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S1-Ep.0: The Show, The Game, The World · The Teamup Play Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a lily Pad production.
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  Speaker 2: This is the team up Play Show Podcast. Hey, welcome
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  Speaker 2: to the team of Play Show Podcast. My name is
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Wilson. Great, we're done.
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  Speaker 1: The eyebrow raise indicated he wanted us to do something.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody else, say your name or do you want me
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  Speaker 2: to introduce you? I don't want to talk so much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Stephanie Fackler.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Ethan Goldman, the original mc tickler bed the lost
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  Speaker 2: McDonald's character, the McK tickler he was cut for obviously
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  Speaker 2: deeply problematic. I don't get it. So the what is
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  Speaker 2: this show? If you clicked on this, if you clicked
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  Speaker 2: on this this episode, it means you're maybe wondering what
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  Speaker 2: this show is. And that's what this episode is about.
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  Speaker 2: It's about explaining this show what it is and what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do. We're going to talk about what
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  Speaker 2: the show is, We're going to talk about what game
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  Speaker 2: we're using, and we're going to talk about the world
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  Speaker 2: in which season one will happen. And then we'll give
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  Speaker 2: some tasty spoilers for future stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So tasty spoilers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know that. Well, I came full of food.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, First, what is the show? I think I
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  Speaker 2: want to hear what you guys want this show to be.
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  Speaker 2: But overall, this is an improvised, cooperative storytelling long form podcast.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of qualify qualifiers, but we're doing improv
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  Speaker 2: so there won't be too much planned. I will do
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the planning, but I do just a
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  Speaker 2: lot of bullet notes for the planning. It is cooperative.
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  Speaker 2: We're all going to be telling the story together. It
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  Speaker 2: is long form, so it'll be a long time and
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  Speaker 2: it's a podcast. So that's what that is. About superheroes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, about superheroes. Uh, we want to tell superhero
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  Speaker 2: stories in this medium. This is kind of a new medium.
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  Speaker 2: We're like using a game to cooperatively, improvably tell a
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  Speaker 2: long form story, and we want to do that for
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  Speaker 2: the superheroes. So that's the that's the goal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh. The SoundBite I've heard is that there. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's the modern day mythos. That's what people say, that's
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  Speaker 2: superos all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Oh it's super true our current pantheon.
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  Speaker 2: M m yeah, modern day mythology, that's for sure. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to add to that.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have like one one more little altar in
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  Speaker 1: the in the square.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, square, We're going to blow out the blow out
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  Speaker 3: the sidewall of that pantheon.
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  Speaker 2: Put on a little chapel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly to us. You're thinking bigger, you're thinking bigger,
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking chapel. I just wanted like one little, one,
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  Speaker 1: little fountain, maybe a.
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  Speaker 2: Little shrine, Yeah, just a corner of existing structure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so we this what is this show? That's the first
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  Speaker 2: question we're answering. We're all improvisers. We've been improvising for
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  Speaker 2: over a decade each of us.
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  Speaker 4: Right, mm hmm, this is my twenty year Oh wow anniversary.
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  Speaker 4: What is the twentieth anniversary for improv I would assume
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  Speaker 4: it's like a chair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you finally get it, finally get it that doesn't fold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a real chair chair, a wooden chair painted
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  Speaker 2: black like the stage. Wow. Congrats, dude, classy. Thanks, And
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  Speaker 2: it's crazy because I'm only twenty two years Get all
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  Speaker 2: to you. You're a baby. Yeah, it was a baby
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  Speaker 2: when I started doing.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: We're all improvisors. We all in our own ways love superheroes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, definitely, quick quick round of favorite superheroes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh sure, pressures on my Like. One of my oldest
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  Speaker 1: loves of superheroes was Starfire on Teen Titans because that was, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like something I watched as a kid.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, yeah, I'm a I'm a Daredevil stand forever.
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  Speaker 2: I just read a new Daredevil book last night. Not new,
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  Speaker 2: but it new to me that I had never read before. Ben,
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  Speaker 2: you ever read End of Days Daredevil? End of Days
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  Speaker 2: have not damned? Maybe that's why I couldn't sleep last night.
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  Speaker 2: I kept me up. I couldn't stop reading it, and
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  Speaker 2: it fucking knocked my ass off. It was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Highly recommend I slept through all of that, the ass
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  Speaker 1: falling off through all of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's good. It wasn't pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. And Raven. How could I not shout
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  Speaker 1: out Raven from Teen Titans? Yeah, both of those ladies.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, heart agree. We were at Batman House growing up,
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  Speaker 2: so teen Titans is an extension of that with Robin
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  Speaker 2: as the leader, but the best Robin. Wow, I don't
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  Speaker 2: you know, Dick Grayson shout out.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, yeah, I don't like. My context for
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  Speaker 4: Batman was like Teen Titans and then Batman begins.
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  Speaker 1: That was.
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  Speaker 5: Well Batman the Animated Series is like one of the
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  Speaker 5: best superhero things that exists.
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  Speaker 1: I keep hearing that it is. Maybe I should watch it.
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  Speaker 2: We can watch it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not done, and then I can record my thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if I want step to watch Batman Beyond, that's
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  Speaker 3: what I want. Step to Batman Beyond.
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  Speaker 2: You get to earn Batman Beyond, you do, though, that's
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  Speaker 2: the problem. Batman Beyond is very much like a spiritual
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  Speaker 2: sequel to Batman the Animated Series, So that would be
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  Speaker 2: a fun trip for us. All Right, the podcast has
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  Speaker 2: a new direction now if you guys want us to
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  Speaker 2: listen to watch all of Batman the Animated Series and
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  Speaker 2: then review.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just through Batman the Animated Series, the New Adventures
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  Speaker 3: of Batman and Robin, the Batman and Superman specials in
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  Speaker 3: Justice League, and Batman Beyond.
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  Speaker 2: Just let us know, because well, we'll do it for
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  Speaker 2: five dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I did watch Under the Red Hood when our improv
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  Speaker 1: team in college. I watched it together in that dark classroom.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great follow up questions about thanks to Ben
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  Speaker 1: and Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great movie that holds up. So what is
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  Speaker 2: this show? Though? We've I think we've answered the question
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  Speaker 2: my favorite Spider Man.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is there more you want to say?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: No, I was really tor between Batman and Spider Man,
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  Speaker 3: but Ethan taking Batman really freed me up.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you, You're welcome. Spider Man's great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah what I just thought?
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  Speaker 2: That was it?
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  Speaker 1: Spider Man's great.
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  Speaker 2: Spider Man's great. So this show, they'll never release a
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  Speaker 2: Spider Man thing that we won't want to see. That's
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  Speaker 2: my take. Have you watched Marbius, No, that doesn't count.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever watched Craven though? Those don't. Have you
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  Speaker 2: watched Medimal Web? Spider Man is not in though movie.
