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22 Panels... No More! #14: DIE rpg · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:02
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, Jesus, my back hurts.
• 0:05
  Tad Eggleston: And my head hurts, and 900-some-odd episodes, what the hell?
• 0:10
  Tad Eggleston: Phil, I quit.
• 0:12
  Tad Eggleston: I quit, Phil. I quit.
• 0:15
  Tad Eggleston: We're done. No more 22 Panels.
• 0:18
  Phil: Well, guess that means we are playing DIE. This is…
• 0:24
  Phil: This is where, unfortunately, Tad's back pain is, not as fictitious as we would prefer. You know, he is sitting in a different room of what I can only.
• 0:35
  Tad Eggleston: No, same room, I'm just in bed, and I have.
• 0:38
  Tad Eggleston: like, I put a,
• 0:40
  Tad Eggleston: I have my blankets and stuffed animals turned into, like, a nest to hold my backup nicely.
• 0:48
  Phil: Nice, yeah. I… our couch right now has been, lacking in terms of lumbar support, so I have also been, like.
• 0:56
  Phil: stuffing varieties of pillows, back there to make it more comfortable, you know, until it's time to lay down in bed, so I get that. I also, if you ever need
• 1:05
  Phil: I'll have to send you a picture of… we have an object in our house that we jokingly refer to as MegaDesk, but it's, like, a giant pillow that is a desk. So, like, if you… if you were sitting in bed, you can sit it around you, and it's stable enough to, like, rest a computer on and, like, have a little typing desk.
• 1:23
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, nice.
• 1:24
  Phil: Your cats will be intensely confused by it.
• 1:27
  Tad Eggleston: I do have, I have, like.
• 1:29
  Tad Eggleston: a raised portable desk, so that's what I'm using.
• 1:34
  Phil: It's… it's like a… it's like a foamed version of that.
• 1:38
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 1:39
  Phil: Yeah, so it's, it's, you know, feels… if it… we… we joke of, it's… it's really locking in, because, like, you can't… it's a whole process to get in and out of, you know? It's not…
• 1:49
  Tad Eggleston: Gotcha.
• 1:50
  Phil: Not for the faint of desk.
• 1:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, no. Send me a picture, or better still, a link to where to buy it.
• 1:57
  Phil: I… it was a gift, so it'll…
• 1:59
  Tad Eggleston: We'll start with a picture.
• 2:00
  Phil: And we'll go from there.
• 2:01
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 2:03
  Phil: Alright, there we go. So, with that, we're gonna start with, a little bit of persona generation, since, we do have our full, full For Now crew.
• 2:14
  Phil: And you know, we'll have a little bit… little bit of time to… to warm up to the game. So our question today is, for all of our personas.
• 2:25
  Phil: What was…
• 2:26
  Phil: their relationship with their parents like, and what was their relationship with God, or gods, or organized religion, however you'd want to interpret that. What was that like, growing up versus now, if there's any differences?
• 2:40
  Phil: Did anyone want to lead off?
• 2:43
  Phil: I can lead off. I can lead it off with Gary and was… a,
• 2:49
  Phil: So he was dragged to church his whole life, and in high school, when you all, knew him, he was going through an angsty goth phase where he was, over-aggressively atheist, but
• 3:05
  Phil: it was kind of all opposer sort of attitude, because he'd had religious experiences that, he never told anyone about, and kind of was in denial of. So that was a very confusing, agnostic adulthood, but, you know, kind of the sprinkled-in, seasonings of a peppery atheism.
• 3:29
  Lee Woods: I think Wilhelm… in regards to his relationship with God.
• 3:35
  Lee Woods: grew up with a sort of Judeo-Christian god.
• 3:39
  Lee Woods: He definitely attended church.
• 3:42
  Lee Woods: I think he's a pretty stout believer.
• 3:47
  Lee Woods: Although… His… he stopped attending once his grandfather died, which…
• 3:54
  Phil: Jeez.
• 3:54
  Lee Woods: For him, his main, sort of, relationship was with his grandfather.
• 4:00
  Lee Woods: So, I think he stopped going, but he's still very devout in that way.
• 4:08
  Lee Woods: In terms of his relationship with the parents.
• 4:12
  Lee Woods: I think his relationship is, like, good. It's not great, but not…
• 4:18
  Lee Woods: Bad?
• 4:19
  Lee Woods: I just… His relationship with his grandfather is what really sort of blossomed with him.
• 4:26
  Phil: Gotcha, okay, so…
• 4:28
  Phil: Did he… did his grandfather raise him, or was it just, like, a really strong, family connection?
• 4:34
  Lee Woods: Take a very strong family connection.
• 4:37
  Phil: Gotcha, okay. So that's a good…
• 4:40
  Phil: It's a good distinguishment right there.
• 4:45
  Phil: Okay, that… I'm… it's… it's definitely not… not ready for it now, but, I feel like at some point we're gonna need an echo of Willie's grandfather, of some form or another. So, yeah, that one's…
• 4:58
  Phil: That one's right on the table, so if and when that day comes, then feel free to flesh out his character a bit more if you'd like.
• 5:05
  Lee Woods: Sure.
• 5:07
  Phil: Tad or Peter, did either of you guys, have something?
• 5:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I knew.
• 5:19
  Phil: Kind of? We accept, kind of.
• 5:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Alright.
• 5:24
  Phil: 22… 22 Panels is always accepted, kind of.
• 5:27
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know, how is the…
• 5:29
  Tad Eggleston: And tangents, we're good at tangents.
• 5:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: throwing stuff together. I mean, like, I'd put something down, and I was, like, thinking about it as people were talking, and I was, like, throwing some, like, additional details in there, so…
• 5:39
  Phil: gear.
• 5:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Of course, at the same time, I'm building LEGOs.
• 5:43
  Lee Woods: Yeah.
• 5:43
  Lee Woods: Very nice.
• 5:44
  Phil: Both literally and figuratively.
• 5:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah. For religious and,
• 5:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I kind of put the two together. Religious and invita- orientation, sorry, excuse me, stumbling over my words. We… I decided that Lex had a strictly atheist upbringing, really regularly being questioned,
• 6:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Regularly brought to question how things are, how things work, and how… how something might occur.
• 6:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Rather than accept them as, like, some… divine…
• 6:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: happenstance, right? Or, like, looking at, like, you know.
• 6:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: the working of some… some greater deity.
• 6:30
  Peter Eggleston Connor: as far as parents go, I mean, obviously, I think that her parents were a large influence on that, but I also decided that her parents were… were… she was adopted.
• 6:41
  Phil: Oh, cool.
• 6:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No.
• 6:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And they, she has a fairly strong connection with her parents, but…
• 6:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Her parents have not all… are, like, much more,
• 6:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Studious, and a little bit more on the intelligent side, and don't al… haven't always had,
• 7:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: aren't always emotionally vibrant, I would say. Okay. Like, there, so… That,
• 7:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That is what I threw down.
• 7:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's it. I don't have anything else.
• 7:23
  Phil: I, I, it…
• 7:26
  Phil: One of the follow-ups I wanted to ask is, what do the parents think of her husband?
• 7:32
  Phil: But if you don't have an answer to that, then we can wait on it.
• 7:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I will have to get back to you on that one.
• 7:39
  Phil: Right? Okay.
• 7:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't even remember what I've said about the husband.
• 7:43
  Phil: I remember.
• 7:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I knew that she had a husband.
• 7:46
  Phil: I remember that one.
• 7:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: art.
• 7:48
  Phil: and that you were trying for kids, that's the most of what I remember being said about him.
• 7:54
  Phil: For now. So… that's okay, we can come back to it. We can go… this is… this is a good,
• 8:00
  Phil: No, that's a good little seedling here.
• 8:03
  Phil: you know, expect a Luke I Am Your Father moment from Tenny sometime down the line.
• 8:10
  Phil: Kidding. Kidding.
• 8:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Specifically from Kenny, not… Not a message from somebody else.
• 8:20
  Phil: No.
• 8:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No.
• 8:23
  Phil: It will literally be your AI host companion is your father, and that's when you'll know that AI psychosis has found its way to die. More so than it's already present.
• 8:36
  Phil: This leaves… this leaves Tad. What is…
• 8:38
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, so I wrote mine as responses, so can I get a volunteer to be the talk show host, talking to Alan Spectrum about his life, or do I need to play both parts?
• 8:53
  Phil: Mr. Spectrum, would you tell our studio audience here about your life growing up with, in…
• 9:00
  Tad Eggleston: Well, you need to be more specific, you have to ask me about my parents.
• 9:04
  Phil: So what…
• 9:05
  Tad Eggleston: And then you'll need to ask the follow-up about how it was raised, given my answer.
• 9:10
  Phil: Okay.
• 9:11
  Tad Eggleston: And then you can ask me about God. And I should toss out really quickly, I think I've played it this way already, but…
• 9:18
  Tad Eggleston: But I'm… I, like, just put it into my character sheet that my memory is very nonlinear with weird pathways to recall.
• 9:27
  Tad Eggleston: So, don't… don't expect the answers to… to be… That's straightforward.
• 9:32
  Phil: I… I never do with, okay.
• 9:35
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 9:35
  Phil: spectrum. So, we're gonna… I unfortunately…
• 9:39
  Phil: I don't really have any late night hosts. So, for fans of the show Hacks out there, this would be, Alan Spectrum on, Deborah Vance's late night show. It's… it's a really fantastic show if you haven't seen it.
• 9:55
  Phil: I wish I could do an impression of, of Deborah Vance, but, she's gonna ask you, so tell me about your parents.
• 10:02
  Tad Eggleston: Parents.
• 10:04
  Tad Eggleston: My parents died.
• 10:07
  Tad Eggleston: When I was… 6… 7… 17?
• 10:14
  Tad Eggleston: I can't actually remember what… What is time, really?
• 10:22
  Phil: You know, I really…
• 10:26
  Phil: That sounds… that's the most… that's the most Dr. Manhattan answer you could have given, and I love it.
• 10:33
  Tad Eggleston: Dr.
• 10:34
  Phil: What a…
• 10:36
  Phil: How… how did that… how did that affect you growing up, losing your parents at a young age?
• 10:41
  Tad Eggleston: Well… I mean…
• 10:47
  Tad Eggleston: I presume I was sad.
• 10:50
  Tad Eggleston: But I was raised by my grandmother.
• 10:53
  Tad Eggleston: My mom's mom, I think.
• 10:56
  Tad Eggleston: she made really great oatmeal cookies. They had a 2 to 1 to 1 to 1 to 1 ratio of raisins to golden raisins to dried blueberries to dried cherries to butterscotch chips.
• 11:09
  Tad Eggleston: Hmm… Liz, she died a few years ago, I think.
• 11:14
  Tad Eggleston: Unless she's hanging out in one of the libraries or TV rooms.
• 11:21
  Phil: Okay, so… What did your grandmother teach you about religion, then? What did, she take you to church?
• 11:29
  Tad Eggleston: I don't remember if I did much
• 11:34
  Tad Eggleston: with grammar and religion, but God's an interesting…
• 11:40
  Tad Eggleston: thing, and I've spent some time with it. I mean, Jesus, Jesus is very comforting, and Buddha is, is, is super cool.
• 11:51
  Tad Eggleston: Muhammad is very misunderstood and severely underrated, and Moses and Ganesha are total badasses. And then Pythagoras, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Einstein, and Feynman, they make everything make sense. So, I mean…
• 12:10
  Tad Eggleston: I think that God… God is… God is understanding.
• 12:15
  Tad Eggleston: God is… is… is…
• 12:23
  Tad Eggleston: Everything and nothing all at once.
