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World is Coming With Josh from Ghost Galaxy · Archons Corner

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  The legend rives job all right, what's going on? Everybody? I am
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  the one, the only, the w oh okay. I joined here by
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  the normal cast of misfits. We got the Ewokyist of Ewok's Ewok Jr.
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  Hello, keyboard community, glad to be here. We have the human reverb
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  Machine, Big Z because he doesn't know how to turn his speakers down.
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  What I don't even know what it's for like four years? The words you
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  just said are heard your speakers off? See what speakers? Speakers coming through?
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  Somebody's got reverb. We have our resident pH D doctor Sheep, still
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  dumb. We have the Choke Show, Daz Corps. Hey guys, I'm
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  going and the Elf from the South Southerly Special guests this week joining us for
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  a little I guess Q and A. It's not really how this went,
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  but Jay Swah, I have come here to chew bubble gum and talk about
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  key Forge, and I'm all out of bubble gum. A nice rowdy roddy
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  piper reference. I like it. How when will key Forge just evolve into
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  a wrestling game? Hasn't it already? I mean TCR already got that on
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  lock right, pretty much I'm just carrying a belt. We just need the
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  the now, the spinner belt. Can we get a spinner belt? Get
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  on that sheep, make that happen. I'm with see here. I don't
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  understand any of these words. You are saying. All right, a bit
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  more, this is going to be on park. I'm assuming Rowdy Roddy Piper
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  is a wrestler. That's something he said, Yes, Rowdy Roddy Piper was
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  a wrestler back in the eighties and early nineties. He also did I can't
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  remember the name of the movie that's from now and it's a classic. If
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  you can't remember the name, I always forget about it. But he gets
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  a pair of glasses and he realizes everyone's aliens. No, it's called They
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  Live. They Lived. Yeah, I always forget the name of it.
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  That's that's where that comes from. The wrestling thing I know is something with
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  a bout and thunder and a big blonde guy, Hulk Hogan. You tell
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  me that's I mean, there's lots of big blonde men. Oh, you're
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  talking about mister ass now, Now I do know. Josh is a big
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  fan of the ass man. Billy bad What a bad ass? Billy gun
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  All right, I'm gonna see me talking bad about Billy Gunn. Billy Gunn
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  was terrible, it's still terrible. But anyways, this isn't the wrestling show.
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  This is one hundred percent a key Forge podcast. So we've in typical
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  ac fashion, we threw this all together extremely last minute because that's what we
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  do. And we got some questions. So first up, everybody is dying
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  to know, Josh, how's Janet doing these days? She won't return my
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  emails, my text my calls. Well, Wookie, that's because Janet's busy.
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  She's working on important things. But she's doing good. She's doing good.
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  She's really thriving, and you know, leading the office in a great
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  direction, perfect perfect. Did you know Janet spreads all the dirt on everybody?
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  No coment? Ah, Well, let's just say we heard you hold
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  the record for longest bathroom break at GG. That's what Janet has told us.
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  Actually that's probably true, to be honest, probably so all right,
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  well gentlemen, all right, great great community here. So Josh, who
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  are you and why do we are we talking? Why don't we care?
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  Because not everyone may know who you are. He's the seventh member of the
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  boy band. We're almost up to nine. I should put us into we
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  need nine members to become to become, you know, the ultimate boy band.
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  But the Backstreet Boys plus boys. Backstreet Boys only have fun and and
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  sync. You can bind them. Well, that would be ten people.
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  One of them is dead. No, not at all, not at all.
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  Anyway, back to our way trying to become BTS because they're they're huge
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  right now. But I don't know what a BTS is. Oh my god,
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  do you even go outside? I also don't know what the is.
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  Oh my god, Josh, who are you and why are you here?
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  Okay? Uh? So I am the events an organized play coordinator for Ghost
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  Galaxy, and I work on organized play and putting together the events that you
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  all went to last year. Those were mostly I'm going to say ninety five
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  percent planned by Jeremy. But in the upcoming year, I'm gonna be the
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  one doing that. The majority of my time is going to be spent on
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  kits. You are going to be able to get and additional vault tours,
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  So so kit kats or like or what are we talking about here? Could
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  those be prizes? I believe you know what I'm talking about. But for
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  anybody that doesn't, we did talk about on our peoples will ever know that
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  there will be additional things coming for twenty twenty four and that is going to
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  include some sort of kit that can be purchased to run an event. Ooh
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  that's very exciting. So you heard it here. First locals will return,
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  maybe right hopefully. When you say additional vaults, are you talking more than
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  this year? No? No, I'm saying that a season of those will
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  return. Okay, how many do you want to zee? As many as
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  twelve months in the year? Yeah, I mean if you can get to
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  the point where I could win three thousand a week, I could quit my
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  job. Well no, I mean at one point it was discussed to be
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  able to spread them out and have a goal of one a month. So
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  I think that is far that was. That was, Yes, it was,
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  but I'm saying it was a yetie day. But I'm saying at one
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  point that was shared. So I think five has been very very nice amounts
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  and I'm excited to be able to see what comes up. But I'm expecting
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  we're going to get the carbon copy PowerPoint from last year, so we're going
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  to go back to four in the US that it was five in the US
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  four overs or four You just got to wait a week, man, Yeah,
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  that is spoil this for us, right, can you spoil ctp's slides
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  for us? All I can say is anything as possible in the Crucible,
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  O love it. Speaking of kids, I think that is a very very
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  exciting I know it was only briefly shared and we can see that on Game
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  Found, but that is very very exciting news. He saw drascourts a little
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  joyous uh cheer that's there. But honestly, that is probably the best news.
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  I think we could almost put it into our Good News of the week
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  when should be my neighbor. So I think that is phenomenal, so awesome,
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  awesome announcement there. For anyone who hasn't seen it on Game Pound,
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  well, yeah, to be fair, we had said as much on Game
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  Found. I can't give you any any details currently, but yeah, I
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  mean, obviously we're we're looking for a return to form in twenty twenty four
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  for organized play. You know, we've been working on some stuff. Even
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  though you guys haven't heard anything yet, that doesn't mean that nobody's working on
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  anything. So the thing is, you know, especially myself, but you
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  know the rest of the team, we don't want to announce anything that isn't
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  ready. So you know, you'll get information when it's when it's ready and
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  it's ready to share and it's good information. So one of the their podcasts
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  around that give you a hard time if it's not ready, is that?
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  Why? No coming? We would? You know, whoever those guys are,
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  they should they should really lay off. Yeah, it's rude and unprofessionally.
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  That's suddenly yelf guy. We were all up upscale and up the stuff
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  before he came around, right, Yeah, it's all as soon as I
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  came out on the Quality show, just like drought yep yep. So speaking
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  of speaking of a c Josh, who is your favorite AC cast member?
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  Favorite AC cast member? It's like it's like choosing children. I don't know
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  there is so I got this. It's a burning building. You have six
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  children, you can only save one? Which one do you save? Parents
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  can't answer this question. It's j R. Yeah, yeah, I do
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  believe. I do believe that this is a trap. But yeah, I
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  mean I gotta go with j R. He's probably the most deserving all of
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  you. That's the right answer, so you you can continue to the next
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  round snug snuggles for Josh story. He may also be the lightest of the
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  no we got except for Southerly, but it's only give me like five to
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  one. He's like, he actually is the size of a child, so
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  you can fit Southerly in his pocket. That's right, So maybe he could
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  save two Southerly and no, like uh not, not not to wax too
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  poetic on on Wookie here, but he's like a rose in a in a
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  bramble bush. Here. Have you met this guy? He's he's pretty wholesome
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  and he lifts a lot of the key Forged community up, so you know
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  he's got to be my pick. I'm sorry, guys, the Wookie,
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  No, no, definitely wait wait did I say Wookie? There you go?
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  Just because you don't know the blackheart inside him. It's First Star First
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  Star Wars characters. They're all the same in the end. So all right,
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  who's taking the next one? All right? So we did the favorite,
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  So who's on who's on the ship list? At h at gig for
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  a c cast numbers? Just yeah, you know I couldn't possibly answer that,
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  Oh you could, but if one person was going to slightly inconvenience,
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  shoot throughout your day, just once. Who would it be? And why
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  is his name? Wookie? That's that's the one I really want. We
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  alls the real answer. But yeah, all right, let's get into the
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  real meat and potatoes here. All right, So, uh, Mountain Dew,
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  what's your favorite flavor? Oh that's gonna be the oj G pitch Black.
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  Okay, you're a monster. I still that's just that stuff's medicine.
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  I don't think I've had pitch black, the OG pitch Black that came out
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  in like what two thousand and three, two thousand and four, it was
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  a long time. Yeah, I was drinking Code Red back then. Oh
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  so good. I love Code Red. I love all Mountain Dew. We're
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  all old. Yeah, I don't know what that means. But tell us
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  how preparations for a world is going or we're KFC two Extra Crispy. The
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  preparations for key fordge Celebration goes pretty good. Yeah, The World's is just
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  one event at KeyForge Celebration. It's one thing that we want to note.
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  You know, key forde Celebration is for all key Forge players. It's not
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  just for the hyper competitives. You people on this podcast may be shocked to
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  learn that. Wah, but but yeah, the World Championship is supposed to
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  be for the spiky, try hard players and then there's a bunch of stuff
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  that's gonna be built around it. One six of us are casuals. Come
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  on, yeah, not a good hit rate there? Not a good hit
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  rate there, zee Y throw the curve? Is there plans to do more
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  of a KFC thing? And I understand if you can't answer this. It's
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  just kind of a follow up on it to make uh, like the Vault
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  Tours more of like a mini KFC's where there's just there's more to do than
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  just the main events. I think so. But I think that they're already
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  kind of like that. We do have Second Amber or the Adventures, and
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  we've been doing unchained duels as well. I think that we could potentially make
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  it a little bit clearer that those alternatives exist, although I do remember announcing
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  them at all the Vault Tours that I am seed. Are you also going
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  to be m seeing our KFC two? Absolutely so get to look forward to
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  some great dad jokes. I'm excited here for anyone who may have been living
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  under a block and is still within drive distance or a quick grab of a
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  flight. What are all of those events again, that are happening at KFC
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  two. That's for both our casual and our triards. You are not allowed
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  to look this up. You got to do it off your head. So
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  if you go to keyforging dot com you can see a schedule of events.
