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22 Panels No More! #11: DIE rpg · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:03
  Tad Eggleston: Man… Recording in progress again.
• 0:08
  Tad Eggleston: Again, and again, and again. SO MANY RECORDINGS! I quit.
• 0:15
  Tad Eggleston: I quit, I quit, I quit, I'm done. There's, there's 22 panels, no more.
• 0:23
  Phil: Well…
• 0:24
  Phil: That means we're playing Die. Hello everyone, my name is Phil, I am the Game Master of our Die actual play that only takes place when, Tad is on the verge of losing it all.
• 0:36
  Phil: Which is fitting, given the stakes at hand. Today, we are starting out with a little bit of persona generation, similar to last time. Anyone who's listened to some previous episode,
• 0:50
  Phil: would remember hearing about Rose, who is Tad's fictional girlfriend that, oh, is, is of,
• 1:01
  Phil: I wouldn't quite say questionable morals, but she seems to live a very non-traditional lifestyle, relatively carefree. So,
• 1:10
  Phil: Let's dig in. My, my first question to you… so we, we…
• 1:14
  Phil: we decided that we're 35, you know? So, that was where it kind of landed out. The group is 35. How old is Rose?
• 1:25
  Tad Eggleston: You know, I think she's… 40.
• 1:32
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:34
  Phil: I… I do like that. That is… you are… you threw me at the same curve I was planning to throw you at some point, but okay, perfect. Alright, so she's a little bit older, so that means that…
• 1:46
  Phil: she… wouldn't have been in school with us. She would have been in school before us.
• 1:56
  Phil: Interesting. Okay, so we would not have necessarily crossed paths, because that's, like, completely outside of high school. That definitely throws a curveball into some of my plans. I was going to suggest, because we didn't narrow down last time where.
• 2:09
  Tad Eggleston: She was a student teacher when I was a senior.
• 2:12
  Phil: Student teacher, okay, okay, this is, this is getting… okay, this is fascinating, alright.
• 2:19
  Phil: student… So you've known her for a while.
• 2:23
  Tad Eggleston: We met in… we met when I was in high school.
• 2:26
  Phil: Okay.
• 2:26
  Tad Eggleston: Because she was a student teacher at our high school when I was a senior.
• 2:32
  Phil: So she knew you when you were still Lewis.
• 2:36
  Phil: Interesting, very interesting, okay.
• 2:42
  Phil: So… When did things turn romantic?
• 2:48
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, what is time?
• 2:51
  Phil: So it was always romantic for you. When was it romantic for her?
• 3:01
  Tad Eggleston: I mean… Do we have a romantic relationship?
• 3:06
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, she's around a lot.
• 3:09
  Tad Eggleston: I guess we started having sex at some point, yeah, I don't know.
• 3:19
  Phil: Okay.
• 3:21
  Phil: Alright, perfect.
• 3:24
  Phil: Perfect.
• 3:25
  Phil: We're gonna… oh boy. Alright, this is…
• 3:30
  Larry Woods: I love how Phil is already having the time of the…
• 3:33
  Phil: I am! I am tickled. There is… this is a gold mine, for me personally that I am un… unready to… to take a pickaxe to at this moment.
• 3:45
  Phil: Okay, so, so… Your fortune started
• 3:51
  Phil: So, okay, because you were, you were starting to do programming and, the medical technology stuff while you were in high school. That eventually developed, that ramped up, so we're… we're.
• 4:06
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, yeah, I mean, I was writing a lot of poetry, too.
• 4:09
  Phil: Okay, okay, yeah.
• 4:11
  Phil: I guess… I guess what I'm wondering is… Did your…
• 4:19
  Phil: Did your relationship with Rose turn romantic, before, after, or during the financial rise?
• 4:29
  Tad Eggleston: Financial rise?
• 4:30
  Phil: Yeah, when you started making money. When you're… you're… you became financially independent.
• 4:36
  Phil: I don't know anything about that.
• 4:38
  Phil: Interesting. That is…
• 4:40
  Tad Eggleston: Rose handles all that nonsense.
• 4:42
  Phil: Okay, okay.
• 4:45
  Phil: Oh, this is… This is very interesting. Okay, so she was a teacher, she was a student teacher.
• 4:55
  Tad Eggleston: I think that's what she was.
• 4:58
  Phil: So she was around… she was around in high school, and you're.
• 5:01
  Tad Eggleston: She was at the high school.
• 5:02
  Phil: at the high school, student, teacher, question mark.
• 5:07
  Tad Eggleston: I mean…
• 5:08
  Phil: Handles your money.
• 5:09
  Tad Eggleston: I know I read her a lot of my poetry.
• 5:13
  Tad Eggleston: That's what you do with student teachers, right?
• 5:16
  Phil: I guess so. That's… I mean…
• 5:20
  Phil: I also wrote poetry in high school, it was, it was,
• 5:24
  Phil: You know, usually for class, not as much for student teachers, but okay.
• 5:28
  Tad Eggleston: That's… that's what I thought, is like…
• 5:30
  Phil: Right? Okay.
• 5:31
  Tad Eggleston: Would I write poetry not for class? I mean, maybe. Poetry's kind of cool.
• 5:37
  Tad Eggleston: It's got structure, but it hides it?
• 5:40
  Tad Eggleston: It's pretty… yeah.
• 5:41
  Phil: Yeah, no, I… I… poetry is… is…
• 5:44
  Phil: an art form I will always have a soft spot for.
• 5:49
  Phil: fictionally and, and, in this reality. So, let's see here. Okay, so yeah, so you had poetry,
• 5:57
  Phil: This is… this is… you know, it was one of those things where I… I was expecting a… to throw a hand grenade in our interpersonal web, but this is getting… this is getting even more tangled than I thought. Okay, so… does that mean… because I was also thinking, so we had established that
• 6:15
  Phil: Lee's character, Willie, knew Rose because he is the armored car driver, money pickup person for, the…
• 6:26
  Phil: businesses that she's handled, one of which was a game store.
• 6:32
  Phil: That's… is that their… their primary point of contact? Is there any other place that they would have run into each other or known each other, or is… is that the entirety of, their relationship?
• 6:48
  Larry Woods: Is that a question for me?
• 6:50
  Phil: Yes, yeah. Well, I mean, it's…
• 6:54
  Phil: it's… I imagine the answer to that… Alan wouldn't know. Alan… Alan, no idea, you know? If he's not around, he's not… he's not aware. So…
• 7:05
  Phil: Yeah, that was my… that was my sort of question to you, if…
• 7:08
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, out of character, I think we just established that Alan's kind of surprised that there's money.
• 7:13
  Phil: Yes.
• 7:17
  Phil: Which is… So, I, I love that. I love that.
• 7:22
  Phil: The implications being that, she was, you know, a very successful Black Widow who saw you making money in the tech industry in high school, and then turned you into a financial mogul that she could live off of is…
• 7:42
  Tad Eggleston: I mean… Right there.
• 7:43
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know if I like that option.
• 7:50
  Tad Eggleston: I…
• 7:52
  Phil: I mean, it's a hell of a ride right until you die.
• 7:56
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I thought it was more of a, she saw untapped potential, and he just saw problem solving, so she's the one that takes care of him.
• 8:09
  Phil: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:11
  Phil: caretaking.
• 8:12
  Tad Eggleston: It doesn't have to be, like, this terrible, horrible, dark, twisted relationship.
• 8:18
  Phil: No. No. And I'm sure that, you know.
• 8:22
  Phil: Alan is the type of person that, even if that were to be what was happening, he'd have no idea that that's what was happening.
• 8:29
  Phil: You know? It's…
• 8:33
  Phil: I… I… Rose is… Rose is not going to make a heel turn. She's… she is not going to, become a villain. This is just for… for… for the tiny amount of prep
• 8:45
  Phil: that… that I put into beforehand for what
• 8:50
  Phil: how… what's going to happen to her in Die. This is… this is becoming additionally… additionally interesting. So, no, this is… this is fruitful. I do like this. I love… I love the… the implications. Okay, so…
• 9:04
  Tad Eggleston: We're all this in a difficult, scary place.
• 9:06
  Phil: And this is a difficult question for… okay, because I had written… okay, we're gonna… we're gonna… we're gonna come back to this one.
• 9:12
  Phil: But I think… I think this is a good amount of meat here. She is a little older, she was a student teacher, or at least someone in the high school. She knew you when you were Lewis.
• 9:25
  Phil: she… so… Where did the change from Lewis to Allen
• 9:32
  Phil: take place. Alan was the, identity you were going by because you were underage, so you had to pretend to be an adult to get hired. Is… was that it?
• 9:45
  Tad Eggleston: I mean… I remember playing a game where I was Alan, and it was cool.
• 9:53
  Tad Eggleston: And I just thought it was a nickname.
• 9:56
  Phil: Mmm, okay.
• 9:58
  Phil: Oh, okay, so…
• 10:00
  Tad Eggleston: You know, like, sometimes when… when you're Robert, people call you Bob, I'm Lewis, people call me Alan.
• 10:08
  Phil: That's great.
• 10:09
  Phil: That's great. Okay.
• 10:11
  Chu: Nice. I just like to think at this point, Bose has corralled the eagle. Oh, like, the swords, like.
• 10:18
  Chu: We are signing.
• 10:20
  Chu: like, in your actual, like, Earth name, and you decide, Alice, go back and…
• 10:27
  Chu: Changed, otherwise the bank has checked.
• 10:34
  Tad Eggleston: I-I didn't understand what Chu said.
• 10:37
  Phil: I think… I think there was something about bank fraud.
• 10:40
  Chu: No, Romney.
• 10:43
  Chu: basically… At this, it's been so long that is just…
• 10:50
  Chu: Sign every album Rose has to go back, and I like to make sure.
• 10:56
  Chu: All legal firms, anything, like, legally, anything, like, property…
• 11:01
  Chu: deeds, loans everything. Because otherwise, it wouldn't be valid.
• 11:12
  Phil: Okay, so that's… so all the legal stuff is… is to Lewis.
• 11:16
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, that would make sense.
• 11:17
  Phil: Okay.
• 11:18
  Phil: And then Alan is… is…
• 11:20
  Chu: Interesting. I just thought because one of our friends who,
• 11:24
  Chu: transitioned a couple years ago, when they were,
• 11:28
  Chu: They had their name exchange, or even willing to get married.
• 11:34
  Chu: The process for changing everything over after any kind of change is a piece of attack.
• 11:42
  Chu: So, if someone isn't getting their name correctly, having… and about… just based on… general,
• 11:52
  Chu: I guess, personality of trying to, like, I have money?
• 11:56
  Chu: We're like, well, I'm Allen might…
• 12:00
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, now that I think about it, I must have money, because anytime I want something, it's there.
• 12:07
  Chu: You also own property, so…
• 12:14
  Larry Woods: Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
• 12:16
  Tad Eggleston: I must say this, I must have money then, because, like…
• 12:20
  Tad Eggleston: I get to do the things that… That… interest me.
• 12:25
  Larry Woods: I wonder if it's more like a wealth versus money, because I know that
• 12:30
  Larry Woods: At least from what I'm getting, Tad.
• 12:31
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, cause I, I mean, I don't even carry a wallet.
• 12:35
  Larry Woods: Yeah.
• 12:38
  Phil: I…
• 12:39
  Phil: I don't know if Alan also imagines his money this way, but I was imagining him with a Scrooge McDuck swimming pool vault.
• 12:47
  Phil: You know? .
