Bonus Episode: 22 Panels... No More!: DIE rpg Episode Two

Episode 2: Back to Reality

In which we taste our first violence, heavenly marshmallows, and a glimpse of our fates.

Bear witness to the first combat of our latest adventure as the 22 Panels crew roll into action! Jonathan rolls for sword! Peter rolls for gun! And Tad rolls for mystical insights from the great beyond!!! (Somebody better put the kibosh on that one)

Make sure to listen all the way through to the Flashback Phil almost forgot about -- it was even written ahead of time and everything -- all prep is useful eventually, right...?

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Tad Eggleston: Hello, everybody! Welcome back to die on 22 panels. I'm Tad and I play Alan Spector the fool, so I don't know why anybody expects me to know anything, Phil. Let them know what's going on.

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Phil: All right. My name's Phil ebbing. I am the game master for 22 panels no more. We're playing die now, so we're going to introduce our group. I'm holding up the d. 10, and it is wielded by.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: That would be wheeled by me. I'm Peter Excelson. Connor, I play Alex Momsky.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, romantic still. Still, like I chose this name, and I'm still trying to like get it out of my mouth properly every time. But she goes by lex. So

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Peter Eggleston Connor: and yeah, she is our neo.

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Phil: And now I hold up the d. 12, and that one is wielded by Gary and Eddings, who

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Phil: had

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Phil: bit of a run in with some darkness. And that that spilled over into the world. We're not sure what's left of him now that that's gone. Next I hold up the d. 8, and that is wielded by.

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Chu: As well by me, too. The

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Chu: playing the nighttime librarian, Eamon Hartwell, who suddenly

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Chu: the emotion night and is not exactly sure what's going on.

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Phil: Oh, yeah. Next I'm holding up the D 4, and its wielder is dead.

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Phil: Now. There's just a regular old d 6 for Tad. Alan, spector, introduce yourself. Jump in the order one day we might get you a special die, but not yet.

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Tad Eggleston: Introduce myself. I'm Alan spector.

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Tad Eggleston: I'm the fool!

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Tad Eggleston: Thought I already introduced myself.

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Phil: Getting the voice there, and last, but certainly not least, there's Dg, 20, and that one is mine.

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Phil: All right. We're going back into die.

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Phil: Everyone, close your eyes slowly, lower your die to the table.

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Phil: 3, 2, 1. Let it go.

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Phil: Open your eyes and we are back. We are back in a dusty old

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Phil: version of what once was our world in a comic game store, where

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Phil: the undead fallen have begun crawling their way out of the ground.

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Phil: and are now, you know, poised to attack our various party. You can see 6 of them bursting up

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Phil: from the ground thankfully. All of you are faster, and have your wits about you to the point where

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Phil: you can each make your attacks first.st

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Phil: So whoever whoever wants to charge in there get you know they they are.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll pause.

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Phil: Traveling.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: And aim it at the nearest undead

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Peter Eggleston Connor: their head if I can, and try that, pop it off.

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Phil: So

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Phil: you are rolling the dexterity pool. Now without your d, 10, because you have yet to consume any fair gold. So if anything. There's a deep hunger in the back of your mind, but you can feel that the pistol will get you fed.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: That means I need to roll 3D. 6 is that.

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Phil: Oh, yeah.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: One d. 6.

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Phil: If you ever need me to to roll for you I've got. I've got plenty of spares here.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I got more E. 6. So it's fine.

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Phil: All right.

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Phil: Raid monopoly.

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Phil: A risk.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I got. I got legit type man.

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Phil: Oh, there you go!

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I mean, if I didn't have this I could go grab it out of my magic the gathering bag. But.

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Phil: Yup token bag. Yeah.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I got a 6, a 2, and a 2.

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Phil: Okay, so you

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Phil: aim for the head, but blast into the shoulder which is leaving the head or the that arm sort of dangling as it it screeches in pain, and and and stumbles back a bit. So you know they're more of them rushing in

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Phil: towards you. Since this is our 1st combat. I am.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll exclaim, shit! What the hell is this?

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Phil: There you go. There you go!

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Phil: Normally. I think it's supposed to go back and forth, but since you all have your wits about. You're transformed and your dexterity is higher. I'm gonna say, the other 2 of you should go first, st since you're also outnumbered.

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Chu: Okay, I'm gonna just kind of

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Chu: rush forward and just try and do

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Chu: quick stabbing motion the one that got on the nearest one, and just try and.

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Phil: So.

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Chu: Just go.

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Phil: Before that.

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Phil: Where? Where is Eamon's head? At what is he feeling? Is?

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Phil: How you know what?

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Phil: What's his reaction to a bunch of

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Phil: cybernetic screaming, undead coming up out of the ground.

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Chu: Internally. It's like.

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Chu: Okay, that's dead. I have no idea how I'm in. These clothes are ready. They didn't look like that before.

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Phil: Hourly it just goes.

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Chu: Home.

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Phil: But with that it seems like you've accepted the situation, at least, and that gets you up to a 1 on your emotional scale. With your surroundings, and that's where you hear you hear a voice of the repair. It says, All right, you know. I

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Phil: I guess we don't have a choice. We got to run them through.

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Chu: Alright!

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Chu: That's a 6, a 4, and a 1.

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Phil: 6, 4 and one. Okay. So you go ahead and

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Phil: full on, kill the one that was closest to you. As you, you run it through with with the repair, and it, you know, falls apart, and a tiny, a tiny piece of fair gold falls down at your feet that

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Phil: Once once. It's it's already pinging

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Phil: lexus internal sensors in mind that

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Phil: she'll need to die for that with every fiber of her being.

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Phil: What is what is Alan's response to the the scabbers? Foes before them?

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Tad Eggleston: Any do we have left.

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Phil: There are 5 left. One is wounded the other 4 are still coming out of the ground.

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Tad Eggleston: Are there any 2 that are within like 3 feet of each other?

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Phil: Yeah, yeah, there's 2 of them that are pretty close to each other.

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Tad Eggleston: Okay, so I'm gonna

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Tad Eggleston: run and jump, and to the to which side it, or well, no, I'm gonna run and jump to the one on the right.

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Phil: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: So that I can grab their neck and swing around their right shoulder and come down hard with my feet on the one to the left.

