Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Happy Hour #122: D&D (and Fanfic) Saves the World
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Welcome to Stefan never told you a protection of iHeartRadio,
- 0:18Speaker 2: and welcome to another happy hour. As always, if you
- 0:23Speaker 2: do choose to drink or whatever you're choosing to do,
- 0:27Speaker 2: do so responsibly. What are you sipping on, Samantha.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Water, Yeah, we're just some merths Korean.
- 0:38Speaker 3: I am drinking my wine from a box. I've gotten tired.
- 0:45Speaker 4: I like the wine from the box is already sad
- 0:47Speaker 4: kind of But then you had to add emphasis with
- 0:50Speaker 4: like the box.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Well, I don't.
- 0:55Speaker 3: I don't generate a lot of trash, which is good.
- 0:59Speaker 2: But if I was like drinking like a bottle of wine,
- 1:01Speaker 2: I think that would add up glasses and it's not
- 1:05Speaker 2: what I need in my life, especially after I had
- 1:08Speaker 2: my well my poorly thought out excuse me, the idea
- 1:12Speaker 2: of making candles out of wine bottles terrible. I had
- 1:16Speaker 2: sixty wine bottles. I had to throw them all out
- 1:18Speaker 2: because I was like, this is a horrible.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Idea, just like I want to do this.
- 1:21Speaker 2: I was like, you are, okay, that's a definite cut
- 1:26Speaker 2: to your sitcom.
- 1:28Speaker 3: No, you're not going to do so clumsy?
- 1:34Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes, Also I wanted to I forgot
- 1:38Speaker 2: to say this in a recent Monday Minni, but thanks
- 1:40Speaker 2: to everybody who sent me messages about I talked about
- 1:45Speaker 2: the coming out when we did our audio book in
- 1:48Speaker 2: front of.
- 1:49Speaker 3: Like strangers in person ish also.
- 1:52Speaker 2: But more they could react, and a lot of you
- 1:55Speaker 2: sent in like some resources, just like a nice note,
- 1:58Speaker 2: So thank you.
- 2:00Speaker 3: I really appreciate it.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Today we're doing kind of a fun I think it's
- 2:04Speaker 2: fun D and D update. Hey, yes, Dungeons and Dragons
- 2:11Speaker 2: in case anyone doesn't know. Somehow we had taken kind
- 2:16Speaker 2: of a hiatus because one of the members had a kid,
- 2:22Speaker 2: and then just I mean, if you've ever seen any
- 2:26Speaker 2: meme about Dungeons and Dragons, it is the scheduling demon,
- 2:31Speaker 2: Like you cannot get five people to schedule something together.
- 2:37Speaker 2: So I think it had been several months, and at
- 2:42Speaker 2: this point we've been playing for two years. I've had
- 2:45Speaker 2: this idea for seven years. But they're coming to the
- 2:49Speaker 2: end of the campaign. So last week we finally it
- 2:54Speaker 2: was two weeks ago we finally met up after this hiatus,
- 2:57Speaker 2: and then we met again the next week and it
- 2:59Speaker 2: was really really fun. Uh, it was cool seeing everybody.
- 3:03Speaker 2: I was really anxious I've just been having a lot
- 3:05Speaker 2: of anxiety lately. I need to like center myself and
- 3:09Speaker 2: stretch or something. I don't know, but I've had that. Yes,
- 3:14Speaker 2: maybe that too, but I hadn't done it in so long,
- 3:18Speaker 2: and I was worried about you know, not only am
- 3:21Speaker 2: I rusty, but also we are coming to the end
- 3:25Speaker 2: and I want it to be kind of a satisfying ending.