• 12:48
  Tad Eggleston: I mean…
• 12:52
  Tad Eggleston: I do have a vault, and it does have a swimming pool, but it's got, like, water in the pool.
• 12:59
  Tad Eggleston: And the vault's really for… The comic books and baseball cards and… So the pool…
• 13:04
  Phil: The pool is not inside the vault.
• 13:07
  Tad Eggleston: It is, it's on the bottom floor.
• 13:10
  Phil: Oh, this is a multi-leveled vault, this is excellent.
• 13:13
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean… There's a lot of artwork.
• 13:20
  Phil: Excellent.
• 13:22
  Phil: Oh… Okay.
• 13:25
  Tad Eggleston: I like artwork.
• 13:26
  Phil: Artwork is great, you know?
• 13:28
  Tad Eggleston: And it's only cool if you can hang it on walls, so I need walls.
• 13:32
  Phil: I've actually… I've seen that phenomenon in place. My wife picked up a couple of pieces of artwork from Goodwill, and when they were just sitting around the apartment, I was like, oh, that's… those look neat. As soon as they were up on the wall, they looked fantastic. Amazing. It was a…
• 13:47
  Phil: Charlie King.
• 13:48
  Tad Eggleston: And, and like… I mean, I don't know, but…
• 13:54
  Tad Eggleston: Exactly how much these pit lake?
• 13:58
  Tad Eggleston: I'm told… that Renoir's… Have people that want them, and might…
• 14:07
  Tad Eggleston: be mean about it, so I figured it was better if we locked them up really good.
• 14:12
  Phil: Okay, okay. The, the personal museum there. Alright, awesome.
• 14:20
  Tad Eggleston: Is it really a museum if nobody else is…
• 14:23
  Tad Eggleston: Generally allowed to come look at them.
• 14:26
  Phil: That's why it's a personal meeting.
• 14:27
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I do lend them out to museums.
• 14:29
  Phil: Okay, interesting, you're on that.
• 14:31
  Tad Eggleston: Because I don't have enough space on my walls.
• 14:33
  Tad Eggleston: And, and why would you put art in a… in, like… A locked room.
• 14:43
  Tad Eggleston: It's gotta… it's gotta be somewhere where somebody can see it.
• 14:47
  Tad Eggleston: So if I'm not using it, I think they go to museums? I don't handle that part, I just…
• 14:54
  Tad Eggleston: There's, there's, there's a cart that says, for museums.
• 14:57
  Tad Eggleston: So if I take something off the wall, I put it on the cart.
• 15:02
  Chu: Another, we had no income.
• 15:09
  Chu: Just like, the character in the book says, please be… goes, yeah, sure, needs such meat.
• 15:21
  Chu: Okay.
• 15:24
  Phil: the way Alan was describing that sounds like an original art library.
• 15:32
  Phil: You take it off the wall. You put it on the cart. That's…
• 15:37
  Phil: That's very, that's very library to me, that's interesting.
• 15:41
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, how are both of you sounding like you're underwater now?
• 15:45
  Phil: I'm underwater?
• 15:46
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, you're both very staticky now.
• 15:49
  Phil: Oh, dang, okay, I might need to…
• 15:50
  Chu: I'm gonna…
• 15:51
  Phil: back inside.
• 15:52
  Chu: I'm gonna switch bikes.
• 15:57
  Larry Woods: Just gonna talk to see how I sound.
• 15:59
  Tad Eggleston: You also sound weird, so now I wonder if it's on my side. How do you sound to each other?
• 16:04
  Phil: You sound normal to me. At least sound normal to me.
• 16:07
  Chu: Everything sounds fun to me.
• 16:09
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, hold on.
• 16:24
  Larry Woods: Array for Technology!
• 16:26
  Phil: Yep. But make things easier. Yep.
• 16:34
  Tad Eggleston: Is anybody talking?
• 16:37
  Larry Woods: I was not talking, no.
• 16:38
  Tad Eggleston: Now you're tough.
• 16:39
  Larry Woods: Now I'm talking. Everybody was talking, now we are.
• 16:41
  Tad Eggleston: Everybody talk again.
• 16:42
  Phil: Okay.
• 16:43
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, my headphones needed to be unplugged and plugged back in.
• 16:46
  Phil: Oh, okay.
• 16:48
  Larry Woods: Interesting.
• 16:49
  Phil: There we go, alright. Okay, we're back on. a reminder to… if we don't edit that out, dear listeners, we apologize for.
• 16:56
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, we won't edit that out. We, we, we, we…
• 16:59
  Chu: You don't do that.
• 17:02
  Phil: There we go. And with that, with the flickering of technological impatience, I take that as a sign from the forge god that we need to get in to die.
• 17:13
  Phil: Let… that… yeah, that's a half hour. Okay, so…
• 17:17
  Phil: We're going to pass out the dice. Today we have… we are down a Peter, so the D10, of the one digits is, off to the side, it is present, it is for the Neo. There are actually two of them, because our 10's D10 belongs to, you heard him before, but our newly-minted cast member!
• 17:41
  Larry Woods: That is me, that is Lee, playing Wilhelm, or Willie to his friends.
• 17:47
  Phil: Willie Dafoe, there we go. Next up, we have the D8, and that, as always, is wielded by…
• 17:57
  Chu: Channel… When I came in…
• 18:05
  Chu: Very fragile… very incredible settlement.
• 18:10
  Chu: We're… That's saying something.
• 18:15
  Phil: Right, and I believe your left arm is still covered in, a sticky mess of red-hot cinnamon and blood,
• 18:25
  Phil: Just watch out.
• 18:26
  Chu: It was not good.
• 18:30
  Chu: Here's something less, like, picking up all the little channels that you're breast.
• 18:37
  Chu: These are not… IPs of, expired in a weird way.
• 18:45
  Phil: Alrighty, next up, we've got the D4, which was wielded by Strife, who was the sister of Garrion, the original wielder of the D10 before it was stolen by the Master.
• 18:59
  Phil: Who wields the D20. And oh, without forgetting, Ted, we've got, just an average, everyday, regular D6, nothing special about it. Hope you're okay with that. You're just along for the ride, right?
• 19:13
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 19:15
  Phil: There we go! Alright, so everyone now, if you'll join me in the ritual, please grab your die, close your eyes, slowly lower it to the table.
• 19:26
  Phil: Still hold on to it, and let go in 3, 2… 1.
• 19:33
  Phil: open your eyes. We are now in die. There is a large amount of rubble, the rubble of the pantheon surrounding us,
• 19:43
  Phil: The… time… the time barrier was melting down at the end of last episode, and for just a second, you see where everyone still was, before…
• 19:57
  Phil: They suddenly blink out and disappear because, they…
• 20:03
  Phil: they became swept up in the, time stream realignment, so now it is literally just the three of you. Smink and Droke have disappeared, the Forge God is gone, Lex is gone, Rose is gone,
• 20:19
  Phil: just the three of you left behind amongst this rubble to talk to each other as, well, so this is where I'll give Willie's heads-up display is,
• 20:33
  Phil: No, it's not giving as detailed of a, description as Peter's Tenney would, but it's basically saying, you know, warning, time anomaly, warning, time anomaly.
• 20:49
  Larry Woods: And I think the only thing is, like, he notices that, but then at the same time, he's looking at the figures in front of him.
• 21:00
  Larry Woods: Definitely seeing the shrink in party size, saying.
• 21:04
  Larry Woods: What the hell is going on here?
• 21:09
  Phil: And so there's a question. Would Willie recognize Alan?
• 21:17
  Larry Woods: I'd… I don't think he would.
• 21:20
  Phil: Okay, so he just knows that you are connected to Rose, who you had known before. So you're basically there with two strangers, and the two of you are there with this mysterious gunman stranger who just showed up.
• 21:36
  Phil: Which, by the way, there… I don't know when's gonna be a good time for it, but you will be level 2.
• 21:42
  Phil: You'll get a level up there now that you… you are spending more time in die, acclimating to it in your die of power, you are, slowly gaining levels to… to meet up to where the rest of the team is at. So we can handle that whenever is necessary. Yeah.
• 21:58
  Phil: Those sorts of things.
• 22:00
  Larry Woods: Oh, and I will note that, Willie will absolutely… where he was initially hostile, when he first met everybody, knowing that Alan, helped him.
• 22:12
  Larry Woods: With the, the sort of…
• 22:14
  Larry Woods: golem giant thing. His hostility has gone down, but now he's just more so confused.
• 22:21
  Phil: more so confused, lost in the rubble. How does Alan take to, sudden disappearances? Is… is that startling, or is that similarly, like.
• 22:32
  Phil: Oh, I guess I wasn't looking at that then.
• 22:37
  Tad Eggleston: Sudden disappearances?
• 22:38
  Phil: Yeah, it's just… it's just the three of you, so Rose and the Lizardmen and, Lex and the Forge God have all disappeared, blinked out as… as the time anomaly, you know, as everything melts… melts out.
• 22:52
  Tad Eggleston: Was… was I looking at them when it happened?
• 22:55
  Phil: I think so, yeah. I think… I think they were at least impressive.
• 22:58
  Tad Eggleston: Then I'm… then I'm… I mean, if they were literally in my… my line of sight, and they're no longer there anymore, I'm like, okay, that's weird,
• 23:11
  Tad Eggleston: I gotta… Does anybody have a spectrometer?
• 23:18
  Phil: spectrometer. I mean…
• 23:20
  Phil: Willie, Willie has a heads-up display of some sort. What are you trying to spectrominate?
• 23:27
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, there were things that were there, and then they're not, so we need to figure out, do we have a boom tube? Do we have…
• 23:36
  Phil: Do we have a teleportation device? Were they atomized? Are we under attack?
• 23:41
  Tad Eggleston: There are lots of questions that need to be answered right now.
• 23:44
  Phil: Okay. How about go ahead and give me an intelligence roll to see what the odds are that you would, connect the, because you could see a sort of temporal distortion, like, the way I'm thinking of it is that, you know.
• 24:01
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, so, so this is a perfect time for me to ask a question, because you, you, you sold me on being a con artist, along with the bard.
• 24:10
  Phil: Huh.
• 24:11
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, the dice seem to actually be part of the game here. Yes. And one of the things that I have as a con artist is access to fake dice.
• 24:23
  Tad Eggleston: Can I use my fake dice?
• 24:26
  Phil: to roll?
• 24:27
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 24:28
  Phil: Yeah! For, for, for, like, for, like, I mean, so, I guess, question.
• 24:34
  Phil: What do fake dice mean to you?
• 24:37
  Tad Eggleston: They mean they're weighted, and I can make them come up the way that I want them to.
• 24:42
  Phil: Hmm? I see, so… So, do you… do you, Tad, have weighted dice?
• 24:48
  Phil: at your disposal at this moment.
• 24:51
  Tad Eggleston: No, I just make it up.
• 24:53
  Phil: I see, okay. So for that, I would say in fiction, like, if we are at a saloon, and it's time to gamble, Alan has weighted dice. But… but…
• 25:06
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 25:07
  Phil: Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:08
  Phil: Tad could use weighted dice without telling me, but he would need actual weighted dice.
• 25:16
  Tad Eggleston: Is that an option on my, my dice roller?
• 25:20
  Phil: Oh, that is fascinating. That is fascinating.
• 25:25
  Phil: I, it's… if… if you can, if you can get it here…
• 25:29
  Phil: You are the fool attempting to roll intelligence, for… for expediency. Feel free to add your fool die to this… to this intelligence roll. If that one succeeds, you might get a… a ridiculous idea of what has happened.