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  You can go to more organized play key Forge Celebrations schedule. I may not
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  have exactly got all the words on that because I'm trying to do this from
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  memory as you've requested, But on Friday, what you're gonna have is you
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  are going to have the Sealed Alliance open. So that's going to be our
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  first ever high stakes sealed event. That is going to be Sealed Alliance with
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  Wins of Exchange, and that's going to be played in Too Low. It's
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  going to act as our last chance qualifiers. So if you've not qualified for
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  Arcan or Alliance Worlds, you can snag open slots from that LCQ, depending
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  on how well you do. We do expect that there's going to be slots
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  in both tournaments, although that is not guaranteed, but the champion of the
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  Sealed Alliance Open is guaranteed at least one spot, so if both of those
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  tournaments do fill up, the champion at least gets a guaranteed slot in the
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  World Championship of their choice. So that's the first event and probably the most
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  major event. It's going on on Friday. But you're also going to have
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  Sealed Alliance Groups. These are basically sealed groups where you can sign up and
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  when those get between eight and sixteen players, we'll launch those off. You
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  will play between three and four rounds, and the undefeated person will win a
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  prize. We have the gorman Geist Nightmare speed Run going on, so that's
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  going to be the gorman Geist Adventure with Nightmare mode enabled, and the shorter
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  time that you get, the more prizes you're gonna get. We are going
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  to have the Join the Menagerie going on. You saw that revealed during the
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  Game Found, so that's gonna be those Menagerie decks that were revealed. It's
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  gonna be a lot like the Unchained Duels from KFC one, where you are
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  going to report wins for Menagerie games. There's gonna be a special little twist
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  to it that's going to happen at KFC. You'll have to just check your
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  goodie bag for and I think that is it for Friday in our goodie bag?
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  Will it be signed eight by tens of yourself? Oh? Absolutely,
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  my nice head shot, the one that got me hired. That'll be signed.
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  Uh, it'll be worth something someday. So you're gonna want to hang
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  on to that. Will is that? Is that? What did it?
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  Like? CVTs like, I don't even talk to this guy, got this
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  head shot? He's in absolutely absolutely didn't even need to see the demo real
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  fiction, my wallet telling people that this was my son weird in all seriousness
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  to be able to pick up your goodie bag that day and the World World
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  Championship invitees do need to check in by seven pm so that they can claim
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  their spot for the World Championship. We do need to know that their spots
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  are claimed before we relink it any spots to the l c Q. That's
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  why that's going down that way. Yeah, I'm gonna have to pick it
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  an event. Yep, Yeah, you're gonna have to pick an event.
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  Okay, flip a coin bru It's worked well for me in the past.
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  Josh, do you have a sense if you can even tell us. Do
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  you have a sense of how many entries from the l c Q at this
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  point you think there will be in two worlds? Yeah, I have a
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  sense of how many slots there will be. Am I gonna tell you no,
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  No, I haven't. How about I've kind of done that math already.
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  I have a pretty good sense of those numbers. Yeah. Sometimes sometimes
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  that's when it comes to adding up boy band members. But yeah, so
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  I thought I thought Friday was pretty good from memory, Josh, I gotta
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  give you credit there. What about Sadday Saturday? There is an event that's
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  happening for lots of excitement and then some other items. What's happening Saturday?
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  Look forward to? So the main thing that's going on on Saturday is the
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  four tournament quad Fecta. We got a little ambitious here, but that's what
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  we're doing and it's going to be great and we're gonna see how it works
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  out. But we're gonna have the two World Championships. So you're gonna have
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  the Arkon and Alliance World Championships total combined prize pool of fifty thousand dollars,
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  and you're going to have the ARCon and Alliance Opens, which are open tournaments
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  open to all they do not require invites, and we're gonna be running all
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  of those simultaneously. On that day. You're going to have the World Championships
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  go to top fours, and depending on attendance, your ARCon and Alliance Opens
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  will go to a top eight is planned, but if the attendance is lower,
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  one of those could go to top four. So are you running four
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  events at the same time for practice for next year's ball Tours When we're running
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  three events at the same time, Sealed is making it's comeback. Don't call
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  it a coming I can't discuss plans for those leading leading your honor leading.
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  Hey he didn't say no objection, objection, all right, But the same
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  side events are going to be going on. So you have Menagerie still,
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  you have the groups going off. You have a couple of other things very
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  unique to that day. So you're going to have Christian stand up and do
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  a keynote, and the other major event to close out the day is going
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  to be that nightfall Sealed Alliance, So that is going to be more for
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  people that aren't looking to play in TULO. We do know that those types
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  of folks do exist. TULO is designed primarily to make a satisfying competitive event
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  and a competitive event with a lot of integrity. You can go rate about
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  that in the blog in the news on keyforging dot com. There's a whole
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  explanation for it there. But that nightfall is going to be four rounds of
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  Swiss, So those folks that aren't going to win, they're not going to
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  really go to try hard. That event is more for them and more a
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  relaxed key Forge experience that's going to take place after all four of those tournaments
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  rap for the day, so you're gonna be able to stick around and play
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  key Forge into the night with that experience. And it's also going to be
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  another sealed event, So we have two sealed events so far that are major
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  events for this along with those sealed groups. So hopefully we're giving people a
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  lot of opportunities for sealed if that's what they want, yay, in different
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  formats and different kind of tournament formats as well. So I don't remember off
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  the top of my head, if there's anything else going on on Saturday,
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  what set will that night event be. I don't know what you mean.
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  When do we get all the decks we need in our goodie bags, or
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  will we have to buy some of these sealed decks, So for the LCQ
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  you would need to purchase or show up with winds of exchange. For the
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  next Fall Sealed Alliance, you will receive everything that you need. Excellent membership.
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  You're bringing your special decks for the for those with the ac resealing glue
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  glue, absolutely okay. And then how we're gonna cap off some day quick.
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  So you're gonna have the finals for all of your tournaments, so we're
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  gonna do those, and then after the finals for all the tournaments, we're
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  gonna do an awards ceremony where we're going to award prizes for the finals of
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  course, but also the menagerie as well and the mhmm. I think it's
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  yeah, just the finals and then hand out the Best key Forge Podcast Award.
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  No, No, yeah, is there anything? Is there anything?
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  Have you listened to Sydney? She's a delight? All right, she's amazing.
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  Will there be anything for people who have scrubbed out? I mean a
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  lot of players are coming in from around the world. We have people who
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  are excited to play in that last chance qualifier events who have had less than
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  a successful weekend. Come on, you don't want to say that a bunch
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  of scrubs. I'll be in there, probably see you. There's the woo
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  woo woo woo. So we're continuing the the menagerie, the groups, and
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  the adventures all throughout the weekend. So we figure along with casual games,
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  that should provide enough opportunity to play as much Key Forage as you want to
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  have your fill of, in addition to possible community events that are going on.
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  And there is a non tournament thing on Sunday as well, so before
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  we wrap up for the day, there's going to be like a Q and
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  a on Key Force development. So you guys wanted to talk to Ghost Galaxy
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  and some of the other boy find folks that I work with. Yeah,
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  we we may we may be beating you guys with opie questions. Mm hmmm,
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  well I actually have a real question that sounds something to do with these
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  events. So the LCQ is alliance, right, so you're forming from the
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  three decks. So we've seen this in a ton of ways, and it
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  would be good for people to know in advance. Are players allowed to help
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  each other form their alliance going into it there, because we've had like we've
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  seen multiple people run these things, and as you said the Competitive Group podcast,
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  we've seen it literally every way you could probably think of at this point
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  as far as like there's been people that have been real rigid, no one
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  can talk to each other, blah blah blah blah. And then there's been
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  people that have run it so that people can talk to each other, help
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  each other. Hell, we've seen people let people use the Okay, so
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  that's a real question. What's that gonna look like for the l c Q
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  Since it's the first high stick Sealed Gigi has run, so as far as
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  that goes, we couldn't possibly prevent people from talking with each other between rounds.
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  So yeah, I'm not talking about it in between runs like like like
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  you get the decks, everyone breaks them out, like we've seen it to
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  where like you have to like self compose and you know, just be yourself,
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  just like like FAB does. Like FAB is very strict about like what
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  that looks like when you're doing your like sealed thing, all kinds of rules
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  for it, and we've seen it done both ways and key Fords to where
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  like you're not supposed to interact with your neighbors during that time, and then
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  we've seen it where you can do whatever the hell you want during that time,
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  so we're just curious what that looks like. So officially, with Sealed
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  events Seal Alliance events for KeyForge, you are allowed to do something called recalibration
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  between rounds, which means that you are allowed to take pods out of your
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  deck and take pods from your other decks and put them into your deck.
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  This is part of the base rules for the Sealed Alliance. So as far
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  as forming your alliance goes, there is, like I was saying, no
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  possible way that we could prevent this sort of tabletop talk from happening. So
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  that is going to be something that will be something that can happen between players.
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  It's just not something that's going to be able to be policed in a
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  manner that's going to be satisfactory. However, what we are going to do
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  is, and I'm not going to give you details on this, but we
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  are going to do forms of package checking and deck control. So you're not
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  actually going to receive your packs during round one. You are going to open
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  your packs during registration. So basically, we are going to do, as
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  I said, some sort of deck control to make sure that the decks that
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  you are opening are the decks that you're using with in the tournament. This
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  is good, everyone appreciates that. But it doesn't sound like I can rent
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  out my services and building other people's alliances. Yes, so basically I'm asking
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  if I'm gonna have like nine other of my teammates asking me questions for the
• 28:41
  thirty minutes that I'm supposed to be building my own deck. Yeah, you're
• 28:45
  only going to get thirty minutes. I don't know if I would to ask
• 28:48
  you. You're only going to get thirty minutes before that round one begins.
• 28:52
  I'm ready to do this, all right. I'm just going to play that
• 28:56
  deck and then I will be hoed out to the rest of the team.
