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22 Panels No More! #12: DIE rpg · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

0:01
Tad Eggleston: So, Phil, I know that, like, this morning, you thought that I was all gung-ho for this podcast, and…
0:09
Tad Eggleston: I'm doing great and whatnot, but… but fucking Lee and Edgar can't decide what they're doing with their comic shop. I mean, they're doing cool things, and everybody should go shop at Modern Age Comics, but they can never figure out what they want me to do, and it's taking up all of my time and energy, and I don't want them to fail, so I don't know how I can do both the podcast and…
0:32
Tad Eggleston: And keep them in line as well.
0:35
Tad Eggleston: So,
0:36
Tad Eggleston: I keep all rights. This is not like a… this is still a work-for-hire thing, like, look at the back of your check, it says that I own you.
0:47
Tad Eggleston: But you gotta do all 22 panels on your own, cause I'm… I'm done. 22 panels, no more, man.
0:54
Phil: Oh, well, it's good to hear that, there's at least the dream of 22 panels checks sometime in the future to expect. Hello, everybody, welcome to.
1:04
Tad Eggleston: I mean, I can send you a 22 panels check.
1:07
Phil: It'll, it'll, it'll be, it'll be for a negative amount, so it'll, it'll cost me money to receive it.
1:13
Tad Eggleston: I mean, I will send it, I will send it, like…
1:16
Tad Eggleston: Postage upon delivery, and it'll be, like, funny money, but…
1:20
Phil: Oh, sure, yeah.
1:21
Phil: Yeah, I'll accept, I'll accept some…
1:23
Tad Eggleston: I want the check, I can… I can arrange it!
1:27
Phil: I…
1:28
Tad Eggleston: Do you want one that a bank will accept?
1:31
Tad Eggleston: That's a different thing.
1:33
Phil: I don't need to deal with banks that much anyway, you know, banks… banks are overrun.
1:37
Peter Eggleston Connor: Are you…
1:38
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm gonna have Kelly go off and, like, you know, draw up the check then, and it'll just be, like, Monopoly check.
1:44
Phil: It's actually, it's gonna be his face on a $22 bill.
1:48
Tad Eggleston: And then he has to find the place.
1:51
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll take it.
1:53
Tad Eggleston: and not… Well, so it's, you know…
1:58
Phil: It's a check, but it's made out in the 22 panels, the woodbucks, you know, so that's what.
2:04
Tad Eggleston: Right.
2:05
Phil: good for. Again, this is why banks don't accept it. They just haven't stumbled upon his, better form of currency.
2:12
Tad Eggleston: I mean, you know… No, I'm not even gonna go there. No.
2:18
Phil: I think that's enough economics for one episode.
2:22
Tad Eggleston: Haha, I mean, Nobody wants their own currency right now, so…
2:27
Tad Eggleston: It might be our get-rich-quick piece.
2:30
Tad Eggleston: how to create a cryptocurrency?
2:31
Phil: I… see… see, I was a supporter.
2:34
Peter Eggleston Connor: What coin is too far?
2:38
Peter Eggleston Connor: I saw some article on how people were using their farming of cryptocurrency to heat their homes, so… Wow, incredible.
2:48
Peter Eggleston Connor: So, making money, well… Sorry, quote-unquote, making money while you keep your home.
2:57
Phil: There's too many series of air quotes in that. There's making money, and then money has its own little quotes around it, too.
3:04
Tad Eggleston: I mean, frankly, they were making
3:08
Tad Eggleston: Money, whether or not they were…
3:11
Tad Eggleston: Making legal tender is a completely different thing.
3:16
Phil: They were making money. Profits? Absolutely not.
3:20
Tad Eggleston: Okay.
3:21
Phil: And with that, with that, we are, jumping into… we're continuing a little bit of Persona Generation, because this is, this is gonna be an episode that… that ends up,
3:33
Phil: how do we say, in media res of the mind, I guess? I don't know, we'll see where it goes. But, she's a figure that's haunted this series since, episode 2. That is the character of Strife, who, of course, is Garrion's half-sister, older half-sister.
3:50
Tad Eggleston: Episode 2?
3:52
Phil: We did. We've had several Episode 2s, you know? Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah.
3:59
Tad Eggleston: I mean, I thought, I thought 2 was the number we skip.
4:02
Tad Eggleston: I'm trying to remember which floor it was that they didn't have at the hospital that Kelly was in. No, no. It wasn't 13. They had a 13.
4:10
Phil: Okay.
4:12
Tad Eggleston: They didn't have, I think, a 6?
4:15
Phil: weird.
4:16
Phil: Did they have… they had a 7, though, I bet.
4:18
Tad Eggleston: Right.
4:19
Phil: Yeah.
4:21
Tad Eggleston: You went from 5 to 7 in the elevator, but there was a 13. 5 to 7 just doesn't feel right. There was, like, a significant, like…
4:29
Tad Eggleston: I don't think it was a hidden floor, because it didn't take longer to get there.
4:34
Phil: Okay.
4:35
Tad Eggleston: But we should, like, get… back on task. This is why it's better when I multitask.
4:42
Phil: You assume… you assume there's an on-task for this game. There is.
4:46
Tad Eggleston: Because… because when I'm not doing something else, I wind up talking about things that have nothing to do with the game.
4:54
Phil: Believe it or not, I… elevators are a pet subject of fascination for me. I have, too, have visited many a hospital, and I have taken a hobby of making sure their elevator inspection certificates are up to date, because I've been stuck in an elevator before, and it's not fun!
5:14
Phil: Hopefully this episode won't feel like you're stuck in the elevator with all of us, because that would be a tight.
5:19
Tad Eggleston: Well, I don't know, we could have love in an elevator.
5:23
Tad Eggleston: Well, maybe not. I don't know if I wanna…
5:26
Phil: I mean.
5:28
Tad Eggleston: You guys are nice and all, but…
5:31
Phil: No thanks.
5:33
Phil: It's.
5:34
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, you're talking about Rose, but okay.
5:36
Tad Eggleston: Oh, okay, well, yeah, no, okay.
5:38
Phil: He said as he multitas, you can have your imaginary love in an elevator in the captain's quarters right about now.
5:45
Phil: Oh.
5:45
Peter Eggleston Connor: There's an elevator in the captain's quarters.
5:48
Phil: You know, that'd be pretty sweet.
5:51
Tad Eggleston: Of course there is!
5:52
Phil: The boat is literally the god of the forge.
5:55
Peter Eggleston Connor: Is it a glass elevator?
5:57
Phil: No.
5:58
Phil: No, it's… it's not. That's… we're not… we're not getting Wonka, although it is a chocolate boat, so, I mean, we're a little.
6:04
Tad Eggleston: Oh, that's right, I forgot that. So we are very Wonka. So, I'm pretty certain that there is a glass elevator inside the captain's quarters, you just don't know about it.
6:14
Phil: You know?
6:14
Tad Eggleston: Because you haven't been allowed inside the captain's quarters.
6:16
Phil: If you haven't given back your everlasting gobstopper.
6:20
Tad Eggleston: Well, yeah.
6:21
Phil: And you drain Z Potion.
6:24
Tad Eggleston: I actually took two Everlasting Gobstoppers.
6:27
Phil: How do I know?
6:27
Tad Eggleston: He did one for Rose.
6:30
Tad Eggleston: There you go. Floodworth is an ass.
6:36
Phil: Oh, good times. Okay, Strife. She was Garian's sister. Garian was, of course, the poor sap, now dead, who gathered us all together. Although I… he didn't have a connection to Lee, so that's… that's a little interesting. That's a little interesting how you… you're… you're here. I think that's still… that's gonna be… you know, I'm gonna write down that that's probably gonna be…
7:00
Phil: My ongoing mystery for you is, why are you here?
7:05
Larry Woods: Isn't that the question? He was bored one day?
7:08
Larry Woods: You know?
7:09
Phil: You know, I mean, hey, we don't… we don't ask those types of questions on this podcast.
7:14
Phil: But… but yes, what, what are… what is your significance here? Because, Strife's significance is that, she was… so this is… this is actually… Strife is based off of my own sister, who, believe it or not.
7:27
Phil: Oddly enough, I never played D&D in high school, but she did. She had a D&D group, and I thought that was so cool, and I wanted to be a part of it, but I never was, you know? And so much in that way, Garian's childhood, she was always the cool older sister who had the D&D group that he wanted to get into, formed this one with Alan and Lex.
7:52
Phil: And Eamon, Eamon is an adjacent, so it's really with Lex and Alan, in, an attempt to…
8:00
Phil: you know, kind of break into that.
8:04
Phil: And we also did reveal that, Garian had a previous game with…
8:12
Phil: With Strife and some other people she used to know, her old D&D group, and that was the first game of Die that he had played, and so this is… this is the second game that is going on. Possibly even a game within a game, subtly, maybe. We'll figure it out.
8:29
Phil: But one of the questions I posed to the group here, so she, Strife, she was the lead singer of a metal band. I am kind of mentally, anyone listening that's familiar with heavy metal, I'm kind of like…
8:44
Phil: I've been listening to and loving the new Pupil Slicer album, Fleshwork, so of course, I'm, like, mentally thinking, okay, her band was a little bit like Pupil Slicer, but the reason they broke up was,
9:00
Phil: because, Strife… this is… this is now similar to another battle band, The Agonist, that, the lead singer was, trying to… to join the band Arch Enemy and band both projects, and so they kicked her out of that one. So it was a little bit of merging of a couple different things. But…
9:17
Phil: to say the least, they were abrasive. They were not everyone's cup of tea. So, I… I threw out to the group, hey.
9:23
Phil: How would, even though you've never met this person, you never met this person until you were in the game, they've still had an influence on your life in the real world someday. How has…
9:33
Phil: you know, their music.
9:36
Phil: irritated you? Your character, your persona? How is it…
9:40
Phil: affected you, even without realizing it, who's behind it, who is now, you know, this,
9:47
Phil: Villain, this villainous figure in our fantasy world.
9:52
Phil: Lee, I know you said that… that you have… you might have had an answer to that one there.
9:56
Larry Woods: Yeah,
9:58
Larry Woods: So, the band that stands out to me, I had to Google it because I forgot how to spell it, but it's a band called OTEP.
10:07
Phil: Okay. How do you spell that?
10:09
Larry Woods: O-T-E-P.
10:12
Phil: Okay.
10:13
Larry Woods: and American New Metal Band, but the…
10:17
Larry Woods: it's… the interesting thing about this that I know for me, and from a real-life experience, when I first was introduced to this band, it was the first time that I heard, like, a lead singer, a female lead singer of a metal band.
10:30
Phil: Oh, okay.
10:32
Larry Woods: So, the part that was… Very confusing and off-putting for me at the time was that
10:41
Larry Woods: It was a female that screamed.
10:45
Phil: in that way, and it…
10:47
Larry Woods: I… it made me… physically uncomfortable. Nice. But…
10:54
Larry Woods: I mean, now, I'm…
10:56
Larry Woods: open to a lot more, but that would be the band that stands out to me. I don't remember the name of the song that I listened to, but OTEP is the band.
11:04
Phil: I… I'm definitely gonna have to check them out then. That is, that's… that's gonna be a must for me. No, and that's just a reminder that, sometimes growth starts from an uncomfortable place. But hell yeah, that's… that's awesome.
11:18
Larry Woods: Yeah, I get it, I hear you.
11:21
Phil: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just, like, so, so, from that experience, how would you apply that to, so you're saying that Willie, like, on the radio or somewhere in his life, encountered,
11:34
Phil: the fictional band here, I think I had a name for them at one point, I will have to look that up through the notes to see if I did, but
11:43
Phil: like, he… he similarly heard it, experienced… saw a female singer, screamer, and was, like, physically uncomfortable. Is… are you saying that, like, that's… that's kind of a… to tie it back to the game, or…
11:54
Larry Woods: Yeah, I would say that, I don't necessarily want to say Willie is old school, but I know that he has a lot of old school influences. So, like, this is the way music should be. We're going back to the air quotes here.
12:07
Phil: Yeah.
12:07
Larry Woods: For the audio audience.
12:10
Larry Woods: But a lot of, maybe sort of traditional values, so it was like, wait, women aren't supposed to do that, women aren't? So, maybe it's sort of uncomfortable on several different fronts.