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  Speaker 2: He's implied it's Spider Man adjacent. All right, I get
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  Speaker 2: that they're villains. I understand they're bad. Anyway, what's the
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  Speaker 2: show about? I think we answered it. It's a long
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  Speaker 2: form improv show about superheroes. We want to tell superhero stories. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we want to tell superhero stories where you're playing team up.
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  Speaker 2: That's the new exciting part YEP, that's the next part
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  Speaker 2: of this episode. Is what game are we using? So
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  Speaker 2: in this world of play shows.
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  Speaker 1: I was taking a breath like we were all going
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  Speaker 1: to say it together.
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  Speaker 2: Your question, what game are we using? Team Yay?
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  Speaker 1: That was cute. Thank you for doing that for me.
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  Speaker 2: In this world of we teamed up, in this world
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  Speaker 2: of play shows, with all of these different game systems
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  Speaker 2: you can use, we have decided to create our our
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  Speaker 2: own called Team Up and Smart. Yeah, it's the easiest
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  Speaker 2: thing to do. It was a lazy thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: It is a lazy thing to do. Even though it
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  Speaker 2: took me so long and so much hard work. It
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  Speaker 2: is lazy.
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  Speaker 1: It was so lazy for you to spend hours and
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  Speaker 1: days and years at your computer building a game.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, very lazy, but hey, I did it. We're using
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  Speaker 2: Team up to tell the story. Team up is built
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  Speaker 2: to tell stories. It's specifically built for this kind of
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  Speaker 2: format to get to tell stories together. What are some
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  Speaker 2: things about Team up that make that easier for us
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  Speaker 2: to make that accessible to like, get to tell stories
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  Speaker 2: in this way.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the first thing that comes to mind is
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  Speaker 4: getting to pick my own superpowers. I'm not having to
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  Speaker 4: like Cheehorn a hero that I want to play into
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  Speaker 4: other things that are already created for me, or trying
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  Speaker 4: to skin something. It's just this is like the kind
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  Speaker 4: of hero I want to be and I write it
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  Speaker 4: down and there she is. Yeah, it's cool. I'd also
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  Speaker 4: say that combat for this game. I mean, any ttrpg
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  Speaker 4: has combat, but the Team Ups combat is very reactionary,
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  Speaker 4: it's very interwoven. It like lends itself to collaboration. And
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  Speaker 4: also each player's turn is super quick and simple, and
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  Speaker 4: so there's not so much downtime in combat. It feels
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  Speaker 4: every every player's turn feels like a comic book panel
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  Speaker 4: to me, where it's like wham baff like it just
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  Speaker 4: flows in a much faster way than I'm used to
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  Speaker 4: for other TRPGs, which is exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Wambiv bamp Yeah, wambib bamp.
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  Speaker 1: Bamp take that out please, I don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: say it again.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, let's just all say our favorite super
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  Speaker 5: we're here on a monopiea sounds that they make on
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  Speaker 5: the kind of three one two three.
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  Speaker 2: Fab Maria Bamford, how.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe pop actually pop?
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we're using Team Up. We have episodes. They
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  Speaker 2: won't be in this feed, but if you want to
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  Speaker 2: go to our patreon you can see them for free.
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  Speaker 2: They are how to play Team Up episodes, which we
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  Speaker 2: really encourage you to go check out because if we
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  Speaker 2: start kind of moving into this story and you're really
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  Speaker 2: engaged in the story, but then we do a role
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, why would they do that role? What
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  Speaker 2: does that mean? It might not make much sense to
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  Speaker 2: you at first, So we really encourage you to go
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  Speaker 2: listen to those how to episodes and download the download
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  Speaker 2: the game, and you can follow along that way and
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  Speaker 2: bring Team Up to your own tables. Anything else about
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  Speaker 2: Team Up, y'all want to say? I like it? Uh huh, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's good game.
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  Speaker 3: It's built for telling these kind of stories, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and there's a lot of systems that are made for
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  Speaker 3: telling different kinds of stories, both in the role playing
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  Speaker 3: and the combat. I feel like I'm echoing with Stephanie
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  Speaker 3: Ethan talked about, but I've tried to, you know, force
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  Speaker 3: superhero stories into some other systems. But I yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think building it from the ground up was the right
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  Speaker 3: move so that we can yet marry a game system
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  Speaker 3: with the kind of stories we want to tell.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Johnny here cutting in with something else that I
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  Speaker 2: want to say about the game. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and give you some Team Up game rules that
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  Speaker 2: will come up a lot in the play show. You
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  Speaker 2: can definitely go read the manual and listen to our
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  Speaker 2: how two episodes on our Patreon, But this is a
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  Speaker 2: quick little boot camp of rules just for you to
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  Speaker 2: get by first. There are a lot of checks. You'll
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  Speaker 2: hear me asking for checks. In the play show. Each
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  Speaker 2: character has thirteen skills. They had to assign a specific
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  Speaker 2: die from the polyhedral set to each of those skills.
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  Speaker 2: So unlike D and D where you're rolling a D
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  Speaker 2: twenty for everything and just adding a bonus, you put
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  Speaker 2: a specific die like your D six or your D
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  Speaker 2: eight on a specific skill and you roll that. But
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  Speaker 2: then each character gets to create their own powers, and
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  Speaker 2: then each of those powers gets a power die based
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  Speaker 2: on how much energy it has, and you can add
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  Speaker 2: that to those skill check rolls. That's called empowering a check.
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  Speaker 2: So you're going to hear them do that a lot.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to try to add their powers to a
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  Speaker 2: certain skill check. Negotiate with me if they're allowed to
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  Speaker 2: do that. And what they are trying to beat is
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  Speaker 2: the game director's threshold. So every time I, as the
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  Speaker 2: game runner, ask for a check, I also have to
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  Speaker 2: roll a threshold die based on how difficult the check is.
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  Speaker 2: The harder the check, the bigger the die. This makes
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  Speaker 2: it fun because I can always roll low, even if
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  Speaker 2: it's supposed to be a very hard check. It's really
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  Speaker 2: geared towards those big superhero like fantastical moments, big swings.
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  Speaker 2: Always try because there's a chance, always chance, you could
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  Speaker 2: do it. They're gonna be rolling a lot of checks.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be asking for skill checks. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: be trying to add their powers to those skill checks,
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  Speaker 2: and what they're trying to do is beat my role.
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  Speaker 2: Another thing that will be helpful for you to know
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  Speaker 2: is that you'll notice when we get to combat characters,
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  Speaker 2: turns can go very very quickly. That's because you only
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  Speaker 2: get to do one thing per turn. In Team Up.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like splitting up your whole turn in
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  Speaker 2: D and D. So in D and D you have
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  Speaker 2: your movement, you have your attack, you have your bonus action,
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  Speaker 2: you have free action, and you can do all of
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  Speaker 2: that in just your one turn. In Team Up, we
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  Speaker 2: kind of split all that up, so you can only
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  Speaker 2: do your movement, you can only do your attack, you
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  Speaker 2: can only do a utility action. We find that this
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  Speaker 2: makes combat a lot quicker and more reactionary, which is
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  Speaker 2: great for a superhero story. Nothing ever against D and D.