• 25:45
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, wait a minute. There's a gravity option.
• 25:48
  Phil: Ho, wow!
• 25:50
  Phil: This is fascinating. This is a potential wormhole for us.
• 25:54
  Tad Eggleston: Statistics on… That's… Alright.
• 25:59
  Tad Eggleston: So… Fine.
• 26:04
  Tad Eggleston: I have to work on the ability to cheat better at a later time.
• 26:10
  Phil: There we go.
• 26:10
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, we have established that Alan is a problem solver of the next level.
• 26:17
  Phil: He is a fan of the, Kobayashi Maru technique? Is that it? Is that the Star Trek one?
• 26:23
  Tad Eggleston: Sure, sure, yeah.
• 26:24
  Phil: Something already.
• 26:25
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, just so you're aware, like, first.
• 26:31
  Tad Eggleston: I have 2 intelligence, so I have… I'm draw… I'm rolling 2 dice, plus my…
• 26:36
  Phil: You're fooled out, yeah.
• 26:36
  Tad Eggleston: bye.
• 26:37
  Phil: For a silly… for a silly thought, yeah.
• 26:39
  Tad Eggleston: And… I have my cube on 6, I have O's on 2, 3, 5, and 4.
• 26:53
  Phil: Oh, wow, that's a lot of O's.
• 26:54
  Tad Eggleston: And I have no crosses.
• 26:56
  Phil: Okay.
• 26:57
  Phil: If… If, if you wanted to save… well…
• 27:01
  Phil: it's up to you to include that or not, because at this point, it's like, if you want to save it for an actual lucky, instead of just realizing what's happening when… when we kind of already know, feel free to… do what you'd like. Do what you'd like.
• 27:15
  Tad Eggleston: I mean… I'm a troublemaker, and I wanna… I wanna know, no, no, what's happening.
• 27:22
  Phil: Okay.
• 27:26
  Tad Eggleston: 4, 5, and a 5 on the fool die.
• 27:29
  Phil: Excellent, okay. So, you some… somehow, for some reason,
• 27:35
  Phil: So, the way I would describe this is that
• 27:39
  Phil: For kind of a… the surrounding 100 feet around you, you know, the area that you…
• 27:45
  Phil: can mostly see is, you know, the rubble. Shortly beyond that, there was kind of a distortion effect to where it looks like… it's kind of like in a video game when… or an old-school video game where the area past where you could see hasn't quite loaded yet.
• 28:04
  Phil: But then as the time barrier comes down, it's almost like the slightly blurry sky is falling backward to become an ocean.
• 28:13
  Phil: And… Something about all this, you're, you're realizing that,
• 28:23
  Phil: there is a certain element of, time-space warping going on. You are… you all, the dice wielders, are slightly unstuck from time in an odd way. So… so you know that
• 28:41
  Phil: You know that, for some reason, between
• 28:46
  Phil: The… the last moment of last episode, and now, more time has passed.
• 28:53
  Phil: Then, you know, what's been… what's been…
• 28:56
  Tad Eggleston: But in a…
• 28:57
  Phil: who is…
• 28:58
  Tad Eggleston: But in a, digital pixelated… Video game sense.
• 29:08
  Phil: Well, so that's the thing, is that…
• 29:10
  Phil: The digital, pixelated video game sense is turning real.
• 29:15
  Phil: That's… that's the… the after effect of the, of the, of the, time bubble popping.
• 29:20
  Phil: Is that what previously looked like.
• 29:23
  Tad Eggleston: But I know we're already in a game world that… so I now… I say.
• 29:31
  Tad Eggleston: I need a laptop connected to the world's interface.
• 29:36
  Phil: Interesting.
• 29:38
  Phil: And…
• 29:38
  Tad Eggleston: My request for the game.
• 29:40
  Phil: Okay, so wait, so first, first order of business, the 5, did you have a circle on the 5?
• 29:48
  Tad Eggleston: I did.
• 29:48
  Phil: You did, okay, excellent. So this is a little bit of a lucky thing, and are you adding a cross to get this laptop immediately? Yes, I am. Okay, excellent. So it falls, or it doesn't fall out of the sky. It actually, one of… one of the rocks, the top of it opens up like a laptop.
• 30:08
  Phil: And so, it's a giant… it's a big stone, but the top of it is a little keyboard and screen, and you can type at that and interface with that, if you will.
• 30:19
  Phil: what… what are you trying to figure out? What would you like to know?
• 30:23
  Tad Eggleston: Well, right now, I'm just trying to work my way into the system.
• 30:25
  Phil: Stuff out, so it's probably somebody else's turn for right now. Okay, well, I mean.
• 30:30
  Chu: because… because I'm on Carlos, but I'm not… I would like for…
• 30:38
  Chu: I was just, like, just because we didn't have…
• 30:42
  Chu: Oh, this is… weird. I started, like, going around and looking around, Do these open, or just…
• 30:50
  Chu: What the hell?
• 30:53
  Chu: At this point, I would just circle around and start…
• 30:56
  Chu: Not expecting, like, as a player, not expecting me. It's more the, in reaction to watching.
• 31:04
  Chu: A guy's caddy. Open up a rock and start.
• 31:08
  Chu: doing stuff.
• 31:11
  Phil: Okay, so you are… you are trying to… to similarly open up rocks.
• 31:16
  Chu: Yeah, I don't expect to be fine, I think it's just a reaction to…
• 31:21
  Chu: Well, I guess, again, for the first, like, five to two weeks, are we across… I never did drugs, but this would be drugs.
• 31:33
  Phil: Awesome.
• 31:34
  Tad Eggleston: Is Chu still cackling for other people?
• 31:38
  Phil: Cackling?
• 31:39
  Tad Eggleston: That there seems to be a.
• 31:41
  Phil: A little bit, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 31:43
  Chu: Yeah, I'm not surprised.
• 31:45
  Chu: I'm gonna try my paper, entire.
• 31:49
  Phil: Okay.
• 31:51
  Chu: plunging for rocks.
• 31:53
  Phil: Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, okay. And so I guess this is… so… so that's… this is the funny thing, is that, since this is a laptop that interfaces with the world, Willy is basically getting all of the information that it's displaying
• 32:09
  Phil: to his heads up, there's, like, a little readout that popped up, and it's just, like, it's like a rudimentary map.
• 32:17
  Phil: That you have, and you see that, you, you're effectively… on,
• 32:25
  Phil: An island, and you know that if you venture out, there, there is, ocean.
• 32:33
  Phil: Nearby.
• 32:34
  Phil: So just, Pat, that's… that's… that's the… the information on the laptop.
• 32:41
  Phil: as, you know, that's… that's what the readout is on this, Stoney laptop, is that it's… it's a rudimentary, navigation map system.
• 32:52
  Larry Woods: Okay.
• 32:55
  Larry Woods: I'll relay that information. I just imagine I ask the question, like, what the hell's going on here? And then they just start picking up rocks.
• 33:04
  Phil: Right, right. And yeah, one of these rocks is… is… it's… which, by the way, I… I would say rather than a rock, it's a stone, so this is, like, yeah, this is a good… this thing weighs, like.
• 33:16
  Phil: 50 pounds. This is like a 50-pound stone that the top of it flipped open and has, you know… the display is in,
• 33:26
  Phil: they're, like, cave… combination of, relief carvings and cave drawings.
• 33:33
  Phil: So that's… that's also, like, the… what the screen looks like, and of course, the… the keys are all various stone… stonework that, does wiggle slightly. So, so yeah.
• 33:45
  Phil: That sounds like a pretty cool computer. Yeah, this… this is… this is, some… some caveman… high-tech caveman shit right here, that's for sure.
• 33:54
  Larry Woods: So, yeah, I think we're taking note of that with,
• 33:58
  Larry Woods: Alan, whom I don't think he's formally been introduced yet, and…
• 34:02
  Larry Woods: choose character who, I forgot his name.
• 34:05
  Phil: Eamon.
• 34:06
  Larry Woods: Amon, who he doesn't know.
• 34:09
  Larry Woods: Just sort of notes, it seems like we're on an island, and…
• 34:16
  Larry Woods: We're… we're… we're on an island surrounded by an ocean, this thing.
• 34:22
  Larry Woods: What'd we make of that?
• 34:28
  Phil: This is the, the first decision in any survival situation is, is do you… do you go, or do you… do you make camp?
• 34:36
  Tad Eggleston: I'm still tapping away on the computer, though. Here's my question.
• 34:41
  Tad Eggleston: This is not something I'm saying, this is something that I'm putting to the Game Master, because you have to figure out if there's something that I can do to make it happen. I'm getting frustrated with the interface. I know that the interface is part of the whole algorithm, the coding that I'm already looking at. I want to change it to be, like, a regular laptop rather than this big stone thing.
• 35:04
  Tad Eggleston: What do I have to, to…
• 35:06
  Phil: Mmm.
• 35:07
  Tad Eggleston: It's your role to make that happen.
• 35:10
  Phil: Wow. I'm doing some coding here. Doing some coding here. Okay, so you're… you're trying… you're trying to…
• 35:16
  Phil: Okay, so you're trying to get this… this stone… Interface connected to the world.
• 35:25
  Tad Eggleston: Well, no, it was already… already connected to the world.
• 35:28
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 35:28
  Tad Eggleston: That's part of what I requested.
• 35:29
  Phil: Right, right, right. I'm not trying to…
• 35:30
  Tad Eggleston: reprogram part of the world, because I don't like…
• 35:34
  Phil: Right. So… this… here's the thing, Lex would be able to, do some sort of hacking transmutation.
• 35:45
  Phil: To do that.
• 35:47
  Phil: but I don't think that you're able to. So right now, you're kind of… you've got a,
• 35:54
  Tad Eggleston: So, even though you just told me that apparently I'm very, very rich because of my coding abilities, I can't… I can't… I can't figure out how to code this?
• 36:03
  Phil: So here's… so here's…
• 36:05
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I'm not saying that it will necessarily go right every time. No, no, no, no, no, no. But I feel like I should be able to make efforts.
• 36:13
  Phil: Okay, okay, so, so let me, let me make this, let me, let me put this out here. So you'll hear a lot of programmers, a lot of people in tech say, computers can do anything. They can do anything. Your imagination.
• 36:24
  Tad Eggleston: No, I know better than that.
• 36:26
  Phil: I know you know better than that, most people don't know better than that. Anyone who I come across that says that, what I want to say to them is, okay, make it computer love.
• 36:34
  Phil: It's pretty tough. It's gonna be pretty tough.
• 36:39
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, but this computer already made time speed up, so, I mean, that would be less impossible for this computer than most computers.
• 36:47
  Phil: So the computer did not make time speed up.
• 36:53
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know, by acknowledging that there was a computer that could connect to the world's interface.
• 37:00
  Tad Eggleston: You, you, you acknowledged that the, the, the world was computational.
• 37:06
  Phil: Yes, yes, we've established that, from the existence.
• 37:10
  Tad Eggleston: So the computer made the time speed up.
• 37:15
  Phil: The world made the time speed up, and the computer's connected to the world, but…
• 37:21
  Tad Eggleston: No, the computer is the world.
• 37:24
  Phil: Well, so…
• 37:25
  Tad Eggleston: Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to interface with the world.
• 37:27
  Phil: Yeah, they're, like, networked, you know? So… so it's the kind of thing where, like.