12:21
Phil: Okay.
12:22
Larry Woods: But yeah, I would definitely say that he probably encountered them and was just like…
12:26
Larry Woods: It's completely just turned off.
12:28
Larry Woods: Do that.
12:29
Phil: Damn.
12:30
Phil: Makes sense, makes sense. It'd be, yeah. I, I do… it's funny how, despite that, reaction.
12:39
Phil: coming from Willie, it's… I still… I still like him as a character. You know, I'm still interested to see… see who he is, what… what he's got under… under the surface. Did anyone else have… have thoughts on the prompt, or, can we… can we kind of jump in with,
12:55
Phil: To things from here.
12:58
Peter Eggleston Connor: So just so I understand the prompt a little bit better, we're talking about, how our character is related, or…
13:08
Phil: How they might have… Come across, you know, this invasive music.
13:15
Phil: That they, they most likely didn't like, that they had a reaction to. You know, just kind of a… kind of a, you know, weaving an interconnected web of, hey, this is a person you never knew, but now they hate their guts, and you're fighting to the death.
13:30
Phil: And they've been, you know, kind of like a musical thorn in your ear for, longer than you were aware.
13:41
Peter Eggleston Connor: Bye.
13:41
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Grad students are constantly listening to it at the library.
13:44
Phil: Awesome.
13:46
Phil: Awesome. So it's like.
13:48
Peter Eggleston Connor: Go ahead.
13:49
Phil: No, no, you go ahead.
13:51
Peter Eggleston Connor: No, no, you should… you should finish up with… with…
13:53
Phil: Oh, it was just, it was just buzzing over.
13:55
Peter Eggleston Connor: And then I'll jump in.
13:56
Phil: The headphones, yeah, like the… like, it's like the… it's like, you know, even if you're not hearing at full volume, it's that, like.
14:02
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, God.
14:02
Phil: At, like, a 2, so that you just hear the, like, beep of it, and .
14:08
Peter Eggleston Connor: So, so annoying. Somebody's just wearing their headphones, but it's like, yeah, you're not even doing what you're supposed to be doing with those.
14:15
Phil: It's like me at work.
14:17
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, dear, Phil. Seriously?
14:21
Peter Eggleston Connor: You're one of those people?
14:23
Phil: Not quite. I mean, I can't tell.
14:24
Tad Eggleston: That guy.
14:25
Phil: Clearly, I'm that guy.
14:29
Peter Eggleston Connor: Damn.
14:30
Peter Eggleston Connor: What I was gonna say is, I can imagine, like,
14:36
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, like, you do these little exhibitions and dance.
14:40
Peter Eggleston Connor: And you'll… you'll listen to song… Or you'll dance to different songs, and some of them can be pretty interesting. If you didn't know, the,
14:52
Peter Eggleston Connor: the theme to Skyrim can actually.
14:55
Peter Eggleston Connor: You can actually do Viennese waltz, too.
14:57
Phil: Interesting.
14:58
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, it's, it's pretty, pretty exciting. So…
15:03
Peter Eggleston Connor: I think, like, considering, like, Lex was doing… doing a lot of her dance in her…
15:10
Peter Eggleston Connor: youth, there was probably some amount of, like.
15:16
Peter Eggleston Connor: like, this off game where, they would try to find the strangest songs to dance to, and like, you know, I mean, obviously bring out, like, the…
15:25
Peter Eggleston Connor: The most interesting, like, bring out the song into the dance, but, like…
15:30
Peter Eggleston Connor: There must have been somebody who just found one of these songs and was like, yep.
15:36
Peter Eggleston Connor: We're gonna dance to this.
15:38
Phil: Mmm.
15:39
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah. That…
15:40
Phil: That immediately makes me think that if that was the song that she broke her leg to, or injured herself to.
15:47
Phil: During…
15:48
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm still working on that.
15:50
Phil: Okay, okay.
15:50
Peter Eggleston Connor: Something else going on there.
15:52
Phil: Okay, good.
15:53
Phil: Good.
15:53
Peter Eggleston Connor: I haven't quite figured out what that is, but I don't think it was actually during dance that she broke her leg, cause…
15:58
Phil: Okay.
16:00
Phil: Good to know.
16:01
Peter Eggleston Connor: Cause I was thinking about that, and
16:05
Peter Eggleston Connor: for you to break your leg and then not really be able to go back to Dan.
16:10
Peter Eggleston Connor: It takes some serious, like, injury.
16:14
Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, falling off of wires, as opposed to…
16:17
Phil: Just being… missing a jump or something.
16:20
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, it's like, if you break, like, have a single fracture, I don't know, it…
16:27
Peter Eggleston Connor: This is just from, like, stories I've heard and, like, experience, so it's not, like, universal at all.
16:33
Phil: Right.
16:35
Peter Eggleston Connor: But, like, I know people who have, like, broken their leg, and, like, they were dance teachers, and they…
16:42
Peter Eggleston Connor: you know.
16:45
Peter Eggleston Connor: Maybe didn't do, like, the typical type of dancing for a little while, but they kept dancing and, like, went back to it.
16:53
Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, fully afterwards, and like… you know, that's probably… I doubt that was, like, a super…
17:02
Peter Eggleston Connor: Bad injury, but… or super bad break, but, like.
17:07
Peter Eggleston Connor: So, I was trying to think about it, it was like, okay, well, maybe there's actually a lot more to this whole broken leg thing, because it's like…
17:18
Peter Eggleston Connor: Clearly, she can use it, but I'm starting to think, like.
17:22
Peter Eggleston Connor: Lex is probably in… or has a lot of leg pain, like.
17:26
Phil: brilliant record.
17:26
Peter Eggleston Connor: yearly.
17:28
Peter Eggleston Connor: And, like, it's gotta be semi-fragile if she's not going back to dance.
17:34
Phil: Yeah.
17:34
Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, it has to be one of those things where it's like… Oh.
17:39
Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, I love this thing, but literally, I will be dealing with, like, broken leg all the time if I go back to this.
17:46
Phil: Wow, yeah, well, and I have to imagine that… so that means that, you know, that this is it now.
17:55
Phil: when you take a Fair Gold, when you're powered up, your chronic pain is gone.
18:00
Phil: Right. But in that moment, if you can't, you know, get your first one in the morning.
18:05
Phil: when it fades, you at least have those moments of pain, you know? And even if it doesn't come back at, like, a 10, it comes back at a 3, and you're like, shit, it's back, and you start… chronic pain is just an absolute, absolute debilitator, personally. So, okay, that's great, that's great. I like that a lot.
18:26
Phil: Alan, I'm gonna give you a pass on this one, because you're… I mean, if… it would have to be especially embrasive for you to remember it, I would have to imagine, you know, for… for a, you know.
18:41
Tad Eggleston: Well, also, I like so much music that I don't know how you could have…
18:46
Tad Eggleston: Music that would wind up being abrasive to me.
18:49
Phil: Okay. That, that challenge itself.
18:50
Tad Eggleston: I feel like, I feel like,
18:56
Tad Eggleston: Like, maybe I was jarred, but then I had to maybe stop and start it over, slow it down, or slow my mind down.
19:07
Tad Eggleston: Turn the volume down, and then work it back up, you know.
19:12
Phil: And here I was thinking that there was a, slow Jolene situation.
19:15
Peter Eggleston Connor: You know what would be super funny to me, though? If you had to do that every time with it, and that's how it was abrasive. Like, every time you heard it, you were like…
19:24
Tad Eggleston: It might have become an OCD thing.
19:29
Phil: Fascinating.
19:29
Peter Eggleston Connor: So, I'll…
19:30
Phil: compelling.
19:31
Peter Eggleston Connor: You could take that, but I think you should take it.
19:35
Phil: Okay, okay, we're gonna… Alright, yeah, Alan, Alan… Gotcha.
19:44
Phil: Okay, and with that, we're gonna… we are going to pass out the dice. First up, we have our D10, and that one is going to be wielded by…
19:57
Peter Eggleston Connor: That will be wielded by, me, who… I'm Peter, and I'm playing Lex in this, game that we continue to play. I'm, I'm not really sure what I'm getting into this week, cause,
20:09
Peter Eggleston Connor: Or, sorry, this session, because, I'm here, last session.
20:14
Phil: Indeed, and that is, because last time, as we found out, Lex had been controlled by, Strife, the, digital downloaded copy, as… because, again, in the episode… this is so funny, in the episode where Chu wasn't here, he was possessed by the eldritch god who plunged its fist into Strife while she was possessed by the God of War, who then died as she was fading away, dissolving into existence.
20:38
Phil: was when Lex, downloaded her consciousness Into her own,
20:45
Phil: system. But Strife was a dictator, she wielded the D-4, that's what she did. We have a second D10, and that one is wielded by…
21:00
Larry Woods: This one is wielded by Lee Woods. Willie is, yeah, I'm excited, because I think a part of this is gonna be remembering what happened last month, and that, but I am…
21:15
Larry Woods: I'm excited to see where this Zora story goes with Willy.
21:20
Phil: Excellent. After that, we've got our D8, and that one is wielded by…
21:27
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): True, playing Haman. He's got an earworm. He's got an earworm going right now of, like, some…
21:35
Phil: Terrible ban that his grads… that the grad students are constantly playing at the library.
21:41
Phil: Wonderful. Then we have a Stray D12 that was wielded by the aforementioned Garrion, but was stolen by the Master to make a pact with the God of Fate as Garrion was dying early on in our adventure. And then next up, we've just got a.
22:01
Peter Eggleston Connor: It was only, like, 3 sessions ago, Phil.
22:03
Phil: Three sessions ago, wow, yeah, I mean… What's that?
22:08
Phil: I guess so, yeah. It was… it was, you know, it's been…
22:12
Phil: It's been a hell of a year. It hasn't even been a year since we started playing. That's… that's how much of a year it's been. And… and that, that…
22:19
Phil: That amount… that amount of insanity is the reason why, the… the good old D6 is all that is entrusted to, find Tadithin over there.
22:33
Tad Eggleston: What?
22:34
Tad Eggleston: Oh, wait… Why don't always have to go last?
22:37
Tad Eggleston: I'm the rich guy.
22:40
Phil: Anyone's right?
22:40
Tad Eggleston: rich?
22:42
Phil: I think you're still rich.
22:43
Phil: Rich and friends.
22:44
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, you were rich in the real world.
22:48
Tad Eggleston: I know, but we're not in the real world.
22:51
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, you're probably not rich here anymore.
22:52
Phil: Is there a.
22:53
Tad Eggleston: But I do have a guitar and a sword.
22:57
Peter Eggleston Connor: And his girlfriend, apparently.
22:59
Phil: And a 50-pound laptop.
23:04
Tad Eggleston: Well, that'll make me strong.
23:06
Phil: There you go, there you go. That, yeah, that'll be, that'll be interesting. And lastly, there is the D20, and that one is mine. So what we're going to do now is you're going to take your die, and you are going to slowly lower it down to the table, hold onto it.
23:24
Phil: And in 3, 2… 1. Let go.
23:29
Phil: Open your eyes, and we are in the world of die.
23:33
Phil: We are in a bit of a flashback, as…
23:38
Phil: Lex watched the time bubble peeling back.
23:42
Phil: across a changing, blurring skyline. She turned inward to the digitized Tron matrix
23:52
Phil: world with… with Tenny spinning and pinging about you, to see the, digital copy of Strife in Your Mind actually take off her muzzle that she had on.
24:10
Phil: and… and you can hear her fully laughing without it.
24:16
Phil: As she says, ho ho, this is gonna be fun.
24:23
Phil: I didn't know if there was anything you wanted to try to ask her or talk to her about, but,
24:29
Phil: You experience the… The rest of this time.
24:36
Peter Eggleston Connor: I will continue my line of questioning that I've been trying to answer the entire game. Sweet! What is this place?
24:42
Phil: What is this place?
24:43
Phil: this place, well, right now, it's a… I'm a little concerned that you don't recognize your own mind, you know? You don't have as strong of a grip on this as I thought you did.
24:53
Peter Eggleston Connor: No, not this place, this world that we're in that I just pulled you out of.
25:00
Phil: Oh, the game? Yeah. Yeah. What is it? It's the game.
25:04
Phil: we call it DIE.