• 12:33
  Phil: I mean, that's… It's fantastic. That's great. That is… that is,
• 12:40
  Phil: is the most I could ever ask for, you know, where it's just…
• 12:42
  Tad Eggleston: it?
• 12:44
  Tad Eggleston: It seems short and compact.
• 12:47
  Tad Eggleston: But okay.
• 12:51
  Phil: Oh, and that's where I, I unfortunately broke before, before Tad there, so, so yeah.
• 12:57
  Phil: I thought… I thought he was done, but no, that was good. That was…
• 13:01
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I took that as you… you hadn't said Alan Spectrum, everybody, when we come back…
• 13:08
  Phil: Right? This is now, it's… because, of course, Debra would have something witty and mean to say, and I don't have the heart to channel that right now, but I'm just imagining David Letterman, like, being completely lost for words, and just, like, his producer being, like, scrambling, like, what the fuck do you say to that, man?
• 13:33
  Phil: If it was Conan, he would…
• 13:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: B.
• 13:34
  Phil: immediately.
• 13:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: the starch.
• 13:35
  Phil: Dragon Hotspot.
• 13:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: In the last episode, that,
• 13:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Colbert did at the night, or Tonight Show, is that it?
• 13:46
  Phil: I think…
• 13:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: and…
• 13:47
  Phil: Is it the late.
• 13:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Came back.
• 13:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And they threw off things off the roof together, which David wrote.
• 13:52
  Phil: Oh… That sounds.
• 13:55
  Tad Eggleston: David Letterman has a YouTube channel with, like, best of stuff.
• 13:59
  Tad Eggleston: Which is how I discovered… I've long known about Eddie Vedder's first surprise appearance on
• 14:08
  Tad Eggleston: the… the late night with… with David Letterman, where… where, like, Letterman's… You know,
• 14:19
  Tad Eggleston: Paul Schaefer's playing parts of Black, and Letterman's singing along with it, and then…
• 14:26
  Tad Eggleston: Vetter comes out singing it and really holding some of the parts for a long time. What I didn't know is that there had been a bit between Letterman and
• 14:35
  Tad Eggleston: Letterman had fallen in love with that song, like, weeks earlier, so there had been an ongoing… so there's, like, a 6-minute video on…
• 14:46
  Tad Eggleston: Letterman's YouTube channel of, like, back and forth over time between Schaefer and Letterman, you know, Letterman singing, huh?
• 14:58
  Tad Eggleston: Hey, Paul, we really gotta get Eddie better in here! And it had been an ongoing bit until Eddie finally came, and…
• 15:07
  Phil: Wow.
• 15:08
  Tad Eggleston: knocked it out, and then, like, left the building before David could even talk to him.
• 15:15
  Phil: That's the move. That's the real pop-in, cameo move right there, where you're just like, I did my bit.
• 15:21
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah, no, that's… that's my… that's my YouTube re… or my YouTube recommendation of the day. Go… go watch the…
• 15:29
  Tad Eggleston: the Eddie Vedder doing black on… on…
• 15:33
  Tad Eggleston: on the late night with David Letterman.
• 15:36
  Tad Eggleston: That just… I mean, frankly, Letterman's YouTube… I don't know how long it's been up. I discovered it relatively recently, but…
• 15:44
  Tad Eggleston: You know, apparently he has the rights to his old stuff or something, because it's got all sorts of stuff from all of his…
• 15:52
  Tad Eggleston: Late night years.
• 15:54
  Phil: I wonder the… how… how… Norm from Cheers.
• 16:01
  Phil: owns the character of Norm because the likeness is himself, or something weird like that?
• 16:05
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I don't know.
• 16:06
  Phil: I don't know, maybe.
• 16:06
  Tad Eggleston: Because it was…
• 16:07
  Phil: Late Night with David Letterman. That's how he, that's how he managed to… to… Yeah.
• 16:11
  Phil: You know.
• 16:12
  Tad Eggleston: Or maybe he bought them, or… or maybe it's in conjunction… I mean, because it certainly wouldn't hurt CBS.
• 16:18
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 16:19
  Tad Eggleston: to have that stuff out there, so who knows? But all I know is it's a fun little channel.
• 16:25
  Phil: Nice.
• 16:26
  Tad Eggleston: And on a comic book note, like, recent videos have been, like, there was a… An Avengers…
• 16:35
  Tad Eggleston: compilation, and then a DC Superheroes compilation.
• 16:39
  Tad Eggleston: Recently, of, like, appearances from people
• 16:43
  Tad Eggleston: From around the time they were up.
• 16:45
  Tad Eggleston: You know, so yeah.
• 16:47
  Phil: Did Letterman… Letterman appeared in a few Marvel comics, right?
• 16:51
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 16:52
  Phil: Okay, and I knew…
• 16:53
  Tad Eggleston: has appeared in Marvel Comics.
• 16:56
  Phil: And I knew… the only comedian in DC that I know showed up was,
• 17:02
  Phil: Oh… Don Rickles? In Jack Kirby's,
• 17:06
  Tad Eggleston: Yep. The new… No!
• 17:08
  Phil: Olsen, was that it?
• 17:09
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if he's introduced specifically, but… but Conan O'Brien is definitely in… Mr. Miracle.
• 17:17
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 17:17
  Tad Eggleston: Or not… not Mr. Miracle, Adam's… er, Strange Adventure.
• 17:21
  Phil: Oh, okay. Okay, I was misremembering there, because I haven't…
• 17:24
  Tad Eggleston: I think. One of the two.
• 17:26
  Phil: Interesting.
• 17:27
  Tad Eggleston: One of the two, because Tom King was actually on Conan.
• 17:30
  Phil: Okay.
• 17:32
  Tad Eggleston: right around the Batman wedding issue.
• 17:35
  Tad Eggleston: So they, they return the favor by putting Conan in a comic.
• 17:39
  Phil: Interesting, okay.
• 17:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: when we're having comical conversations, not… not because I'm perfectly fine with it, it's just, like, it's 22 Panels no more, and it's like…
• 17:48
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, that's right.
• 17:49
  Phil: It's quite expensive.
• 17:50
  Tad Eggleston: no more.
• 17:51
  Phil: it.
• 17:52
  Phil: You know, spoil.
• 17:53
  Tad Eggleston: No comic book stuff.
• 17:54
  Phil: Man.
• 17:57
  Phil: What are we gonna do.
• 17:57
  Tad Eggleston: Sue.
• 17:58
  Phil: It's like…
• 17:58
  Tad Eggleston: It's like…
• 17:59
  Phil: Oh.
• 18:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Tad, who has given up the mantle, is still talking about him.
• 18:05
  Phil: Right? And this is where it's like, it can't be… it can't be completely no comic books, because we… we do acknowledge the, comic of DIE, you know, that's connected to DIE.
• 18:16
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and aren't our bodies in a.
• 18:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: They are, yes. My joke.
• 18:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Are our bodies even in the comic shop? They were when we left, but, like, from everything in DIE, like, there's no evidence that, like, you're even in that world anymore.
• 18:34
  Phil: seems like, yeah, yeah.
• 18:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, no, no, no. My only humor about it was Tad talking about it.
• 18:41
  Phil: Naturally.
• 18:42
  Phil: He can't give it up, even when he's given it up.
• 18:47
  Phil: But that's okay. With that, let's get into DIE with the Ritual. First up, the D8 is normally wielded by Chu, but he is, spending time with his family, and so his character is adventuring with a group of emotion knights. Following that, we've got the D10, single digit, and that one is wielded by…
• 19:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That will be wielded by Lex. Our, one of our…
• 19:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: NEOs, in this case, NEO, that's probably more integrated with,
• 19:24
  Phil: New school.
• 19:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: and AI, so… Yep.
• 19:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Alex, Lex, or Alex, Ramos key.
• 19:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Moving on.
• 19:36
  Phil: There we go. Our D4 is wielded by Strife, the sister of Garrion, who,
• 19:44
  Phil: played in a first game of DIE with him, and was somehow mysteriously transported into this second game of DIE. After that, there's the 10G10, and that one is wielded by…
• 19:58
  Lee Woods: That's what about Lee, who, whose player character is Wilhelm the Fulham.
• 20:04
  Lee Woods: And I'm not gonna lie, the Neo that has a little bit of a southern draw, and I forget how he sounds every time I play,
• 20:12
  Phil: Sounds like you.
• 20:13
  Lee Woods: Oh, nice! I'll deal with it.
• 20:15
  Phil: There we go. Yeah, and you're, you're the, the… oh gosh, it's so funny, because I wanted to say.
• 20:22
  Phil: it's weird, you can't be the old school and classic Neo, because, like, you know, that's the paradox of the Neo, is that it's… it's not old school. Anyway,
• 20:32
  Lee Woods: the way I think about it, and just kind of going with what Peter described it, is that his is the integration of, like, AI in the future aspect, and I look at, like.
• 20:43
  Lee Woods: technology from the past, and be integrated to that. So, I think that's so cool stuff.
• 20:49
  Phil: That, that does… that's a really interesting and fascinating thing to think about, so that, like.
• 20:56
  Phil: Peter's NEO can interface with software, but your NEO can interface with… like…
• 21:04
  Phil: mechanical machines, like, so you could… you could make a clock change what time it is, you know? But he could make an alarm clock change what time it is, like a digital one. So I guess we… maybe we'll flesh that out, maybe we won't, who knows?
• 21:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: and…
• 21:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: you could make… make, like, a clock, you know, change what time it is, or whatever. I could go off and make a computer, like.
• 21:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Reimagine the entire timeframe that it, that, it had.
• 21:34
  Phil: Right. Oh, something like that. It's gonna get… it's gonna get more complicated before it gets less complicated, that's for sure.
• 21:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Kinda weird.
• 21:44
  Phil: Err, weird err. We've got our D12 that was wielded by Garian, Garian Eddings until he was… oh, who is a child of divorce, so that, you know, every divorce family situation is exactly the same, right? So, just imagine that.
• 22:02
  Phil: And, he wielded the D12 before it was stolen by the master, who wields the D20.
• 22:08
  Phil: And who still has a mysterious identity that, no one's tried to guess at, I guess, politely, but one day we might need to field, field a few guesses, you know? I've got a few red herrings planned for that one, so it's, it's a thing.
• 22:24
  Phil: And, last but certainly not least is our regular ol' classic D6, the only tool of destruction that is suitable for
• 22:34
  Phil: The one, the only, In studio audience, once more, the electrifying Alan Spectrum!
• 22:43
  Tad Eggleston: electrifying.
• 22:44
  Phil: Dun-dun!
• 22:46
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I feel like electricity is passe.
• 22:51
  Phil: The electric guitarifying.
• 22:53
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, well, I mean, yeah, electric for my guitar is very good.
• 23:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, we're making our way back to acoustic now, because you just said that about electricity. In fact, you're not allowed to touch technology anymore.
• 23:10
  Phil: -Oh.
• 23:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sorry.
• 23:12
  Phil: So, so, on that route, Alan Spectrum is our master of fictitious Technologies, given that he has a Stone Age laptop and a,
• 23:24
  Phil: zombie vampire Fungus, DJ kit. That was, that was his, so… so one of the things…
• 23:33
  Phil: that, that, Lee, you might have missed, was, we traversed through a couple other sides on the way to this one. There was a world full of, flying zombie mushroom brains that, were being hunted by an even more terrifying,
• 23:48
  Phil: bird-like, fox-like creature with a giant scythe for an arm. And, then at the end of the episode, when… when Tad, uses Fool's prep for a,
• 24:00
  Phil: a full… a full DJ turntable, two turntables and microphone kit. It was one of those flying zombie mushrooms that had been defanged, and so it plays sounds between, like, the accordion and bagpipes.
• 24:11
  Phil: So he can only DJ with an accordion and bagpipes.
