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Delving Deeper: That's Not What I Thought It Meant · Dissonant Whispers: A DnD Actual Play Podcast

• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to Delving Deeper with Oleander Hawthorne and Delphine Alendra.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Today we're a little on the uh demonic side.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: Not that far for Delphi, not that far.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: Well, she's more devil-ish.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Technically devilish.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're really kind of adjacent to yourself right now, adjacent.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh just a little event that we're going to.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: So what happened here?
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Woo! What did happen there?
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Your hair's been all messed up.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Was that when I jumped on the bed?
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: Let's start that over again.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: I liked it.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Very appropriate.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: Considering what we're gonna talk about.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, it's just a good example of my natural talents.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, anyways, what we want to talk about today is that's not what I thought that chat bubble meant.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yup.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: So she is notorious in video games for choosing a chat option on the um conversation wheel, thinking it means one thing and it means something.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: Totally sideways.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: And then she asked me questions like: Who is this character?
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: How have you never met this character?
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Did you not go into that bar?
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Nope.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Or accidentally killing love interests and best friends.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: I have killed every love interest and best friend in every video game that I've ever played.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: Fact.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: She played Mass Effect all the way through just so that she could romance and kill somebody that I killed while trying to romance.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: By accident.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: But I feel like I had greater satisfaction in killing Caden because fuck that guy.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: I killed him so much.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: I was so irritated.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: I was just trying to be nice.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: I it was it was like a delayed pleasure reaction.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: I just loved it.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: I can't figure out why he tried to kill me.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Because he's an idiot and I hate him.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think Garrett's for life.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: So, anyways, yeah.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Not only do I roll really poorly on a regular basis, it is a talent.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: Ones and threes now.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: Threes is the new thing.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Three's the new one.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Three's the new one.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Three's the new one.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: But um, yeah, I do always have a chance.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, not a chance.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: I always end up choosing something that means something that I don't think it means.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: And now in our campaign, they are getting to experience in real time my levels of misunderstanding.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: Horrifying and fascinating at the same time because I get to see exactly how her games go sideways.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: But now I have to deal with it, and that's why it's horrifying for me, because I am a control freak.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: You really, really are.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: I have a problem.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: She's a control freak and a completionist.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now, yes, I want to talk to all the people and go to all the places and look at all the things.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: I've always considered myself a completionist.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: You have not, you're not.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: You mean to be, but you're really not.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Baldur's Gate spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: If you have not played, go aye aye.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: Or just accept that I'm gonna tell you something that you probably couldn't do if you tried.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: So I played the entire game through thinking that the only companions were Asterian, Gail, and Shadowheart.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I had the whole way through.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: Right until the end.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ignoring the rest of the people who are in the frickin' artwork.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: I thought that they were NPCs that I was supposed to come.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: Or to meet.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: To meet.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I wasn't supposed to come.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: They but really, I don't understand.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: So what are what are some of your some examples of your favorite sheet stuff, shenanigans?
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: In our game.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: In our game that I have done that has uh gone sideways.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't want to be at a dead horse, but when you rip people's throats out, they don't generally survive that.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, once again, I'm gonna state at no point did I think I could kill him.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't think he was injured.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't think that.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: Just I just honestly it never occurred to me that he could die.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: Another scenario.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is pre-recording.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: How she became a snaccident.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: She was she, we're we're in a in a crypt underneath a vampire lord's manor, and he's we're we're doing really poorly.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna die.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I hold a shadow blade over the woman he loves.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's very, it's very strawed.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: I hold a uh shadow blade over the woman he loves who's lying in state, turning into a vampire, and I'm just yelling to him, Barthalon, you know, basically stop the attack.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like my best case scenarios, we could get, we were gonna get imprisoned and we could escape the dungeon.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: So he stopped the attack and he showed up in person.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: And we were having a face-off, and she things slightly calmed down, and then somebody else started fighting again.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: And so then, in order to try and s once again have a ceasefire, I thought, what is something that would make him pause?
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: A comforting and familiar face saying, Let us just take a break, hey.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let's let's try to calm him down.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I put on the face of his dead wife.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: So what do you probably not want to do with an obsessive vampire lord who keeps kidnapping women and turning them into his vampire brides?
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then you present yourself looking like his wife who died in childbirth.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: I was just trying to calm the situation.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: You didn't think he'd kidnap you and turn you into a vampire?