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Phil: Hmm, okay. So you're using one as like a pole to spin around on and.

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Tad Eggleston: But I'm specifically using their neck, because I mean, really, the idea is that I'll snap the neck and kick the other in the head with a great deal of force that I've built up in my pendulum manner, my reckless pendulum manner.

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Phil: Okay. So I'm gonna say, since that's your martial arts, you're gonna go ahead and and roll your dexterity and your fool die. I am going to give you an additional advantage, so it'll be 5 d. 6 that you're rolling, because that.

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Tad Eggleston: 5 d. 6, including my, my!

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Tad Eggleston: We'll die.

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Phil: And your fool dies. One of them, if you've got one that looks a little different. I think.

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Tad Eggleston: I do, I set it up so that I do.

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Phil: Nice nice which side.

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Tad Eggleston: And 4. 4 is the side that is circled, and 4 is the side that came up.

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Phil: Nice. Okay. Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: So that is something good has happened. What else? What does what's what's the rest of your role look like?

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Tad Eggleston: And then I have 4, 4, 2, 1.

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Phil: 4, 4, 2, 1, okay. And the 4 came up. So you know, I'm going to say that that actually goes off because that's 3 plus a luck. I'm gonna say, that goes off without a hitch. Those perfect you go ahead and snap the neck of one fall in as you kick the head clean off of the next one.

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Phil: And they both disintegrate into into pieces of fool's gold. Down, down by your feet.

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Tad Eggleston: Do? Do I land on my feet.

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Phil: You land on your feet naturally cool.

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Phil: Almost, you know, without even trying. It's you know, it's it's as incredible as you were at coding. You're that

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Phil: fantastical at fighting now.

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Phil: Which means the 3 that are left. One of them is the wounded one is going to then charge towards towards lex and sort of stagger at you and attack. Oh, shit

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Phil: it cut 5, 5 and 6, so it is flailing against you with all of its strength. That's 3 hits it is practically falling on top of you spewing out this combination of blood and oil onto your you know, onto your leather suit. And you're you know you're you're in some trouble now. The.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Go up against my guard right.

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Phil: Yup, Yup! So those 3 hits to your guard. So your your guard has been depleted.

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Phil: yeah, they're they're in your face. The other 2 start lurching towards

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Phil: Gary and fallen on the ground.

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Phil: If anyone wants to make a difficulty, one wisdom roll to see what's going on with his body. Please do that now.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure.

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Chu: 5 and a 1.

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Phil: 5 and a 1 so that's not gonna pass. And what did you get, Peter?

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, I needed to roll 2 dice for wisdom.

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Phil: Yeah.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: A 2 and a 6.

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Phil: 2 and a 6 that doesn't pass, either.

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Phil: and then tap if you wanted to.

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Tad Eggleston: What am I? Rolling.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Wisdom. So that should just be 2.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: One means that we need 2 successes.

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Phil: Yes.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Gotcha difficulty. 0 would only need one success on.

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Phil: Yep, difficulty. 0 is the standard. Yeah.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Sorry I read these rules a long time ago.

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Phil: That's all. Good.

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Tad Eggleston: I rolled a 5 and a 6.

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Phil: 5 and a 6. Okay? So you can tell that there is a thin, shimmering field surrounding Gary and Spotty to where it looks like. There's energy coalescing and building up within him. So even though the fallen tear into his unguarded body.

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Phil: they are consuming that energy field with 3 vicious hits they got combined a 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6. So they have torn away that energy field, and as soon as a claw hits

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Phil: into his flesh. Then, instead of blood pouring out of there, there's a tremendous burst of flame, and you see his body lift up into the air and explode with more fire, as now

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Phil: he gets an attack that was absolutely abysmal.

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Phil: With this is this is the equivalent of a critical fail. It was 4 ones and a 3 so

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Phil: his his body lifts up pushes back with what appears to be fire that then turns into smoke that just has them staggered back and

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Phil: and offset unbalanced. But then the body falls back down and and nothing more happens, and we're back to the top of the order.

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Phil: So so, Peter, if you wanted to, if you want, if we wanted to keep the same order, it would be Peter Jonathan. And then Tad.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: That's fine. I I whatever. However, you want to do it, so I'm happy to go next. All right. I say, I vote for living or living to fight another day.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: There is a you said that there was a fair gold.

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Phil: There is. There's 2 pieces of fair gold. There's 1 by Jonathan's feet, and one by

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Phil: and one by Tad, so if if one of you wanted to.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: As one of them closer and or easier to access. I mean, it sounds like I need to get away from a guy to.

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Tad Eggleston: You? You do.

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Tad Eggleston: I throw the gold at him.

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Phil: Okay, cool, nice. There you go.

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Phil: So that means so that means lex catches it and inserts it into where was your.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Behind my behind your ear, behind your ear, you slow!

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm very, very magician like.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: It's the old behind your ear coin trick, except in reverse, apparently. Right.

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Phil: What does that feel like? Real quick, this this sudden burst of energy that that's flowing through you to to power up your your cybernetic enhancements.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: It's like being

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Peter Eggleston Connor: How do I say this

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Peter Eggleston Connor: elated like you, just like all of a sudden, like your brain's moving a lot faster. And you're

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Peter Eggleston Connor: able to see things from different perspectives.

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Phil: So this is. This is the exact correct prescription dosage of adderall.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Right.

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Phil: There we go alright. What do you want to do from there?

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Phil: Because the one the one that's that's.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I am a.

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Phil: If you wanna.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm gonna I'm gonna activate my light field projector.

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Phil: Okay.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: And step away.

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Phil: Okay, I'm gonna say, because it was so close to you. Go ahead and

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Phil: I'm gonna say it's a dexterity roll with your neo die but one disadvantage, because it was it was physically touching you. To see if you can slip out of its grip.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Okay. So 3D. Texas and one d. 10 gotcha.

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Phil: No. No. 2, d. 6 is, you have a disadvantage there so 2D can.

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Phil: But difficulty is still 0.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: That's why, you know, I said it out loud before rolling it.

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Phil: Good. Good. Yeah.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I got 7 and 2 threes.

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Phil: 7, 2, 3 sizes is enough. As your

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Phil: light field projector, do you? Do you just go full invisibility mode? Or do you leave like an after image for it.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: The light Fill projector, I think, is supposed to create a after image. So I do definitely leave an after image

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Peter Eggleston Connor: where I was, as I go, invisible and and step out of that that space.

