Latest / The Euro Legions Podcast / 163. Mythic Legions Reinforcments 3 coming soon plus Cosmic Legions lore teaser
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- 0:02My wallet is sobbing. I can hear it.
- 0:04I can hear it in the hall now. It is breaking down crying.
- 0:08It turns out that Attila the arrogant soul.
- 0:11And so he's got a fake hammer. Oh.
- 0:13A. Fake.
- 0:14Yeah. Whoa.
- 0:15As I say, Dick. Welcome to episode 163 of the
- 0:21Legions Podcast. And this week we have some
- 0:23breaking news about a new Mythic Legions wave.
- 0:27We have some cosmic Legions lore about potentially what's coming
- 0:33for cosmic this year first tease.
- 0:36And we also have news about intern for a day for the
- 0:42November this year. So that should be plenty to talk
- 0:46about. What do you think guys?
- 0:49Yeah, definitely. I reckon so.
- 0:51Yeah, it's going to be good. It's all very exciting.
- 0:54It's getting real. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 0:58It's not it's not close yet though, like some people are are
- 1:01making out like an I'm. Fair few months yet yeah, I I
- 1:07sorted my flights and hotel. I stay out before the flights on
- 1:13Monday, was it? It was Monday, wasn't it?
- 1:15Yeah, so. That reminds me as I reached my
- 1:19phone to set an alarm drama to put my coach tickets down to the
- 1:22airport because I haven't done that.
- 1:25My my train ticket to London, the ones I like to get weren't
- 1:28available yet because they're not available till 12 weeks
- 1:31before, so a bit so late. An alarm setting alarms the
- 1:36technology. For yeah, the alert is set for
- 1:39when they become available. Yeah, the reason I was saying
- 1:41it's not that close is because I have a lot of stuff to paint,
- 1:45preferably before. Actually, you're making you.
- 1:53Know and I know when the summer gets going I'll be out doing
- 1:57outdoors, more outdoorsy stuff so it'll be even more difficult
- 2:02to find time because last year I did a lot of stuff over the
- 2:07winter and this year I did not so.
- 2:10That's all right. That's all right.
- 2:12It looks like you're going to get a nice hot week next week.
- 2:14So yeah, that's true. Yeah, I've started in little
- 2:17bits. I've been rooting around for
- 2:19some heads that I don't want anymore, for the blind bags this
- 2:22year sort of thing. So yeah.
- 2:25Very cool. Oh, that's cool.
- 2:28Yeah, I might have some. Well, I think they're with
- 2:31they're with Anthony in the States, but I definitely have
- 2:35maybe some heads that didn't sell last year that could maybe
- 2:38go blind bag. So bring a few empty bags, Rich.
- 2:43No problem at all. Aliexpress is my friend in that
- 2:45regard. Very good.
- 2:49And yeah, it should be. It should be fun.
- 2:52And we got, we got it almost five months.
- 2:58Is it 5 months? Six months?
- 2:59Something like that, yeah. Yeah, it's about 5 1/2 now.
- 3:02Yeah. Very good enough for another 5
- 3:07horsemen waves between now and then.
- 3:10At least two of them. And Rich, you left myself a man
- 3:17on her own last week. What was that about?
- 3:19Explain yourself to the listeners.
- 3:21And what? I won't go into too much detail.
- 3:23I wouldn't. I don't want the detail, I just
- 3:24want to the lame excuse. Suffice to say, I've lost a
- 3:28considerable amount of weight over the last week.
- 3:30Congratulations. Let's leave it at that.
- 3:33What's what did you name the baby Mr?
- 3:38Plop. Oh, better, better than Mr.
- 3:43Blaby yes, no, I was. I was probably for a week.
- 3:49I went up to my mum's, I think the first time ever I've lost
- 3:52weight while being up at my mum's because she's a feeder.
- 3:55But I was just like, I know I just can't, just can't, no.
- 4:00Yeah. Well, all good.
- 4:02So we're back as a three, which I think people will be happy to
- 4:07hear they can. Ripples are always bad.
- 4:10Indeed. The trifles, right?
- 4:17We can, we can do more of this BS and as we go along, but let's
- 4:22get into some of the news. So some of you might be used to
- 4:26our episode going kind of it's like Thursday evening US time
- 4:32and I don't know, Thursday afternoon US time.
- 4:35It's very much Thursday into Friday here, but it's going to
- 4:39be a little bit later this week because on this Friday the Four
- 4:42Horsemen are dropping and we'll have dropped by the time you see
- 4:45this. A little tease for their next
- 4:48pre-order. So we said pre-order rich, not
- 4:51in stock and all. Right.
- 4:53All right, you were right. The Second Great War has begun.
- 4:57The fighting has been furious. Maybe we could analyse that
- 5:00word. The losses have been great.
- 5:03It's time for some reinforcements.
- 5:07Mythic Legion Reinforcements special Friday the 29th of May
- 5:13starting at 7:00 PM EDT, so middle of the night for us.
- 5:18We'll see them on Saturday morning unless anyone's feeling
- 5:21adventurous. So the usual 4 horsemen YouTube
- 5:26and store horsemen.com straight after for pre-order, which we
- 5:30can assume no details, but we can assume will run a month or
- 5:34so or whatever, you know, the usual time, enough time.
- 5:39So pre-order first news. That's interesting.
- 5:44I, I was kind of looking at, you know, all the things that are
- 5:48producing. So the ashes of egg vendors
- 5:50obviously just been through the factory and the RPG is probably
- 5:55asked to go fairly soon. They're probably doing the
- 5:57allegiance configures in through production as we speak.
- 6:01Probably an unnamed figure Obscura is is shortly going into
- 6:05production and you got the heads packs from Cosmic.
- 6:09So, yeah, would be, when you think of it like that, it would
- 6:13be very ambitious to get a pre-order of a wave of Legion
- 6:18builders in that slot right now as it's gone, you know, we've
- 6:22got so much stuff being produced, you know, but I, I
- 6:27mean, I said it was, I thought it was going to be a pre or, but
- 6:29I wasn't like, I wouldn't have been at all surprised if it
- 6:32hadn't been in a way. But thinking about it now, even
- 6:36more than I thought about it when I just threw that out, it
- 6:39definitely makes sense. And it gives people Legion
- 6:43builders. It gets gives people the chance
- 6:44to if you want 12, if you want a 12 of something you know and.
- 6:48As you getting it right John, you know what the favourite of
- 6:51saying is. Even a stopped clock is right
- 6:53one. True, it's like you even even a
- 6:58stopped rich turns up for the podcast once.
- 7:01Occasionally, Oh dear, right, so people like all the cases and
- 7:09things that don't they in the in stop in the legion builder.
- 7:13So I think pre-order is probably a very good idea.
- 7:15Well, let's face it, if there's any, if one of them is a
- 7:17skeleton, then Brett will be ordering several cases.
- 7:20So yeah, yeah, yeah. So I say as well that Al said
- 7:26R3, but as I'm living in Eric and Jeremy's head now, that's
- 7:30clearly RB because my middle initial is B so they clearly
- 7:34they clearly do the. Richard the Bollocks, Jones.
- 7:37Yeah. They clearly are doing that sort
- 7:39of thing. Yeah, just prepping everybody.
- 7:44Yeah. So if they do, yeah.
- 7:49Tell you what, we don't need all these nights.
- 7:51We need Shark Men reinforcements.
- 7:53Although to be fair, it is choice between Knights and shark
- 7:55men. I'm shark men every day.
- 8:02No, judging by how many clicks night customs get with with dude
- 8:07heads on them, I think they'll be producing at least one or two
- 8:11at. Least one or two.
- 8:14Very interesting to see the soft goods if if soft goods become a
- 8:19thing for legion builders in a way and probably not, you know,
- 8:25maybe as a like an add on pack. I think somebody suggested that
- 8:28one. We talked about it well that.
- 8:30'D be quite cool, yeah. And of course, yeah.
- 8:35Sorry, Josh. Yeah, I was going to say the
- 8:36current packs would be a great one to add in here.
- 8:37And I think, yeah, I think somebody asked Jeremy that on
- 8:39his was his last show and he did like AQ and a on one of the
- 8:42questions about carrier carrier packs and he was like, yeah,
- 8:45yeah, the the been amazingly popular.
- 8:47So definitely something we're thinking about so.
- 8:51Yeah. And and of course they have that
- 8:54kind of cloth good looking sculpted body that we talked
- 8:57about from yeah, T Wave and Brood Scale Legion builder and
- 9:03we have one of them yet. So something that would be good.
- 9:08I know our friends, the mythic enablers were were chatting
- 9:11about that and you know, Eric tends to stay quiet when they
- 9:15talk about any sort of speculation, but he did come in.
- 9:20But he came in really like, you know, I'm just saying guys, I
- 9:23would also love a brute scale Legion builder, but he, you
- 9:26know. I don't know where he didn't.
