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Hunter's Haven: Trick or Treat, Fight or Flee - Episode 0 · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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>> Skylar: M welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the session Zero
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Heroes podcast. My name is Skylar, but
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today my name doesn't really matter that much,
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because today I get to play in a game
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of Monster of the week
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as we are narrated and led
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by special guest game master
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Nate vagart. I said it, right?
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>> Cameron: Yes, you did.
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>> Skylar: Nailed it. Awesome. And, he's gonna be leading
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this special Halloween special. I said special
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twice. Halloween special. One shot of
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Monster of the week.
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>> Skylar: For us this Halloween season.
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>> Skylar: So sit back and enjoy as we get into the
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spookier zone. I can't say the twilight zone. That's
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already been done. The spookier zone of the
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holiday season.
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>> Skylar: Nate, take it away.
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>> Cameron: Hey, everybody. glad m to be here. Glad to get to run
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stuff. M I've played with a few of you guys in our
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dino themed one shot and really
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enjoyed it. I'm a big fan of monster of the week and powered by the
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apocalypse in general, so I'm looking forward to it.
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so, as I told our characters, and as
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I'm just opening for any of you, the
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listeners, this, is gonna be
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a pretty pg
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podcast. our players are playing
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tweendheheheheheheheheheheheheheh. you know, tween agers,
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whatever. You interpret that as, out to
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trick or treat. so
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we're gonna let our characters introduce themselves. They were
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given pre, made character sheets, that were made
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using, the online resources of monster of the
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week, a really cool resource that I got from
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the evilhat.com dot. I don't know if I should plug or not,
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but they have all of the monster of the week resources. So if you
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do want to dabble in this, after listening to the. The various
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things, there's a whole bunch of resources to jump into.
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That's just the one I happen to use when I need my online
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stuff. so I'm gonna introduce our
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characters really briefly, and then I'll let their players take it
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away with, some of the more personal
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details they have. So our first character
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I'm gonna introduce is Alex. Alex
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is a religious youth,
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who embodies a heroic spirit. they believe
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that they have been chosen to protect the innocent,
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and champion the cause of good against any malevolent
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forces that they may threaten. They may threaten their
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friends. So, Alex, if you want to really
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quickly tell us what your trick or treating costume is.
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>> Cameron: Yeah, I had one idea, and then you said it
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was really religious, and I'm like, okay, hold on.
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I was originally thinking, like, he's really into old,
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like, Sci-Fi stuff. I thought you were gonna say,
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like, he's gonna do
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Robocop, but now you.
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>> Cameron: Say religion, it'd actually be funnier to see Pastor
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Robocop.
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>> Skylar: I was gonna say.
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>> Cameron: I swear.
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>> Skylar: You were gonna say, like, bill Gaither, something
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like that. There's the most
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secure, lucky character from veggie tales.
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>> Cameron: Wow.
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>> Cameron: That would be.
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>> Cameron: Oh, my gosh.
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>> Skylar: Bible man. Just be Bible man.
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>> Cameron: I was thinking a knight. So if I was Bible
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man, I.
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>> Skylar: Put on the sword of the
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spirit.
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>> Cameron: I actually love that idea. I'm Bible.
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No one knows who Bible man is.
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>> Cameron: That. Is that because that's the only costume your parents would let you
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have? Yes.
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>> Cameron: He wanted to be a superhero. Like, he.
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He likes comics, but, like, they never.
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>> Skylar: Wanted him.
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>> Cameron: But he has to, like, secretly read them
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because they only give him, like, the
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bible man comics. So that's what
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he reads, like when they're around, but when it's late at night
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under the sheets, he's reading, like, his spider man
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is Matt man. He really likes
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daredevil. Interesting.
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But devils would never.
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>> Skylar: Which is the word devil in it.
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>> Cameron: That's part of the reason that drew him to it was. It said
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devil in it. I was like, ooh. And I started reading. He's like, hey, this
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isn't that bad. It's like he was expecting, like, you
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know, like, hell. Right, racers?
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>> Cameron: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: Hellboy.
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>> Cameron: Hellboy.
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>> Cameron: Like. Like, when he saw it, he's expecting
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Hellboy. Yeah, but no, it's just a dude who's
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line. He's like, oh, this is sick.
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>> Cameron: Right.
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>> Cameron: So Bible man's basically
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daredevil, but with vision, so.
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>> Cameron: Okay.
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>> Cameron: And he can.
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>> Skylar: He's Batman with a little
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lightsaber.