- 3:29Speaker 2: But on top of that, I was going to be
- 3:34Speaker 2: most of the time we play, I'm kind of the
- 3:38Speaker 2: background characters who you talk to for like, I don't know,
- 3:42Speaker 2: two minutes and then you move on, like not a
- 3:45Speaker 2: main character. But this was I knew it was going
- 3:48Speaker 2: to be like me a lot of it performing and
- 3:51Speaker 2: it is really exhausting, and you have to be like
- 3:53Speaker 2: quote on good at like improv. So the plot of this,
- 4:01Speaker 2: I know I've explained it before, but essentially it's Star
- 4:04Speaker 2: Wars and they're going to like Tatsuoine and they're going
- 4:07Speaker 2: to Hoff, They're going to like all these places and
- 4:10Speaker 2: they have to get these they have to collect these crystals,
- 4:14Speaker 2: kind of like Thanos. It's a nerdy campaign, like it's
- 4:17Speaker 2: d D and the nerdier so and there it's a
- 4:26Speaker 2: very nerdy group I'm playing with. So I felt like,
- 4:28Speaker 2: you know this is a good fit. Yes, yes, but
- 4:34Speaker 2: basically they got to collect these crystals to save the world.
- 4:37Speaker 2: But it turns out they keep getting these hints that
- 4:39Speaker 2: like something is a miss or like something maybe they
- 4:44Speaker 2: shouldn't be doing this, like it's a bad thing, and
- 4:47Speaker 2: as you know, Peaches isa no.
- 4:51Speaker 3: Okay, But there was a character.
- 4:53Speaker 2: There's a character based on Samantha's dog, Peaches, who has
- 4:56Speaker 2: a bunch of cousins cho brings chaos, but very sweet,
- 5:00Speaker 2: unintentional chaos. But I did toy with the idea of
- 5:04Speaker 2: making Peaches be the like puppetmaster. Oh that is not
- 5:08Speaker 2: what's going to happen. I think you kind of talked
- 5:10Speaker 2: me out of it.
- 5:10Speaker 3: You were like, no, Peaches.
- 5:13Speaker 4: I felt back and forth because I get reports, uh,
- 5:17Speaker 4: friend of the show bit was like, I'm very weary
- 5:19Speaker 4: of Peaches now because of this campaign. I was like,
- 5:21Speaker 4: oh no, maybe waited to backtrack. But then at the
- 5:26Speaker 4: same time, she is kind of a jerk in real life.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Peaches did come up at this last campaign in the
- 5:34Speaker 2: last session, and I believe it was Dylan, who is
- 5:37Speaker 2: like one of the nicest people. He was a former
- 5:40Speaker 2: producer of this show. He said, Peaches has a larger
- 5:46Speaker 2: than life personality.
- 5:49Speaker 1: In real life about your talk, and.
- 5:57Speaker 2: She's yes, larger than life person that's such a like
- 6:01Speaker 2: Dylan nice way.
- 6:02Speaker 1: They like, she's a lot.
- 6:05Speaker 3: I loved it though. It was so good.
- 6:19Speaker 2: So also, while all of this is going on, I
- 6:23Speaker 2: am I feel like maybe I'm being too dismissive of this.
- 6:29Speaker 2: But you've seen this too, and you've given me some
- 6:31Speaker 2: really great gifts around it. I draw the maps hand drawn,
- 6:35Speaker 2: and I'm not a great illustrator, so like they get
- 6:39Speaker 2: the point across. I think they're really cute. But it
- 6:41Speaker 2: does look like maybe somebody in third grade drew this map.
- 6:46Speaker 2: So maybe I'll take some pictures and post them.
- 6:48Speaker 3: I think they're really good.
- 6:49Speaker 2: I don't want to make it sound like I don't
- 6:52Speaker 2: think that they are good, but I guess that's just
- 6:55Speaker 2: not where skill set is drawing. I'm never been good
- 7:00Speaker 2: at it, never, But anyway, I have a friend Katie
- 7:04Speaker 2: who's been on the show. She is really good and
- 7:09Speaker 2: she mischievous friend that she is. I had been drawing
- 7:15Speaker 2: like the world map, and I left the room for
- 7:17Speaker 2: a second. When I came back, she had drawn something
- 7:20Speaker 2: called poop Island.