- 9:30Yeah, the one I. Know, but it was really mean.
- 9:32It was really just like he was. So he so wanted that type of
- 9:38Legion builder that he added to the body.
- 9:40Like, no, he gave no hint as to whether it was or not, but he
- 9:44said if it if there is one, he'd be very happy.
- 9:46About it. My only thing with bright scale
- 9:49at this point is I'd like something more than just a bare
- 9:52body, which of course we won't get the Legion builder, but
- 9:56they're all a bit naked aren't they?
- 9:58At the moment the bright scale so.
- 10:01Maybe character pack with the like a tattered shirt or
- 10:04something. Tattered.
- 10:04Kind of. Yeah, you see Cloth good speech
- 10:07and I think we'll get so. It's still against the Hulk,
- 10:09isn't it? Yeah, well, maybe a two more.
- 10:13Purple shoe, tattered white, You know, shirt.
- 10:15There we go. What we need to ask we whatever
- 10:18Knights were under their armour. One of those tattered.
- 10:22Long John's. A knight.
- 10:26Yeah, So very exciting to see what they come up with and also
- 10:31to see, I'm guessing that it's $30 is the is the new Legion
- 10:36builder price that would make the standard figures and would
- 10:42be interesting to see what they come up with in terms of we've
- 10:45just had the RPG wave with a bunch of $30 figures.
- 10:49They seem to trend more towards maybe paint apps being a bit
- 10:54more and you know, more detailed than the previous legion
- 11:00builders. So that's good, I think because
- 11:02that's a trademark of the line. Really good paint it's.
- 11:05One of the things I think I'm most looking forward to with the
- 11:07reveal is what they're going to do that's going to make it
- 11:10different to the RPG. Yeah, Because obviously we had
- 11:13Dwarfs, Nights L, you know, we had all of the standard races.
- 11:18So what are they going to do to make this different enough that
- 11:21someone's not going to go? Well, I've just ordered 30
- 11:23figures on the RPGI. Don't need these.
- 11:25Well, yeah, I forgot. I need these.
- 11:28As it's a pre-order rich, you know they can use all those new
- 11:32parts. There's nice new parts that
- 11:33they're tuning up. This is true.
- 11:35This is very true. For the reign of the beasts, for
- 11:39the sea guys, you know. So we say in scale Legion
- 11:44builders. Yeah, yeah, in scale Legion
- 11:47builders. Some sort of dodgy legion
- 11:50builder would be amazing wouldn't it that?
- 11:53Would maybe my evil gnome will come true fruition?
- 11:57Yeah, cool as well. Yeah, maybe they've got a fungi
- 12:00folk head sculpted already. Just pop out on one of the the
- 12:04scales and go well you know only one you had.
- 12:09Only one, but you know, as with all of these things and you
- 12:12know, especially not the way you are rich, there's a million and
- 12:15one custom heads out there that you can open the Legion builder
- 12:18so. Well, I think that would make a
- 12:20good topic for a show would be as talking true.
- 12:23You know, this is the Legion builders.
- 12:25This is all the stuff you can use custom wise.
- 12:27Yep, and here's the ones that maybe if I was a talented
- 12:31sculptor, I would think about sculpting near the time of
- 12:34released, giving away our ideas for free, you know.
- 12:43Speaking of which, you know, Rich has finalised a bunch of
- 12:48the dog heads for this year and and Mr Calvo, I've got him to
- 12:54print me up a little batch of them.
- 12:56So I'm going to make some maybe customs with those for Legions
- 12:59Con. So that would be exciting.
- 13:00Obviously nothing will be revealed for a while.
- 13:02I don't think we want to do it yet.
- 13:06Much closer to Legions Con is better for our sanity and for
- 13:10you know, let's chat some people stealing the ideas.
- 13:15Let's be. Honest I'm I'm still waiting on
- 13:16the soft goods for my dog characters as well so I couldn't
- 13:20couldn't share anything until I got those in as well.
- 13:22Yeah, and Mark is busy painting all the stuff, so you know,
- 13:26Yeah, I've. Also, this was at the start of
- 13:28this week. Yeah, I thought all the weekend
- 13:31just gone or whatever. Sent the next set of commissions
- 13:34through to John Lucca as well. So the the dogs will have
- 13:38opposition this year. They will have people they're
- 13:40scrapping against. Oh, other dogs are.
- 13:44Not other dogs. Nope.
- 13:46Any other dog? Catches.
- 13:48If you if you remember the storyline, John, you'd know what
- 13:50sort of creatures they'd be fighting.
- 13:53Right. Wow, he's they they were they
- 14:00were up against the Simeon Federation job.
- 14:03That's right, the monkeys. The monkeys, yes.
- 14:06So there'll be, yeah, a bit of everything in there.
- 14:09Right. Well, go back to that episode,
- 14:11folks, and you'll hear all about it.
- 14:14And obviously you'll hear all as well as again, as well as the
- 14:17simians. I chucked a shark in there for
- 14:18John Lucre as well. So obviously there'll be a,
- 14:20there'll be one shark. Well, you know, every good,
- 14:25every good, every every good faction of monkeys needs a shark
- 14:29to do the. Exactly.
- 14:30Yeah, yeah. Very cool.
- 14:35So well now gets us now gets DMCA there for for baby shark.
- 14:42You know, we now have to mark this video as YouTube Kids.
- 14:49Yeah. So we are extremely excited.
- 14:51Thanks to Jeremy for for sending us this little hint in advance.
- 14:56And the same news as they're publishing on Friday.
- 14:59He knows we record on a Wednesday and very kindly sent
- 15:04this through because I guess it's good if we have the info to
- 15:10let our listeners and viewers know and also give our little
- 15:14plug in excitement for it. So that was really cool of him.
- 15:18And I'm sure lots of the other shows that record our stream
- 15:22after this reveal, we'll all be talking about it as well.
- 15:26So there will be plenty of content speculation and chat
- 15:31about this for the next week or so.
- 15:35And I think we've we're going to try and do our next episode
- 15:38after the reveal. So that will drop slightly later
- 15:43and you know, won't be next Friday because they're revealing
- 15:46it next Friday evening in the US.
- 15:48So hopefully we get something recorded over the weekend and we
- 15:52get it out as early as possible after that, so that'll be fun.
- 15:56Sounds like a plant. Sounds like a plant.
- 15:59So we also got an amazing little YouTube video.
- 16:05Did you hear that? I didn't see that.
- 16:07I watched it earlier. Yeah, I.
- 16:09Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, is it good?
- 16:11Yeah, we all, we all pop up in the background a few times.
- 16:15Yeah, they didn't. They didn't use our talents for
- 16:18the for the talking heads and. Well, they probably don't want
- 16:22to come across as too posh with the European accents, These
- 16:26people, it's like. They didn't want this event.
- 16:27They didn't want to subtitle it. Let's be honest.
- 16:30That's extra work for them. Yeah.
- 16:32So you had I think it's a lot of the same people that were in the
- 16:36video about Legions Con. Yeah, they did, you know, make
- 16:40sense. That's how that's how the
- 16:42sausage is made in terms of making video documentary style
- 16:46stuff. You know you could you do all
- 16:48your talking head stuff but the various different topics in one
- 16:52go and then the poor Mr Editor has to put it all together
- 16:56afterwards. Did they make them change their
- 16:58shirts at least? I mean, I don't think so, but
- 17:02you know, they're all, they're all mythic or community related
- 17:07shirts for the most part. You know, some of those people
- 17:11might even even change shirts regularly.
- 17:13You know, I'm only mess. Of course they do.
- 17:18Of course they do. There is no there's no bad
- 17:21smells. Elite is gone.
- 17:22Is there? Oh, there really are, but not
- 17:24too many people. I think he's getting.
- 17:26Less. It's a few in our room, I can
- 17:28tell you that. Quite please.
- 17:33Apparently they tend to hover around Jeremy DeWitt as well,
- 17:35so. Now, Jeremy's one of the nicest
- 17:41guys. He can't be saying that he.
- 17:43Just has a very loose asshole apparently.
- 17:47Way too much toilet talk already on this episode, sorry.
- 17:51Yeah. So announcing intern for day
- 17:542026 detail and lottery. Already there, yeah.
- 17:59Yeah, you can sign up. There was a link in the thing,
- 18:01Mal and are are we all going to sign up?
- 18:05I I'm going to have to it, yeah, especially.
- 18:10Being in a new venue as well this year, yeah, doubly
- 18:13exciting. So one of those I feel a little,
- 18:15if I if I got it, I'd feel slightly guilty because I do
- 18:18feel like it's something everyone should experience.
- 18:21However, it's so good I really want to do it.
- 18:27Yeah, I'm thinking this year. So if if one of us gets it, then
- 18:32maybe Jeremy will, maybe he won't do the same thing as
- 18:35always allows us to invite the other two.
