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Hunter’s Haven: Music Mayhem - Session 0 (A Monster of the Week One-Shot) · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  You.
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  Hello, listeners. I am
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  the narrator.
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  Today's story takes place in the town of Devil's
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  Lake, North Dakota, a small, remote
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  town in the middle of nowhere. The year
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  is 1985. The date,
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  August 19. This tale will bring with
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  it mysteries in intrigue
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  lies, hidden realities, and
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  the blending, uh, of fact from mythos.
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  Join our hunters as they seek out the truth and
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  find those who are missing in today's story
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  of music mayhem.
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  All m right, everybody, we are in for a or you
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  are in for a special treat. We are doing a
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  Monster of the week one shot. Welcome to
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  that for the Halloween 2023
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  season. I am here Skyler. Uh,
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  if you forgot what my name is since last you listened to one of the
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  episodes of any of our other shows. Um, and
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  the cool thing about today is I get to sit
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  behind the player seat while Cameron,
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  who you probably know from The
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  Benders and Brews, he plays Bill Dore,
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  popular character there one of four of our
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  popular characters, I would say. And, uh,
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  he's going to be taking over the reins as the
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  well, it's not really a game master in this game. It's called the Keeper
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  in Monster of the Week. So I'm actually just going to shut up and hand
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  things off to him. And he's going to take things from here for
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  this little session zero we're doing for our
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  campaign. Or one shot.
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  Yeah. Hey, it's me, Cameron, the new keeper.
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  Hey. We kicked Skylar out.
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  Yeah.
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  And brought him back into play. Okay, so we're just going to
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  establish start right now. Um,
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  very simple. We're just going to have each person, one at
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  a time, just give us a brief
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  synopsis of their character, who they are, what they do,
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  how old they are, all that stuff. So we'll start with
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  Skylar.
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  Oh, man. I get to kick things off.
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  All right.
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  Um, yeah, so I'll be playing ah, Kendrick.
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  Kenny. Uh, people call me Kenny. Uh, Whitlock.
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  And, uh uh, I'm kind of
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  a big deal in know, I solved this mystery
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  when I was a kid where, uh, this dog got lost and it was
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  like the mayor's dog. So it was a pretty big deal. And he
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  was freaking out and the town was all up in an uproar. And sure
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  enough, I was the one that was able to sleuth out where this dog
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  was. And, uh, I've kind of been living off of that
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  success ever since. Uh, I'm 28
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  now, and, uh,
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  apparently some people around town think it's a bad look to
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  wear the same exact,
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  uh, detectives, uh, costume that I've been wearing since I was
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  a kid. And, uh, well, my mom's been doing and grandma have been
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  doing a great job just sizing it up
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  as I've grown. But sure enough, it is the very
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  same it's the very same one. Uh, but
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  yeah, I'm a bit of a detective in
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  town uh, like I said, some people love me for it,
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  most people hate me for it. And,
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  uh, yeah, that's the basic gist of, uh,
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  Kenny Whitlock.
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  Kenny Whitlock. All right, next we're going to move
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  on over to Dave, who is a familiar face
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  from, uh, vendors and brews as well.
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  Who are you playing tonight?
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  You all see my face very much.
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  Very often tonight, I'm going to be
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  playing a guy by the name
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  of Dennis Rogers. He's
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  a suburban dad with a bit of a
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  family man. He enjoys
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  bowling, metal detecting, and
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  amateur videography and
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  photography.
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  It's very relatable to me.
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  Outside of the game,
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  I'm not playing sky.
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  Any more. To add about that fun
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  loving guy?
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  Oh, yeah, I'm playing the class. I'm
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  playing the hunter. I'm playing the snoop
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  who's normally like kind of
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  a blog person, vlogger or
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  blogger or a journalist or
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  reporter. Um, I'm playing a less serious
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  version who's just kind of a nosy
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  neighbor, a little bit.
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  Fantastic.
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  The head over the hedge, if you will.
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  There you go.
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  That works like the guy on Tim the Toolman.
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  Exactly.
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  That's what he's going for, actually. That's
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  so great.
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  I don't know if I mentioned I was playing the meddling kid.
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  So we got the playbook meddling kid.
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  Honestly, just name a Scooby Doo
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  character that's the meddling kid.
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  Ah. When they added that expansion,
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  it's like an all encompassing character.
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  Norville.
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  Yes.