• 37:32
  Phil: You can interface with it. You have very restricted permissions.
• 37:37
  Tad Eggleston: But once again, I would be working on hacking those permissions. I mean, that's… Sure.
• 37:42
  Phil: But, yes, yes, but, but, but, what I'm getting at here is that the issue of turning the stone relief carving, painting-based graphics to a modern screen, that is an issue of hardware, not software.
• 38:10
  Tad Eggleston: I don't buy it. We weren't in this environment minutes ago.
• 38:17
  Tad Eggleston: People were left behind. That's a software thing. If it was hardware, they'd still be here, because the software couldn't.
• 38:25
  Phil: So, so the soft… yes, the, the time bubble is software. wanting a computer that… that has better graphics than cave paintings is hardware.
• 38:36
  Tad Eggleston: But the computer itself is software. I requested it, and it appeared.
• 38:43
  Phil: Yeah… Question mark.
• 38:49
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, my skateboard was software, you know, all of this stuff is software.
• 38:53
  Phil: Where?
• 38:54
  Tad Eggleston: I'm calling for it, and it's appearing. Now, the gods decided to fuck with me, and make me learn this…
• 39:02
  Tad Eggleston: Stupid…
• 39:04
  Tad Eggleston: stupid cave-painting interface, which is still just masking zeros and ones, and… and decided to do it all in a fucking 50-pound rock container, so I can't even pick it up and go find somewhere comfortable to sit.
• 39:21
  Tad Eggleston: So, of course, the first thing I'm gonna do is try to figure out how to make it more comfortable, and not as hard on the eyes.
• 39:29
  Phil: So… so… a couple things, a couple things. First of all, have you read David Foster Wallace's This Is Water?
• 39:38
  Tad Eggleston: No.
• 39:39
  Phil: It's really good. It's really good. It's a really good short announcement speech, but… but… Basically,
• 39:50
  Phil: you are a fish that has now realized that you're in water, but you still need to breathe it. That's…
• 39:57
  Phil: you, you are railing against the limits of… of your mortal coil, at this moment. It…
• 40:04
  Phil: a couple things happen, as well. One, if you would like to try to chisel out the top layer of the keyboard from the rock.
• 40:15
  Phil: That might be something.
• 40:18
  Phil: And then two is that, you hear a… There is, you know, a sound of, of kind of a boat that is, just offshore, that, what's it?
• 40:37
  Phil: Willie is getting that ping, that that sound is coming… you know, you have… you're able to track down the source of the sound with your heads-up display, with your Neo interface. 50 pounds isn't that bad.
• 40:49
  Phil: You know, it'd be awkward to carry it.
• 40:51
  Tad Eggleston: if I wanna, like, walk and work…
• 40:55
  Phil: Yeah, it…
• 40:56
  Tad Eggleston: I like to walk and work.
• 40:58
  Phil: Yeah.
• 40:59
  Phil: This is… so this is the… the…
• 41:04
  Phil: the… First of all, this is… this is probably the most tablet laptop you've ever had.
• 41:11
  Phil: It's like a stone tablet.
• 41:13
  Phil: And you know, it's kind of like the laptop that you always have to keep plugged in, or else it's gonna die immediately. It's, it's, it's kind of like that, only its battery pack is, is, is, 45 pounds of stone.
• 41:28
  Larry Woods: Jesus. I want to put this out there, if, once Willie sort of hears the sound of the ship, I think he's gonna look that way and start walking. He's not running anywhere, but he'll walk that way.
• 41:42
  Phil: So you're starting to investigate, you're starting to head out towards the ship.
• 41:45
  Larry Woods: Yes.
• 41:50
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): And I think after looking at all the rocks.
• 41:53
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Because there's only so many in this area, I'm just gonna kinda, like.
• 41:57
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Shrugged my shoulder, like, and just kind of…
• 42:02
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Slowly walk towards the ship as well.
• 42:07
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): And, also, do I see Alan kind of having…
• 42:11
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'm getting really frustrated right now.
• 42:14
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, you can see that, he, he is…
• 42:18
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I guess to kind of…
• 42:19
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): in my own weird way to ground him, just because I saw it work at the comic shop many times, like.
• 42:24
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Hey, hey, Alan?
• 42:26
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Who do you think is more influential, John Romita Jr. or John Romita Sr? And I just kind of start to walk…
• 42:33
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Just to kind of…
• 42:34
  Tad Eggleston: What an idiotic question.
• 42:38
  Tad Eggleston: It's clearly senior.
• 42:42
  Tad Eggleston: And I go back to work. But I'm calmer.
• 42:45
  Phil: This is excellent. This is great. I'm trying to tell you, you can take the rock with you, if you want. It'd be cumbersome, you need to, you know, maybe… maybe…
• 42:56
  Tad Eggleston: Not yet. Not yet.
• 42:57
  Phil: Okay, you're still going. let me see, what can we do here? What can we do here? Because you're trying to… you're trying to hack into the world, from…
• 43:09
  Phil: A rock. Let me… okay, so here's… here's the thing. Alright, what am I gonna roll? What am I gonna roll…
• 43:15
  Tad Eggleston: This is… this is… this is gonna be…
• 43:17
  Phil: gonna happen.
• 43:18
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, this is gonna be another out-of-character thing. Remember, I'm a constant problem solver and autistic, so…
• 43:26
  Phil: Mike.
• 43:28
  Phil: I will either need to solve this problem…
• 43:31
  Tad Eggleston: actually decide that it's unsolvable, which will A lot of time.
• 43:36
  Tad Eggleston: or have something kick me towards other things. So if you're saying that I can't solve this problem, which is fair, you… DM, you're allowed to, like.
• 43:47
  Phil: Well.
• 43:47
  Tad Eggleston: Alan is gonna be, occupied for a bit, focused…
• 43:53
  Phil: Who gets fun.
• 43:53
  Tad Eggleston: The other guy, until something actually grabs his attention back to anything other than the…
• 44:02
  Phil: Okay. This is good, because…
• 44:04
  Tad Eggleston: On the computer screen.
• 44:05
  Phil: Right, and that's… and that's one where… where…
• 44:08
  Phil: You know, it's basically saying that Because… Okay, so yeah, so, so… Alright.
• 44:21
  Phil: So, hmm…
• 44:23
  Phil: I'm gonna need to… I'm gonna need a definite stone-based, programming language pun at some point.
• 44:32
  Phil: But that's… that's kinda… that's kind of the gist of it, is… is… I mean, well…
• 44:38
  Phil: For me, in my, in my, you know, the hard, the hard logic,
• 44:43
  Phil: The hard logic sort of,
• 44:49
  Phil: Sorry, I was very immediately distracted by that last.
• 44:52
  Tad Eggleston: Capping. That was…
• 44:55
  Phil: That was.
• 44:56
  Tad Eggleston: That was an off-screen thing that I.
• 44:59
  Phil: That was, that was, essential.
• 45:01
  Tad Eggleston: Bill's way that was supposed to just reassure him, and instead, like, short-circuited his brain.
• 45:10
  Phil: Because, okay, so here's a fun thing about me. Whenever, whenever there's… someone suggests something, like, says, hey, could you do this? Or, hey, what… do you want to do this? I think about it happening immediately. So, of course, when I get that, I think that that was happening immediately, but it's not. Anyway, back on track,
• 45:30
  Phil: So, my… with my analogy for this is water, and sort of…
• 45:34
  Phil: Putting out that, you know, you are a piece… well, you are potentially
• 45:42
  Phil: If not a piece of software within this environment that you know is interfaceable in some way,
• 45:50
  Phil: then, at the very least, are in an interfaceable environment, but… so you know that it can be changed, but you don't know how to change it, you know? It's… it's one of those things where the…
• 46:05
  Phil: The limits of,
• 46:10
  Phil: You know, I guess what I'm saying is, you have an intelligence of 2. This is the average intelligence of a person. Yes, you have been able to leverage that into billions. That says more about billionaires than average, everyday people. But…
• 46:24
  Phil: this is a magical coding environment. It requires, an intelligence of, 4… 4 or higher to truly interface with, or at least 3, you know? You need to be at least the smartest possible person, which Lex is, you know, as well as she has the gifts from the Neo that let her do that sort of stuff. So…
• 46:46
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, it's one of those things where I was trying to come up with what would the world do in response after it is feeling you trying your hardest to mess with it.
• 47:00
  Phil: And… I mean, my initial response is, like.
• 47:07
  Phil: Yeah, this is gonna be… this is gonna be a good while of, messing with it. So, here's the thing, if, you are going to… if Alan is going to stubbornly stay at the, the lap rock and,
• 47:22
  Phil: pound away at it for… he's going to see little, cave drawings, because…
• 47:29
  Phil: Chu and, or Willie and Eamonn have gone out towards the sounds of the boat. They are going to meet the, greeting party, and then the greeting party is going to,
• 47:42
  Phil: head back your way to… to interface with you. So… so what…
• 47:46
  Phil: is, you know, in front of you, the sort of relief… relief sculpture, cave painting of your media environment of an island. You're seeing a small party now working its way towards the… your… so you're… you're pounding away on this computer, trying to hack it, and it's basically just showing you this as it's happening, and now showing you cave painting drawings of,
• 48:08
  Phil: Eamon and Willie and, about 5, Clockwork Chocolate Cogmen.
• 48:17
  Phil: And, what can only be described as a pirate queen.
• 48:24
  Phil: Coming up behind you.
• 48:27
  Tad Eggleston: So, when they are… Within 10 feet of me, on the screen in front of me.
• 48:34
  Tad Eggleston: being.
• 48:35
  Tad Eggleston: the scaled version of 10 feet, I turn around, and I just say, so, what the fuck are we doing? Where is Rose? Why did you speed time up? And, like…
• 48:50
  Tad Eggleston: I miss my skateboard.
• 48:53
  Phil: And that's where the Pirate crew… the Pirate Queen says,
• 48:59
  Phil: Well, I can answer at least one of those. And you see tucked behind her ear a black leather rose, and
• 49:08
  Phil: She is… she is older than you, she's about 50 now, but it's still Rose.
• 49:13
  Phil: She has become a pirate queen in the 10 years between episodes here.
• 49:21
  Phil: And it's followed by, some…
• 49:26
  Tad Eggleston: That makes sense. Yeah. Very cool. Okay.
• 49:29
  Phil: Yeah, so here's a.
• 49:30
  Tad Eggleston: What's next?
• 49:31
  Phil: A quick question out of character for you, which member of the One Piece crew
• 49:38
  Phil: do you think is most like Rose? Just to give her a sort of visual… visual piece of flair.
• 49:44
  Tad Eggleston: Nico, nice.
• 49:47
  Phil: Okay.
• 49:48
  Tad Eggleston: Listen, Nico… no, Robin, yeah, Nico Robin.
• 49:51
  Phil: Nico Robin, okay. So, anyone listening, she looks a little bit more like Nico Robin than she did before, and is, is saying, like, alright, honey, you know.
• 50:01
  Phil: It's a bit of a dead end here, but if you want to head back to my ship, I can start showing you what we've figured out, what we've learned so far. You know, the… this… this…
• 50:15
  Phil: she… she's basically, you know, saying, I'll answer what questions I can, as opposed to, you know, time didn't speed up for me, it just slowed down for you.
• 50:24
  Phil: you've been… this is, this is, you know, the first time I've come back to you, and you haven't been frozen in place.
• 50:30
  Phil: for… About 10 years now.