- 18:38But why don't we instead invite someone that's never been to
- 18:44accompany whichever one of us gets out of?
- 18:47It's only one of us. For example, like our one of our
- 18:51patrons, Jeremy Govier, who's been, you know, there every
- 18:54year. He's never got drawn out of the
- 18:55lottery and never got invited along.
- 18:59So him for he, for example, I hope he comes out in the lottery
- 19:02himself. No, not for free, mind you.
- 19:06You know, you're paying your, it's $300, you're paying half.
- 19:10Let's be honest. We shall see.
- 19:15But I think if, if Jeremy does allow us to to, you know, take
- 19:20the other two, then I think it's too good of an offer to to
- 19:24refuse really isn't. It.
- 19:25Oh, definitely, Yeah, definitely, yeah.
- 19:28Rich is like shut up John what are you talking about?
- 19:31Edit this bit out. I'm staying nice and quiet on
- 19:34it, but yeah, John's opinion is not that of the European League.
- 19:40So continuing what they started in 2021 by hosting intern as
- 19:46part of the mythic weekend. So they did at I think like
- 19:49April time previously and well, G Khan used to be in August.
- 19:53So you know, this only came together in 2021 as a whole
- 19:58thing together in one weekend registrations.
- 20:04Are open you can sign up sourcehorseman.com/intern just
- 20:09go to source Horsemen there's a news article or the link is
- 20:12directly in the social media posts.
- 20:15Registrations are one per person and we will be checking for
- 20:18duplicates. So don't apply twice because you
- 20:21won't, you won't be lucky you, you will like get kicked out
- 20:27completely. So that wouldn't be good at all.
- 20:30Lottery starts on the 20th of May and so that's already today,
- 20:35Wednesday, as we're recording this and it's running until the
- 20:3819th of June. So pretty much a month.
- 20:44Once that's closed, the names will be drawn and the people
- 20:48that would be selected have the opportunity to purchase tickets.
- 20:51So if you suddenly decide, oh, I can't get a flight out for that
- 20:55day or work won't give me the holidays or I can't get a hotel
- 21:00room, you're not committed until you actually say yes to to being
- 21:05picked out of the lottery. The ticket price IS300.
- 21:12It doesn't include like your transport or you know, hotel or
- 21:16anything like that. It's just for, it's not just
- 21:18for, but it's for the day at the Horseman studio.
- 21:21You need to find your way there. If you're around the hotel on
- 21:26that, on that morning, you'll you'll find someone who who can
- 21:31share a taxi or even get a lift off somebody you know.
- 21:36You'll get looked after. Yeah.
- 21:39Tickets are non transferable so anyone who purchases a ticket
- 21:42cannot make the event will need to contact the Horsemen for a
- 21:46refund. And yeah, the tickets are as I
- 21:50said $300. The person who gets the quote
- 21:54pulled out of the lottery is the one that gets the the little.
- 21:58What it's been so far is a bust of of different characters each
- 22:03year. And you know, maybe it's going
- 22:06to be similar this year or but something it's a gift anyway
- 22:09that you will get. But just other than the gift, I
- 22:13mean, the experience is pretty much exactly the same for for
- 22:16your guests. So it's really worth.
- 22:18It, you know, Yeah. And the gear, the gift, the
- 22:21experience is the bit that, you know, I get so excited about.
- 22:25Absolutely. Yeah, and hey, there's a
- 22:28particular faction you really hate and expect Jeremy Gerard to
- 22:30have a badge for you when you get there.
- 22:37So it's November the 5th or Thursday of, you know, that week
- 22:41of Legions console, basically the day before the G Con reveal.
- 22:47You'll also get front rows or near front row seats for G Con
- 22:50if you want them the next day, get in first.
- 22:53And so once you click on the four source horseman.com/intern,
- 22:58you get a little Google form basically.
- 23:02See my e-mail address there. There we go.
- 23:04Brilliant. And so so.
- 23:15Much stuff, man. Where are you travelling from?
- 23:18I mean, that should get us in already, you know.
- 23:19Come on, we're to be as far, far away as.
- 23:22Should add an extra 3 spaces in the into it and just let us go
- 23:26along and. What's your favourite legions
- 23:29figure? I think that's just to to make
- 23:31sure there is no bots, yeah. I'm thinking actually, if I
- 23:36don't get into intern, then I'm going to have to queue with
- 23:38everybody else for G Con and I won't get my it's pretty much my
- 23:41normal seat. I think I've signed basically
- 23:42the same seat for the last three years.
- 23:46I'm used to that seat and that view.
- 23:47It's going to, it's going to throw me completely even if I'm
- 23:49just like 2 rows back. Like what the hell?
- 23:51How? Long it takes us to get there,
- 23:57We'll be we'll be way further back.
- 23:59This is true, yeah. Yeah, there'd be lots of what's
- 24:06it's, what is it on the screen. Watching it on the phone, Yeah,
- 24:09basically. The phone out yeah going like I
- 24:12can hear him talking about it I can see it yeah there we.
- 24:14Are and a 5 second delay in real time.
- 24:18Yeah. So that's a lot to digest.
- 24:21But you know, that is kind of what we got left now for.
- 24:26I think we've got day 2 exclusives or I don't know if I
- 24:31don't know if that's day one and day 2.
- 24:32But the second lot of exclusive figures or an exclusive figure,
- 24:36I don't know if it's single plural, whatever it is.
- 24:39But Jeremy did say there was going to be another figure
- 24:43reveal for exclusives. And what was that man?
- 24:46The Armoury. Always a the armoury, yet I
- 24:50looked last year because someone was posting in the Cabal this
- 24:54week about, you know, will they be revealing the armoury soon?
- 24:58And last year they did it. I look back at what you know,
- 25:01the episode when we did our chat about it, it was in September
- 25:05early. September, Yeah, it's quite
- 25:07late, isn't it? Which is understandable.
- 25:10Yeah, I think you have to build, build hype for it.
- 25:12You don't want to, you don't want to say, here's the thing
- 25:15that's happening in, you know. Yeah, exactly.
- 25:18Six months. Also, if anything goes wrong,
- 25:20you don't know promise something, all of a sudden you
- 25:21don't have. Yeah, it's true.
- 25:24You get the stuff in from China and you open the box up and an
- 25:26entire head is missing or something like that.
- 25:28You're like, OK, we've advertised that that's a
- 25:30problem. Yeah, that's true.
- 25:32Yeah, They would at least want to be loading the containers by
- 25:36then. You know, I don't know how fine
- 25:39they cut it, but I suppose there's always just because of
- 25:44it being kind of globalised thing, there's always going to
- 25:47be seat of the pants moments for them, you know, with that.
- 25:53So what what, what are you most apart from the people, as we
- 25:56always say, the people. What are you most excited for?
- 25:59And other than that, for this, this year's legions gone, it
- 26:06could be stuff that's like not been revealed yet, obviously.
- 26:09I hate to say I am genuinely excited by the fish and chips in
- 26:11the pub again. You live in, you live in
- 26:15England. The stuff in the.
- 26:18Particularly is good, though their fish is very, very good.
- 26:21OK, anyone in the Bristol area send in your recommendation for
- 26:26the best fish and chips Rich will go and try it out he'll do
- 26:30a little video and we'll put it up as a real and a short YouTube
- 26:34short there we go we could have a new niche I'm.
- 26:37Looking forward to walking around on the Friday night, just
- 26:41seeing everything everyone's got out.
- 26:42That's it's a good, it's a good handing over dollars.
- 26:46Yeah, it's a good, bad thing because I'm taking photographs
- 26:48and circling what I want to get the next day.
- 26:50But it's also such such fun because.
- 26:52But, you know, even if you're only an hour in and you get out
- 26:55from behind the table on the Saturday, half the stuff's gone
- 26:57anyway, sort of thing. So that's the one chance to see
- 26:59everything and really appreciate what everyone's done.
- 27:02I. Think I think the surprise
- 27:04figure, the surprise drop that isn't really a surprise, but you
- 27:08what it is is the surprises. It was quite fun this last year
- 27:13because everyone sort of was like it's going to happen, isn't
- 27:15it? They were it's going to it's
- 27:16just going to happen. And there was like a little
- 27:18space on the diorama where everyone was like it's going to
- 27:21be in there. They're going to stick it in
- 27:22there when it's dropped. And I was sort of teasing.
- 27:26Well, teasing is not the right word, but going to build bank
- 27:29you. So so that space there, that's
- 27:32good for a figure, right? He wasn't having any of it.
- 27:37Go away. But not that politely, yeah.
- 27:40Pretty sure it was one of you that suggested it.
- 27:42I still think it's a genius idea.
- 27:43They should just put it somewhere behind the bar.
- 27:48I would think that was something Rich said.
- 27:50I've vague memories of that. And the Irish?
- 27:52I don't remember so I won't claim credit, but it's a great.
