heartwarming way. Oh yeah, yeah, I
didn't know what to make of it. I get back from eating lunch and
there's two dozen of the Sorcerers there the lobby staring at me. There is
a photo of you. Somebody took a photo of that exact moment, and
you do look like you're not sure if you're awake. It's like, oh
god, it's happened. I've like stepped into the game world. This is
my punishment, O, my sinse of comeback. But no, that kind
of kind of brings back to what I was saying. It's like, you
know, it's like, you know, comparative impartively speaking, It's like the
characters of Salty Bastards became iconic to the podcast really quickly. It's like it's
like when you adopted a dog and you're not sure if it's going to fit
in, and like you know, it immediately, just like you know,
walks in and makes itself at home and you're like, okay, yeah this
works. Immediately walks in, it takes a ship on the floor. Yeah,
I don't know where you're coming from. If all the rest of the
family are shitting on the floor, then that kind of like fits in.
Yeah, I think we were saying this because we hadn't played the game obviously,
QFC, he's been running for a while, so we've been leaning into
that. We hadn't played as either Chronicles a Clammy or Salty Bastards for about
six seven months, and we started playing the penultimate episode, and it was
like putting on a well worn glove. It was It's just so easy to
roll into and bounce off each other. I guess just because we've been doing
it for actually, I wouldn't even say that we've been doing it for a
while, but I think we started bouncing off each other really easily about maybe
ten episodes in twelve episodes in it's always felt really fucking easy. Yeah,
to make stupid jokes with you guys, But yeah, hoppen into that Salty
episode. I mean, there was the problem the fact that that like what's
it roll twenty had updated like three times since the last time you played.
It was like, what the fuck the dollars do now? But technical issues
are not new to others and dragons, But yeah, it was literally was
like it was like hopping on a bike. How quickly the like, you
know, the the banter just like started flying again. Yeah, it's not
like we yeah, we haven't been playing a game or whatever, but we
have been doing like, you know, side quests, and that's true.
Other thing, it's not like, you know, the first time we've spoken
in six months. Yeah, but it was just nice to be playing absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah, we work well together in a way that specifically we
don't work well together. It's like a clown car, you know, it
doesn't work like a real car, but it's great if you're if you're fifty
clowns in a car. This is terribly Also, when we're awful in a
fantasy game, there's the plausible deniability of that. Yeah, it's well,
the magic and mystery, it's abound to be some humorous fuck ups. A
little harder to back pedal when we're just awful in a side quest. Yeah,
we don't have the the veneer of characters to high behind when people figure
out we're just actually awful. No, I'm just playing Rick Qualtery. You
know, if we'd thought this in the lude through, and we didn't,
we would have asked the discord people for some questions specific to the bestards.
That would have been nice, but we didn't do that. But we will
be taking questions in future games, so you know, keep on writing them
in the Facebook. Give you following us on the Facebook. Keep on writing
them the discord if you're better than everyone else and following is on page.
Yes, the question threads will be will be returning because you know, first
of all, they're fun. They're a chance to like, you know,
the chance to touch base, but like you know, with with with all
you guys out there listening and stuff, and they're a chance for us to
sometimes take an innocuous question and just really run it completely off the fucking rails.
And if you've listened to our question threads before, you know that's pretty
much when we're best when we just take something innocent and put a cigarette out
in it. Yeah, sometimes the most entertained part of an episode will be
somebody just ask the wrong question. Oh like as it turns out the right
question just to the wrong people. Yep. Yeah, my favorite. My
favorite episodes are when I answer a question and Drew says, well, I
guess we're gonna wrap it up there. We've got to go on a high.
It's good you like my ankle bracelet is like starting to ping here that
question vio Least in terms of the parole, Well, I am excited to
be playing the final episode of Salty Bastards coming soon. Yes, probably after
you listen to this. The next thing should be our final game. We'll
see what happens to the characters, if they make it out live, if
they make out with all the limbs, if they make it out the same
shape as they started. Yeah, it's been a blast, and yeah,
I've really enjoyed throwing Stan into the chaos. Our last blast is coming soon.
Oh no, well, at least I don't have to think of an
episode title now that I don't think I'm showing up for the for the finale.
And of course you know we're not. No one's dying, We're not
going away. We'll be starting a brand new season DMD by the one and
only Mk Gibson, who's proven his worth in QFC Quest for Confidence. And
also if you haven't listened to it, because it did go past people's radars
a little bit, the Christmas Special and Battle Royale, we did go have
a search for those in the archives They were a lot of fun. Yeah,
there's some old favorites returning there. You finally get a chance to basically
see Klaus versus Silas, just the standoff we've all been waiting for. That
was. That was a lot of fun. Yeah, go check that out.
I have you missed it? That was I think it was about a
free part we did just a little bonus one. Yeah. Yeah, and
that was a Christmas special as well, or holiday special if you're American,
and hopefully you're not drinking to Steve with the whole nobody's dying, because you
know, that would be just that would be just our luck. It's like,
you know, the Salty Masters family is just so fucking hilarious that one
of us just drops it on camera. I can't guarantee it won't happen,
but nor can I guarantee it will. That would be much more sinister and
probably get the arrested. Yeah, so everybody stay tuned. It's going to
be fantastic finale. Oh, you know, amusingly disappointing either way. And
then soon after that, something new, but with the the same old dickheads
you hopefully enjoy and love. Something wicked. This week comes Bed I really
shouldn't use that last word. No, No, you're just setting yourself up.
You should know better. Bye, never should, but I don't.
All right, well we'll wrap up there. This was just a check in,
say hi and pay attention. Hold our wonder coming as always. Yes,
please do behold on one and thank you and thank you all for tuning
in and uh, you know all of you who have been cheering along and
having a good time with salty bastards. It was. It was a lot
of fun. Stop not dying. I feel like one of us has to
die now. Just jeez, look at me. I'm like the oldest one.
Yeah, but you know, while we're looking at you, the rest
of us have made terrible life choices, so could be anyone find out the
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