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  Speaker 2: We just wanted to do something a little different. You'll
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  Speaker 2: notice also that sometimes we go into a series of
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  Speaker 2: episodes that are downtime. Downtime in Team Up is there
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  Speaker 2: to force players to make some difficult decisions. This simulates
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  Speaker 2: the superhero stories that we love that do the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: where heroes have to choose between saving people or investing
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  Speaker 2: in their life unmasked or resting, or keeping tabs on
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  Speaker 2: the city, or going on a date with their girlfriend,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is. In Team Up, you have to give
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  Speaker 2: a number zero four to each of these categories. That
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  Speaker 2: means something's going to get that zero and it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to get the attention that it needs.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Something else that might be confusing as you listen is l's.
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  Speaker 2: L stands for length and it represents a cube of
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  Speaker 2: about twenty feet. This is the system that Team Up
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  Speaker 2: uses for distance. If a character is in the same
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  Speaker 2: L as an enemy, there considered close up. If they
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  Speaker 2: are three or more l's away, you're considered at range.
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  Speaker 2: We use ls because superhero combat can be very vertical
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  Speaker 2: and span over a great distance, so keeping those ls
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  Speaker 2: in the single digit or very low double digit numbers.
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  Speaker 2: It keeps us from getting into the minutia of having
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  Speaker 2: to calculate hundreds of feet at one time. Also, because
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  Speaker 2: being close up is within twenty feet, there is some
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  Speaker 2: movement on a non movement turn that is allowed and
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  Speaker 2: imagined within that l Now a true cornerstone of Team
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  Speaker 2: up is energy points or you'll probably hear us saying EPs.
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  Speaker 2: In Team Up, the players are given a set amount
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  Speaker 2: of these energy points at level one and are given
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  Speaker 2: more every time they level up. These EPs have two functions. First,
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  Speaker 2: the max number of EPs of power has determines all
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  Speaker 2: the stats of the power, like what die you roll
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  Speaker 2: for attacking or empower checks it's range, how far you
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  Speaker 2: can move with it if it's a movement power, and
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  Speaker 2: how much support it gives as a buffing or a
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  Speaker 2: healing power. So that's the first thing. The second thing
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  Speaker 2: is that the number of EPs also acts as a
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  Speaker 2: kind of currency forgetting to do special things with that power.
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  Speaker 2: So you'll hear me saying that costs an energy. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to team up with a team member
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  Speaker 2: to do a very powerful attack, you can, but it
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  Speaker 2: costs energy. If you want to attack twice in one round.
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  Speaker 2: You can, but it costs energy, and there are some
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  Speaker 2: other things that cost energy. But those are the main
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: ideas that I think will help you listen to the
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Team Up playctio podcast without feeling like you're lost. If
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: you want a better grasp of all of Team Up's rules,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: then read chapter two of our manual. It goes over
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: all the basic definitions in language for important rules like this.
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  Speaker 2: You can find the manual at teamuparpg dot com or
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  Speaker 2: download it as a pdf on Patreon dot com slash
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  Speaker 2: Team up RPG. Okay, let's get back to this session
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  Speaker 2: zero and have fun learning about season one of our
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  Speaker 2: Team Up Play show podcast, The City of bones Hell. Yeah. Cool,
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  Speaker 2: So that's what the show is, That's what the game is,
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  Speaker 2: and now we'll get into the beefy part of this
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  Speaker 2: episode is what is the world?
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  Speaker 1: I already hate? Why why are you doing this so much?
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  Speaker 2: Download before we record, had sick off colon. We we
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  Speaker 2: have tasty teasers, and we have beefy lord dumb lord.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like a good super villain.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like bf lord dump.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So here's how the is gonna go. Ben,
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  Speaker 2: you have a thought I.
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  Speaker 3: Was just gonna say, beefy Lord dumplings sounded better. That
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  Speaker 3: was just a joke, just a tag.
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  Speaker 2: Here's how this is gonna go. I'm gonna give the
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  Speaker 2: very general stuff that someone in this city we're going
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  Speaker 2: to play in would know about history in this world.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna do. It's just gonna be pretty
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  Speaker 2: surface level. Also, if you don't want to hear this,
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  Speaker 2: you can skip this episode now and go to the
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  Speaker 2: actual play show because you might just want to. You
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: might want this stuff to be leaked out subtly through
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  Speaker 2: our storytelling. This will be just an exposition dump if.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: You just want your beefy Lord dumps juicily tantalizingly distributed.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, now you need to be here. So yeah,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna give the general stuff. If you guys
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: have questions, please ask. I may or may not answer them,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: but please do ask. I am ben. I know you
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: were interested in hearing kind of the timeline, so I
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: am going to give you years here as when things happened.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Please tell me there's you also have a PowerPoint to
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: show us no power point, I'm sorry. Uh.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: And then once we get done with that audio medium, Yeah, sadly.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Once we get done with that, I am going to
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: ask you guys to help me build parts of the city,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: and and I'm going to ask for those tasty teasers
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: if you guys have any, we can talk about what
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: we want to reveal.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: If anything, My gosh, this is a pot luck, and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: he didn't tell me the.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Pot luck bring cheesy potatoes. Look, the basis of this
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: world is built on that the Great Depression happened and
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: then got way worse instead of getting better both economically
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: and ecologically, the world just was used up and was
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: turning to dust all throughout it. It kind of spread,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: not just kind of locally, but the whole world was
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: suffering from this Great depression. The world responded in two ways.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: There was a natural evolutionary response and then also kind
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: of a man made how do we get out of
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: this response? The evolutionary one is the birth of mutants
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: or evos were calling them. This was Ben's idea. The
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: evos so sick, thanks, so the evos started to be born.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: They started to be born right after the Great Depression,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: or or I guess our year that the Great Depression ended,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: which is in the early forties. That's when evos started
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: being born into the world. That's the kind of mother
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Nature's response to the dusty world, the dying world. Man's
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: response or humanity's response, I should say, was let's get
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: to space. This planet isn't going to keep all of us.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Let's get out of here. And so the rest of
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the I don't know, almost the next century is like
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: the world funneling all of its all of its smarts,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: all of its money, all of its resources into getting
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: to space. There's kind of a retrofuturist vibe in the
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: city we're going to be in, and it comes from
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: that kind of hindering of of everything else. So there
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: wasn't as much focus quite on on the science as
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: we care about, certainly study of the mind, study of
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the body, other things. Entertainment is certainly not up to
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: the level that we understand it because everything was funneled
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: into like we need to get to space. That's kind
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: of the idea. And it was a world. It was
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: just something kind of like in a recent Fantastic Four
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: movie when the whole world came together to like do something.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Together spoilers, sorry it didn't work, super spoiler.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Vanessa Kirby was a vision in blue spoiler. Yeah, they
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: wear Vanessa was stunning. Don't add us about the spoiling
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Fantastic four you can. I don't know what was I
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: saying about space travel? Yeah, poured our resources into space
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: travel in the world. It was a global action initiative. Yeah,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: global thing the world came together to do.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: You gave him initiative and he went with things.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Hey, there's initiative is a thing. I couldn't think of
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the word I was trying to think of. But it's okay.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Sometimes that happens to me, happens to all of us.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Let's see here. What else do I want to say
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: and not say? So with all this, a couple enormous
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: things were created. Number one is the the Bowl b
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: o L. This is the bomb of life, and in
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: it was just the means to terraform planets. So we
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: were looking directly into our solar system. Uh so we
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: art shooting these bombs of life at different planets in
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: our Solar system. While at the same time we were
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: building space barges. And that's the other thing. The sb program,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: the space barge program. The really important thing about the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: space BArch program to our show is that it happened
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: in a city called New Babel. If you're familiar at
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: all with the biblical story of Babel, the people of
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: the world, of the known world at the time, this