- 27:55Pop it in there like Thursday afternoon, kind of when there's
- 27:58no one around, yeah. See if anyone.
- 28:02Notices the other stuff I'm sure The thing is one person will and
- 28:06then it'll just they'll just be a cute people gone in.
- 28:09Yeah, yeah, not buying drinks, which is probably pissed the bar
- 28:12stuff off. Yeah, true.
- 28:15They probably don't want to queue in there.
- 28:17Obviously, another thing to look forward to is our live show as
- 28:19well, John. I'm obviously very much looking
- 28:21forward to that. Yeah, we're going to try and
- 28:25have an even better plan this year.
- 28:27Well, I mean for last year was the first time.
- 28:29So there was a lot of things that we needed to.
- 28:32I think we've just avoided reading those British newspaper
- 28:34stories that. Yeah, that didn't work.
- 28:36That didn't work. Yeah, that didn't work.
- 28:38Just awful. I mean.
- 28:40And we'd see, I mean, we don't know the time slot.
- 28:42I mean, possibly in the same time slot.
- 28:45And that is, that's cool in a way because it's right after the
- 28:49G Con, but it's also difficult because you can't really
- 28:51prepare. You know, I was trying to make
- 28:54notes in in G Con, but you're also just trying to take it in
- 28:58and enjoy yourself. So yeah, the late at night ones
- 29:04are obviously you can have more crack, you know, when it's a
- 29:08kind of a more late evening thing.
- 29:11So we should see, we should see what they do.
- 29:14I don't know if you know, I don't know anything about how
- 29:17they're going to do it this year in terms of shows because I know
- 29:21they have people on the 3rd floor in the room, so.
- 29:24Oh, yes, of course. Oh, that.
- 29:26I'm looking forward to seeing how all that works out and all
- 29:28the new, Yeah, the new presentation of the con.
- 29:32That's going to be cool. Yeah.
- 29:33Yeah. And.
- 29:36So, you know, will there still be a room there for for, you
- 29:41know, the different shows probably, but you know, may not
- 29:45be. And so then they might have to
- 29:47have a different location or something like that.
- 29:49So we shall see. Put us in the swimming pool
- 29:52that's empty. In the in the pool.
- 29:55Just get everyone to carry the table down into the bottom of
- 29:58the pool and just. Here we go.
- 29:59Yeah, we're just. And they can all sit around the
- 30:01edge, you know? Yeah.
- 30:02I think I'd find that a bit intimidating below them. 6 beers
- 30:09in the pub and nothing would be intimidating man.
- 30:14For Richard to be intimidating because the first time somebody
- 30:17would be tolerating. Them No, unfortunately I often
- 30:21and it's something next to big Greg.
- 30:22He's got like 5 something on me. It's like Jesus do.
- 30:26And that basketball player last year remember you.
- 30:28You. He was.
- 30:30I've actually cricked my neck looking up and he's all 610.
- 30:33I think it's just like, good God.
- 30:38Yeah. So all that to look forward to
- 30:40and much more. But we're we're all booked with
- 30:45flights and you know, as the boy said that we have some small
- 30:49things like buses to book, I have my car parking to book that
- 30:54kind of stuff. But I think also the car parking
- 30:57doesn't become available until closer the time as well.
- 31:00Yeah, I am unfortunately as well this year only going to be able
- 31:04to do from Wednesday to just to, you know, the weekend the same
- 31:08as you guys did. I can't do the extended week
- 31:10this this time, which I'm a bit good to buy, but finances will
- 31:14be such I have to be a bit more sensible this year.
- 31:18So Mal will be, it's totally all over the place with the time
- 31:22zone now. Yeah, back to the previous.
- 31:25Yeah. Yeah, about two years ago, yeah.
- 31:27Yeah, probably. We'll see.
- 31:29I love a free I love a free bed from 5:00 in the morning as my
- 31:32house for a wonder. Yeah, I'll fall asleep in the
- 31:37chair again. Oh well.
- 31:42Yeah, I think we, I think this is the year we need to test out.
- 31:45Rich's bold. He fights in his sleep.
- 31:51That's fine, that's fine. But I mentioned I've been known
- 31:54to dry hump in my sleep as well so.
- 31:59I think judging by the flights you boys have booked, I'm going
- 32:03to be there before you this year.
- 32:05No, I, I didn't go. I I so I booked the one I
- 32:12intended to book, which is the one before Rich.
- 32:15So I'll be there like half an hour before you.
- 32:19OK, yeah, so we can we can hopefully get the bread buzz
- 32:23together. Yeah, yeah, if he's doing.
- 32:25Oh. Yeah, yeah, if.
- 32:26He's doing my alone timer but ideally too so he's going to
- 32:29beep off. That's me and you.
- 32:30So Rich won't be there before us now, so we can, Yeah.
- 32:33The room. Yeah, that's it.
- 32:37Yeah, you. Sent a track, sent Mark A Beddy.
- 32:39Yeah. These are ours.
- 32:40Yeah, you can. Oh.
- 32:43Yeah, we can ask Mark Calvo if he wants to ditch his room and
- 32:49come and share with us instead. And he's, he's like faint and
- 32:54small, like he's not as tall as you.
- 32:55So, you know, be very, be very snug then.
- 33:00So if they do that, everybody then expecting me on the sofa in
- 33:03the in the communal area downstairs, just come and give
- 33:06me a nudge and say hello. We wouldn't do that to you,
- 33:12Rich. You know, we need you.
- 33:15We need you to turn up here every week and and.
- 33:18Also, you'd miss out on the mass unwrapping of boxes on the
- 33:23Monday morning. I don't think I would miss that.
- 33:27I look forward to that because it it's a sign that I've had a
- 33:30great time, you know? There you go.
- 33:33It's like, it's like a hangover. It's a sign that you've had a
- 33:36great time. You know I.
- 33:38Might have to get some like reinforced gloves or something
- 33:40this year though. So there's no like slicing of
- 33:41fingers open. So become a bit of a
- 33:44professional doing this. Or the little white I've.
- 33:46Got the eye protection so I just need the gloves as well, yeah.
- 33:49The little white, white gloves like the snooker referees have,
- 33:54you know, handling accessories really carefully and you know.
- 34:00Yeah, So you're bringing a rare manuscript?
- 34:01No, he's just opening a box. With a toy.
- 34:03Just a toy. A really old toy, no?
- 34:08Yeah, so, so 4 horsemen, if you do some sort of fish lizard
- 34:12creature as as one as the secret drop or as one of the
- 34:16exclusives, please just put like a tonne of accessories into
- 34:20trays, sell a tape or get the factory to sell a tape over all
- 34:24the accessories individually and Rich will miss his flight home.
- 34:30Absolutely. Yeah, there'd be a chance.
- 34:35You'd have to go, you'd have to go find a friendly American and
- 34:38ask for his pocket knife, you know, And he pulls out like,
- 34:41which one do you want? Up to 400 machetes I have.
- 34:47Find The Australian. Crocodile Dundee row in.
- 34:52Yeah. Bring your knife.
- 34:53I'm sure. No, they all had to travel far
- 34:56to come here. I'm sure they can't get them on
- 34:57the plane. No.
- 35:00I was flicking through telling you in the last week or so and
- 35:03Crocodile Dundee was on and it was that scene and it was really
- 35:07afflicted on that scene came up and it was just like, oh, it's
- 35:11brilliant. Then We Don was like, I don't
- 35:12watch the rest of them. Yeah, the highlight of the whole
- 35:17series. Yeah.
- 35:18Of Crocodile Dundee is there, There and then.
- 35:22Yeah. And what did I watch?
- 35:24I watched Chernobyl recently. Have you seen that series?
- 35:27It's just five episodes, really. Good things, Yeah.
- 35:30I've not watched it. Incredible.
- 35:32I mean, not agreement, agreement off topic as you can imagine.
- 35:36And we know that. We know the real story, which
- 35:39it's based on, but extremely well done, amazingly well done.
- 35:43And I don't know, I'm the kind of person that can watch
- 35:47depressing stuff and it doesn't get me depressed.
- 35:49It gets me kind of, I don't know, I'm fascinated, interested
- 35:53in it, but I seem to be able to separate it from, you know, it
- 35:57doesn't bring me down the same way as I can listen to like very
- 36:01downbeat music and actually be fine.
- 36:04It's usually, you know, if I'm struggling a bit, if I'm
- 36:07listening to really kind of happy music because I'm trying
- 36:11to cheer myself up, if I'm listening to some miserable guy
- 36:14with a guitar, you know, crying about his girlfriend, then I'm
- 36:17probably in a great mood, so. Anyway, the Spice Girls John
- 36:25Chapani. Yeah, then then you really need
- 36:28to. So yeah, that's a, that's a
- 36:31recommendation from what 2019. So that's the long I'm sure if
- 36:35you've if you've seen it, you've seen it.