25:07
Phil: And…
25:09
Phil: You can do whatever you want here. You can have whatever you want here. The pain can go away. You can dance again.
25:17
Phil: Anything else you ever could have dreamed in.
25:21
Peter Eggleston Connor: How did you know about this?
25:23
Phil: It's not my first time here.
25:25
Peter Eggleston Connor: You know? Your first time in my mind?
25:28
Phil: Ha, yeah, sure.
25:32
Phil: I guess not, now that, and so then, a little window, pops up behind your head as you relive that experience we just talked about in persona generation, of, you having the craziest song to dance to, and one of her bands come along.
25:49
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm not sure I danced to it. I just said somebody danced to it.
25:52
Phil: Somebody dance to it, but yeah, but it's that moment, but you still hear the, stabbing, staccato rhythms of, of her band. I want to call it the, well, the band she eventually joined is called Antagonist, that's for sure. But, her first one, I am still coming up with a name for, but,
26:13
Phil: Yeah, that's where…
26:16
Phil: So you realize that, or I don't know if you realize it, but her music plays for you again, so no, it's not the first time she's been in your mind, because of that moment so long ago, when…
26:30
Peter Eggleston Connor: I push past the memory and say, that's not what I meant.
26:36
Peter Eggleston Connor: And you know it.
26:38
Phil: Yeah, I know a lot of things, but if I told you all of them, it wouldn't be very fun now, would it?
26:43
Peter Eggleston Connor: Hmm.
26:45
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, that's for me to decide now, isn't it?
26:50
Phil: I don't think there's very much that you get to decide right now, but go ahead and try if you'd like to.
26:57
Phil: And this is where… I don't know if you would try…
27:01
Peter Eggleston Connor: to…
27:01
Phil: refo.
27:02
Peter Eggleston Connor: Focus on the road.
27:02
Phil: world.
27:03
Peter Eggleston Connor: I think at any given moment, in any given time, I have plenty to decide, always. It's just knowing what actually affects things or not.
27:13
Peter Eggleston Connor: What are you talking about?
27:15
Phil: I don't know, I'm kind of losing the thread as I'm just saying things, to keep you preoccupied so that you don't notice as I take control of your body.
27:25
Phil: And with that.
27:27
Peter Eggleston Connor: You can do that.
27:29
Phil: You wake up in a cell.
27:33
Phil: You don't know how long has passed, but… but you know that enough has changed so that,
27:41
Phil: Strife is no longer there. I wish there was a little bit smoother of a transition. There were several other plot points I needed to set up, but I guess we'll come back to those chaotically as we need to. As… as,
27:55
Phil: you see Lee's face…
27:58
Phil: in the window, look at you, and then you see him just as he turns away to walk away. And there is pain in your leg.
28:08
Phil: And we are, swaying on the sea. There are metallic bars of chocolate.
28:16
Phil: Lining the walls of your cage, as it is made out of chocolate, and covered in tinfoil.
28:23
Peter Eggleston Connor: Weird.
28:24
Phil: Yeah.
28:24
Peter Eggleston Connor: I do…
28:27
Peter Eggleston Connor: I think this is new, but I did, I think, in my last level, get Gold Source.
28:33
Phil: Yes, yes, you did. Yes, you did. As I expected.
28:36
Peter Eggleston Connor: This is a new day.
28:39
Phil: It is for you! So, with that, as you activate the ability gold source, we were kind of up in the air of how it usually activates, but what happens now is, so, the back.
28:55
Phil: You're resting your back against the hull of the ship, and of course, there are slight, gaps in between the wood. It's not quite…
29:02
Phil: or the chocolate wood? But you see the glimmer of a little golden coin slip out from between two pieces of wood, and…
29:13
Phil: It drops onto the floor and makes, like, a sort of…
29:16
Phil: you know, that was a die, but it was a sort of clink, clink, clink, and rolls along down to in front of you. And,
29:24
Phil: If you would actually look in that gap, in the wood very closely, you see the smiling face of a fallen that says.
29:35
Phil: Here you go, boss.
29:36
Phil: You got it from here, and they fall off the side of the boat.
29:40
Phil: into the waters.
29:43
Phil: so you have a piece of fair gold. Which of your gifts would you like to activate?
29:49
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm gonna go for full AI.
29:51
Phil: Full AI activation? Okay, give me one second. Plot amongst yourselves.
30:00
Peter Eggleston Connor: Somebody was looking at me through a mirror. Now nobody's here with me.
30:05
Larry Woods: I mean, Willie's on his way back, so he saw somebody in the brig, he's like, well, maybe they deserve to be there.
30:12
Peter Eggleston Connor: And.
30:14
Larry Woods: It starts to continue exploring.
30:16
Phil: Okay, Ivory.
30:17
Larry Woods: Oh, God, exactly.
30:18
Phil: Yep, yep.
30:19
Peter Eggleston Connor: Need to need. We've taken over the ship.
30:21
Phil: Okay, what's happened?
30:23
Peter Eggleston Connor: Who's doing what?
30:25
Phil: You have your full AI, what happened? What'd you roll? What'd you roll?
30:29
Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't rule anything. Okay, good. I just choked that you said… you said plot against us, and then you came back, and I said…
30:36
Peter Eggleston Connor: We've mutiny, we've taken over this shit.
30:40
Phil: Okay.
30:40
Peter Eggleston Connor: But we haven't. I was just kidding. Right. Okay, good.
30:43
Phil: I was ready to… I was gonna say, if you.
30:46
Peter Eggleston Connor: To your viewers. Bill stepped away for a second.
30:51
Phil: I had to go… I had to go let my wife in. She's back from… from her, from her girls' weekend.
30:56
Phil: door was locked. I know.
30:58
Phil: So, Brad, sorry.
30:58
Peter Eggleston Connor: Early.
31:00
Phil: A little bit, little bit.
31:01
Peter Eggleston Connor: Painting.
31:04
Phil: Okay, so, you activate your full AI enhancement.
31:07
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yes.
31:10
Peter Eggleston Connor: And then I scanned this, door in front of me.
31:13
Phil: you scan the door in front of you. So, okay, so what… so you have your full AI, you are trapped in a chocolate Faraday cage?
31:22
Phil: In the God of Forge. In the God of Forge, yes. Which… Yes.
31:27
Peter Eggleston Connor: I… last I knew, was somehow connected to…
31:31
Phil: Kind of? Yeah, so it's… it's… you have… you have a… you have a… you know, I mean…
31:38
Phil: I'm still working out exactly what the relationship between the God of the Forge and the Fair are, but they are not the same thing.
31:47
Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I gathered that I didn't think they were, but .
31:52
Phil: I was gonna try…
31:52
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I had to try to talk to the god of the Forge.
31:56
Phil: Yeah, that seems like a reasonable thing to do right now. Yeah, I don't think there's really much at will. So let's see here. So you're in a Faraday cage.
32:08
Phil: So… A chocolate.
32:11
Peter Eggleston Connor: Faraday cage, that makes…
32:12
Phil: chocolate tinfoil Faraday cage, which I guess would… I mean…
32:19
Phil: Yeah… yeah, I'm gonna say… I'm gonna say just roll for it, and you should be able to punch through that somehow.
32:26
Peter Eggleston Connor: with the D10 as extra?
32:28
Phil: Yeah, cause you…
32:29
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm guessing I'm rolling in.
32:31
Phil: Yes, yes. So I think it's… it's… it's one of those where it's… I don't know how difficult it would be, but I think you being…
32:39
Phil: you being on your own, you know, as long as you don't get full failures on this, I think you'll… I think you'll manage a piece of.
32:46
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, okay. Well, I got a 6 and a 5.
32:51
Phil: Okay. Yeah, I think that's enough for some contact. So… You…
32:58
Phil: Okay, so what, what do you, what do you say to the God of Forge?
33:02
Peter Eggleston Connor: I said… Well, first I introduced myself a while ago.
33:09
Peter Eggleston Connor: I guess it knows me, since I was…
33:12
Peter Eggleston Connor: Part of it for a second there, a long time ago.
33:16
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll take some time to first recognize it, and then I'll be like.
33:21
Peter Eggleston Connor: Why am I in this cage?
33:25
Phil: And it just says, shut up, Strife.
33:29
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm not Strife.
33:31
Phil: Yeah, you tried this before, we still don't believe you.
33:37
Peter Eggleston Connor: How would you…
33:42
Phil: How would you…
33:44
Peter Eggleston Connor: Hmm.
33:50
Peter Eggleston Connor: What did I do?
33:52
Phil: You killed Droke!
33:54
Phil: And this is where we now pan up to Droke, the, silent lizard man, is… who I said last time, oh, he's up in the crow's nest. He's a zombie.
34:04
Phil: He got better.
34:07
Peter Eggleston Connor: Dude.
34:08
Peter Eggleston Connor: So… Going back to our discussion between sessions.
34:15
Peter Eggleston Connor: There's another one of me, right?
34:19
Phil: Kind of. I… I…
34:22
Phil: Strife, Strife does… so… so yes, so this is… this is where, we'll say now is a good time for… for you to receive some of the memories of…
34:33
Phil: Because that's the thing, is that your body was possessed by strife, so those memories are still in your brain somewhere, so…
34:40
Peter Eggleston Connor: Right, so… Completely threw me for a loop. Got it.
34:43
Phil: Yes, so, so you've, you've, you now have, so you know, like, you, Lex, knows that, that Strife was running around with your face for the past 10 years. And, I guess, I guess for everybody else, yeah, there's…
35:01
Phil: She's she's no longer in Lex's body because Peter's here.
35:10
Phil: And I don't think she'll be possessing you again, because that seems like a bad trick to pull more than once.
35:15
Phil: But… The question is now, if… if you want to trade…
35:24
Phil: a couple minor memories of those to the memory merchant for further power-ups to try to break out of here. Or if you can come up with a way to prove that you're actually you and not…
35:37
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, thank God. You should, go focus on somebody else for a bit.
35:40
Phil: Okay, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Okay, I didn't mean.
35:45
Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I was, like, confused, because, like, I don't know. We had a conversation, and now I'm like, oh, this is not what I remember.
35:51
Phil: -Oh, whoops, okay. I, I… All good? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I got it. Yeah, okay, okay. So, from there, Lee,
36:03
Phil: I guess if you're… if you're curious about what he was talking about, we could kind of flesh it out. So, Strife was… was running around…
36:14
Phil: with Peter's face for the past 10 years. I think I accidentally rudely doubled back on something that we had talked about.
36:25
Phil: with you, you being let out of the cage more. If… okay, yes, yeah, so…
36:35
Phil: Gotcha. But yeah, but the gist is, is that she's… she's gonna be out there, she's gonna look like Lex,
36:41
Phil: this is… this is probably a moment where it would be good for the Forge God to alert everyone
36:49
Phil: that, you're someone… you're not strife anymore. This is… this is somehow different from last time. So, I didn't know if the…
37:01
Phil: crew wanted to gather. We're now gonna try to sort of explain, to everyone else. I feel like… I feel like the party needs to… because last time we were kind of all desperately exploring, so…
37:13
Larry Woods: We explored a lot.
37:14
Phil: Yeah, yeah, kind of all around the ship.
37:17
Tad Eggleston: I did not explore a lot.
37:20
Larry Woods: Yes.
37:21
Larry Woods: Technically true.
37:23
Phil: Yes.
37:23
Tad Eggleston: I played music and then fell asleep.
37:26
Phil: That was in the captain's quarters, with Rose, so…
37:33
Tad Eggleston: The bed is very comfy.
37:36
Phil: It's good to know. Good to know.
37:39
Tad Eggleston: Well, no, it's not, because I don't think your beds are very comfy, and now you have to be jealous.
37:49
Phil: That is… that is rather amusing. So,
37:58
Phil: I guess… I guess it's at this point that,
38:03
Phil: you know, with… with Lex continuing to say, hey, hey, I… I am me this time,
38:13
Phil: Gosh, I'm trying to think now of…
38:17
Phil: So that's the thing, is that… so you can tell… you can tell the party something that only you would know.
38:25
Phil: Because even though Strife took control of you, she didn't have all your memories. So it's not like she was a perfect copy of you.
38:31
Phil: While she was running around?