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  Eddie Norville or what was it?
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  Something norville Rogers not norville
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  possibly related.
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  Yeah, we'll get the relationship.
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  Sure.
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  And then last is a new voice to the podcast.
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  Uh, it's Emily, my wife.
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  Sorry.
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  All right, so I'm playing, um, Bobby Eastwood
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  or Bob E for short. I'm playing
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  the crooked. I just like to steal stuff, which
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  isn't very far off.
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  Okay, fine.
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  Fact.
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  Um, yeah, so that's my bet. That's all I
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  got.
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  That's all you got?
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  Backstory. We spent, like, a long time writing last
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  night, but I feel like turned out really well.
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  Wait, is Bobby a girl or a boy?
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  Bobby is a girl, but
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  you get more respect with a man's name.
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  She her.
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  She her bobby.
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  Bobby. Local gang of Ray
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  members.
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  You get those interviews from the local ice cream
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  parlor. If you put Bob E on
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  your.
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  Resumes, they can't back out once they've already called me
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  up.
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  That's right. Then they just have to deal with you in.
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  Um,
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  you three we briefly talked about before we started recording. How do you
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  three know each other? Yes.
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  So each one of our characters on our character sheet, they
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  have sort of like a history section. For those of you that are unfamiliar with
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  Monster of the Week, that kind of outlines some
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  possibilities of how you might be able to know each other
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  to kind of help kick things off when you jump into things.
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  I know. Cameron, you joked know, like in Dungeons and Dragons,
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  the closet. You all meet in a tavern but with
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  Monster of the Week, they want to kind of define those relationships a little
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  bit more closely, if possible. Not saying that you can't start
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  off that way, but, um, it definitely kind of helps to
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  know your character or have your characters know each
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  other from the get go. Uh, especially when you're going to be hunting a
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  monster together.
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  That's true.
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  Uh, one of the things that mine mentioned was
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  that somebody I'm related to is a cousin,
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  aunt, or uncle or something like that. And
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  Dave, when Dave was discussing his character, I got
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  real, uh, intense uncle vibes from
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  Denny. So I feel like it makes sense
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  if Dave you're cool with that? Uh, to have
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  Kenny, uh, call Denny his
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  uncle.
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  Well, how old is your character?
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  Oh, yeah, that's a good question.
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  My character is 44 years
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  old.
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  That could work.
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  I feel like that could work.
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  Or as old as you need me to.
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  Old sibling.
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  Yeah, that's true.
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  One of our friends nephews is
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  as.
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  Old as everyone else is. Almost as I was going to say.
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  My nephew's older than me.
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  One of, um, them Robertson and Zach.
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  Yeah, they're like five years,
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  you know, things like adoption and whoever
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  else knows, they kind of throw a loop into the
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  typical family setting. Not that there's anything wrong with.
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  Yeah, awesome. And then the only other one that I
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  really had was, uh, it said school
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  friends. Uh, I put Bob
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  e. Uh, but I don't feel like we necessarily were friends, just
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  like, given the backstory. I do know as Skyler
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  from outside.
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  Of that, just Bob. Wait.
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  Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Oh, yeah, no, I was just going to say,
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  uh, so I just put down school acquaintances. We knew each other from
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  school. Maybe we went to class or something together.
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  So just kind of put that in there.
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  Would any of you guys play the
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  sports ball?
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  Oh, man, I'm just bowling.
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  I tried all sports.
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  I would not be surprised if Kenny maybe
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  played bowling, but he's really not into any other sports.
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  Bowling. Sure. Because it's not like your
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  typical sport.
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  How about Bobby?
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  My, uh, character has no physical talent.
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  So no, I have a know you can put up the
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  bumpers in.
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  Chess club.
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  So, I mean, if that helps you out.
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  Any connection? Yeah, any other connection or do you
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  just know of him?
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  Oh, for me? For reals?
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  We have a good one for you that you picked out.
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  How does Bobby know Dennis?
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  I, uh, tried to steal something from him. I saw it in one of his
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  videos.
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  Yeah.
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  Dave, I think this is a perfect transition to tell us a bit
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  about Denny and his.
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  Oh, uh, yeah, so Denny
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  remembers that day when
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  snapper. Well,
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  he didn't know what it was at first. He heard a noise
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  coming from his backyard,
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  some rummaging around in his storage shed,
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  and he went back there and who was trying
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  to pry the prized hood ornament off of
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  his lawnmower.