- 7:23Speaker 3: On it, and I.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Couldn't really erase it, and I decided it said poop Island,
- 7:30Speaker 2: this is where the DM lives, the dmbing me the
- 7:33Speaker 2: dungeon Master game Master. So I decided to just leave
- 7:36Speaker 2: it there and be kind of a funny thing at
- 7:38Speaker 2: a story I could tell and we'll move on. But
- 7:41Speaker 2: then Lauren, who also a friend also my co host
- 7:46Speaker 2: on Saver, she always says, never give the DM ideas,
- 7:51Speaker 2: and I think early on, like the fourth time we
- 7:54Speaker 2: played together, she said, of this Star Wars based campaign,
- 8:00Speaker 2: here's hoping we don't run into George Lucas. And then
- 8:05Speaker 2: I knew who lived on poop Island. Who was the DM.
- 8:11Speaker 2: It was George Lucas, although I called him Gil Gil.
- 8:17Speaker 3: Why Gil just I don't know g l Gil. But
- 8:24Speaker 3: he was basically like.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Luke Skywalker from Last Jedi, and poop Island looked like Octo,
- 8:30Speaker 2: which is where he was. And he was real sad
- 8:34Speaker 2: that his creation had gotten away from him because it's
- 8:38Speaker 2: a whole multiverse thing, which by the way, I did
- 8:41Speaker 2: write this seven years ago.
- 8:42Speaker 3: I know it's really in right.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Now, but just to be clear, uh, But and he
- 8:48Speaker 2: had accidentally created like this alternate version of himself that
- 8:52Speaker 2: was destroying all the realities and was going to destroy
- 8:55Speaker 2: this one and he was too tired to do anything.
- 8:57Speaker 3: And I was so tired when I did it, because
- 8:59Speaker 3: it was after our audiobook session. I will start crying.
- 9:02Speaker 3: I was like, oh, so dared, and I got.
- 9:06Speaker 2: Really into it and everyone was like, oh my god,
- 9:09Speaker 2: George Luca, so you're okay. But I channeled it a lot,
- 9:14Speaker 2: and that was what I was nervous about, because it
- 9:16Speaker 2: can be, even as we've talked about this, even as
- 9:21Speaker 2: someone who performs a bit for work and I do
- 9:24Speaker 2: like it and I like acting and stuff, it can
- 9:28Speaker 2: be when you're like channeling it and everyone's looking at
- 9:31Speaker 2: you and waiting for you, it stresses me out.
- 9:35Speaker 3: And I was very, very stressed out.
- 9:37Speaker 2: And I'm having this big character moment of like trying
- 9:40Speaker 2: to sell the idea that this guy is so sad
- 9:43Speaker 2: and depressed and lonely that he won't do anything.
- 9:46Speaker 3: And I really did channel it.
- 9:48Speaker 5: I really did.
- 9:48Speaker 3: It was funny. They were off.
- 9:53Speaker 2: They were like, we could there's hope, there's still hope
- 9:56Speaker 2: we could do.
- 9:57Speaker 3: Something about this, and I was like, I don't know.
- 10:04Speaker 2: But it was very like because them as players, they've
- 10:08Speaker 2: been great, They've done great role play. Some of them
- 10:10Speaker 2: have been brought to tears. I have never done that
- 10:14Speaker 2: as a player. I don't think I've ever done that ever.
- 10:18Speaker 2: But I let it. I've not really let it. It
- 10:22Speaker 2: just happened this time. And I think it was because
- 10:24Speaker 2: I was so tired. Yeah, I mean we had just
- 10:26Speaker 2: done that audiobook and I was like, oh, go ah, here.
- 10:31Speaker 3: We go, we come.