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: I never thought that that was an option.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: Sideways.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: Sideways.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: However, you don't always uh you don't always stay that way.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: No, you don't always stay that way.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: What are some other fun ones we get?
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm suddenly blanking um.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: Well, some of them are not necessarily entirely your fault.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: You do forget to check things sometimes, like the bomb barrels of explosives.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you you waited until you accidentally blew some people up at a part of the wall, and then you check them.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but to be fair, that was a poor role.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: That was a bad role.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: To be fair though, yeah, that was a poor role.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not always entirely her choices.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's her rolling.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's half misunderstanding, half poor roles.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Half the number three coming to uh curse us.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I mean, I do always like my video game issues.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um honestly, Mass Effect, I think, has been one of my biggest ones for Dragon Age.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: Screw Well, okay, Dragon Age, I screwed up.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: I did not think that when not accidentally turning into something in Baldur's Gate because you slept with someone.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: I don't actually even remember sleeping with him.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: Also, okay, Iron Bull, my boyfriend, we were gonna get married.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: He told me we were gonna get married.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: He flat out said, as soon as this is all done, we're gonna settle down, we're gonna get married.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: I turn around two seconds later and the Trespasser DLC.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: Spoilers.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: Spoilers! It's an old game, you should know it by now.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: He tried to kill me.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: He turned on me, and then I had to kill him.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so he does that regardless, pretty much, is he he gets tempted to turn back to the queue.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: And the only way he doesn't get convinced to come back to you is if you let the chargers die.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: I have no recollection of this event.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: Which means she let the chargers die.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: Pretty sure I didn't make that decision.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure she didn't talk to him enough to get that conversation to make that decision.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: If I can talk to you enough for you to propose to me, then I've talked to you enough.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: Apparently not.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: But he tried to kill me, so I killed him.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then, um, I mean, in our game, I killed Einar because he killed me.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: He's it's his fault because I got turned into a vampire, so I touched his dice.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's not your fault, actually.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: Not my fault, but I did touch his dice with malicious intent, and then he immediately died right after that.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: I got better.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: He got better.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: He got better.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and then um in Dragon Age Inquisition, I decided not to support the Empress, and I said that I was gonna support her cousin, I believe.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought that that just meant that, hey, I'm gonna support him.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: I want this person.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna be in he's gonna be the ruler, and we're gonna, you know, just take her off the throne.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: I did not mean immediately kill her.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, you know, politics in Orlay.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I didn't know she also never met Sarah.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't think you I romanced her.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm I romanced Sarah later on.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's Viviane you didn't get.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: No, I oh, there was somebody else I didn't get.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't play with Vivian, I didn't like her very much.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: She also didn't get Israel.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: Isabella in number two.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: I played the entire second game just so I could have Isabella as The Pants was pirate.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's made for her.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: I I got to the end game and I'm like, when am I gonna get Isabella?
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like, did you go into the bar to hang man and talk to the chick at the bar?
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: I went in there.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: Someone's hitting on her.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: I turn and then she punches the guy and no recollection of this event.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: So, anyways, I have a tendency to screw things up by uh confusion.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: Misinterpretation.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: Misinterpretation.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: So I want you guys to tell me what you have misinterpreted to mean that has totally derailed your video game or campaign, and uh just tell me I'm not alone.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: Tell me I'm not alone in like my frustration of trying desperately to hurt the same cats.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Tell her she's alone, and tell me I'm right.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: I d it's like holding hurting little chaos gremlins.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: You are the chaos gremlin, and I am perfect.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: I am an angel.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you very much for watching Delving Deeper with Oleander Hawthorne and Delina Landra.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: Or today, um Azirafail and Crowley-ish.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh basically inspired.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, inspired by Azerophale and Crowley.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: If uh Azirafail was trying to be a demon.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: Very bad demon.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: Very bad at it at all.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: Failing all the checks.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you guys take care of yourselves.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Don't taking indulge, drink, do all the terrible things.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: Punch someone if you I want you guys to be so greedy.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: Don't go to bed before midnight.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Eat a really good meal.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: Eat all eat just all everything terrible for you.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: Tell people how pretty they are.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: No, they're terrible.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: Some charitable acts.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what you need to do?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: You need to do a backhanded compliment.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, little bit of murder is okay.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, actually, good job.
• 11:03
  unknown: Yeah.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: I got one right.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: Good job.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: High five.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.