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

Episode Three: Knights of Dreams/Blades of Nightmares

In which we lose ourselves, find our honor, and face our demons.

The lines of reality unravel with a scribbling ferocity as the 22 Panels crew scramble their way through a knightly jousting tournament. But do they make it out with heroism intact? Can something so naively idealistic save them now? Was there ever any to begin with?

Find out within the audiopsychodrama (or is it more of a psychoaudiodrama?) that is... 

Knights of Dreams/Blades of Nightmares

And stay tuned after the adventure for our first (of possibly many) Stars and Wishes!

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Transcript

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Tad Eggleston: Good morning, everybody for like 17 whole, more minutes. And I never know why I start this way. Because, like, we're podcast people listen when they want it might be good evening. It might be good night. It might be good morning. But I,

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Tad Eggleston: my radio hero, is Harry Carey, so that's why, he always started. Good afternoon, everybody, or Good evening, everybody, anyway. Welcome back to to

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Tad Eggleston: 22 panels no more

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Tad Eggleston: where, rather than talking about comic books, we play the role-playing game die. That was 1st and simultaneously the comic die by Kieran Gillen and Stephanie Hans. So without further ado, I will pass us off to our

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Tad Eggleston: are.

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Tad Eggleston: What should we call you? Our die master, our game, master, or you're not really a dungeon, Master

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Phil: Yeah, we're still, we're still above ground

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Tad Eggleston: Our our world, our our world, Creator, our

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Lots of d and D is still above ground

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Peter Eggleston Connor: doom. We could just call you Doom.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: There

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Phil: Do! Oh, boy!

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Tad Eggleston: World, under

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Do our storyteller

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Phil: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah, I'm I'm fine. I like to sign a diemaster. Diemaster is pretty

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Tad Eggleston: okay. We'll pass it off to our die, master. Mr. Phil Ebbing.

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Phil: You're right.

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Phil: and good morning to everyone else out there. I say that morning is less a time of day than a state of mind. I am indeed our die master, for this wild adventure we're on, and we're going to start with our familiar passing of the Die Ritual. So 1st off is the d. 10, and it is wielded by.

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Phil: If you want to introduce yourself.

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Phil: Yeah, I'm my

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I am, Peter, but I am playing lex in game.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: The neo who currently is wielding optical illusions mostly to

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Peter Eggleston Connor: tied, and now to create sort of a defensive stance

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Peter Eggleston Connor: makes me think of how how a lot of my own players were trying to or want this rare item that gives disadvantage, and D and D to like all attacks against them, and like

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Peter Eggleston Connor: the hell I know.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: But yeah, so

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I think that covers me unless I there's more that should be said

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Phil: All right, so that's Peter. We'll we'll get more mysterious illusions and and dubious disadvantages from him later next is the d. 12 wielded by Gary and Eddings, our Godbinder. Who

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Phil: That'll be something to to ask. Your personas is is, where do you think Arian is? Who do you think Arian is? Because right now he is possessed by the god of fire, toasty a flaming giant with the head of a perfectly toasted marshmallow.

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Phil: Next we have our d. 8, which is wielded by

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Chu: True playing Eamon Harwell the emotion night.

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Chu: He's not really sure what's going on. He is wondering if somebody slipped something into the coffee

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Phil: There we go, and next we have the d. 4, which powers the dictator and the wielder of our d. 4 is dead.

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Phil: Next is the D. 6. It's just a normal one, definitely not full of magical world altering abilities, and that is the the regular old, the regular old bones we have entrusted to

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Tad Eggleston: The the fool.

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Tad Eggleston: You're telling me I have a normal die.

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Tad Eggleston: I could buy and sell you multiple times.

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Tad Eggleston: What kind of bullshit is this a normal, not

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Tad Eggleston: he's still trading me like Louis Chisholm, the the awkward, quiet kid I was in high school rather than Alan spectrum

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Tad Eggleston: the amazing

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Tad Eggleston: world dominating genius. Cool guy I am now.

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Tad Eggleston: Oh, I guess I'm the the fool that makes sense. I'm kind of foolish sometimes. Yeah. And

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Tad Eggleston: I I will say that I'm not saying that anybody slipped anything into the coffee, but if

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Tad Eggleston: somebody slipped something in the coffee it was me

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Phil: This is a new side to Alan. I think I like this. This is this is great. Finally, we have the D 20, and that guy is mine.

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Phil: So now we are going to transport into our magical world. If everyone would close your eyes and slowly lower your dive power down to the table.

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Phil: 1, 2, 3! Let go

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Phil: open your eyes, and we are there. We are on the road. We are traveling between realms

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Tad Eggleston: Are we old again

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Peter Eggleston Connor: On the road again

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Tad Eggleston: Can't wait to get on the road

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Phil: Got a 6th

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Phil: exciting. That means, means you probably need a nap, you know. But there's no there's no time to rest for sure. So we're gonna start out. I'm gonna ask you all how your personas are feeling. It's definitely been a few hours now. You know, one of those

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Phil: I I know that that Eamon thinks there was something in the coffee.

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Phil: But what

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Phil: what elements of the real world are pulling back to you who's waiting for you? What would you be doing now if you hadn't been transported to a magical realm and in another world? And do you believe you're actually there?

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Well, how many hours have passed? Exactly!