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Phil: Excellent. So it's it is now biting into a hologram that is, glitching and staticing so that Tad or Eamon and Alan, know that? You're not getting hurt anymore. You're just you've you've absconded so now, Alan, what what? There's there's 3 of them left. One of them wounded. What do you do?

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Chu: in internally, I'm thinking, were there drugs in that coffee, or is it like, I just kinda

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Chu: weird, like, kind of cock my head the side of like, huh?

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Chu: And then just

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Chu: the one that looks like it's I guess the biggest threat. And then you gotta go in and just

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Chu: just go for another piercing just a quick, piercing strike that was just then go off the side of with the cutting motion.

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Chu: And a 3 and a 2 and a 2.

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Phil: 3, a 2, and a 2

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Phil: Don't you have? Did you roll your d 8 as well.

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Chu: Nope.

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Phil: Yeah, go ahead and toss that in there.

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Chu: That's 2.

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Phil: 2. Alright. So you go for a lunch, and just barely miss it as it it lurches to the side unexpectedly.

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Phil: I think that since you've made an attack that just means you take one hit. So your guard is reduced by one, as you're a little off balance so you now have, you know, have 2 guard. Alan. There are 3 enemies left, one of them engaged with Jonathan, one of them wounded, and attempting to devour a hologram, and the other is

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Tad Eggleston: I'm really trying to figure out if I have any any space for velocity before I get to it.

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Tad Eggleston: Wanted to happen to happen. Okay? So I drop into a linebacker stance.

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Tad Eggleston: Charge it, take out its knee, grab it, swing it, and throw it at the one near Jonathan. While drawing my pistol and shooting the injured one.

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Phil: No, it does not. It is thinking that. Why doesn't this taste like anything I need to keep eating it to find out what it tastes like. And then the one that was hit is going to look at Jonathan, and it's going to attempt to swing towards him.

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Phil: But it misses. So that means, Jonathan. If you want to take a role for your opportunity attack because it got a 1 and a 2. So if you want to make a full roll, your dexterity, plus your class die plus an advantage, since it was off balance, so that should be.

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Chu: All right.

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Phil: 5 dice, total.

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Phil: Drawing the thoughts out of your head, and you can feel it pouring into it. And I'm gonna say that you lose your emotional engagement.

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Phil: Because it seems as if you don't trust yourself. You don't trust your own abilities. And the, you know, the most powerful

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Phil: okay. So before it sort of sputtered. It was like a lighter that wouldn't quite catch, and it just pushed them back. But now it's lifting up. He's fully standing again and out of the vacant cavity from the top of his head, where the shadow monster had burst before a fire alights. And what was the green, flowing, enchanted armor is now colored akin to flames.

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Phil: lex, you feel beyond compelled, and you're actually getting several alert notifications on your heads up, display that they fall into you. So if you wanted to pick those up quickly.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I was. Gonna I was gonna leave my beat my illusion up as I walked around and collected them, even though everything's dead.

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Phil: And everything is indeed dead.

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Phil: What do you do?

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm still invisible. So behind it, and sort of like inspecting it. Is there any.

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Phil: It is the most delicious marshmallow you have ever seen again. Is that that perfect state of golden brown? It is not quite charred yet it is still on fire. It is staying on fire.

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Tad Eggleston: I'm I'm I'm the fool. Do I have to stay in churn order.

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Tad Eggleston: I walk up to the marshmallow.

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Tad Eggleston: take a handful, and I eat it.

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Phil: So I'm gonna say, go ahead and give me a constitution. Roll with your fool, die.

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Tad Eggleston: So.

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Phil: You've got 3 plus.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Special.

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Tad Eggleston: So yeah, 4 dice, total.

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Phil: 4 dies. Total. One of them, your fool, die and your fool die didn't come up on a a fluke, so.

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Tad Eggleston: No, no, my flukes are 3 and 4 now, and I have a cross on one.

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Tad Eggleston: Because I you get across when you, when you roll the circle.

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Tad Eggleston: Erase all but one circle, and add across to a different face. So when I got my circle on that 1st time.

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Tad Eggleston: And I got the one.

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Tad Eggleston: Along with a 2, 3, 4.

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Tad Eggleston: So I have a straight. I have a straight.

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Tad Eggleston: Oh!

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Tad Eggleston: Hurts, it hurts, it hurts. But you know what the marshmallow tasted so good it's worth it.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Chase it while you're burning.

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Tad Eggleston: It's my hand that's burning, not my tongue.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense that you put in your mouth, and it doesn't burn.

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Tad Eggleston: The the taste is so good, it overwhelms the pain.

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Tad Eggleston: This is the perfectly golden marshmallow is no know where that is.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: How I think what what I actually think is going on.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: That like literally, you can't comprehend the taste, because it's that good.

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Phil: Exactly. It's it's just bliss. And with that bliss toasty turns around and says.

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Phil: You know, that was my head. I understand that it might taste good to you. But please please don't grab it without asking next time, and he he.

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Tad Eggleston: So I say.

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Phil: Hold on one second he holds out his hand, and the fire which is still on your burning hand. By the way, it is absorbed back into his essence, and he cast a heel onto your hand. So your wound has been recovered, and he's like, Look, I'm here to help. I I see that you're strangers in this world, and your presence here has destabilized my home. So

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Phil: So I have a question before we get into this whole back thing. Do you have Graham crackers and chocolate? And may I touch your head again?

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Of your head.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: No, no.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Needs to make us more right now, Ted.

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Phil: Right. So with that, since we're still inside, I don't think we we decide on the name off off record, but I don't think we said on record. We are inside the comic game store combo, which is known as the Power Fantasy. And so you're surrounded by dusty merchandise. So I have 2 2 things for you, one

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Phil: what media are you entertained by? You know? What? What are you? Fans of? What is something that you would know about, and would catch your attention.

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Chu: I was. I was the person who.

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Chu: that random Kitty pride trade paperback that's been sitting on the shelf untouched for 10 years, and nobody has even touched. I've read that.

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Chu: So I'm it's not as much as that. I'm just the person who like would.