• 29:00
  I'm not even sure I'm playing, so so that is gonna be your your
• 29:04
  choice. You know, all things are possible in the Crucible. The Crucible
• 29:11
  is a frantic, chaotic, and messy place, but it's a lot of
• 29:14
  fun. So you know, you do you As far as the crucibill goes,
• 29:18
  I do think that's a more engaging, fun decision, so I'm sure
• 29:21
  it does appreciated by a lot. And so, of all these events,
• 29:27
  is there one that you have been uh that that your baby, that you've
• 29:32
  really been working on, or you you stuck doing all of it? Is
• 29:37
  there one of these ones that you really think we should make sure we get
• 29:41
  to, or one of the side events that is really really going to be
• 29:45
  a start. The Spice got the RIZ, so I mean I basically have
• 29:55
  been handling the overall planning of the event. There's been things that have been
• 29:59
  worked on by the team. Michael and Luke obviously have been putting together Menajerie,
• 30:07
  and Michael's been working on nightmare Mode for gorman Geist. I think the
• 30:14
  gorman Geist is going to be pretty fun. I think I'm most excited for
• 30:19
  Menajerie, though I know that that's not something for you guys being hyper competitives,
• 30:26
  But there's a lot of really cool ideas that went into it, and
• 30:29
  the decks look like they're a blast to play, and there's some surprises in
• 30:34
  them that are I think going to blow people's minds if they get pulled at
• 30:38
  the event. So I'm excited actually to see how that goes. And if
• 30:45
  you're looking for something casual and fun to do that you can get some prizes
• 30:48
  at. You know, I really think that that's where it's at, is
• 30:53
  Menagerie, and I don't know, I think it's gonna be a lot of
• 30:56
  fun. Will there ever be a Saturday event like when vaults fire back up
• 31:03
  or Nationals like Saturday after round three or four there's a bunch of people that
• 31:07
  eliminated from the vault event. Will there ever be like a actual Menagerie level
• 31:11
  event that would be put into the two L system to play for fun in
• 31:15
  that way? It's something that's possible. I I can't commit to it,
• 31:26
  but yeah, it's something that's possible. I think that would make a lot
• 31:30
  of people a lot more excited about those decks, because like I enjoyed playing
• 31:33
  Unchained at KFC, I won the event. I had a ton of fun
• 31:37
  with it, but like I did end up with a really cool deck,
• 31:41
  but I could literally never use that deck again anywhere, like even at the
• 31:45
  store. When people did when I finally convinced them to play Unchained one time,
• 31:52
  it was sealed like they wouldn't do it any other way obviously because I
• 31:56
  didn't have any And then they weren't that big of a fan of it at
• 32:00
  the store, so like that, But I've heard from other stores that are
• 32:04
  having fun with it. But then even in those stores, once you open
• 32:07
  it, it's it's more dead than most of our shutter stuff that we talked
• 32:10
  about all the time. I mean, what's twelve or fifteen bucks for three
• 32:16
  four hours of entertainment? Like that's that's movie that's better than movie money.
• 32:21
  And I'm saying that's fine. I'm just thinking would be Disney plus seven ninety
• 32:24
  nine a month to have somewhere else you could actually see, like these cool
• 32:28
  decks, do something as in a side of it that could be a fun
• 32:31
  thing. And Disney plus is hemorrhaging money. Well that sounds like I mean
• 32:36
  that's their problem. That sounds like Disney. They got to sell them seven
• 32:42
  hundred and ninety nine dollars a month to go and play with Mickey years.
• 32:45
  So it's all good. So I'm excited for my Menagerie decks in in the
• 32:51
  new players getting them because they have the power combos. So players who have
• 32:57
  played a lot of sixty sass treasured and have had fun because they're fine,
• 33:02
  We're gonna get a taste for for the big league decks, becoming the menagerie
• 33:08
  champion again just like last year. Let's go. I'm just saying, like
• 33:12
  the way that those are there, and then it's also great for like for
• 33:15
  Josh here because he gets training wheels on. These are what good key Ford
• 33:19
  cards do when they get together. I saw, I saw some of their
• 33:22
  things. I don't know if I don't know if the right people determine what
• 33:27
  or even good cards are. So who knows. Well, there's there's some
• 33:31
  silly rare let's go raptors, all right, So let's get away from some
• 33:39
  of the questions Josh can't answer because we keep asking him questions that are clearly
• 33:45
  don't he can't answer until we get to he can answer whatever he wants answer.
• 33:50
  He can answer what does what does a day in the what does a
• 33:53
  day in the work life of Josh look like? What's that look like for
• 33:57
  us? It's a lot of different things, man. It's taking care of
• 34:05
  customer tickets. You get stuck, man, I thought that was what they
• 34:10
  hired Cheery for. By the way, mine's still not answered. But oh
• 34:15
  yeah, don't. I don't take care of any of the game found tickets
• 34:21
  or anything like that. I I take care of OP related stuff questions on
• 34:25
  that. There's a lot more questions than you you would think, So I
• 34:30
  take care of a lot of response for OP questions, which is when's there's
• 34:32
  OP and you're like, when we're ready, how do you have there's no
• 34:37
  OP right now? There were tours KFC is coming up. That's okay now
• 34:44
  right between you know, the last one in the next one in the Worlds,
• 34:47
  and then after at Canadian Nationals there was an O P head question and
• 34:55
  Josh an excellent and speedy response to so and took care of it immediately.
• 35:01
  So in that regard, very good. Better than what we hear about game
• 35:06
  phone tickets. Yeah, they go into the the huge pile. So let's
• 35:15
  see other than tickets, we're we're in planning mode, like a big amount
• 35:21
  of planning mode. So it's planning things that are far future, things that
• 35:24
  are medium future, things that are near future, a lot of different things.
• 35:30
  It comes to like we're working on, as has been stated publicly before,
• 35:36
  we're working on getting that twenty twenty four season out and trying to nail
• 35:40
  that. You know, it's not lost on us that twenty twenty four is
• 35:45
  a critical year and it needs to be nailed. And twenty twenty three ended
• 35:51
  up being a build back here and a build up here, and it's it's
• 35:54
  not everything that was desired, but we're working on getting closer to that vision
• 36:02
  in twenty twenty four. So like a lot of my days is thinking about
• 36:07
  that, trying to put some plans in place for that. You know,
• 36:12
  there's a lot of things that go into like OP two, So it's like
• 36:15
  asking for like certain assets from our graphic designers, talking to Michael about development
• 36:22
  on stuff, talking to Jeremy about his experiences with the things he's done already,
• 36:27
  Like hey, how did you do this contract for this one hotel?
• 36:30
  How did you do this or that? How did you negotiate this thing?
• 36:34
  You know, venue searches like stuff like that. So like it's really varied.
• 36:38
  You know, there's not a single day that's the same thing. There's
• 36:45
  a lot of different stuff and a lot of things that have to come together
• 36:50
  for events. So pretty much every time I walk in the door, it's
• 36:53
  something different from emails to calls to customer support, to wrap palettes to finding
• 37:00
  venues to all that stuff. You know, it's I guess I can't really
• 37:07
  say that there is one base day in the life of op. It's it's
• 37:12
  just kind of a grab Bag'll get paid to play key Forge at work,
• 37:20
  oh me, not as much as Michael and Luke, And they don't get
• 37:23
  paid to play a key Forge as much as you would think. So here's
• 37:28
  an interesting question, and I don't know if you can answer this. Obviously
• 37:34
  plans for the future, but are you guys looking to spread around Vault tours?
• 37:39
  Obviously we had, you know, the Vegas, the Dallas, Philadelphia,
• 37:46
  or Seattle. Are you looking to spread them out more as far as
• 37:52
  location and to make sure you know, maybe twenty twenty four you hit some
• 37:54
  locations you weren't possibly able to hit previous, or you're looking to kind of
• 37:59
  stay in that same kind of routine. It really depends on a lot of
• 38:07
  factors. There's plenty of things that go into selecting a venue for a Vault
• 38:15
  tour, So it's not really just about spreading them around. It's also about
• 38:23
  where we think that they're going to be the most effective. So the Seattle's
• 38:29
  out is what you're saying, Sorry, it's possible now, So there's a
• 38:38
  way is on the game found back two hundred times in different addresses in your
• 38:47
  area, and you will get a vault to her. You could buy yourself
• 38:52
  a vault. We'll just go back times. It's a little I knew that
• 38:58
  secret, I would have done it before, but I mean, I know
• 39:00
  because I did. I'm just I'm kind of making a broad assumption here based
• 39:04
  on the fact that you probably already have relationships with what was it six of
• 39:08
  them this year or was it five? Five in the US? Five in
• 39:13
  the US, So like you already have relationships with at least five venues,
• 39:17
  right, So I'm assuming those working relationships you're probably talking to the same people,
• 39:23
  you know, Like, I'm assuming that job doesn't switch hands too often.
• 39:27
  So that would be, you know, a pretty easy one for you,
• 39:30
  as opposed to like going, oh, we're going to go to Chicago
• 39:32
  now, where now you have to create a whole new relationship with somebody new
• 39:37
  because obviously I've been in your shoes working business to business type deals with these
• 39:42
  kind of contracts, and it's it's not always easy. Some some places are
• 39:45
  really easy to work with, and some places just you're like, I never
• 39:49
  want to work with that place ever again. Yeah, Yeah, there's some
• 39:57
  of some of that and and working relationships, so you'll have to see.
• 40:04
  That's all i'm gonna say. I kind of figured it was going to be
• 40:07
  a wait and see type deal, but we're not gonna get anything because I
• 40:09
  want to know if we're going to keep our separation of independent vaults where they're
• 40:15
  not stacked with other large game events. But I don't think we're gonna answer
• 40:21
  on that wait and see. So you're new to the key Forge community.