- 10:34Speaker 2: But I did have one of my most hilarious nerd
- 10:39Speaker 2: checks I've ever had in my life because a lot
- 10:42Speaker 2: of this is, like I said, very nerdy, a lot
- 10:46Speaker 2: of really bad Star Wars poms. I cannot stress enough.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Like it is so like. There's somebody called Snowby One
- 10:53Speaker 2: Kenobi like this level of bad. There's a silo kin like,
- 10:58Speaker 2: it's not I'm not trying to hide any of this.
- 11:02Speaker 1: It's Snowby One. Is it Snowy Yes, Snowby.
- 11:05Speaker 3: One lives in the Snowy Caves. There's a shit.
- 11:09Speaker 1: I'm on top of all the all the pun parts.
- 11:12Speaker 2: There's a himbo oh anyway, there's also a Lea's characters
- 11:19Speaker 2: named Kre and Dylan did not get until this time,
- 11:24Speaker 2: but it's Carrie Fisher.
- 11:28Speaker 1: I didn't get it either. I'm just sit here thinking
- 11:30Speaker 1: about it, like.
- 11:31Speaker 3: What, No, that one wasn't.
- 11:32Speaker 2: That's like one of my less on the nose ones
- 11:35Speaker 2: because it's also based on a name Karre, which is
- 11:37Speaker 2: it means everything turns to dust and it's fine, which
- 11:41Speaker 2: I was always like, Wow, that's pretty metal.
- 11:45Speaker 1: I like that.
- 11:46Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it's from my book of Lost Words.
- 11:49Speaker 2: It's it's the lost word. But it really struck me
- 11:52Speaker 2: when I read it, so that one is less like
- 11:55Speaker 2: on the nose, But it was funny to me that
- 11:56Speaker 2: Dylan was like, oh, but okay. So the like main
- 12:03Speaker 2: big bad is his name is Reeve. And I was
- 12:08Speaker 2: kind of joking with them and I was like, oh,
- 12:10Speaker 2: I'm so original, just like Sheve, you know.
- 12:12Speaker 3: And they were like she, and I was like she.
- 12:16Speaker 2: And they had no idea who I was talking about.
- 12:18Speaker 2: It was like, I still don't Chief Palpatine, that's his
- 12:21Speaker 2: first name, the emperor, And they had no idea and.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Like, I get you not knowing, but like I said,
- 12:28Speaker 3: they're pretty nerdy.
- 12:29Speaker 2: And this was one of my biggest like oh wow,
- 12:32Speaker 2: I've gone in deep.
- 12:35Speaker 3: None of you know who she is.
- 12:37Speaker 4: Right, I will say so, like when we did the
- 12:40Speaker 4: viewing at the plaza, Uh huh, how many did you
- 12:43Speaker 4: get wrong?
- 12:44Speaker 3: I count a lot.
- 12:45Speaker 4: I was but.
- 12:47Speaker 2: I do get that this is not this is not
- 12:49Speaker 2: this is actually really sad. Not sad, but it's not healthy.
- 12:53Speaker 2: My refrigerator had been broken. I hadn't had anything to
- 12:56Speaker 2: eat for thirty six hours. What and yeah, and were
- 13:00Speaker 2: planning on getting dinner.
- 13:01Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 13:01Speaker 2: So I was counting on the dinner and then we
- 13:04Speaker 2: didn't get it until I was out of it.
- 13:07Speaker 3: Oh wow.
- 13:08Speaker 4: No.
- 13:09Speaker 1: It was also very loud and like you could barely
- 13:11Speaker 1: hear it.
- 13:11Speaker 4: Turns out one of my friends was there, and one
- 13:14Speaker 4: one of the I think the heads and figure outas
- 13:16Speaker 4: I didn't know it was he. I didn't even know
- 13:18Speaker 4: she was there until later. She's like, yeah, I won this,
- 13:20Speaker 4: didn't you see me? I was like, no, it was
- 13:24Speaker 4: pretty chaotic. It was pretty chaotic, but a great time. No.