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: is the legend to come together and say we're going
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: to build a tower so high that we're going to
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: reach God. And then God came down and confused all
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: their languages and split up the split them into tribes
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: because they couldn't understand each other anymore. That's the legend.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: So this New Babel is this kind of secondary like
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: God is dead, we have killed him. We're going to
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: go up to space. We don't care about God's punishment
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: anymore because we are we are modern people.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I'm sure people will at us about spoiling Fantastic four
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: and not about that.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, sorry, well at us for spoiling Genesis eleven.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry for spoiling the Bibles. We spoiled the Bible.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: But yeah. The idea of New Babbel was we will
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: reach God. We will build these space barges big enough
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: and strong enough and with enough science to go up
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: into space and reach God. So New Babble was created.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: America gave the world a big chunk of land in
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the great plains.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Hey, can we just pause and appreciate the Bomb of
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Life as like a superhero mcguffin thing that is that
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: is just really fun.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah I love that. Yeah. I mean, you guys could
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: stumble on the Bomb of life somewhere. What was I saying? Yeah,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: big chunk of land. America gave the world this big
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: chunk of land for New Babel. It's on the Nebraska Kansas,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Colorado tri point and it was a city for the world.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: It kind of acted as a city state. It wasn't
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: an American city or it was just a city of
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: the world. So New Babbel started being built and created
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: while these space barges were being built, while these bombs
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: of life were being created and shot up to space.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: There might be a couple names that you guys know
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: involved with all this. A man named Brock Danton, who
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: is most famous for his work in the with the
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Bombs of Life. That's kind of the biggest name of
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: that time. He would have been he was excuse me,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: he was an evo, a British evo that built these
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: things and had a big influence on the science of
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: the time. Evos of the time were not just kind
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: of superpowered people like X Men. They weren't just heroes.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: There were some that kind of took up a hero path,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: but for the most part, it was just you know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: if Storm gave her all of her energy to helping
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: grow crops and rebirth the world, like it was like
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: it was a kind of a humanitarian effort to like,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: let's do it, like, let's make this a better place
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: to live. So there were economists and politicians and scientists
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: of all kinds that the evos were just kind of
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: smarter and just like better that next phase of evolution,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: and they they they it worked. So what's the timeline
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: looking like where we are, Yes, your New Babel. The
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: city of New Babble was completed thirty years after the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Great Depression, So seventies, early seventies is when New Babel
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: was finished, and that means both the station and the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: campus of New Babel to launch these big space barges
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: was complete. So they launched these things right out of
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the middle of the city. Very arrogant, very silly, very stupid.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: But these giant space barges were ported into the city
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: and then launched out of the middle of it. It
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: was like a big to do in a big celebration.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: So we're looking at the early seventies. The bowls, the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: bols bombs of life were started to be shot off
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: right after that, and then a thing happened right after
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: that that you probably wouldn't know the details of, but
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: people started to be chosen for this mission. So the
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: world was getting better, but humans were still like, we
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: still need to get a bunch of people to space.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: And it was decided again you don't know how, but
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: it was decided that two billion people needed to be
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: sent off to space to keep our world healthy.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: And so.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: That didn't start happening until the late eighties early nineties.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: So we finished the bombs of life. It seems like
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: the bomb that hit Venus worked very well. All the
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: reports coming back from that were really good. Venus was
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: the place to be settled, and we started sending people
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: up there in numbers of thousands. It took a couple
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: of years to get two billion people off there, but
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: there was a group of people that was chosen. Again,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: you don't exactly know how. That's probably a well kept
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: secret or so sort of well kept secret, but all
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: of these people were sent up to space as soon
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: as the last space barge with people on it left.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: All communication from that group was cut off. That's also
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a great mystery. So they're known as the silent Pilgrims.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: We don't know what happened to them. They might have
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: gone to Venus and are doing good. They might have
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: gone somewhere else. They might all be dead. You guys
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: don't know. It's a secret. That completed in what ninety
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: five complete silence from the Venus colonists. And then right
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: after that was a really really sad time. It's the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Evo War, So there were still a lot of Evos
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: left and the world turned on them and said we
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: don't need you anymore. Please get your weird stuff out
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: of here, and they forced them all to New Babbel
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: and sent them to space. It was a bloody time,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of battles, basically a lot, I mean a
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: bunch of people died on both sides, a lot of
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: just like the world just put their numbers again, you know,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: because one Evo could take probably take you know, ten guys,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: but not a thousand guys. But you kill a lot
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: of those thousand guys before you know that Evo was
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: forced to do something. So it was a very bloody
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: time and a very horrible time for the world. These
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: evos were forced to New Babbel because there was two
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: space bar space barges left, and they were forced into
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: one and then shot up into space.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Are there comes with that ship? No?
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that's more of choice. Yes, that's more of
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: a choice based on both parties. Yeah, so that means
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: there's one space barge left, correct, and it just hangs
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: out in the middle of the city and in fact
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: has been has been repurposed. Yeah, as living spaces people
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: living there.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: All right, So.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: With the exodus or the what's that's not the best word,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: what's the better word when you deportation of the evo's expulsion?
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Expulsion getting them off also came with that kind of
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: a wanting to isolate and forget about New Babble as
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: a city. It was like used to be the shining beacon.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: It almost had thirty five forty years of being like
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: an incredible pinnacle of science and movement in the world,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: and then because its job was done, it was kind
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: of left tarat. The world no longer wanted to fund
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the city, and so it became this kind of random
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: city state in the middle of America that was not
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: attached to America but just was. And that's the city
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: that we are going to play in, the city of
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: New Babel. About So about the year two thousand is
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the evil less world and an emptier world,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: having sent two billion people away. Our story doesn't begin
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: until sixty years after that, so we're in the year
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: of twenty sixty. Again. It's going to be very retro
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: futurey vibe. It is significantly our you know, in our future,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: and the world outside of New Babel is probably further
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: along than New Babel. But there are things because we
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: focused on space programming that that there were parts of
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: technology that did come to fruition through the space program.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: So all of that is in New Babbel. So kind
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: of a weird town, but very very fun. What any
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: questions or thoughts we said town? Yeah, yeah, from my understanding,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: it's like the size of a state.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: It's probably not that it's not that big. No, no's
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: like the population, yeah, like do we we don't stretch
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: to the mountains, no, no, no planes.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's the city. Is I have the papers
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: somewhere Ben, How long did I tell you? The shoot
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: was twelve miles.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you said the shoot was about twelve miles long
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: and about a quarter mile wide.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, so the the shoot takes up runs half of
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: the city's length, So it's twenty four miles and which
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: is like double the size of like Chicago. It's like
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: a big old city, but it's not. It's not a state.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: When you say retro future, yeah, do you mean kind
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: of like like where like from the esthetic perspective and
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: the kind of stuff we should expect floating around the city.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: What would you say is like a good reference for us?
