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Black Friday of the Dead - Episode 0: Meet the Survivors · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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>> Skylar: Welcome everybody to a spooky one
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shot. normally something that would be done
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around Halloween season but this time we're doing
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something special for the post
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Thanksgiving Christmas
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season. That's right. We are doing a
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one shot of the All Flesh Must be
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Eaten system.
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>> Skylar: That I have titled Black Friday of the
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Dead.
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>> Skylar: welcome everybody. I'm Skyler, the usual host now
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your zombie master as they call it in the All
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Flesh Must be Eaten system. the All Flesh Must
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be Eaten system is a zombie based
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ttrpg. It's a bit older. It's all the way from back
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in 1999 is when it was first published by
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Eden Studios Inc. And it is
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using the uni system.
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there's other systems and such that use this.
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But the basic gist of it is I understand and maybe I'm
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completely way off. but the unis system
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is basically uses like a
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D10. I don't know, could be kind of a
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little bit more to it than that. But at least with the all
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Flesh Must be Eaten we're looking at kind of a D10 based
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system. You're going to roll a D10, add
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some skills and I'll go a little bit more into the mechanics of it.
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But whatever the case, roll the D10, add some
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skills, add an attribute and that's your
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results. And whether you succeed or not is based on
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that. With me today, I've got
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three of our usuals, from one of
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our various campaigns. to my left I've got Dave.
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Dave, welcome to the show.
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>> Dave: Thanks. Glad to be here.
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>> Skylar: I've got fan favorite from our Criminals of
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Isla Numa series, Fatty Lumpkins. Fatty Lumpkins.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: Thanks for having me.
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>> Skylar: Thanks for being here. And another fan
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favorite from our Criminals of Isla Numa series,
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Quinn.
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>> Quinn: Yeah, not. Yeah, very excited to be here. This should be a good
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time.
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>> Skylar: It should be getting this absolutely very, not
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your little sauce this time.
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>> Quinn: No, no, no sauce.
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>> Skylar: Instead I have asked each one of these
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players to basically because we are going to be playing in the
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modern day, and I say modern day a little bit broadly
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because we're going to, we're going to jump back to
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2016America.
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United States, Iowa
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more or less. I mean, is this going to be in Iowa? the like
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setting per se is a little bit fictional in the sense that
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like Fatty, I know you. You didn't live here in
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town with us. You didn't know most of us.
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Dave, I feel you didn't even
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necessarily run in the same friend group per se. Like it was
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kind of a little bit more outside. Quinn, and I, on the other hand, were
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definitely hanging out together in the 2016.
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and that's not to be rude or anything to anybody, but I'm just
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trying to. This is alternate reality where instead
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we're all friends. We're all friends here, in this kind
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of like fictional city, which I didn't really even come up with a name for
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because everything's going to take place in one,
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primary location, which is the Sunrise
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Mall. heavily inspired by our mall here where
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we live, which again, I'm not going to name drop because that feels
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weird and I don't want them to get upset.
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But whatever the case, this is the Sunrise mall,
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modern day 2016. so feel free to make
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whatever 2016 references that you can think of throughout, the
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course of this. But for now, as part of our
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session zero, I want to talk about the
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characters. Who is everybody playing? I mean, again,
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we're playing ourselves. But tell me a little bit about
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yourselves in your 2016 character
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format. So Dave, starting with you, if you're, if you're cool with
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that, tell, me a little bit about Dave in 2016 and
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what that looks like in your character. So for instance,
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off the bat you've got your primary attributes kind of similar to like
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Dungeons and Dragons, with a slightly different wording. So
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you got strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence,
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perception and willpower. Where did you kind of
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land on these stats? And just to give a little bit of reference
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to listeners, these stats usually range from like
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1 to 5. So a 1 is kind of like,
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eh, I kind of a little bit wimpy,
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within this particular stat. So like for instance, if you're talking strength,
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I'm not really a strong guy. I'm not buff and muscular. I'm probably pretty
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scrawny. That is what it is.
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Versus a five in strength is
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like I'm pretty much an Olympic level
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athlete. so I'm like way up there and then
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everything in between, you know, two, three is kind of around like
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the maybe average to a little bit above average
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or pretty decent even, obviously four,
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that's pretty dang strong. You know, you might be like a
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local,
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not celebrity, but like you performed well in the like high
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school wrestling or something like that. But anyways, Dave, tell us a little bit about where
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your character landed in these.