• 50:36
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 50:37
  Phil: Yeah. So that was… that was simply the, as the time bubble burst, it… it affected the NPCs before the player characters. Just warning you, I'm not… I'm not… we're not gonna do 10-year gaps every episode, that would get pretty ridiculous pretty quickly.
• 50:51
  Tad Eggleston: I do pick up the, laptop at this point.
• 50:54
  Phil: Okay, yep.
• 50:55
  Tad Eggleston: me to the boat.
• 50:56
  Phil: Both hands, so you're, you're, you're kind of like, you know.
• 50:59
  Phil: you're encumbered in any video game with a weight limit, you know, you are, like, walking slowly and awkwardly as you're carrying this, like, big 50-pound rock with you. But yeah, yeah, alright, so you're taking it with you. And so now we are going back to the boat, you know? There is the little tiny, chocolate robo…
• 51:17
  Tad Eggleston: Well, it's not in both hands. I took my cloak and I wrapped it around it, and then I.
• 51:20
  Phil: Tied the top of my head.
• 51:21
  Tad Eggleston: cloak, and I have it on a bag.
• 51:23
  Phil: Nice. Carrying over a shoulder. Okay.
• 51:26
  Tad Eggleston: Dumb.
• 51:27
  Phil: Okay, okay, you sh… alright, alright. That's a… that's a little bit better, it's a little bit better. See, me, I always, I always try to… try to, you know, manhandle things, leverage it off my gut, but, you know, that's pretty good.
• 51:38
  Tad Eggleston: Well, yeah, but what if I need my sword?
• 51:42
  Phil: If you need your sword, you're gonna drop the 50-pound rock.
• 51:45
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, but it's gonna drop more…
• 51:49
  Tad Eggleston: A, I'm holding it with one hand now, rather than two.
• 51:55
  Tad Eggleston: B, even if I have to drop it, it's gonna drop in a more controlled way, because I'm dropping… Yeah, you'll drop it behind you, I'll give you that.
• 52:03
  Phil: I will say, I'm not… I'm not gonna engage you in combat while… while over-encumbering you with our lap rock here.
• 52:13
  Larry Woods: I mean, that's fantastic.
• 52:14
  Tad Eggleston: But that's not how my brain works.
• 52:16
  Phil: Yes, no, I understand, I understand. I've been devious before. But yeah, so, so here's the other thing, is that,
• 52:23
  Phil: on his birthday, Karen Gillen put out an article starting his list of 101 favorite RPGs. He talked about a session of Rune Master where he,
• 52:35
  Phil: his group was, okay, explore a tower that was literally empty and had something they couldn't interface with it. I wanted to do at least a little bit of that, you know, only hopefully interesting, in that
• 52:48
  Phil: I have drawn out, you know, sort of a rough map of this pirate ship, and basically the rest of this episode is gonna be, alright guys, you can explore this pirate ship.
• 52:58
  Phil: As much as you want. And, it'll end when you find the, the interesting thing.
• 53:04
  Larry Woods: Perfect.
• 53:05
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Equivalent of a sink on the ship.
• 53:08
  Phil: A sink? Oh, well, I mean, no, but, you know, it… we're by the ocean now, so I'd say that's a good chance that…
• 53:15
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): And try and get all this stuff off.
• 53:19
  Phil: Yeah, that works. That's good. You're… it's one of those where it… it's now stained red a little bit from having been, you know, covered in goop, but it no longer feels sticky and weird. It's… it's at least feeling as normal as it can if it doesn't still look.
• 53:38
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): smell.
• 53:39
  Phil: No, I think… I think it's… it's mostly gone, it's just, like, the food coloring sort.
• 53:46
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): and… But you still… but unconsciously, I still smell, just because of the… Yeah, the culture's, like…
• 53:55
  Phil: The trauma of it all.
• 53:56
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I was like, I think I still smell this.
• 53:57
  Phil: So just you, just you, can still smell cinnamon, and yeah, the smell of cinnamon reminds you of murder.
• 54:09
  Larry Woods: If I may, here too, when encountering Miss Rose, and I recognize that it's Miss Rose, or Willie does, say, well, Miss Rose, fancy seeing you here, and then does the,
• 54:25
  Larry Woods: his best, sort of, greeting, pirate greeting, I don't know what that is.
• 54:30
  Phil: Okay, okay. I don't know what a pirate grading is too, but yeah, I… for some reason, I imagined you, like, spinning your… your Colt 45, like, on one finger and holstering it in a… in a sort of dramatic fashion, you know?
• 54:42
  Phil: Yeah.
• 54:43
  Phil: Yeah, and she's like, oh, Willie, you know, we'll need your… your sharpshooting eye on these adventures, you know? It's a dangerous world out there, hence my needing to come up, as a pirate queen.
• 54:56
  Tad Eggleston: It's Rose's Ship…
• 54:58
  Phil: But we're looking for…
• 55:03
  Tad Eggleston: Something…
• 55:04
  Phil: So, so, the ship, as you are, are, you know, the rowboat coming up to it, you see that the face of it is… the whole ship is the, the forge god, that was the clockwork golem she befriended, and it's now turned into a chocolate pirate ship. It's a giant chocolate pirate ship.
• 55:23
  Phil: Well, yeah, so now you're, you, you know, are now on deck, the, the, you know, sort of…
• 55:30
  Tad Eggleston: N.
• 55:30
  Phil: Yeah. If she's the Pirate Queen, this has been her ship. Yeah.
• 55:35
  Tad Eggleston: But there's something special that we're looking for.
• 55:38
  Phil: I mean, it's just… it's just explore the ship, you know? Yeah, there's some interesting things in the ship.
• 55:42
  Tad Eggleston: I thought you said we were exploring the ship and looking for something in particular.
• 55:46
  Phil: There's… there is one particular thing that I would like to end the episode on, but there's… there's hopefully some neat stuff to… Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry.
• 55:54
  Phil: Being a little… a little indirect there.
• 55:58
  Phil: But yeah, so now you're on the deck of this pirate ship. Most of the, you know, the sort of average, everyday deckhand pirates are, chocolate clockwork men, so that they are, you know, sort of running around. They…
• 56:14
  Phil: They're there, but they don't really talk.
• 56:19
  Phil: Helming, holding the wheel is, her first mate, who is the Dread Pirate Roberts from The Princess Bride, if anyone's familiar with that.
• 56:32
  Tad Eggleston: 1…
• 56:33
  Phil: The… third one?
• 56:37
  Tad Eggleston: See, I was hoping it would be the last one.
• 56:40
  Phil: I believe the third one is the last one. At least… well, no, I guess not, because there's… I'm told. The last one, yes, it is the last one.
• 56:48
  Tad Eggleston: It's so, so, so… I say, hey, Fezzik.
• 56:53
  Phil: So there's… oh, dang it, you tricked me.
• 57:01
  Phil: Okay, alright, you tricked me. You successfully tricked me in the end, yeah, I was gonna say…
• 57:05
  Tad Eggleston: What did Wesley retire to?
• 57:07
  Phil: I was gonna say it's Wesley… okay, so Wesley has now retired, to…
• 57:13
  Tad Eggleston: You gotta do it in the Fezzik voice.
• 57:15
  Phil: Oh, yeah, I'm gonna say…
• 57:16
  Tad Eggleston: Gotta do it in the Fezzik voice.
• 57:18
  Phil: Oh, well, well, I was gonna say the only things he says is, as you wish. God, that's a terrible fesic, that's like Fozzie Bear. Oh, that's awful. Anybody want a peanut? I haven't done this in… okay, I'm gonna… son of a bitch, alright.
• 57:33
  Phil: Yep, okay, well, it's Fezzik. It's… I was gonna have it be Wesley, and I was gonna say there was, like, this… this sort of…
• 57:39
  Tad Eggleston: Tired.
• 57:40
  Phil: I know Wesley.
• 57:41
  Tad Eggleston: Wesley found his buttercup, and he retired.
• 57:44
  Phil: Son of a bitch.
• 57:46
  Phil: Son of a bitch. Yeah, so…
• 57:49
  Tad Eggleston: I suppose it in a go.
• 57:52
  Phil: No.
• 57:53
  Tad Eggleston: I feel like Inigo would have been…
• 57:55
  Phil: It's definitely perfect. He would have, you're right, you're right.
• 57:59
  Tad Eggleston: So, I look up and I say, oh, Ainigo's here too, how's it going? We'll have to spar later.
• 58:05
  Phil: Yeah, I guess Indigo is here, he's the second mate. Yeah, second mate, Inigo, I gotta, gotta make a character for him. Now, this is perfect. You know, this is… this is in true Fourth World tradition. Any other pirate crew members you'd like to see, now would be a great time to call them out and mention them on this, chocolate pirate crew. So yeah, so, so, alright.
• 58:23
  Phil: So here's… so here's the thing…
• 58:25
  Tad Eggleston: Don't you dare eat the ship.
• 58:30
  Phil: Well, if he's here too, he might be made of chocolate himself.
• 58:33
  Tad Eggleston: This Pirate Queen and Pirate King thing, it's… it's not a… it's not an actual marriage thing, because, like, Rose is my girl.
• 58:41
  Phil: Well, and so that's the thing, is when… when it was Dread Pirate Roberts Wesley, the only thing he was gonna say is, as you wish, and… and, you know, he and Rose were gonna be really close. Maybe… I don't… it doesn't play the same effect as…
• 58:55
  Tad Eggleston: Luffy's the Pirate King.
• 58:57
  Phil: Luffy is the Pirate King, indeed. Are you at a point… is he officially the Pirate King where you're at in One Piece? No, I didn't think so. I didn't think so. So we might… we might just say that Luffy is, like, a,
• 59:09
  Phil: He's… he's the… so you know how there's usually, like, a lady at the front of a ship?
• 59:13
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, then how about I'll be… Luffy, I'm all in favor of you becoming the Pirate King, but that's… that's a… that's a title, not a romantic thing.
• 59:25
  Phil: Damn.
• 59:26
  Tad Eggleston: I have no problem being the first pirate.
• 59:29
  Tad Eggleston: You don't need to… I'll have the honorary…
• 59:33
  Tad Eggleston: You don't need to marry the queen.
• 59:38
  Phil: IRC is…
• 59:39
  Tad Eggleston: Rose, where are your quarters?
• 59:42
  Phil: Okay, that's actually at the back of the ship.
• 59:44
  Phil: Which is, the back of the deck, yeah, you can head towards the quarters, and head to…
• 59:50
  Tad Eggleston: towards the quarters.
• 59:51
  Phil: Head towards the court, she takes me there.
• 59:52
  Tad Eggleston: and take my guitar out, and start strumming.
• 59:56
  Phil: Alright, just playing a… playing a fine little tune.
• 1:00:01
  Phil: There we go. she… I mean, she would definitely… she wouldn't leave you in… well, yeah, she wouldn't leave you in the quarters unattuned. So, I think, yeah, I think she's just gonna dip out with you there, and Willie and, Eamon, if… if you want to keep exploring. You know, you got Dread Pirate Fezzik.
• 1:00:19
  Phil: At the wheel.
• 1:00:21
  Phil: Asking people if they want peanuts, but providing none.
• 1:00:27
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I probably just heard… Do you guys mind if I go…
• 1:00:33
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): check the kitchen for a snack, and I just kind of… like, I'm just kind of…
• 1:00:39
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Usually, I'm… the rule… I wait for people, like, yeah, that's okay, but I'm just like.