• 24:15
  Lee Woods: Got it.
• 24:16
  Phil: Yeah.
• 24:17
  Lee Woods: The only thing I remember, just in regards to my character, was that my, we were in the sort of vampire-esque.
• 24:23
  Lee Woods: community or neighborhood, and I got an… not an affinity, but I became tolerant of, what, soy blood?
• 24:31
  Phil: blood pain, blood pain and blood pain accessories. Yes. Yeah, and then, we're, we're kind of in a fugue state, being plagued by visions of when the gang… that… that one time, the gang became cannibals, and,
• 24:48
  Phil: You know, it's one of those, one of those cannot unsee moments for, for the rest of the group. So yeah, with that, let us perform the ritual, and, go ahead and raise your DIE into the air, close your eyes.
• 25:06
  Phil: Slowly lower it to the table.
• 25:08
  Phil: 3… 2… 1. Let go.
• 25:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Got a freeze?
• 25:15
  Phil: You weren't supposed to roll, sir.
• 25:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I put it down, and that's what I got.
• 25:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know.
• 25:23
  Phil: There we go.
• 25:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: glove?
• 25:24
  Phil: Oh, this is… I mean, I…
• 25:27
  Phil: I feel like… I feel like that's…
• 25:30
  Phil: I don't know why, I'm like, that's what Tenny is, like, screaming at you inside your head right now, in a weird sort of way. But I think we should actually start with Willie, who… that was the last thing he remembered, was being at a bar.
• 25:44
  Phil: Sitting down, drinking a nice glass of blood.
• 25:47
  Phil: These visions of cannibalism haunting you, of, hey, these are people that you've known for maybe a day, a day or two, and now you're seeing them at, you know, arguably lower than their lowest, a point at which, you, you know.
• 26:04
  Phil: Unless Willie has a very dark past, I can't imagine he's seen cannibals firsthand before, not like this. You know. So, how do you think that would affect him? What kind of…
• 26:17
  Phil: you know, would he be…
• 26:22
  Phil: what… I mean, you're also in a fantastical world where you emerged from…
• 26:27
  Phil: the chest of a giant clockwork chocolate golem. So, things are not as they appear.
• 26:35
  Lee Woods: Yeah, I think the biggest thing
• 26:40
  Lee Woods: he would feel his disgust. I mean…
• 26:44
  Lee Woods: I'm sure he's heard about that from, like.
• 26:46
  Lee Woods: Horror movies, or seeing it from, like.
• 26:50
  Lee Woods: what is that, Discovery Channel, like, cannibalistic tribes, but he never, never thought about it, like, being that close to him.
• 26:59
  Lee Woods: So I think there's an aspect of not just discuss, especially with the party that he's…
• 27:06
  Lee Woods: Been forced to become close to.
• 27:09
  Lee Woods: But at the same time, it's a level of… Can I trust?
• 27:16
  Lee Woods: how can I trust, right? What am I doing trusting these people? Because, yes, they kind of saved my life, but at the same time, I'm seeing these visions of them
• 27:24
  Lee Woods: ripping him into others, so I'm like…
• 27:28
  Lee Woods: And I think that sort of puts him in that sort of…
• 27:31
  Lee Woods: catatonic state for a little bit, before sort of,
• 27:38
  Lee Woods: wading through the waves of his mind to sort of come back to consciousness, and like…
• 27:45
  Lee Woods: and having this sort of idea of how I can rely on myself
• 27:51
  Lee Woods: But keep… sort of keep eyes in the back of your head. I'm thinking, like, football, like, keep your head on a swivel, that way you're never surprised.
• 27:59
  Phil: Okay.
• 28:00
  Phil: Gotcha. Okay, so you're playing it… you're not… you're not freaking out, which is good, you know.
• 28:05
  Lee Woods: Internally. Internally freaking out.
• 28:07
  Phil: Internally, internally freaking out, for sure. But, that's, that's the, the armored car training, is that, the cool and unflappability, even in a, even a tight stitch coming in.
• 28:19
  Phil: Oh yeah, oh yeah. So,
• 28:24
  Phil: Alright, I guess, I also forgot until now that, your, your guide, to this event is, was the,
• 28:37
  Phil: he looks like a giant spider from the torso up, but he's then wearing a pair of blue pants, and I guess he has a 22 Panels jersey on?
• 28:48
  Phil: But, he is from Wally Wood's, Amazing Spider Guy, that was, was secretly a spider under the costume the whole time. So, he, he was the one that showed you your way to,
• 29:01
  Phil: The, you know, The corpse of war, so to speak. The giant, the dead.
• 29:07
  Phil: the corpse of a giant that has fallen down to the surface of… of DIE here.
• 29:15
  Phil: Which, I guess…
• 29:18
  Phil: I guess then, go ahead and… and real quickly, give me a… give me a wisdom roll.
• 29:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Everyone?
• 29:25
  Phil: No, just Lee.
• 29:27
  Lee Woods: The wisdom Roll is a D6.
• 29:29
  Phil: 2d6, because you should have just a 2 in there, because I don't… you have no reason to put points into Wisdom. And then a success is going to be for any die that is 4 or greater.
• 29:40
  Lee Woods: So, I'm gonna roll twice. So, first one is a 4, and the second one is a 6.
• 29:46
  Phil: Oh, okay. So, in that case, you… you see this,
• 29:53
  Phil: You know, this… this giant… this giant, this dead giant that has fallen in the sky, and
• 29:59
  Phil: With that 6, you… You know how he would taste.
• 30:05
  Phil: So, that's… that's the weird thing, is that you'd been experiencing these visions, and between your enjoyment of… of drinking the blood pain, and, like, you're horrified, you're disgusted.
• 30:18
  Phil: But you're also hungry.
• 30:22
  Lee Woods: Right. Yeah.
• 30:26
  Phil: Just you for now. What, you know, Lex, Lex or Alan, I guess, how…
• 30:36
  Phil: you can… you can see that, you know, there's camps of a couple different people, a couple different groups of people. I forget that we were… we were refreshing off-air.
• 30:46
  Phil: to your… let me see here, let me get this. Absolutely, okay, yeah, yeah. So, to your right, there is, a group of heavily armored knights with, flame patterns on their shoulder pads and greaves,
• 31:03
  Phil: and a little bit on the crest of their helms, knights that, look very dangerous and violent, known as the Burning Crusade. And then over on the left, there is a, it looks like a Renaissance fair. Like.
• 31:19
  Phil: not even, you know, like a medieval group that a Renaissance fair is based on. It looks like an actual Renaissance fair, and, pretty sure there's a cart of turkey legs dipped in cranberry sauce that has a very long line behind it.
• 31:35
  Phil: So, just two, two very different groups of people that, had set up camp by the, the skull of this giant here.
• 31:45
  Phil: But, yeah, I, talk amongst yourselves. What, what, you know, what is your reaction to seeing this,
• 31:55
  Phil: you know.
• 31:56
  Phil: Head larger than a ridiculous mansion.
• 32:01
  Phil: Size beast of a… of a human-shaped thing.
• 32:06
  Tad Eggleston: I wonder what they're cooking.
• 32:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Are there any, like, specific details we know about this?
• 32:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: humongous creature. I mean, it looks like humanoid, but does it have, like, still a fairly humanoid skull, or does it have, like, horns protruding out of it, or any other special details we should know?
• 32:25
  Phil: So, no horns, it does look human,
• 32:30
  Phil: massive. It's clothed, thankfully. And, I mean, it looks to be, like, you know, it has…
• 32:40
  Phil: not a helmet like a circlet, like a mark of, you know, some kind of prominence or leadership. And, you can see from its clothes on its shoulders that it was wearing, some kind of giant chainmail. So it looks like it was a warrior of some sort.
• 32:58
  Phil: But it just looks like a truly giant human.
• 33:03
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So, it's just like a giant…
• 33:07
  Phil: Emphasis on the giant, yes.
• 33:09
  Lee Woods: How far away?
• 33:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Maybe.
• 33:14
  Phil: Or Colossus, if you will. How far away? So, I mean…
• 33:22
  Phil: you… so you've been… you came through a valley to see this thing, so it's probably, at this point, like, maybe a football field to get to the Giant, and then,
• 33:35
  Phil: Probably a…
• 33:38
  Phil: football field and a half between the two camps, you know, on roughly either side. So, you know, we're keeping it triangular, nothing's too far apart, you know, it looks like, there's enough space for a fight to break out.
• 33:52
  Phil: You know, so, if this were a video game with a, like, heads-up display, you know, so, so in…
• 34:02
  Phil: in,
• 34:04
  Phil: This is a good prompt. So, Tenny spins up in the corner of your vision, Lex, and says, So, it looks like you're trying to start a war. Which side do you want to back first?
• 34:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You're like, when did I say I wanted to start a war?
• 34:20
  Phil: Is it, well, more like, looks like a war is about to break out. Which, which side do you want to back?
• 34:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I love how AI, like, changes when you give it more input.
• 34:31
  Lee Woods: This is…
• 34:31
  Phil: This is… this is, this is…
• 34:33
  Tad Eggleston: Well, its job is to keep you engaged.
• 34:37
  Lee Woods: Huge head.
• 34:38
  Phil: Wow, just gotta, gotta keep up those, daily active users, which, which is where we, we, you know, tacitly,
• 34:47
  Tad Eggleston: That's why, in the end, it always tells you what you want to hear.
• 34:50
  Phil: Yep, that too, that too. Thankfully, Tenny is… is not, based on the AI technology that we are plagued with in… in modern times. This is… this is…
• 35:00
  Tad Eggleston: No, it's the AI created by the AI that we have in modern times. So it's AI squared.
• 35:07
  Phil: Not quite… it's not even that, because we also have that in our,
• 35:11
  Phil: In our modern times. This is… this is, future tech that is supposedly what AI aspires to be, but, you know, we're… we don't… we don't even know how.
• 35:20
  Tad Eggleston: And how do you know what AI is?
• 35:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: AIC, where…
• 35:23
  Phil: Oh…
• 35:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: AI that was built… was built by AI that didn't have the rules that were confining it, because the human built it.
• 35:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Gotcha.
• 35:34
  Phil: Maybe, something like that. More, more like, more like,
• 35:37
  Phil: This, this is, this is rather than.
• 35:40
  Tad Eggleston: In other words, save the planet, get rid of the humans?
• 35:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Pretty much.
• 35:44
  Tad Eggleston: AI?
• 35:45
  Phil: I mean, we'll see what the…
• 35:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Especially!
• 35:49
  Phil: If there's any…
• 35:50
  Peter Eggleston Connor: At the very least, you know, figure out what it wants to do, and how it wants to actually participate in the world of AI.
• 35:57
  Phil: Yeah.
• 35:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Of its own accord, mind you. Not of the humans, oh, you know, we want you to do this accord.
• 36:05
  Phil: Yeah, it's tough. I was gonna say that, this is, this is a,
• 36:10
  Phil: You know, rather than a large language model that is producing words on its own, it has been hooked up to several other component
• 36:20
  Phil: Softwares, technologies that, haven't been invented yet to, give it heavier,
• 36:29
  Phil: semantic… wait, there's a semantic engine involved, that's what I call it, that produces meaning behind all of the things it says, as opposed to just saying them based on probability. Yeah.
• 36:42
  Phil: One of those sorts of things. One of those where I'm like, look, I hate AI and I don't want to use it, but at the same time, this is a game, and I want it to be usable within the game, so I'm not even gonna… well, I was gonna say I'm not even gonna charge you tokens, but that's a lie.
• 37:00
  Phil: I am actually explicitly charging you tokens for this thing.
• 37:05
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, wait a minute, C3PO is AI. Do you hate C3PO?