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Chu: huh? Never seen that before, and I would just pick it up, read it, put it back, and the owners didn't really pay much point, because also helping out around the shop is also, I would start to look around like, huh!

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Phil: Gotcha. You said you were a consistent buyer, too. What was it that you were buying.

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Phil: If you don't know, we can come back to it.

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Chu: I would say, a specific like a few different series of mangas.

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Phil: Gotcha.

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Phil: Okay, so you're you're wide red, frequent buyer. Okay? So you'll you'll recognize those things. Lex and Alan, what about you?

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I'd say my my guilty pleasure. Media is Lgbtq adventure, fantasy, romance.

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Phil: Sounds good.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: What I watch normally is probably whatever is popular at the moment.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: and by that is what I don't don't watch as guilty pleasure or.

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Phil: So this is.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't even think it's a watch. I think most of what I probably would do would be read books.

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Phil: Gotcha. So you're more of the pop lit whatever is current, and hip right now with the guilty pleasure of Lgbtq adventure. Romantic? So that's that's the kind of stuff that you know. If your if your husband goes on a business trip or you know, if you have a girls night. That's that's what goes on. Is is, am I? Am I picking that up right or.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: That's that's probably accurate. Yeah.

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Phil: Okay, alright. And then, Alan, you said, what don't you read.

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Tad Eggleston: Pretty much what don't I read? I read pretty much everything, but I also every time

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Tad Eggleston: they refill the dollar bin, because I know that they refill the dollar bin without really paying attention to what's going into it. I pick through very carefully and take out anything drawn by either of the Hernandez brothers Terry Moore, or China Flores.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I'm calling folks on that. You're rich enough. You don't have to go to the dollar bin for those.

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Tad Eggleston: It's more fun.

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Phil: It's about the hunt, not the catch.

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Phil: Okay? So in that case

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Phil: and then Alan and Eamon get advantages for being wide read in the nerd comic bookstore, Comic game.

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Tad Eggleston: So I'm doing 4 dice again.

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Tad Eggleston: Oh, so don't roll the fool die!

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Tad Eggleston: Yes, just the so. 3.

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Tad Eggleston: Because it's 2 plus the extra dime.

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Phil: 1, 3 and 5. Okay, so you all notice that this game store, this comic book store. It's

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Phil: dusty and untouched. It looks like there hasn't been anyone in here, and and there's a strain of mold covering covering one of the sections. You also notice that while the titles on the shelves seem familiar. You know they have Batman Superman, green lantern they've got iron man, Captain America.

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Phil: There is, you know. In

385
00:35:28.845 --> 00:35:36.300
Phil: a a hundred 73rd edition of Love and Rockets. It seems as if

386
00:35:37.370 --> 00:35:40.680
Phil: you're not in the time that you came from.

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Phil: And that's where you notice the toasty is pointing towards the door, and says, I'll I'll be able to explain better from out here.

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Chu: I'm gonna grab the batman 3,000

389
00:35:55.380 --> 00:36:01.679
Chu: real quick. And just on my way to the door. Just start flipping through real fast.

390
00:36:02.930 --> 00:36:13.630
Chu: I I'm a very fast reader, especially working at a library, so I finished most of them. By the time I get to the front as of, and I just sat down

391
00:36:15.030 --> 00:36:17.679
Chu: on the counter, and just kind of think myself. Huh!

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00:36:18.856 --> 00:36:20.569
Phil: And the.

393
00:36:21.720 --> 00:36:22.940
Chu: I was like, huh!

394
00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:28.549
Chu: Why is Batman a space pirate?

395
00:36:28.950 --> 00:36:29.910
Phil: It's a very good question.

396
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Chu: And I just and I just, and I just walk out the door.

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00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:44.989
Phil: That's an excellent, excellent note he was fighting the pink flamingo. Was that his name?

398
00:36:45.250 --> 00:36:49.410
Phil: It was a Grant Morrison villain in Batman Robin. But yeah.

399
00:36:52.720 --> 00:37:02.649
Phil: alright. So is that anyone else anyone else wanna wanna make a grab for anything for a quick, a quick tease, or just head out the door and see what the heck's going on.

400
00:37:03.910 --> 00:37:06.500
Peter Eggleston Connor: Let's get ahead and see what the heck's going on.

401
00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:08.780
Phil: Okay. So that's where

402
00:37:09.590 --> 00:37:16.287
Phil: walking out of the power fantasy, where you see that the name on the front of the store is.

403
00:37:17.270 --> 00:37:18.280
Phil: you know

404
00:37:18.390 --> 00:37:26.444
Phil: it was once in lights, but hasn't been, hasn't been lit for quite a few few years now a few 100 years, in fact.

405
00:37:26.950 --> 00:37:30.199
Phil: The world surrounding you is rubble.

406
00:37:31.553 --> 00:37:36.643
Phil: This is toasty, then tells you.

407
00:37:38.310 --> 00:37:39.640
Phil: This is the future.

408
00:37:40.298 --> 00:38:05.639
Phil: In a world devastated by war, where humanity has wiped itself out. All this left, you know, with, after you know, this is long after the the radiation has expired. But so long that plants have not been able to regrow and reclaim this land. This is what will happen to you if we don't stop what's coming.

409
00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:09.070
Tad Eggleston: So what you're saying is, no Graham crackers.

410
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:11.610
Phil: No group, no chocolates.

411
00:38:11.830 --> 00:38:14.670
Phil: There hasn't been any for hundreds of years.

412
00:38:15.010 --> 00:38:16.240
Tad Eggleston: Future sucks.

413
00:38:16.310 --> 00:38:24.269
Phil: It really does. You see, across the way not a building, but the ghost of a building

414
00:38:24.580 --> 00:38:27.309
Phil: called the Reluctant Tavern.

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00:38:28.540 --> 00:38:35.680
Peter Eggleston Connor: Of a building mean like it? It means that it's like illusion.

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00:38:35.740 --> 00:38:52.139
Phil: It's like you can see it, but it's it looks like it's made of fog, and it's got kind of a blue tint to it. And so the building is sort of like wobbling around. Just a little bit. It. It looks like you can go inside, but you won't be able to sit on anything or eat anything.

417
00:38:52.780 --> 00:38:56.209
Peter Eggleston Connor: You can't really go in like you can go inside it like you could go in a ghost.