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: Is it, you know, kind of fifties e's stuff that's
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: we're looking at, but it's obviously more modernized.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Or what do you Yeah, probably fifties to sixties kind
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: of era technology. Everything, all the screens are still tubes.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: The clothing of that era is very in vogue. But
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: there are some things that we that have come up
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: in your origin stories. There are hover bikes and hover cars.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: There are floating lanterns, there are floating platforms, some other
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: things and just some stuff that is one of the
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: things I want y'all to help me come up with
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: for the city. But yes, there is a very basic
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: version of the Internet that makes it to New Babbel.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: It's mostly encyclopedic for common use. But it's one of
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: those things where it's like, sure, the Internet was around
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: when we were kids in the nineties, but we didn't
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: really know about, like we didn't.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Really have it.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: You know. It's kind of that vibe and it's a
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: very it was boring, right, Yeah, you.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Know it might be a fun alternative that might just
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: be just slightly faster than Internet. In New Babble would
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: be pneumatic tubes.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Perfect, that's the kind of thing fun. I just
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: love the food.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's the sound. It changed it from pop.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: It's I was gonna let each of you come up
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: with a thing in New Babble that would that's a
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: great thing.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Now I want to go back and re record from
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: my origins so I could be using more dramatic tubes.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Sorry. Yeah, there's pneumatic tubes now, which is awesome. Stuff
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, other questions or thoughts about the world.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: We hope to get to do this for a long time,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: and so this is one of the tasty teasers I'm
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: going to give. So buckle up, unbutton your buttons and
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: your belts, my pants are off. My dream is that
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: season one takes place in New Babel. My other dream,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: and this is a big spoiler from the lore that
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I just said, and I made a point to say, like, oh,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: we don't know what happened. But my next dream is
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: that season two happens on the planet Venus space space.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: We take a pneumatic tube to space. So season two
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: is supposed to be in Venus. And then I love that.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: I'll keep going, but because more of this will make
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: less and less sense. But my hope is that there's
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: a tiny season, a little quick banger in between season
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: two and three that happens on the Moon, just a
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: mini moon season, moon Sea shot, a moonshot that'll probably
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: end up being like twenty five episodes, because I'm a disaster.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Beautiful it is twenty eight because the moon phases.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Oh damn, We'll try, all right, try, And then that's
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: all I'll say. I have more seasons planned in my
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: dream house that is in my brain, my Johnny dream house.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: But I hope season two can be in Venus. I
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: hope season two point five will be on the Moon.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: I love that, sweet, I love that too. Then, yeah,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I would like to oh. I also want to talk about, like, well,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: let's do this first. Let's do tasty teasers from you guys.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: We can decide what we want to give here, but
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I kind of want to give the people something about
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: your characters. You guys don't know each other's characters yet. Yeah,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: recorded origins for all of you. We still have some
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: to do for Ben and Steph, but you all know
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: what your characters will be for this first season, and
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I'm I want you guys to tease something. But we
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: can choose what we want to tease and what we don't.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: We could do like your sheer human name, which is
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: very nothing. We could do one power you have, which
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: is a lot. We could do anything in between where
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: you live, blah blah blah. What do you think? Any
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: thoughts about what we want to say, what we don't.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I love being surprised in reading other characters.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: I think you all do. Yeah, we all do.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that not me.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: I want to know everything, But that's fine. We could do.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: You can do your hero's superhero name. Well, well, I
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: guess we can't because I think Ben doesn't hasn't decided yet,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: which maybe that's a spoiler. In and of itself.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: I'm going in real improv into these origin sessions.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Guys.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: A note, I'm going in blind.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: That's fun. Oh, now I do want to know more.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: We'll just do one little tiny tease for the people,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: for the listeners. All right, I can, I can start.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I'll start with small. So I'll say his name's Jason Turner,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: which is a pun based on that's a clue. His
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: name is a clue, okay, and super stuff.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he lives in the like the like apartment
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: atrium above the library of New Babel.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, cool city library live in. Yeah.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: I also chose my h nonu my my birth name intentionally.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: And her name is Veronica mars No. Her name is
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Veronica Canter.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: She's not a horse girl. Also spoiler.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Not a horse girl.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's not a horse girl girl horse.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: That was good.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: That was that was too good.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: That's definitely planned. I'll say yeah, I'll say my character
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: splits his time.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: He lives partly still with his parents and partly in
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: a communal living situation.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Mmm.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: So he's the richest man in the uh. Quite the opposite.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: He's a boy horse.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: My character is not wealthy. Spake spoiler as well. Man, guys,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: really we're really really leak out these the lower dumbs
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: took off the shroud, took off the saddle. Yes, oh
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: my god, are we all horse themed?
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: Guys?
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Did we all horses? Power hoops? Were all horses, which
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: make so much sense for the city we love. Oh man,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: I do want to talk a little bit about the
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: state of New Babbel, so like what state you guys
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: find it in, so please ask questions about this. There
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: are four quadrants. There's the Colorado North quadrant which is
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: called Kono, Colorado South quadrant, which is called KOSO. There's
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: the Nebraska quadrant which is called ask, and the Kansas
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: quadrant called SASS. I'm just going to give incredit like
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: like every city, every kind of part of a city
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: has kind of a vibe about it while also being
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: the people within it are so variable and like you
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: could never say what the whole whole part of the
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: city is about. But I'm just going to give the
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: very blanket idea for each quadrant. KNO is the fancy
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: part of town, the nicest part of town. Colorado North,
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Colorado South is where most of the workers lived during
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: the time of building of New Babel and then the
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: space program of New Babbel and so there was a
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: lot of like project housing there for people to come
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: there and work. It is the most it is the
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: kind of poorest part of town as well as the
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: most like variety part of town. A lot of variety
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: in insity diversity. Yes, I don't know if this is
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: like adding to the it's it's not adding to the world.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: But maybe think of like when we used to live
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: in the Cleveland Acrone area and there's like the old
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: like Firestone neighborhoods I can't, like the tire Factory neighborhood. Yes,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: and all the houses like looked identical and they all
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: had like the same tree I think in the front. Yes,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm imagining.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely Nebraska. The ask part of town is is
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: where the New Babble Technological University was n BTU, And
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: so if you want to think about kind of academia
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: education in that side of town, you can. That's where
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: your library is, the pen Dragon Library. I like to
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: think of all the people that live and ask as assholes. Assholes?