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Phil: I'll say it's been about. I mean, it's been 2 h, and this is kind of over the span of time of traveling from one world to another. I'd say that's even 2 more hours. So we can. We can say that we're, we're, you know, on an empty countryside rolling up to. You know, civilization on on the

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Peter Eggleston Connor: It's only been 4 h since since we since we left

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Phil: Well, it's a bit. It's a

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Comic shop.

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Phil: Us. Well, if you think about it, the only things

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that's that's what I was trying to ask

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Phil: Yeah.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: How long has it been

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Phil: Yeah, I'd say I'd say, you know, by the time by the time we get to where we're going next it'll have been about 4 h.

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Phil: you know. So it's it's long enough to to sort of realize, like, okay, this is

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Phil: this, is, we are somewhere, something is happening. You know, this is

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Peter Eggleston Connor: And I imagine that most of the people that like, you know, I know I'm close to you and be worried about me aren't really worried yet. Cause

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Phil: They aren't worried yet. Okay.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Because let's let's be honest. I I said I was gonna go play like, you know, a tabletop Rpgs. And some people play those, for, like all day, I probably

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Peter Eggleston Connor: My my spouse that I was not gonna be back till late.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: As for how I'm thinking personally, I'm a little confused because I don't know if I'm on drugs, or if this is a like virtual experience, because I don't remember putting on any sort of like virtual reality gear definitely don't remember the comic book shop having anything like this complicated setup.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh.

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Phil: Notably the outside of the comic shop, was not a Dystopian rubble of a destroyed future society, and and as you've walked through the landscape, you will see none of the familiar facets of suburbia, but instead, rolling hills filled with magic and not quite normal creatures, there's still, you know, foxes, dogs, wolves, those sort of things going on. But

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Phil: you know a lot more wings, a lot more sparkles in the shrubbery than than you would have seen in our world.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: But I was, gonna yeah, finish that statement with

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Phil: Oh, sorry!

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Peter Eggleston Connor: No, you're fine.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Where was I gonna finish that statement?

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, maybe I just like never woke up this morning. And this is my dream of the day.

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Phil: Hmm.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I don't really know, like I think I'm in the same boat as Chew, except I don't, you know, distrust everybody to the point where I think somebody spiked my alcohol.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: At least I'm hoping that's not the case, but

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Phil: I will say. The one firm difference that you have is that

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Phil: if you are on drugs, you know that you have 5 more hits in your pocket with that fair goal that you picked up earlier, and you can feel both a compulsion to take and a swelling of excitement. Whenever you feel it jingle in in your purse strings, you know.

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Phil: like to be on drugs. I am on drugs.

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Phil: Maybe you are on drugs. I mean? It's it's it's 1 of those things where you know. What's the difference between a mind altering substance and the knowledge of power, you know.

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Phil: And with that you feel nothing verbal. But

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Phil: you get the sense of an intelligence.

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Phil: an intelligence in the back of your head. Sorry my cats are are feeling. It's time for Kitty fight club but it is not

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Tad Eggleston: It's always time for Kitty Fight club

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Phil: That's that's the show they put on when they want another can. But I'm saying it's not time yet, guys, anyway. So so you're feeling the pulse of a foreign intelligence. It's nonverbal, and it's it's alien. It's there

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Phil: you can tell. It's there, you can tell. It's something else. But it's not quite speaking to you yet, and you can just feel it flaring up. It's the source of of your compulsion. It's the source of your your desire to pop more, pop more coins into that that slot behind your ear

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Peter Eggleston Connor: It. Yeah, May, maybe it is drugs. I

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Peter Eggleston Connor: yeah, I've never felt that before. So so maybe this is drugs. And you know. Maybe I did wake up this morning. It's it's 1 of those.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: It's 1 of those things. I don't know what it is, but

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Go with it for now and you know, hopefully be out of it.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: By the time I need to be home

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Phil: Anyone else. You know.

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Phil: feeling any any obligations from from the real world? Real world, or are you? You know. How are you? How are you grappling with with the situation in front of you right now? You know, how do you think you're gonna get home? Are you worried about about the future?

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Tad Eggleston: I'm thinking this guitar is cool, but like

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Tad Eggleston: my drum set didn't come with

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Phil: So I'm kinda

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Tad Eggleston: Pounding on the top of the guitar.

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Tad Eggleston: I'm going, man.

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Tad Eggleston: Normally I read a comic while I'm doing this, but I don't have the big screen on the wall to look at.

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Tad Eggleston: and I think it might be espresso time. Where's my girlfriend? Does she come with? She generally brings the espresso around now

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Phil: Where we're we're all out of espresso.

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Phil: you know. Unfortunately, in our traveling gear I don't think anyone has any

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Phil: any coffee makers of any sort.

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Phil: Okay. So it sounds like Alan is is largely unperturbed.

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Phil: Which does not surprise me in one bit. That's another thing.

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Phil: So, Chu? Who does eamon?

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Phil: Hey?

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Phil: Sorry about that?

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Phil: Who who does eamon have

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Phil: in their life on on the other side, you know. Who who would notice them gone for any amount of time, or what obligations would would he have had to get back to

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Chu: So Eamon has his job that

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Chu: I don't know if we ever established what day of the week it was

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Chu: but depending on it, although it is a night shift, and

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Chu: they always work, even always works pretty autonomously. So.

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Chu: He's never really given much notice, just because like things

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Chu: get done. And so it's 1 of those cases where the person is. Just

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Chu: you don't have to micromanage them. They just get their stuff done. They don't

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Chu: you don't necessarily notice them, but you know it's getting done as far as other people that might might notice a missing.