• 40:24
  You've been here for what about six months now, closer to five, I
• 40:30
  think I was close. So besides the six of us, how was the
• 40:37
  community treated you? Honestly, that was one of my big fears in taking
• 40:45
  this job was that I wouldn't vibe with the community. I have dealt with
• 40:52
  other game communities in the past that are not great. I'm not gonna name
• 40:58
  names here, but you know, there's been some some poor sportsmanship and poor
• 41:07
  etiquette from some other communities that I've dochecked in games that I've played in the
• 41:12
  past. Sorry, so wait, this is ark On Scorner. You should
• 41:16
  definitely name names. We do here. I mean, Josh did have to
• 41:22
  make his first please shower announcement, so that you know, that was that
• 41:25
  was new for for me to hear that coming. So you know, you
• 41:31
  know, it's a good good reminder. Yeah, we'll uh will not name
• 41:37
  names there to protect the no no, no, no, no, the
• 41:40
  not innocent. I don't know anyway. So so anyway, I was pleasantly
• 41:47
  surprised to learn that, honestly, the the key Forge community is one of
• 41:52
  the best communities out there. I am biased. I think the net Runner
• 41:58
  community is also fantastic, but definitely there's y'all are much closer to them than
• 42:07
  you are to the the unnamed communities. And I was really happy to learn
• 42:12
  that. I was really happy that a lot of of you we're just really
• 42:21
  excited to welcome me in and you know, just talk about key Forge,
• 42:25
  talk about gaming in some cases, talk about life. And I I find
• 42:31
  the community overall to be very welcoming and very good natured, and it's it's
• 42:37
  super appreciated. Not to you know, put too much of a bow on
• 42:43
  it, but yeah, the community is great. Yeah things let's here.
• 42:49
  That's a it's a great group of people loving a great game. And uh,
• 42:57
  I think you got the right energy to to uh for for this game.
• 43:00
  So it's cool, good to have here. I have really high expectations
• 43:06
  of you. So now you better you better stay on it, better deliver
• 43:10
  because this show is so so so yeah, so Josh, all right,
• 43:16
  So when I get to KFC, right, and and uh, I see
• 43:22
  c TP hanging out over in the corner, just surveying things. Right,
• 43:27
  So I I go over, I walk up to him. What what should
• 43:30
  I say to him to convince him that you're the best g G employee and
• 43:36
  you're the one that deserves the big bonus. What should I say? I?
• 43:42
  Uh, I would do that like sabotage, like actually not from not
• 43:49
  from this he said, he's good, He's gonna that will be a job
• 43:57
  posting the next day, or it'll be like looking for a new old p
• 44:00
  court. So when we send doctor Sheep and his help from future self shirt
• 44:08
  that you introduce yourself with Blake, like and we're going to talk about a
• 44:19
  process and we we we we love our Canadian friends. Blake's great yourself,
• 44:30
  I mean honestly, Like, if you guys get the chance to sorry the
• 44:36
  West Coastadians, good good good. If you guys do get the chance to
• 44:39
  talk to Chris just tell him what you like about keyforg and what you liked
• 44:43
  about the events. I mean, he'd probably be more interested in in learning
• 44:47
  that and learning what we can do better or what we've done well, then
• 44:53
  you know, some sort of behind kissing for for one of us and the
• 44:59
  crew like so, I mean, we're we're taking bids, so we're gonna
• 45:02
  reach out to Jeremy after this, but you know, well I'll pass,
• 45:09
  so you know you can see what Jeremy's bid is. So so you said,
• 45:14
  Chris, do you guys call him Chris? Like we we're all calling
• 45:16
  him CTP now based on I forget what but is too long to say all
• 45:23
  the time, so I shartened it because he's he's Christian T. Peterson.
• 45:28
  I can't say that all the time. I can barely say my own name.
• 45:31
  So I just Chris, not Christian. It's it's it's Chris or Chris
• 45:37
  or Christian. But I've been a part of a lot of f FG communities
• 45:44
  and played a lot of FG games, So I mean, I think every
• 45:46
  community that has had a game that he's been in charge of eventually abbreviates it
• 45:55
  to CTP. So okay, so what you're saying, is I am not
• 46:00
  creative your original? Yep, I'm saying that, Yes, take your Alliance
• 46:07
  crap and get out of here. I will take my ball and I'm gonna
• 46:12
  go sit in this corner. Screw you guys. Wait, oh, Josh
• 46:16
  probably did someone did anyone to g G know that Wookie said this whole Alliance
• 46:22
  thing like two years ago on one of our casts. Oh, I absolutely
• 46:25
  didn't even know what alliance was six months ago, so I have no idea
• 46:30
  find that out for us. He definitely thinks it was his idea and detailed
• 46:36
  the whole damn thing. I want to I sat there and it was crickets.
• 46:43
  Neither of us did a damn thing the whole cast, and we're like,
• 46:45
  why are we talking about this? And then for thirty minutes they berated
• 46:50
  me on how why it was a terrible idea. Well, we stand behind
• 46:55
  that choice. But uh, we can date, we can date when what
• 47:00
  he came up with it, which means maybe we can take it to so
• 47:05
  we can take it to court and we can own it and we can get
• 47:07
  a season desist on Alliance? Is that the game plan to get rid of
• 47:13
  a life and bring Black Shields? Well, there's a few more barriers of
• 47:16
  proof off to get over, but almost like that's how that works. But
• 47:21
  I'm gonna be honest with you, a gentleman here, I'm gonna drop a
• 47:25
  truth. Bumb okay, okay. Sometimes sometimes you guys have an idea that
• 47:34
  you think is a unique idea, and sometimes there is somebody behind the scenes
• 47:40
  that has something that is very similar and is waiting to put the finishing touches
• 47:52
  on that before they talk about it. And so because they talk about it
• 47:58
  second, it looks like you thought of it first. But sometimes I will
• 48:00
  say that at the Pins because I don't really want to take the l for
• 48:12
  that one. But they're all pointing fingers at me. Now you're definitely getting
• 48:16
  I mean, the Pins is the gamemberwards you. I'm just with some kind
• 48:22
  of commander bullshit that's on you. I'm just waiting for William to Flote to
• 48:28
  show up and marketing man. We're talking, yes, all right, let's
• 48:35
  get into a little bit of the t So out of all the people you
• 48:39
  guys play, at least a little bit of keyforg which GG staff member is
• 48:44
  the worst At Keyford, we don't use worst. I'm sorry, we understand
• 48:50
  which which GG staff member is the least the most. That's in our notes
• 48:55
  it says sucks the most. Yeah, we're not. We're not pinkies up
• 49:00
  here. Who sucks the most? Oh that's that's unquestionably gotta be me,
• 49:06
  because I don't know. I took g He's one of the judges that we
• 49:13
  we work with a lot. I took his banger Halofast deck, had hal
• 49:17
  ofFast in my opening hand and still managed to lose to Ambermedes, who was
• 49:27
  like a turn or two slower than my deck, and he's somehow still clawed
• 49:34
  back the board and crushed me handily. I don't even think that the key
• 49:39
  account was close. And G has that up in chat. You can look
• 49:45
  at that deck. That deck is an absolute banger, and I just I
• 49:49
  couldn't win with it. I'm better, Grant and you heard it here on
• 49:55
  our past. Why we suck at keyboards this week? Play hell a fast
• 50:00
  in your opening hand. What could go ye into a deck with a board
• 50:05
  wipe? Does seem kind of silly? I mean, so how your open
• 50:09
  hand set up the tournament for the g G staff where we can have this
• 50:15
  streamed. No, no, you're talking about Sheep's like, ridiculous idea right
• 50:23
  now? That's that's that is also some sheep's idea, what Sep, I
• 50:35
  messed this one? But no spoilers here here I come in second again,
• 50:40
  So I mean I don't know either, but wow, yep, we got
• 50:47
  through that. So we have this. We have a bag idea? All
• 50:53
  right? All right, Josh, yeah, here we go. So what
• 50:58
  are your thoughts on a Low in the Dark mature themed release of Keyboard After
• 51:04
  Dark Set featuring fan favorites such as Sucubus, Dominator, Bobble, Deep Probe,
• 51:09
  and Mating Season, all as mature print versions of the cards. What
• 51:14
  do you mean by mature print version? Is that the set that you want
• 51:17
  your visage? Z? Is that why? You're absolutely not? Absolutely not?
• 51:30
  So what are your thoughts on Keyboard to after Dark Set? Absolutely not?
• 51:38
  Come on, man, but also but also, hey, you could
• 51:45
  be a card in this set, you could be a leader. But also
• 51:49
  listen, I don't make decisions on key Ford development. So the Crucible is
• 51:53
  full of untold opportunities. That's what it's. That's what's what we hear all
• 51:58
  the time. Everything exists in the Crucible. I didn't hear him say no.
• 52:02
  For the record, So are you saying that there's a whole house of
• 52:05
  just a whole Dominatrix house just floating around to the crucible somewhere. There should
• 52:09
  be infinite possibilities with the right with glowing the dark cards and all the appropriate
• 52:19
  things will be glowing. We only say these things to make ewok grown.
• 52:22
  I am shaking my head here, I am shaking my head. Mister.
• 52:29
  Anyway, Yes, students, yes, you should not listen to this episode.
• 52:34
  I will tell them. I feel like I need to now make those
• 52:37
  students would buy the most of this set. Probably honestly, I feel like
• 52:45
  you, gentlemen, you gentlemen are trying to go up to the line,
• 52:51
  put one toe over and and see if see if it's going to get me
• 52:55
  fued No, no, no, are we already off heard to try to
• 53:00
  get you the biggest bonus bounces out right, and you passed on the I'm
• 53:06
  just trying to increase your target. Yeah, and up the bottom line here,
• 53:12
  let's go. I think we've got the wrong. These are questions for
• 53:15
  Jeremy on how to market this game in the future, right, we need
• 53:19
  we need to get him for selling on the Pea, Hobbs and the after
• 53:23
  Darks asking Josh what his thoughts were. So you guys are going to ask
• 53:29
  c TP in the open question session, aren't you cancel my questions? Canceled?
• 53:37
  When is key for after Dark set coming out? Yeah? I mean
• 53:43
  I'm featuring Josh the asked man as a star leader. No, no,
• 53:46
  no, see, I will accept it as long as you are a straight
• 53:50
  leather for that question. Actually, job, how much is it going to
• 53:57
  cost us? Do you walk to? Have you asked this question? I
• 54:00
  got ten? We can all throw. I'm broke. He forged fund is
• 54:07
  depleted. What if it was latex instead of all leather? It's the same
• 54:13
  thing. But let's keep moving forward. What do we got next? I
• 54:19
  don't I mean, some of these questions I don't see. I don't know
• 54:22
  why you're even asking why grim reminders? I did not ask that. I
• 54:27
  don't know who put that in there, because again it's not a number one
• 54:30
  has nothing to do with what Josh does. Number two is gonna tell us.