418
00:38:56.520 --> 00:38:59.500
Phil: Yeah, you can. You can go. And it's it's like, it's like, you know.

419
00:38:59.500 --> 00:39:05.860
Peter Eggleston Connor: So, okay, no, I'm just trying to understand it. So so it looks basically like one big giant illusion.

420
00:39:06.550 --> 00:39:08.270
Phil: Kind of I mean you can.

421
00:39:08.270 --> 00:39:09.510
Phil: You can't

422
00:39:09.510 --> 00:39:28.870
Phil: quite see through it, because again, it's like misty fog sort of thing, but it looks it looks like a building made out of ghost materials where ghosts are walking in and out of there. You know, with holding holding ghost drinks in their hands and carrying baskets of ghost fries. But there's.

423
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:31.290
Peter Eggleston Connor: And and does it have a basement.

424
00:39:31.950 --> 00:39:32.910
Phil: Basement

425
00:39:34.750 --> 00:39:36.520
Phil: I mean you'd have to go in to find out.

426
00:39:37.260 --> 00:39:41.500
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm gonna I'm gonna go. I'm gonna I'm gonna find a very real rock.

427
00:39:44.500 --> 00:39:46.970
Peter Eggleston Connor: Go go up to the building

428
00:39:47.100 --> 00:39:49.970
Peter Eggleston Connor: first.st I'm gonna touch the side of side of the building.

429
00:39:49.970 --> 00:39:50.710
Phil: Okay.

430
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:53.730
Phil: So so you you make a strength role.

431
00:40:01.700 --> 00:40:03.099
Peter Eggleston Connor: Now 1 0, 4.

432
00:40:03.450 --> 00:40:11.870
Phil: a 1 and a 4. Okay, so you throw the rock. It sails clear through the side of the wall. You know you didn't throw it extremely hard, and you just hear, hey.

433
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Phil: you jackass! And the owner comes out the front, and he says, I don't go throwing things at your buildings. What are you doing here? I had this perfectly arranged. That rock is going to sit here until you come in. Pick it up and take it out. I can't do shit about it.

434
00:40:27.990 --> 00:40:31.019
Peter Eggleston Connor: The the rock fall past like ground, level.

435
00:40:31.610 --> 00:40:33.800
Phil: Well, you have to go in to find out.

436
00:40:35.670 --> 00:40:37.719
Peter Eggleston Connor: So I didn't hear what the rock.

437
00:40:38.490 --> 00:40:57.929
Phil: You didn't hear. You didn't hear anything about the rock. You saw it go sailing into like the the wall. Sort of swallowed it up, and then, you know, you caught a glimpse inside of several ghosts sitting around at tables. There's like a ghost piano, a ghost, a ghost singer up on a stage, and the the wall sort of recloses behind itself.

438
00:40:57.930 --> 00:41:03.129
Tad Eggleston: Toasty. Is there any reason we should care about the rock in this dude's living room?

439
00:41:03.520 --> 00:41:18.519
Phil: I mean, it'd be polite to go and retrieve it, and there might be a clue in there, or something to help you on your journey. The the reluctant tavern is a chain establishment across Dai to where.

440
00:41:18.520 --> 00:41:26.210
Tad Eggleston: So it's the Mcdonald's of of this universe that doesn't have Graham crackers.

441
00:41:26.210 --> 00:41:26.909
Phil: More of a.

442
00:41:26.910 --> 00:41:27.840
Tad Eggleston: Telling me.

443
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:35.029
Phil: It's more of a a Tgi Fridays that you can't participate in the events of until after you've passed.

444
00:41:35.790 --> 00:41:39.060
Tad Eggleston: So it's more of a

445
00:41:41.930 --> 00:41:43.980
Peter Eggleston Connor: Anyhow. I'll.

446
00:41:43.980 --> 00:41:44.750
Tad Eggleston: It sucks.

447
00:41:44.750 --> 00:41:48.489
Peter Eggleston Connor: Everybody go off and and try to. You know.

448
00:41:48.820 --> 00:41:51.570
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm just wanna make sure I don't fall through.

449
00:41:52.300 --> 00:41:56.630
Peter Eggleston Connor: It's a building, and if it has any sort of basement or cellar, or anything like that.

450
00:41:56.830 --> 00:41:57.960
Phil: Like.

451
00:41:59.260 --> 00:42:02.880
Peter Eggleston Connor: I am super skeptical about dropping.

452
00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:03.560
Phil: Vacation.

453
00:42:03.560 --> 00:42:04.060
Peter Eggleston Connor: You know.

454
00:42:04.060 --> 00:42:08.440
Phil: Location is above ground. No, I'm not. I'm not trying to drop you in a hole anywhere.

455
00:42:08.650 --> 00:42:09.403
Peter Eggleston Connor: All right.

456
00:42:10.150 --> 00:42:13.109
Chu: I go ahead and just walk in. And

457
00:42:13.450 --> 00:42:20.999
Chu: is this a seat yourself? Does there a sign that says, Seat yourself, or is it. Do we have to wait for to be seated.

458
00:42:21.830 --> 00:42:27.950
Phil: So you go ahead and walk in. 1st of all, your acceptance.

459
00:42:28.070 --> 00:42:47.539
Phil: You're you're feeling acceptance because you've you've accepted the premise of of this Ghost Tavern, and you can feel your emotional engagement click back up to one and you hear your repair, your repair. Say in your mind, where'd you go for a second? There, I feel like, feel like you lost touch. You know. You gotta. It's

460
00:42:48.200 --> 00:42:53.319
Phil: it's tricky a little bit this this trust. But we'll we'll get there. I'm sure we'll get there.

461
00:42:54.990 --> 00:42:57.469
Chu: It's definitely drugs in my head.

462
00:43:00.130 --> 00:43:06.191
Phil: Oh, so you don't trust you don't trust the repair, but you trust the ghost building. Okay? So you walk in.

463
00:43:06.750 --> 00:43:12.920
Phil: I presume everyone follows you once. Once you see that you know, you can walk in and you're and it's not a trap.

464
00:43:14.300 --> 00:43:17.419
Peter Eggleston Connor: No, I'm not particularly into ghost buildings.

465
00:43:17.420 --> 00:43:24.002
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll I'll follow. I mean, once I know that I'm not gonna fall through the floor cause.