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>> Dave: All right, so back in 2016, I would
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have graduated college, been at my first
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job at, ah, an accounting
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firm, right?
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>> Quinn: On.
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>> Dave: And so back then, a little more
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physically, fit probably.
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So strength three, dexterity
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three, constitution three.
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>> Skylar: Nice, nice.
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>> Dave: You know, I, we did some P90X in
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college, so
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intelligence three. You know, my brain was
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pumped full of all that knowledge.
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>> Skylar: Numbers, numbers, numbers.
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>> Dave: Perception two, you know, didn't really know how
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the world worked.
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>> Skylar: Sure.
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>> Dave: You're still, you're just learning and willpower
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won. You know, I was studying
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for the CPA exam at the time.
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Did not take much to distract me
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because that sucked.
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>> Skylar: Oh, man. Well, yes. Okay,
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so cpa, Striving
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Dave is our first kind of the
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start off for our character. And then Dave jumping into. So
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the next kind of section here is
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your character has qualities and drawbacks. So
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qualities are going to be obviously positive things that, your
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character kind of has. Some of them are a bit more like,
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I want to say broad or kind of obscure.
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some of them are really specific. And again,
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so drawbacks are going to, you have kind of a point by system and I'm
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not going to get super deep into that because it kind of takes away from like the roleplay
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aspect of it. We've already figured it all out. but for you guys listening,
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these are kind of what you kind of imagine yourself to
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having. based on the qualities and drawbacks that ah,
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the game kind of listed out and there's some that we, I think added
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maybe or maybe that's in the skills. But whatever the case, what qualities
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and drawbacks does 2016 Dave
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have?
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>> Dave: so say good luck. I mean, you could call it good luck or
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blessed, whatever you want to call it. but I've always
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been pretty lucky. I feel like.
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>> Skylar: Nice.
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>> Dave: Call it beginner's luck. Just luck in general.
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Photographic memory. I don't have photographic memory,
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but memory is pretty decent, I'd say.
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So gave myself a positive to that.
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>> Skylar: Yep.
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>> Dave: And then fast reaction time, you
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know, reflexes were a little faster
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than.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: You.
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>> Dave: Know, all that Call of Duty I played in
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college. And then for the drawback side though,
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well, I guess one of these is really more for now, but
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I didn't even realize that until this moment, but
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Paranoid. yeah, it wasn't
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until more recently I started listening to more
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Joe Rogan.
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>> Skylar: And it's just got you on it.
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>> Dave: Those kind of podcasts. So podcasts weren't
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really that big of a thing back then. They're just kind of starting.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Dave: Anyways, we'll still roll with that. And then
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physical disability,
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I guess you could call it, depending
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on what I eat.
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Yeah, my bowels would get a little
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inflamed. Ibs,
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d, if you must know.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, I was gonna say we
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had kind of a lesson in ibs, the different
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forms of IBS for. From resident
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expert Fatty Lumpkins.
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>> Dave: I wouldn't say it was much of an issue, but there
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was one, incident after a
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subway, but we'll not go into that.
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>> Skylar: And so for that reason, so that you get to kind of take,
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like, different levels of how much this, you know, physical
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disability affects you. And so we only put it at a
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level one, which is the lowest level. not saying that
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obviously ibs, isn't obviously a difficult
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thing to live with. but it's not like you don't have an
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arm in the. In the sense of a zombie apocalypse situation. It's
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not like not having an arm that you can fight back with or defend
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yourself with. but I definitely think
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it's something that could come up in a
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situation of fear and, terror. So.