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Is that like they like wear it proudly, like yeah,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask whole.
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: I think so if I'd imagine if there were separate
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: license plates, that's what.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: A lot of the vails and sassholes.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: I don't think there would be like license plates. Okay unfortunately, Yeah, yeah,
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: but that's like that's what they call people assholes. Yeah,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: we're academic, you know, or snooty assholes. Kansas. The SaaS
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: part of town is it would be described as artsy
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: in the broadest sense. It is where the zoo is, music, theaters,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: food culture, sex, museums, art, all that stuff. Obviously there's
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: other stuff like that in the rest of the city,
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: but that is kind of the most concentrated place where
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: you if you're gonna get the best burger, you gotta
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: go down to you know, Sass.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Kind of Sasses in Sas.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: I'm just like, are you saying like sass is in Sassin?
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're trying to say.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: No, No, it's the restaurant is called sasses, like possessive sasses,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: and it's in Sas. But I'm really glad we took
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the time for this.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Again, I'm almost following. The last part of town is
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: kind of the downtown area, the station and the shut
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: so that is all one part of town. The station
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: is where they launched these big space barges from. There's
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: still a space barge there. People have moved into there
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: when they were displaced from the whole city shutting down.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: But they have also moved into the chute, which is
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: a concrete tube that basically the fire belching from these
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: launches was forced out into the Colorado Desert.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Incredible big style, incredible.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Style, big exhaust channel. Basically a huge exhaust channel which
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: is twelve miles long and a quarter mile wide, so
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: it's huge, and people have started to build housing units
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: in there, and that's where Ben's characters.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Are They like entrances, Oh spoiler, are there entrances like
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: along along the chute? So you're like you have to
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: go in at the middle or the end.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Certainly now sixty years later, it would have been nice
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: and tight when they were doing the actual space book
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: barge launches.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Keep that exhaust tight.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: But now there's they've they've but but now that you
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: know it has they put plumbing in there. They've cut
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: into the shoot for entryways. Like you're saying, there's a
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: road that runs through it. There's one of the electric
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: rails ride there's a station for an electrical rail there,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: so like it has certainly been broken up.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Now cool.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: The interesting thing about the station and the shoot is
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: that the police and the powers that be in the
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: city are not allowed in there. It is protected very vaguely.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: There's not much more to that, but the police and
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: the again, the powers that be at the city are like, we.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Can't go into the shoot. That's a common knowledge, common knowledge.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: That's a lawless place, yes, or I.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Should say laud or ruled by the gang called the
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: core CEO r E the Core gang.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: What is the political structure, the governing.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Structure, great question. There's a mayor. His name is Adrian Stephenson.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: My son, oh, because your name is steph.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah wow, uh my sweet baby boy, Atrius.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Here's what you know about Adrian Stephenson. He used to
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: be a New Babbel oil tycoon in the south part
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: of the city. He made a lot of jobs and
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: his family kept oil in New Babel when it was
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: cut off from the world. And then he became mayor
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: four years ago from when we began. The city council
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: moved to extend the term of the current mayor under
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: the banner if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: Well, something came up in in our origins that you
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: mentioned is there's a pre term election to see if
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: we get an election.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, that came up in my.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Yes I'm not political, did not come up in mine,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: and not yet.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so there's a few things that after. So
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: he he won the election as an oil tycoon and
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: was a pretty good mayor for the first four years,
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: and then he won again under the if it ain't broke,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: don't fix it, And the law that was passed was twofold.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: There had to be a vote to even hold an election,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: which is what you're referencing, and the city council has
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: to like confirm and affirm the vote. So this is
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: the political structure. The mayor is king here basically ah
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: and controls a lot of things. Controls now oil, which
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: wasn't always the case, but now does control the oil
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: in the town because New Babbel is cut off from
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: the rest of the world, so they're not getting imports really,
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: so if they're gonna have oil, it's gonna be from him. Also,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: digit you're getting villain vibes. Just a good guy. He
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: gives my sweet baby boy, I'm getting he could be
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: a great guy. I can't say villain vibes. The other
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: thing he controls is the mint. The mint, which is
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: a big deal. New Babbel has its own money. It
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: does not use an American dollars. And the mint is
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: controlled by the mayoral office. So and it's money in
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: our day and age is very uh it's like ethereal right,
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: it's just like out there in in in the in
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: the cloud, in the computer. In New Babbel. The amount
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: of bills and coins you have is the amount of
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: money that you have. And I mean, of course yeah,
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: and of course like equity and homes and things that
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: you might own. But nope, just money, just cash. Uh So,
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: controlling the mint is a big deal because the more
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: you you know, the longer you live, money disappears. It
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: gets stuffed into people's banks, it you know, gets thrown away,
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: it what it breaks. Uh So, controlling that mint can
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: certainly keep your people poor when inflation in New Babbel
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: wouldn't matter as much cut because it's separated from the
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: rest of the world. So yep, yep, yep, yep. That's
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: the the police. We could talk about a little. I
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: want to say too much. The police quadrants basically have
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: been the mayor's office like doesn't want to deal with it.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: So it's like the police chiefs of each quadrant have
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: like a ton of power within their own precinct and
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: within their own quadrant. So like some some places when
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: you call the police, they'll show up. In some places
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: you call the police and they don't show up, and
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: vice versa and all that. The Catholic Church is here
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: and proud there's Christianity. But the funny thing about the
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Catholic Church being here is that when New Babble was
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: cut off from the rest of the world, the Catholic
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Church was kind of stuck from communicating with the Catholic Church.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: So there's a guy called called Mitchell Nichols who is
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: the silent Pope in New Babbel. What else do I
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: want to tell you? Oh, economically, it's really interesting in
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: New Babbel. So there is a dry port in ask
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: where the world is kind of quote unquote like forced
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: or America mostly is like forced to provide the people
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: of New Babbel with essentials. So there's some food that
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: comes in can goods, products that people need, et cetera.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: But recently there has been a ton of there's been
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: a huge movement in the small business community of like
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: growing our own things and like making our own things
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: and having factories that aren't enormous, but like, what if
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: I can make a little shop that sells underwear out
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: of my house, like stuff like that, like small mom
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: and pop shops kind of everywhere. Mac Weldon, what's that?
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: I said, Mac Weldon?