• 1:00:44
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'm really hungry, so I just start However.
• 1:00:48
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): if you want me to roll to make an order, I'm just gonna…
• 1:00:51
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): start just walking where I think the kitchen might be.
• 1:00:54
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): And so… Oh, I don't… I don't know if that…
• 1:00:57
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): based on the ship, I don't know if it's… it'd be set up, like.
• 1:01:01
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): where a kitchen logically… logically would be. I just kind of start just… Opening doors.
• 1:01:08
  Phil: Logically, where's… so, first of all, you definitely pass by a barrel full of oranges, because they're pirates, and they need to, they still need to fend off scurvy, so I guess… I guess that means a good… that they're chocolate orange, pirates, which is good.
• 1:01:22
  Phil: But yeah, so if you want an orange, they're right there. You know, but if you do want to look… I think a kitchen would definitely be below deck. On a ship this large.
• 1:01:33
  Phil: Do you know where a kitchen would normally be? I forgot to include that in my plans, but I can add it in pretty quick.
• 1:01:40
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): As a player, yes. As Eamon, Not a frickin' clue.
• 1:01:45
  Phil: Sure, sure, sure.
• 1:01:46
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I, like, I have, I have, like… Because,
• 1:01:52
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I know where the… Amy knows…
• 1:01:54
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): What parts of the ship are called, but as far as layout, it kind of depends on…
• 1:02:01
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): He just knows that it kind of depends on what
• 1:02:05
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): era and style of the ship it's modeled after, so it could be anywhere. Oh, fascinating. Okay, good. That's the librarian background, so it's the…
• 1:02:13
  Phil: Right.
• 1:02:14
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): No, not practical knowledge.
• 1:02:17
  Phil: Okay, okay. That's pretty good, but no, I just mean, I mean, I forgot to include a kitchen, so I was just taking it on, it's below deck somewhere. I have to imagine that probably towards the back, like, below the captain's quarters.
• 1:02:31
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): So you're secretly serving the entire crew as the DM.
• 1:02:35
  Phil: Secretly starving? Well, so here's the thing, most of the crew are, made of chocolate, so, you know, I don't really know what sustenance they require, other than not melting, their, their automatons. So really, the…
• 1:02:50
  Phil: there's a, there's a limited number of, of food-ingesting, people. We've got… we've got Fezik, we've got Indigo, Smink and Droke are around here,
• 1:03:01
  Phil: you wouldn't have heard him or seen him wave high, but Droke is sitting up in the crow's nest. He was the one who blew… who blew the horn before, so that's how he alerts people to, to, you know, land hoe and… and… and such.
• 1:03:16
  Phil: I think Smink is gonna be the chef, he's gonna be, you know, this is gonna… I'm gonna have to look up the famous…
• 1:03:22
  Phil: Chef's make that as a sudden decision.
• 1:03:25
  Phil: This is his new… his new era. I'm gonna have to look up…
• 1:03:30
  Phil: famous lines from the chef on the boat of Moby Dick.
• 1:03:34
  Phil: This is another… along with rewatching Princess Bride, that's gotta happen to work on my Fezik accent.
• 1:03:41
  Phil: Touche. Touche, Tad. That was well done. But yeah, there's also… a,
• 1:03:52
  Phil: Navigator quarters. So, okay, so… so…
• 1:03:59
  Phil: So you're wandering below deck, Chew.
• 1:04:02
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Yeah.
• 1:04:03
  Phil: Okay. So you, you head below deck, do you turn left or right?
• 1:04:12
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Well, We'll go left.
• 1:04:15
  Phil: Go to the left, okay. So, going to the left, that actually takes you right to the kitchen. The kitchen, and then, there's also a, like, navigator's quarters, across from that. It's, it's oddly, you know, and then, of course, there's further stairs going down from there.
• 1:04:31
  Phil: If you wanted to.
• 1:04:33
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Is there anybody in the kitchen right now?
• 1:04:36
  Phil: I mean, there's Chef's mink. He's chopping it up, you know, he's, you know, preparing a small meal for…
• 1:04:45
  Phil: I guess, well, it's gonna be big now, because we got 3 more, but it was gonna be a meal for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. So it was a meal for 6, now it's a meal for 9.
• 1:04:55
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Okay, I just kind of… I forget, is he the one with the tongue or without a tongue?
• 1:04:59
  Phil: He's the one with the tongue. So, yes, so he's the talkative one.
• 1:05:03
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): So he'll be able to, he'll be able to actually taste the food.
• 1:05:05
  Phil: Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:07
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I just kinda, like… I just kind of give them an… Hey, I'm gonna… look around.
• 1:05:14
  Phil: Yeah, he's still a little sullen withdrawn, because they lost their, their party toad.
• 1:05:21
  Phil: Dip.
• 1:05:22
  Phil: Dip, Dip was… Dip was their… their secret third companion. That was the, the psychedelic toad that, Eamon, Eamon ingested a bit of. So he's still a little bit more reserved than usual, so he just eats them, and he goes, hey.
• 1:05:36
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I haven't looked through the cupboards.
• 1:05:40
  Phil: Okay, what are you hungry for? I mean, well, I guess on a boat, there would be, like, smoked meats, there would be jerky, there'd probably be lots of bags of rice, you know.
• 1:05:51
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'd probably go for the… I'd probably go for the jerky, because that's…
• 1:05:55
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Because rice you have to cook, I'm just looking for something just so…
• 1:05:59
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:05:59
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'm not necessarily eating because I'm hungry, I'm eating because…
• 1:06:05
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): The same reason I don't have snacks in my own house, because I will just eat them just to…
• 1:06:13
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Because they're there, and why not?
• 1:06:15
  Phil: Awesome, okay. So, go ahead and give me a quick wisdom roll.
• 1:06:33
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): 5 and a 6.
• 1:06:35
  Phil: 5 and a 6. Okay, so you know the different types of jerky that are available. There is alligator, ostrich, kangaroo,
• 1:06:46
  Phil: there is some, mutant rhino, and then, of course, the, the… what I'm telling you is that amongst these options of jerky, there is some, squid jerky that,
• 1:07:02
  Phil: you swear has hints of black licorice to it. It's just giving off that sort of scent.
• 1:07:11
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'm kinda looking like…
• 1:07:15
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'm feeling boring today, and I'm just gonna grab the kangaroo and the ostrich, because.
• 1:07:19
  Phil: Possibly.
• 1:07:19
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Those are gonna be the most…
• 1:07:21
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I guess… neutral, although I know
• 1:07:26
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I know that the kangaroo, because it's a lean meat, is gonna be dry.
• 1:07:29
  Phil: Okay, alright, there you go. Yeah, you're still… still just going for… for protein, the long, the long one. Okay, that's, then, then you have your snack, you are on your way. Do you… do you take it and wander?
• 1:07:40
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Yeah, I just start wandering around, just kind of…
• 1:07:43
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:07:44
  Phil: Back in the.
• 1:07:46
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I don't… I probably wouldn't open any doors that are, like, closed, but if anything's cracked, I might be just like, huh, wonder what that is.
• 1:07:53
  Phil: Okay, yeah, cracked open across from the kitchen is the, the Navigator's Quarters, so if you want to pop in there real quick, we're gonna pan to, Willie. Willie, what are you doing? Where are you going on the ship?
• 1:08:05
  Larry Woods: I'm… I think I'm gonna also go down.
• 1:08:11
  Larry Woods: Is this a, well, I got a few questions, actually. Is this, like, a 2 or 3 level ship? Two-level ship?
• 1:08:18
  Phil: This is a 3-level ship, so you're on deck, and then there are 3 levels below.
• 1:08:25
  Larry Woods: Okay.
• 1:08:28
  Larry Woods: And then, just out of curiosity, because I know you said the time bubble popped, do we know what time of day it is?
• 1:08:34
  Larry Woods: Oh! That is interesting, for Fair Gold. Okay, so…
• 1:08:43
  Phil: I hadn't consider that. I guess that means… well?
• 1:08:47
  Phil: So this is where I'm gonna apply it weird. Since you, locally, it has been moments, you're still charged. You still have your, your, you are… so it's a weird thing where you are charged, and…
• 1:08:59
  Phil: I believe you had 2 or 3 pieces of fair gold, so you can still have those. We're… I'm not… we're not gonna reset that just yet.
• 1:09:09
  Larry Woods: But… ingest them.
• 1:09:12
  Phil: No, you can ingest them, you can ingest them wherever… whenever… wherever you want, you know? Yeah, you're kind of hanging on to those. It is… the sun is going down, so it is sunset. So you're sailing at sunset, you know, and that's kind of the… the nice… the nice time of… time of day that it is.
• 1:09:28
  Larry Woods: Okay.
• 1:09:30
  Larry Woods: So I, I think at first, Willie will follow Chew.
• 1:09:36
  Phil: Because he's also sort of exploring, but he's also…
• 1:09:40
  Larry Woods: At this point, because no one's really answered his question of what the hell's going on here. He's just gonna sort of do, like, an investigation himself, and .
• 1:09:49
  Phil: Okay. So…
• 1:09:51
  Phil: to give you a sense of what's going on, I mean, you are on a giant chocolate boat operated by chocolate automatons, clockwork, chocolate clockwork, you know.
• 1:10:06
  Phil: pirate robots. And… You know, as… What is going on? .
• 1:10:18
  Larry Woods: I think that's…
• 1:10:21
  Phil: That's… I'm trying to… I'm trying to… because… well, and so here is another thing, is…
• 1:10:27
  Phil: With your history, we didn't establish if you
• 1:10:30
  Phil: We can worry about that for next time a little bit.
• 1:10:33
  Phil: But how… I guess how… how familiar with, like, fantasy role-playing would Willy be? Is… is that a hobby that he had, or is he sort of an outsider that is now completely out of his element, thrown into this, this world?
• 1:10:52
  Larry Woods: That's interesting. We could definitely flush that out, because there's a part of me that kind of wants to just say, throw them hell in.
• 1:10:58
  Larry Woods: Have them figured out.
• 1:11:00
  Larry Woods: But given the… sort of history and… that he had with his grandpa,
• 1:11:09
  Larry Woods: I would imagine if, his grandpa played at some level, and he sort of…
• 1:11:17
  Larry Woods: Not really learned, but was able to sort of look into that.
• 1:11:21
  Larry Woods: Or at least know that it was around. So, that's interesting.
• 1:11:24
  Phil: Okay, yeah, we can flesh that out more.
• 1:11:28
  Phil: it's just, the thought I had is… is one of those, like, okay, if, you know, when… if it was a zombie movie, which characters know about zombies, or which ones are like, oh my god, how is this happening? You know, the level of… the level of,
• 1:11:43
  Phil: Ability to adapt to the situation there.
• 1:11:47
  Larry Woods: Okay, for sure.
• 1:11:48
  Phil: Gotcha. So you're still… you're still a little bit…
• 1:11:54
  Phil: orienting. You're still very much, like.
• 1:11:58
  Phil: yeah, you're adjusting to being in a whole new world, seeing these things, going… combination of going with the flow, and confused. Okay, so…
• 1:12:08
  Phil: Do you…
• 1:12:11
  Phil: Do you also follow Eamon into the kitchen looking for a snack, or do you split from him there?
• 1:12:16
  Larry Woods: I split from there, so in my head, he goes down with Eamon, and he's, at this point, kind of keeping it silent, seeing what's happening. I do think if he passes the…
• 1:12:26
  Larry Woods: the barrel of chocolate oranges. He does grab one. He does sniff it.