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Fantastic. All right, and then last but not
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least, and Dave, yours is the longest list
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easily, between the other players, but you have the
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skills. Now, the book itself, for All Flesh
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Must Be Eaten has a list of skills, and
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it's a pretty big list. you get specific
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with things, right? So, like, rather than just saying, I'm good
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at science, you would specify what area of science
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that you feel like you're particularly good at. So you could say,
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I'm science, chemistry. I have levels in
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that. I also am pretty good at biology, so I've got
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levels in that and so on and so forth. So you can get pretty specific
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with most things. but whatever the case. And then
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of course, similar to the levels that we mentioned before, you know, one
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is like, I know a little bit here and there,
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maybe more than the average person. Whereas 5 is like, this is
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what I am an expert in kind of a thing. So,
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I told these guys, I said, I want you guys to
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think of whatever you feel like you in
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2016 was into was good at,
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whatever the case, and just list that out. That's what I want you
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guys to go with. So we've got some really
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interesting ideas here that are going to come into
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play. So, Dave, tell us a little bit about some of the skills that
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you came up with.
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>> Dave: Oh, you want me to run down the list?
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>> Skylar: Yeah, go for the list.
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>> Dave: Okay. got sense of
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direction, which, funny enough, that
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comes from all the Minecraft
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we've played in college. Played a lot of
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video games in college.
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A Lot of free time.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Dave: Random, item recall, which is. You've probably
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seen that meme. A lot of guys have this, like,
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where. Oh, you need a paper
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clip. Yeah, it's right next to the, file
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cap.
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>> Skylar: You know, it's funny, I feel like I have the opposite of that. I will,
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like, set my phone down and then, like, turn around and turn
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back and be like, where did I put my phone?
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>> Dave: So I did have to help my roommate quite a bit
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in college locate his missing objects.
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I can't find my phone. I'm like, oh, it's under your pillow.
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>> Skylar: Nice. It's right there. That
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could come up for sure.
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>> Dave: Climbing, longboarding.
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>> Skylar: Nice.
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>> Dave: Board games.
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>> Skylar: Absolutely.
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>> Dave: Right when I was getting into board games, pretty much. Well, a little
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bit after hiding, I
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would hide in random places and
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scare people sometimes.
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Idle endurance.
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>> Skylar: Yeah. Tell me what.
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>> Dave: This one I made up this one. you know,
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some people, they're in the car, they gotta have music
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playing or whatever. Sometimes I'll just drive
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with nothing.
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>> Skylar: Nice.
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>> Dave: Or just. I'll be doing nothing.
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And that's okay. Maybe
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I'll just be staring at the computer screen instead
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of studying for the CPA exam.
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pizza cutting. I worked at a pizza place
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back in those days. M. this
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one there's official one called
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financing, but I call that business
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time. business
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major. Accounting major.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Dave: Procrastination. So this one is
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my idea of. You could also say maybe
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works under pressure.
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>> Skylar: Yeah. Like, I set it aside so long that
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it needs to get done now, and I. I can work with the
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pressure.
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>> Dave: Some of you are familiar with the, procrastination
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Monkey gets you
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into gear.
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>> Skylar: That's right.
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>> Dave: role playing. That's probably when
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I first played Dungeons and
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Dragons.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Dave: then guns, handgun, shotgun. You know,
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I did some hunting.
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>> Skylar: Nice.
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>> Dave: some shooting.
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>> Skylar: that'll come in handy for sure.
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>> Dave: Stealth and I'll.
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And trumpet. I played the trumpet.
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>> Skylar: Nice.
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>> Dave: Don't play it too much anymore.
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>> Skylar: But still time. 2016.
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Oh, and swing dancing.
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>> Dave: Oh, yeah, swing dancing. That didn't make. Oh, it's not. Oh, it
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is.
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>> Skylar: Over on the other column, I filled.
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>> Dave: Up a whole column.
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>> Skylar: Swing dancing. That if that comes into play, I.
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Which I hope it does.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: This cool montage of Dave swing dancing
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through this horde of zombies.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, the zombies. He's like, I can get through the zombies. Whipping
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them around by them. Oh, my gosh. I
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never even thought of it. That's a brilliant idea, guys.
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How are we going to get through these zombies? I'll show you.
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Proceeds to Swing dance.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: Louis Armstrong.
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>> Skylar: It's brilliant. It's brilliant. I. That's not
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a bad idea. That'd be kind of cool.
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>> Quinn: It's all in the hips. It's all in the hips.
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Wake me up.