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>> Cameron: You're right. He's.
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>> Cameron: Just to be clear, your characters literally,
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your, all your weapons and such are literally going to be just
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Bible man stuff. So you.
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>> Cameron: Yeah, I've got the plastic armor, the cheap
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plastic shield and everything, and the cheap Bible
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man lightsaber, which is basically, like, your
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typical toy lightsaber, but it's just. I think it's
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purple because this whole suits, like, a purplish
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blue yellow.
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>> Skylar: I think it, like.
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>> Cameron: It's like a purplish gold tone, I believe. But
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a lot of years, we're all looking up Bible man.
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>> Skylar: It's like a yellow lights here. It's like a yellow glow lights.
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Yeah.
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>> Cameron: He's got a purple and gold tone theme.
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>> Skylar: Yeah. That's
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amazing.
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>> Cameron: I mean, just to be clear, we've had Bible man and Bill Gaither mentioned.
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>> Skylar: So far, so we got to know.
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>> Cameron: There was an animated show.
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>> Skylar: What is that, new?
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>> Skylar: Gotta go check that out.
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>> Cameron: I don't know.
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>> Skylar: Everybody get on right now. Media. It's got to be on.
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>> Cameron: Okay, well, that's enough about Bible
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man.
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>> Cameron: We're really catering to a certain audience right now.
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>> Cameron: You said pg, so I went full
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pg.
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>> Skylar: My character guardian tells me that I'm only
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allowed to watch Bible.
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>> Cameron: We're plugging into a new demographic.
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>> Skylar: It's exactly what this podcast needs.
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>> Cameron: All right, so when it comes to the crunchy part of this,
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if and when that happens, we'll just figure that out based on, like, what you're
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character, of course, like, the harm plus and whatever. Like, don't worry about that.
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I'll tell you, that's just gonna be one of your, like, one of the things that
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has. So don't worry about that part of it. But just any of that stuff.
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Just picture yourself as Bible man.
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>> Cameron: Okay.
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>> Cameron: All right, so we're gonna come next to our second
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character, and, that's gonna be Maya. Now,
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Maya is a quirky and surprisingly
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knowledgeable friend with an uncanny affinity for
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anything supernatural. Her mind is
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brimming with tales of strange occurrences, both
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legendary and bizarre, making her an essential guide
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through tonight's adventures. So, Maya, tell us about
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yourself.
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>> Skylar: what's the intro to every time Mikayla talks on this
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podcast?
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>> Mikayla: well, I had a different idea, but I don't know if it
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works.
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>> Cameron: Well, we made Bible.
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>> Skylar: I had my costume idea, like, a month,
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two months ago. Where have you guys all been?
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>> Mikayla: well, I told you I had an idea, but the
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backstory I had for it, I don't think really fits with the
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character's description.
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>> Skylar: Corset, like a puzzle piece that doesn't go together.
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>> Mikayla: Okay, here's what I really wanted to do.
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Okay, so you
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know Kim possible?
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>> Cameron: Yes.
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>> Mikayla: I was gonna be Rufus.
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>> Cameron: I knew you were going there. I knew you were going
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in there. Imagine Kim possible. Imagine
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the rag. What are you talking about?
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>> Mikayla: This works.
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>> Cameron: You're a quirky kid. Yeah, right.
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>> Mikayla: But he said I'm gonna be, like, the main.
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>> Cameron: Okay, yeah, Rufus is the main
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character.
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>> Cameron: What are you talking about?
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>> Skylar: What have you been watching?
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>> Mikayla: Here's the thing. I am Rufus
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because my group of who I think are
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really great friends, they're all like, you know, Kim possible
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and Ron and Bible
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Manda, and I
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got wrapped into being the naked mole
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rat.
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>> Skylar: Wait, so you didn't even want to be?
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>> Mikayla: Well, that was just what was left over, and I think it's a cool
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option, but, like, you couldn't have done. I'm more naive. M
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I'm more naive to the fact.
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>> Cameron: Wait, she go.
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>> Skylar: She go. Sorry, you're right.
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>> Mikayla: you know, I'm thinking, oh, I gotta be, like, the cool,
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you know, sidekick
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character. I think it's cool. My friends are laughing
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behind my back.
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>> Cameron: What's your carrot costume? Just a naked.
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>> Skylar: How did you put it together? Tell us what the makeup looks like.
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>> Mikayla: I was gonna say, say I would get, like, a nude colored
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dress, you know, make it a little more,
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I don't know, more, preteen y, I guess.