- 36:37If you wanted to see, probably seen, it's great.
- 36:41A couple of cool movies coming up, of course, Mando and Growth
- 36:44and Mandalorian and Grogos. Coming weekend.
- 36:47Oh well, as people are listening to this, it'll have been
- 36:50released over. It's out today, apparently
- 36:52Luxembourg. Yeah, yeah, the first screens
- 36:54were today and I was considering ditching you, but then I
- 36:58thought, and it's good holidays next week, so maybe it's a good
- 37:04way. It's a good excuse to bring the
- 37:05kids to the cinema, even though, as you said, the weather's going
- 37:08to be great, but maybe might be too good.
- 37:10Be good to get insight into some nice little yeah, Yeah.
- 37:17I believe it's a continuation of what was going on in the series
- 37:21in a way. That's right.
- 37:21Yeah. Yeah.
- 37:23I I'm pretty sure I've watched the last series, but I maybe
- 37:26want what to recap myself just to be sure.
- 37:29But apparently you can watch the stand alone as well and it's
- 37:32umm, it also works. So yeah, you know, which I think
- 37:36is sensible because otherwise they're really limiting their
- 37:39box office. Yeah, I started watching the
- 37:42first series again and got 2 episodes in and then realised
- 37:45that Mando was coming out before long and as well I'm never going
- 37:47to watch. Yeah, I just roll out my memory.
- 37:49There we go. Yeah, I think you you could
- 37:52watch the last episode maybe of the last season.
- 37:55It might be a good one just to get you to the to the time
- 37:59point. But as much as I like Star Wars,
- 38:02the Masters of the Universe movie is the one that good
- 38:07reviews just really yeah. I mean, there isn't really
- 38:12reviews as such a but they they had a like a they had a fan like
- 38:17a screening for like lots of people from the community, you
- 38:22know, the pixel Dans of the world and all the other MOTU
- 38:25kind of influencers and whatever.
- 38:28And they were allowed to post a social media post not reviewing
- 38:32the movie as such, but saying what they thought of it, you
- 38:37know, saying I liked it or I didn't like it, you know, kind
- 38:40of thing. And yeah, they seem to.
- 38:42Now, again, that's a captive audience, a very biassed
- 38:45audience. But at the same time they.
- 38:47'D be the one they should be aiming.
- 38:49For Pan and yeah, they'd be pan and.
- 38:51Yeah, absolutely. I think honestly my expectations
- 38:55would be anything more than like complete and utter horseshit.
- 38:59Sharknado 3 garbage is is going to be amazing.
- 39:03So if it's actually something that, you know, the general
- 39:06public might even like and you know, the kids of today might be
- 39:10my, you know, like then amazing. And I think they are trying to.
- 39:16Oh yeah, that's. For sure.
- 39:18Set up a little bit of a universe there.
- 39:21No, no pun intended. Yeah, the director has already,
- 39:26sort of. I didn't read the article, but I
- 39:28saw an article where he was. Yeah, he's come out and already
- 39:31talked about what I'd like to do if there's sequels.
- 39:35Yeah. Awesome.
- 39:37Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, we'll have a if we have a
- 39:39genuinely have a good masses the universe film.
- 39:43But wow, Yeah, we've had put it with that crap for 40 years.
- 39:47This is one of these things where like if I got hit by a car
- 39:51in the next two weeks and died, I'd be annoyed because, you
- 39:55know, emotional because I didn't get to just see what this was
- 39:58like. I'm not, I'm not like I mightn't
- 40:01even go on the first day, but I would be.
- 40:03It's a bit like, you know, when Game of Thrones was coming to
- 40:06the final season and OK, most people didn't like the final
- 40:09season, but I was calling, you know, Jesus.
- 40:11Imagine the poor person who you know.
- 40:15Suddenly get sick and dies or, you know, they don't get to see
- 40:18the end of no, they'd have a lot more serious problems, you know,
- 40:21going on. But it is just one tiny thing.
- 40:23It's like, oh, I've invested so much in this over the years, and
- 40:26then I don't get to see the bloody moon.
- 40:29And also there has been fans of of the Masters Unionist first
- 40:34property. You know that I know Darren from
- 40:38Toy Power podcast, for example. He passed away a few years ago
- 40:41and he was I think the biggest MOTU fan I've ever heard on, you
- 40:46know, these shows. So it is kind of sad when you
- 40:49think about it that way. But hopefully we get, hopefully
- 40:53we make it for another two weeks to get to see, to see it
- 40:56materialise. I mean, I'm going to say it on
- 40:58the first day because it's my birthday, so I really hope
- 41:01nothing happens to me. That was that would suck.
- 41:04That would be the worst birthday ever.
- 41:06It would potentially going from like one of the great birthdays
- 41:08to one of the worst birthdays ever.
- 41:12Well, I'm actually off at the cinema tomorrow as well.
- 41:14I'm doing a double header tomorrow so I can feedback to
- 41:16you guys. What mortal?
- 41:17Kombat Man. Doing Oh, I've seen more
- 41:20comeback too. Did.
- 41:21You like it, ma'am? I enjoyed it, yeah.
- 41:23I thought it was really good. Did you see the first one?
- 41:27Yes, I think it's better than the first one.
- 41:30Oh, nice. Excellent.
- 41:31So this is this is the modern Mortal Kombat they're doing.
- 41:35It's not the second ever Mortal Kombat movie, I hope.
- 41:39No, no, this is the so they did one what, 2-3 years ago?
- 41:42And this is the sequel to that. Yeah, I remember the 123.
- 41:45I didn't see it now to be honest, but I was.
- 41:47Good, I enjoyed it. And I'm also going to after
- 41:50that, I'm going to watch Normal as well, which is new.
- 41:53Bob Odenkirk is his name. Oh, Better Call Saul breaking.
- 41:58Bad. So he did, he did nobody, didn't
- 42:02hear nobody to both of which were great.
- 42:04And I think this part by all accounts this is similar sort of
- 42:06thing, so. That should be fun.
- 42:09Yeah. Yeah, that'd be cool.
- 42:11I, I rewatched the whole of Breaking Bad over the winter,
- 42:14kind of in between times when I was, you know, I had free time
- 42:19and kind of wasn't watching anything with my wife on the TV.
- 42:23So it still holds up so good. I've never seen Breaking Bad.
- 42:29Oh my God, Rich. It's it's everybody I mentioned
- 42:32that seems like you've got to watch it.
- 42:33You've got to watch it. And we just for some reason
- 42:35never got around to it yet. Yeah, now it's one of those ones
- 42:39where especially when you've heard that it's great, you need
- 42:42to stick with it probably for the 1st 5 episodes because it's
- 42:46so great in season 2, three and four.
- 42:51Well, actually all of them after that.
- 42:52But I think it really gets it going at the end of Season 2
- 42:55into season 3 that yeah, I would recommend.
- 43:00But it's a so much good stuff now.
- 43:02I mean, it's kind of one of those things that you have to
- 43:04let some things pass you by or else you'll just turn into a
- 43:08couch. I I spent my Monday talking
- 43:12about turning into a couch. Later I spent my Monday and
- 43:15Tuesday binge watching season 1, which had already seen and
- 43:19season 2 of Peacemaker. Oh, cool.
- 43:22It's brilliant, isn't it? Love Peacemaker.
- 43:24Yeah. So excited for season 3 now as
- 43:27well so. Have they confirmed that?
- 43:29Because there was talk they weren't going to do with Season
- 43:313. Oh really?
- 43:32I don't know, I just sort of assumed hell.
- 43:35Yeah, I think James Gunn's been saying more along the lines of
- 43:40they might drop bits into films that will cover what happens
- 43:43after series, which would be a real shame if that's because,
- 43:47you know, they set up a lovely cliffhanger at the end of Season
- 43:502, so. Yeah.
- 43:52I'd want them to carry on. Definitely.
- 43:54Oh yeah, because they're getting that DC universities been doing
- 43:57up and running, I suppose. Super Girls coming soon as.
- 44:01Super Girls, is it next month or July?
- 44:03It's not too far off, is it? Yeah, looks great as well I
- 44:07think. Yeah.
- 44:08And we get Lobo on screen. So that's obviously, yeah, it's
- 44:11going to be great. Yeah.
- 44:13I love Superman from last year so.
- 44:16Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be good to hear.
- 44:21Right, the Cosmic Regions fans are tearing their.
- 44:24Hair on Cosmic. Legions if they're, if they're
- 44:27like me and have hair. Although I did do a little
- 44:28tribute to you at the back. Here yesterday.
- 44:35Right, we got a little tease. So this is what we thought we
- 44:39were going to be talking about. Hopefully this week, you know, a
- 44:41little bit of chat news and you know, maybe how's it going in
- 44:46in, you know, in general is going to talk about some
- 44:49customise and I was going to do, but I've, you know, you have a
- 44:52look at my Instagram if you want to see my recent custom stuff.