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>> Skylar: So just to. Just to jump into it before we jump over to the other
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characters. So just to talk about that. So, like, for instance,
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in the situation where Dave wants to swing
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dance through this entire horde of
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zombies, that is absolutely something that you could in
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fact do. So basically what I would tell you is, and
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this is how checks work, right? In Dungeons and Dragons,
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you'd have that huge list of skills. So I would say to you, okay,
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well, roll me a stealth check. And you would roll your D20 and
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you'd add your stealth modifier, and then that's where we'd
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be at. in this game, you roll a D10
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and then you are going to add a relevant
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attribute. So strength, dexterity, constitution, et
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cetera, et cetera. In this case, let's say for the swing dancing, we'd say
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dexterity. and then you would also add a
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relevant skill, which in this case would very much be
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swing dancing, which is another plus two. So, Dave, your
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dexterity is plus three. Your swing dancing would be
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plus two. So then you're having a five, plus whatever you
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roll on. the D10, if it is. If it is a
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nine or higher, you succeeded. and there are
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different levels of success, of course, so like the higher you
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roll or the higher your number, the better your success
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is and the more like you're kind of going to get out of it,
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versus rolling under a nine. You're not swing
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dancing through them zombies.
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>> Dave: Oh, no.
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>> Skylar: Them zombies swing dance you right where they want you.
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So, that's basically how that works. So with
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that in mind, you know, thinking about all these different
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skills that you guys have put down, that's. That's where those are going to come into
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play.
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With that being said, let's jump over to Fatty Lumpkins.
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Fatty Lumpkins, tell us about your choices in. In
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attributes.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: Okay, so circa 2016, Fatty
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Lumpkins was just graduating
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undergrad.
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>> Skylar: Oh, okay.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: And with all that crippling student loans
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burning a hole in my pocket, I thought,
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why not go back to school?
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So I was in the process of
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starting in my first year of pharmacy school,
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and so it was not a very
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fun time in my life. So there's going to be a lot of
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boring skills like
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reading and memorizing. So I'm
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hoping that maybe I'll come across Barnes and
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Nobles or something, and they might come into play at the mall.
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>> Skylar: It's entirely possible. In fact, I do have a
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bookstore plan, so there you go.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: But for primary attributes, I,
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despite the name, would not consider myself
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very strong.
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So strength is just at a two,
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not in the worst shape of my life ten years ago. So we'll give my
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dexterity four.
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and then because I made it
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into a grad school, I had to give myself a little pat on
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the back and give myself an intelligence of
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three.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, I would hope.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: And you can't make it into a grad school
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without a bit of willpower, so I had to put that at 2.
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>> Skylar: True.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: And so that kind of leaves the last two to
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round out, perception and constitution.
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those. I guess my rationale is I was alive, so I'll give myself
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a constitution of four and
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a perception of two.
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>> Skylar: Well, what else did you say? You said you, you lived off of
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some, probably not the best of foods.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: Ah. Oh, yeah. And I'll kind of touch on that. I think that'll. Oh,
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that'll come in the qualities and
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drawbacks.
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>> Skylar: Perfect. So, I mean. Yeah, that's fantastic. Let's jump
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into this dive right into their choices of qualities and
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drawbacks.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: So, yeah, in college, I'm sure everyone is probably aware
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that the sleep and the meals are probably
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not the best.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: So I think that was probably one of my, I'll call
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this a quality of resistance
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to
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exhaustion.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: So especially with gradually. Pretty
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adept at studying for
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till 2am in the morning and taking a nap,
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waking up at 6am to start again. So,
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we're gonna give myself resistance to exhaustion.
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On that same note, is really
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did not put forth a lot of effort when it came to the cooking.
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So I will be the
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first to admit that I threw together some gnarly
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combinations.
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>> Skylar: Fair enough.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: So I'm going to consider that resistance to
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poison. Absolutely miracle that I did not end up with food
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poison. And to this day, food safety is a
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joke.
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>> Skylar: And we have had discussions about that, now that I think about it.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: Yes. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
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>> Skylar: It does. It does. It helps you fight or it gives.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: You IBSC or D.
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So some of the other qualities, situational,
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awareness. That's. Yeah, I
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enjoy people watching, so we'll call that situational
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awareness.