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Preteen. And then I would probably wear
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bald cap just to commit in
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some fake.
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>> Cameron: Just be clear. So you're basically in a potato sack and a swim cap.
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>> Skylar: I was gonna swear.
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>> Mikayla: Butt teeth. Basically.
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>> Skylar: I'd be terrified if you tried to make it sexy
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and, you know, like.
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>> Mikayla: The hillbilly buck teeth, you know?
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>> Cameron: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: Also, you have fake teeth on, too.
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>> Cameron: Yeah.
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>> Skylar: Oh, are you.
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>> Skylar: Fair?
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>> Mikayla: Rufus doesn't really talk that much, so.
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>> Cameron: He talks like that in the show.
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>> Cameron: So I'm fully expecting your character to just be in the
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back mumbling different monster
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facts through buck teeth. You're gonna have to
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consciously tell us if you're taking them off
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or something.
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>> Skylar: And put them in your lips so that you have a retainer.
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>> Cameron: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: This is a great start.
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>> Cameron: I'm excited.
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>> Skylar: This is gonna be hilarious.
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>> Cameron: Sorry.
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>> Cameron: Really quick aside, monster Week is not about the
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person running monster of the week. It's about the characters and what they
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do. That's the beauty of it. Unlike D and D, where it's so
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DM centered, this. This game really just exists for the players,
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and the DM is everything they're not, like, just
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fills the other void. So, I don't know. The more fun
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you have with your character, the more fun I get to have with just
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random stuff that you run into. Oh, yeah. and again. And have to build
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around. It's very much more of, like, almost an improv comedy game versus,
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you know, a scheduled written out, you know.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: Game, plan, which is the fun of it, the difference between that and d and
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d and stuff. So going to our next
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one. we're going to James. James
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is a dedicated horror movie buff, whose
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encyclopedic knowledge of folklore and monster hunting
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weapons him with useful insights and strategies
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for overcoming whatever challenges lie ahead. Now, you're gonna
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notice that's pretty similar to Maya in some ways.
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you know, maybe, you know, I'll be
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interested to see what differentiation you guys make from each other,
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because both of you are supposed to know stuff, but, like, why do you know
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stuff? What do you know? How do you know what's gonna probably come out
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pretty interesting?
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>> Skylar: I think, just describing my character is probably gonna point
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out the major difference between the two of us.
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so James Rodriguez is a Malgoth,
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and he tugs like this. And
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his costume that he's wearing this Halloween
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is the crow
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from the movie the crow.
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And so, yeah, which is funny, because, honestly,
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his normal attire is obviously the classic black
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with, like, black eyeliner. Like, everything's black. He dyes his hair
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black. Sometimes he'll do, like, some. Some highlight bits in there that
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are, like, red or blue, but it's always kind of that dark,
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gothy theme. So the crow was kind of a no brainer.
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He really didn't even have to do, like, that much to his whole look
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as it is. just put on, like, a lot. An excess of
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white, like, makeup and stuff and.
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Yeah, that's, that's what he does. He loves horror. his
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parents, I like to think his parents don't
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know how much he watches. Like, when
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it says. Because you said you have, like, a. There's a home theater, which I think
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is his dad put in for, like, watching football and stuff.
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And then whenever his parents aren't home, he's popping a
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dvd that he got from a friend or some. Or, you know,
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got from blockbuster or something like that, and watching,
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some horror movie that he's technically not allowed to be watching.
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Same with the crow. You should not have watched the crow. That's.
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That's rated rhino. But he did.
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>> Cameron: I don't. I don't think.
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>> Cameron: This is into the two. This is a childhood you
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imagine either. So. Childhood, you imagine not the
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childhood you had.
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>> Cameron: Okay.
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>> Cameron: That works a lot better for us, cuz.
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>> Skylar: Cuz James has a lot of punk songs he's
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gonna be referencing throughout this. So.
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>> Cameron: So it's. You really heard nineties to
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2000. 2000. Okay.
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>> Skylar: Got the rest of the day listening to a nineties
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2000 exclusive. Punk pop
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playlists.
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>> Mikayla: To be honest, most of us remember the two thousands more
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than we would memorize.
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>> Cameron: Yeah, that's really sad to hear. I remember
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nothing.
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>> Mikayla: I mean, I was born in 95, so. But, I mean,
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there wasn't, like, that.
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>> Skylar: Much to experience as an infant during the nineties,
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but the two thousands, definitely.