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Chu: They do have a he does have a roommate. That he lives with

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Chu: And although you know, as someone in their late I believe I said their late twenties, you know.

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Chu: Yeah, you know. Maybe you take off for a couple of days, you know.

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Chu: they might not give a whole lot of no, especially if maybe they are doing something or going over the weekend. The only thing there I thought I was like, huh!

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Chu: Hope they remember to feed the cat.

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Phil: You're right.

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Phil: So you it's not quite hit that point for you yet, either. Okay, so.

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Phil: rolling along the hills, you come across an encampment with the

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Phil: it sounds like it looks like, and it sounds like a giant run fair, only you wouldn't realize this. But these are people's everyday clothes as opposed to their special special dress up clothes.

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Tad Eggleston: Long, long time ago, in the land of idiot boys there lived a cat, a phenomenal cat, who loved to wallow all day

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Phil: This is the point where I would say, dear listener, if you can find a way to put on mountain realm at the same time, you're listening to this. Podcast. I would highly recommend it. As we're known as dungeon synth, music. And it it sounds. It sounds like you're in a fantasy world. That's why I've been listening to to put together a lot of stuff here.

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Phil: So there's there's a raucous chorus around you, and you can tell there's a bunch of clamoring towards the there there, you know. There's all kinds of shops over on way

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Phil: food that resembles a turkey leg, but you know it's not quite a turkey

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Phil: as well as a a giant field where there is jousting and nightly combat between you, and you notice across the way there is the

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Tad Eggleston: Anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

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Phil: There's a pavilion where where there's the seats of royalty. You can't quite make out the faces of them. But you can tell that there are 4 kings observing this nightly tournament.

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Tad Eggleston: To be king just for a while.

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Phil: I was wondering what. So if if everyone here is at Ren fair, what would you all want to do? What

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Phil: What would? What would be on your list

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Chu: For me. I tend to, I would say

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Chu: I at 1st do a perimeter of just like wonder what's all here? And I just I don't go into any. I

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Chu: probably wouldn't go into any shops I would just be looking for.

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Chu: Just take a quick scope of everything that's here, and then make a just a mental note of like. Okay, here are the things that I want to check out. Also.

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Chu: 1st thing you always do at the Ren Fair. Where are the good bathrooms at? Because we always know that there's the good bathrooms

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Chu: that are more like actual bathrooms. And then there's the Porta Potties.

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Chu: So you always. So you always check that out first, st

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Chu: and then also looking for where's the food? That's not

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Chu: like a comp. Let's not like comp. A complete rip off.

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Chu: because there's all those places that like where the food is

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Chu: like here is 12 bucks for a mediocre piece of pizza.

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Chu: However, the smoked barbecue smoked chicken leg for $6

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Chu: is actually like 10 times better

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Phil: And that's that's where I've got bad news for you in that. You know the the sensible location for a cluster of Portipies or bathrooms.

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Phil: and I haven't

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Phil: done much research into how they handled these sorts of things back in the Middle Ages. But there's there's just a bit there's a open trough of shit. There's just a massive pile of human animal, mythical creature.

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Phil: Just

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Phil: it's it's it's 1 of the most awful things you've ever seen. And you know, it's it's at this point where I myself realize I don't want to describe this anymore and need to stay away from it.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I would have just gone with. There's there's a fucking out house, but you know

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Phil: I mean

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Chu: If there's a if there's a trough, Eamon would immediately look like

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Chu: in terms of what the quote unquote good bathroom is.

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Chu: whatever is the equivalent of being upstream

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Extreme getting the feeling that

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Lex is gonna have an uncomfortable day

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Phil: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's probably best. If we if we don't worry about the bathroom situation for now

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Tad Eggleston: Out of character. It kind of feels like this isn't a Ren fair.

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Tad Eggleston: This is. This is a fair in possibly the pre Renaissance

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Phil: That's fair. That's a good point. It's a good point in

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Sounds like a jousting club

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Phil: Yeah. And on that note someone astray astray from the

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Phil: And you think of Rose so what? What do you think of her? If she could see you now, what would you know? What what thoughts of her coming to your mind

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Phil: Chu has been brought into into the center of the arena, and he is set up to duel. You have to choose between fighting your dream self or your spirit self, and the way this fight is going to work that determines which of my 2 Tarot decks that that you'll go up against. You can choose with each round to either roll your dice normally, or to pull that many cards and trust fate in accept your fate.

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Phil: it! Now it now falls and is replaced by, you know the rising sun of the morning. Again for emphasis on, on, lex this is not an actual day that has passed. Your fair gold has not disappeared. You know, there, there might have been a slight worry, even though you don't know that how it works yet, but that's not the case.

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Phil: I just if you. If you just give it back to me, I'll be on my way.

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Phil: And this is where you realize he hasn't recognized you, despite the fact that

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Phil: a week ago, when he came in with his group of friends to play this game, he said, hello to you. He recognized you. He knew who you were.

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Phil: but then he disappeared, and he hadn't been seen for a week, and now, disheveled clothes and tatters.

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Phil: rummaging, causing a mess, demanding things of you. He doesn't know who you are anymore.

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Phil: What do you make of that?

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Chu: in that moment I would. I would say, it's like

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Chu: I was like, really wants that game, or

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Chu: really really took something. One of the 2.

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Chu: But he's Damon isn't going to be confrontational about that.

