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3F: Faith, Fantasy, and Fairytales - Feed Swap - Lorehaven Hearth · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  >> Seth: You walk into a dimly lit tavern,
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  shaking off the night's cold.
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  The soft din of patrons reaches your ear, the
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  conversations of many languages overlapping
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  like birds in a forest.
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  Something draws your attention above all else. It's
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  the guttural laugh of an elderly orc
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  is sitting in a chair by the hearth.
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  As you approach, you notice his once
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  proud green skin has started to turn an
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  ashy gray, his long locks of white hair
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  falling from his topknot like an avalanche. One of
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  his lower tusks is broken, and you
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  could see a myriad of battle scars.
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  He spots you as you approach, sizing you up in an
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  instant.
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  >> Monty: Hello.
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  >> Seth: there, stranger. Don't
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  see many of your kind this far
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  north. What brings you this far
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  from home? You say nothing,
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  but pull the hood of your cloak a little tighter
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  around your head for fear of being noticed by the other
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  patrons. Gruk sees
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  you're on ease and offers you a seat. Have a
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  seat, traveler. Gruk flags down a bar
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  wench and orders you both some mail.
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  After a long moment, she returns with his order and hands you a
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  tankard. You accept, and Gruk takes
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  a long quaff from his own tankard.
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  He considers you for a moment and then sets down his
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  tankard.
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  There's only one reason one of
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  your kind would make such a pilgrimage as this.
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  You're here seeking information about a
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  certain dark elf, aren't you?
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  You glance so nervously at the room,
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  hoping no one overheard Gruk's proclamation,
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  but the rest of the tavern seems preoccupied with their own
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  business. You take a hesitant sip
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  from your tanker. As you do, you make a mental note
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  that Gruk may have to be dealt with at
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  some time. An orc this intuitive could
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  be a problem for you down the road.
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  I suppose it was only a matter of time before
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  someone from down, south came looking
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  for him. He's made quite a name for
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  himself up here. It's my
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  estimation that the heroes of some of these tales have
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  all been real scoundrels at
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  some point or another. But not him.
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  Do you know anything about him other than what you've been
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  told? You shake your head. All
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  of your information about your quarry has been what
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  could only amount to propaganda. But you
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  were given orders by a certain pasha
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  puk, your patron
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  and client. You don't question your
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  orders, you just carry them out.
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  What is your business with him?
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  Actually, it's none of my concern. Either you will find
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  him, or he'll find you.
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  That's just how it works.
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  Gruk leans closer and lowers his voice
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  momentarily. That's just the way this
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  works. I've been alive long enough
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  to know an assassin when I see one.
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  Gruk leans back in his seat and gives you a
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  lopsided grin that only an orc can
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  give. Like I said, your business
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  is none of mine. But maybe I can shed some light on
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  the legend. A hero, some
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  might say a future deity.
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  I mean, that is what he is, isn't he?
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  A drow that defied Lolth left
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  the underdark and has been making a name for himself as a
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  ranger. You know, probably some of the
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  stories, but do you know of his fight with the
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  dragon? Shimmer, gloom.
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  Welcome to faith, fantasy and fairy tales. A
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  conversation between two christian nerds about D
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  and D, Sci-Fi and any other nerdy stuff we can think
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  of. I'm Seth.
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  >> Monty: I'm, Monty.
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  >> Seth: Let's get nerdy together.
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  Story is kind of what this podcast is
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  all about, right? So why is it for
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  us that Halo is so near and dear to our hearts?
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  Well, we're brothers, and growing up,
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  you know, he watched over my shoulder
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  regularly playing video games or we play
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  together. This is actually the first game that we
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  got where we actually were able to sit down
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  together and play through a story
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  together and just use our
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  imaginations. This was our, like,
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  forming, video games. And the story for it
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  is something that I, think a lot
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  of people really could get into. If this wasn't the
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  genre, if the genre wasn't video game,
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  right? Or the media, excuse me. Wasn't video game. If it was
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  a movie, I think a lot more people would be into it.
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  >> Monty: Yeah, definitely.
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  >> Seth: This is a D and D monster. It's so,
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  it's a really cool monster. The first edition
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  appearance of a beholder was as
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  if, Rob Kuntz was like, okay, here's a
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  circle. here's an
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  eye.
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  >> Seth: here's a mouth. that's kind of boring.
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  Okay, here's a bunch more eyes.
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  And that's all you got?
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  >> Monty: Well, what's funny I think too, is it looked like he started to
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  draw like a medusa, and then he, like, he
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  was going to draw like a medusa cyclops, but he sucked at
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  it. Cause the eye
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  stalks are really short.
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  >> Seth: So I would encourage you get onto YouTube or get
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  onto Google or whatever you use, find it. Cause it
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  is pretty hilarious. It's in this
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  giant cavern. And, with that, I'd like to
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  kind of do something a little bit different here.
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  Let's kind of go on an imagination
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  quest here for just a second, just to see, try to
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  get into your mind's eye what
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  menzoberanzon is really like.
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  Okay, imagine being a surface
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  world dweller. You walk around in the forest. Let's say
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  it's nighttime. you get to see the stars,
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  hear birds, hear all the different,
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  flora and fauna of the surface world.
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  Then you start to go into this tunnel,
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  and you go deeper and deeper. It gets blacker
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  and darker the deeper you go.
