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Criminals of Isla Numus: Episode 0 - A Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  Hello
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  traveler. I'm not sure what strange magic must
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  have brought you here, but you have stepped into a
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  realm of my creation. A sprawling
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  city filled with danger and glory and most
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  importantly, lots of gold out. I
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  call it Ilanumis. Who am I,
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  you might ask? The name is Jarjin,
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  and I'm the patron deity of gambling.
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  Long story short, this group of
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  idiots, or as you may call them, heroes,
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  made a bet with me that they had what it took to make a mass
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  trove of gold, but left some of the key
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  details blank. So I fill them in
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  myself. I send them to this pocket
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  dimension, into the city I had created
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  with brand new bodies they'd have to attune
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  to. Can these fools pass my test?
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  Or will they be trapped, um, here forever? So,
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  um, experience my world of trials and
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  tribulations and join alongside this
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  posse of pitiful people, or as I like to
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  call them, the Criminals of Isla
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  Numis.
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  Welcome, everybody, to the sort of
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  pseudo first episode of the what is called
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  the Criminals of Ela
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  isla, you name. Uh,
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  I thought it was who's? Moose.
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  Who's Moose?
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  Who's Moose? I love Who's Moose? No, it's
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  numis. There we go. Numis. Criminals of
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  Isla Numas.
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  For those of you that are freaking.
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  Out right now, thinking, whoa, what's going on? Where's the
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  Benders and Brews podcast that I know and love and
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  brought me here in the first place, don't worry, we're not closing out
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  the Benders and Brews podcast. This is A-D-D podcast that
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  we're creating in addition to our channel to kind of
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  round out the RPGs that we as a group
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  play. Um, and it means more content for you, which is
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  great. It also means that we don't just kind of have
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  downtime when we're not recording and posting
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  episodes of Benders and Brews while we're kind of working between
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  seasons. So just more
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  content.
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  Different.
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  Uh, RPG. We're playing Dungeons and Dragons, fifth edition.
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  So, um, I've got a group of people around the table. Some of them are people
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  you'll recognize from the Benders and Brews podcast. Some of them
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  aren't M, all with different brand new, interesting
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  characters, but just a little bit of a
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  background to what's going on in the campaign. So, uh,
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  we've been playing Dungeons and Dragons, some of us for a while,
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  a couple of years, um, some of us a little bit shorter, but
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  nonetheless, um, together. And we
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  were running a campaign before this. And this is going to
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  take place sort of within that same universe
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  or that same world with the same characters they were playing
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  as, but put into new bodies
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  with not all of their old abilities
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  and skills and everything that they had before. I think you guys were at what
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  level? Seven.
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  I think it was like nine.
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  Nine.
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  Thought so.
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  Let me look. I'm pretty sure it was seven.
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  Jackson was spoiled.
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  Jackson was spoiled.
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  It is level eight.
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  Eight, okay. Right in the middle, right in the center.
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  Um, and you guys had all kinds of great, cool, fun
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  abilities. That skyler as the DM was like.
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  Oh, man, how do I challenge these guys?
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  So I'm shooting you all the way back to level one,
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  um, with new bodies and new
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  classes and races and skills. And this is going to get
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  interesting. It's going to get interesting. So you're in a new world, um, but
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  you remember the character that you used to be.
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  So, uh, we're going to go around the table. Everybody's going to
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  mention who they were and what they're now
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  kind of waking up and playing, I guess you could
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  say. So, Dave, you want to kick us off?
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  All right. So before I was
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  playing Maki, maki,
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  who was raised in the
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  Monastery of the Path of Light, whose
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  monks were dedicated to
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  following the light and self
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  improvement through brilliance.
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  Mhm. But Maki always
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  teetered towards the dark.
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  He was a traveler, if you will,
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  and he sought self improvement, but
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  in a different, more chaotic way
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  than those who stick strictly to
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  the Path. In
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  Maki's view, he believes that there
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  are multitudes upon
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  multitudes of alternate dimensions in a
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  myriad of realities. With such a vast
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  array of planes of existence, why limit
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  oneself to the light when
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  change from the dark is so easily
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  available?
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  Maki is the nexus.
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  He will travel this plane and others, uh, to capture
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  the methods of combining the philosophical
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  and elemental forces that define other
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  planes.
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  As soon as he sobers up.
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  As soon as he sobers.
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  That's right.
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  Drinking problem. And as often his
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  path goes down many
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  side trails and he gets lost along
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  the way.
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  Many side trail that's the doors of
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  many taverns bars.
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  He's like, all right, today I will.
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  Go to the 6th Dimension. Oh, dear.
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  I'll take that with me.
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  Tell us where we're supposed to say who we are now.
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  Yeah, tell us about who you will be playing.
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  Samaki is going to find
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  himself.
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  Not.
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  In the usual body. Uh, he's used to the
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  strong, toned
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  well, not really, but dead
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  body before. Now
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  he's a weak little bird man.