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>> Skylar: Okay.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: And then for drawbacks, I
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usually just say pharmacy school killed all the fun in me,
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so that's kind of where I, gave myself a
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drawback. And to contrast, Dave's
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good Luck, I do not have a lot of luck, so I'm
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going to give myself bad luck on that.
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>> Skylar: Awesome. And just for those listening, so as far as
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the luck works, so Dave took good
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luck, and on the other hand, Fatty
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has taken bad luck. And they work basically the
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same way. they are points either in positive if
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you took good luck, or negative points
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if you took bad luck. And those points can be
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used at any point during the, game
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to either benefit a particular
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situation in which case you'd want to spend the good luck,
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or hinder a situation when you're willing to spend
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the bad luck. so for
19:06
instance, if Dave were in a situation where he really
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needed to make this, he was trying to shoot a
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zombie and he really needed to make this shot, he could
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say, all right, Skyler, I want to spend a point of
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my good luck to add a plus
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one to my role here and to
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ensure that he gets a nine or whatever the case.
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on the other hand, Fatty has a point in
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bad luck. And the way that we've kind of justified this because you're probably thinking,
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okay, well, if they get to choose when they get to spend
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it, could Fatty just say, never
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by the end of this campaign not have spent it? to which I
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said, and honestly, you had pitched
19:43
it, which was if you haven't spent
19:46
it by the end, when the end comes up and whatever
19:49
big showdown or whatever is going on at the end, I
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will, I, as the zombie master, will spend it for you.
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I will take that minus one off of
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something important that you're about to do, maybe to keep you alive or to
20:01
keep an NPC alive. So, it's one of those things where, you
20:04
know, you might find a situation where you say,
20:07
hey, I feel really confident, or I have a lot of
20:09
numbers, loaded up on this particular skill. I'll
20:12
take the bad luck now, and probably still
20:15
succeed. And that's, that's, that's definitely a way to do
20:18
it. but otherwise that's, that's how luck works in
20:21
this game. Normally it'd be used in kind of more of a
20:23
supernatural situation, but we're not, we're really
20:26
setting this in real life per se.
20:29
and some, some people are just lucky and some people aren't. It is what it
20:32
is. So, but anyway, sorry, jumping back over to Fatty
20:35
Lumpkins, your, your skills. So, yes,
20:38
you've got a list here as well.
20:40
>> Fatty Lumpkins: And I think I'll piggyback on Dave's take here
20:42
is I played a lot of Minecraft in college.
20:45
And yeah, I would say that I was pretty good at it all
20:48
right. Making some of those cool sculptures, only
20:50
to log in the next day to find out that your roommate
20:53
had put a penis on one of the sculptures.
20:56
So I was pretty good at disguising that.
20:59
>> Skylar: Oh, okay. Just, put some clothes on or. Yeah, some
21:01
underwear.
21:02
>> Fatty Lumpkins: and then some of the skills are the boring ones that had
21:05
come about from school. So there's math
21:08
and general note taking, rote
21:11
memorization. Maybe there'll be a
21:14
puzzle or riddle that we'll need to solve and I can
21:16
memorize. It's left, left, right, left, right.
21:19
>> Skylar: That's right.
21:19
>> Fatty Lumpkins: We'll see.
21:20
>> Skylar: Up, down, R, L,
21:23
R, start.
21:26
>> Fatty Lumpkins: some of the other things is played a lot of disc golf
21:28
in school, so maybe I'll find
21:31
myself a pile of plates that I can
21:34
fashion into discs and chuck out the hordes of
21:37
zombies. And then other
21:40
skills just came about from random summer jobs.
21:42
So mowing power tools.
21:46
Maybe I'll find myself in a Sears and be able to
21:49
weaponize some of those materials.
21:51
>> Skylar: They are. Power tools are very weaponizable,
21:54
for sure.
21:56
>> Fatty Lumpkins: And what else? I've kind of been skipping around
21:59
here. So computers.
22:02
I'm a millennial. I should be somewhat familiar
22:04
with computers. I enjoy the general
22:07
trivia. So useless knowledge. Maybe
22:10
I'll be able to flout some.
22:11
>> Skylar: Of that about pairs with the memorization stuff
22:14
pretty well.