• 1:12:33
  Phil: Sounds like a chocolate orange.
• 1:12:35
  Phil: Interesting, okay, okay.
• 1:12:36
  Larry Woods: does not eat it. He puts it in his, like, sort of, coat, because, again, he… what the hell, a chocolate orange.
• 1:12:44
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:12:45
  Larry Woods: And then, I think, if anything, he's gonna try to find, like, The sleeping quarters?
• 1:12:52
  Larry Woods: Oh, okay, that's a good one.
• 1:12:54
  Larry Woods: Because he's like, okay, this has to be a dream, maybe I need to go to sleep to wake up.
• 1:13:00
  Larry Woods: I don't know, but also, at the same time, he's…
• 1:13:03
  Larry Woods: Is he really gonna go to sleep right now? Probably not. Okay, okay. I think he's gonna explore.
• 1:13:09
  Phil: Gotcha. So, you saw Eamon head to the left towards the kitchen.
• 1:13:16
  Phil: So you, you also went that way. You see there's, like, the navigation area, and kind of, like, you know, that's, like, a combination. There's maps, there's books, it's like the… it's where the smart people on the ship hang out, you know? That's down there, and then…
• 1:13:31
  Phil: And then you see stairs going down, but those are kind of the other two rooms on this level in that direction.
• 1:13:37
  Larry Woods: Interesting. Okay, because I just did a double check of my stats.
• 1:13:42
  Larry Woods: I… Willie does have a 3 intelligence,
• 1:13:46
  Larry Woods: Would that be something that he could potentially try to get an idea of, if he were to roll for it?
• 1:13:52
  Phil: The navigation room, yeah, if you want to look around for maps of the area, or see what kind of…
• 1:13:58
  Phil: books are in there, those sorts of things. Yeah, if that's what you want to look into, we can… we can definitely do that.
• 1:14:04
  Larry Woods: Okay. And remind me again, this is where I roll 3… 3 die? 3…
• 1:14:10
  Phil: 3… 3D6, and then 4 and higher is a success.
• 1:14:14
  Larry Woods: Okay.
• 1:14:15
  Larry Woods: I'm gonna do, digital, because I forgot my dice again.
• 1:14:19
  Phil: That's all good.
• 1:14:20
  Larry Woods: Alright, so, my first die is a 6.
• 1:14:24
  Phil: Okay.
• 1:14:25
  Larry Woods: A 3… And then a 5.
• 1:14:29
  Phil: Okay, cool, two successes. So, from there, you see this… rudimentary… map…
• 1:14:41
  Phil: That I'm actually… yeah, I'm just gonna show you really quick,
• 1:14:47
  Phil: With all the important details hastily scribbled out so that they are illegible.
• 1:14:55
  Phil: But, you see that…
• 1:15:00
  Phil: These are the immediate surrounding sides. So this is… this is where you're at in, you know, you're in a small island in the middle of this side that you landed on.
• 1:15:12
  Larry Woods: Okay.
• 1:15:12
  Phil: I have a very strange directional system where, there are only three cardinal directions, so left-west is this way, you know that there's some kind of civilization heading that way on the sea. Right out is the… the other way here that heads to a different, mmm…
• 1:15:30
  Phil: Not sure if it's a civilization or something, but…
• 1:15:35
  Phil: you know… you know that… that that's there. And then downish is the third direction, and unfortunately, you cannot travel that way because there's, like, a sheer cliff.
• 1:15:45
  Phil: It's one of those things where you could have dropped from that side to the side, but you can't go back from this side up a sheer cliff.
• 1:15:55
  Phil: Yeah, so… so you do know that there's a… at least an either-or direction for… for where to head after this, and that will… that will determine, like, which… which civilization we… we head towards next.
• 1:16:07
  Larry Woods: Okay.
• 1:16:08
  Phil: Also, along the mean times, since you got another one, what is…
• 1:16:15
  Phil: What would be one of Willie's, like, favorite pieces of classical literature?
• 1:16:24
  Larry Woods: Oh, classical literature, interesting.
• 1:16:32
  Larry Woods: The Crucible? Is that…
• 1:16:36
  Phil: Crucible. I… well, you can count the crucible, that is… that is… wow, okay, so you…
• 1:16:42
  Phil: You find a book, that, from perusing slightly, it is the Lizardman Pirate Crucible.
• 1:16:51
  Phil: where… this is… this is a book that is… is loosely following
• 1:16:58
  Phil: the plot of the Crucible with, rather than people being accused of being witches or not, people become pirates and then… and then steal from others, and then those people in retaliation become pirates to steal from others. And of course, they're all lizardmen.
• 1:17:18
  Phil: But yeah, so it's, it's, you know… oddly legible for you. It's…
• 1:17:24
  Larry Woods: It's a…
• 1:17:24
  Phil: Surprising that these lizardmen
• 1:17:26
  Phil: wrote in English, but… but you have this book now, so I'm… I gotta write that down.
• 1:17:31
  Larry Woods: Okay, as am I. I'm actually thinking about it.
• 1:17:34
  Phil: There we go.
• 1:17:36
  Phil: Alrighty. Now let's jump to Alan. Alan, in Rose's quarters, just playing your guitar,
• 1:17:44
  Phil: Do you… do you just keep playing? Do you strike up a combo? What's, what do you do?
• 1:17:48
  Tad Eggleston: She's hanging out with me, so I say, so where is it?
• 1:17:53
  Phil: Where's what?
• 1:17:55
  Tad Eggleston: You know what I'm talking about.
• 1:17:59
  Phil: Phil does not. What, what, what, what is Alan talking about?
• 1:18:06
  Tad Eggleston: the thing.
• 1:18:10
  Phil: the thing. You wouldn't be…
• 1:18:12
  Tad Eggleston: You became the Pirate Queen, you must have found it.
• 1:18:15
  Phil: Oh, the thing! The thing! You're right. She…
• 1:18:22
  Phil: she hasn't quite… she doesn't know about the thing. She… well, maybe she does.
• 1:18:28
  Phil: What I can tell you about the thing is that it is, it is left west.
• 1:18:36
  Phil: That… that is… that is the way you're… if you want to get up towards the thing, you're gonna have to go left-west. But she… she's…
• 1:18:44
  Phil: If it's the thing that… that I'm thinking of.
• 1:18:56
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, okay.
• 1:18:57
  Tad Eggleston: I keep playing.
• 1:18:59
  Phil: You keep playing? Keep playing. So this is where… is this… is this your… your lucky break thing, or is there a different thing you were thinking of?
• 1:19:08
  Tad Eggleston: Hold on a second.
• 1:19:09
  Tad Eggleston: What was that?
• 1:19:10
  Phil: when you said the thing, she found the thing, are you talking about the lucky break thing, or a different thing?
• 1:19:18
  Tad Eggleston: I don't care.
• 1:19:23
  Phil: You're just seeing what you can get. I see, I see. So, so yeah, so…
• 1:19:28
  Tad Eggleston: Talking to my closest friend.
• 1:19:30
  Phil: Right.
• 1:19:31
  Tad Eggleston: I'm picking up a conversation that may have started… well, for her, certainly started more than a decade ago, but for me, may have started longer… I mean…
• 1:19:40
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:19:41
  Tad Eggleston: I'm just picking up where we left off. Where's the thing? You became the Pirate queen, you must have found the thing. So, like, maybe there's a reason that she's here. She's coming after something that I know about. I don't know. You know? Yeah. I'm scatterbrained. Sometimes I remember things, and sometimes I don't.
• 1:19:58
  Phil: Right. She's like, honey…
• 1:20:00
  Tad Eggleston: Now I'm feeling relaxed, because Rose is around.
• 1:20:02
  Phil: Right? And she says, honey, don't even worry about the thing, I've got it all taken care of.
• 1:20:09
  Tad Eggleston: Didn't I go back to playing my guitar?
• 1:20:11
  Phil: Yeah, alright, just jammin', jammin' and chillin', catching up on lost time.
• 1:20:15
  Phil: You know? Hang out in the quarters. Okay, so you are there, we are continuing to explore…
• 1:20:24
  Phil: Now that… okay, so Chu has, the ostrich-kangaroo-jerky combo, heading out of the kitchen. That is sort of the end of the hall towards the left on the first level. Where do you head now?
• 1:20:45
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'm just kind of aimlessly poking through rooms.
• 1:20:48
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): no real… Destination, we're just kind of absentmindedly… I wonder what this is.
• 1:20:55
  Phil: Okay, so you can see across the hall that, Willie is in the navigation room, absorbed in the pages of Lizardmen Pirate Crucible. There is the other end of the hall, or down the stairs. Where are you going?
• 1:21:11
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'll go down the stairs.
• 1:21:13
  Phil: Down the stairs. Okay, you are in the room with the cannons. This is… this is the… the war room. You know, it's not active right now. The cannons are not, are not…
• 1:21:25
  Phil: you know, through their little windows, but there's all kinds of cannonballs, gunpowder. The cannonballs are actually massive, super-dense dark chocolate truffles of some sort, various flavors.
• 1:21:37
  Phil: That they have there, but but yeah, that's… that's… that's what you immediately drop down into, and now would you… I mean, there should be something off towards the… the,
• 1:21:50
  Phil: Towards the right there, but towards the left, you can see those are where the barracks are and the quarters.
• 1:22:03
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I guess I'll go to the…
• 1:22:04
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): The direction opposite the barracks.
• 1:22:07
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Okay.
• 1:22:08
  Phil: So that way, you see another set of stairs leading down to the third level, or, a room that I have decided… not decided what's in there yet.
• 1:22:20
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Okay.
• 1:22:30
  Phil: So did you… did you want to head downstairs, or did you…
• 1:22:34
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Yeah, I'll go ahead and head downstairs.
• 1:22:35
  Phil: So downstairs… downstairs we have, the Chocolate Clockwork Oarsman, that is… I mean, it's… it's how this massive ship is being propelled, you know, they are… they are rowing.
• 1:22:48
  Phil: But… it's…
• 1:22:51
  Phil: it's, you know, it's traveling a bit differently. It's kind of like a massive series of motorboats, so,
• 1:22:59
  Phil: Yeah, so this is a little bit of a faster ship. But yeah, down here, we have the… the clock or horseman. I guess that, yeah, it makes more sense
• 1:23:06
  Phil: Okay, okay, I know what's in the room now. I know it's in the other room.
• 1:23:12
  Phil: I didn't know if… if, Willie, was there anything you were looking for further in the,
• 1:23:20
  Phil: navigation quarters, or were you, looking for something else? What, what, what are… what's going on with you now?
• 1:23:30
  Larry Woods: I think after he finds that, and he…
• 1:23:33
  Larry Woods: sort of takes note of that. He starts having some other…
• 1:23:38
  Larry Woods: Thoughts about being in a different dimension, or…
• 1:23:42
  Larry Woods: multiverse-type deal. Like, he's not… he's not of the same world he was in.
• 1:23:48
  Larry Woods: If that wasn't clear already. And then he continues to, I think, explore. I think he's sort of done with that area.
• 1:23:59
  Larry Woods: So heading… so there's the kitchen across the hall from you, heading down the hall, back through the cargo hold.
• 1:24:05
  Phil: Over towards the other end, or heading downstairs.
• 1:24:09
  Larry Woods: As I said, there was another room… there was the other room that was not explored.
• 1:24:14
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, the right side of the hall, down the cargo hold.