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>> Mikayla: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: Some of us were born in 90, so we were very little.
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>> Skylar: You were a lot hunter were you.
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>> Cameron: Even born in the nineties? That was more 98.
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>> Skylar: I am this kid. 90s gibbon riz on the other end of the
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table here.
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>> Cameron: See?
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>> Mikayla: And Maya's knowledge probably comes more from, like, the fantasy
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books.
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>> Skylar: See, Maya's the reaper jeans, the
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watchers.
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>> Cameron: Yeah, mine's the Bible.
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You guys heard about that Samson guy? Pretty cool
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fella.
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>> Skylar: What did he do? Did he kill a whole bunch of people?
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>> Cameron: Oh, yeah. This dude sounds good.
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>> Skylar: Metal.
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>> Cameron: Hold the roof down on him.
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>> Skylar: I don't know what that. Is that a metaphor?
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>> Cameron: Literalism. Literal? Really?
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Yeah. I would not
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actually was thinking Samson. And then Skyler mentioned bible man. I was like,
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100% bible man.
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>> Cameron: Like, Samson brings a different
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vibe.
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>> Cameron: I was thinking my character was nerdy, and so Samson is just
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like, it didn't feel right. I was thinking the first thing
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I thought of when I read this was a night, but I was like,
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okay, night. Yeah, but so when he said religious, he said
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bible man. Like, oh, done. That's like a knight. It's literally a
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night. So I was like, it fit me perfectly.
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>> Skylar: Nate, I will say one thing that I was a little bit concerned about. You
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mentioned, that we have whatever our costume would
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realistically suggest. And, the crow carries
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a. 44 magnum revolver.
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I wasn't sure where he wanted to rule on that. It's probably a nerf guy.
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>> Cameron: Parents wouldn't leave. Yeah, it's a nerf gun.
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>> Cameron: It's a nerf guy, and he's.
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>> Skylar: He personally spray painted it black.
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>> Cameron: Yeah, but your dad actually got mad about it and made you put the orange tip
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back onto it. Yeah, exactly.
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>> Skylar: Said you're not taking that to school.
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Absolutely not.
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>> Cameron: We're not having a repeat.
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>> Cameron: No.
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>> Cameron: We're not having a repeat of 6th grade.
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>> Skylar: No. It's funny
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you say that, because I did have this whole idea that James is actually pretty new in
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town.
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Whether it's an issue involving James himself or just,
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like, his dad had to move them, or whatever the case. Yeah. James is. James is
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fairly new in town.
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>> Cameron: Okay. So there was actually
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some other characters that I. That I made that were built around
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some other different play sheets. They were a little bit more,
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like they're doing ones that people made. And I decided
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not to go with it because I just wanted to keep it really basic. But one of them is
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the troublemaker. Yeah. So the entire theme of was a
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prankster that. That just does weird stuff.
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And it would always kind of like a, like a bag of tricks kind of thing.
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Like, always has the thing he needs to, like, do something
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stupid.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: but I didn't. But that character actually fits pretty well with some
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of that idea of, you know,
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this guy.
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>> Skylar: This guy.
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>> Cameron: And that brings us to our last
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character. Probably in some ways our least character.
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But I assume will be our most fun character.
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that's a joke about the character. Class of mundane. but
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this is Ella. So, Ella, introduce yourself.
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>> Cameron: Oh, Ella doesn't get a backstory.
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>> Cameron: Oh.
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>> Cameron: Oh, sorry.
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>> Skylar: I apologize.
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>> Cameron: I was gonna let you do your.
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>> Cameron: That's how mundane she is.
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>> Cameron: Ella sucks.
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>> Cameron: there's these three interesting characters, and then there's
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Ella.
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>> Mikayla: You gotta have some ballads. Come on.
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>> Cameron: Dear leaders, dear listeners. Please listen to this
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background. And you tell us in the comments wherever you so choose
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to comment. Does Ella actually suck?
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Ella is a self proclaimed skeptic. Who
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craves a typical Halloween filled with
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candy and fun. Her grounded nature
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might provide balance to the chaos. But she also
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finds herself questioning everything that
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happens around them.
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>> Cameron: So she's the straight man of the group.
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>> Cameron: Yeah, Ella definitely, just wants things
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to be normal. Why can't they be normal?
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>> Cameron: Please let this be.
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>> Skylar: Ella Holland is a solid balance to
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this situation. I'm excited for it.
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I agree with Nate. Ella does not suck. Ella is
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perfect for this situation. And Ella is an assessment.