• 54:36
  Okay, So we have had a couple of listeners pinging with a question
• 54:39
  one and and it's probably a no comment and everything's possible and crucible right,
• 54:45
  But there's all the bagging for the prize wall. Everybody except me, missus
• 54:51
  the prize wall. You been, you've been stocking up the prize wall.
• 54:55
  Yet we have heard what the community is looking for for prizing and what you
• 55:07
  guys think could be improved. And I can't commit to anything like that,
• 55:14
  but we are listening all the time so I can keep an eye out in
• 55:22
  the future. So sounds like you know, all right, So I have
• 55:30
  a question. We have a lot of international guests coming in and frankly,
• 55:32
  there's quite a few individuals from around the world that listen to this cast.
• 55:37
  I know, shocking, but as someone from Minnesota, if I mean,
• 55:40
  I think that all the events are absolutely amazing. But if you had a
• 55:45
  couple hours to be able to blow up beforehand, maybe on that Thursday you
• 55:50
  arrive early or Monday if you're staying late. What should someone do who is
• 55:54
  out of town or from out of country. There's actually a lot of stuff
• 56:01
  to do in Minneapolis Saint Paul if if you look. But there's a couple
• 56:07
  of great places that you can hit. You can hit. Minneapolis Art Institute
• 56:12
  is pretty good. The Guthrie Theater, I've been there, a couple of
• 56:16
  times plays your thing, you can get that up, and there's like live
• 56:22
  music and whatnot in various venues around the city. It's a big beer city,
• 56:29
  so if you really like beer, there's a bunch of breweries in Minneapolis
• 56:35
  and Saint Paul where you can find great craft beer. Most of them will
• 56:39
  have like a contract with a food truck too, so a lot of the
• 56:43
  food trucks that you find around these breweries are really good, shockingly good,
• 56:47
  better than you would think food off of a truck should be. So that's
• 56:52
  something that you can you can do. There's other like standalone restaurants. They're
• 56:58
  awesome as well, like zen boxes are great. Ramen Joint. I've been
• 57:02
  there a lot with my homies over the years from Netrunner Cruise, and there's
• 57:15
  travail kitchen and amusements. You probably couldn't get tickets this late, but it's
• 57:20
  basically fine dining and it's it's like one hundred dollars a plate, and if
• 57:24
  you want to add drinks, it's like another ninety bucks. But tickets are
• 57:30
  available. If I was about hunred dollars a plate, but I don't know,
• 57:36
  I am down for your recommendation. On brewery though, So what what's
• 57:39
  your favorite experience? Oh, I got I got a lot of favorites,
• 57:45
  But my favorites off the top of my head would be Insight is really good.
• 57:52
  And there's also Insight you're gonna have to drive for It's it's not going
• 57:57
  to be in Roseville. In Roseville there's Bent Bruce Stillery. Bent makes some
• 58:04
  really good, really good craft ruse. And then also in Roseville is like
• 58:09
  there's a Pizza Luce, which is like really good pizza that has a lot
• 58:16
  of the craft brewery beers at it. It's it's not a brewery, it's
• 58:21
  it's a restaurant. But if you wanted to get a taste of Minnesota beer
• 58:24
  and great Minnesota pizza, Lucha is pretty good. And looking at Insight with
• 58:30
  that little bit of background, are they knowing more for their hoppy beers?
• 58:34
  Like I mean, immediately pulling up and they have simple atom raisins like,
• 58:37
  hey, oh my god, this isn't the beer cast, but we have
• 58:43
  we have Durascore experience, and we need to know because if we're going to
• 58:45
  take a tour off, we have so much keyboards to do. We have
• 58:50
  to make sure that it is the right place. So in site, flagship
• 58:53
  beer is probably Banshie Cutter, so I least that's it. Yeah, that's
• 59:00
  insight. Yeah, they're they're listing it as a coffee Golden Ale. Yeah,
• 59:04
  so they're they're ales and lighter beers are probably what they're known for,
• 59:08
  but they make everything. So the Banshie Cutter is like the one that's always
• 59:13
  on rotation there, and it's it's really good if you're if you're into like
• 59:19
  stuff that has like a light coffee taste to it. It's it's not like
• 59:22
  drinking a cup of coffee. It's not like a coffee stout either, where
• 59:25
  it's like hitch hitting you with like big roasted flavors. It's kind of clean,
• 59:30
  but with like a light coffee flavor to it. It's pretty good.
• 59:34
  All Right. Where's the best karaoke joint? That I don't know? Because
• 59:38
  wherever the Wookie is, I think, Yeah, I mean I sing wherever
• 59:42
  I am, so it doesn't really matter. So so I would have been
• 59:45
  able to tell you about a year and a half ago, but they closed
• 59:51
  and it was my favorite bar. It was called Grumpies, so right next
• 59:53
  to my old work. Yeah, sounds like a place sheep would go.
• 1:00:00
  Okay, so we're already at an hour. We've been sucking up Josh's very
• 1:00:04
  valuable time because he could be making us ope kids, but instead he's talking
• 1:00:07
  to us here kids planned. So we're good man, and we've got to
• 1:00:15
  get our predictions in before we all go to bed. So Josh, you
• 1:00:19
  are definitely welcome to make random guesses with us on what's going to happen at
• 1:00:24
  World. This is the segment, our wild guest segment. I don't got
• 1:00:32
  to find the sheet, all right. I was just gonna go with the
• 1:00:36
  community and Josh to day. I think people have heard enough of our guests
• 1:00:40
  this we're always wrong because here's the deal. We got to guess now because
• 1:00:44
  next week we're going to probably be doing a show on Wednesday. Will be
• 1:00:47
  my guess, and you're putting a lot on me if you want me to
• 1:00:51
  get that up by Thursday. Yeah, I was just saying that we weren't
• 1:00:54
  going to guess. We just have the community guesses. We just want to
• 1:00:57
  have the community guests and the way we can laugh at them instead of everyone
• 1:01:00
  laughing at us. I'm cool with it, all right. So here we
• 1:01:07
  go as far as ARCon for worlds you've been around for a couple months.
• 1:01:15
  Now, what percentage do you expect for for that to be woe? I'll
• 1:01:22
  tell you how over half. So let's say the Patreons went. Their average
• 1:01:30
  was between the eight people that submitted was right at forty to be fair,
• 1:01:35
  we released it today, we still got eight responses. That's pretty good for
• 1:01:39
  like three hours. Okay, so that's woe. So you got woe around
• 1:01:44
  fifty. What about MM, which was the previous king of the meta prior
• 1:01:49
  to Oh, I know you weren't around back in those days. Percentage of
• 1:01:52
  the field, Well, those of you that made ARCon are probably going to
• 1:01:58
  drive up that percent. So for worlds in particular, or are we talking
• 1:02:08
  also the opens? Are we talking across the ship talking about the ark On
• 1:02:13
  World's top whatever, not the open one? Oh jeez, yeah, I
• 1:02:20
  don't know. I think you MM lords are probably going to drive it up
• 1:02:23
  over twenty all right, So we'll say twenty and so that leaves about thirty
• 1:02:29
  percent in the field for the rest our Patreons said nineteen percent MM, so
• 1:02:35
  right in there with that, and the Patreons have thirty one percent, So
• 1:02:39
  right there with your thirty ish, So yeah, you're pretty much aligned with
• 1:02:44
  that, except you had a little bit more on Woe. And since I
• 1:02:46
  just averaged our patreons and they probably can't do math, they didn't even add
• 1:02:52
  up to one hundred. So you did good job, all right, So
• 1:02:58
  that hasn't happened yet, Great, go ahead. Uh so top eight?
• 1:03:06
  Uh so you have fifty percent of the field coming in as well, like,
• 1:03:10
  so, what do you think will advance to the top eight from that
• 1:03:14
  fifty percent? I think it's I think it's hard to say, because I
• 1:03:22
  think they're called guessing. I think that wins of exchanges is highly competitive.
• 1:03:29
  But I I know which players are going to be on MM and MM,
• 1:03:40
  I don't know. Uh, let's let's go based on some fault to our
• 1:03:47
  results we've seen. Let's say fifty to fifty, all right, so that's
• 1:03:52
  for Woe and then so are you saying the rest will be AMM and no
• 1:03:57
  other because one of those others would have to be World's by the way,
• 1:04:01
  would have to be a fair point, a fair point. So we have
• 1:04:06
  for Woe how many MM, and then how many not either of those two?
• 1:04:11
  One one not in the three that sounds no love for the sheep here,
• 1:04:17
  but that does sound that sounds pretty good to me. That pretty much
• 1:04:25
  does align with our patreons. Our patreons said three and a half ish,
• 1:04:28
  since I'm averaging the eight people for whoa one point eight mm, so they're
• 1:04:32
  a little bit down on the MM and you and I think our patrons do
• 1:04:35
  support one of our cast members here, along with the obvious choice for Arkan
• 1:04:42
  at two point eight being not a mem or whoe. Although your prediction is
• 1:04:48
  what I would have predicted pretty closely, like I, I, I don't
• 1:04:55
  know. I probably would have put two in the other category just because of
• 1:04:58
  team support and team love and all the all right, now we're flipping over
• 1:05:02
  to Alliance. All right, some of our percentages were skewed because one of
• 1:05:08
  our Alliance people wrote in as one of their predictions for Alliance was who cares
• 1:05:13
  and they don't care and then death of a lot can't answer questions, so
• 1:05:23
  number field like I be here like I didn't think I needed to do that,
• 1:05:29
  but I guess I should. The Alliance folks have put in their effort
• 1:05:33
  this year, and they deserve their worlds this year. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:05:36
  I practiced the whole five games for that event you don't count. I sure,
• 1:05:46
  I guess we still did what we did, all right, So some
• 1:05:50
  similar questions here, you have a woe field, we're talking about the actual
• 1:05:55
  world's event. What percentage shows up with woe DECKX for worlds? I think
• 1:06:01
  actually less than ARCon, To be honest with you, I think the stars
• 1:06:05
  of your now I don't know. I don't know if I know enough about
• 1:06:11
  key Forge to call this, but one of like the rising stars that we've
• 1:06:14
  seen for Alliance is Age of Ascension hasn't been putting up numbers in ARCon,
• 1:06:18
  but people have found banger pods in AOA to use an Alliance, and they've
• 1:06:26
  been putting up numbers and making top X in an alliance. So I think
• 1:06:31
  like you might actually see like a lot more percentage of like older sets with
• 1:06:39
  that. Oh no, I don't know if I can hear you guys anymore.