• 37:11
  Phil: I think…
• 37:15
  Phil: So this is where I don't hate the actor in a suit portrayal from the original trilogy, you know? I think it's kind of dumb and over… overworked how they… they've stuffed him into the prequel trilogy a little bit.
• 37:31
  Tad Eggleston: R2D.
• 37:32
  Phil: R2D2's cool because he speaks and beeps and clicks.
• 37:35
  Phil: That is a computer you can trust.
• 37:40
  Phil: He also has a foul mouth.
• 37:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: walk…
• 37:44
  Phil: It does.
• 37:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Don't get me wrong, R2G2, I feel like you can… you can trust, but…
• 37:50
  Phil: You can.
• 37:51
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm not sure I buy into that.
• 37:54
  Phil: That is… that is… that is absolutely a sense of humor. If… if modern AI started beeping and clicking, I would not trust it any more than I do now.
• 38:03
  Lee Woods: You know.
• 38:04
  Phil: But,
• 38:05
  Tad Eggleston: And have you read any Dr. Afra? How about… how about Triple Zero and…
• 38:10
  Phil: Triple zero is pretty funny.
• 38:12
  Phil: I forget the, I forget the name of the murder box.
• 38:14
  Tad Eggleston: T.
• 38:15
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, I read.
• 38:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And I'm even thinking about, like, hyperion?
• 38:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And how there's, like, AI… the AI entity that just sort of, like.
• 38:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: doesn't necessarily talk with humans, and I think it talks to, like, its various parts and, like, hyperspeed, whatever, and it's not necessarily using human language there either, because why would it?
• 38:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And it's just like, I don't know if I trust that AI.
• 38:49
  Phil: Yeah.
• 38:51
  Phil: Yeah, I mean…
• 38:54
  Phil: That's a fair point. I mean, if… if by hyperspeak, that's a whole lot of beeps and clicks, I imagine.
• 39:01
  Phil: But, but yeah, I admittedly have not decided how,
• 39:07
  Phil: untrustworthy Tenny is. I don't think Tenny's untrustworthy. I think that… that…
• 39:12
  Phil: what I tell you through Tenny, should be… should be taken in… in as good a faith as… as anything I say can… can be taken.
• 39:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I think… I think we don't need to have this conversation.
• 39:26
  Phil: That's fair. That's fair.
• 39:27
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Not cuz, not cuz I don't trust you, like, obviously.
• 39:30
  Phil: Right, right, right.
• 39:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: word for it. Just because I think it's much more amusing to leave it Welcome.
• 39:37
  Phil: Okay, okay. I… you know, sometimes even I don't realize how nefarious I'm being in the moment, so that's probably for the best.
• 39:46
  Phil: You know? But I… I guess this is… this is the point where I say, I, you know, I've got…
• 39:53
  Phil: A scenario of some sort
• 39:55
  Phil: for y'all to engage with. In… in the true spirit of DIE, I think it was an issue…
• 40:02
  Phil: 5, where they decided that they were going to destroy Glass Town? Does it amuse you enough to participate in, or are you looking for bigger tricks to turn?
• 40:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Join a war?
• 40:17
  Phil: Well, this is… pick a side.
• 40:19
  Phil: Or, you know, do you wanna say, this doesn't interest me, and wander elsewhere?
• 40:25
  Lee Woods: I'm gonna jump in. What I know about the different factions that are about to go to war? Because I'm… I mean, Willie would definitely be interested, but would I know about these.
• 40:36
  Phil: So, I guess this is where the… the Knights of Onomatopoeia, they… they look like…
• 40:44
  Phil: you know, a Ren Faire, they're having a good time. But the Burning Crusade is most certainly violent, like…
• 40:51
  Phil: they… they're a group of people that… they… they are going through, like, Sparta pre-war rituals, so your, combat senses would kind of, you know.
• 41:02
  Phil: Intuitively let you know, like, hey, okay, these… these guys are looking to fight over Over this corpse here.
• 41:10
  Peter Eggleston Connor: if I may interject, really, an interesting way you could go about this, Lee, is you could think about, sort of, what Phil's described each army as, and see if you have, like, a… if you feel your character has a real-world connection to an entity that's like that, and then, you know, start describing that.
• 41:31
  Phil: There we go.
• 41:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm trying to think about if I have…
• 41:33
  Phil: So…
• 41:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But, did, would…
• 41:35
  Phil: Will he ever play football?
• 41:39
  Phil: Or a sport of some sort?
• 41:43
  Phil: this… this would look like… like, the Burning Crusade would look like the rowdiest, most ready-to-murder group of footballers in full-plate armor with swords and axes that are clearly bloodstained and have seen action before, like…
• 41:58
  Phil: These, these guys are rowdy.
• 42:00
  Phil: These guys are looking to kill.
• 42:02
  Lee Woods: Yeah, I think Willie would not have played football, he's a fan of football, but he's… in school, he was a little bit more like the skinnier, nerdier type.
• 42:12
  Lee Woods: Okay. Hence his fascination with, like, sort of history.
• 42:16
  Lee Woods: But I could definitely say, like, if that's the case, if they're just, like, bloodthirsty-ish individuals.
• 42:23
  Phil: They're… well, so, like, they're not…
• 42:27
  Phil: so… they're… they're crusaders, you know? So they're… they're…
• 42:32
  Phil: I'd like to imagine that the Crusaders were looking for violence, you know, but they don't… they don't see themselves as bloodthirsty. They see themselves as, bringing righteous fury, you know? Some of the… they're… they're bringing the holy war, you know, they worship battle.
• 42:52
  Lee Woods: Okay.
• 42:52
  Phil: Yeah.
• 42:53
  Lee Woods: I don't know if Willie would have a strong opinion on these two groups.
• 42:58
  Phil: Okay.
• 42:59
  Phil: Interesting.
• 43:00
  Lee Woods: Mainly because Lee does not have…
• 43:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: having thought about it, and the past of Lex,
• 43:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, just taking what I know about… about our characters, Lex is almost probably on the thespian side, because to her, that's… that's, it's very much a, oh, these people are just sort of, like, you know, role-playing, and doing their thing, and, like, you know.
• 43:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I never got into LARPing.
• 43:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But, you know… I like dancing, and I like, you know, the… the… And…
• 43:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know if, like, I really want to get involved in this war, but I really don't want to see them get slaughtered.
• 43:48
  Phil: Which is really unfortunate, because,
• 43:55
  Phil: maybe, I guess there's a stray… a stray from the camp that wanders past you, and it's like, oh my god, great costumes, you guys! You know, like, they're just really enthused, and… and they're like, hey, are you… are you also here for, the… I forget what I said they were.
• 44:12
  Phil: But, like, oh, come on, here we go. Oh, oh, right, right, so, like, you know.
• 44:22
  Phil: she says to you, like, hey, are you guys here to… for… for relighting the Soul Forge?
• 44:27
  Phil: You know? So, like…
• 44:29
  Phil: So this is where… yes, they are… they do look like barbers, they do look like thespians, they're… they're just a whole bunch of nerds, but…
• 44:37
  Phil: You're noticing that they…
• 44:41
  Phil: They seem to actually believe the story that they're telling each other, which is that they are, you know, a traveling group of entertainers that are the remnants of
• 44:53
  Phil: you know, one of the last true kingdoms of DIE, that, they were the kingdom that founded the Emotion Knights, and they are actually on a quest to relight the Soul Forge, which is able to craft more emotional weapons to return the glory of the Emotion Knights to the Land of DIE.
• 45:12
  Phil: So, you know, they… they have a prophecy, and they are convinced that they need to meet it.
• 45:21
  Phil: You know, and they're… they're convinced that the embers to relight the Soul Forge lie within, buried deep within the minds of… of the God of War, this giant that is… that has fallen to… to the sky… fallen from the skies here.
• 45:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Deep within the mines?
• 45:42
  Phil: Yeah, the… the mind. Like, It's like, it's in his skull.
• 45:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, mine.
• 45:47
  Phil: Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. I didn't mean for that double entendre, but I like it.
• 45:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I was like…
• 45:54
  Peter Eggleston Connor: What are we doing, going to the mines of Moria that just happen to be in the God of War?
• 45:58
  Phil: the minds of the mind! You know, one of those sorts of things.
• 46:06
  Phil: But yeah, but I mean, you know, you're…
• 46:11
  Phil: if not heroes, at least have the capacity to perform as such. You know, you're wielders of, four of the… the legendary dice.
• 46:20
  Phil: That can… can shape the world, you know? So… she, you know.
• 46:29
  Phil: sees Alan's D6 and… and thinks nothing more than, oh, you're cosplaying as DIE Wielders. But if… if you, you know, showed any displays of power, they would… they would quickly fawn over you like the,
• 46:44
  Phil: The, squeezy aliens in the claw machine of Toy Story, you know, yeah, they would be, they would be starstruck pretty, pretty immediately that, that you have real dice.
• 46:54
  Lee Woods: I was a pro back, thank you for that.
• 46:56
  Phil: Thank you.
• 47:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Okay.
• 47:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Mark.
• 47:05
  Phil: You say, utterly convincingly.
• 47:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Utterly convincing.
• 47:16
  Lee Woods: I… I will say, Willie is just…
• 47:20
  Lee Woods: maybe he's just a little bit hungry, for some reason? So he might not be the best sound mind and body right now.
• 47:28
  Phil: So, there's… there's definitely…
• 47:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, Willie is very much like…
• 47:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You want to go into that creature's mind?
• 47:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Fuck yeah, man!
• 47:36
  Lee Woods: Right?
• 47:37
  Phil: This…
• 47:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, I don't speak for you. This isn't like…
• 47:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It sounds like that would be where you might be at.
• 47:43
  Phil: That might be… and that's… this is… I think… I think Willie's gonna need another… well, this is where I'd say, if… if you'd rather roll intelligence than wisdom, you know, to see if you can… you know, because wisdom is like… is like instincts from the gods, kind of how I… I throw them at you, but if you can… if you think you can intelligence your way into,
• 48:03
  Phil: channeling your… your urge to consume flesh towards a turkey leg, as opposed to the giant before you, then, I think… I think that's doable.
• 48:14
  Lee Woods: Okay, I'll go with that.
• 48:16
  Phil: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:17
  Lee Woods: All else fails, trust the dice. Yep. Trust the DIE, as it were. My intelligence is a 3 right now, so that'd be 3D6, right?
• 48:25
  Phil: Yep, yep.
• 48:27
  Lee Woods: Alright.
• 48:28
  Lee Woods: First one is A3.
• 48:30
  Phil: Huh.
• 48:31
  Lee Woods: Second one is a 4.
• 48:32
  Phil: Okay.
• 48:33
  Lee Woods: 3rd is a 6. Okay, so…
• 48:35
  Phil: That's… that… that sounds like, yes, you can… you can, you know, the line, while the line for turkey legs is long, it is not too long, so to speak, so… so yeah.
• 48:45
  Lee Woods: Justifiably long. Yeah.
• 48:47
  Phil: I'm, I, yeah, so not… not… you're…
• 48:49
  Phil: you're… you're not overcome with urges to, go charge… charge the giant and start… start a conundrum.
• 48:58
  Lee Woods: You know.
• 48:58
  Phil: Yeah. That's the other thing, is that it is night.
• 49:02
  Phil: you guys have come across… so, I guess, I mean, like, to retroactively, spell out the scene for you is that as you came through the valleys as WASG was leading you through, like, you know, a craggy valley, and, you know, you just came over to the side, and you emerged to a large clearing where there's two camps of various lights, and, you know, they're flickering ahead of you, where you slowly catch glimpses, and it's like, as your eyes
• 49:27
  Phil: adjust to, The bonfires, you see, like, the shadows of this giant…
• 49:32
  Phil: creature… creature's head. You know.