466
00:43:24.660 --> 00:43:25.180
Phil: Gotcha.

467
00:43:25.180 --> 00:43:27.780
Tad Eggleston: I'm kinda hanging around the door.

468
00:43:27.780 --> 00:43:42.789
Phil: Okay, okay, and so the owner is pestering lex and says, Hey, right over here, this is the rock. Please pick it up. Take it where you go. Be careful who you throw it at next time, because you don't know who could be on the other end. There.

469
00:43:45.460 --> 00:43:46.920
Peter Eggleston Connor: I will pick up the rock.

470
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:49.630
Phil: Thank you, that's all I'm asking. All I'm asking.

471
00:43:49.630 --> 00:43:52.779
Peter Eggleston Connor: And I will. I will offer it. Offer it to the owner.

472
00:43:54.170 --> 00:44:04.699
Phil: And you offer it to the owner, and he says I can't do anything with that. I'm a frigging ghost. Do you not understand? I am non-corporeal. I cannot move these rocks. I need you to move your damn rocks

473
00:44:05.434 --> 00:44:11.970
Phil: and underneath it, underneath the rock is a a ghostly card.

474
00:44:13.025 --> 00:44:15.200
Phil: From a ghostly Tarot Deck.

475
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:22.370
Phil: that the table that sat next to it is a fortune teller shuffling

476
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:31.210
Phil: a ghostly pterodact, and they say to you, would you care to know your fate before you set out to find it yourself?

477
00:44:32.790 --> 00:44:40.969
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll take a look at this ghostly Tarot, reader, and say, why not?

478
00:44:41.160 --> 00:44:44.229
Phil: Why not? That's the best response to it.

479
00:44:44.230 --> 00:44:46.480
Peter Eggleston Connor: Can you check rocks with payment.

480
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:52.770
Phil: Do we take? We take the removal of rocks as payment. And

481
00:44:52.960 --> 00:45:00.420
Phil: you know all actions have consequences, no matter how grand or how small, and we will see.

482
00:45:01.810 --> 00:45:03.479
Phil: Turns your stone in kind.

483
00:45:03.890 --> 00:45:09.040
Peter Eggleston Connor: I will then take a moment and look at look at the owner and ask.

484
00:45:09.630 --> 00:45:17.760
Peter Eggleston Connor: so I'll point out like the back of the building and say, What's what's that direction like? After after this building.

485
00:45:18.630 --> 00:45:22.430
Phil: That direction over there. And that's this is now that you're

486
00:45:22.770 --> 00:45:27.098
Phil: asking about directions and and feeling things.

487
00:45:27.910 --> 00:45:33.049
Phil: you notice that whatever sense of direction you had previously in our world.

488
00:45:33.250 --> 00:45:43.069
Phil: It is gone. It has been replaced by something similar, something familiar, but also vastly different.

489
00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:51.949
Phil: Normally you oriented yourself in 3 dimensional space, with 4 cardinal directions, north, east, south, and west. Now.

490
00:45:52.580 --> 00:45:58.740
Phil: while being oriented in 3 dimensional space, you can feel the pull of only 3 directions

491
00:45:59.250 --> 00:46:11.890
Phil: there is left West there is Downish, and there is outward, and so he points

492
00:46:12.130 --> 00:46:14.160
Phil: where you were. And he said, outward

493
00:46:15.010 --> 00:46:23.580
Phil: outward is the training grounds of the knights, and if you had thrown the rock too far they might have charged in here looking for trouble.

494
00:46:23.580 --> 00:46:26.229
Peter Eggleston Connor: So hours of behind behind this building.

495
00:46:26.720 --> 00:46:31.870
Phil: Yes, outward is behind this building. In one of the directions behind this building, and this is where.

496
00:46:31.870 --> 00:46:34.850
Peter Eggleston Connor: And in front of this building is is the comic shop.

497
00:46:34.900 --> 00:46:48.529
Phil: Yes, yes, and so if you went back that way, he said. Oh, Downish, Downish! Over there leads to the Black Sea. You'll need a boat to cross it, you know, unless you feel like swimming and getting eaten before you get anywhere.

498
00:46:49.580 --> 00:46:52.499
Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't think I can throw to the Black Sea.

499
00:46:52.850 --> 00:46:55.129
Peter Eggleston Connor: so I'm not really worried about that.

500
00:46:55.130 --> 00:46:55.910
Phil: Right.

501
00:46:55.910 --> 00:47:00.380
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm just gonna try to throw this out the front front of the building. Then.

502
00:47:01.100 --> 00:47:08.609
Phil: So you toss it out the front of the building. And that's totally fine. That's normal. And the fortune teller

503
00:47:08.900 --> 00:47:17.740
Phil: draws your cards, and you have the chariot reversed, the 4 of pentacles and the queen of wands.

504
00:47:19.550 --> 00:47:28.769
Phil: So the chariot reversed. The chariot is normally a power card of the Tarot, and it is about you

505
00:47:29.060 --> 00:47:33.419
Phil: grabbing the reins of your life and controlling where you can go.

506
00:47:33.850 --> 00:47:34.730
Phil: That

507
00:47:35.090 --> 00:47:43.310
Phil: moment lies before you, but you don't have your hands upon the reins. Yet the next card, the 4 of pentacles

508
00:47:43.450 --> 00:47:51.509
Phil: suggests order, and gripping too tightly to what you believe is valuable.

509
00:47:51.630 --> 00:47:57.170
Phil: and it cautions you against trying to control this world

510
00:47:58.217 --> 00:48:07.879
Phil: you. You need to find just the right grip to have on the reins where you know you're not holding too tightly. You're not pulling too hard.

511
00:48:08.100 --> 00:48:10.430
Phil: but you're still driving the chariot.

512
00:48:10.580 --> 00:48:15.769
Phil: and the one who might be able to guide you in. This is the queen of wands.

513
00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:24.990
Phil: who represents a figure that I'm sure you will meet in due time, and with that.

514
00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:37.169
Peter Eggleston Connor: So what I got gathered from that is bad dice rolls fair gold, and LGBT comics.

515
00:48:38.170 --> 00:48:48.310
Phil: Well, we're not quite over yet, because now the the reluctant tavern disappears around you like after the fortune teller finishes what they said.