22:16
>> Fatty Lumpkins: particular categories of useless knowledge include the
22:18
skills of being big Lord of the Rings
22:21
fan, big Harry Potter fan. So maybe I'll
22:24
be able to make some of those references. If not,
22:27
I recommend reading those. So, yes,
22:30
go to your local library.
22:32
>> Skylar: Absolutely.
22:33
>> Fatty Lumpkins: And then I think that about covers it.
22:36
>> Skylar: The only one I see that I don't know if you mentioned was
22:39
customer service.
22:40
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Yeah, that goes with the summer job. So
22:42
mowing power tools and customer service.
22:44
>> Skylar: Moen power tools and customer service.
22:47
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Those are separate jobs. One job does not
22:49
equate all three of those qualities.
22:51
>> Skylar: I didn't give good customer service for two
22:54
of those. You only
22:57
get one thing from me, and it's
23:00
either customer service knowledge of the
23:03
products or.
23:04
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Exactly.
23:06
>> Skylar: Awesome. Fantastic. So that takes care of Fatty Lumpkin's
23:09
character. And then last but not least, we'll jump over
23:12
to our last player. for. For at
23:14
least, ah, where we're at right now, there's a possibility we might
23:17
add in somebody, depending on where things are at next,
23:20
time we record. But right now, we have Quinn.
23:23
Quinn. Tell us about Quinn in 2016.
23:26
>> Quinn: Unlike these guys, I was, I was working a couple different
23:29
jobs.
23:29
>> Skylar: Yep.
23:30
>> Quinn: So, I put, for the primary abilities,
23:32
like, I just kind of went with. Even
23:35
across the board.
23:36
>> Skylar: Yeah, you are pretty.
23:37
>> Quinn: Yeah. Just even across the board. And I put a little extra in perception
23:40
and constitution.
23:41
>> Skylar: So it's like twos and threes.
23:43
>> Quinn: Two twos and everything except perception. Constituent. I did threes,
23:46
and I was. I just kind of evened it out. I feel like.
23:47
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Yeah.
23:48
>> Quinn: You know, I wasn't really an average guy. Just pretty
23:50
average. Just really, you know, for
23:53
some of my qualities, I use acute
23:56
senses. Yeah, I put a couple in that.
23:59
Good, luck. I put a couple in that.
24:00
>> Skylar: Absolutely.
24:01
>> Quinn: You know, I. Even though, you know, get into it
24:04
later with my gambling, you know, the gambling. Just
24:06
turned 21, you know, and, so the
24:09
gambling skill, you know, I feel like I had good luck, even though I probably
24:12
didn't. And then
24:15
the resistance. I can hold it.
24:20
I have a fear of public restrooms.
24:22
>> Skylar: Yes.
24:23
>> Quinn: So, I have been made fun of
24:25
and joked about. I tend
24:28
to not like using a public restroom. So
24:31
I can hold it.
24:32
>> Skylar: Have you seen the status of our public facilities?
24:35
>> Quinn: Well, it's not good. It's not good.
24:38
It's not good.
24:39
>> Skylar: I actually really appreciate this because, there is a
24:42
situation. So throughout the game, I will have.
24:45
If something happens, something comes up. You guys will be
24:47
making, fear rolls. And fear rolls,
24:50
basically, it's kind of like everything else that we've described so
24:53
far. You're going to be rolling the D10. you'll be using your
24:55
willpower. And basically it's to keep yourself
24:58
from kind of. You guys are regular people, right? Like
25:01
Your average dudes 2016. You haven't
25:04
experienced, you know, war
25:06
or, you know, horrible tragedies or
25:09
things that would, like, really horribly,
25:12
traumatize a person. And then all of a sudden,
25:15
you're thrown into a zombie apocalypse type
25:17
situation, and you're gonna see things that
25:20
you've never seen or ever wanted to see before.
25:23
in reference to that. And so that causes fear. Right.
25:26
And to emphasize on that fear, that's when you have
25:29
to make those fear rolls to avoid, like,
25:32
freezing up or in Quinn's case, you
25:35
know, maybe peeing yourself. Right.
25:38
So by having the resistance of I can
25:40
hold it, it actually very much could come into
25:43
play if you were to ever hit that point where you might
25:46
end up peeing yourself, which would be a problem. Right.