38:33
Phil: So she wouldn't know everything about Lex's life, but if there's something, like, a connection between Lex and Eamon, or Lex and Alan,
38:46
Phil: then, like, you know, like, what's, what's, I guess, something that, you know, because now the Forge God is like, there's, there's a problem in the brig, and so, you know, if everyone wants to gather down there, you know.
39:02
Larry Woods: Do I… does Willie hear this voice as well?
39:06
Phil: Yeah, I think.
39:06
Tad Eggleston: Fair.
39:07
Phil: I think it's kind of an alert to, to, we're gonna, we're gonna let you out of the, out of the cave.
39:13
Tad Eggleston: And I get to… the cage is also made of chocolate, right?
39:17
Phil: It is, it is made of chocolate, yes.
39:18
Tad Eggleston: Okay, so I turned to the Forge God, and I said.
39:21
Tad Eggleston: Is this a load-bearing cage?
39:27
Peter Eggleston Connor: Aren't you in the Forge God?
39:29
Phil: Everyone needs, yeah.
39:30
Peter Eggleston Connor: Anywhere you turn, you're… you're turning to the Forge Goble.
39:33
Tad Eggleston: Okay, I don't turn to the Forge God. I just say… I just say, is this a load-bearing cage?
39:42
Phil: Unfortunately, yes, it is. All of this, it turns out… turns out, being a chocolate boat is… is an incredibly difficult…
39:51
Phil: Endeavor, and if you start eating away at one corner, it all comes apart pretty quick.
39:57
Larry Woods: Huh.
40:00
Tad Eggleston: Okay, so… I very carefully.
40:04
Tad Eggleston: Mark off.
40:07
Tad Eggleston: every fourth bar. And rather than just hacking with my sword.
40:13
Tad Eggleston: I take my sword, and I very, very carefully…
40:18
Tad Eggleston: Cut myself a segment of chocolate.
40:22
Phil: To eat from me.
40:24
Phil: Okay.
40:25
Phil: Okay.
40:27
Phil: Okay.
40:28
Phil: Okay, so this wasn't.
40:29
Larry Woods: You knew this was gonna happen.
40:32
Phil: This wasn't about getting Lex out of there, it was about getting a piece of chocolate tea. I see. I see.
40:39
Tad Eggleston: I mean…
40:41
Tad Eggleston: If it had happened to Freelix, that wouldn't have stopped me, but you said it was a load-bearing cage.
40:52
Phil: There we go. Peter, I'm sorry, I think I forgot more of our conversation than I realized.
41:00
Peter Eggleston Connor: Probably alright.
41:01
Phil: Yeah. Yeah.
41:03
Peter Eggleston Connor: Just means we have to play more on the fly, it's alright.
41:05
Phil: We are, we are. Thankfully, thankfully, I have more in plan for this episode than you escaping from a cage that I… that I put you in and then didn't give you an easy way out.
41:15
Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't think I was thinking the easy way out.
41:18
Phil: No, no, no, I mean, like, mentally, I didn't… I didn't know how you were going to get out of there, so why… why did I… why did I put you in there and then say, hey, get out, you know?
41:28
Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, I just presented an easy way out, and you made the decision, you know.
41:34
Phil: It's terrible.
41:35
Tad Eggleston: It could have been a cage that didn't know all the way between the.
41:38
Peter Eggleston Connor: Dex! If you will, we have essentially allowed me to hack things.
41:44
Phil: Yeah.
41:44
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm sure I could just hack the Red… well, except it's a Faraday cage, so I don't know how you want to play that.
41:50
Phil: I know. If that makes it any different. But also…
41:54
Peter Eggleston Connor: is, like… Is it a 360 Fahrenheit?
41:59
Phil: I don't think so, because I said your back was against the wood, the wood… the chocolate wood? That's where the coin came through. So…
42:07
Peter Eggleston Connor: And… Okay.
42:08
Phil: Also…
42:09
Peter Eggleston Connor: fun. Yeah, yeah, between that and… I'm gonna hack… hack the part that's not the Faraday Cade, which is behind, which I assume goes out to the ocean.
42:17
Phil: It does, it does, yeah, that's like the wall.
42:19
Peter Eggleston Connor: Okay. So I'll try to… I'll try to mitigate this.
42:25
Phil: Okay.
42:26
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm gonna put myself next to the wall.
42:30
Peter Eggleston Connor: Try to morph the wall… So that it always stays as one piece.
42:37
Peter Eggleston Connor: But, like, essentially build a… Build an incredibly tight room around me.
42:43
Phil: Oh.
42:43
Peter Eggleston Connor: wall, and then get rid of the back of it, so that I can now be outside of the ship.
42:49
Phil: Yeah, yeah, I think you could do that. You, you do, oddly enough, still have that… that gem from the cyborg brontosaurus Hydra. If, if… so there's… there's gonna be, like.
43:01
Phil: Pieces of scales, but yeah, that sounds like something you could definitely do, where… so now you're on the… you know, there's basically a tiny… you're basically on the other side of the wall, now clinging to the outside of… of the ship.
43:13
Tad Eggleston: And I look at…
43:14
Phil: What's going on?
43:15
Tad Eggleston: I watch… I watch Lex do that, and I say, okay, problem solved, and I go up to the deck. I look down at Lex and say, hey, would it be easier if I threw you a rope?
43:26
Peter Eggleston Connor: I look up at you, and
43:30
Peter Eggleston Connor: I imagine 10 years is a lot of time, even to be in a sum… well, except for us, it wasn't really a somber, was it? It was, like, an instant.
43:41
Peter Eggleston Connor: We mentioned that was a time bubble. How does that work?
43:44
Phil: So… so that was it. So it's where… so with the time bubble, that was… that was where, this world that you've been on has, existed for longer than you've been on it. That was… that was…
43:58
Phil: I know that's.
43:59
Peter Eggleston Connor: For us, like, almost no time passed.
44:01
Phil: Yes. So that's the thing, is even… even last time, when there was…
44:05
Peter Eggleston Connor: So, there wouldn't be any sort of weird drugginess or anything like that, because, like, literally, for us, nothing happened.
44:13
Phil: Right.
44:14
Peter Eggleston Connor: Okay.
44:15
Phil: Yeah.
44:15
Peter Eggleston Connor: So it's worth…
44:16
Phil: it was the rest of the world, it was just that the NPCs, at the moment, the time bubble.
44:19
Peter Eggleston Connor: So I'm… I'm probably have my faculties, and I'm just very confused on this whole… thing.
44:28
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm… I don't know, I don't think I'd have the memories that…
44:33
Peter Eggleston Connor: Cuz, again, nothing happened for me.
44:36
Phil: Yeah, so you don't have the memories, but they're.
44:38
Peter Eggleston Connor: For prob… like, for.
44:42
Phil: So it's… they come in, like, flashes, so they're, like, memories that you don't know.
44:45
Peter Eggleston Connor: So it's like data packets that are just coming to me.
44:48
Phil: Yes.
44:49
Peter Eggleston Connor: Got it.
44:50
Phil: Yes.
44:51
Peter Eggleston Connor: I look up and I say, yeah, I think… I think a rope might be useful, as long as it's not made out of chocolate, cause…
45:05
Peter Eggleston Connor: Let's be honest, I don't think it would hold.
45:09
Tad Eggleston: Are there any non-chocolate ropes around?
45:13
Phil: I mean…
45:17
Phil: My instincts say no. No, all the ropes are chocolate around here, so you're… I mean, they…
45:21
Tad Eggleston: So you have.
45:21
Phil: I have an ability for just an instance as this.
45:24
Tad Eggleston: No, I take off my cloak.
45:27
Phil: Okay.
45:28
Tad Eggleston: And… I twirl it around, and I knot each end.
45:33
Tad Eggleston: So that it stays together.
45:37
Tad Eggleston: And I… I… Lean over the edge, and lower it to…
45:42
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): conference.
45:47
Peter Eggleston Connor: Boat is made out of chocolate, which probably means that it's pretty easy to claw into.
45:51
Phil: Yeah, oh yeah.
45:52
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I don't shoot down.
45:53
Phil: So you can, like, half climb up the wall, and then…
45:57
Peter Eggleston Connor: up as cloak, sure. Pretty easy.
46:00
Peter Eggleston Connor: It's not, like, dangerous. You don't have to roll anything?
46:03
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Ouch!
46:04
Larry Woods: Wait, I don't think we're asking the important question here is, is it milk chocolate or dark chocolate?
46:10
Phil: Oh, it's Star Trek.
46:10
Larry Woods: Fair question.
46:11
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Yep.
46:13
Tad Eggleston: That's kind of chocolate.
46:15
Tad Eggleston: I can confirm that it's very good dark chocolate. It is, it is, so it flakes a bit. But yes, but you're able to clamor up there. Where's our marshmallow guy?
46:24
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): hard.
46:25
Phil: Oh, he's lost. He's lost, with the rest of the gods. They turn into a giant,
46:30
Tad Eggleston: We have… we have this chocolate boat, we gotta go find the marshmallow guy. Oh, wait, let me… let me hold on with both hands. Just scratch my head right now.
46:43
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Well, it was just one of the…
46:46
Peter Eggleston Connor: Alright.
46:46
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): on the path.
46:47
Peter Eggleston Connor: So.
46:47
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Oh, the…
46:48
Peter Eggleston Connor: If I don't need to roll HX, then I climb up.
46:51
Phil: Right, right, right.
46:51
Peter Eggleston Connor: It will lead to all sorts of more shenanigans and more shenanigans.
46:57
Phil: Indeed, and there's, there's confusion, there's, there's, you know, there's a crisis, there's a mix-up.
47:03
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Oh, thank God, spicy.
47:05
Phil: Who's, who's, who's that in the background there?
47:07
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): and Silver Peace.
47:09
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Hold on.
47:11
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Okay.
47:13
Phil: Sorry.
47:19
Phil: Alrighty, so, so you had, you were, you were climbing up the side of the boat, you're up top, now, you know, everyone, everyone comes clamoring onto the top of the deck, there's, there's Rose, you know, she's like, get that prisoner under control, she's trying to, she's trying to make a break for it again.
47:37
Phil: One of those sorts of things, Smink is like, you bastard! You killed my friend! There's just, like, a little, like, deathly, like.
47:45
Phil: like a gurgle that comes out of the crow's nest, sort of things. .
47:52
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): What?
47:53
Phil: I'm hoping… like I said, I'm hoping for some…
47:57
Phil: dumb confirmation, like, you know, some kind of memory. We haven't, we haven't talked about.
48:06
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): The.
48:07
Phil: the game that we actually used to play way back then. Is there… what would, like, what would a signal be between, Lex and Alan? Like, a signal of trust? I mean, other than Alan just seeming to trust everyone.
48:22
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Thank you so much.
48:25
Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, Wendy was in the cave…
48:29
Tad Eggleston: I wondered, but now that he's not in the cage, the problem was getting him safely off the side of the boat, not figuring out if he needed to come out of the cage.
48:39
Phil: Right. And now that he's in front of me and not contained.
48:43
Tad Eggleston: Then there's no problem to solve.
48:46
Peter Eggleston Connor: So, yep.
48:48
Phil: Sounds about right.
48:50
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'll do this one.
48:50
Phil: Perfect, perfect, so the trust…
48:53
Tad Eggleston: Other than working out the chords on this song that I've been writing.
48:58
Phil: The… something between, sailing away on an elevator?
49:02
Tad Eggleston: Yeah, that was just me being bored.
49:07
Phil: Excellent, excellent. Okay, so…
49:12
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Ow? .
49:13
Phil: I guess in this situation, Peter, how would you convince someone that you are who you say you are, and that you're not the person who's been controlling you?
49:24
Phil: For the pass.
49:25
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, the question is, who's asking?
49:28
Phil: Well, at this point, I guess it would be Rose, where she's like, alright, I'm suspicious, I see that Alan is true.
49:34
Peter Eggleston Connor: Having a sword to me, or what's going on?
49:37
Peter Eggleston Connor: Tell me the scene!
49:39
Phil: The scene! Okay, so all of the… all of the chocolate clockwork pirates, have… have drawn misshapen chocolate bar swords, and are playing them at you, and one of them has… they have, like, little… little tiny, they're, like, one has a blunderbuss, and it's full of pop rocks, and another one's got, you know, their… their sharpshooters, and they've, I guess, red hots? I don't know. Something like that. Various candy.