• 1:06:45
  Yeah, give us a number for a woe and then I'll just say
• 1:06:48
  the rest is not WOA because I forgot to kind of change this one for
• 1:06:51
  this pole because it's basically woe and not low because outside of Woe, you
• 1:06:56
  actually end up with a mix between AOA and coda and well, so like,
• 1:07:02
  so here's the thing is, like I think Whoe will probably be still
• 1:07:05
  like the highest percentage like of a single set, right, but I think
• 1:07:14
  that it won't be more than fifty percent. So like, I think that
• 1:07:17
  there's a chance that you see like twenty five percent world's collide and like thirty
• 1:07:25
  percent uh AOA, and then like what miss makes the rest of it?
• 1:07:31
  Okay, yeah, I see it's around thirty percent whow. Our community went
• 1:07:36
  with thirty eight percent WHOE. I mean that puts you basically seventy percent other
• 1:07:41
  I'm just gonna kind of split that with the rest because that really is just
• 1:07:44
  kind of kind of here, I'm saying everybody is wrong, because everybody's gonna
• 1:07:46
  learn from me, and it's gonna be like eighty seven percent whow and it's
• 1:07:50
  all gonna be scholar spam. Scholar spam is a thing. It is very
• 1:07:55
  effective. So that I mean just the top eight. So the top eight,
• 1:08:03
  let's go with how much I'll change it just for you for this field.
• 1:08:09
  How much AOA do you think makes top eight like three three and then
• 1:08:19
  probably a split between Woe and the rest for the rest. That's like there'd
• 1:08:26
  be like one world's collide and the rest to be like woe and mass mutation.
• 1:08:30
  Gotcha? Pretty good? Pretty good? I think that's gonna be pretty
• 1:08:34
  close to accurate. I don't know what this World's Collide Alliance deck is.
• 1:08:39
  I've not seen it. I have I have one, I have seen two,
• 1:08:45
  all right, in furnaces. There's what what's the case it's gonna end
• 1:08:49
  up being? What is it? Sixty four total players? Is that the
• 1:08:53
  number thirty two in each yea, each event unless one of them caps out?
• 1:09:01
  The LCQ winner, remember, is guaranteed a slot. Oh so it
• 1:09:06
  could be sixty five. Uh well, in that case we probably wouldn't leave
• 1:09:12
  the number odd. All right? Either way, sixty four is a good
• 1:09:17
  idea. Yeah, but sixty four decks? How many in furnaces are in
• 1:09:23
  sixty four decks? How many? How many are in sixty four decks?
• 1:09:31
  In case you don't know, it's not in all the sets? Yeah?
• 1:09:35
  Yeah, no, I know that. Yeah, right, you you're the
• 1:09:39
  one who has been writing our Uh you can't, Jeremy, that's that,
• 1:09:44
  Jeremy. Uh No, So Michael wrote two of them, and I think
• 1:09:50
  I wrote all the others. But they might say other people as authors because
• 1:09:57
  uh, I wasn't using the uh the backhanded properly for a little bit.
• 1:10:03
  So let's see. I want to say that it's going to be mid to
• 1:10:13
  low twenties, but it's gonna definitely be above twenty. Go with twenty three.
• 1:10:16
  Our community says twenty nine point four is their average to like twenty nine.
• 1:10:21
  And here's the fun ones. Uh, all right, who's going to
• 1:10:26
  win? Who's going to be the world champion for Arkhan? You've seen a
• 1:10:30
  lot of people come to these events and play them. Who wins it all?
• 1:10:36
  I don't want to say because I I don't want to put a thumb
• 1:10:43
  on a scale here or give the appearance that we're doing. So we'll have
• 1:10:47
  to see. I do think he said I heard nova. That's what I
• 1:10:54
  heard. I don't know if I William Dafoe, I think go with that.
• 1:10:58
  Yeah, all right, Well, our community here has nova nova nova
• 1:11:02
  nova nova nova nova common not that invites stealing jerk cheap. I wonder who
• 1:11:14
  wrote that one? And then one person has si ang maar even though they
• 1:11:19
  spell whether it's that's plus eight nova and negative one cheap Yeah, and then
• 1:11:29
  plus one for sith, no one has to be on here for ARCon sign
• 1:11:35
  because the only person who ever has won that we have predicted I think is
• 1:11:41
  Jason and Nova. Yep, yep. So what's that? Well, okay,
• 1:11:45
  so I'm assuming you're not going to prevent predict for arc On Open.
• 1:11:49
  I'm predicting for arc On Open, even though we didn't do the cast thing
• 1:11:53
  here predicting drass, you got this, bro oh gosh. And then we've
• 1:12:00
  got some people going out on a limb for Logan composer Kirkman, Michael from
• 1:12:05
  gig that would be interesting. Uh, someone put x Ray not knowing that
• 1:12:12
  he actually did finally qualify. I guess, hey, Southerly, someone put
• 1:12:17
  you in here for winning ark On Open. They clearly don't have the knowledge
• 1:12:23
  that you're not you're not coming right unfortunately, No, Yeah, so they
• 1:12:27
  didn't know. And then someone has our Wookie in here for the ark On
• 1:12:30
  Open. Who is going to put that on me? Who clearly doesn't believe
• 1:12:33
  that you're gonna make it through the l c Q. I mean, let's
• 1:12:40
  be honest, we've talked about this one hundred times, Like the l c
• 1:12:43
  Q is a crapshoot, right, we're getting three. We're gonna gonna be
• 1:12:45
  one of those people sitting next to me like, hey, zee, I
• 1:12:49
  do We're go get three decks, right, Josh, that's we're getting three
• 1:12:54
  decks to choose from. Okay, so we're getting three decks to choose from.
• 1:12:57
  We're gonna combine them all like there is a little bit of luck involved.
• 1:13:00
  Let's let's be honest. Yeah, a lot of bit of luck.
• 1:13:03
  So and and my luck lately in everything I've pulled because we've been doing a
• 1:13:10
  lot of sealed at our local. Seventy two is my cat Like, I
• 1:13:14
  can't pull anything above a seventy two. So the sass doesn't matter to a
• 1:13:21
  degree. It still does, but uh, I mean, I mean beefy
• 1:13:27
  boys matter a lot more. Yeah, I haven't gotten no beefy boy decks
• 1:13:31
  I have, you know what? You know what I'm pulling right now?
• 1:13:34
  Disciples? Oh wait, I mean another one. I forgot what the other
• 1:13:39
  one? That is the problem, But you know, it's just it is
• 1:13:41
  what it is. So you could pull the Triple Explorers maybe, Oh gosh,
• 1:13:47
  that didn't go well. I did pull and Explorer too, so I
• 1:13:51
  had Senator, they should make the LCQ event that one where you can like
• 1:13:57
  choose your token, but you have to like give up a to like the
• 1:13:59
  token round. That would have been epic. That would have been cool.
• 1:14:02
  That's the token creature face off. Yeah, yeah, that would have Yep,
• 1:14:08
  last minute changes can be made. Let's go all right. I'll be
• 1:14:13
  hanging around Josh just poking him because that's kind of what I If we could
• 1:14:17
  have chosen our tokens like this would have been a lot more fun. I
• 1:14:19
  just want to see when when the LCQ is at like player seventeen for handing
• 1:14:27
  out qualifiers, because so many qualified players already finished well, and it's going
• 1:14:32
  to be some weird strength of schedule picking the entire top Yeah, because of
• 1:14:39
  too l Like so all you guys were eliminated like four hours ago, but
• 1:14:43
  some of you get to play tomorrow in the world anyways. Yeah, because
• 1:14:45
  the entire top eight I've already made it. Yeah, Toolo, it seems
• 1:14:48
  like just a weird choice for an unknown number of seats with qualified people already
• 1:14:55
  playing. So there wasn't one hundred percent ariication and we're totally jumping back,
• 1:15:00
  but can you choose to give up your standard qualifier to qualify again in LCQ
• 1:15:11
  to try to switch events. Oh that is a real question. Give up
• 1:15:18
  your like like saying, are really wanting to play Alliance? So he says,
• 1:15:24
  I'm not going to register for ARCon Worlds. I'm gonna play this LCQ
• 1:15:30
  and if I qualify, I'm going to switch over to Alliance. And it's
• 1:15:32
  at the risk, right because if he doesn't qualify, now he's in neither
• 1:15:35
  Worlds because he didn't take his seat. But you also have to know he's
• 1:15:40
  not taking a seat, so you know, to give it away? I
• 1:15:45
  just can Can they choose to do that? I don't see why not If
• 1:15:55
  they aren't, if they've given up their qualification, they're no longer qual And
• 1:16:01
  if they win a slot and we have slots available, sure you can change
• 1:16:11
  event. Has to be a mad man. Maybe I'm mad lad. Yeah
• 1:16:15
  that's another Yeah, mad lad, just your luck. You'll do that and
• 1:16:18
  then get slotted right back in the same event. Sure, that's that's an
• 1:16:26
  interesting question. So once you're locked into an event, and say when they
• 1:16:30
  say you placed high enough in an l c Q, once you once you,
• 1:16:34
  once you're registered, you're locked in. You there's no more moving after
• 1:16:39
  that. Point, so you literally have to give up your seat. Okay,
• 1:16:42
  that makes it a little more interesting because I was going to go to
• 1:16:45
  the point of what was the idea of letting allowing people who are already qualified
• 1:16:48
  join the l c Q, because that defeats the purpose of a last chance
• 1:16:51
  qualified to call the week. Yeah, but most of us who are qualified
• 1:16:56
  are going to take our seat and not be giving it up. Yep,
• 1:17:00
  I doubt. I don't know of anybody who's going to give up their seat
• 1:17:05
  to try to qualify for the other event. And an LCQ, of course,
• 1:17:09
  you do have until seven pm, so you probably have a pretty good
• 1:17:12
  idea how you're doing at that point, and if you think you're going to
• 1:17:16
  make the qualifier because you call me a last minute register right. Ultimately they
• 1:17:21
  both ended up getting both, but I think that we would have had that
• 1:17:25
  scenario possibly happen if June and JDG did not also get Alliance, because both
• 1:17:31
  of them wanted to play Alliance. In the end, they did earn the
• 1:17:35
  second one second and are able to do whatever they want to do. So
• 1:17:42
  did JDG Jubble qualify I don't think he did. Did he do it in
• 1:17:45
  Canada? With you because I took one and June took the other. But
• 1:17:50
  there were four, No, Canada was only two. It was a national
• 1:17:56
  The four went to Shanghai, end to Oh, so maybe JDG is an
• 1:18:00
  option to do that. Okay, here's the thing, all right, so
• 1:18:04
  let's continue the prediction draw almost done. We know you're Josh is not gonna
• 1:18:09
  give us a vote for Alliance winner, so we're gonna go straight to our
• 1:18:15
  thing. Am sure might vote Sydney there just because she's still pleasant and she's
• 1:18:18
  gonna LQ win. All right, Josh doesn't Alliance at worlds no comment?