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: It was an underwear joke. That's an underwear brand. I'm
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: so sorry.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry that I don't know that mac Weldon is
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: an underwear brand.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, there's been quite a movement towards that. That's
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: happening a lot more. And I think that's most of
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: any questions, any thoughts you guys, things you want to know.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: You mentioned that there's like screens that are like Cathrode
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: ray tube screens. So what's the media situation, Like, is
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: there like news and like does new Babel have its
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: own kind of situation for media and communication that way? Yes,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: certainly the major there's certainly TV. Again, it would be
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: kind of a thing where it's like, oh, my rich
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: friend has a TV, but not everybody has one. There
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: is a TV news company NBTU New Babbel TV something
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: what is it called stand by oh. NBN is New
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Babbel News and it's the TV news source. It's also
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: kind of the broadcasting news source for other TV programs.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: There is a level of entertainment and media done in
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: New Babble also sometimes through that dry port with essentials,
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: like some old movies will come through, and like some
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: old VHS staves, and like some old books and stuff
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: come through. So there is some stuff where you guys
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: can kind of keeme up with the rest of the world,
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: but probably ten to twenty years behind because these just
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: old things you're getting. And then there is a NBT
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: which is New Babel Tower and it controls the newspaper
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: which is very potent or very prevalent in New Babbel,
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: as well as the radio. Other questions nothing I was saying.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: I didn't have a question, but I had a little
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: idea if we can add something to the lore.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, So that's the next phase of this is No,
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: don't be I have some specific questions, but I'm also
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: happy to hare anything.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: One idea I had was maybe some kind of anarchist
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: American gang that like one culture joined America and you
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: could either make them like vague American, you know, kind
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: of idealizing this like time that they and even their
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: grandparents don't remember of like when this was part of
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: Ken's call it kind of idealizing, like I bout the Topeka.
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: I think that'd be fun.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: That's great some like people who kind of idealize, like
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: we wouldn't have all these problems of America.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: I think that could be a fun group. Yeah, I
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: love that idea. We can totally have an anarchist gang
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: that wants to be part of America. I love it. Oh.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Also there's robots. There's a race of robotic people called
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: the day Dae and they are. They showed up very
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: soon after the Evos left. They just showed up in
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: New Babbel. It felt very random. But then it does
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: seem like they are people. They they it seems like
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: they have soul, which is the There was a lot of,
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: you know, conspiracy theories. They are are. There's a couple
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: churches built around it based on the coming of these people.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: It is a very weird thing, but they're kind of
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: part of society now. Okay, my specific questions are I
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: want you guys to think about laws like strange laws
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: that might have gotten grandfathered in that was like it
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: maybe made sense for this to be a law when
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: there was a space program, but now that nothing's happening,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: it's just still a law. So it could be like
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: a commodity that's illegal that like shouldn't be, or I
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: don't know, weird laws like that.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: I feel like there would be some kind of like
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: alarm system or like when they were launching the barges,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: because obviously it's going to be loud they have the shoots,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: but I assume there would be like some safety concerns
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: with a city size spaceship blasting off into space with
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: people around, So it makes sense that there would be
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: some kind of like alarm system or like a shelter
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: in place kind of thing.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: Just speakers are like you know, emergency broadcasts.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of network that's still there and then still used.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: M that's cool.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it makes any any sense with
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: what we've already got recorded, but the I think I
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: always love the idea of any kind of prohibition. I
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: don't know if a full stop prohibition makes sense for
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: New Babbel but maybe like there's a curfew on booze
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: and so like at a certain point some places turn
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: into speakeasies.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: Booze curfew. It'd be like stupid early, like it's like seven. Yeah, yeah, so.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: Lots of people are started doing it, but like it's
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 5: technically against the law, and so it kind of gives
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 5: you a little bit of that twenties thing.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think maybe it cut off is seven and
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: then it's like something stupid like no weekends, like seven
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: on the weekdays. And because someone did a research of
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: like when are people the most drunk and make the
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: most stupid decisions after seven and on the weekends, So
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: like that's when booze is out. Laws. Yeah, no weekend
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: warriors allowed. Yes, cool? Any other ideas for laws that
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: are still in place if you think of them later,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: you can. I'll just give you the next prompt.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: Would there be maybe still on the books some crazy
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: evil laws where it's like evos are just like can't vote,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: not real citizens, they're busy evil laws that like aren't
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: relevant since evos are gone, but would still be technically
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: part of the law, as like a weird oddity of
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: this past time.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: So it's at an interesting thought, I think certainly. But
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: also New Babbel was the one place that evo's found
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: some level of sanctuary during the Evo War, because another
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: important name in history is William Blainer, who so the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: two big Evos were Brock dan and William Blaaner. And
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: Blainer was like, hey, everybody show up to New Babbel.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: They'll keep us safe and then we'll all go to
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: space together. He was like, let's just leave, let's just
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: get out of here, whereas brock Danton was very much like, no,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: we're fighting this shit. We're not leaving here without a fight.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: And so anyways, that being said, New Babbel even I
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: think for a time was like, yes, Evos are welcome
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: here while this transition is happening, but there could still
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: be some weird rules in place about evos for sure.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of sounds like then like Bleaner, like
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: some people would have viewed him as like a like turncoat,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: absolutely like giving up. So maybe like some of those
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: laws did exist, and he's like, yeah, I'll just submit
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: myself to this for my own safety, right and then
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: get out of here. So that I can be free,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: no doubt.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: All right, you can keep thinking. My next prompt is sports.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 6: Fun.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: So I have not I have not come up with
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: any sports that are in New Babble. It wouldn't be
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: a traveling thing, right, we can't like go out and
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: play you know, Colorado or Utah, Like, like, what sports
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  Speaker 2: are active in New Babbel? Is it a quadrant thing?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Do the quadrants each have you know, a fucking rugby
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: like some weirds? Like is it a rugby team like
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: cricket or like, I don't know what what what horse
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  Speaker 2: horse racing?
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  Speaker 1: It's very important to my backstory that there is horse racing.
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  Speaker 2: There could be some weird rocket based sport.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was thinking like, yeah, if there's if there's
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: hover cars and stuff like you could have like hover
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 5: ball or kind of imagining a big, you know, final
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 5: Fantasy ten style dome where people can like three dimensionally
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  Speaker 5: play soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Like a hover ball something crazy awesome. Let's let's iron
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  Speaker 2: that out. Okay, so everyone everyone rides a horse obvious,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I would say like probably two hover yeah, yeah,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: hover polo.
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  Speaker 1: I think hoverball.
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  Speaker 2: Would be right. Damn well, no, so what are we
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: hovering on. So there are hover bikes, there's a little
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: hover cars. Maybe they just have like hover platforms on
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: their shoes that they can kind of skate with like
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: force the gravity below them over skates. And I wore
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: roller Derby to still be a big thing. Oh yeah,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: that'd be cool. Yeah, just make it hover roller derby. Well,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: but I'm also thinking real roller derby. But like people
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: bring like.
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  Speaker 1: Billy, Yeah, they have mods to their skates so they
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: can like you could do you could do roller Derby
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: in the shoot like shoot ball.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: All like you go like all the way you do
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: like loop loops, yesh, shoot ball, shoot ball. I'm open
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: to a few things, Like it doesn't have to just
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: be one thing. But I think, like I think, uh,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: normal sports, I like, I don't I don't think people
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: are playing basketball, you know, might still be sure, but yeah,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: but uniquely new babbles like shoot ball, hover ball with
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: hover skates, roller derby with weapons.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know anything about this, uh kind of the
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: part of this country that we're uh that we're set in.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: But in my mind, my Midwestern stereotypes of the planes
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: involve a lot of hacky sack. So I like to
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: imagine like when cabble broken evolved into some like maybe
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: like art form more more than sport.