50:00
Phil: all kinds of, of.
50:02
Peter Eggleston Connor: the gods, got it.
50:04
Phil: Yeah, maybe. Well, I… Yeah, .
50:08
Peter Eggleston Connor: I think, I think…
50:10
Phil: Cinnamon… cinnamon bullets make sense, because there is, like, an ongoing war elsewhere in the world, so, like…
50:16
Peter Eggleston Connor: What is he playing with you?
50:17
Phil: No, it's perfect! I mean, it's… I… I'm… I guess it still is up in the air whether the… I think… I think I was going to have the trickster god be the god of pop rocks, but then, Alan said he didn't like pop rocks, so he became the god of graham crackers. So, you know…
50:31
Phil: It's… it's a slapdash ramshackle operation we've got going on here. But yeah, so they're under threat. There's…
50:40
Phil: you know, she, who I don't think I mentioned last episode, but Rose absolutely has an eye patch. So she has an eye patch, she has a big hat,
50:50
Tad Eggleston: Does she need the eye patch?
50:52
Phil: Yes.
50:53
Tad Eggleston: Alan would know.
50:55
Phil: Yes, she needs the eyepatch.
50:57
Phil: Yeah. And so…
51:00
Peter Eggleston Connor: Beneath it is her cybernetic eye that sees all.
51:03
Phil: Damn it, Peter! Yeah, something like that.
51:10
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, sorry, anyhow.
51:11
Phil: No, you're.
51:12
Phil: Yeah, and so she's, she's like, alright, you know.
51:16
Tad Eggleston: Can I also have an eye patch?
51:18
Phil: Yes, but you don't need it.
51:20
Tad Eggleston: Well, I know I don't need it, but I want to show solidarity with Rogue.
51:25
Phil: Do you… so you put it on the same aisle?
51:28
Tad Eggleston: Sometimes.
51:29
Phil: Okay, so… Perfect, perfect.
51:32
Peter Eggleston Connor: And we're back.
51:36
Phil: But so now, so she's, she's, she's looking at you, and she's basically like, this, this has almost happened before, you know,
51:45
Phil: in the sense of Strife has tried to escape and has attempted to impersonate you by trying to escape, you know, how do we know that you're really you? And again, it's Rose doesn't know Lex very well.
51:58
Peter Eggleston Connor: I will raise my eyebrow and say, well, this has almost happened before, what… what… when did this almost happen? What…
52:09
Peter Eggleston Connor: What was that like?
52:12
Phil: it was pretty much just like this, but in the moment of weakness of questioning, you use that to take advantage of me, and in that scuffle, I barely overpowered you back into the state of submission. So, I guess…
52:26
Peter Eggleston Connor: Whoa.
52:26
Phil: You would have done that?
52:27
Peter Eggleston Connor: Claim out the wall.
52:29
Peter Eggleston Connor: Of the ship, and climbed up it.
52:34
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm just trying to understand what happened to me, because I don't…
52:42
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm getting memory packets of something.
52:46
Peter Eggleston Connor: An adult.
52:47
Peter Eggleston Connor: Makes sense to me. So…
52:49
Phil: I… I love… I love that… that you know their memory packets, because it's… so Tenny's telling you that, where it's like, memory packet received, and it's got, like, a different, like, user ID stamp on it than you're accustomed to, but, like, you have it, and so that's, like, you know, you cutting somebody's throat, or something like that, and.
53:08
Tad Eggleston: I'm like.
53:08
Phil: 10 years of mischief and mayhem, just, just popping into, into your, your, your mind's eye.
53:17
Phil: Throughout all of this. So I think, I think just how you're handling this, the level of misunderstanding and questioning.
53:26
Phil: that you're expressing is something that Strife, even, you know, she is a chaotic person, and she is a combative person, but she's not a subtle person and could not act her way
53:38
Phil: To being this confused.
53:40
Phil: And so they, they, you know, quickly realized, okay, you're, you're out of here, you are, you know, you're free, we are, you know, just, it's, it's like,
53:52
Phil: Gosh,
53:55
Phil: It's like a moment in Elder Scrolls, where, you know, I'm thinking of the, the gray mask, where suddenly everyone's like, you're the guy who leads the Thieves Guild, and then you take it off, and somehow they're like, okay, you're not that guy anymore, it's fine, it's fine. It's kind of like that.
54:10
Phil: It's kind of like everyone… everyone had their… their… they were up in arms against you, and now they've all… they've all simultaneously relaxed. The… the clockwork pirates have gone back to… to what they're doing. Smink, still gives you a glare, sheets his knife, and then goes back down to the galley, as… as we realize the kitchen is meant to be called on a ship.
54:29
Phil: And… You are allotted, you now have a decision to make, and this is an actual decision of…
54:37
Phil: where do you go next? This… this side that you're on, is the island that you crash-landed to, and then kind of an ocean,
54:48
Phil: down-ish, there are cliffs, there's a high cliff wall, you would have to scale up, so you can't go that way. But you can go either left-west or right out, and that leads to two different and distinct villages, encampments.
55:01
Phil: that you would journey towards for rest to… to get your bearings of, you know, what's been happening over the past 10 years? Well, it's easier to, you know, let's… let's get someplace
55:11
Phil: Someplace easier, that's not out in the open.
55:18
Phil: I realize this is a completely arbitrary decision for all of you.
55:22
Peter Eggleston Connor: So… so just to be clear, we got past the point where… where we were questioning whether I was,
55:30
Peter Eggleston Connor: Strife, and now everybody's like, okay, we need to figure out what to do now.
55:35
Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, yeah, that was kind of… those… those… settling into the ship. I'm partially saying it because I don't think we… there wasn't a lot of transition there, so, like…
55:46
Phil: No, that's my fact.
55:47
Peter Eggleston Connor: It's… it's good to sort of, like, rehash it with the…
55:50
Peter Eggleston Connor: Everybody cuts it back. I think you're right. I… I will…
55:54
Phil: Wood a little too quickly.
55:55
Peter Eggleston Connor: I was like, this is a decision for me, and I was like, no, no, no, this is a decision for you, got it. Anyhow.
56:02
Larry Woods: I'm also wondering, too, right, because I don't think Willie's really…
56:07
Larry Woods: experienced this before, right? So, it's like, if anything.
56:11
Larry Woods: at least in my mind's eye here. It's like, once everything started sort of…
56:17
Larry Woods: going off, and, like, people are like, okay, like, he's in there, sounding alarm, whatever the case. It's almost like, for Willie, things kind of slowed down. So, like, even, Alan, how he came down and, like, helped out, and then went back up.
56:31
Larry Woods: I just imagine Willie's sort of sitting there watching everything, and people, like, kind of move around him like he's in slow motion.
56:38
Larry Woods: But I don't think he really knows what to ask. Like, of course he wants to know, like, what… like, what the hell happened, but at the same time, he's…
56:47
Larry Woods: like… Still trying to think against Strife?
56:51
Larry Woods: Garian?
56:52
Phil: Orge God.
56:56
Phil: Right, right, yeah, this is… you're still… you're still an outsider, so to speak.
57:00
Phil: So there's still… there's still a lot, that you don't know.
57:05
Phil: And those sorts of things.
57:09
Phil: Sorry, my cat's trying to tell me something right now, but I can't understand him.
57:15
Phil: Yeah. We'll speak with animals. Right?
57:18
Phil: No.
57:21
Phil: He says, I'm hungry. Oh, well, it's a little early for him to be hungry, so maybe he's not hungry.
57:27
Phil: one of those sorts of things. And I guess, and this is where… this is where… I know I've mentioned it to you all before, but, I don't know…
57:38
Phil: who… so, I guess… I guess Rose is a good person, I need to tell you, is… is that, you know, the past 10 years have been, quite frankly, fucking hell. They have…
57:50
Phil: The world has been continually ravaged by the, God… the kaiju gods.
57:59
Phil: That have been wreaking havoc and destruction across this world. So the figures of the gods had been monstrified, and so now we are heading to… they're less cities or villages, they're more of outposts.
58:18
Phil: Of, civilization full of adventures, and, you know, it's, it's a very, it's a very slapdash, rough-and-tumble, world that, that we now…
58:30
Phil: land ourselves in. And I guess I could give you a little background on, the two different civilizations to choose from. towards left-west is, Pirate Town. That is going to be a multicultural
58:44
Phil: cornucopia of, you know, goblins and birdmen and weirdos of all shapes and sorts.
58:53
Phil: There is a pirate priest to meet there, who, you know, that's, that's like, that's like, you know, your friendly, you know, jokey group of people.
59:02
Phil: The other direction is, a vampire village where,
59:08
Phil: I… the… the bit of prep I didn't… I need to do, is… is reread The Savage Shores, kind of the… that was the… the Vampire Pirates inspiration there. But, so it's gonna be… it's gonna be a little darker, a little more mysterious, but not…
59:24
Phil: you know, it's one of those things where even though it's a vampire town, you're not going to be fighting vampires, you know, it's… I guess the way I'd want to describe it is it has the tension of, like, a horde town in World of Warcraft, where, like, okay, it's not openly hostile, but yeah, people here can be kind of mean.
59:42
Phil: You know? So yeah, so which, which, which way do you feel like going? Do you feel like talking to, friendly faces, or…
59:50
Phil: What's that?
59:52
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, we're in the middle of an ocean.
59:55
Peter Eggleston Connor: Were we on a different side last time?
59:59
Phil: You're still on the same side that the Pantheon crash-landed into.
1:00:03
Peter Eggleston Connor: So, wouldn't there be a third side to go to?
1:00:06
Phil: There is, but it is, like, a sheer cliff wall, so you would have to get out of the boat and, like, climb up the cliff wall, as opposed to, like, stay in the boat and go to… that's an option, if you want to go that way, if you want to try to…
1:00:18
Peter Eggleston Connor: Like, that sounds like the, the, the, princess Bride.
1:00:25
Phil: It actually, it does. It does a little bit. It does a little bit. But yeah.
1:00:29
Larry Woods: I actually have it in my notes that we literally talked about the Princess, well, Princess Diaries.
1:00:35
Phil: the, the two figures I had not mentioned yet were Dread Pirate Roberts, Fezzik, and, his first mate, Inago. I've already decided the only thing, Fezzik is largely silent, the only thing he says is ever two rows, and it is… As you wish.
1:00:50
Phil: I'm still working on my Andre the Giant press, and I wish I was, like, another foot and a half taller.
1:00:56
Larry Woods: Yeah, that's.
1:00:56
Peter Eggleston Connor: Click it as you wish.
1:00:59
Peter Eggleston Connor: a year.
1:00:59
Phil: Yeah. Yeah.
1:01:01
Larry Woods: Well, as a, as a group, is there…
1:01:04
Peter Eggleston Connor: I thought he would say, anybody want a peanut?
1:01:06
Phil: He also
1:01:07
Phil: Anybody peanut… anybody want a peanut, if… if anyone else… if he can rhyme it, but he only says that if he can rhyme it.
1:01:15
Phil: Yep.
1:01:17
Larry Woods: So, like, as a… as a group, Is there…
1:01:22
Larry Woods: I guess for first question is, what are we trying to do?
1:01:26
Larry Woods: And where do we think we're gonna get those… achieve that goal, I guess?
1:01:31
Phil: Well, I guess the first question is, do y'all feel like trying to go home or not?
1:01:35
Phil: Alan's made it clear that he kind of likes it here, and he doesn't have a whole lot of it.
1:01:40
Tad Eggleston: to solve.
1:01:41
Phil: Yeah!
1:01:42
Phil: It's pretty interesting.
1:01:43
Tad Eggleston: at home are easy.
1:01:45
Phil: So, I mean, if… if you're interested in trying to figure out how to get back home, so that's… that's the other thing is…
1:01:50
Larry Woods: Fair thing.
1:01:52
Phil: I feel like… I feel like I need to have a sort of moment of contact between the
1:01:58
Phil: Willie and the Master to sort of have, like, a… at least, like, a…
1:02:03
Phil: directive of sorts, you know, so that you have some… because right now, you don't really have anything to go off of other than…
1:02:09
Phil: You were doing a drop, you opened a door, and then you ended up in this weird room with a magical die that empowered you, and then you started shooting at other zombies, and…
1:02:19
Larry Woods: It turned out you were in…
1:02:21
Phil: a box that was the Forge God that… yeah, so you're… you're kind of… you're… you're very disoriented, so that makes… that makes a lot of sense now.