- 13:29Speaker 2: The next day I was like, obviously that was the answer,
- 13:31Speaker 2: but I needed some food.
- 13:35Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 13:36Speaker 2: Yeah, you live and you'll learn. But anyway, Yes, his
- 13:40Speaker 2: name is she Palpatine. And now they all know and
- 13:42Speaker 2: now we're just sending Palpatine gifts back and forth, which
- 13:45Speaker 2: I love. But also it's so fun because it's really collaborative.
- 13:51Speaker 2: And so there's a character who was based on I
- 13:57Speaker 2: wouldn't say based on me, but it was based on
- 13:58Speaker 2: the It was named after my old fan fiction name,
- 14:02Speaker 2: which was August Wind.
- 14:04Speaker 1: It was a new one.
- 14:05Speaker 3: Oh never, you'll figure out one day.
- 14:09Speaker 2: But no, August Wind was getting married to this guy
- 14:14Speaker 2: named e Cubed and our friend Marissa wrote fan fiction
- 14:19Speaker 2: because she was a fan fiction writer in this world
- 14:22Speaker 2: for me to read at the wedding.
- 14:25Speaker 3: But then she tragically was assassinated.
- 14:28Speaker 1: You killed off your own friend?
- 14:30Speaker 5: Does she know this?
- 14:31Speaker 2: No, No, August Wind was assassinated. Oh, Messa wrote the
- 14:37Speaker 2: fan fiction that August Wind read because I do reach
- 14:42Speaker 2: out to my friends for this, and I kind of,
- 14:45Speaker 2: you know, just moved on. August Wind's too bad. They
- 14:50Speaker 2: bought up August Wind to George Lucas and was like,
- 14:54Speaker 2: listen this August Wynn had ideas maybe you should look
- 14:58Speaker 2: there for how can save the world. And now I
- 15:02Speaker 2: hope none of them are listening, but I like the
- 15:04Speaker 2: idea of fan fiction.
- 15:06Speaker 3: Oh no, like they.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Go, this scheme is could never end.
- 15:12Speaker 2: It will but it's like it's in the final fourth,
- 15:17Speaker 2: and that final fourth could take forever.
- 15:19Speaker 1: Right, because like, how long have you been playing right now?
- 15:22Speaker 3: Years?
- 15:23Speaker 4: Yeah, and I know part of that was pandemic, but
- 15:25Speaker 4: y'all are online at one boy, like y'all are doing
- 15:28Speaker 4: it through.
- 15:29Speaker 3: Yeah, but we usually, I mean we play like once
- 15:32Speaker 3: a month.
- 15:32Speaker 2: But they were pretty huge Hiaticism, which I think was
- 15:35Speaker 2: the last almost like five to six months.
- 15:37Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 15:47Speaker 2: I always could kid them about this, and I mean
- 15:50Speaker 2: it sincerely, I'm not mad about it. But they will
- 15:53Speaker 2: take what I assume is going to take maybe an
- 15:57Speaker 2: hour and turn it into six hours, like it's amazing.
- 16:01Speaker 2: But they want to talk to the ShopKeep and then
- 16:02Speaker 2: they want to haggle with the shopkeeper, and then they're
- 16:04Speaker 2: convinced the shopkeeper isn't he's lying to them, So I
- 16:07Speaker 2: got a steal from the shop Like it's just I
- 16:10Speaker 2: love it, but it has That's why I'm like, we're
- 16:14Speaker 2: in the final stretch.
- 16:15Speaker 3: Who knows how long that could take?
- 16:20Speaker 2: Never end, But they're like that they met, they got
- 16:23Speaker 2: the last They're like infinity stones essentially, so they're done
- 16:28Speaker 2: with that part. They just have to confront the guy
- 16:31Speaker 2: and they need to save Cinnamon roll who that is
- 16:33Speaker 2: his name? I told you spot On, I'll be sad
- 16:38Speaker 2: when it's over. I haven't played. I haven't played as
- 16:41Speaker 2: a character at least seven years.