516
00:48:48.840 --> 00:48:57.899
Phil: it's gone, and you see the remains of a Tgi Fridays with molten skeletons at the bar.

517
00:48:58.150 --> 00:49:00.189
Phil: and you know,

518
00:49:02.569 --> 00:49:12.850
Phil: robotic like Zoltar fortune telling machine in front of you with those 3 cards just blinking on the display. And

519
00:49:13.660 --> 00:49:16.477
Phil: basically toasty comes up to me and says.

520
00:49:17.620 --> 00:49:24.570
Phil: this is what we're fighting to avoid. But what we need to do now is figure out where to go next.

521
00:49:25.030 --> 00:49:28.480
Phil: And so you have those 3.

522
00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:33.279
Tad Eggleston: We go anywhere? Do you think there are any? Is there any chocolate in the freezer? It might have kept.

523
00:49:36.225 --> 00:49:37.170
Phil: The

524
00:49:37.570 --> 00:49:54.549
Phil: you walk over to the freezer, you open the door, you see what looks like a chocolate bar, but as you reach for it. It skitters away, as you realize, it had been fused with a radioactive future cockroach. So I'm not sure.

525
00:49:54.550 --> 00:49:56.340
Tad Eggleston: Chocolate, cockroaches.

526
00:49:56.630 --> 00:49:57.380
Phil: Chocolate.

527
00:49:57.380 --> 00:50:00.659
Phil: I try and stab the chocolate cock brush.

528
00:50:00.660 --> 00:50:04.950
Phil: Okay, go ahead and give me a dexterity. Roll with your with your die.

529
00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:08.090
Chu: The 6, a 6, and a 5.

530
00:50:08.090 --> 00:50:14.610
Phil: 6 and 6 and a 5 alright. So you stab it. You pierce it just right and hold it up, and its little legs are wiggling all around. Underneath.

531
00:50:14.610 --> 00:50:22.689
Chu: I kind of. I kind of give it over again. Just reach the the it over to Alan like.

532
00:50:22.900 --> 00:50:23.430
Phil: Allen all right.

533
00:50:23.430 --> 00:50:25.530
Chu: It's kind of like here.

534
00:50:26.980 --> 00:50:29.230
Phil: It's on the end of a skewer. What do you do?

535
00:50:32.950 --> 00:50:34.960
Chu: Oh, I did my part, that's up to Alan.

536
00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:35.560
Phil: Yep.

537
00:50:37.651 --> 00:50:39.620
Chu: Do you want? You look like you.

538
00:50:39.620 --> 00:50:41.050
Tad Eggleston: Got it on a skier.

539
00:50:41.050 --> 00:50:44.800
Phil: It's on, it's on the end of a repair still squirming and legs rigged.

540
00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:49.540
Tad Eggleston: I say, I say toasty, toasty! Can I please.

541
00:50:49.540 --> 00:50:53.970
Peter Eggleston Connor: I smacked the back of your head so fast and so hard.

542
00:50:54.160 --> 00:50:56.560
Phil: All right. So toasty just says

543
00:51:00.073 --> 00:51:02.540
Phil: fucking mortals and she

544
00:51:03.290 --> 00:51:15.179
Phil: throws with a flick of his thumb, shoots a fireball that melts it right off of the repair into into a puddle on the floor, and says.

545
00:51:16.010 --> 00:51:20.959
Phil: unless you wanted radiation poisoning, I don't advise you eat anything in this realm.

546
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:23.060
Peter Eggleston Connor: Right.

547
00:51:24.330 --> 00:51:27.289
Peter Eggleston Connor: How are we gonna live if we can't eat anything.

548
00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:38.830
Phil: By realm, I mean side, and this is where toasty in the palm of his hand lights up a projection of a 20 sided die.

549
00:51:39.020 --> 00:51:43.559
Phil: and if you have a 20 sided die, you now have a map of the world.

550
00:51:43.690 --> 00:51:50.150
Phil: and on his projection the space of one is glowing with a blue flame.

551
00:51:50.260 --> 00:51:53.370
Phil: and you can see that 7, 19 and 13

552
00:51:53.570 --> 00:52:01.899
Phil: are around you. 13 is Downish. 19 is, I think I said, left West. Oh, no, no, no! Outwards.

553
00:52:02.150 --> 00:52:04.750
Phil: and then 7 is left west

554
00:52:05.458 --> 00:52:10.470
Phil: so since there's nothing else to do here, this is. This is a barren.

555
00:52:10.850 --> 00:52:14.400
Phil: a barren world, you know this is the the

556
00:52:15.410 --> 00:52:22.510
Phil: dead, haunting future that you're trying to avoid. Oh, oh, oh! Oh! Before that I almost forgot.

557
00:52:23.645 --> 00:52:25.909
Phil: Behind the fortune teller.

558
00:52:26.060 --> 00:52:27.799
Phil: You see a sign

559
00:52:27.990 --> 00:52:35.129
Phil: that says to all players to go home, all players must gather together, and each say the game is over

560
00:52:35.500 --> 00:52:43.169
Phil: to stay. All players must gather together, and each say, the game continues. Once a decision is made, it is final.

561
00:52:43.450 --> 00:52:57.099
Phil: Be aware, as a foreign entity, your presence here has destabilized reality. If a decision is not made, this world will end, and all inside will perish. As long as a unanimous decision is made, the realm will continue.

562
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:00.019
Phil: Those who are dead do not get a vote.

563
00:53:03.290 --> 00:53:08.000
Peter Eggleston Connor: So we should just vote right here and now, and leave right.

564
00:53:08.630 --> 00:53:11.600
Tad Eggleston: No cause. I still want the perfect s'more.

565
00:53:12.820 --> 00:53:15.290
Peter Eggleston Connor: You're not gonna get here like.

566
00:53:16.670 --> 00:53:19.960
Chu: I don't think Smorgan Freeman's gonna give you

567
00:53:20.140 --> 00:53:24.840
Chu: any chocolate or graham crackers or part of his head.

568
00:53:25.110 --> 00:53:32.170
Tad Eggleston: But he might, if we find the chocolate and graham crackers and help him out with stuff. And it's such a perfect marshmallow.

569
00:53:32.170 --> 00:53:36.250
Chu: Well, the I mean these. These other places might have chocolate.