- 44:57But we had obviously the the news from Jeremy and the news
- 45:03that you've all seen now today as this is published on the
- 45:07Forestman Socials. But before that we got to use
- 45:10this cosmic and it's picture of the heavy gunner.
- 45:16It's got all the cosmic script around it.
- 45:20And then it came with a little bit of story story door and it
- 45:30actually somebody popped the the like alphabet for this stuff in
- 45:35here. So I stuck it into, we don't
- 45:37generally use AI for anything here, but I think for this is
- 45:41for AI is good at translating stuff.
- 45:43I use it a lot for translating languages in this crazy country
- 45:47I live in that has too many languages going on.
- 45:51So this is what it came up with. And so in the bottom right, it's
- 45:56data transmission 51326, which matches what is on the lore
- 46:02agent, the Blade Access level 4 and above topic Tusk Heavy
- 46:08Gunner. And in the bottom left here it
- 46:10says number one of three. So there's going to be probably
- 46:14three of these little teasers, which is cool.
- 46:17And up the top there is very small, but it says mortal torn
- 46:24data transmission so. Very cool.
- 46:30Immediately already. Yeah, so that's that's what we
- 46:36got there. Mal is going to read us the lore
- 46:40and then we can maybe chat a little bit about it to close out
- 46:42the episode. How about that Mal?
- 46:44Sounds good, although we'll say this says Access level A and
- 46:48above. OK, there's.
- 46:51AI messed up again. There we go.
- 46:53OK. Four AI mean come on, it's it's
- 46:56pretty similar looking. It looks similar yes day to
- 47:00debrief 513.26 agent the blade access level A and above topic
- 47:11Tusk heavy Gunners targeted alert.
- 47:15Erasure of this message upon receipt is required per status
- 47:1918 regulations. Compliance is compulsory.
- 47:24It is as we believed the reported uprising was
- 47:27essentially a lie. The Traders Union has
- 47:30exaggerated the story to provide cover for their actions.
- 47:34The arbiters did not hold serious talks with any on world
- 47:37company officials, nor was the organised opposition to the
- 47:41arbiters presence violent in any way.
- 47:44The Heavy Gunners were sent alongside the union
- 47:47representation under the guise of protection, but they were
- 47:52actually used to eliminate any barriers to full takeover of the
- 47:55Tusk. They now control all operations
- 47:59and assets in this sector. It has all the makings of a
- 48:02corporate takeover and our thorns are now in place to bleed
- 48:06them. I know we've seen the union do
- 48:09this before, but I do believe there is more to what is going
- 48:13on here than just typical traders union business.
- 48:16The mining of the thrixium component is what we expected to
- 48:20have drawn the Union here, and that mining continues, but
- 48:24they've also begun to move some of the heavy equipment to other
- 48:27locations off world. This action doesn't make sense
- 48:32if the component was the primary reason for the Union's takeover.
- 48:36I did not think it was. I believe that the thryxium
- 48:39component was an added incentive, but that the
- 48:42extensive mining equipment found at the various dig sites were
- 48:46the main reason for the Union's interest.
- 48:49I have further Intel to support this theory.
- 48:54One of the units operating as interim marauders recently
- 48:57intercepted A Tusk vessel that had no official transport plans
- 49:01broadcast. That is how they came to our
- 49:04attention. They were flying dark, so we got
- 49:07in their way. Our union found a team as Vexion
- 49:11miners on board. Apparently they've been abducted
- 49:14from a recent job mining Dorian gas.
- 49:18The miners had been taken against their will and they had
- 49:21no idea where they were heading. We also found heavy equipment
- 49:25like what is being moved from IIS HC3 on board.
- 49:30Our unit tried to interrogate the crew of the ship, but they
- 49:33refused to talk. They also disabled the
- 49:36coordinates of the intended course before their ship was
- 49:38boarded. The best our team could figure
- 49:42out is that they were headed somewhere deep in the 4th
- 49:44circle. We released this vaccines, but
- 49:48not before explaining to them that in return for our
- 49:51assistance, we expected something from them.
- 49:55Caverns Vex are a fairly nervous species, so little intimidation
- 49:59was all it took, and our team impressed upon them that
- 50:03crossing the Mortal Thorn was not in their best interest.
- 50:08They agreed to look out for any large mining operations,
- 50:11especially ones backed by Tusk affiliated companies and pass
- 50:16that information on to us via secure channels.
- 50:20This is one of three union vessels we have come across in
- 50:23recent cycles that was moving mining equipment to undisclosed
- 50:27locations. None of the equipment has been
- 50:30returned to operational status in official union check in
- 50:33reports. So the question is where are
- 50:37they sending all this equipment and where were those miners
- 50:40headed? The other development of note at
- 50:43this time is where the Thrixium component that the traders union
- 50:48is still mining here is being sent to a prison complex in the
- 50:525th called of Al Qatar. We have agents on route there
- 50:56already as part of a rescue mission for one of our
- 50:59operatives, Siri and Spire. There's no evidence that the
- 51:04Tusk know about a connection to us.
- 51:06We believe she was sent to the prison to keep her quiet about
- 51:10her discovery of Thrixium. By all accounts, her
- 51:13incarceration is purely to protect the pattern submissions
- 51:17the union are submitting for Thrixium.
- 51:20Our agents were instructed to secure Zirian's release one way
- 51:23or another, but the infiltration team has now been informed of
- 51:27our findings. We'll also be looking into what
- 51:29else may be happening at a Val Qatar.
- 51:32The operation will require a more subtle approach than we had
- 51:35initially planned. I await my next assignment from
- 51:40you. For now, I remain here.
- 51:43We have plans in place to create what will look like an uprising
- 51:45of local mine workers and support personnel against our
- 51:48new Tusk overseers. Our agents are positioned
- 51:53strategically to inflict maximum damage once the uprising begins.
- 51:58There are two dozen Heavy Gunner units still stationed here on
- 52:02World. Our team will eliminate them in
- 52:04the first two turns of the uprising should we catch them by
- 52:08surprise. But if they can sound the alarm,
- 52:11it will take one additional turn to end them.
- 52:13But end them we will. I will send a transmission once
- 52:17our operation is completed. Poison Blood Thorn shall draw.
- 52:23K End report Alert. Erasure of this message upon
- 52:28receipt is required per Status 18 regulations.
- 52:32Compliance is compulsory. This message will be deleted.
- 52:38So we got some, we got some really bad guys.
- 52:42Huh. I don't know if they're bad guys
- 52:44or rebels or. Immortal thought it makes the
- 52:50mortal phone feel like they are like this.
- 52:52The intergalactic MI 6 doesn't it?
- 52:55Or the CIA, or the FBI. Whatever 1 you want to look at
- 52:58it as. Or are they the, you know, the
- 53:02mafia? The mortal thorn there, I think
- 53:06they're the good guys. Yeah, I think they're the
- 53:08rebels. That's what Zeri inspires part
- 53:11of. And yeah, I think they're they
- 53:16into corporate, corporate espionage.
- 53:21Sounds good. What do you think, Rich?
- 53:23I've just realised now that the mortal Thorn and bleeders Guild
- 53:25are two different things. I just thought this bleeders
- 53:27Guild for ages, so when you're being good guys, I was like what
- 53:31the hell are you 2 on about? That makes more sense now.
- 53:35Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's really exciting actually.
- 53:40It's interesting them the sort of talking about have Al Qatar
- 53:43again sort of thing, you know. This is this seems to be the
- 53:46prequel to the Breakout, doesn't it?
- 53:49This is the This is leading to the escape that we we know about
- 53:54from the first wave. Yeah, exactly.
- 54:00And they even talk about how they're going to, you know,
- 54:06break Siri out. Yeah, maybe they have to do it
- 54:09more stealthily than they thought.
- 54:10I think they were initially planning to just go in all guns
- 54:14blazing. It seems like that's going to
- 54:17change now. I guess if these guys are the
- 54:20resistance, it opens up the door for lots of different like head
- 54:25sculpts and bills and that sort of thing.
- 54:26It's not, you know, it's not like you know, there'll be a
- 54:30Thraxian and I think which, which are all great, don't get
- 54:32me wrong, but it just gives you more options, doesn't it?
- 54:35You know, it could be a ragtag bunch of rebels from all sorts.
- 54:38Oh yeah, I absolutely think we could get an all sorts, all
- 54:41sorts of minx. I think we're getting the blade,
- 54:47but maybe the arbiters says something that we might see.
- 54:51I'm not sure what that that's going to be.
- 54:53There was someone else mentioned, wasn't there that it
- 54:56sounded like we might get but I can't remember who it was.
- 55:04But mind. It now.
- 55:06What about humans? Think this this could be the
- 55:10human fraction. No humanoids maybe, but not
- 55:15humans. But I think again, I think we'll
- 55:18get a mix of also. Don't make me say it.