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>> Cameron: And in some ways, Ella's the friend you need. Right? you do
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like crazy weird stuff. And you're your average twelve year old.
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And you need a friend to be like, hey, I don't really want to get in
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trouble.
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>> Skylar: Ella, get. Don't go for me.
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>> Cameron: Spooky Halloween.
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>> Cameron: So, Ella, tell us about yourself. What's your costume
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and etcetera?
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>> Cameron: Well, I imagine Ella as now that you
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mentioned her very milquetoast
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backstory. I, imagine her
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as like a really kind of whiny sort
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of kind of like, what's his name?
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Arnold from magic school bus.
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>> Cameron: That kind of kid.
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>> Cameron: And on that same vein, I thought.
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>> Mikayla: You were gonna say the train guy from Polar Express.
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>> Cameron: Oh, no, no, no. He's nerdy.
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Arnold's like the whiny nerd.
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>> Cameron: Ah.
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>> Cameron: And in that same vein, she is in a Miss frizzle
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costume. Complete
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with Barbell and four
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olympic weights on each side. Cause Miss
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Frizzle very famously was
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benching 405 for
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reps in the magic school bus.
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>> Cameron: Really?
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>> Cameron: She is canonically yoked.
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So she's got this big Miss Frizzle wig.
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I would imagine that she's
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speaks in guys. I don't know,
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that kind of this sort of voice. Either that or
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valley girl. I can only do two, really
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voices for a girl. For a girl.
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Like, whatever. Guys like, I
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don't know.
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>> Cameron: You're just gonna have to pick one lock.
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>> Cameron: I feel like, as a skeptic, she's gonna be the valley girl.
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The skeptical valley girl.
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>> Cameron: Okay.
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>> Cameron: Do you have a toy lizard?
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>> Skylar: Yes.
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>> Cameron: Okay.
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>> Skylar: Toy lizard.
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>> Cameron: She's like Shelsie from fishhooks.
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Girl, you just dropped something. My
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jaw.
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That is going to be Ella
18:03
Gray.
18:04
>> Skylar: I love that.
18:05
>> Cameron: All right, so just to get you some intro,
18:08
because, you know, each of us has a character. Each of us has a costume.
18:11
I was actually, I'm actually going to ad libbing this. So I'm going to
18:14
go. If you guys flip over your sheets, you're going to find in
18:17
there. There's a little section quickly, about history.
18:20
so I realized here that each of you guys has a
18:23
pretty cool story. something that you kind of came up with on the
18:26
fly. One of the great things about monster of the week, but
18:29
we haven't really established, like, why we're together.
18:32
You know, I'm starting you together. You're about to start trick or treating.
18:35
But, in the history section, monster week, there is a
18:38
short little ability, to go around as a group.
18:40
Now, on each of your turns. And we'll come back from the
18:43
top, going from, Alex and I
18:46
want you to pick one of these. So just really quickly, I'm
18:49
going to read through them. Just give a quick overview of what these backgrounds can
18:52
be. But one of them is your close blood relations. Ask them exactly how
18:55
close. So the way this would work in play would
18:58
be, Alex would say, all right, I'm cousins
19:01
with, or I am related to you. And then the person that
19:04
you, you say that to says, okay, and we're cousins.
19:06
Like, so it's a two part, you know, a two part way of making a
19:09
connection with each other. The next one would be, they're destined to be your
19:12
mentor. Tell them how this was revealed. It seems kind of
19:14
weird, but, you know, go with it if you need to. your best friend
19:17
in the world who you trust. Totally. so, you know, you could. You get to say,
19:20
now, the fun part about that is you get to say, they're your best friend. They don't have to
19:23
agree. so if you're the one friend that maybe is a little more
19:26
attached than the others, the next one is arrival at first, but you
19:29
come to a working arrangement. romantic entanglement,
19:32
maybe stay away. It's a PG, you know, it's a PG podcast.
19:35
Just friends from school or work or something. Ask them what
19:38
you know. How do you know each other? maybe you do karate together. I don't
19:41
know. They could have been the chosen one instead of you, but they failed
19:44
some trial. That seems a little heavy. Maybe we're not trying to find
19:46
Halloween. Jesus. I don't know. I
19:49
don't know. Bobbleman might be, You
19:52
saved their life back when they didn't know monsters were real. Or are
19:55
they? Tell them what you saved them from. So I
19:58
will start off the top with Alex. Alex, pick one of these
20:01
and just establish a background quickly.