570
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:42.989
Tad Eggleston: That's what I'm saying. We need to stay here and go to another place. We can't go home yet.

571
00:53:43.340 --> 00:53:48.420
Peter Eggleston Connor: So it just said also that dead people don't get to vote right.

572
00:53:53.550 --> 00:53:59.720
Phil: So that's where to toasty toasty is just massaging where his temples would be on the marshmallow, says

573
00:54:00.150 --> 00:54:04.970
Phil: Alan. Why do you look at a sentient marshmallow and assume it wants to be eaten.

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Tad Eggleston: I eat the whole marshmallow. I'll trade some of my hair for some of your hair.

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Phil: Well, I'm glad you mentioned bargains, because, as I had to rescue you from

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Phil: that last batch of fallen, and this is where so

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Phil: Garrion's body, possessed by toasty is, sort of your Virgil through this world.

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Phil: On the 1st attempt at reviving, he rolled a 1 on his d 12, which means that the party has incurred

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Phil: a point of God debt.

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Phil: So you know normally, God debt is something for the God Binder to deal with. Asgarian was going to be your god Binder, but

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Phil: who knows where he's gone?

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Phil: Dealing with the gods is now something you'll do as a group

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Phil: and fulfilling their debts and bargaining for miracles is something that you can all do in petition. As you go along. So

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Phil: Tosi says to Alan, there will be plenty of time for deals later, for now I need you to choose

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Phil: which direction you would like to head off into.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean toasty. You know what I'm looking for. I'm looking for chocolate and Graham crackers, which direction.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: 19, we're definitely going.

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Phil: Well, this is where Tosi says. Actually.

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Phil: if you're looking for food, it's more likely to head the other way. To left white

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Phil: towards 7 7 is more likely to have food and fare than 19.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: What does 19 have.

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Phil: 19 has you can hear the trumpets of a a jousting festival, and the clash of blades on steel, and the cheers of a roaring crowd. There might be food there, but you know for sure there's

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Phil: it could. Yeah. Now that you mention it.

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Tad Eggleston: Trump trumpets are better in jazz, bands.

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Phil: Sure. But, sir.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I still go with my 1st instinct, which is to go to 19.

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Phil: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: Maybe we can teach them jazz.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Wouldn't be food there.

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Phil: Okay, what does everyone else vote.

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Chu: I just kind of follow with the majority.

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Phil: Well, I guess whoever is.

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Chu: Whoever is the, I guess whoever seems to be most emphatic about their

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Chu: decision was the decision I might go with.

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Phil: So then, Alan, are you are.

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Tad Eggleston: It sounds like, we're going to 19.

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Tad Eggleston: Okay?

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Tad Eggleston: All right.

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Phil: If y'all are heading to 19 then

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Phil: as as Lex and Alan say, all right, I guess there's there's probably food where there's trumpets and crowds. As the 2 of you walk off in the distance, and Eamon is about to follow suit.

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Phil: the skeleton of the fortune teller grabs at your cloak, and holds up

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Phil: the tarot deck towards you, and says, you'll need this.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Sure I'll pocket that.

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Phil: Well, it's it's it was meant for. It was meant for Eamon to to take.

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Chu: I just have one question.

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Chu: How do you talk without a larynx.

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Phil: The wind needs no flesh.

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Chu: That's creepy, and I just take the deck and walk off.

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Phil: Excellent, excellent! You will need that where you're going.

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Phil: And toasty walks with you and says, All right, this is where we're heading. We're heading outwards to the tournament of champions, and as you crest over the hill that is one of the sides of the die, you now move from one to 19, and you feel yourselves level up.

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Phil: as in these early adventures you will level up when you're

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Phil: still traveling with toasty getting a feel for the world. You'll level up as you enter a new realm and complete an adventure. But after the 1st couple we'll do it the other way, where you have to

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Phil: completed adventure to level up. So if you wanted to quick quickly, just pick some abilities or do that next time we could sign off. That's pretty much the end of this episode.

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Tad Eggleston: Alright! Why don't we sign off? Cause I feel like, oh, like, have nerdy questions to try.

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Phil: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: How that leveling up works.

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Phil: Actually 1. 1 last thing. So okay. So as you walk with toasty over the hill, and you feel power flowing into your die, and you level up.

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Phil: We now cut to a flashback

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Phil: from the beginning of our 1st episode.

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Phil: where Garion pulls up in a beat up old car to the power fantasy in time to see Alex walk in.

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Phil: and he looks down at his phone, see? 5 missed calls and a done and a dozen unanswered texts, the most recent of which says, This isn't funny. Where are you? Another call comes in.

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Phil: The Id says Mom Garion answers. She starts, laying into him angry, frantic on the verge of tears.

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Phil: and he just says, I'm not coming. I told you I can't be there. I can't see her like that.

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Phil: She asks where he is if he's safe, if he's using again he looks down at a half smoked vape pen, then up to the mirror and bloodshot eyes. You don't understand. Oh, no is coming out of the phone. I have to. As he's putting in. Eye drops the phone, blares. He winces, misses the drops splattering down his face, the only tears his cheeks would know. Listen to me!

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Phil: He slams a fist on the wheel. I'm never going back there. I can't. It'll fucking. Kill me, mom. I'll have to do the magic. I'll have all the magic sucked out of me, and I'll die too. Is that what you want

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Phil: silence. Tears, he knows won't stop. Trust me. I have to do this now before she's in the ground. I'm going to find her, and I have to bring her back.

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Phil: Then we fade to Black.

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Tad Eggleston: Alrighty!

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Fun enough.

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Tad Eggleston: That that was

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Tad Eggleston: now. Now I feel like I need to care about Gary and accept that. I didn't actually hear that that was that was off screen, flashback.

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Phil: Hmm.

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Tad Eggleston: So it's just our listeners to have to care about Gary and good cause cause it doesn't, doesn't play with my whole full thing to have to care about people.

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Tad Eggleston: So any any parting thoughts from anybody else before we kill the recording and talk about what leveling up means.

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Chu: I want S'mores.

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Tad Eggleston: I do, too.

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Phil: I I think after that session I really don't. So.

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Tad Eggleston: Alright for Phil, Jonathan, Peter, and myself. This has been Di on 22 panels, and we will see you after the next page.