1:02:29
Larry Woods: Sure.
1:02:30
Phil: So I guess, I guess, you know, even Rose is still, like… It's like…
1:02:35
Phil: you know, take your time, Willie, but you'll… you know, you'll fit in here.
1:02:40
Phil: -Oh.
1:02:41
Larry Woods: Y-yes, ma'am.
1:02:42
Phil: Yeah, where she can see that, you know, your no-nonsense skills will… will be good on the horizon.
1:02:52
Phil: So… yeah, and, and… I guess, yeah, I,
1:03:03
Phil: in… in the monster hunting background, you know, yeah, who wants… who wants to kill a god? Is… is the gist of it, is that the only… the only hope this world has for combating those gods are…
1:03:16
Phil: the dice, the, you know, the… because that's the thing, is your D6, your D10s, your D8, those are super powerful magical artifacts that, you know, you've fought gods before, and won.
1:03:29
Phil: like…
1:03:30
Phil: you… you… I mean, admittedly, you had the help of… of Toasty the Phoenix, but you fought the Eldritch God, and you took him down, you fought the Forge God, and you incapacitated him pretty well. So, yeah, you know, you're…
1:03:44
Phil: your, mission now is to, you know, track down these god monsters and either capture or kill them. And try to figure out that situation there. I actually wrote down, yeah, so that's, that's the thing.
1:03:56
Phil: So again, depending on which village you feel like going to, there are quest boards that I have there, for… because that was something I'm like, hey, maybe we should do this. Maybe we should write down a list of quests that we as a group are interested in, you know, or questions that we want to try to solve.
1:04:13
Phil: And those sorts of things, because I do have, I do have, at least on the quest board, I have a few to hand you. If, you know, it's just which, which, which town do you feel like I went to? Or do you feel like scaling the wall of mysteries?
1:04:24
Larry Woods: Yeah.
1:04:25
Phil: You know?
1:04:27
Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, I think at this point, considering I'm getting data feeds of myself, doing all sorts of things over the last 10 years, then, I can't even relate to.
1:04:40
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm now concerned about whether or not I have,
1:04:52
Peter Eggleston Connor: a, rogue element in my brain? Or, you know…
1:04:57
Larry Woods: So I'll have to work through… figure that out. Anyhow…
1:05:00
Phil: Yeah. Thank, thankfully, thankfully, that was… I was planning something different, other than… like I said, I don't… I don't wanna… I don't wanna take control of… of your…
1:05:13
Larry Woods: character, I just wanted an excuse for what you were doing last episode.
1:05:17
Peter Eggleston Connor: For sure.
1:05:18
Phil: Yeah.
1:05:19
Larry Woods: So, I'm also, like…
1:05:22
Larry Woods: I'm… so I'm big into memes, so all I now… all I see now is, I see Peter's character. We go to this, left-west pirate town that includes, goblins and bird people.
1:05:34
Larry Woods: Because all I see now is there's that one video of the…
1:05:38
Larry Woods: little girl with a parrot that extracts the tooth from her mouth. I imagine, like, doing that with Peter Character's strands.
1:05:48
Phil: And that's the thing. Thankfully, thankfully, you have an outlet for your memory merchant, is that you can use your, you know, 10 years of history of murder and espionage, that if that's causing you discomfort, you can trade that for, you know, fair gold equivalent.
1:06:08
Phil: Basically.
1:06:09
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, that sounds dangerous, because, like, that 10 years of, 10 years of memories could also be telling me what… what,
1:06:19
Peter Eggleston Connor: Could be a wealth of information on what's happened.
1:06:24
Peter Eggleston Connor: Finally, there's actually, like, that risk-reward level, right?
1:06:28
Phil: Yeah, yeah, and I'm sure it'll be a sliding scale, you know. The last thing I want to do is that video game equivalent of, like, hey, this item has a really big price tag if you sell it at the shop.
1:06:40
Larry Woods: But it's also a really obscure ingredient for a super specific quest that if you sell, you'll never be able to complete. I don't want to do that to you guys.
1:06:47
Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, I mean, you would never make it, like, something where you wouldn't be able to complete it.
1:06:52
Peter Eggleston Connor: Primary quest, but you could make
1:06:54
Peter Eggleston Connor: But not having it makes it harder.
1:06:56
Phil: Yeah, yeah, that, that would, that would…
1:06:58
Peter Eggleston Connor: Or makes it more interesting, as a lot of the tabletop RPG goes.
1:07:04
Phil: As we can see, that assumes a lot of skills on my part as a DM that I may or may not have.
1:07:12
Phil: But in that.
1:07:13
Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, you know, I'm just trying to help you, like, you know, open up those skills.
1:07:18
Phil: I'm trying, I'm trying. One, you know, you can lead me to water, but I still need a straw.
1:07:24
Phil: I like that.
1:07:25
Peter Eggleston Connor: Let me, let me go get you a straw, though.
1:07:28
Phil: There we go.
1:07:29
Peter Eggleston Connor: We'll work on that.
1:07:31
Phil: So we…
1:07:31
Larry Woods: Are we feeling more like the multicultural, like, easygoing town, or are we feeling more of, like, a…
1:07:38
Larry Woods: As Lee, I love the idea of a vampire village. I like a darker setting, but that's me personally.
1:07:47
Larry Woods: But I'm also wondering, like, And again, for those of you, again, the real life people.
1:07:53
Larry Woods: that have been playing this game a little bit longer than I, where do you see, like, us going?
1:07:59
Larry Woods: Or not going, I mean, that's also an option.
1:08:02
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, to be perfectly honest, Lee…
1:08:06
Peter Eggleston Connor: We just got dropped into, like, who knows where.
1:08:10
Larry Woods: That's true!
1:08:11
Phil: Weird.
1:08:11
Peter Eggleston Connor: I have no idea what this world is. We didn't even really know what the last world was. I mean…
1:08:18
Phil: I will have a map for you next time. Like I said, I have a map now, it's just not spoiler-free.
1:08:24
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, yeah.
1:08:25
Phil: But, yeah, but .
1:08:26
Larry Woods: That's right. Willie does have a map. I'm sort of…
1:08:28
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, if we wanted to really dive into this, I suppose one of us would be asking Rose more about these areas.
1:08:39
Phil: Okay, yeah. Right, right, right.
1:08:41
Peter Eggleston Connor: Seems like a fair place to go.
1:08:43
Phil: Totally. And, you know, since Lee, it was your thought, maybe you should.
1:08:48
Larry Woods: Oh, I see what you did there.
1:08:51
Larry Woods: So I imagine that as.
1:08:56
Larry Woods: as I'm past the ball here, that, as Rose tells Willie, that, like, don't worry, your skills will be valuable, like, just give it time. And,
1:09:09
Larry Woods: I'm gonna try to enunciate my southern accent here. Well, Ms. Rose, I thank you kindly.
1:09:15
Larry Woods: But I'm also wondering where my skills are not quite, feasible yet. I'm wondering…
1:09:24
Larry Woods: How can we use your skills, or help us to get to where we need to be going?
1:09:30
Phil: Gosh, I mean, that's… that's part of the tricky part, is we need to go everywhere.
1:09:36
Phil: And… I mean… You know, and we don't know where to go.
1:09:42
Phil: But we know we need to go everywhere.
1:09:44
Phil: Okay. It's… it's not… It's not a matter of, better. It's a matter of…
1:09:53
Phil: What do you feel like fighting first?
1:09:55
Phil: You know, do you… Do you see yourselves as, you know, these…
1:10:06
Phil: dark and serious monster hunters, or do you see yourselves as a wacky group of pirates, you know? That's sort of me speaking through Rose just a tiny bit there.
1:10:19
Phil: But, and that's also speaking to you as a player. I think that… I think that,
1:10:27
Phil: I think that our tone has leaned more towards the wacky group of pirates in the past.
1:10:32
Phil: But, interesting… I'm trying to, I'm trying to, you know, Flex a few…
1:10:40
Phil: different muscles here, and that, you know, I know I've said this before, of the old.
1:10:46
Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't think our tone's gonna change wherever we go all that much, I mean, as a party.
1:10:51
Phil: That's true.
1:10:52
Peter Eggleston Connor: The tone of the game might change.
1:10:54
Phil: That's fair.
1:10:55
Peter Eggleston Connor: And we might still be the wacky group of quote-unquote pirates.
1:11:00
Peter Eggleston Connor: They were running around in, you know, this dark… Hunter Slayer vampire thing.
1:11:07
Peter Eggleston Connor: I would… I mean, I'm all down for going Vampire.
1:11:10
Phil: But…
1:11:11
Peter Eggleston Connor: If, you know, somebody's interested, I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other, or even, you know.
1:11:17
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, I really don't have a strong opinion. I'm even happy to do the ball, but anyhow.
1:11:22
Phil: Yeah? Yeah.
1:11:23
Phil: That's, that's, that's literally, that's literally, you're, you're saying anything, anything goes.
1:11:29
Larry Woods: And, I want to take a moment here. Avon, you've been awfully quiet.
1:11:35
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Yeah.
1:11:36
Larry Woods: So you're monitoring.
1:11:38
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): There's this weird…
1:11:40
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): band that keeps, like, stuck in my head right now, and it's driving me crazy. It's one that the grad students would always listen to.
1:11:48
Larry Woods: Bookin' the shit out of me.
1:11:53
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): That's really well.
1:11:55
Phil: No, sorry, I was just trying to…
1:11:56
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): It's like, they're trying to be metal, But…
1:12:01
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I don't know if they're beginners or just bad.
1:12:04
Phil: Ouch.
1:12:05
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Could be both.
1:12:06
Larry Woods: I've been both.
1:12:08
Peter Eggleston Connor: Can I take this, like, packet of information I'm getting right now, and just, like, sort of place it into the data file that I have of, Strife?
1:12:21
Phil: Oh, she's… she's gone.
1:12:26
Phil: She's not…
1:12:26
Peter Eggleston Connor: She's not in your head.
1:12:28
Phil: I know… well, maybe… so, okay, so… so, have you seen the show Pantheon?
1:12:35
Phil: Okay, it's interesting. It's an animated series on Netflix right now about, like, AI, but they get created by, like, digitizing people's brains, and by digitizing, they mean, like, burning them out of their heads while they're still alive.
1:12:48
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, so they, they took the, concept from… fall, or… Dodge and how… gotcha.
1:12:57
Phil: Something like that, something like that, yeah. But, the… the gist is there, like, oh, you can always, once you're… once you're in upload, you know, you can always reload a copy. So you can reload the copy of her from before…
1:13:09
Phil: She took over your body?
1:13:12
Phil: So you can talk to her from before the 10 years, but, like, those 10 years, you have to, like, sift through your own memories to learn about.
1:13:22
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, yeah. I'm just gonna, like, keep her contained in, like, this, zip folder.
1:13:27
Phil: Oh, nice!
1:13:28
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm gonna add this additional item to that zip folder.
1:13:31
Phil: This additional item… which is this additional item now?
1:13:35
Peter Eggleston Connor: As, Eamon just said.
1:13:38
Phil: Oh, of the.
1:13:39
Peter Eggleston Connor: I just want to piss her off.
1:13:40
Phil: Oh, I see what you're saying. I don't know if they're trying to be metal, I don't know if they're bad, or…
1:13:46
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): If they're… if they're beginners or both, and I just… If they're…
1:13:49
Phil: are just bad, I see.
1:13:51
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'm just…
1:13:51
Phil: That's perfect.
1:13:51
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'm just going through, like, all the reasons that they are not good, and I'm just… I'm not really talking to anybody, I'm just… at a certain point, I'm just talking to myself.
1:14:01
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): And then at one point, I told him, I'm like, I would…
1:14:04
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): of just, like, at one point, I lament about tacos, because all this complain… because I usually don't complain. All this complaining is making me hungry, so now I want tacos. And then I go back to, like.
1:14:16
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I was like, I would take… I was like.
1:14:19
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I would take a taco over, over, like.
1:14:22
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): a whole year's worth of free tickets to their show, just one taco. Even it's a Taco Bell taco, and that's going real low.