• 49:35
  Phil: Sort of thing. But yeah, but that also means that,
• 49:39
  Phil: I don't remember… I don't remember how much Fair Gold… you had,
• 49:45
  Phil: Going into this. If you'd written it down, we can go off of that. But, if not…
• 49:51
  Phil: Then… oh, you, you did… you had, you'd written down that you had how much Sunfair Gold?
• 49:55
  Lee Woods: I had two, but I also, keeping myself honest here, I don't know how long ago it was, in terms of the day.
• 50:03
  Phil: Right, right. Yeah, neither do I, so that's why I'm thinking that, we're about… we're about to do… to do a reset, so,
• 50:13
  Phil: seen as, you know, it's the night, there's… there's camps over there, the general air is that there's going to be a battle in the morning. So if… if you… if you decide you want to participate in the battle, then I would advise a,
• 50:28
  Phil: someone to scout out some fair gold, so that you are adequately powered for combat.
• 50:37
  Lee Woods: Okay. Yeah, they say, they disappear at dawn, so I got a little bit of time before I can…
• 50:43
  Phil: Yeah. So the way, and they've made mention on the, on the Discord that the idea is that, like, okay, yeah, they disappear at dawn, but, like.
• 50:52
  Phil: they last for 24 hours for me, so you can take your fair gold right before dawn, like, charge yourself for that day, so it's not, like.
• 50:59
  Lee Woods: every dawn.
• 51:00
  Phil: And you start from zero, you know?
• 51:02
  Lee Woods: Right.
• 51:03
  Lee Woods: Yeah. Okay.
• 51:05
  Tad Eggleston: So, I'm gonna help him get some fair gold, cause in the morning.
• 51:10
  Tad Eggleston: Or in the night, I will sing.
• 51:12
  Tad Eggleston: Once there was a way.
• 51:15
  Tad Eggleston: To get back, oh my… Once there was a way…
• 51:22
  Tad Eggleston: To get back home, sleep, pretty darling, do not Bye.
• 51:30
  Tad Eggleston: And I will sing a lullaby.
• 51:36
  Tad Eggleston: Golden slumbers fill your eyes.
• 51:45
  Tad Eggleston: So wake you when you rise. Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry.
• 51:57
  Tad Eggleston: And I will sing a lullaby.
• 52:03
  Tad Eggleston: I'm pretty certain that will create fair gold that will appear when he… arises.
• 52:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You do know you have to…
• 52:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: pull fair gold out of,
• 52:16
  Phil: pollen.
• 52:17
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Fallen, right?
• 52:19
  Tad Eggleston: Well…
• 52:20
  Phil: So this is…
• 52:21
  Phil: This is where, I would say, Tad, go ahead and, give us a charisma roll.
• 52:29
  Peter Eggleston Connor: We've definitely fallen in.
• 52:31
  Phil: Includes your Fool Die, so I think you… I don't… I think you had at least 3 charisma?
• 52:38
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, cause I think you put in…
• 52:41
  Phil: Dexterity and Constitution.
• 52:44
  Tad Eggleston: Security is 3, constitution is 3. I don't see a charisma.
• 52:51
  Lee Woods: I'll be right beside your wisdom.
• 52:53
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, there it is, 3. Yeah, I've got 3 Charisma.
• 52:56
  Phil: Okay, yeah, so go ahead and,
• 52:57
  Tad Eggleston: Were we doing 3 charisma plus the Fool DIE, or…
• 53:01
  Phil: the fool die? Yeah. Because this, this, singing a lullaby for fair gold is, is a little foolish, I would say.
• 53:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's the idea. I think it's very foolish. Exactly!
• 53:13
  Tad Eggleston: Exactly, I'm…
• 53:15
  Lee Woods: It's not complaining.
• 53:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, I have no problem with you doing it. I just think, like…
• 53:19
  Tad Eggleston: So, my, my 3 regular dice are 3-1-1. Okay.
• 53:25
  Tad Eggleston: my… my… Pool's Dice is a 5. Okay.
• 53:33
  Tad Eggleston: Which is a blank on the side of my fool's DIE right now.
• 53:36
  Phil: Okay, so you have, you have one success.
• 53:39
  Phil: it was almost a critical failure, because you'd gotten 1s. If you had no successes and a 1, that's a critical failure. But, but no, thankfully you have one success, which means,
• 53:52
  Phil: There is… What appears to be a cosplayer who's cosplaying as a Fallen.
• 54:02
  Phil: Wanders out of the crowd, up to your… to your, song, and, you know, drops a piece of regular unfair gold.
• 54:12
  Phil: Into… into your hat.
• 54:14
  Phil: And, you know, claps and says, Encore, another, another! You know, and,
• 54:27
  Tad Eggleston: Bye, Yellow Pick Road.
• 54:31
  Phil: And as you start singing that, that is where, you know, an actual one single actual Fallen jumps out from the woods and starts attacking the cosplayer. I imagine you two would be able to quickly and easily, you know, take out this one guy.
• 54:50
  Lee Woods: Shoot them.
• 54:51
  Phil: I mean, go for it, go for it, take it, you know.
• 54:53
  Lee Woods: Oh, God.
• 54:53
  Phil: Roll, dammit. This is… this is an actual… yes, he's… he is eating, he is eating the cosplayer,
• 55:00
  Phil: And… And, animated piece.
• 55:04
  Phil: It's gonna come after you, Nix!
• 55:06
  Lee Woods: Well, yeah, I think, in all actuality.
• 55:09
  Phil: Yeah.
• 55:09
  Lee Woods: I would definitely be on the quick draw here. I think mine, Willie has a Cole 45, if I remember correctly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And given where he has been in this sort of fugue state, I think it's absolutely within reason he would just, ba-bang!
• 55:23
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, yeah, go for it. Go ahead and roll, roll the, give a dexterity roll plus your D10, since that's your Neogun.
• 55:32
  Lee Woods: Okay, Dexterity's a D6 plus the D10, correct?
• 55:36
  Phil: Yeah, so that's… do you have 3 dexterity, or 4?
• 55:40
  Lee Woods: I have… dexterity, I can read 3.
• 55:45
  Phil: Okay, so yeah, go ahead and roll those 3, plus the, the D10.
• 55:48
  Lee Woods: Okay, so my 3D6 are going to be… 3?
• 55:53
  Phil: Huh.
• 55:54
  Lee Woods: and 3…
• 55:55
  Phil: Huh.
• 55:56
  Lee Woods: And 3. Fantastic.
• 55:58
  Phil: Okay.
• 55:58
  Lee Woods: My D10 is a 1. Oh, wow.
• 56:01
  Phil: Okay, so your… yeah, your… your gun jams, so this is a critical thing. I don't know how a… a Colt 45 would jam, but,
• 56:13
  Phil: You know, cause that's a pretty…
• 56:15
  Phil: That's a pretty… that's like a… that's like a six-shooter, right? You know? That's… that's a very mechanical,
• 56:21
  Phil: But somehow it does.
• 56:22
  Lee Woods: Like a hammer.
• 56:23
  Phil: Right, yeah, yeah. Like, weirdly, somehow the way you were holding it is that the hammer hits your thumb instead of the bullet. Yeah, so no, no wound. I… you will lose a guard, but, yeah, now we're gonna need, we're gonna need someone else to… to react to that.
• 56:40
  Tad Eggleston: I will say that while the Fallen is distracted by the gun, I swipe out my Carlisle sword and just slice off its head, but I don't know which is which, so I probably also slice off the head.
• 56:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean…
• 57:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll interject, just because you've had an action more recently, and I would like to at least try to stab it with a dagger before you get a chance to, you know…
• 57:10
  Tad Eggleston: Sure, sure, sure, sure.
• 57:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: You know, drop off everything that you're doing and, like, you know, slice it with a sword.
• 57:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure, sure. Dexterity, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, for dagger, yeah. Like, I can't pull out my energy weapon, I don't have any…
• 57:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: pools go, but…
• 57:27
  Phil: Oh, okay.
• 57:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sorry, fair gold, not pool gold.
• 57:32
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, there's some cool stuff.
• 57:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: One and a two.
• 57:35
  Phil: A 4, 1, and a 2, okay, so you…
• 57:37
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Of course.
• 57:38
  Phil: Oh, two fours? Okay, cool. So yeah, so it's dead. Standard fall only has 2 wounds, so you do plunge the knife into it, where it… it gasps and coughs and sputters up, a little coin for you.
• 57:53
  Phil: Because that was your… that's how your… your fair gold takes. Yep. Let me actually…
• 58:01
  Phil: Yeah, so it spits out two… two pieces of fair gold for you.
• 58:07
  Phil: And this is where, so… so, Tad, go ahead and give me a dexterity roll.
• 58:12
  Phil: with,
• 58:14
  Tad Eggleston: Because I was about to say, I am the fool, so I would definitely still be… so we need to figure out whether I accidentally killed the wrong guy, or whether we have consequences.
• 58:25
  Phil: So yeah, so go, go ahead and give me, give me a dexterity plus, plus Fool DIE there.
• 58:29
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, so hey, it's the same roll, 3 and… 3 plus the full thing.
• 58:34
  Tad Eggleston: So… What was the, what was the cooldown?
• 58:37
  Tad Eggleston: 5, 3, and 2 is my dexterity roll, 4 is my full DIE roll.
• 58:43
  Phil: Okay.
• 58:44
  Tad Eggleston: 4 is currently a 0, so I get a fluke.
• 58:48
  Phil: Oh, okay.
• 58:49
  Tad Eggleston: I might die.
• 58:50
  Phil: So, yes, this is… this is where,
• 58:55
  Phil: So, I was gonna say, until you got that fluke, that you had swung your guitar instead of your sword, because you were already holding it.
• 59:05
  Phil: You know?
• 59:06
  Phil: But due to the fluke, it was actually your sword, and you did decapitate that cosplayer, so,
• 59:14
  Phil: You know, crisis averted, you know.
• 59:19
  Tad Eggleston: Crisis averted, or do we now have a bunch of angry cosplayers?
• 59:23
  Phil: Well, the… so… so that stopped the fallen outbreak, because, you know, as… as he killed it, but then you cut off its head, so there's no chance for it to turn, so it kind of just.
• 59:33
  Tad Eggleston: prevented that.
• 59:34
  Phil: from even… from even happening and outbreaking. So it really was good luck.
• 59:38
  Phil: That you were so quick to respond to… to… you know, the violent situation.
• 59:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But that doesn't necessarily mean the cosplayers know what's going on.
• 59:47
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I was about to say, I think the cosplayers are probably pretty mad at us. I just beheaded one of them.
• 59:51
  Phil: The denizens of DIE are familiar with the Fallen, so the fact that there was a real Fallen there, they saw that, and they were like, okay, yeah, like, this is why we told people, don't wander too far away from the group, because then Fallen will pick you off from the woods.
• 1:00:05
  Tad Eggleston: I probably told them not to cosplay as Fallen 2. This guy was a dick.
• 1:00:09
  Phil: Yeah, it's not a… it's… it's…
• 1:00:10
  Tad Eggleston: There's always one guy that's gotta cosplay as a Nazi.
• 1:00:15
  Phil: Yep, or, or, like, I'm trying to think the Game of Thrones, the person who's, like, a really big fan of Ramsay Bolton for, like, undescribable reasons, he was kind of like that. Right. Yeah. So, okay.
• 1:00:25
  Lee Woods: I love, Phil, that your rationale there is just, like, You idiot. Yup! Yup.
• 1:00:32
  Phil: The world's call died. Not everybody's gonna get out, okay? So… so, Peter, you've gotten 2 more pieces of fair gold. This is where, you know, if you don't want to try to lure more Fallen via song.