• 1:18:25
  All right, all right, we've got a vote from the uh, let's
• 1:18:29
  see, let's add these things up. I think our top voted person from
• 1:18:33
  the Patreons is Aviator to take it all. Second place, we have Jason
• 1:18:41
  or j Power, who I think has won the same amount as Aviator,
• 1:18:46
  and then we have Sidney coming in from the LCQ all the way to win.
• 1:18:50
  And then Donuts Dad has a vote in here, probably pilt some iteration
• 1:18:55
  of Joe's deck and Guerlami who ended up beating Aviator right in Dallas. So
• 1:19:04
  that is what we have for Alliance coming from the community, and then for
• 1:19:11
  Alliance Open Worlds, we have a vote for Sydney, a vote for Kirkman,
• 1:19:15
  a vote for easy g a vote for and it says this the last
• 1:19:20
  person who signs up, so like there's a vote from ever signs up last.
• 1:19:27
  That's such an interesting The Alliance field is such an interesting field, right,
• 1:19:30
  because that seems while more wide open than the ark On field. Yes,
• 1:19:36
  right, So, so I mean, has there been talks about again,
• 1:19:43
  I don't expect an answer, because I really don't think I'm gonna get
• 1:19:45
  one like deck strength, things of this nature and what's what's going to happen
• 1:19:50
  and what that looks like. So there have been internal discussions about decks that
• 1:19:59
  have showed up and won multiple times. What about play yes, sending we
• 1:20:08
  do? We send the player z Unfortunately you can't play in any more vault
• 1:20:13
  tours them there's a vault to her cap'd enough sir, we're cutting you off.
• 1:20:21
  So at the point that somebody won't say three Majors and worlds, do
• 1:20:27
  they just then get like a five thousand dollars a year key Ford stipend to
• 1:20:30
  not keep coming to community. I think that's what we have guys collect her
• 1:20:38
  to not show up. It's like the farmers getting paid to not crops.
• 1:20:44
  Here's your subsidy, thanks E. I mean, so I think that the
• 1:20:54
  the opens are actually very interesting, And forgive the pun, but I think
• 1:21:00
  wide open because it's gonna be it's whoever the one person that signs up for
• 1:21:05
  this is going to be the winner. Look, I don't know. I
• 1:21:11
  think you're gonna see a two showing in the open. But I think that
• 1:21:17
  most of the people that would play in the Arkon Open are qualified for arc
• 1:21:21
  On Worlds. So here you go, Josh, this prediction is just for
• 1:21:25
  you. How many people do you think you are gonna be playing the Alliance
• 1:21:29
  Open? You know, I couldn't guess at numbers? Can we do it?
• 1:21:36
  Can we do it over? Under hold on? We asked a question,
• 1:21:41
  and then you'll just kind of cut the man off. He said he
• 1:21:44
  wouldn't guess at a number about the decks deck strength, decks that have won
• 1:21:48
  multiple things, And then y'all just kind of like went right into we're banning
• 1:21:53
  Nova Like he was just carry on, Well, well, we're not banning,
• 1:21:59
  it's subsidizing whatever. Same difference, really, uh, And they said
• 1:22:04
  there's been internal discussions and then y'all cut them off. So is that that
• 1:22:08
  all you really want to any further comments about that or no? We we
• 1:22:14
  are aware that there are decks that have won multiple events and they're very powerful
• 1:22:17
  decks. But discussion is ongoing internally about those and that's yeah, that's pretty
• 1:22:27
  much it. Is. There internal discussion about on nerfing bait and switch.
• 1:22:31
  Oh yeah, there you go, looky, thank you? Be a question
• 1:22:36
  for that would be a question for Michael and development rules. That's a definite
• 1:22:43
  no good. Even if it's unnerve, it's still not that good anymore whatever
• 1:22:47
  under round of bait and switch and library access. Well, I mean,
• 1:22:53
  if I'm gonna go big owl, so I'm going to take your no comment
• 1:22:59
  on the number to be under eight. That's what I'm right down there.
• 1:23:05
  There's an ac move no comment. We'll make some ship up. Great journalism,
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  great journal I love it alright, fantastic l c Q for worlds.
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  This is who wins the l c Q for worlds. He won't answer us,
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  So let's do the cast sheep. Who wins l c Q for worlds?
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  This could be anybody l c Q for worlds. Yeah, who wins
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  the l c Q That Friday, it's gonna be Sydney. Draskar is gonna
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  be in a second? Is this for our Connor well o l c Q
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  the thing that Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, never
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  mind, I'm sorry, I'm the zoning Dras Court is gonna choke show at
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  the end, but he's gonna go almost all the way. Dras can't play
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  in the l c Q. Yeah I don't. My plane doesn't land till
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  like three p That's why he's gonna win the open. Now he's gonna make
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  it, make it. You are going to show your fanaticism and you are
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  going to leave early, gotta and somehow just swim back from hunger. Say
• 1:24:16
  he's also going to somehow convince the pilot to take off early too. All
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  right, who wins ls Q? Uh sheep? Deep elf? Who wins?
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  Great question? To be honest, my true answer is it's not gonna
• 1:24:38
  be who you think. It's gonna be someone completely random, like it's it's
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  just named player. Yeah, I'm gonna go for a teenmate, fabulous thing,
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  fabulous something something Alright, drafts who wins? Elquh Uh? You walk
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  Jr? Who wins the LCQ. I'm gonna go ahead and go for a
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  good buddy, Loka Car. I gotta give some love for the wook Mobile
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  that is going up. So Loca Car is gonna first good pick. He
• 1:25:16
  six owed multiple sealed events correct and that didn't play day two. MM,
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  I am going to choose, choose Dave. I think Dave takes it.
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  I'm going to say, whoever takes it, There's gonna be some great competition
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  literally from around the world where people are here and people trying to get in.
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  So I'm excited to see what comes together for the l c K,
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  the LCQ and for actual worlds. For both events, it is good to
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  see we are very insular American podcast here, as we picked nobody from outside
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  the US at all. Well, I mean, people play this game.
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  There are internationals who aren't who aren't are unable to come due to visa issues,
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  So I mean, I don't I don't think that ratio is going to
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  be as crazy as you thinks. I So I only have like six or
• 1:26:16
  seven total nos for internationals. I have way more yeses than knows for internationals
• 1:26:23
  who are supposed to be coming to this event that qualified. I that's exciting.
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  I think there are more coming than like, it is way higher than
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  the ten or fifteen percent we are originally thinking it's a lot higher. All
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  right. The last question from our poll was do you think we'll get to
• 1:26:43
  play Reminders decks at extra crispy? Josh? What do you think? Stupid?
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  This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. This show sucks ass.
• 1:26:55
  I'm it was on the pool. Dammit. Anything is possible in the Crucible.
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  To me, that the Hey, Josh, are we going to be
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  able to play Worlds? Anything is possible in the So you're that one that
• 1:27:16
  his tone was different, Yeah, there's a different inflection. That one's clearly
• 1:27:19
  Now we we have been confirmed that grim Reminders cards are in Menagerie, So
• 1:27:29
  you could get a pretty much peer Reminder's Menagerie deck. Oh like my deck
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  last year that was the deck. We will definitely get Grim Reminders experience,
• 1:27:42
  whether or not we get that great. We get to learn what they think
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  a good What the hell is it called? Like pack of cards? I
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  don't know, Yes, Josh, who thought of menagerie? Like? Whose
• 1:27:56
  idea was that? Don't answer that. I actually stop ripping on this.
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  It's better unschained. People didn't like unchained because somebody did no synergy in a
• 1:28:08
  deck. Actually, I do wish there was something we could do, Like
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  I do wish it wasn't like automatic trash. Once you're done with whatever that
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  day, I hear you with that, Yeah, like that is my only
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  true knock on it, because I I loved the experience at KFC. I
• 1:28:25
  brought it back to my hometown. I'm the one that pushes themselves all the
• 1:28:28
  products through Houston right now, and like once I finally got them to do
• 1:28:31
  one, it was sealed and then they didn't want to do it again,
• 1:28:33
  which means we were again left with however many decks we opened and they just
• 1:28:38
  don't ever do anything anymore. So when somebody else rolls into Houston and tries
• 1:28:42
  to sell keyforgeddack, do you like break their legs we send x ray out.
• 1:28:47
  No, like they gets balked, like they just the product gets sold,
• 1:28:50
  so we're bald or whatever. Our community was yes, yes, yes,
• 1:28:56
  yes, yes, yes yes, and then one person did say no,
• 1:28:59
  so so maybe experience. So to me, it sounds like they largely
• 1:29:05
  agree with Josh. But that's the done with the pole. So Josh,
• 1:29:10
  since you've actually seen the menagerie packs that are there, is that what the
• 1:29:15
  coll packs? Yes? Are we find out who considered Hystasis rapt Or a
• 1:29:24
  pack of good cards? Please? Well, I guess that's the question.
• 1:29:28
  Is because they listed some that were very very nice or looking forward to and
• 1:29:31
  excited by that. But are there They're going to be substantially varied packs.
• 1:29:39
  And I say this because, for my unchained I pulled the wonderful combo of
• 1:29:44
  Igor the Green. Anytime I see Igor man that that just was the saddest,
• 1:29:49
  saddest deck that I ever opened in my life. And so I don't
• 1:29:54
  I actually like the combos. I like the idea of being able to just
• 1:29:56
  play and have fun with some of these really cool packs or sets. But
• 1:30:00
  we really have to make sure that some of these there's there's nothing that raptors.