1:14:31
Phil: And that's where Innego pipes in, he's like, yeah, the food's a lot better in P-Town. And then Rose is like, there's some good places in Vanville, but, you know, you really have to hunt them out. There's a lot of dross there, too.
1:14:42
Phil: Also, FYI, Peter, when, you dropped in all those packets of insults from, from Chu, next time you look at the zip folder, it has re- renamed itself to Fuck You Die.
1:14:57
Phil: That's about it.
1:14:59
Phil: And it's somehow, like, vibrating and red, so it's an angry zip file.
1:15:04
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, good.
1:15:05
Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know if you've come across many angry zip files in your line of work. I'm gonna do everything in my power to make that a super angry zip file, and then figure out what I want to do with an angry zip file.
1:15:15
Phil: Excellent. Figure out how I can release it in such a way to make it… That sounds magnificent. Yeah. Oh, goodness, yes, please, please, be the one, be the one who… who can… can take, can take this, this, thing that I gave you and turn it into a weapon. Absolutely. Yeah, wow.
1:15:34
Phil: Perfect. Okay, so which, which way, which way are you leaning?
1:15:38
Phil: if… I mean, it sounds like… sounds like Lee, in his heart of hearts, wants to… wants to go a little darker. Peter is… is, truly jack-of-all-trades here, saying he could go any direction. He's clearly… he's clearly, more suspicious of me than… than usual.
1:15:58
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): I'm sniffing for food, and just if I smell food, I'm just walking that way.
1:16:03
Phil: Okay.
1:16:03
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, we're on a boat, so…
1:16:06
Peter Eggleston Connor: If you smell food and it's not on the boat…
1:16:08
Phil: you… You ate something, you ate… I think it was jerky? I think it was… was it ostrich jerky?
1:16:15
Larry Woods: Kangaroo. Kangaroo!
1:16:16
Phil: Jerky? Thank you. Okay, yeah.
1:16:18
Chang Po (Brae Bluewalker of the Veilthat Clan): Oh yeah, kangaroo, yeah.
1:16:19
Phil: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I gotta… I'll rewrite that down. Kangaroo jerky, okay. So at least you still have some of that.
1:16:26
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, I'm… I'm kind of curious to follow these, these… these interests, so… Okay. I guess my boat is now starting to slide towards…
1:16:36
Phil: Towards, towards.
1:16:37
Peter Eggleston Connor: fanfilm?
1:16:38
Phil: Alright.
1:16:39
Peter Eggleston Connor: Especially since, you know, I know, I know… Aimon… Chimed in, but,
1:16:48
Peter Eggleston Connor: our… our, tool hasn't… Alan hasn't.
1:16:55
Tad Eggleston: I like to solve problems.
1:16:58
Larry Woods: With money.
1:16:59
Peter Eggleston Connor: I would have thought you would have loved the, Pirates, just cause…
1:17:03
Tad Eggleston: Pirates are cool.
1:17:04
Phil: I mean…
1:17:05
Tad Eggleston: Pirates have lots of problems, because you've got to keep the boat going, you gotta decide whether or not it's worth going after this ship or that ship.
1:17:14
Tad Eggleston: And… and you gotta decide whether you want to be the bloodthirsty pirates, kill everybody, or… or the luffy pirates, where we're just having adventure and trying to get treasure that will then…
1:17:27
Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.
1:17:28
Tad Eggleston: spent, you know, I mean, there's so many options.
1:17:33
Tad Eggleston: But, I…
1:17:34
Peter Eggleston Connor: I also like tacos. Do you think this world is more interesting than… The other… cause…
1:17:41
Tad Eggleston: No?
1:17:42
Phil: Spicy blood tacos?
1:17:44
Peter Eggleston Connor: Spicy blood tacos.
1:17:45
Phil: blow tacos.
1:17:48
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean…
1:17:48
Tad Eggleston: This world versus… versus the world we came from?
1:17:52
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah.
1:17:53
Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, I pretty much won that world.
1:17:58
Peter Eggleston Connor: Alright.
1:17:59
Phil: Perfect.
1:18:03
Phil: Perfect, alright.
1:18:04
Tad Eggleston: I mean, I gotta let people come catch up, and then I'll go back and see where everything's at, and there'll be new problems to solve.
1:18:10
Phil: Oh, Beck is… okay.
1:18:13
Phil: That gave me an idea.
1:18:14
Peter Eggleston Connor: Finally, we came from a utopia.
1:18:19
Phil: What utopia are you talking about here?
1:18:22
Peter Eggleston Connor: Wherever we came from before we came into.
1:18:25
Tad Eggleston: One in my living room.
1:18:26
Phil: oh, okay. Yeah, I mean, I'm still, like, mentally, I'm like, we…
1:18:33
Tad Eggleston: I have…
1:18:33
Peter Eggleston Connor: A monk… Perfectly fine.
1:18:37
Larry Woods: Do you have a monkey?
1:18:39
Tad Eggleston: I do!
1:18:41
Tad Eggleston: We play darts.
1:18:45
Tad Eggleston: But with magnetic darts, we don't want anybody losing an eye.
1:18:48
Peter Eggleston Connor: I feel like Alan just has a very limited, like.
1:18:52
Peter Eggleston Connor: Understanding of what problems are out there.
1:18:57
Peter Eggleston Connor: he comes up with one, and he's like, oh, I need to go solve this, and then he solves it, but then, like…
1:19:04
Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, I do have to be showing.
1:19:05
Peter Eggleston Connor: the problem.
1:19:09
Phil: He can't solve problems he hasn't seen before, that's for sure.
1:19:11
Tad Eggleston: That's right.
1:19:12
Larry Woods: Well, I'm also… maybe this is me trying to think…
1:19:16
Tad Eggleston: It's possible that Rose has been keeping certain things away from my desk because she likes me to sleep.
1:19:25
Peter Eggleston Connor: Hmm.
1:19:27
Peter Eggleston Connor: So you're saying you really, really have a hard time, like, So, like, right now…
1:19:34
Tad Eggleston: before it's solved.
1:19:35
Peter Eggleston Connor: in this new world. That's wild.
1:19:37
Tad Eggleston: Right now, we don't have any problems immediately in front of us.
1:19:41
Phil: Twice.
1:19:41
Tad Eggleston: truck.
1:19:42
Peter Eggleston Connor: What can we do?
1:19:43
Phil: Yeah.
1:19:44
Phil: Not sailing on Strawberry River, but we may as well be.
1:19:48
Larry Woods: I barely.
1:19:49
Tad Eggleston: I mean, what problem do you want me to solve?
1:19:53
Peter Eggleston Connor: See, this is exactly my point.
1:19:57
Peter Eggleston Connor: He doesn't see problems, he just…
1:20:00
Phil: Geez.
1:20:00
Peter Eggleston Connor: If you break I bet.
1:20:02
Peter Eggleston Connor: problem, but…
1:20:04
Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, there was a problem. You were holding onto the side of the boat, and I was very afraid that you could die.
1:20:11
Peter Eggleston Connor: There you go. But you're up now!
1:20:14
Peter Eggleston Connor: I think your perception is about an 8.
1:20:17
Tad Eggleston: Before that, there was a problem where there was this really good-looking chocolate in a cage, so it might be…
1:20:27
Tad Eggleston: edible. I knew better than to just cut parts of the boat without.
1:20:31
Peter Eggleston Connor: I like how we laughed off, on mute.
1:20:35
Larry Woods: Yep, yep.
1:20:37
Peter Eggleston Connor: when I said your perception was about an 8.
1:20:39
Larry Woods: Yep.
1:20:41
Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I'm just, I'm just…
1:20:42
Tad Eggleston: Is that enough, huh scale.
1:20:46
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean.
1:20:47
Phil: How did he get Nate? We only give him D6s.
1:20:52
Larry Woods: The amount of time I had to lie.
1:20:53
Peter Eggleston Connor: Perception lower, but it's, you know…
1:20:56
Peter Eggleston Connor: And of course, I'm not talking on a die scale.
1:20:59
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah,
1:21:01
Peter Eggleston Connor: On a die, I would say somehow you have a perception of a 1.
1:21:05
Phil: Yeah. I mean, he's… Alan clearly has some issues with object permanence and self-regulation, you know? That's all we're saying.
1:21:14
Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't know.
1:21:15
Tad Eggleston: worth it. Self-regulation.
1:21:20
Tad Eggleston: This is totally…
1:21:21
Peter Eggleston Connor: Not only that one.
1:21:22
Tad Eggleston: hated it.
1:21:25
Phil: Oh, so with, with a, with a vote and a half, we're going, we're going right out, we're going to… to Vanville.
1:21:34
Phil: We're going to Vampire Valley now.
1:21:36
Tad Eggleston: Vampire?
1:21:37
Larry Woods: I'm writing that down.
1:21:40
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, Bill.
1:21:40
Tad Eggleston: Vampires are cool.
1:21:41
Phil: Yeah. I, I will, I will absolutely make sure.
1:21:44
Tad Eggleston: Let's go to Van Phil. I'm, I'm… I…
1:21:48
Phil: Alright, did we get the… 4 years old.
1:21:49
Tad Eggleston: Will the chocolate chip be there when we get bored?
1:21:52
Phil: Yeah, that's how you're getting it.
1:21:53
Tad Eggleston: Okay.
1:21:54
Phil: You're going on the chocolate boat?
1:21:55
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, we have to get there on the chocolate bow.
1:21:59
Phil: Yes.
1:22:00
Tad Eggleston: Well, I just wanted to make sure…
1:22:02
Tad Eggleston: I was gonna leave when we got off.
1:22:05
Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, that would be on Rose.
1:22:07
Phil: Huh? What?
1:22:08
Peter Eggleston Connor: I thought.
1:22:09
Tad Eggleston: That was on the Dread Pirate Roberts.
1:22:11
Peter Eggleston Connor: Isn't Rosa dread via Robert?
1:22:13
Tad Eggleston: No, Fezzik is the Dread Pilot Roberts.
1:22:16
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, that's right.
1:22:17
Phil: Yeah.
1:22:18
Phil: Who's just… who's just, like, clearly, obviously in love with Rose the way Wesley was with Buttercup.
1:22:25
Phil: That's why the only thing he says is, as you wish.
1:22:29
Peter Eggleston Connor: But I'm lost. Was Rose the captain, or is Fezik, as the Dreadkip Pirate Roberts, the captain?
1:22:36
Phil: I… Rose is the captain, yeah.
1:22:38
Peter Eggleston Connor: Okay.
1:22:39
Phil: Yeah.
1:22:39
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, it's up to Rope.
1:22:41
Phil: This is where, this is where, now that we've confirmed we're going to Ventville, so first of all, last episode, Tad had said hi to Luffy. The Luffy that's on the ship is, so you know how there's, like, a mermaid on the front of the boat beneath the,
1:22:54
Phil: Like, there's one of those, but with Luffy. Luffy's the masthead on the front of the boat. He is also the pirate pope of a pirate religion.
1:23:05
Peter Eggleston Connor: So, we should definitely not… chop that off and let him sink to the C. Bottom of the C.
1:23:11
Phil: Well, it's just chocolate, so it's not actually him, but it was just, like, you know, that was how he saw Luffy. Luffy is, again, the pope of all pirates in this world, a leader of the pirate religion, yeah.
1:23:25
Peter Eggleston Connor: Things I didn't know until now, because I missed last episode.
1:23:28
Phil: Right? Well, last episode, I just wanted to make it clear that Luffy was not sailing with us, but he is in the world somewhere. Much like Wesley.
1:23:36
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, so it's a, it's a, chocolate wood copy of Luffy.
1:23:42
Phil: Yeah, it's, like, well-marbled, you know, those sorts of things.
1:23:46
Peter Eggleston Connor: Sometime in the last 10 years since this world dropped into existence, he has become the pope of our religion.
1:23:52
Phil: Yeah, it didn't take very long.
1:23:54
Tad Eggleston: But, Amazing.
1:23:56
Peter Eggleston Connor: You don't have much history.
1:23:57
Tad Eggleston: The Pope is pretty active. Is he the Pope, or is he a saint?
1:24:02
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm pretty sure he's probably pretty active. I mean, he's loosey.
1:24:07
Phil: Yeah.
1:24:08
Peter Eggleston Connor: Gotta have a ship.