25:49
Like, it's gonna cause some m. Some inconvenience, to say the
25:52
least.
25:53
>> Quinn: Yeah. And then just for some skills, I'm not gonna go through everything.
25:55
>> Skylar: Yeah.
25:56
>> Quinn: but, you know, I had a couple driving jobs, so I put
25:59
My skill at driving is like a three.
26:02
That, would be for car. And then I did get into driving like a, like a
26:04
bigger truck towards the end. So I'm gonna put that as a two.
26:07
>> Skylar: Yep.
26:08
>> Quinn: you know, like the, like, kind of like them computers, electronics. I
26:10
just, I'm not the most knowledgeable, but I still, I do know a little
26:13
bit. So I just kind of put those at just an average, like a
26:17
gaming kind of like they were saying. I had that in there, you know, as
26:20
a one, cooking. You know,
26:23
I, I worked, at a taco place for quite a while.
26:25
>> Skylar: That's right.
26:27
>> Quinn: you know, the gambling's in there.
26:30
the, the one that I'll say is the, the
26:33
funniest one probably is I first time
26:36
worked at a nursing home.
26:38
>> Skylar: That's right.
26:38
>> Quinn: So I know an awful lot about wheelchairs.
26:41
So wheelchair operation is a two,
26:44
so you never know. But I know how those
26:47
wheelchairs work.
26:48
>> Skylar: Hey, it's people that probably haven't used a lot of
26:50
wheelchairs. Between the rest of us, I mean, I don't
26:53
know, maybe fatty, you've had some experience in the medical
26:56
field? No. Okay. So between the rest of us, we don't know a whole
26:59
lot about the ins and outs of wheelchairs. So you've got all the
27:02
secret knowledge of those probably
27:04
plenty of little levers and other
27:08
things.
27:08
>> Quinn: There's really not that much.
27:09
>> Skylar: Oh, okay.
27:10
>> Quinn: But, very well might be able to weaponize one. You never
27:13
know. You never know if anybody out there.
27:15
>> Skylar: Who'S listening has ever played like, Dead Rising 2,
27:18
slash, any of the sequels there. There's
27:21
definitely at least one, if not multiple, like,
27:24
wheelchair mod weapon mods that you can make in
27:27
the game. And they get wild, they get pretty crazy.
27:30
>> Quinn: So, yeah, we'll see if that comes into
27:32
play at all.
27:33
>> Skylar: Awesome. All right, well, that is everything as
27:36
far as these guys go. this will come out at the same time that
27:39
episode one comes out. So you guys can definitely check
27:41
that as well. Right after you finish listening to this. Like
27:44
I said, as the, Zombie Master, I've created basically a
27:47
2016. It's Black Friday,
27:50
so Thanksgiving night. I know we all call it
27:53
Black Friday, but ironically, by 2016 it had worked
27:56
its way into, holiday about giving
27:58
thanks. And it'll be set at
28:01
around 6pm I actually, looked up, I had
28:04
to Google 2016 Black Friday
28:07
ads, And I actually got slapped with some nostalgia
28:10
because I explicitly remember like being at home
28:13
because we would have been on Christmas. Well, just general
28:16
like break from those of us that were in
28:18
college, looking at these ads and circling
28:21
items that I was going to go run out and try to get once,
28:24
you know, the sales started at about 6pm was how
28:27
far I had gotten. And I think that was pretty much the max. I think that's
28:30
about where things hit. We're in
28:32
2024 now after everything that happened with COVID
28:35
I mean, Black Friday is pretty much extinct at this point.
28:38
It really doesn't exist because everything's online now.
28:41
which is honestly nice. I'm not trying to sit here and advocate
28:44
against it, but at the same time, I think we all saw some
28:47
of the sort of modern day first world
28:49
atrocities that kind of stemmed from Black Friday
28:52
people trampling each other and just the general irony
28:55
of we're here on a day to give thanks and instead
28:58
we're out beating each other up and pushing past
29:01
each other and so on and forth to get a deal at
29:04
a store. It's unfortunate.
29:07
but I'm excited, to jump into this. So I
29:10
will jump off so that you guys can tune into
29:13
episode one of Black Friday of the
29:16
Dead.
29:22
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29:25
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29:28
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29:30
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29:33
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