- 55:20Don't don't make me say it. I'm just, I'm watching your, I'm
- 55:25watching your expression there, Rich.
- 55:27You know my hashtag because Miriam human free.
- 55:30It's like, no, no need for that. No need for those nasty crowd.
- 55:35No, exactly. They're going to cause trouble.
- 55:39Find I'm sure they mentioned someone else, doesn't he?
- 55:42But anyway. But it sounds like it's going to
- 55:44be revealed at Ishkhan anyway, doesn't it?
- 55:48No, they're not. They're not going to Ishkhan.
- 55:50The Ishkhan reference there is from the heavy gunner which was.
- 55:55Last. Year or two years ago?
- 55:59Two years ago. OK.
- 56:01Yeah. So this, but this is obviously
- 56:05gonna we're going to get another one or two stories of these if
- 56:09that one of three makes sense and probably going to be
- 56:13dropped, you know, maybe during the reinforcement, maybe another
- 56:18one next week, although I don't think so if it's now going to be
- 56:21in further out than we thought because I thought this was going
- 56:26to come in June. Yes, yeah, yeah.
- 56:30You know, end of the there was just the end of the pre-order
- 56:34for the armoury figures. They're now going to retail and
- 56:39then in June another pre-order. But it's actually only Mythics
- 56:43as we've heard. So I think this will be in July
- 56:47at some point. And that means that I think
- 56:52there's plenty of time for those two other stories to get dropped
- 56:56and maybe other stuff that they have.
- 56:58You know, they might have stuff coming from the other side as
- 57:00well, you know, Tusk Communications or whatever.
- 57:03And it's an interesting pivot, isn't it, away from Mox crew as
- 57:06well, because obviously everyone's expecting Oxford Book
- 57:083, but it certainly sounds like we're going to have this.
- 57:12Eval guitar book too. I've just suddenly thought, I
- 57:16don't think we are. I wonder if this is the the old
- 57:19swerve that we got with the Mythics and it's not the blade
- 57:23and all that lot we're going to get.
- 57:24It's the people going to break out Zuria, the agents going to
- 57:29break Zuria out that we're getting.
- 57:33Yeah. I mean, I think it's they have
- 57:36Ox Crew 3 in their back pocket now whenever they want to, you
- 57:39know, go there. And I think this brings it
- 57:43around to the first wave, which, you know, some of those figures
- 57:46are still available in limited numbers on their website at some
- 57:50retailers have them with two as well.
- 57:53The heavy Gunners obviously on the Horseman website, I think
- 57:57still available. Yeah, this is a way to connect
- 58:01that more into the story again and.
- 58:05Probably also some new people to the line since that's been
- 58:09released, that they've picked up the new wave because that was
- 58:13around and the way everyone was talking about and aren't really
- 58:16aware of the first wave. So this, yeah, like you say,
- 58:19perhaps this is a way to bring come back around to that and
- 58:22perhaps get some new eyes on it. And I mean, there are some, some
- 58:24of them are fantastic figures, aren't they say?
- 58:29Yeah, exactly. And I think I think the
- 58:33important thing figure wise here, if we talk about what what
- 58:36might be figures is, I do think they need to go crazy with the
- 58:40heads on some of these like mad alien looking, you know, couple
- 58:47and maybe save the tooling on the bodies.
- 58:49You know, you've got you've got the different bodies.
- 58:52OK, Tusk, if you unless you're doing a test character here, I
- 58:55don't think that's really going to work for for this mortal torn
- 58:58faction. So you'll have to make use of
- 59:01maybe the noveline parts, maybe a brute scale guy, maybe some
- 59:05repurposing of some mythic stuff.
- 59:07You've now got the thought goods in Mythic can.
- 59:10I think they can be, you know, those torsos could be cosmic top
- 59:15pretty easy. I think if I was thinking of a
- 59:17cosmic custom now and I had one of those torsos, I would
- 59:21wouldn't be afraid to use it. So yeah, I'm sure.
- 59:23You can also have one of the characters wearing like a Mac
- 59:25suit, like the the Ox crew, basically, because, you know,
- 59:28yeah, they know how popular that is now.
- 59:30So there's no reason why one of the characters wouldn't be
- 59:31wearing one of those. And then you get in that it's
- 59:34people's hands as well, aren't you?
- 59:36And does mention the spexings here.
- 59:38Now I don't know if we get another spexing character as
- 59:40such because these are miners, but it's.
- 59:44Totally about the miners, isn't it?
- 59:45I think it's been a hint at the miners that were from what's it
- 59:51called the the way outpost Axios.
- 59:54I think it's meant to be those miners, isn't it, that have been
- 59:57kidnapped. Definitely.
- 1:00:01So lower rise, lower wise here, I think one of the really
- 1:00:05important things is this trixium.
- 1:00:09So that's that's this stuff that basically keeps a slog alive.
- 1:00:17And there's mentioned here in the story about them, you know,
- 1:00:22basically mining the trixium. And the thing with Zary is that
- 1:00:30she's the one that invented trixium or discovered it.
- 1:00:35So they're really trying here to, you know, they suspect she's
- 1:00:41been kept in the grave ring so that the Tusk can basically, you
- 1:00:46know, protect the Trixium in terms of the, you know, what we
- 1:00:51would call in, you know, our world patent of it, you know, or
- 1:00:54whatever, kind of keep it, keep it under wraps, you know, keep
- 1:00:57her kind of under control. And the thorn are obviously the
- 1:01:02mortal thorn are trying to get to get her out.
- 1:01:08She she had previously she had disillusioned, it's in her bio,
- 1:01:11she had disillusioned over the loss of her discovery of Trixim.
- 1:01:16And that's how she ended up in this controversial and elusive
- 1:01:21organisation known as the Mortal Thorn.
- 1:01:24Although her association with the Torn eventually led to her
- 1:01:27incarceration. That's why she's in the Grave
- 1:01:29Ring. It was that very experience
- 1:01:32which prepared her for survival in the Grave Ring.
- 1:01:37So you know what they do in the Torn, Mortal Torn to prepare you
- 1:01:43for that must be interesting. Does do you get maybe Triad
- 1:01:47vibes of the Mortal Torn, you know?
- 1:01:52Maybe I think they're meant to be a bit more noble than that.
- 1:01:56I think they're they're I might be wrong.
- 1:01:58We'll we'll find out with the more of the story, won't we?
- 1:02:01But they certainly sound more organised.
- 1:02:04I think I would have had them if, if you'd asked me to, you
- 1:02:07know, describe what they are, it'd be very much like a ragtag
- 1:02:10bunch, yeah, just about getting by sort of thing.
- 1:02:12Whereas these seem a lot more organised.
- 1:02:15I think you're right with the. I think your connection to like
- 1:02:19the Star Wars version of the Rebellion, that all this is the
- 1:02:23Cosmic Legion version of the Rebellion from Star Wars.
- 1:02:26I feel like you're right with that one.
- 1:02:30Yeah, right. What about the mining equipment?
- 1:02:39Any thoughts there as to why they're kind of given that as
- 1:02:43the main reason why the Tusk ships are there moving this
- 1:02:46mining equipment? Do you think this is just, you
- 1:02:51know, what they do kind of corporate thing?
- 1:02:55That's a bit of an odd 1, isn't it?
- 1:02:56Because it says that mining equipment doesn't actually work.
- 1:02:59It's not if it's say that's a bit of an odd thing.
- 1:03:02So they feels like there's an not just the threats in this
- 1:03:05something else that is that they are after.
- 1:03:09But yeah, I'm not sure. Or something went horribly wrong
- 1:03:13with that equipment and they're trying to move it off planet,
- 1:03:17but I guess it is blown up. We couldn't if that was.
- 1:03:20Yeah, wouldn't that draw too much attention?
- 1:03:22Maybe, yeah. And they're just trying to
- 1:03:23dispose of it subtly sort of it. Does does mention of this ship
- 1:03:31heading deep in the 4th circle? So the 4th circle is.
- 1:03:36So Cosmerrium has these five circles.
- 1:03:40Yes. And the 4th circle is overseas.
- 1:03:45They go outwards, isn't that right?
- 1:03:47The 4th obviously is is the 4th furthest out.
- 1:03:50So it's the fastest growing of the circles, rapidly expanding
- 1:03:55access to the tech created in 33 Moss, which sounds like
- 1:04:03somewhere where the Trixium could be from, and has been
- 1:04:07providing unprecedented independence and power to the
- 1:04:11citizens of Kazmirian. It's sort of hints.
- 1:04:14They're not hints that that's a suggestion that whatever's going
- 1:04:19on in the 4th circle could take power away from Tusker, doesn't
- 1:04:23it? So maybe they're trying to
- 1:04:28destroy whatever's going on in the 4th circle that could
- 1:04:31undermine them maybe. Yeah.