• 1:30:06
  We know our exists, but we need to make sure that those sorts
• 1:30:10
  of things aren't in there. I think you're conflating energistic with competitive or good.
• 1:30:17
  No, no, no, no no, I'm talking about an enjoyable
• 1:30:20
  experience. I mean, what when have you ever heard someone say, you
• 1:30:27
  know what, the most fun I've ever had is playing this hass to sist
• 1:30:30
  Raptor deck. It's going to be of a Raptor deck winning an early,
• 1:30:38
  fairly big sealed. It's exactly that. A story. Okay, well,
• 1:30:43
  you know what, we don't work with facts here, so stories are good
• 1:30:45
  enough for us. You know what you can say when you open your Raptor
• 1:30:49
  decks, I'll be dancing in the corner. You're not going to be there
• 1:30:55
  these power combos, cooperative funding and to save the pack. But I actually,
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  yeah, the uh playgrounds were fun. They weren't good, they were
• 1:31:10
  fun. There's tons of things that people enjoy losing with. Yes, this
• 1:31:14
  is all yeah, yeah, fan of Omnipus and Ortanu, Yeah, I
• 1:31:19
  love those cards trash. So what I would have to say about Menagerie is
• 1:31:26
  that if you have any specific questions, this is exactly what the meat the
• 1:31:30
  Ghosts event on Sunday is going to be for, and you probably want to
• 1:31:34
  direct those towards Michael and Luke. But from what I have seen a Menagerie,
• 1:31:41
  I will say that the focus on the decks is more wacky fun than
• 1:31:47
  Spikey power decks. It's what is going to be the most fun that we
• 1:31:55
  can have with these decks, and that's going to mean some packets are matic,
• 1:32:00
  some packets are iconic. You're gonna get a whole house of Niffles.
• 1:32:06
  All twelve cards are Niffle relea and a troop call. That's yeah, Niffle,
• 1:32:12
  a troop Call, Niffle Queen, Niffle cog, all of them diffle
• 1:32:15
  grounds bad. I mean that that actually, I mean competitive competitively, it's
• 1:32:21
  horrible. But like, how many times have you opened up a troop call
• 1:32:27
  and you're like, I have two Niffles or I have a Niffle like and
• 1:32:30
  the cards just dead the less. Yeah, but again he just said it's
• 1:32:36
  it's focused more on fun that it is. I mean, these aren't gonna
• 1:32:40
  be legal anyways, so that's also true. So I mean, I'm still
• 1:32:45
  gonna try to win the event. I am excited to play it that day.
• 1:32:47
  I just hope there is a thing, a reason to have that deck
• 1:32:50
  after that day at some point. Weird question that just popped in my mind
• 1:32:56
  when you talked about to meet the ghosts. Number one, where do I
• 1:33:00
  buy my press badge? Is that a thing that exists? Uh? Number
• 1:33:04
  two? Is this gonna be kind of an open format? Is this like
• 1:33:09
  I'm going to answer ask a question and then it's this, this is the
• 1:33:14
  this seems like the correct person will get passed off to the person that has
• 1:33:16
  the most answers about that or I'm assuming that's how it would work. Oh
• 1:33:21
  yeah, yeah, we'll So we'll do it like a basic Q and A.
• 1:33:24
  It'll be like a referee and you're going it'll have we'll have, you
• 1:33:30
  know, several ghosties there, so we'll we'll have that referee select whoever would
• 1:33:35
  be the best person to answer those questions. And really we want it focused
• 1:33:41
  more on on development in the game, but you can ask other questions and
• 1:33:47
  you'll be able to do that. It's just that well, unfortunately Janet couldn't
• 1:33:54
  make it this year. How about it? How about an angry Mob?
• 1:33:59
  Oh, as, are you guys gonna be there? Yeah, there will
• 1:34:01
  be an angry No no, no, no, I'm talking about a pack
• 1:34:05
  from an Azurie. Is there is there a set of angry Mob? Yeah?
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  There they come with linked to the Hystasis raptors because that's supera. I
• 1:34:17
  didn't even know angry Mob was a card. Yeah, don't learn about disappointment.
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  I mean, we're not always a George. Yeah, and mob kind
• 1:34:31
  of insights too much cohesive planning for us. Yeah, I mean we don't.
• 1:34:39
  We're a week out and we said we were going to write down questions
• 1:34:41
  three weeks ago for this to make them some intelligent I'm I'm picturing some leather
• 1:34:47
  and we're gonna ask some great questions. And I got my leather pants on
• 1:34:51
  tap. Okay, so I'm working on the torch and pitchfork business. But
• 1:34:58
  that'll there'll be boom. It's I guess really bad at key Forge. But
• 1:35:01
  this doesn't seem that awful. It's bad. It's you are really really bad.
• 1:35:08
  Okay, there's a there is a question. It works and sealed.
• 1:35:13
  It comes to it comes in through four or five to southerly. You take
• 1:35:20
  your you take your mobs, go in your corner. Did you just try
• 1:35:25
  to I'll take my raptors and my mobs and all right, Josh, you've
• 1:35:31
  been round long enough and here's your softball question. What is your favorite house
• 1:35:35
  so far? Oh? Man? Uh so it was Skyboard Skyboard, so
• 1:35:46
  it was one of the previous houses. It was it was dis butceptible.
• 1:35:56
  I think with g R it's guystoid. Really this is fine Okay, if
• 1:36:01
  you had said Sanctum, you would have made me worried about the future of
• 1:36:05
  our game. Well, he's not designing cards, he really, it doesn't
• 1:36:10
  matter. Everybody at f FG said Sanctum, and that's why everything said we
• 1:36:17
  got rid of him because he liked good cards. It didn't get rid of
• 1:36:21
  him. He went to another company. Whatever stories you want to tell is
• 1:36:29
  very funny. Sanctum thematically is really funny. The the the schism over cake
• 1:36:35
  and Pie is great for those of you mainly Sheep and uh I am,
• 1:36:45
  I am, I am dumbfounded in open mouthed this, mainly Sheep and big
• 1:36:49
  Z. That's a card in Dark Tidings. What's that? I know you
• 1:36:55
  guys don't know what that set is, but it exists, alright, there's
• 1:37:00
  a how many Dark tiding Stacks are making it? One one did make it
• 1:37:10
  in France? Will it be played? Probably? It's not very long.
• 1:37:16
  It's gonna be running, shot, tired, sad. Maybe Aaron Hultim will
• 1:37:24
  show up with d t oh please hurt me, I mean, defend his
• 1:37:30
  set. I mean the more you're game players that show up, the more
• 1:37:34
  likely you're going to see some Spanish TT coming in and what does that mean.
• 1:37:41
  I don't understand that reference. There was a good sale. There was
• 1:37:46
  a good sale, so people bought it. Yep. Man, it doesn't
• 1:37:49
  matter how much DT you buy. You could buy all of it. You
• 1:37:56
  can have every DT deck in the world and it doesn't matter. You quit
• 1:38:00
  saying that you said the same thing about Strange, you said the same thing
• 1:38:02
  about Strange Shell and then at one of all, I'm still not wrong.
• 1:38:06
  Strangel didn't win shit. Okay, do we have anything else we want to
• 1:38:12
  wrap up with it? Or Josh would you would? Do you have any
• 1:38:14
  final words you want to wrap us up with here? Before we just keep
• 1:38:16
  muttered on because we're more on. That's true? Confirmed? Uh well,
• 1:38:24
  I would say that anybody that's listening that might have an opportunity to come to
• 1:38:32
  keyfdge celebration that hasn't yet bought a ticket or booked a flight or come up
• 1:38:39
  with a way to road trip, or you should because it's probably going to
• 1:38:43
  be, you know, tons of fun and KeyForge is a pretty great game,
• 1:38:47
  so you should. You should really come and hang out with us and
• 1:38:53
  play some KeyForge for some keys that would be great, But other than that,
• 1:38:59
  no, I mean uh. I look forward to the future of the
• 1:39:02
  game, seeing you guys at more events, and I appreciate the way that
• 1:39:10
  the community has been so far, and I hope that there's a lot more
• 1:39:15
  years left. Oh here's my question. Can you and I sink calendar so
• 1:39:18
  you stop scheduling vault tours on my children's birthday? Oh? Stop? He
• 1:39:25
  make up some other kie. It's already SYNCD and that's why they do it.
• 1:39:30
  Ah, okay, comment two part question, how'd you get in my
• 1:39:35
  Google calendar? Does your passwords password? I knew I should have changed it.
• 1:39:44
  Google told me it wasn't secure enough. All right, Josh, and
• 1:39:47
  all seriousness, thank you, Thank you for all the work that's being done
• 1:39:50
  behind the scenes. You don't hear that enough. And you were part of
• 1:39:54
  the team. You could hear that laughter and joking, so we appreciate you.
• 1:39:59
  Thank you for tolerating all of ourcenane against tonight Josh right behind Janet,
• 1:40:06
  well, thank you, Sick. Janet will always be number one though,
• 1:40:12
  sorry you can try as she should be. As she should be. We
• 1:40:15
  love Janet here at the show. I can't wait to answer more of those
• 1:40:18
  questions at KFC. But that will do it for us tonight. Big thank
• 1:40:25
  you to Josh for coming on. It was super late. Notice we really
• 1:40:28
  didn't plan accordingly, not that we plan for these shows ever anyways, so
• 1:40:34
  she didn't even know today was Thursday. See that's how good we are.
• 1:40:39
  We had one cast number. That's like, what's what's today? I thought
• 1:40:43
  we do the show already this week long day. We've all had really long
• 1:40:47
  days. So that's gonna do it for us this week. We'll see y'all
• 1:40:51
  next week. Don't forget next week. We'll be a Wednesday show. If
• 1:40:55
  you're coming to listen to the live show. Yeah, one of y'all are
• 1:40:59
  going to have to remind me. Yeah, we'll shoot We'll shoot you.
• 1:41:01
  I'll send you a calendar invY. Okay, but I'll do it for us
• 1:41:05
  this week. We'll see y'all next week. Happy forging the May the Forge
• 1:41:11
  be with you. It's Ben the Legends Riding When this Legends m