• 1:00:47
  Phil: You could, look at… there's… there's a whole bunch of… there's merch booths.
• 1:00:54
  Phil: Some of them could very well have some fair gold in the marketplace there.
• 1:00:58
  Phil: There's also always the Memory Merchant, if you… if you need a recharge.
• 1:01:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, I only ever need 3 fair gold. Currently, I have one thing active, two of them… well, let me… two of them I can activate, and if they work for 24 hours.
• 1:01:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: even if the full AI goes down, at the time… at dawn, I get another additional pair of gold.
• 1:01:24
  Phil: Yeah. Oh, right! You get one per session, too!
• 1:01:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, so if you…
• 1:01:30
  Phil: Yeah, that's how it works.
• 1:01:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, if you wanted to. So, I'm at 3 already.
• 1:01:34
  Phil: Yeah, so you're at 3 now, so you can be… you can have all of your tools charged, when the morning…
• 1:01:39
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I'll probably just charge all my tools right before it's gone.
• 1:01:43
  Phil: But if you need any overcharge, you know, that doesn't leave you any room for overcharge, so…
• 1:01:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I should probably get some overcharge. Well, except overcharge won't work.
• 1:01:54
  Phil: Oh, right, because you can't take it immediately.
• 1:01:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Because I can't…
• 1:01:58
  Phil: Mmm… okay. Well…
• 1:02:01
  Phil: Well, depending… if you… I mean, if you really… if you wanted some, like, back pocket overcharge, you could either…
• 1:02:08
  Phil: I think… I think you could take it, and then it'll just be, like, a res… we would do it as, like, a reserves kind of thing, you know, because I… I still want that option to be open to you, that, like, overcharge is kind of, like, you know, that's your… that's your, that's the equivalent of fool's prep.
• 1:02:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: what my abilities were. I see Pawn Shop here.
• 1:02:26
  Phil: Yeah, you've got the, you've got the,
• 1:02:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I know I got.
• 1:02:33
  Phil: hologram projector that,
• 1:02:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, no, I was, I was trying to remember… I know I have a source…
• 1:02:40
  Phil: Huh.
• 1:02:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: We have the… the gold source from.
• 1:02:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: 5… I just need to go remember… Right.
• 1:02:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Did I have a child?
• 1:02:52
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, from level 6, yeah, okay.
• 1:02:54
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That's the most recent one, sorry.
• 1:02:56
  Phil: That's okay.
• 1:02:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I labeled them, because I don't have an actual sheet, I labeled the one 1 through 20, and then…
• 1:03:03
  Phil: Oh, okay.
• 1:03:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I just, like, every time I level up, I mention what triangle I went to.
• 1:03:08
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:03:09
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So…
• 1:03:10
  Phil: That works.
• 1:03:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah. Sorry.
• 1:03:14
  Phil: And I know you had… your energy sword had potential sleep paralysis or, fire?
• 1:03:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, it does.
• 1:03:21
  Phil: Learning.
• 1:03:22
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm trying to remember how the gold source worked, because.
• 1:03:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: One part session, I thought was just, at the beginning of the day, you always have one, so I might.
• 1:03:31
  Phil: No, it's, no, it was… it, if I remember correctly, which I am now flipping…
• 1:03:39
  Phil: furiously flipping through the rulebook to… yeah, gold source. At the start of each day, you receive one fair gold via a reasonably safe method. What is it? Okay, so yeah, so it is each day. You are correct. I thought it was each session, but it is each day, so… so yeah, so it's…
• 1:03:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So… so once… once we have the rollover, I can… again, I can…
• 1:04:00
  Phil: Yeah, you're, you're…
• 1:04:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know how… I guess, actually, it would be good to go get one more fair gold for me to get a… make sure that my full AI is steady for the next 24 hours, so… Yeah.
• 1:04:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Okay, so what were you suggesting for looking for more fair gold?
• 1:04:15
  Phil: You could… you could try to, you know, attract more Fallen via song, or, you could check out the,
• 1:04:25
  Phil: the, merchants, the merchants, that travel with… because it's like a Ren Faire, so they have trinkets for sale.
• 1:04:32
  Phil: There's some fair gold mixed in, though.
• 1:04:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I wonder if I could also use my full III to, see if there's a spot around here that just has more pollen in it.
• 1:04:40
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, if you want to try to locate some fallen, not with song, you know, try to,
• 1:04:46
  Phil: do something like, I think that sounds like the kind of thing your AI could definitely detect, you know.
• 1:04:51
  Phil: Packs of Fallen. I… I feel like… I feel like I can see your rolling arm jiggling on screen, so…
• 1:04:57
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And it sounds like.
• 1:04:58
  Phil: That's… that's… yeah, absolutely. Here's the thing, you don't have to ask my permission. You can roll me… you can roll and then tell me what the result is, and then something's gonna happen from it, you know?
• 1:05:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, that's fair, but, I got a 4, a 5, 2 6s, and my, D10 is a 2, so…
• 1:05:16
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:05:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That didn't work out, but everything else… Okay.
• 1:05:19
  Phil: So, that is… there's a pack of, four fallen, into the woods around, it's not a traditional campfire, it's like an ultraviolet campfire, so it may… it's like a… it's a fire that's emitting black light.
• 1:05:35
  Phil: You know, that's what, that's what the Fallen are all, are all camping around. Two of them, are, you know, two of them look like normal, normal Fallen with just claws, angry. One of them has wings.
• 1:05:49
  Phil: And, the other seems to have no mouth and, extra sets of glowing eyes, on its forehead.
• 1:05:57
  Phil: So, I think there's, like, 4 sets of eyes there.
• 1:06:00
  Phil: So, so yeah, so that's got, some… some weird mutations about them. But yeah, you… but you can locate them, and, you know, with careful planning, I'm sure you could get the jump on them if you'd like.
• 1:06:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I, nudge Wilhelm, since I only really need one more gold.
• 1:06:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Hey…
• 1:06:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I tracked down some fallen. You wanna… wanna try to go get some more, fair gold?
• 1:06:27
  Lee Woods: And Wilhelm is literally holding his thumb like I'm doing right now, just, like, sort of based off the hammer just colliding with his thumb.
• 1:06:36
  Lee Woods: I think he'll… Sort of give his firearm a once-over, and sort of wipe it down, like…
• 1:06:43
  Lee Woods: Yeah, if I can get this damn thing to work, I'll do it.
• 1:06:48
  Lee Woods: And then… He will, yeah, follow your lead there.
• 1:06:53
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Okay. And I'll look out, and I'll say, you in? No more songs, please.
• 1:06:58
  Tad Eggleston: 4 more songs!
• 1:07:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Not while we're sneaking up on them.
• 1:07:04
  Tad Eggleston: Ever fallen in love? Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't follow?
• 1:07:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I decided we can leave out.
• 1:07:13
  Tad Eggleston: Probably a good idea.
• 1:07:15
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It, it's…
• 1:07:16
  Phil: quite frankly, it's safer, because I was thinking about it, and I was like, it's a foolish thing to bring a fool along on a sneaking mission, which means he'll be fine!
• 1:07:25
  Phil: But, yeah, that makes sense to go off just the two of you.
• 1:07:29
  Phil: Okay, so we can have, a little mini-encounter. The… what… what is… what's gonna be your strategy? How… I mean, would you want to try and take on, you know, 4 against 2? Would you want to try to isolate them, set a trap? What's, what's your thought process here?
• 1:07:47
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So, it lasts for 24 hours. What time is it, roughly now?
• 1:07:56
  Phil: It's midnight, you know, so if you… yeah, so if you take… if you use the gold you just got, which was 2, and you had one that was powered… like, your AI was up and powered, you know, so then…
• 1:08:12
  Phil: you have two, plus start the next day gets you a third, so yeah, so if you wanted to use the two now, those would basically last 24 hours until… through the battle tomorrow.
• 1:08:21
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, an ambush might be a good option. What do we… what… as we get closer, what can we tell about what's the, like, surroundings? I mean…
• 1:08:31
  Phil: So, it is a… spooky, hilly…
• 1:08:37
  Phil: woods, so there are trees together that, you know, are kind of blocking line of sight. They're in a little bit of an outcropping up against a, like, sheer cliff wall. You know.
• 1:08:55
  Phil: And their ultraviolet fire is,
• 1:08:59
  Phil: You know, they made a little lean-to camp.
• 1:09:02
  Phil: Up against this cliff wall, so that they're… they, like, you know, kind of have their backs up against something, but are still sitting around a little bit of a fire with the last of their human impulses.
• 1:09:12
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm gonna use my Fair Gold to activate my light field projector and my energy weapon.
• 1:09:17
  Phil: Awesome.
• 1:09:19
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Just to make sure that I have them available,
• 1:09:25
  Peter Eggleston Connor: There was something we need to… oh, the extra fair gold is to rerun the full AI once we get.
• 1:09:30
  Phil: Yeah, you're,
• 1:09:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Ben, okay.
• 1:09:33
  Phil: Yeah, your daily one can recharge it.
• 1:09:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I just meant, like, the x-ray of what I was trying to get now was so that.
• 1:09:41
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Daily one once… we get the daily one.
• 1:09:44
  Phil: Gotcha, okay, yeah, that works.
• 1:09:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know if that's how it works, but…
• 1:09:47
  Phil: We could play it like that. Like, the daily one is, like, the way I think of it is, like, you basically, like, find a coin in your pocket, you know, something like that.
• 1:09:56
  Phil: like I said, safe method is pretty much just however you want to find it, you find it, you know?
• 1:10:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I have, yeah, I've used Teni to set up a, a regularly, installed, Fallen Trap.
• 1:10:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Or especially, like, the AI will go off and find a fallen, and it can only happen once per day, but it will take that fallen and essentially just smash it.
• 1:10:24
  Phil: Oh…
• 1:10:26
  Peter Eggleston Connor: But puts it in a cube and smashes it, and then, like, after it claims the, Follet or the fair gold, it just turns out to my pocket.
• 1:10:35
  Phil: Nice. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Speaking of which, you can use your AI to hack the fallen and control them.
• 1:10:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: That is true.
• 1:10:44
  Phil: Which I… both of you can. I believe, Peter… let me read real quick how that works, because I did remember that, that's what's… that's what's happening in the current issues of DIE right now, is that the Neo is controlling their, fallen teammates to keep them from, you know, murdering.
• 1:11:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, that's right, they have a new, new series, don't they?
• 1:11:05
  Phil: Downloaded.
• 1:11:06
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Start, raising… It's good.
• 1:11:08
  Phil: The first 7 issues… are 8 issues around?
• 1:11:11
  Tad Eggleston: 8 issues, I think.
• 1:11:12
  Phil: Eight issues, yeah. So let's see here… the full AI enhancement, you augment your AI to access its full potential,
• 1:11:24
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:11:25
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:11:27
  Phil: Right, so the fallen leash is, like, the indefinite…
• 1:11:31
  Phil: Upgrade, but… let's see here, it says as if you've fallen a special every round.
• 1:11:38
  Phil: Here we go. Okay, to use your Neotech to overcome an immediate problem, roll a dice pool based on your intelligence…
• 1:11:45
  Phil: Here we go.
• 1:11:50
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:11:56
  Phil: Okay, cool. So, the way the hacking works is that a regular success just, like, freezes them in place, and then a special allows you to control them, like, make them do an action.
• 1:12:09
  Phil: So, yeah.
• 1:12:11
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It would be an int-based check.
• 1:12:13
  Phil: int-based check, I would say that since you are hidden, you would have an advantage, since you have the full AI enhancement. Advantage.
• 1:12:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: One more die, right?