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Chu: Because right now, like he's just think he's just more thinking I'm a this is

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Chu: wanting to like, always avoid drama like.

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Chu: why do I see this becoming unneeded confrontation

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Chu: like, look, look! If if where else could the game be? And I'll

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Chu: we'll get it, and then you can leave. Okay, I cause I I didn't see. I don't remember seeing it in the inventory.

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Chu: So I believe that, you know. If it is here you did.

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Chu: Maybe you did misplace it.

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Chu: Where could it maybe be? And you can just be done. Get a that way.

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Chu: Lots to deal with

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Phil: So give me give me an intelligence role real quick. Just your 2 dice

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Chu: Double threes.

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Phil: Double threes. Okay, so now

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Phil: Gary, and doesn't quite accost you. But he takes a step closer and he's like, Why are you lying. I know that you have it. Just give it back to me. Don't tell me that I've lost it when I know that you have it.

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Phil: and it's sitting back on your desk. But

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Phil: there's a piece of you that didn't remember that you found it, and didn't remember that you were hanging on to it until this very moment.

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Phil: And you you start to realize that there's something a little different going on with this game

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Chu: Was it the

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Chu: Was it that? Like weird black box with like the red, the red, weird lettering

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Phil: I knew you had it. I knew you had it. Where is it? I just. I just need it, and I can. I can be on my way

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Chu: It. Just it was.

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Chu: We found it underneath one of the stacks. It's been sitting on my desk for a while, because they were trying to figure out where it goes, and I haven't looked at it, and I haven't looked at it since. It was put there a week ago.

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Phil: How could you not have looked at it when it looked directly into you?

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Phil: And

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Phil: I don't know how I'm going to finish this conversation, and I don't know how it made any sense that you would see your old friend clearly in what you understood it as the midst of a relapse.

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Phil: and yet you would still meet up with him the next day

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Phil: and play this very same game with him

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Phil: that he was crazed over, that he played with friends who have disappeared and haven't been seen since.

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Phil: And now that is the end of the flashback.

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Phil: and you are back in the moment you are back

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Phil: in that moment, seeing that the

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Phil: the Terranite has his blade raised high, and you.

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Phil: quite interestingly now, have a moment

402
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Phil: to strike perfectly and take him out. Give me an actual dice, roll your dexterity plus your d. 8,

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Phil: and let's see what happens.

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Chu: Okay, that is a 6, a 5, and a 4, and that is a 7 on the d. 8,

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Phil: 7 on the d. 8. That is a full sweep. So you are now able, with a surge of power as your repair

406
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Phil: it, it bursts with energy, and you know exactly where to fly.

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Phil: to land it between the pieces of the Terror knights armor, and to watch, as his flesh evaporates into smoke and mist. And you know that this dream was truly a nightmare, and that you can become the self that you want to be. This this heroic, courageous knight. You're you're no longer just the one who watches you are now the one who acts

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Phil: And with that the the

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Phil: everyone watching this great game bursts into applause and cheers. They see a champion in turn to be crowned. Toasty walks up to you from out of the crowd, and he says

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Phil: it's good to see you again, old friend.

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Phil: I'm glad to have you on this journey with me.

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Phil: And who do you think that is that says that to you

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Chu: Darian.

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Phil: Is that what you call him

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Chu: Yeah.

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Phil: Yeah. You call him Garyen, and he says

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Phil: Gary is not here right now.

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Phil: It's just me toasty.

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Phil: We should be on to the next side before the night comes out. This isn't somewhere you want to be when the night comes out

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Chu: At least you're wearing pants this time.

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Phil: Optional as they may be, my pants will remain where they are.

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Tad Eggleston: Are. Are we all with them at this point again?

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Tad Eggleston: Oh, I guess a flashback

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Phil: I? Yes, we're out of flashback mode

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Little bit

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Chu: Also watch your back

427
00:46:11.950 --> 00:46:16.350
Tad Eggleston: Pretty good for so long in the back. You smell like a sewer.

428
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Tad Eggleston: It's cool, I think.

429
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Chu: Alan really wants to eat your head.

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Chu: I don't know how the biology of that works. At what point do you stop

431
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Chu: being able to do like

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Tad Eggleston: See? Well bound, I like you're sticking around

433
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Chu: For that.

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Phil: You know, it's less a worry of biology and more a worry of cosmology.

435
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Phil: And

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Phil: I think that's close to a fine ending of this? Oh, well, as you walk off into the distance, 2 things happen. One, the sun is actually setting new, and this is where lex is getting something between. It's it's a physical, alert notification where you now see a timer pop up in your eyes on your was, you can understand as a heads up display. But

437
00:47:16.040 --> 00:47:21.869
Phil: to Lexis simply her eyes, and it says, 2 h till dawn.

438
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Phil: With that timer

439
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Suddenly. I wonder if I'm a robot

440
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Phil: Wonder if you're a robot. Nice nice

441
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Peter Eggleston Connor: I probably more wonder if I'm dreaming that I'm a robot

442
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Or

443
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Tad Eggleston: Bad at night, but I'm so lazy don't want to wander. I stay home at night.

444
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Tad Eggleston: but I don't feel afraid as long as I gaze on Waterloosen said, I'm in Paradise.

445
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Phil: Alright, and so we can

446
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Peter Eggleston Connor: And I'm also starting to think that what's

447
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Peter Eggleston Connor: sorry, Ted, I forgot your character's name

448
00:48:02.500 --> 00:48:04.860
Phil: Alan. Alan. Spector. Spec. Yes.