20:04
>> Cameron: One of the ones you named or one from my.
20:05
>> Cameron: Just one from your sheet. So I went through. Just real quick, I went through the
20:08
sheet of the chosen. The chosen is obviously a pretty, you know, heavy
20:11
one. each character is going to have a slightly different version of
20:14
that with their own kind of background. I want you to follow what
20:17
it says on the sheet.
20:18
>> Cameron: You want me to pick one for each member?
20:20
>> Cameron: No, just pick one person. Just, you know, you're gonna be interconnected.
20:23
>> Cameron: They're the person you go to for advice on mortal
20:25
stuff. and so it gives me some examples of very adult
20:28
theme stuff. But I'm gonna go with the comic book theme, and I'm gonna
20:31
go with Skyler's character,
20:33
James. James. Because, I can't
20:36
get comic books. But how do I get these comic books? Well, the
20:39
punk kid who's allowed to watch rated r movies also likes
20:42
comic books and thinks it's really cool
20:45
they giving daredevil
20:47
comics to the christian kid.
20:50
>> Skylar: Let me slide it. Let me slide a couple.
20:51
>> Cameron: Just be clear. I'm pretty sure most semi
20:54
religious middle schoolers probably have this friend.
20:57
>> Skylar: Yeah.
20:57
>> Cameron: Gives them access to stuff.
20:58
>> Cameron: Yeah, exactly. But on the flip, he
21:01
also think he sees, James as,
21:04
like, a little too
21:07
edgy. And he's like, I need to save him
21:09
because I'm clearly not a Christian. So, like, he needs
21:12
me. Yeah, him the way, the truth.
21:15
But I need him for comic books.
21:18
>> Cameron: He needs Jesus, but I need daredevil.
21:21
>> Cameron: Exactly.
21:23
>> Cameron: All right. I love it. so that takes us to
21:26
our next character. Maya, pick, one of the ones from your sheet.
21:29
read it and tell us who it is, how it
21:32
applies, and as you're doing. Yeah. Make sure to make a little
21:35
note of who that relationship is with just so you have an idea.
21:38
Again, this doesn't have to fit everybody. It just has to fit one other
21:40
person. The. The weird little things that bind you all together.
21:44
>> Skylar: These are pretty interpretive yeah, like, at the end of the day, it's like
21:47
it can say one thing and you can kind of, like,
21:50
adjust the interpretation of it.
21:52
>> Cameron: Guys, we're playing pretend on the radio with our. With.
21:54
>> Skylar: Yeah, exactly.
21:55
>> Cameron: Friends to acquaintances. It's okay. We can make other stuff.
21:58
>> Cameron: Yes.
21:59
>> Cameron: And we can make more stuff up.
22:02
>> Mikayla: I'm gonna say that I'm gonna go with the
22:05
old friends who originally met through a long chain of
22:07
coincidences.
22:08
>> Cameron: Okay.
22:09
>> Mikayla: I'm gonna say that with, Ella.
22:12
Because I feel like our chain
22:15
of coincidences were, you know, like
22:18
my friends at school. There was no room
22:21
at the table, so me and Ella sat next to each other. Cause Ella's kind of
22:24
boring and people. You know what I mean?
22:27
>> Skylar: You're telling me.
22:28
>> Mikayla: We were kind of like the outcast together, you know?
22:31
>> Skylar: Okay.
22:32
>> Mikayla: Just different coincidences led us together of,
22:34
you know, my friends were like, oh, sorry we didn't have room at
22:37
the table for you today. Or, I don't know,
22:40
meet up with. I don't think the library would work. Maybe it
22:43
would, but I don't know. Just things
22:46
like that.
22:47
>> Cameron: So who's actually the cooler? Like,
22:50
who do you think is the cooler one between the two of you?
22:52
>> Skylar: Me, no question.
22:55
>> Cameron: Ella. Who does Ella think is the cooler between the two of you? Ella's
22:58
the cooler one. She's so
23:00
cool.
23:01
>> Cameron: someone else came to sit with her.
23:03
>> Mikayla: There you go.
23:04
>> Cameron: She didn't have to go chase him.
23:07
And then we talked about, like, model trains
23:10
and, you know, the perfect temperature to cook
23:14
toast at. You know, everything
23:16
is exciting as toast.
23:19
And she kept coming back.
23:21
>> Mikayla: Yeah.
23:22
>> Cameron: Yeah, exactly.
23:25
>> Mikayla: I just like it.
23:27
>> Skylar: Yeah. Toast.