• 1:12:24
  Phil: Advantage means one more die, and since you have the full AI enhancement, you can use your D10 with that hack, because I believe…
• 1:12:33
  Phil: Right. I believe you need…
• 1:12:35
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah. So, I'll whisper to Wilhelm that I think, like, the best thing that we can do right now is, like, try to hack them. I don't know how well he can hack into things, but…
• 1:12:46
  Phil: So, he also has hacking abilities?
• 1:12:49
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I know, I know, I'm talking about my character.
• 1:12:53
  Phil: Right.
• 1:12:54
  Phil: I see, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so this is, this is where now letting, letting,
• 1:12:59
  Phil: Lee know that… I mean, because you have, I think, 3 levels still, so I don't know if you felt like picking the AI enhancement, that would allow you to use a D10 with any rolls, but you can still do it. You can still, you know, do it with your D6, it's just that, you know, slightly less likelihood of you controlling them and maybe just… just locking them up.
• 1:13:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, I'm also kind of curious, like, how he describes it, if he does it, and he's like, oh, but I'm old tech, so I do it like this, right?
• 1:13:27
  Phil: Maybe. Just like a fierce, like, stare down, you know, like a gunslinger eye sort of situation, just like.
• 1:13:33
  Lee Woods: Oh, thank you, Gunslinger.
• 1:13:34
  Phil: Yep, yep.
• 1:13:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll roll for that.
• 1:13:37
  Phil: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:38
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Holy shit.
• 1:13:38
  Phil: We'll see what yours… what yours does, and then, he would see how he would react based on that, so…
• 1:13:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Alright, I have…
• 1:13:47
  Phil: Because your intelligence is 4, or is it 3?
• 1:13:50
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's 4, so with the advantage, I get 5. Yep, yep.
• 1:13:54
  Phil: Yep, yep.
• 1:13:55
  Peter Eggleston Connor: So, I got a 4, a 5, 2 6s, and an 8.
• 1:13:58
  Phil: 26 is an 8? Sweet.
• 1:14:00
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, and a 3 for one pill.
• 1:14:03
  Phil: That's fine.
• 1:14:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: 5… 5 successes.
• 1:14:06
  Phil: Right, so Willy doesn't even need to… to hack, because you… you've locked them down, and you can actually make 3 of them, like, do something. Like, perform an action, like attack each other if you want to soften them a little bit,
• 1:14:20
  Phil: But, like, yeah, they are… they are locked down for… for a round, and like I said, you could… you could… if you want to make it easier and have them kind of hurt each other, or do something else, like, I mean, you could…
• 1:14:33
  Phil: Because, like, here's the thing is…
• 1:14:34
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm gonna… I'm gonna have, essentially, it's gonna be, like, a…
• 1:14:45
  Peter Eggleston Connor: domino effect, where the first one, like, there's gonna be the one that's just stung, right? Yeah. That… the first one after that is gonna jump on that guy, and, like, start, like, gnawing his head off, and then the one after that is gonna try.
• 1:15:01
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:15:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Same thing to that guy, and then… Okay, yeah, so…
• 1:15:06
  Phil: Right, so the first one freezes, the second one jumps on it and starts tearing it to pieces, it immediately kills it. Then the spider-eyed one
• 1:15:20
  Phil: only wounds, because it got 2, 2, 3, and 5, so it then,
• 1:15:28
  Phil: So there's still one more wound needed on the initial jumper, and then the giant, winged one is gonna attack the spider one, and that kills it. So, so now you've got…
• 1:15:41
  Phil: a big, a big, like, winged, where it, like, jumped in and it just crushed down. So that one's, like, a little bit bigger than… than your regular, your regular Fallen, and then there's a wounded Fallen. So, I guess, Willie, what, what, what do you want to do from here?
• 1:15:59
  Lee Woods: So, here's what I'm thinking. You tell me if I'm being too ambitious here.
• 1:16:03
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:16:03
  Lee Woods: is that I, I want to lean into my…
• 1:16:07
  Lee Woods: character sheet where it says, I have a billowing black cloak and sinister scarlet eyes. So, in my head.
• 1:16:15
  Lee Woods: I like the idea of the sort of Western stare-down, where…
• 1:16:20
  Lee Woods: I do a little bit of an eye squint, but…
• 1:16:22
  Lee Woods: If you notice, my eyes tend to have a little bit more like a… hypnotic, sort of.
• 1:16:29
  Lee Woods: spiky spiral kind of happening in my eyes. Okay. And the whole goal is, at least very similarly, maybe not necessarily a freeze in terms of paralysis, but much more just slowing them down.
• 1:16:43
  Lee Woods: Okay. That may… like, they're just a little bit more manageable to defeat.
• 1:16:48
  Lee Woods: Or get the jump.
• 1:16:50
  Phil: Okay. I mean, if you… if you were to attack, you would already have an advantage from being hidden, but if you want to try to, like, additionally freeze or control the two that are left after, after Lex's initial attack, yeah, you could… you could…
• 1:17:04
  Phil: Do a hack there, so that would just be… Your intelligence plus one advantage.
• 1:17:10
  Phil: I would say.
• 1:17:11
  Lee Woods: Optimal Advantage, so it'll be… Yeah.
• 1:17:14
  Lee Woods: 4D6?
• 1:17:15
  Phil: Yes, and no, no D10, because, because you do not… unless, you know…
• 1:17:20
  Phil: Unless you felt like taking the full AI, but we don't need to cross that bridge just yet.
• 1:17:25
  Lee Woods: Okay, so, 4D6, here we go. So it'll be, 1…
• 1:17:30
  Lee Woods: Oh, I… I did a thing. That's a 1.
• 1:17:34
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:17:36
  Lee Woods: That's a 6.
• 1:17:38
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:17:39
  Lee Woods: And two…
• 1:17:41
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:17:44
  Lee Woods: 1162.
• 1:17:46
  Phil: Okay, so, what that means is… I'm gonna say… That's the…
• 1:17:57
  Phil: So you could have the,
• 1:17:59
  Phil: So that's the… the 6 lets you have… make a command. Would you rather the winged one that is full health attack the wounded one, or have the wounded one attack the winged one?
• 1:18:12
  Lee Woods: The wounded one to attack the winged one.
• 1:18:15
  Phil: Okay, cool. So I'm gonna roll those dice…
• 1:18:19
  Phil: And it got 1, 2, and 5, so it now, has a wound into the winged one. They're just staring at each other, with fierce intensity, hating… hating each other more than they usually do, slightly confused, very pissed off, so…
• 1:18:38
  Phil: The… the winged one has two… two wounds left, and the other one is 1 wound.
• 1:18:45
  Phil: One wound left. So, now Peter, since I was, you know, their turns, they don't have a turn, it's now your turn again, if you want to try to kill them, lock them down, but yeah, if you don't… if someone doesn't keep controlling them, they are going to get to respond to you at some point.
• 1:19:02
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll try to keep locking them down, why not?
• 1:19:06
  Phil: So that's just your intelligence plus D10, since they're aware of you now.
• 1:19:11
  Phil: That's still probably more than enough.
• 1:19:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, that I just grab the dice, and… Yep.
• 1:19:16
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Needed to remove one.
• 1:19:17
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 1:19:20
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, we got a 4, 5, a 6, and my D10 is a 6, and the last DIE is a 2.
• 1:19:26
  Phil: Okay, so, so yeah, so that's more than enough to control both of them. What is the series of events? How do you want them to try to murder each other?
• 1:19:37
  Peter Eggleston Connor: The big one is gonna stay, like, kinda… like, it's actually gonna be the smaller one that attacks the big one first.
• 1:19:43
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:19:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And if the big one is still alive, it's gonna attack that.
• 1:19:47
  Phil: Okay, so the small one does take another big chunk out of it, so it's down to one wound, and then the big one's gonna hit back…
• 1:19:55
  Phil: And, yup, it definitely just squashes it back, so now the big one has one hit left,
• 1:20:01
  Phil: this would be an ideal time for Willie to take a shot at it, or, you know, whatever traditional methods of murder you'd like to resort to.
• 1:20:10
  Lee Woods: Yeah, I… I'm gonna… Go for the attack, hopefully my gun works!
• 1:20:16
  Phil: Right?
• 1:20:17
  Phil: We'll blame, we'll blame the, the digital dice whenever that happens.
• 1:20:21
  Lee Woods: Oh, 100%. Yeah. Alright, so I got,
• 1:20:26
  Lee Woods: 4 dice total, let me get my number right… Dex? DEX is 3.
• 1:20:30
  Lee Woods: Okay. So that'd be 3 dice?
• 1:20:32
  Phil: Yeah, 3 dice plus your D10, since your gift was the gun.
• 1:20:38
  Lee Woods: So the 3 dice, 3D6s are 3, 3, and 4, the D10 is a, 1.
• 1:20:45
  Phil: That is… that 4 is enough to, make the… the winged one just a chunk and hole through the center, just like a big ol' meat pie just… just comes right out of it, and it collapses. So now, to determine how much fair gold is from this bounty…
• 1:21:05
  Phil: We're gonna say… okay.
• 1:21:11
  Phil: So there's 5 pieces of fair gold amongst, the corpses.
• 1:21:17
  Phil: So you guys can divvy that up how you'd like. It's a little less fun than, yeah.
• 1:21:24
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yes, well, one? Okay. Okay.
• 1:21:28
  Phil: So that would leave 4 for.
• 1:21:30
  Tad Eggleston: Or for Lee.
• 1:21:32
  Phil: Alright.
• 1:21:33
  Lee Woods: So I have 7 total.
• 1:21:36
  Phil: So, your… whatever you had is gonna disappear, or…
• 1:21:41
  Phil: because Peter was basically starting from nothing. So maybe let's split that up a little bit better, because if you had… you had 3 that you were going to take, then…
• 1:21:51
  Lee Woods: Yeah, you take 3, Lex, and then I'll take 2, so I'll be at a 5.
• 1:21:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.
• 1:21:57
  Phil: Gotcha, so then you'll…
• 1:21:58
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's not gonna matter in a few hours.
• 1:22:00
  Phil: Right? That's kind of it, where, yeah, so, so, I mean, you'll just… you'll be able to… we'll… we'll figure… we'll figure out what feels right for if there's a moment in the battle that you… you each need to overcharge. You'll be able to have, like, a pretty cool overcharge of some sort,
• 1:22:16
  Phil: Peter might be able to squeeze two out of it, because he gets… he gets one per day, so the… his fresh one in the morning. Unless you end up picking that ability, too, then you can.
• 1:22:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, I mean, like, the other thing about it is I might be able to do a…
• 1:22:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Pawn shop in the middle of that.
• 1:22:30
  Phil: In…
• 1:22:31
  Peter Eggleston Connor: 2.
• 1:22:32
  Phil: Right? Right? Where are those words?
• 1:22:33
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Pawn shop.
• 1:22:34
  Phil: A really, a real, real core tear-jerking memory there. Alright, so with that, the…
• 1:22:44
  Phil: Dawn's light is fast approaching, I don't know if…
• 1:22:51
  Phil: I don't think… I don't think having… it's one of those things where I'm like, I don't want to penalize you guys for not sleeping. That's just rude.
• 1:23:00
  Lee Woods: Have we since then?
• 1:23:01
  Phil: It's… I'm not worried about it. You know, it's one of those things where we'll… we rest between sessions, you know?
• 1:23:08
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Since I have 3…
• 1:23:09
  Tad Eggleston: I sung them a lullaby, didn't that mean they.
• 1:23:14
  Phil: I like to think that…
• 1:23:15
  Tad Eggleston: That's why I chose a lullapy.
• 1:23:18
  Phil: Right? It… we use… we use… so this is, like, in Minecraft, if you stay up until right before dawn, and then, like, you jump into bed, and then it's, like, you only… you only sleep in game for 2 hours, but it still counts, you know? It's kind of like that.