449
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Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm also starting to think Alan is going nuts

450
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Phil: He's certainly handling things. Well, and

451
00:48:13.790 --> 00:48:15.569
Tad Eggleston: Mary and Julie

452
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Peter Eggleston Connor: No, no, we don't need a phone at the moment.

453
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Phil: And so, as you're walking away, we can address what to do with with your fair gold early next time. But what you don't see behind you, as the sun sets, is the facade of nightly ritual and tournament. Games recedes, and the ghosts of the stories beneath them

454
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Phil: emerge, and

455
00:48:42.950 --> 00:48:49.500
Phil: the monsters begin to crawl from their caves and the holes in the ground, and a new court

456
00:48:50.140 --> 00:48:56.400
Phil: communes and commences, and it is hungry, and that is it

457
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Phil: for our second adventure, our 1st

458
00:48:59.290 --> 00:49:09.830
Phil: 1st new side adventure in die, and as you, as you move on to the next realm, you will also level up so you'll be you'll be level 3 next time we play

459
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Tad Eggleston: And and wow! That was tight

460
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, that was a very. Was that brief

461
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Tad Eggleston: It was like 45 min.

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Phil: 45 min. Okay, alright. I mean, I know that's

463
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Tad Eggleston: 45 min to an hour.

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Phil: It was one of those where I was expecting. Oh, have you? You haven't stopped recording yet, have you?

465
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Peter Eggleston Connor: I haven't stopped recording. But that's okay.

466
00:49:29.966 --> 00:49:31.450
Peter Eggleston Connor: Talking about it. Go ahead

467
00:49:31.660 --> 00:49:35.910
Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Okay, yeah. So that I don't mind postgame commentary.

468
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Phil: Alright excellent! So that was that was a very

469
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Very quick.

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Phil: Derailing. I actually had a little mechanic that I'll probably save for next time where I expected Tad to go wandering into the crowd in in search of merchandise. So I prepared a little randomized, okay? Well, what? What type of merchant are you going to meet? And maybe that can power up your your fools. Prep. But again we can just we could put that in our pocket

471
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Gonna do that but one. I was having a cough and fit. So sorry about that

472
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Phil: That's fine!

473
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Peter Eggleston Connor: That way, but also

474
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Phil: Thank you for muting

475
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Peter Eggleston Connor: 2 like chew went into it. And then we were like in the middle of the story, really quick. So it was like

476
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Phil: Work.

477
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Phil: Yeah, that was that was also unexpected. I did not. I did not plan on on

478
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Phil: the the flashback happening where it did. But as as I was pulling cards, it was kind of a okay. Well, these don't make sense for what I want to happen in the story. So let's let's change pace there. Which I did. I did give to that little piece of of secret communication

479
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Phil: over the time where I said, Okay, so so you know that Gary and used to work at the library. But he doesn't work there anymore. And you had a little run on run in with him, and I went a little sideways. But we're gonna we're gonna have to. We're gonna have to unpack that. And keep. Keep realizing what you know, what events have happened before. As we go along

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Offer no sounds great

481
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Tad Eggleston: I might need to give Phil muting capabilities, because I've kind of decided that that, like

482
00:51:14.730 --> 00:51:27.120
Tad Eggleston: the barred behavior of Alan, is going to be either randomly singing lyrics to established songs, possibly to not to the actual

483
00:51:28.020 --> 00:51:29.409
Tad Eggleston: music of those songs

484
00:51:29.410 --> 00:51:34.799
Peter Eggleston Connor: I did notice that the session and I I have mixed feelings about it. I will

485
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:35.390
Tad Eggleston: Right.

486
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Be honest with you.

487
00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:39.809
Tad Eggleston: And and I do, too. Which is why I'm thinking.

488
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Tad Eggleston: and or singing lyrics that that may have

489
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Tad Eggleston: come straight from the game. But to established melodies, etcetera.

490
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Tad Eggleston: But I didn't expect you to stop the way you did. I was trying to blow under it, and when you stopped I'm like. Oh, that's not quite the effect that I I was

491
00:52:09.610 --> 00:52:10.000
Tad Eggleston: smoking

492
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:23.800
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I I don't actually even like you going under it. I think that's even worse, because it makes it hard to like focus on what what Phil and Chew were saying, and I mean, like, that's when Phil and she were talking right. But

493
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Peter Eggleston Connor: you know I'm just throwing that out there. It's like, I know you're you're like.

494
00:52:30.710 --> 00:52:38.180
Peter Eggleston Connor: I'm very amused by it in the sense that, like it's what your character would do, and I think that's that's awesome. But on the flip side I'm like

495
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Peter Eggleston Connor: a little concerned about like having that like second

496
00:52:42.620 --> 00:52:50.350
Peter Eggleston Connor: sort of voice trying to go under it, and like I mean, like, I guess if you could really fade it out it would be fine, but

497
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Tad Eggleston: And and this is where my my thoughts are giving mute capability to fill

498
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Phil: Because

499
00:53:00.340 --> 00:53:01.570
Tad Eggleston: Like

500
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Tad Eggleston: for for me, it's a it's a mixture of without doing major sound engineering, like the realism of like. If this was all happening in real time. This would be very much how a board Alan would be. Oh, you're not talking to me. So I'm gonna start strumming on my guitar or whatever

501
00:53:24.420 --> 00:53:45.440
Tad Eggleston: and wanting to make certain that we get the story forward. I don't know what story you're telling, so I don't always know when it's interesting or not to. I'm just trying to riff off of what I hear. So I think. Remind me next time, and like I will give you the ability to mute people

502
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Phil: Hmm.