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  But Bob E
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  trying to what would it
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  be? A, uh, very shiny rock,
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  possibly gold.
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  And he just put it on his.
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  Mower and he wrote about
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  it in the paper and submitted it
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  into his semi regular
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  article or feature called Denny's
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  Digs where
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  Denny reports
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  about his metal detecting finds.
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  That's one of his big hobbies. He likes to do
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  that on his breaks at the lumber mill.
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  He's already out in nature a bit, so he just sees what
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  he can find.
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  That's amazing.
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  Uh, and he also records the whole
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  thing or tries to. Half the time
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  he doesn't get the record button quite
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  right. A little bit of a trick to it. It's a new
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  camera. We're working things out here.
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  Uh, for anybody that might be curious, uh,
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  about what we're playing in that
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  would allow for a newspaper that does a
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  weekly bit on somebody's metal detecting funds. We will get to
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  that here in a moment when we talk about the setting
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  of this campaign or this one shot. But real
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  quick, Bob E, uh,
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  do you have a specific connection outside of what
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  I already listed or it could just be the same thing with Kenny.
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  Based on what's? School acquaintances. Works both
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  ways.
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  That's fine. I mean, yeah, if you acquainted me. I acquainted
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  you.
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  All right, fair enough.
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  Who acquainted the other more?
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  I, uh, kicked your backpack in the hallway once or twice.
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  I was just going to ask.
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  I was going to say what was.
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  Our relationship at the school, but I think that answers
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  plenty. I think, uh, there's probably a two way street
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  of
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  ah, well, I don't like Bobby. She's always kicking
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  my bangs.
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  Well, if Kenny's any similar to
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  takes their backpack all the time, it's probably a fast friend.
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  Now at this point, we haven't gotten there yet.
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  We haven't gotten we'll
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  be fine during this
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  redemption story.
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  Yeah, the crooked being a hero is already set up for the
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  natural redemption story before. But I think
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  for the most part that's everything to set up. Your
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  guys'characters, how you guys know each other? Other than that, it's
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  just the world that we're going to be in. I'm, uh, going to quick
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  establish it here since it's session zero. But
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  this all takes place in a little town in North
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  Dakota called Devil Lake. It's, uh, a very small town,
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  about 70 00, 60 00 70 00 people.
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  It's a real place, mind you. That's pretty cool if you're
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  listening from but before anyone's like, oh,
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  cool, real place. Did he look it up and find out fun
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  places there? No, I did not. I just liked the name,
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  saw the population, said, ah, perfect small town,
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  but big enough that it has some size. Sure would have some
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  local stuff to it, like a local newspaper, blah, blah, blah.
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  Right.
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  It's also like the 6th biggest city in north
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  Dakota, which isn't big bragging point, considering
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  it's North Dakota. But that's where we're going to be in
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  for this world we're, uh, going to drop all our characters
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  in. I don't know where we're going
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  to start, you guys. We'll figure that out. But now we all know how you guys
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  know each other.
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  You're not going to drop us in the lake?
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  The Devil's Lake.
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  Not this time. Not this time. Okay.
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  But, uh, yeah, we'll just drop you guys right in there in North Dakota.
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  The high school football.
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  Ah, man, not this again.
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  But, uh, yeah, other than that. This is
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  the end of session zero. We will see you guys in
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  the first episode.
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  Well, it seems you managed to survive this
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  episode of Hunter's Haven Music Mayhem.
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  Congratulations. We hope you enjoyed
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  this tentalisingly terrifying one
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  shot series as we at Session Zero
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  Heroes play through a game of Monster of the
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  Week led by keeper Cameron
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  Hogandyke. We want to thank you for stopping
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  by and hope that you'll continue to support
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  us and our channel by checking out some of our other
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  shows where we play other tabletop role playing
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  we jump into the world of Avatar The Last
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  Airbender using the Avatar Legend system.
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  don't miss out on our upcoming Dungeons and Dragons series,
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  Criminals of Island Numis, I'd
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  like to say a quick thank you and shout out to the incredibly
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  talented Simon Jones, who created the music for
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  this series, which you're hearing right now, as well
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  as during the intro. If you would like to get your own custom
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  Girls.com, we hope our episode today gave you
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  the spooky vibes that you're looking for this Halloween
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  season. Scare you next time.