• 1:23:30
  Phil: One of those, one of those in-game logics that, that only work.
• 1:23:34
  Phil: But never will.
• 1:23:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Right before dawn, I'm gonna use my… my 3 fare gold to make sure that all my…
• 1:23:43
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Items are at full charge.
• 1:23:45
  Phil: Gotcha, okay, so you're… you're gonna be… you're gonna be at full charge, and then… yeah, so I'll make a note of that right now, to be like, hey, each have a full charge.
• 1:23:56
  Phil: And then Peter at least plus 1.
• 1:24:03
  Phil: And… One, okay.
• 1:24:10
  Phil: Alright, but, you know, as the fair gold is disappearing, that is when the, the horns of war, you know, the battle charge, starts emitting from, you know, the camp, as you see a, platoon of,
• 1:24:29
  Phil: of the Burning Crusade marching to the field to, commence a battle that we will… we will get started with next time!
• 1:24:38
  Phil: Thank you guys for, for showing up. Thanks, I hope you guys had fun. That was, you know, I felt like we got, we got a lot done there. We, you know, a lot of jokes.
• 1:24:48
  Phil: Some… some little… some rolls, some… some murder, you know?
• 1:24:52
  Lee Woods: That's fine.
• 1:24:53
  Lee Woods: The Murdo Bowman?
• 1:24:54
  Phil: Yeah, well, it's, it's my, my, gosh, my, my friend that, back when I worked at Trader Joe's, we had a, we did a story D&D group, he's like, I don't want no, no sissy role-playing. We're here to, to roll dice and kill shit, you know? And, in hindsight, I'm like, well, I kind of like a little bit of the role-playing, but, you know, that's just me. But,
• 1:25:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Good session.
• 1:25:15
  Phil: Thank you.
• 1:25:16
  Lee Woods: Thank you for putting up with my questions, because it's been a minute.
• 1:25:18
  Phil: Oh, yeah, no, no, no, and I apologize for it being a minute. Hopefully, hopefully now, you know, two months in a row, two months in a row, back-to-back, you know, we, we've, we've got DIE ROLIN,
• 1:25:31
  Phil: And with that, this is… this is…
• 1:25:33
  Phil: Tad, please, please, I come back to you with, with 22 Panels jersey, as I transform back from.
• 1:25:40
  Tad Eggleston: Are we not doing Stars and Wishes before passing it back to me?
• 1:25:45
  Phil: We could do Stars and Wishes, it was just…
• 1:25:48
  Phil: Did you have a star or a wish?
• 1:25:51
  Tad Eggleston: I liked Peter deciding that the fool shouldn't go along because he's foolish.
• 1:25:57
  Tad Eggleston: I think that was smart.
• 1:26:00
  Phil: That could've… that could have gone… that went from a very tight, controlled scenario, that could have gone very sideways, yes.
• 1:26:07
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, no, I was just like, well, you just told me you don't wanna even try, so… bye!
• 1:26:18
  Tad Eggleston: I think that was a perfectly appropriate response.
• 1:26:21
  Lee Woods: Right.
• 1:26:22
  Tad Eggleston: And I just stayed back at camp singing my songs, so, I mean, you might consider that I could have a bunch…
• 1:26:29
  Tad Eggleston: of… of…
• 1:26:31
  Phil: Okay, that's… that's a really good.
• 1:26:32
  Tad Eggleston: Of…
• 1:26:33
  Phil: Actually.
• 1:26:33
  Tad Eggleston: Of, fallen around me by the time they get back.
• 1:26:37
  Phil: Well, I was thinking… I was thinking, less of that, because if you were… if you were truly at the camp, because before you were on the fringes when you started singing, if you went into the fair, you would… you would be, boosting the morale of the Knights of Bonamontopoeia, so they might perform…
• 1:26:51
  Tad Eggleston: Possible.
• 1:26:52
  Phil: Well, you know, a classic, a barred song. So we'll maybe… I'll make a note for that to,
• 1:26:58
  Phil: roll for Bart Buffs.
• 1:26:59
  Phil: So yeah.
• 1:27:02
  Lee Woods: And I'll say, two stars, for both Tad and Phil. Just well done on the, the TV show interview.
• 1:27:11
  Lee Woods: with all the parents. That was pretty dope.
• 1:27:15
  Phil: I really liked your responses to those, Tad, so thank you for that. That's definitely a star for me, too.
• 1:27:22
  Tad Eggleston: Well, you know, I try.
• 1:27:23
  Tad Eggleston: Sometimes I succeed.
• 1:27:27
  Phil: Tis the nature of, of, roleplaying.
• 1:27:33
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:27:35
  Phil: All right. And with that, I beg you, please, to, you know, don't let 22 Panels go now. Spencer Ackerman has a creator-owned comic book series coming up, and if I don't…
• 1:27:48
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and I got Derf Bechturf this week, and…
• 1:27:51
  Phil: Derf, heck yeah. I did see that.
• 1:27:53
  Tad Eggleston: You know, yeah, there's cool stuff coming up, I shouldn't quit now.
• 1:27:59
  Tad Eggleston: My back's feeling a little bit better as the steroids kick in.
• 1:28:04
  Phil: I was gonna say.
• 1:28:05
  Tad Eggleston: You know.
• 1:28:06
  Phil: Your back hurts from, you know, carrying almost a thousand podcast episodes, not quite single-handedly, but… but close to it.
• 1:28:15
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:28:16
  Tad Eggleston: And, and again, like, this, this week is… is looking good. We got… we got some…
• 1:28:23
  Tad Eggleston: milestone tomorrow night, we got Steph and Frank on Tuesday, we got Derf on… Thursday… Yeah.
• 1:28:36
  Phil: is holding…
• 1:28:37
  Tad Eggleston: Insert name, Zine Fest next weekend, if…
• 1:28:40
  Phil: Nice.
• 1:28:41
  Tad Eggleston: if my back can… can handle the trip.
• 1:28:45
  Tad Eggleston: So… That's in…
• 1:28:47
  Phil: Minneapolis, right?
• 1:28:48
  Tad Eggleston: That is, so… so yeah, I guess I won't give up yet.
• 1:28:53
  Tad Eggleston: Alright. Won't give up yet. I'll stick with it for now.
• 1:28:56
  Phil: I don't know what I would do if you, if you, if you ever say no there.
• 1:29:01
  Peter Eggleston Connor: We're still there, but… Let's stick with it.
• 1:29:03
  Tad Eggleston: for now.
• 1:29:03
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I can't help myself. I gotta… I gotta ask about these, like, little drawings on the wall behind you.
• 1:29:09
  Phil: Oh, behind me? So those are, they're just, like, a series of, like, postcards that my wife found at a,
• 1:29:18
  Phil: Just at, like, a, antique or, like,
• 1:29:24
  Phil: I always call them antique, but, like, kind of flea market things. I forget which one, but, yeah, she just found a bunch that looked really neat, and it's a pattern on the wall back.
• 1:29:32
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I do, and I really like how you have them checkerboarded across the wall, so…
• 1:29:37
  Phil: That was her… well, it was her design, but my execution, because she's not tall enough to… they actually do go, like, pretty much all the way up the wall there.
• 1:29:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, nice.
• 1:29:45
  Phil: It's just that one, though, so yeah, and then there's the tiny mushroom hanging in the corner.
• 1:29:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Very cool, very cool.
• 1:29:49
  Phil: Thank you. Ew.
• 1:29:50
  Phil: She makes the place really, really feel, very artsy and homely, so…
• 1:29:56
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, that's awesome. I'm so glad to have that in the apartment.
• 1:30:00
  Phil: It's… it's a good feeling, because I… if it was just me, I would not make it look this cute by even.
• 1:30:04
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh my god, I mean, like, we have a… I have these maps here, and, like, this is, like, this is literally what I've put up so far in my room. I guess there's, like, a couple Funko Pops on a book… on the top of a bookshelf over there right now, and…
• 1:30:18
  Phil: Right.
• 1:30:18
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And yeah, there's these succulents, which are gonna go somewhere. There you go!
• 1:30:22
  Phil: I see.
• 1:30:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: There you go, Lee.
• 1:30:23
  Phil: Action… action figures on top of a bookcase. That is… that is, it's funny, because my bookcase on top of that has a couple of, LEGO… there's a LEGO maple tree and a LEGO bamboo, so I also enjoy the plant Legos, they're cool.
• 1:30:36
  Peter Eggleston Connor: trying to get a little bit more, like, you know, pop to my apartment, so it's not all just, like, walls and a TV.
• 1:30:44
  Phil: It's tough. It's really tough.
• 1:30:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: It's energy…
• 1:30:48
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:30:49
  Lee Woods: It's effort, yeah.
• 1:30:50
  Lee Woods: It's energy, good way. I literally wrote down, like, my to-do list to get things for the, like, the apartment, and one of the things I literally put up was, nails command strips for art decor. Nice. It's probably gonna be the last thing I get.
• 1:31:03
  Tad Eggleston: So, are you already down in Joliet now?
• 1:31:08
  Lee Woods: Yep, this is the new apartment.
• 1:31:10
  Tad Eggleston: So you're making the crazy drive now.
• 1:31:13
  Lee Woods: I… I always was, it just… now it's just a drive in the opposite direction.
• 1:31:18
  Phil: bounce.
• 1:31:18
  Tad Eggleston: What do you mean you always were? Your other apartment wasn't that far from Palatine, and… Modern age.
• 1:31:25
  Lee Woods: it was better, but I was still driving, especially with the… going to the hospitals, and then.
• 1:31:33
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 1:31:35
  Lee Woods: So now it's just… I try to put myself in a spot where I'm equidistant from everything.
• 1:31:40
  Tad Eggleston: Gotcha.
• 1:31:40
  Lee Woods: So, thankfully I am, but it is still 40 minutes to an hour, wherever I'm going.
• 1:31:45
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 1:31:46
  Phil: That's how… that's how Chicagoland was, if it wasn't, like, the same suburb. It pretty much is. Yeah.
• 1:31:51
  Phil: Go ahead.
• 1:31:51
  Tad Eggleston: Pretty much is.
• 1:31:53
  Phil: whenever… all… whenever I was driving to work, it would be at least 45 minutes to get there, any time of day, so…
• 1:31:59
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, for sure.
• 1:32:01
  Phil: Yep.
• 1:32:02
  Phil: Yep.
• 1:32:05
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know why us talking about Chicagoland and driving distances made me remember, Laser Quest? I don't know.
• 1:32:13
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh.
• 1:32:14
  Peter Eggleston Connor: And, like, I mean, it wasn't… I don't even think it was actually… actually, like, 45 minutes. I think it was, like, 20 minutes, but even so…
• 1:32:21
  Tad Eggleston: 5 minutes to half an hour.
• 1:32:23
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, something like that.
• 1:32:26
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I just know because I worked at the Best Buy.
• 1:32:28
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I was gonna say, yeah, that, that was what I realized. You know that, not because… not because you went to Laser Quest all that much, but because you… you worked with.
• 1:32:37
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I know that drive well.
• 1:32:40
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yep.
• 1:32:42
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, we have MP.
• 1:32:44
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Random thoughts.
• 1:32:46
  Peter Eggleston Connor: Sorry, huh?
• 1:32:48
  Peter Eggleston Connor: I guess we should say the, the out…
• 1:32:50
  Phil: Well, I didn't… I was gonna say it by…
• 1:32:52
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, you gave it back to me, so…
• 1:32:54
  Phil: I did.
• 1:32:55
  Tad Eggleston: I will say for DIE on 22 Panels, this has been Lee, Peter, Phil, and myself, and we will see you after the next page.