- 16:44Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 16:44Speaker 2: I like dming, but it is a lot of work,
- 16:46Speaker 2: and part of that is me like, you can't, Like
- 16:48Speaker 2: I've said before, you can. There are campaigns online you
- 16:51Speaker 2: can use that are free. A lot of them are.
- 16:54Speaker 3: You have to pay for it.
- 16:55Speaker 2: But uh, And I just wanted to bring this up
- 16:58Speaker 2: because I mentioned it recently. We did have a discussion
- 17:04Speaker 2: about career Day at this because a lot of times
- 17:05Speaker 2: it kind of you know, you talk while we're eating
- 17:08Speaker 2: pizza before we start playing, and we all had a
- 17:11Speaker 2: very like gendered story of career day and so I
- 17:16Speaker 2: want to come back and talk about it. But someone
- 17:19Speaker 2: said they like got sent to the office kind of
- 17:23Speaker 2: for being rude. But the principal told her because she
- 17:27Speaker 2: addressed as a writer for career Day that writers look
- 17:29Speaker 2: like old white men. I had one where it was split,
- 17:36Speaker 2: so the girls went to it was a hairdresser and
- 17:40Speaker 2: a flight attendant, and then the guys went to it
- 17:42Speaker 2: was like a pilot, a doctor, a lawyer. But everybody
- 17:48Speaker 2: had a story like this, and so I need we
- 17:51Speaker 2: need to come back and talk about career day.
- 17:54Speaker 4: I don't really had career day because I don't remember
- 17:56Speaker 4: any of those, but I don't feel like none of
- 17:59Speaker 4: those or an option we did have, like what home
- 18:01Speaker 4: mech was for women obviously, and then like FFA or
- 18:06Speaker 4: was for men right of farmers, but like we didn't
- 18:09Speaker 4: have I don't think we had career days.
- 18:12Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it.
- 18:13Speaker 3: Yeah, we had too.
- 18:15Speaker 2: We had one in middle school and one in high school,
- 18:19Speaker 2: and both of them were traumatizing in their own ways. Yeah,
- 18:25Speaker 2: Like the middle school one was the one where they
- 18:27Speaker 2: were like, here's a worksheet of your body, women, and
- 18:32Speaker 2: you're gonna have periods and you're gonna have a baby,
- 18:34Speaker 2: and oh my god, we had to watch.
- 18:36Speaker 3: The whole Miracle of Life.
- 18:38Speaker 2: Yeah, and we had to watch that too, Oh my gosh.
- 18:42Speaker 2: And then in high school it was much more you're
- 18:44Speaker 2: never gonna make enough money to have the life you want.
- 18:48Speaker 2: That was much more the vibe a career day, which
- 18:52Speaker 2: I guess al right, but yeah, that's just my messy
- 18:57Speaker 2: updates on Dungeons Andons.
- 19:00Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed it.
- 19:01Speaker 2: Sometimes I hear from other people who play or some
- 19:04Speaker 2: parts people just ask me, like, what's going on in there?
- 19:06Speaker 5: Right?
- 19:07Speaker 2: I love it, so I will be back.
- 19:12Speaker 3: I'm sure.
- 19:12Speaker 2: I can't wait to see how it ends, because, like
- 19:15Speaker 2: I've written, I have the general idea, but again, this
- 19:17Speaker 2: fan fiction idea is gold, like I should put that
- 19:20Speaker 2: in there. So it does change based on what they do,
- 19:24Speaker 2: and it was cool to play, like essentially.
- 19:26Speaker 3: The very meta dm of I can't fix this for you.
- 19:33Speaker 2: Sorry, yes, so cheers, tears and please yes if you
- 19:42Speaker 2: do play Dungeons and Dragons. If you do have questions
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