503
00:53:46.565 --> 00:53:54.450
Tad Eggleston: And then, if you decide that this is not a time for for random allenness

504
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Tad Eggleston: and hit hit mute

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Phil: You know I will. We'll take that in consideration, for next time. I will definitely be keen on listening to how that turned out, because we did get we did get dreamlike, you know what, pretty much any time the moon comes up in a reading, things are going to get a little weird, a little nontraditional so that was quite apt. That was quite apt. And yeah, I'll let you know how

506
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Phil: readily.

507
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Phil: Yeah, I'd want that power next time.

508
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Tad Eggleston: And the other thing is, I'm trying without anybody having to do serious, sound engineering. I'm trying to figure out all of the ways to make.

509
00:54:35.930 --> 00:54:40.070
Tad Eggleston: trying to think of ways to make things quirky and interesting for the listener.

510
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Tad Eggleston: I. You know

511
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Tad Eggleston: what'll work and what won't, and I don't have the time to go back and listen to them. But I know that Phil does so, Phil can tell me, hey?

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Phil: There we go. I am on board until someone brings out a kazoo

513
00:54:52.720 --> 00:54:53.640
Tad Eggleston: Right

514
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Peter Eggleston Connor: But you don't want me to bring out a kazoo

515
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Phil: I like

516
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Tad Eggleston: Kazoo.

517
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Phil: We have standards here at 22,

518
00:55:01.040 --> 00:55:04.190
Tad Eggleston: I'm good with my kazoo. Don't you dare

519
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Apparently we

520
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Tad Eggleston: Lamb.

521
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:09.010
Peter Eggleston Connor: Apparently we have standard

522
00:55:09.010 --> 00:55:09.600
Tad Eggleston: Dimstrom.

523
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, thank, you.

524
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Tad Eggleston: Zoo!

525
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Peter Eggleston Connor: 22 panels, no more. But we don't impacts

526
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Phil: There we go! Oh, finally, until someone buffs that busts out the Voo! Voo, Zella! Then I'm on board

527
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Tad Eggleston: Okay, that that's there's just no way to play that softly enough to

528
00:55:25.980 --> 00:55:28.870
Phil: No, there's not, I will! I will assume

529
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Tad Eggleston: Work.

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Phil: I will accept a Didgeridoo. I think that could really bring up the

531
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Tad Eggleston: Though, though we discovered recently, and I don't think Tyler's finished editing it to put it up so. So if if this one somehow winds up out ahead of time.

532
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Tad Eggleston: This will be a little spoiler when when we recorded the the Emil Ferris interview. Live at a book club in at at Lions Tooth.

533
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Tad Eggleston: in Milwaukee, and she let us in in a wolf howl at the end. That the microphone decided was background. Noise that needed to be noise canceled

534
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Phil: Hmm.

535
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, wow!

536
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Tad Eggleston: So so when we got to the okay, rather than having a group go, oh, we had

537
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Tad Eggleston: silence for like 2 seconds

538
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Phil: Oh, wow!

539
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Phil: That's funny!

540
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Bill, I was gonna ask you, do you

541
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Peter Eggleston Connor: Do you want? I mean, like one thing that

542
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Peter Eggleston Connor: you know I do in my sessions, at least with the family testify. This is stars and wishes at the end of session

543
00:56:36.870 --> 00:56:42.988
Peter Eggleston Connor: So in general, I was just gonna ask you like, do you want feedback? And do you want that on air?

544
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Phil: Yeah, I'll take. I'll take feedback on there

545
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Peter Eggleston Connor: I'll start with, like, you know, I'll use my basic principles of stars and wishes. I know

546
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Phil: He does.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Not really how we've set things up, but I'll start with stars. I I did really like the

548
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Tad Eggleston: Go.

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00:56:56.630 --> 00:57:04.450
Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, I did really like the in depth nest that you got with 2 I really liked. How like, you know, you had like this specific scenario where it was like.

550
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Peter Eggleston Connor: okay, this is like, choose nightmare kinda

551
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Peter Eggleston Connor: or entirely a chew based sorry it's not chew, but it's character

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Phil: Yeah, yeah.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Sorry I keep forgetting our characters names. I should like

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Phil: Oh!

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Go somewhere.

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Phil: Eamon. Yeah.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah, this is like an Amen. You know

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Peter Eggleston Connor: themed I wanna say fight club. But you know

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Sparring matches stuff like that. And how like you sort of like brought out Eamon's character and his relationship to

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Gary. And I really like the storytelling that you put into it wishes. I do kind of wish that, like you know

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Peter Eggleston Connor: the rest of the play like I. I feel like Tad is just really good about jumping in in general. And I'm not always the best at that. Okay, just having like, had that chance to like. Have that round table before you like, I know, chew started and like you like, it was very, very much like, Okay, this is what's going on. And then this character, like talks to chew and like

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Peter Eggleston Connor: But having that chance to like sort of like, just get a feel for like what all the characters are doing.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: and you know that includes myself. So okay, this is what my character is doing at this time, because, honestly past

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Peter Eggleston Connor: us entering the place, I

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Peter Eggleston Connor: don't think I did anything to be perfectly honest, which isn't terrible, but like it'd be still be nice to have some idea of like. Oh, this is what Lex would be doing in this situation while she was dealing with XY. And Z. So

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Tad Eggleston: That is totally fair to me.