23:28
>> Cameron: Yeah.
23:28
>> Cameron: Oh, yeah. Butter. Oh, yeah.
23:31
>> Cameron: You know, like, butter fry is different on bread than, like,
23:34
mayonnaise.
23:36
>> Skylar: Olive oil.
23:37
>> Cameron: Wow.
23:38
>> Cameron: Yeah, a lot, of interesting stuff.
23:42
>> Cameron: Okay. I'm really loving that little that you can do after
23:45
everything. You should probably just keep.
23:48
>> Cameron: It's like you're unsure about what you just
23:50
said. Like, if that's a conscious decision
23:53
of.
23:53
>> Cameron: A character, I think you need to amp that up even more. I love
23:56
it. so in interest, we'll keep moving.
23:59
James, tell us about your
24:02
random connection.
24:04
>> Skylar: All right, so I got mine picked out, but one at a time. One at a time.
24:07
they once helped you get a singular item that is now part of your
24:10
haven. Tell them what it is. So, first of all, I'm gonna
24:12
pick Maya as the other kind of quirky, weird
24:15
person. it was a my
24:18
chemical romance cd that I
24:21
couldn't get. Cause my parents were keeping a pretty close eye on me.
24:24
But it had just come out, and it was a really big deal. Like,
24:27
I'm not gonna not listen to the black parade
24:30
for hours on end over and over and over again. Like
24:33
every other mall goth that I'm hanging out with, which
24:35
isn't any. I don't think there's any malgos in this group.
24:38
But I go to the mall and I pretend that I'm hanging out with
24:41
other malga. Set the hot topic there.
24:43
>> Skylar: I don't know.
24:44
>> Skylar: I probably just talk to the employees anyways, so.
24:46
Yeah, so Maya made sure that I got ahold
24:49
of that. My chemical romance cd. And so
24:52
I really appreciate her for that. And, yeah,
24:55
and I think on occasion we maybe bond a little bit
24:58
over some pop punk music.
25:01
>> Mikayla: Yeah.
25:02
>> Cameron: And that brings us to, again, not least, but
25:04
last, Ella, what's your
25:07
connection to somebody else other than the pre existing lunch
25:10
connection?
25:10
>> Cameron: Other than good friends with, Maya?
25:13
>> Cameron: Good, good friends.
25:16
We're great friends.
25:17
>> Skylar: She's concerned.
25:18
>> Cameron: We're best friends.
25:20
>> Cameron: I don't grabbling and just.
25:22
>> Cameron: Yeah, I don't think that any of those would really actually work. So
25:25
I would like to think that myself
25:28
and Alex over here.
25:30
Okay, we're just like. I think we're
25:33
blood related. I'm just his super
25:36
boring cousin that he has to
25:39
be around. Otherwise, like, his mom is
25:42
gonna just chew him out. It's like, if you're gonna
25:44
go trick or treating, you better take Ella with
25:47
you.
25:48
>> Mikayla: She doesn't have many friends.
25:50
>> Cameron: She doesn't have many friends. Just be nice. Just let
25:53
her come with you. You'll survive. It's one night.
25:55
>> Cameron: That kind of deal.
25:56
>> Skylar: I love the idea that Alex sees her
25:59
as, It's just like that girl from,
26:02
arrested development. Which just completely
26:05
forgets about, Ella's existence
26:07
constantly.
26:09
>> Cameron: Oh, so I'm George Michael. You're George forgetting about
26:12
his girlfriend, what's her name? I keep
26:15
digging.
26:15
>> Cameron: Mayo egg.
26:21
>> Skylar: Like Elizabeth or something. I don't know.
26:24
That's the funny thing about it.
26:29
He's just like, who? And she's like, ella.
26:31
>> Cameron: Where's Ella? Oh.
26:36
Which is funny because, I was thinking for Halloween as well, for
26:39
the. What got me on the script is I really wanted to go to hollow trick or
26:42
treating. But, like, this is the early two
26:45
thousands. So this is when trick or treating with christians is,
26:48
like, still, like, kind of iffy. Kind of
26:50
iffy and stuff. But, like, my
26:53
like, I think of him as my best friend. James
26:57
really is. Like, he keeps every year tells me about trick
26:59
or treat all the candy and stuff. And, like, the idea of dressing up as a
27:02
superhero is, like, that's, like, the dream for
27:05
Alex. And so come Halloween time, he's begging his parents.