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  Generally speaking, it's getting warmer, hotter, almost
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  to the point of unbearable heat,
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  but darker to the point where you
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  can't see your hand in front of your face. You light a
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  torch, but the torch only goes so far
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  down the depth of this cavern, down the depth of
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  this cave. it's winding back and forth and
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  back and forth. And as you get down, it
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  breaks out onto a, small, little plateau and
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  overlooking a city of
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  stalactites and stalagmites. Built
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  into these stalactites and
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  stalagmites, you see little. Little flickers
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  of blue and purple and green lights
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  fairy, fire that is essentially
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  lighting this giant cavern. This
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  cavern that you're looking at as you step out onto
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  this plateau is a thousand feet high.
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  Built into the walls,
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  there are what look like
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  castles, but they're hanging from the ceiling or
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  hanging from the walls themselves. You
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  see a, small lake off in the
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  distance. But what is
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  major in your vision as you walk out here is
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  one massive tower right in the
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  middle. And on the top of that tower, you see
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  a giant flame, similar
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  to fairy fire, that lights the
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  entirety of this cavern in kind of
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  an eerie, spooky glow. What
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  you're looking at this tower is
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  the tower. Narvandel,
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  you know, we're not trying to, like, focus in on any one
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  dragon today. Monty, what's your favorite
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  dragon?
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  >> Monty: My favorite?
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  >> Seth: Yeah.
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  >> Monty: overall, yeah. So my favorite dragon.
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  I would say the silver dragons.
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  >> Seth: Silver dragons.
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  >> Monty: I, think that they look really clean as
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  far as, like, the way that they captivate me. And
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  I would also say the silver, dragons,
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  because they have sort of like, an allegiance,
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  usually to a gold dragon. Their motivations are
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  not really their own. They're just sort of acting out of duty.
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  Right.
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  >> Seth: Oh, yeah. There you go. for me, I think I know
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  this is going to be typical of just who I am.
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  I would probably have to go the.
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  >> Monty: Red dragon, favorite maniac over
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  here.
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  >> Seth: Love fire. Yeah, exactly. You know, I'm
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  not, I'm not a huge fan of their personalities.
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  Right. I'm just a huge fan of their
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  design and their breath weapon.
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  >> Monty: Although I'm. I would probably say you
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  tend to have a red dragon personality.
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  Right. If I. If I was to identify you as a
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  type of dragon, it would probably be red dragon. I say that
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  because not necessarily, like, total
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  arrogance, but self confidence. Right. I think that that comes
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  out. I don't want to, like, beat you up or anything,
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  but to a degree, you know, your. Your hoard
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  is. Is built up of, you
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  know, the things that you see, like,
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  that elevate your lifestyle, or
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  status or whatever. I'm not trying to beat you up.
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  >> Seth: Or anything, but I think that.
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  >> Monty: And then, obviously, you're a pyromaniac. You've pretty much
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  always been one. So I think that you.
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  >> Seth: That is 100% the truth. Yeah.
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  >> Monty: You are attuned to the Red Dragon way.
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  >> Seth: Yeah. Yeah.
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  >> Monty: Yeah.
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  >> Seth: Would I say that you're a silver dragon? you know, I would.
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  The one thing that I read on silver dragons is their
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  immense loyalty. M and I would say,
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  yes. That is.
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  >> Monty: You think I'm like a silver dragon? Huh? Huh?
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  >> Seth: I think that your attitude, if we were to ever look
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  at a, person that is loyal, Monty, you
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  definitely have that. I feel like we should do.
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  >> Monty: This, Seth, where we should, like, build out a chart.
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  Right. Of, like, dragon colors. Right?
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  Okay. And have it. It's like a personality
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  test, right? Yeah, we should do that.
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  >> Seth: If you guys want us to do.
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  >> Monty: That, you'll have to let us know.
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  >> Seth: Hey, if you want to do that comment.
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  >> Monty: Yeah.
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  >> Seth: Review rate, subscribe, all of
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  that.
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  >> Monty: Throw in the comments, what you think each
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  dragon is like, and we'll try to meld
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  these together. And not only that types.
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  >> Seth: Yeah. Not just that, but tell us which dragon you
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  identify most with.
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  >> Monty: Yeah.
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  >> Seth: The big thing that I want to see is from some of you guys
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  out there that have been listening. You, know, give us your
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  ideas.
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  >> Monty: What.
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  >> Seth: What would you like for us to cover? We want to know
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  what you want so, that we can touch on that.
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  Remember, obviously, we're talking about
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  specifics, stories in
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  the fantasy or Sci-Fi
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  realms, but we're.
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  >> Monty: Oh, yeah, for sure. And obviously, there's a ton of
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  stories out there that we could touch on. for now, we got some
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  announcements. We got the upcoming deck
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  of many things segments, which will be some episodes where
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  we basically bring together a bunch of
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  smaller topics. let us know what topics you
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  guys would like to hear from or about. But, you
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  know, we're going to touch on sort of the smaller things that don't have as
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  much background and depth to them but combine
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  them into singular episodes that we're calling the deck of many
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  things mini. But I realize
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  that is a tongue twister. If you're trying to say one or the
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  other, then, of course we've got our mail bag of
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  holding, which everybody should have expected.
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  It's sort of the obvious, you know, catch term. But anyway,
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  the mailbag of holding, which will be, when you guys send
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  in your reviews, questions, all that great stuff,
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  or just some comments you want to talk some crap about. Seth, that's
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  great. Please do that. Do extra of that if you
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  can. And also give some praise to our producer
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  and writers, JD and Morgan, because they are. They are great.
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  >> Seth: they are awesome.
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  >> Monty: Remember to give us some reviews. Subscriptions, likes, subscribers.
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  Those are the things that keep us going. And we will see you
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  guys next time. Go slay those dragons,
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  Ram.