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Phil: Thank you. Yeah.

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Phil: Have more. Have more mid action, check-ins.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: And it doesn't even need to be mid action. It's just like, make sure that, you know, when we're in a spot in scenario, everybody gets a little bit of thing, and then

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I can tell you how like I imagine it, and I I would hope I would do it as a DM. And I hope that I do, and that's essentially like I would have gone around, and I would have had to, like, you know, brought the part with you. And then, after talking about, you know, sort of the

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Peter Eggleston Connor: the whole toilet. Snafu. I'm just gonna call bathroom staffu like, I would have said.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: and then somebody comes up to you and says, Aren't you supposed to be on? And then like

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Peter Eggleston Connor: then, like right there, sort of like left this meeting anger to come back to you

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Phil: Right, right, yeah.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: And then like gone back to Tad and me, and sort of been like, Okay, like, what are you 2 doing at this time like

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Peter Eggleston Connor: What is Lex doing? What is?

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Peter Eggleston Connor: What is Alan doing?

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Peter Eggleston Connor: All of our characters start with letter A.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Eamon, Alex Alan

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Phil: But Eamon was

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, Eamon's technically an E

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Phil: But it isn't

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Tad Eggleston: It's because he wrote it a here

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Peter Eggleston Connor: On your notes, your written notes.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I haven't gone and fixed fixed spellings in in show notes, either.

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Phil: And

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah. But I have. Yeah, that's that's just my feedback. Like

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Phil: No, that's great.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: My thought on it.

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Peter Eggleston Connor: and you know I'm not saying I'm perfect, and you know, obviously I don't expect you to be. But

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Tad Eggleston: I guess I guess I'll

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Tad Eggleston: I'll I'll add to that like I was. I was caught off guard when we were done, because I hadn't felt like

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Tad Eggleston: Peter or I had done anything, and I knew that we were centering more on Jonathan, but but I thought that that just meant that he was the lead character rather than

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Phil: The the only major thing I did would be the thing that you weren't expecting.

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Phil: Well, that's a little fitting.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, that's fitting for my character, you know. I actually that's kind of a goal of mine.

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Tad Eggleston: Is to throw you off balance at least one per game. I feel like a full plate

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Phil: That's good.

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Tad Eggleston: I feel like a fool played properly, should throw the GM off balance

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Tad Eggleston: Because otherwise you're just not actually being foolish. I mean, the entire like conceit of the fool is that they're more likely to succeed the crazier the thing they're trying to do

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Phil: Yes, yeah. And so that's I. I will. I will add to that 100%. Please. I I love that standard of at least once trying to throw me off my game, because I

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Phil: even though even though yeah, I had, I did not. I did not expect you to to enter the jousting, the jousting fray. I

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Phil: holy, holy well, and of things

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Tad Eggleston: Until I knew that there was a jousting fray. Yeah, like I was working around, you'd said like, Who are you missing? And I brought up the the cappuccino. I was gonna use my fool's errand, or

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Phil: Whatever

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, to have a like. Essentially, it was gonna describe an action where, like

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Tad Eggleston: I conjured a cup of cappuccino from the air.

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Tad Eggleston: Get daintily, and then did something crazy

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Phil: Nice nice. Yeah, that's a pretty good one, too.

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Tad Eggleston: Then I went. Jousting

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Phil: There you go!

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Tad Eggleston: Motorcycle.

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Tad Eggleston: Let's go

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Phil: That's what. I wonder if I wonder if Fell has seen night riders? But that would be.

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Phil: I think I'm sure that

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Tad Eggleston: I think she was planning on watching it after after Dylan brought it up during our

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Phil: Gotcha

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Tad Eggleston: Because it was Dylan that that brought that one to to the fore

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Tad Eggleston: When we were talking.

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Phil: I still need. I still need to read, sir, but having just free watch, not writers. 1st of all, it's it's really good. It's a really good

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Tad Eggleston: So I'll actually have to go watch it. I've never seen it before.

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Phil: It's

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Tad Eggleston: And it doesn't look like it's 1 of those things that that's good. But every once in a while there's that

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Phil: Thank you.

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Tad Eggleston: Looks like it's gonna be terrible. That isn't

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Phil: It's it's I mean I. That was my reaction. The 1st time I saw it going into it was that, oh, this looks like it's going to be terrible. This is people pretending to be knights on motorcycles. Eighties movie. This is full of cheese. No, it's surprisingly good actually ties into Arthurian legend in a really interesting way. Stars. A young Ed. Harris

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Tad Eggleston: Oh, wow!

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Phil: Yeah, young Ed Harris, as a guy who's trying to be King Arthur for a ren faire that joust sum

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Tad Eggleston: So this this might be one that we need to remember for Movie Club. Peter

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Phil: Written and directed by George, Romero.

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Phil: Oh, wow, yeah, it's actually a good movie. It's surprising

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I was thinking on something else

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Phil: Oh, but yeah, it's not even like one of the movies. They just put his name on that he barely anything to do with. He actually wrote and directed this one. So yeah, definitely worth a good, a good check out

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Phil: just trying to clarify. What movie was it? Again, knight riders

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Oh, no right!