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  Speaker 2: There's another gang on the streets, yeah, the sackers.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: Just someone's playing violin and there's some woman hacky in
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: next to the violinist, and they're just like, yeah, that's
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: like street art.
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  Speaker 2: That's what people do.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 5: You play hacky sack. But then you also put a
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 5: hat out for people to throw coins into.
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  Speaker 2: Watch it. Yeah, that's beautiful, it's beautiful. That's awesome.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: Cool.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: My last prompt is about retrofuturist tech. That's here. Uh,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: you guys already know that there's hover stuff, there's uh
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: like floating lights. There's what else. We got pneumatic tubes.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: Where are we at? I mean, like the day have appeared?
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Where are we at with like AI or like robotic assistance?
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: Like is that because the day are there? That's like
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: taboo because good questions, like the robotic people have personhood
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: or are they like oh no, that's like that's different
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: if there were to be like a little little robot buddy.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: It was a big part of the Space program that
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: there was like AI concierge built for the travel, So
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: there could certainly have been some of that left behind.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe just like a home like bought for the wealthy,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: but probably not a physical thing that walks around.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: But that's just like in the house.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, smart house, smart house, but not in the way
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: we see it. Smart house, but I don't think there's
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: like robot survey and swapping around.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I want the thing in back to the future
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: where the food is growing in the ceiling and it
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: comes down out of the kitchen ceiling and there's just
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: grapes and stuff growing on it.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: Great ceiling gardens. Yeah, ceiling grapes.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, specifically the grapes y spathetically pleasing, just to have
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: some grape vines draping out of your ceiling.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: Anything else that comes to mind, like day to day
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: retrofuturist tech that is kind of commonplace. We got pneumatic tubes,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: we got ceiling grapes.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Like since the like the bombs, the bombs of life, Yeah,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: there's got a Was there any technology left like that
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: used on Earth or did it have to be in
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: giant bomb form? So are there places where that are Like.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: Even though we're in the middle of this dense city,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 4: there's like this beautiful green space because of terraforming tech.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: A great question stuff. We'll just have to wait and see.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: On that one.
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  Speaker 5: I think, okay, if if so, if New Babble's kind
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: of cut off from the rest of the US and
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 5: the world, is there is there a physical wall around
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 5: the city or is there some sort of like a
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 5: force field or like does it minefield? Like what's the
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 5: reason people don't just kind of freely? What's the border
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 5: look like?
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: I guess yes, there is there is a wall, and
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: between the city and the wall itself is known as
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: kind of no man's land. It's kind of a dead space.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: The biggest thing people don't like people coming in that
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: a New Babble, both the city folk and the states
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: surrounding it. The world wants to forget about it. But
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: there's also kind of a economic problem with the money.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: So the rest of the money in the world kept
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: on growing in value, and the exchange rate for New
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: Babbel dollars went to nothing. So like, if money is
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: only based on the dollars and stuff you have the bills,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: then trying to go outside of New Babbel is you
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: have zero like you would have zero money. So I
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: think people leave, but it's I would say it's very rare. Okay,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: but it's a physical wall then too. Yeah, but there
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: is a wall, and there are like there's border patrol
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: and a level of like we don't really want you
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: to go, But there's also like legally not.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: Much that like prevents people, like legally say, or is
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: there a lot preventing people?
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: It might be a state choice there, which is interesting.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: I think the world might have given the states that choice, Like,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: if you want to accept New Babbel people, you can Colorado, Kansas,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: and Nebraska, but you don't have to. So maybe Kansas
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: and Nebraska are like no in Colorado being is like
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: I guess, okay, maybe that's how I'll say.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: And there's no but there's no New Babbel law preventing
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: its citizens from leaving. Correct.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 5: And you mentioned oil as a thing. Is that the
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 5: like what's the energy situation in New Babbel, Like is
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 5: it all fossil fuels like oil? Or is there like
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 5: a steampunk thing happening? Is a nuclear retrofuturism? Like where
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 5: are we getting our energy?
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So there's two major sources, one being Stephanson Oil
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: who is your mayor now? And the other being Ellington
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: electric Manny Ellington is a very famous man in the
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: city and he's supposed to be like the billionaire of
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: the people. He owns in that no man's land, these
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: huge turbine things that create electricity that he gives to
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: the city. And when the Mayor's when the mayor's second
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: term began and all the oil prices shot through to
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: hell to heaven, whatever way they shot it was bad.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: Ellington kept the electric rail very cheap. He lowered his
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: prices because he saw that was coming. And he kept
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: the electric rail very cheap so people can travel and
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: get around the city. Still. So those are the two
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: main sources of energy.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: Cool can there be cool water features? I know? I
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: know that, Like yeah, I like tried to start with,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: like are there cool gardens? I just imagine lots of
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: like jumping fountains.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: What's a jumping fountain where the.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: Water sprays out of one spot goes into another. Yeah, total,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: but in like separate ponds. To imagine lots of arcs
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: of water.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: Just like it's the people, like the statues of people
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 5: doing hacky sacks one foot and.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: Then there's real people doing hackey sack underneath.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: Thanks. Yeah, perfect, great, that was great. So that that
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: is the world we're going to be playing in. It's
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: new babble. It's a retro futurist, weird, dystopian city that
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: is disconnected from the rest of America. And one day
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: we want to go to space. Yeah we do.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: So what can you expect from the show moving forward?
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: That's a good question. No, I can answer it. You've
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: listened to this first session zero. What is coming? So first,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: and this is very exciting. We're going to be releasing
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: the origins stories for each of our characters slowly over
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: the next three months or so, so look for those
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, when we hit January. Those will
• 1:15:05
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• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: and that's when we will begin the sessions proper. So
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: that's when we'll all be getting together and doing our
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: story together. And then if you want the origins, you
• 1:15:20
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• 1:15:22
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• 1:15:30
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• 1:15:40
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• 1:15:52
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• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: and we'll have a chat in the chat cave about
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: the episodes. So there'll be a bunch of stuff over
• 1:16:06
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• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: want to say goodbye is there? We don't have an outro.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, but I would love to encourage people to team
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  Speaker 1: up in your real life community to make your world
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: a better place.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: I'd like to advocate for vigilanti justice.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's one way to team up with
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: your friends.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: Everybody learn karate, you learn judah. That's all you need
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: to do to be a vigil some martial art.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: I think that's important. But what's step said? What's that? Yeah?
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: Not I But also you also could take some judah classes.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: But then maybe also volunteer.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: See you can get special spiders to bite you, because
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: once you get powers, then all vigilanteism is okay. And
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: how you did it, I think is the moral.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 5: We're telling people to get into street fights and to
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 5: look for spiders and roll around on.
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  Speaker 2: Them getting the spiders. Hey, we love you and thanks
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