• 1:24:19
  Larry Woods: Yeah, he'll go that way.
• 1:24:20
  Phil: Alrighty, cool, so you're heading down that way.
• 1:24:24
  Phil: this is where I'm going to stick to my original plans and put something else in the mystery room.
• 1:24:30
  Phil: you head down there, and you see that it is, a door with a small port window, and behind that window are a series of bars. This is the brig.
• 1:24:44
  Phil: So, you can see that there is a prisoner In… the brig.
• 1:24:51
  Phil: Do you wish to approach them or leave them on their bee?
• 1:25:00
  Larry Woods: I,
• 1:25:02
  Larry Woods: Willie will… that's gonna be a mouthful, a tongue twister, wilhelm will definitely approach
• 1:25:11
  Larry Woods: The prisoner, without saying anything.
• 1:25:16
  Larry Woods: just come up and take a look. Can he make out any distinct features, or…
• 1:25:20
  Phil: Yeah, so, so you, step through… so if you want to…
• 1:25:27
  Phil: look through the door. You…
• 1:25:32
  Phil: Can see that, in the…
• 1:25:35
  Phil: in the brig, in the prison, there is another Neo, another metallic figure wearing a cloak that is, flicking a coin across her fingers. You might not recognize her immediately, you might not have caught
• 1:25:55
  Phil: a good look at her before she disappeared. But either of the other two companions would recognize this to be Lex.
• 1:26:03
  Phil: Who is, trapped in the brick.
• 1:26:06
  Phil: Do you want to try to talk to her?
• 1:26:11
  Larry Woods: No.
• 1:26:12
  Phil: No? Okay.
• 1:26:14
  Phil: Alright.
• 1:26:15
  Phil: So as you walk away, you just see this other Neo,
• 1:26:20
  Phil: we… we continue to linger on Lex, playing with the coin, and she just looks up and says, Damn.
• 1:26:33
  Phil: And I was trying to figure out a good line to convey it, but we will pick up from here next time that, Lex…
• 1:26:45
  Phil: So, the reason she was not affected by the bursting of the time bubble the same way that y'all were was because the downloaded personality of Strife had possessed her.
• 1:26:56
  Phil: Because, because in the same tradition that when Chu couldn't make it.
• 1:27:01
  Phil: the time before last, he was possessed by the Eldritch God. It seems that when you can't make it, a villain finds the way into, into your character somehow. That's just how it's worked out. So,
• 1:27:15
  Phil: If you had talked to her, she probably would have tried to use the voice on you to get her… get you to let her out, and…
• 1:27:23
  Phil: I don't know whether… it probably wouldn't have succeeded. She doesn't have the D4. She's just a download. But that's it, that's the end of the episode. We are on this pirate ship.
• 1:27:32
  Phil: sailing off to another civilization that, next time, I will prep the two different directions that you can go in, and you will be able to decide which one you go to. This will not be a fakeout, this will be two legitimate civilizations, and whichever one you don't go to will still exist. So yeah, yeah, that is it for this episode. Well, not it for this episode, we do have a quick little bit of stars and wishes.
• 1:27:56
  Phil: Didn't know… How… Anyone else wanna… wanna pick up from there?
• 1:28:08
  Tad Eggleston: I had fun being… silly.
• 1:28:11
  Phil: I had fun with you being silly too.
• 1:28:12
  Tad Eggleston: That you allowed me to.
• 1:28:14
  Phil: Of course, I… I can't not let the fool be silly.
• 1:28:18
  Tad Eggleston: I think I went even different directions and silly than I normally do.
• 1:28:23
  Tad Eggleston: I saw… I saw the wheels churning in your head when it's like, wait a minute, he doesn't want to swing his sword at something, he wants to hack into it. I'm like, dude, you just made me think about my hacker persona. You put this idea in my head.
• 1:28:39
  Phil: There we go, you know? This is… this is… I… I…
• 1:28:42
  Tad Eggleston: All your fault. If you hadn't asked questions beforehand, it wouldn't have been in my head, it wouldn't have made it to the story.
• 1:28:51
  Phil: There we go.
• 1:28:51
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know why you weren't prepared.
• 1:28:54
  Phil: I mean, hey, I think coming up with a cave painting, release sculpture, 50-pound rock laptop.
• 1:29:02
  Tad Eggleston: It was pretty good.
• 1:29:03
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, I'm proud of that one, you know, we're…
• 1:29:05
  Tad Eggleston: I hope we're not done with it.
• 1:29:07
  Phil: No, it's, that's, it's, you know, it's one of those things where originally…
• 1:29:11
  Tad Eggleston: behind.
• 1:29:11
  Phil: No, no, no, no, and I didn't want you to leave it behind. Something like that, you can't… you can't let fall into the wrong hands, you know? I would also give you stars for the… the notes that you gave for… for Rose,
• 1:29:24
  Phil: I feel like we… it was one of those situations where…
• 1:29:29
  Phil: we were probably about to head in the same direction, but I wasn't expecting you to head in the same direction, and because of that, it…
• 1:29:36
  Phil: But it… I…
• 1:29:37
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I still want to say, I think that they actually have a good relationship.
• 1:29:41
  Tad Eggleston: People think she's some sort of femme fatale taking.
• 1:29:43
  Phil: No.
• 1:29:44
  Tad Eggleston: taking advantage of her. I think to some people on the outside, he could be taking advantage of her, but I think that that's more to do with, like…
• 1:29:55
  Tad Eggleston: The way he's wired?
• 1:29:58
  Tad Eggleston: Does actually take care of her in ways that she sees, but that aren't, like…
• 1:30:05
  Tad Eggleston: The obvi… you know, he's more grounding for her than either he realizes or would be immediately noticed by most people.
• 1:30:14
  Phil: Right, I… it's… it's definitely the kind of thing that, yeah.
• 1:30:18
  Tad Eggleston: In my mind, anyway, it's a weird relationship.
• 1:30:22
  Tad Eggleston: relationship.
• 1:30:22
  Phil: Right, yeah, and I, I, I think…
• 1:30:25
  Tad Eggleston: somebody I don't like, you know, I'm gonna start going after the god.
• 1:30:29
  Phil: And that's gonna be… that's gonna be the balancing act for me, because you're right, I wanted to definitely introduce some elements of,
• 1:30:39
  Phil: complexity, and I think we got there. It just wasn't where… I was going to, propose the idea that Rose and Willie went to high school together, and possibly knew each other then, and there might be some form of unrequited romance between them, but I am, you know.
• 1:30:57
  Phil: I am also equally happy with, oh, no, no, she knew…
• 1:31:03
  Phil: Alan when he was Lewis, and has always known him, and… navigating that…
• 1:31:12
  Phil: challenging of a relationship in a wholesome way, and not going with the easy femme fatale answer is… is a challenge I'm up for, you know? And I think that…
• 1:31:24
  Phil: that…
• 1:31:25
  Phil: possibility is best left as a possibility. I don't… I don't think, having her do a full heel turn is,
• 1:31:36
  Phil: is… is the way to go.
• 1:31:40
  Phil: But yeah, anyone else, anyone else have any reactions or any hopes for future episodes coming up?
• 1:31:48
  Larry Woods: I… I will say that,
• 1:31:52
  Larry Woods: I will say, I physically, because I feel like as a D…
• 1:31:56
  Larry Woods: Yeah, as a Game Master, you want to know this, I physically felt myself, like, my chest tightening my…
• 1:32:01
  Larry Woods: When I heard about the prisoner in the brig.
• 1:32:04
  Phil: Damn.
• 1:32:05
  Larry Woods: Because I… I was like, okay, like.
• 1:32:07
  Phil: I'm glad.
• 1:32:08
  Larry Woods: I… I feel like this is what the… the…
• 1:32:13
  Larry Woods: Where the, the prison breakout scene happens.
• 1:32:16
  Phil: Mmm.
• 1:32:17
  Larry Woods: So, I knew that as a player, I knew that was going…
• 1:32:22
  Larry Woods: But the way I played that was just, like…
• 1:32:26
  Larry Woods: Who really is, like, a no-nonsense type of guy, and he's like…
• 1:32:29
  Larry Woods: You're in there, you're in there for a reason, I'm not ready. Poke the bear if I don't need to.
• 1:32:34
  Phil: And you were a very interesting person to find her, because you have the least connection anyone else would have approached or tried to talk. And yeah, so that… we'll have to let Peter know that, he… he will have some…
• 1:32:51
  Phil: Something to deal with.
• 1:32:53
  Larry Woods: On his way into next episode. That makes sense.
• 1:32:56
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so…
• 1:33:00
  Phil: Yeah, so I guess we're gonna… we're gonna have to break… break Peter out of jail, out of dance jail. You know, one of those sorts of things.
• 1:33:10
  Phil: Chu, you were… you were… you were hard to… hard to understand a bit, but… but you came back around there. I… I… you know, I appreciate the,
• 1:33:17
  Phil: the, the dedication to… to the character that… that you have, and… and how you take,
• 1:33:25
  Phil: you take whatever notes, and, like, you really are, like, okay, why is my arm like this? You know, okay, what's happening? We're gonna… can I have a rock laptop? You know, those are… those are very funny.
• 1:33:37
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Well, and it wasn't even an oral as much as, like, I want to rock, I was like, Huh.
• 1:33:43
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): That's weird. I wonder if these other rocks, and then just, like.
• 1:33:49
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): No, these are… this is just a rock.
• 1:33:54
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 1:33:55
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Basically, it kind of links to all the way back when I played Monster of the Week, and I was… with my… the role I had, I was playing the skeptic.
• 1:34:04
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): And so, like, sometimes it's kind of linked to that a little bit, just the notion of…
• 1:34:09
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): One of the trades you have in that game is you'll…
• 1:34:12
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): you'll accomplish things on accident, so I'm just kind of… so I'm kind of taking the same notion of, like.
• 1:34:18
  Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Just… poking things.
• 1:34:21
  Phil: Yeah, yeah. It… it's… it's one of those things that, I'm hoping…
• 1:34:27
  Phil: will… will feel like a good slow burn, and those… when those explosive moments happen. I'm excited. I'm excited for… for where all these characters are going.
• 1:34:39
  Phil: with that, with that, this is… this is the moment where… where I… I beg… I beg Tad to take… to take 22 panels back. Really, literally, it… it… it would not exist without you, you know…
• 1:34:53
  Tad Eggleston: Just because you want to talk to Kieran Gillen in an hour, you want… you want me not to just…
• 1:35:00
  Tad Eggleston: destroy the whole schedule? Is that what you're saying? This seems very selfish of you, Phil.
• 1:35:06
  Phil: I mean…
• 1:35:07
  Tad Eggleston: Selfish of you.
• 1:35:08
  Phil: I, I also want…
• 1:35:10
  Tad Eggleston: because I booked an interview with your idol for an hour from now, you, you, you want me to…
• 1:35:18
  Tad Eggleston: Lee, you're the psychologist here. What do you think of this guilt trip that he's pulling on me? He wants me to sacrifice his mental health so that he can have an interview.
• 1:35:31
  Larry Woods: You know, I'm hearing that even though it's an undesirable situation, it's a win-win for a lot of different folks here, so…
• 1:35:41
  Larry Woods: I think there's a lot to be gained from it.
• 1:35:44
  Tad Eggleston: Alright… I… I… I suppose we'll keep going.
• 1:35:51
  Tad Eggleston: For 22 panels, this has been the die role-playing experience, and we will see you after the next page.