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  Oh, no.
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  But he's still got the darkness thing
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  going for him.
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  Yeah, there you go. And to clarify, as a Kenku, not an
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  Arakakra.
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  Yes, he is a Kanku Kenku.
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  So I've put you all into bodies that are kind of
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  considered the more man what's the word? I
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  don't want to say lesser. That sounds bad. But usually
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  mischievous races or
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  creatures, I suppose you could say. Yeah.
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  Uh, kind of teetering on the edge of actual
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  humanity and civilization and just
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  wildebeest.
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  Yes, exactly. Uh, the typical
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  henchmen, for the most part, I guess, oftentimes used.
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  So, um, that'll be a common thing.
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  Quinn, I'm going to skip over you for a moment. I'm going to save you
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  for last, given the circumstances, uh,
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  for those listening. We'll get to that. Um,
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  Jackson, you were somebody before all of
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  this. Who were you?
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  Uh, yeah, one that I played for half
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  a session.
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  That's true. We had just lost Jackson's
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  character, his previous character, at almost the
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  end of the last session we did in the previous
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  campaign.
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  And now, uh, his name was
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  Dahaz Vegodather. His
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  informally known as Des. Um, he was a
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  Triton fighter, part of a
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  Knight's Corps, the Order of the Seahorse.
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  Nice.
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  Um, and he came from the ocean, an
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  Atlantis type area.
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  Nice.
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  Refused to bathe, dude. He smelled like fish, but
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  rightly, so he lived in the ocean. Who needs to bathe when you're surrounded by
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  water?
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  Yeah. How would you even bathe? Right, exactly.
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  What, are you going to go to the Goo Lagoon or something? That's just
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  gross.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay. Uh,
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  um, I only played him for half a session. It was hard to kind
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  of flush out his ideals and whatnot, but he cared
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  for people. He's that nightly type
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  never left anybody behind. Um,
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  but you know what? He was who
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  he was.
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  He was who he was.
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  You know what? Today he wakes up as a
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  somehow knowing the art of
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  the hunt and a complete opposite
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  kind, um, of lifestyle. He is reborn as a
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  Ku Ranger.
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  Yes.
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  Um, so from the seas to the skies,
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  if one will, which will be.
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  Interesting, he's definitely going to have to really find that
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  other new side and.
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  All of a sudden loses his voice and can only
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  mimic sounds that I guess his new body has
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  heard in the past.
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  Right.
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  So there's definitely he can read and write.
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  There's definitely going to be some kind of competing
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  things, uh, going on within each of you for the most part,
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  except for Quinn, which again, I'll get back to in a moment. Um,
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  of know, here's my previous body
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  and here's what I used to do, and here's how I used to think. And then there's this
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  random new body that I got shoved into, and it's got new
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  ideas and new concepts that it's trying to kind of push
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  on me in a sense. Um, so it'll be kind of interesting to see that
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  dynamic. And again, um, the cool thing about
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  Jackson, your Triton character is it's going to be a
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  sort of mystery for a lot of the other players here
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  who haven't really gotten to experience him. So depending on
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  what happens and you guys eventually getting back, um,
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  to your original bodies will be interesting for
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  them to kind of learn more about you along
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  the way here, but then not in the
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  same body that they'll eventually get to hopefully see you
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  in once again. So, yeah,
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  that'll be an interesting journey. Uh, fatty
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  lumpkin.
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  All right, for personal reasons, I chose to remain
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  anonymous. And so I'm going to go by the name
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  Fatty from my, uh, Fatty.
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  Lumpkin favorite Lord of the Rings Horse fatty
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  lumpkin.
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  Prior to this out of body experience,
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  I was a
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  circle of the moon druid,
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  and I had very humble beginnings. I
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  was raised by wolves. One of them may or
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  may not have been a werewolf, but we try to keep that identity
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  under wraps. Like my own identity
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  as a circle of the moon druid, I
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  struggled with multiple personalities or
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  tried to intermix multiple personalities with the various
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  animals that I would try
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  entertain myself with.
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  That's good. So, actually, that's going to be interesting
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  because to some extent, you already had
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  experience with the concept of kind of juggling two
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  minds. I don't know why I said it like Christopher
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  walken. I don't
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  know.
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  That sounds like.
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  Um but, yeah, you've juggled with that concept already,
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  so it'll be interesting to see how he
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  maintains that going into this new character, which.
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  Is an echo knight. So we're kind of doing
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  a 180 going from some spell
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  casting, wild shaping
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  druid to pretty much a more
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  melee oriented
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  fighter. But this one does have a bit of a
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  multiple personality disorder as well, in that he is an
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  echo knight.
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  Uh, I get it, because, like, the.
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  Echo thing, I feel like there's something
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  there.
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  They're so useful.
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  I'm intrigued. I've never actually played with an echo knight
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  before. They're very cool. Yeah, that'll be
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  exciting.