27:08
Begging his parents, please let me go trick training. Please let me go trick or
27:10
treating. And they're like, fine, but
27:14
only if you can represent God in
27:17
some way. Be the light. And I'm like, I'll be
27:20
Bible man. So I'm
27:23
a win win. I'm a beacon in the darkness, so, no,
27:25
whatever. And then they're like, and then bring Ella too.
27:28
And I'm like, okay, fine. I got two
27:30
stipulations.
27:31
>> Mikayla: I'm fine.
27:32
>> Cameron: I'll take both of them. So that's how I got in with
27:35
James on Halloween. I had to take Ella. but I get
27:38
to be Bible man. And then, I don't know how we
27:40
insert.
27:41
>> Cameron: So is Maya just hanging out with Ella? So you just come along?
27:45
>> Mikayla: Yeah, basically.
27:47
>> Skylar: Yeah.
27:47
>> Cameron: Yeah.
27:47
>> Skylar: I was gonna say, either you're hanging out with Ella or else. Yeah.
27:50
Might have had a connection or something. Just because, like I said, I feel like,
27:53
to some extent, we're friends after the. My chemical romance CD
27:56
situation. So.
27:57
>> Cameron: So really cool thing with this. And something that comes out
27:59
of monster of the week when you do this is, without
28:02
having to force it, everyone kind of builds these bonds.
28:05
So you look at this, four people. Everyone has two bonds to
28:08
another character. That just kind of happened organically.
28:11
Right. There's a reason why these kids are together, and it's not forced,
28:14
but it's not, you know, it's just.
28:16
>> Cameron: It might be forced for tool.
28:17
>> Cameron: Yeah, it's forced. It's narrative. It might be
28:20
forced, you know, by character decision, but it's not narratively forced.
28:23
Right. This is a completely normal group of pre teens that would be forced to
28:26
go spend a few hours together on Halloween. so, you
28:28
know, not to, you know, push it too hard. But that's one of the fun
28:31
things with this game, right? Like, it sets itself up to breathe a little
28:34
bit. so with all that being said, we've
28:37
introduced our characters. You know, we know how they've been, you know,
28:40
interconnected with each other. We kind of have an idea where their costumes
28:43
are. Again, not getting too heavy with the crunchy stuff or, you know,
28:45
any of the other stuff you can get into if you want to. But
28:49
we are. And I'm going to read kind of the setting, introduction
28:52
this.
28:52
>> Skylar: Oh, yeah.
28:53
>> Cameron: So, this is, you know, act one. You know, this
28:56
whole one shot is called trick ah. Or treat
28:58
fearfully. So the setting is, you know, you're a regular
29:01
suburban town during Halloween night. you know, shadows loom
29:04
larger than life, and every corner beckons with the promise
29:06
of adventure. So as the sun
29:09
dips below the horizon, the scent of fallen
29:12
leaves mixes with the crisp, chill air of October
29:15
that dances playfully along the streets of, the
29:18
vibrant hues of Jack o lanterns flickering to life, painting
29:21
the darkening world in glowing shades of orange and
29:24
yellow. You and your friends glad in ghostly
29:26
costumes, excitement bubbling within you, set
29:29
out for your night of trick or treating. This year,
29:32
however, feels peculiar. Is it
29:35
that you are each a year older? finding yourself closer
29:38
to being too cool for trick or treating? Is it
29:41
the extra tales whispered among
29:43
children and adults about a local legend of a haunted
29:46
house? Is it the local
29:49
troublemaker, the, local busybody, Miss
29:51
Douglas, who is a not quite
29:54
octogenarian, but you have no idea how old. She's just
29:56
old that tells everyone that, you know,
29:59
oh, trick or treating is getting more dangerous. Every time
30:02
you hear about it. She has a different story about something bad that happened to
30:05
somebody and to her, you know, every time
30:08
she talks to your parents, it seems like she's saying, well, maybe we should
30:11
just tone it down this year.
30:26
>> Skylar: Thank you all for joining us for another episode of our
30:29
2024 Halloween season one shot
30:32
continuing our annual tradition of our hunter's
30:34
Haven Monster of the week series, we hope you're
30:37
enjoying it. If you are, we encourage you to check out some of our other
30:40
series, such as our avatar Legends long term
30:43
campaign benders and bruise, which is set in the world
30:46
of the Last Airbender, or our dungeons and
30:48
dragons long term series criminals of Isla
30:51
numis. If youre looking for more spooky
30:53
Halloween fun, you can check out last years Hunter
30:56
Haven series Music Mayhem, which was written and
30:59
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