- 1:04:36And does the MIC there may be connection to this Ox to the ox
- 1:04:41crew because the Ox crew were working for X or three.
- 1:04:44Yes, you know their reclamation reconnaissance recovery service
- 1:04:51basically they they do business across the 3rd and 4th and
- 1:04:57occasionally fifth rings. So did is that ship anything
- 1:05:04connected to the Ox crew or could one of the ships?
- 1:05:08I wonder if the ship is the one that's picked up the signal from
- 1:05:12because there was mention of a Tusk intercepting a signal
- 1:05:15wasn't there in one of the stories around Ox crew so I
- 1:05:19wonder if that's that ship as as it's heading into the 4th circle
- 1:05:23it's going beyond. Yeah.
- 1:05:29So I think to kind of summarise, it's, it's all about the
- 1:05:34Trixium. I mean, the Tusk or like a bunch
- 1:05:37of the Tusk characters are related to the Trixium.
- 1:05:40You obviously have slog who needs it to survive.
- 1:05:44You have the engineer who's basically responsible for, you
- 1:05:49know, the the maintenance of the whole kind of Trixium stuff.
- 1:05:55And then you have the science officer who's basically
- 1:05:57responsible for protecting the engineers and the whole kind of
- 1:06:01operation there. So and then you have this
- 1:06:05vaccines that work in have Al Qatar that are protecting the
- 1:06:09kind of they're doing that they're they're kind of outside
- 1:06:12the building protecting the the other guys are inside the
- 1:06:16building. And then you have Sligor and
- 1:06:21those guys who are right down in in the inside of the grey ring.
- 1:06:26You know, they're the they're the real last line of defence of
- 1:06:29the whole thing. So what I'd like this wave to
- 1:06:34get to in regard to that is is more of a joined UPS the wrong
- 1:06:40word, but more of a we can see where it's going.
- 1:06:44What's the purpose? You know, a little bit like
- 1:06:47there's lots of mystery, which is cool and there will always be
- 1:06:49threads to pull out, but maybe take a bit of the mystery out of
- 1:06:54it and kind of let us know what's actually going on.
- 1:06:58You know, the kind of main thrust of the plot where it's
- 1:07:01going to and still leave plenty of things to give the motions to
- 1:07:08do. Different waves, different types
- 1:07:09of characters, you know? Oh yeah.
- 1:07:12It'd be nice to size Tyson that weren't as well.
- 1:07:14Yeah, and with all this, I mean, it doesn't, you know, you've
- 1:07:19mentioned of a couple of existing characters, character
- 1:07:22types and obviously factions here.
- 1:07:24But we could get any type of character.
- 1:07:26You could get your small aliens rich.
- 1:07:28We could get all aliens, the creatures, as I said, we could
- 1:07:32get like space marine type human dudes.
- 1:07:34We could get, you know, I don't know, ninja type, you know,
- 1:07:41cosmic figures, ninja, but you know.
- 1:07:45You need robots. We could robots be nice.
- 1:07:49I think the the mortal torn seemed to be too, you know,
- 1:07:55cunning and planning and kind of, you know, to to be robots.
- 1:08:03They're not like they're not ones.
- 1:08:05It's not a bunch of ones and zeros.
- 1:08:07It's a lot of kind of thinking on your feet, changing your
- 1:08:10plans, doing things kind of, you know, in around the kind of
- 1:08:17sneaky way into into kind of finding a way to get stuff done.
- 1:08:21I. Find the blade intriguing.
- 1:08:23To me it suggests he carries a blade.
- 1:08:25So will he end up with just a repurposed mythics sword does a
- 1:08:31blade, or will they design their own little cosmic sword flash
- 1:08:36blade for him to have? That'd be cool.
- 1:08:37Oh. That would be cool that.
- 1:08:39Would be good. Yeah.
- 1:08:41Maybe translucent plastic? Yeah, translucent or or I think
- 1:08:47my new favourite is semi translucent.
- 1:08:49So translucent, but with paint on it, you know.
- 1:08:52Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah.
- 1:08:54You know. A bit like how they do the wings
- 1:08:58on some of the figures now. Thinking lasers, obviously,
- 1:09:02yeah, that's what comes to mind, yeah, but yes, you're.
- 1:09:06Right, it's the renting in Mythics now that we could think
- 1:09:10of. I don't know, you know, that's
- 1:09:12their problem. We're here to appreciate it and
- 1:09:14be excited about it. All right.
- 1:09:18Any more thoughts on on where we're going with Cosmics then?
- 1:09:21No, it's, it's throwing me a bit of a curveball, to be honest.
- 1:09:23And it's yeah, I'm trying to wrap my head around in like, you
- 1:09:27know, OK, but where, how are they going to tie it back to Ox
- 1:09:30Crew? What are they going to do there?
- 1:09:32Or are they just going to go, no, we're just pivoting
- 1:09:34completely, We're going to deal with this.
- 1:09:36So it's exciting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:09:40I think it's, yeah, definitely I'm, I'm, yeah.
- 1:09:43Intrigued to see what we get and who we get.
- 1:09:45And absolutely no idea what that might be, to be fair.
- 1:09:49Yeah. With the Ox crew maybe in one of
- 1:09:51the next stories about this that they.
- 1:09:55They intercept another. Ship that has the rescue party
- 1:09:57going to the ox crew. That's how you get those
- 1:10:00characters or one or two of them.
- 1:10:03So you can still get maybe a character with the suits or you
- 1:10:08know, that kind of thing or a real kind of unique looking
- 1:10:13character in relation to the ox crew guys.
- 1:10:16And you know, you still get mortal torn characters.
- 1:10:22You maybe get someone from the bleeders Guild who's, you know,
- 1:10:25kind of for hire. So what would the mortal torn
- 1:10:29do? I was thinking there might be
- 1:10:31connection with the mortal torn and the bleeders Guild because
- 1:10:34they could hire those guys. You know, you could imagine Novi
- 1:10:37and Lean maybe being hired by the mortal torn to do possible
- 1:10:41bit of a job, but. Are they so?
- 1:10:44Secretive. And, you know, there's such a
- 1:10:47small circle of trust that maybe they wouldn't, they wouldn't
- 1:10:51want to be involving outside assistance.
- 1:10:54So I don't know. But keeping the options open,
- 1:10:58always a good thing. Yeah, well, the one thing it
- 1:11:01does make me wonder. Is actually are we going to get
- 1:11:03a load of new stuff? Because perhaps the reason they
- 1:11:07decided against doing Ox Crew book 3 is.
- 1:11:11Because let's be. Real it's probably going to be
- 1:11:14more of what we've seen in the first two waves because it
- 1:11:18they're the characters on I've forgotten what is where the.
- 1:11:23Place is, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:11:29So yeah, and maybe they just didn't want to go too much down
- 1:11:35that wasteland thing and then becomes kind of just the
- 1:11:38aesthetic of cosmic when they have other things in.
- 1:11:40Yeah, yeah. Trying to make it a big
- 1:11:43universe. Aren't they a varied characters?
- 1:11:46Absolutely and. As as the, as the stories get
- 1:11:50revealed here for the cosmic wave, we will of course keep up
- 1:11:54with them. And of course, once the cosmic
- 1:11:57figures get revealed, we'll we'll have a big chat about that
- 1:12:01and talk about her excitement and.
- 1:12:05All that kind of stuff. Sounds good.
- 1:12:09But in the meantime. Next episode, obviously it's
- 1:12:11going to be something about the reinforcements wave and will be
- 1:12:16recorded hopefully just after, shortly after the
- 1:12:21reinforcements. If not, we'll just skip a week
- 1:12:24and you know, move on. So I just say now, if there's if
- 1:12:28there's a shark man reinforcement, I'll be drunk.
- 1:12:30And we're recording. Yeah, well, he'll definitely.
- 1:12:34Be. Suddenly available and the
- 1:12:36family commitments won't be as firm as they were.
- 1:12:38Exactly. Yeah.
- 1:12:39Do you know what I mean? They can do whatever.
- 1:12:41They like it's fine. It doesn't.
- 1:12:45Matter if we're an hour late for that.
- 1:12:47Thing that we were supposed to go to yeah, all right.
- 1:12:51And that's also obviously super excited.
- 1:12:56Thank you, Jeremy, for giving us the tease so that we could talk
- 1:12:59about it and shape our plans a bit better than we we would
- 1:13:03have. Thanks to all our patrons for
- 1:13:06their continued support. One day I'm going to get all
- 1:13:09their names and put them up on the end credits of the episode.
- 1:13:12And Mal can maybe do a recording of reading all their names out
- 1:13:15so we can play that. Yeah, but I've thought about
- 1:13:20this for a while and other podcasts do it and it's really
- 1:13:23cool. It's a nice little perk but I
- 1:13:26haven't got my finger out yet so if you want that annoy me about
- 1:13:31it.