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  I hope to live up to that expectation.
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  I'm sure you will. It'll be fun to for many
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  of us to get to learn the abilities of what, an
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  echo night, even, right?
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  That's right. Fantastic. All right. Uh,
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  I can't say last but not least, because we still have to get to Quinn, but
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  cameron. Hello. What's going on?
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  Who were you?
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  Uh, so, I'm Cameron.
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  Uh, I played a character
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  named Roric Frostbeard,
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  and he was famous for his frosted tips and
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  his frosted ah.
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  Uh, there we go. Okay.
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  Um, he was a dwarf pirate who,
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  uh, just loved being he moved from his caves
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  and he went straight to the sea. And when he did that, his body hit
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  a weird transformation where when he raged, because he
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  was a barbarian, when he raged, ice
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  would just form around his body and everyone around
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  him, and it would protect him. And that was his whole
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  stick, was he would just kind of charge in the people
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  recklessly, and just.
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  By the.
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  End of every fight, he'd just be this ice glazed
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  over monster with glowing blue eyes and
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  stuff, and then it would just kind of melt away afterwards each
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  fight. Um, so, needless to say, he
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  handled every problem with his pure
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  strength. And now my new
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  character, uh, looked, and strength is my
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  lowest stat.
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  You got a real flip flop on.
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  I got an act, just like everyone else said, I am the opposite.
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  Now, instead of a
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  jump in and punch, the first thing I see, I am now
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  a quiet rogue
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  goblin.
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  So I'm not going to be as.
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  Quiet, but I'm way sneakier
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  than what I was, which was just loud and rough.
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  Now I'm sneaky and stealthy.
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  Snarky. I have a spark.
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  Yeah, that's the best way to describe my character. He's got a little spark to
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  him, a little spark plug.
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  And that'll be fun.
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  That'll be silly.
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  So fantastic. Yeah, that'll be an interesting flip
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  flop, like I said, of, uh, skills across
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  the spectrum from the opposite end, as
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  they say. So fantastic. All right, now we can
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  say last but not least, we've got Quinn. Now,
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  Quinn, uh, you played a little bit with
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  some of us before as far as D D goes. Uh,
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  not as often as the rest of us have, but you've had some
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  fun doing it. Uh, you are the only one that's coming
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  in without a prior character, which means that
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  your character is native
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  to the world that you guys are going to be thrown into, which is going
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  to get real interesting really fast. Uh, tell me
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  about that character.
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  Yeah, I play, uh, a kinkun named Feather
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  McGregor. Uh, feather.
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  McGregor.
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  I'm just part of the so, uh,
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  uh, yeah, I'm native to this, you know,
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  member of the, uh, a chill
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  little bird dude. Uh, yeah,
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  got a few secrets know. May come out, you know, may not
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  come know. Really like
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  sauce. My nickname is Little
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  Sauce.
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  Little Sauce.
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  Um, I own little Sauce's sauce company.
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  Wow, that's
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  very, uh, business.
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  Yeah, we'll call it that.
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  Totally not a side hustle.
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  What class are you?
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  What is business?
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  Uh, bird class.
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  Uh, I'm going to be a wizard.
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  He's a wizard.
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  Uh, so I do all the
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  wizard the wizard stuff.
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  Magic and the spells.
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  Yeah, I'm pretty much just a chill bird components.
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  Uh, just living his life.
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  Uh, got some money handed down to me from
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  my grandfather, my father before him.
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  Um, use that to make a little Sauce a sauce
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  company. A little sauce, by the way.
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  Yoyo. A little sauce.
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  So yeah, that's about it. Really?
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  All right, right on. So we've got another,
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  like I said, a native to this world. He comes in with some
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  money. He's got his own little business. Um,
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  and I'm kind of personally crossing my
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  fingers that you guys kind of use him as a
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  guide into this world to some extent. But the
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  irony is that Quinn knows not very much about this
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  campaign. So you guys are going to be like, hey, so what's the deal with
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  this? And then I'll just speak through Quinn's mouth
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  as like, yeah, Quinn tells you or rather, uh,
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  Feather McGregor or Lil.
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  Sauce tells you about his eyes.
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  I like to refer to.
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  His, uh, eyes go to the back of his head.
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  Made you a cleric,
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  and he's a kenku.
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  So it makes because it's
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  not his voice.
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  Ah, fantastic.
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  Really have a voice to see. Exactly. So they're the
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  perfect channel conduit for, like, a god
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  to speak through.
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  They really are awesome. So that's basically the gist of
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  what.
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  We'Re going to be jumping into.
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  We'll, uh, be publishing the first episode alongside this, so you
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  can also join us in jumping right into this campaign and
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  this fun again. Benders and brews. The Avatar
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  there. But, um, until then, we're going
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  to be enjoying this little d d jaunt and who knows what other
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  crazy antics our group might get into. But for
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  now, check it out. Uh, head on over and listen to
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  the first episode of Criminals of
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