1:24:09
Phil: he's got a…
1:24:10
Peter Eggleston Connor: Probably still running around doing pirating.
1:24:13
Phil: He's got a Pope straw hat.
1:24:15
Tad Eggleston: Okay.
1:24:15
Phil: Or a straw popat, whichever you want to put it.
1:24:18
Tad Eggleston: Okay.
1:24:18
Phil: But yeah, yeah, so, so you go sailing. As you cross the, the boundary between, one side and the next, you're…
1:24:29
Phil: boat, you know, tips slightly as it realigns to the gravity, and you notice that the waters go from a clearer blue… they were a very dark blue, a very dark wine blue, but now they're even more murky. And as you go sailing deeper into the side, trees, you know, you basically start going from, like.
1:24:47
Phil: river to marsh, sort of. So as you drive, your, great pirate, like, Spanish galleon slowly, remorphs itself into, a bit of… like, one of those… one of those fan boats, that… to going through the wetlands.
1:25:03
Phil: Sort of thing. It's a very big one. It's a very, very big one. But, that's what you're… you're sailing on, more of a barge, you know. As you come in to, you know, there are these dark, these dark plants and, a wooden…
1:25:19
Phil: A wooden village setup where, you know, there are a few torches, but it's… it's… it's a… it's a world where it's always night, you know, and you can see
1:25:27
Phil: glowing red eyes and, and fangs, you know, amongst the people there. But again, they're, they're, they're, while, scary, they are not hostile, and this is a civilization where, you know, they realize that, hey.
1:25:42
Phil: the real enemy right now are the, pirate kaiju… er, not the pirates, but,
1:25:48
Phil: the… the, you know, the kaiju gods, and they're… they're not, you know, they're still… they're still vampire pirates, they still abide by pirate code, even if, you know, they… they disagree with the pirate pope right now, because they're vampires, so of course they hate Christianity.
1:26:02
Phil: That sort of thing. And you make your way into the tavern, what's a good… what's a good name for, like, a vampire bar?
1:26:12
Phil: You know, something…
1:26:18
Larry Woods: The last, the last drop, or the last drip.
1:26:21
Phil: The last trip? Okay. Then we're going to the last trip.
1:26:28
Phil: And as you walk in there, you know, it's a… your typical, dark, thuggy sort of, tavern, where, you know, there's… there's a bartender, vampire bartender, standing behind, polishing a…
1:26:44
Phil: Blood-stained glass that never gets any clearer.
1:26:49
Phil: And, you know, with these wayward passing adventures, you see there is a quest board. You know, sort of a glowing, interactive, like, you know, if this was a video game, it would be like a, hey, there's, you know, look at this!
1:27:03
Larry Woods: Important.
1:27:04
Phil: Exactly, yeah, yeah. There's, there's various,
1:27:08
Phil: information on there. And this is where… so… First of all, the first…
1:27:16
Phil: The first, you know, quest.
1:27:19
Phil: That, which I guess, you know…
1:27:22
Phil: You can add to these if you have ones. I mean…
1:27:27
Phil: Peter, I don't know if, Lex's question of what is this place was answered, or even answered enough, or is that still a quest? We're gonna go with what is this place?
1:27:37
Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, it's probably never… gonna be never-ending.
1:27:41
Phil: Yeah.
1:27:42
Peter Eggleston Connor: The, actual, reality of this place, which is…
1:27:48
Phil: I… I want to find a good way to establish…
1:27:53
Phil: the mentality of, like, hey, you are in a fantasy world so that, like, you're at least aware of the
1:28:02
Phil: die in the way that the characters in the graphic novel were, you know? But it's slightly different, because this is your first time here, and not like you were there as kids, and now you're back again.
1:28:10
Phil: So…
1:28:11
Phil: If we could get there one of these days, that'd be great. But on the quest board before you, there are, you know, a few…
1:28:19
Phil: cryptically named ones. One is called the Corpse of War. So, if you want to go find what happened to the corpse of the God of War, that is a quest.
1:28:30
Phil: There are a few other quests for summoning other god monsters. If you want to face the, the monster of the god of excess, you would participate in the Atrocity exhibition.
1:28:46
Phil: If you wanted to summon the, the God of Water, you would take up the quest to drown the world.
1:28:54
Phil: And if you wanted to make contact with the god of the underworld, you would perform the mortal coil shuffle.
1:29:02
Phil: All of these are different quests or activities that you would lead to. It's kind of a half…
1:29:09
Phil: hunting exhibition, half vision quest.
1:29:13
Phil: summoning ritual. That's how you would encounter these gods to fight. So there'd be various tasks to perform. And that's where you see that, at the very end of the board, there is a quest to summon the god of fire, and the name of it is simply, Burn This Place to the ground.
1:29:35
Phil: And that is just about where we would end this episode. Next time, you'll start by, you know, where we could quickly pick, right now, which type of quest you feel like going on next time, so we could set it up with a little bit more direction than we did this time. I'll reread these Savage Shores to drop as many, pirate vampire Easter eggs as I can in there.
1:29:55
Phil: All those good sorts of things. Yeah, and then if you wanna, you know.
1:30:00
Phil: Next time we… we set out on the path to fight to God.
1:30:05
Phil: The question at this point is which one?
1:30:10
Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, we already fought the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, so I feel like…
1:30:16
Phil: You joined the State Puff Marshmallow Man.
1:30:18
Tad Eggleston: Well, see, what I learned from Squirrel Girl is fights aren't always fights.
1:30:25
Phil: Mmm.
1:30:29
Tad Eggleston: So…
1:30:32
Phil: Admittedly, I haven't read Scroll Girl, so I don't know where you…
1:30:34
Tad Eggleston: Well, that's just silly of you.
1:30:36
Phil: I know.
1:30:37
Phil: One of the silliest things.
1:30:40
Phil: stars and wishes, I didn't know if anyone had anything. Peter, I'm sorry if I said I feel… I definitely forgot too much of our conversation, because I remember.
1:30:50
Peter Eggleston Connor: I wasn't entirely sure where you're going, and maybe you did or didn't, it's fine. I… I just,
1:31:00
Peter Eggleston Connor: I was a little confused, that's all. I mean…
1:31:02
Phil: Yeah, I… Unfortunately, realizing that's… it's… it's… It's all more, you know…
1:31:08
Peter Eggleston Connor: Honestly, it's… it's all good, but…
1:31:10
Phil: Okay, that's good.
1:31:11
Peter Eggleston Connor: I wouldn't worry too much about it. Like, I'm fairly open to however you want to do things. Most of the time, if there's any, like, hard boundaries, I'm probably gonna press them, but…
1:31:22
Phil: do it, yeah, no, I, I, again, this is… so, so, I was hoping… this is… this is one of the reasons why…
1:31:31
Phil: So that, that, that quest, Burn This Place to the Ground, is, gonna be on every quest board until you take it.
1:31:38
Phil: So… I mean, maybe that's a little bit… a little bit of a spoiler where I was going with there, but if we had gone to Pirate Town, it would have been the last quest on the board there, too. That said, not every quest is going to be available in every location, so, like.
1:31:53
Phil: exploring for the Corpse of War and the other gods that I mentioned, the God of Access and the… the underworld God, those… those do have quests from this board, so, yeah, if… if you had gone the other way, there would have been…
1:32:08
Phil: a few other quests to see and explore. So… so yeah, so it's… it's, really trying to…
1:32:16
Phil: get to that place of the… I originally envisioned of, like, hey, this is…
1:32:20
Phil: You know, a full-on freaking world that has pre-planned places and quests and things to do, and
1:32:28
Phil: all of that. That being said, again, I think next episode going into it, Lee, let me know if you… if you think, level 3 would be fair, or level 4.
1:32:41
Phil: kind of one of those where, like I said, I know you haven't gotten a chance to play with your toys very much, if at all, really, but,
1:32:50
Phil: You know, but definitely, you know, want, want you to, to not feel,
1:32:56
Phil: I mean, I think it's… I think power level is pretty high in Die, so I… hopefully you wouldn't feel too, like, you know, I'm trying to think of in D&D, of like, I don't want you to feel, squishy compared to everyone else, like, you won't be able to fight alongside them somehow.
1:33:10
Larry Woods: Yeah.
1:33:11
Larry Woods: Well, my initial reaction, and I'll say this, and maybe this is sort of capping myself, or handicapping myself, rather.
1:33:19
Larry Woods: given that I haven't really had much combat, which… I'm not necessarily asking for this, but obviously this will be fun anyway. Given that I haven't had a lot of combat to try out those toys, I think that would be a good sort of play to sort of see where I'm at, or how squishy I am. Nice. But, yeah, I did see that I did get a new gift.
1:33:38
Larry Woods: And I th- I have it written down.
1:33:41
Larry Woods: But I have to check with you to see what's in the…
1:33:44
Larry Woods: realm of being fair here, I have MI-assisted,
1:33:50
Phil: weaponry, right? So now my Colt 45 has much more…
1:33:55
Larry Woods: AI, or excuse me, MI enhancements. AI is derogatory.
1:34:00
Phil: That's true.
1:34:00
Tad Eggleston: Right!
1:34:02
Larry Woods: I had that written in my notes. So, by the way, Chad.
1:34:05
Larry Woods: You send me your email, man, I…
1:34:07
Phil: Huh.
1:34:08
Larry Woods: I have, I think I'm gonna try to… I have a Google Doc that I'll share with everybody.
1:34:14
Larry Woods: Just to see…
1:34:16
Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh.
1:34:17
Larry Woods: That's where I got.
1:34:17
Peter Eggleston Connor: I was thinking that.
1:34:19
Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, I'll say it off here. Anyhow.
1:34:23
Larry Woods: Oh, I guess we can all do our thing, that's cool too. But yeah, that would be my initial reaction is, I'll probably keep it pretty,
1:34:31
Larry Woods: Pretty simple, but yeah, I think it makes sense, just story-wise.
1:34:36
Phil: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think… well, that was your first… that was your first gift with the gun, was the… the MI-assisted targeting.
1:34:44
Larry Woods: But then…
1:34:45
Phil: So for Level 2, you can either pick a new gift, like a new, you know,
1:34:53
Phil: like, a different… a different, machine, or you can get an upgrade to the one you have. So that was… that was one of the things when, kind of.
1:35:01
Phil: looking at the skill tree, there are times where it says new gift, wherein that you can either pick an upgrade or a whole new gift, and then there are times where it's just an upgrade. So if you wanted to have the most diversity possible with the number of gifts, I think you can get up to, like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, you can get up to 6.
1:35:19
Phil: 7 with the interesting decision. So, so yeah, so it's just one of those where I'm like.
1:35:25
Phil: And of course, the Neos do also have a respec ability, which is quite interesting. But yeah, yeah, just wanted to, you know…
1:35:33
Larry Woods: Oh, thank you.
1:35:34
Phil: Yeah, and the way… the way I look at it is that anything… anything in the book is, is fair game, you know? There's… it's one of those where there's not really any abilities
1:35:46
Phil: in the gamebook that I'm scared of, or don't want people to use, it's one of those, if it's interesting to you, it's interesting to me, and we'll do something cool with it.
1:35:55
Larry Woods: Sounds good.
1:35:56
Phil: Damn.
1:35:59
Larry Woods: Yeah, I'll be in touch.
1:36:01
Larry Woods: Excellent.
1:36:02
Phil: Alright.
1:36:03
Phil: It sounds like that was about it. Unless anybody had anything else, wanted to speak now or forever, hold your peace.
1:36:12
Phil: With that, I… this is… this is where I'm like, Tad, Tad, you…
1:36:17
Phil: I can't do this. I can't do everything you do. You know, you're way too important to comics as a whole. I mean, you know, not only that, but you can't leave Paul Pope hanging tonight. You gotta get back out there.
1:36:28
Tad Eggleston: Well, okay, you're right. I'm not gonna leave Paul hanging. He was kind enough to fit me into his busy schedule.
1:36:36
Tad Eggleston: So, yeah, alright. Alright. There will be more 22 panels. It's not 22 panels no more. It's 22 panels and, and some, some, some dye in between.
1:36:49
Tad Eggleston: So, for Peter Lee.
1:36:54
Tad Eggleston: Jonathan and our marvelous Game Master, Phil, this has been 22 Panels, and we will see you after the next page.