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Phil: Not not the singular, and I

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Tad Eggleston: And Hasselhoff TV Series without

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Phil: No talking car

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Peter Eggleston Connor: I understood that there was, you know, some difference. There

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Phil: Thankfully.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, no, I

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Tad Eggleston: we'll have to to do that at some point. I will have to watch it. Period. But I now we have a family movie club that

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Tad Eggleston: Goes between picking like classics and really obscure things. And now I want to pick it at some point, though my next one I have picked, because I think it's going to be my turn to pick this week, and

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Tad Eggleston: next Tuesday I have.

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Tad Eggleston: I have a guest that that is more of a novelist, poet

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Tad Eggleston: and screenwriter. So I was gonna pick his his film

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Tad Eggleston: so that I have. I can. I can then bring bring the interview in when we're talking about it Wednesday night, so we'll see there, I just teased tease. Yeah, no, my my guest next week is

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Tad Eggleston: one of the better known guests I've had, but like had comics in one of his novels.

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Phil: Oh, wow!

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Tad Eggleston: But hasn't actually like done comics specifically

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Phil: I have a guess, for who that could be, but

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Tad Eggleston: Guess off air. I don't. This is one that I don't feel like teasing on air.

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Phil: Totally fair, totally fair. I will also say

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Peter Eggleston Connor: He already did

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Phil: Well teasing, but not not actually

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Tad Eggleston: No, I, this is not what I want to promote on air

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Phil: -

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Yeah. No.

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Tad Eggleston: Because, among other things, I'm still pinching myself that it's happening so like until it actually has minimize

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Phil: I will say thank you both for the the stars and wishes I would. I would definitely love to

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Tad Eggleston: Anything.

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Phil: Thank you.

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Tad Eggleston: We don't want to leave chew out of stars and wishes

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Bill. You can also have starving wishes that's allowed to

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Phil: I think no, I think I mean I'm good on this one, but I will keep

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Sorry. Go ahead, too. I didn't mean to cut you off

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Chu: Oh, no! As I said, no worries.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean that that's that's totally in character for chew to be the one that gets cut off.

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Tad Eggleston: But you don't have to be aiming at this point in the the podcast, too

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Chu: That's okay.

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Chu: I'm also on like 2 h sleep right now. So

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Tad Eggleston: 2 h sleep, and preparing for his own D. And d game

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Phil: I'll do it hopefully.

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Phil: We have a bit better die selection actually

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Tad Eggleston: She was a professional chef, and therefore one of the people paid to multitask so like, Prepare

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Tad Eggleston: T. And D.

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Tad Eggleston: Game while playing a die game

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Phil: He does the food, safety.

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Chu: And now we do food safety. So now I have a normal schedule

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah.

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Chu: Which is

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Phil: But that doesn't mean he doesn't have the finely honed skills. I've watched him run a kitchen

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Chu: Well, then, I would hole up in your office and eat a black licorice ice cream

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Phil: Exactly.

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Phil: Sounds fun.

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Tad Eggleston: But but now that you don't have to do it as your day job, it means you're that much more likely to do it with like your your

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Tad Eggleston: other stuff.

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Chu: Well, now, I'm the one, since I only work Monday through Thursday. I'm the one that should suddenly shows up to the game from like.

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Chu: Here's a giant bowl. Here's just like a giant pot of of Chili Colorado, and a ton of tortillas who can eat the most tops

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Tad Eggleston: Nice

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Chu: The owner got up to 9. The only reason he stopped at 9 is, we ran out

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Phil: Wow!

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Peter Eggleston Connor: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: Alrighty!

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Tad Eggleston: Anybody with any last words!

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Chu: Just I have something to mention to you guys. Once we we get done recording

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Tad Eggleston: Is it the thing that you texted

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Chu: Yes.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, then, mention it on air. Plug the hell out of that shit. I was gonna episode

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Chu: Okay, a friend of mine.

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Chu: he's he makes movies, and he is just started a new one called Cure Breed. It is kind of a

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Chu: thriller sci-fi type of thing. He's also a and he's already made one movie a horror anthology called Killinois.

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Chu: That won some that's been winning some awards recently on the Independent film Circuit.

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Chu: And so he's just he's starting a Kickstarter for his new movie just because they he wants to get some better equipment. For the one.

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Chu: And he has experience

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Chu: pretty much doing this like he's currently a film editor for A and e lifetime, and things like that.

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Chu: And so just. And the one of the stars of the movie is our dog is my dog Churro.

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Phil: All right.

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Chu: That's adorable.

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Chu: and to a lesser extent I've been roped into this because he wrote a character with me in mind, and he didn't tell me this until, like.

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Chu: Hey, we're doing this also. You're in the movie. I'm like, Wait what now? So we're working. He's working on pre-production right now. So

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Chu: pure breed on Kickstarter.

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Chu: It was good boy. But then we found out that there's another horror movie called Boy

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Phil: There you go!

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Tad Eggleston: Well. And also there's there's a number of comics named Good boy.

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Chu: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: So. But yeah, no, I I just

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Tad Eggleston: marked it on Kickstarter, so I can throw it into show notes. So

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Tad Eggleston: when when we get to our kickstarting

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Tad Eggleston: or crowdfunding part of the show, so

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Chu: There's absolutely no reason that you shouldn't

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Tad Eggleston: Shouldn't plug it

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Tad Eggleston: so alrighty for Phil, Jonathan, Peter, and myself. This has been 22 panels no more

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Tad Eggleston: the die Rpg. Playing experience.

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Tad Eggleston: We will see you after the next page