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Episode 0 The Intro
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Welcome to Episode 0 of Lets Play Pretend!
Jordan Daringer: DM, GM, Keeper, Handler, and Host
Nic Barnett: Nigel E. Dolarann
Brek Black: Ryan Winchester
Matt Czech: Arthur Gooseburg
Melanie Daringer: Samantha Williams
Let's Play Pretend theme by Iron Knight Recordings
SFX by Iron Knight recordings, Nic Barnett, and Soundstripe.
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Session Setup
00:00:02
Speaker
Well, that was fast.
00:00:03
Speaker
We are recording.
00:00:05
Speaker
We are recording.
00:00:08
Speaker
Hello, hello.
00:00:10
Speaker
Okay.
00:00:10
Speaker
Matt, turn your game down.
00:00:11
Speaker
Yep.
Identity Confusion with Matt
00:00:19
Speaker
Or should I say Arthur?
00:00:21
Speaker
Hello.
00:00:23
Speaker
Hey, that's better.
00:00:23
Speaker
That's an actual signal.
00:00:25
Speaker
That was a lot better.
00:00:26
Speaker
Okay.
00:00:27
Speaker
Cool.
Synchronizing the Clap
00:00:28
Speaker
So you guys know how this goes on the count of three.
00:00:32
Speaker
We clap one, two, three.
00:00:35
Speaker
That was terrible.
00:00:40
Speaker
God, we're going to have to get good at this.
00:00:42
Speaker
That was okay.
00:00:43
Speaker
So I kind of just threw you into it.
00:00:45
Speaker
So we'll do it.
00:00:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:00:48
Speaker
We'll do it again on the count of three.
00:00:49
Speaker
Ready?
00:00:51
Speaker
One, two, three.
00:00:54
Speaker
That was better.
00:00:55
Speaker
That was much better.
Microphone Adjustments
00:00:58
Speaker
You guys weren't expecting me to sing into it.
00:01:00
Speaker
That was the problem.
00:01:01
Speaker
Well, no, I was expecting like when you did one, you said on three.
00:01:05
Speaker
So I was like, one, two.
00:01:11
Speaker
Can you turn your game down?
00:01:13
Speaker
I feel like I see yours almost spiking a lot.
00:01:16
Speaker
Bitch, you need my game down more.
00:01:19
Speaker
Well, look at your thing.
00:01:20
Speaker
How's that?
00:01:22
Speaker
I don't know.
00:01:22
Speaker
Look at the stream.
00:01:25
Speaker
You specifically told me not to look at the stream.
00:01:28
Speaker
Actually, it looks great right now.
00:01:30
Speaker
Yeah, it does.
00:01:30
Speaker
That's better.
00:01:32
Speaker
Can you guys still hear me good enough, though?
00:01:34
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely.
00:01:36
Speaker
It just looks peaking.
00:01:37
Speaker
Yeah, typically if you're peaking at points like that, you could turn it down by like 30%, and it'll still be good.
00:01:44
Speaker
Excellent.
00:01:46
Speaker
Okay.
Session Zero and Character Introductions
00:01:48
Speaker
So we are going to do a couple seconds of silence, and we will get into this.
00:01:52
Speaker
Matt, what are you doing?
00:01:53
Speaker
Nothing.
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Speaker
Nothing.
00:01:57
Speaker
Oh, I just see a whole bunch of little little spikes on yours from whatever the fuck.
00:02:02
Speaker
I moved my water bottle for a second.
00:02:04
Speaker
All right.
00:02:05
Speaker
All right.
00:02:06
Speaker
We'll do a couple seconds of silence and I will get into the intro here.
00:02:15
Speaker
Do you guys have any questions before we start?
00:02:24
Speaker
Yeah, since this is session zero, I still don't 100% have my voice down, so it might change from this to one.
00:02:30
Speaker
That's fine.
00:02:31
Speaker
We can same here.
00:02:33
Speaker
You guys can talk about that when when you introduce your characters as well.
00:02:38
Speaker
Well, this is going to be more of a not as formal episode.
00:02:45
Speaker
We're just going to be, like I said, introducing the world, introducing the characters.
00:02:51
Speaker
All that kind of fun stuff.
00:02:52
Speaker
Yeah, it's a shorter session.
00:02:53
Speaker
No worries.
00:02:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:02:54
Speaker
Yep, it's going to be a shorter session.
00:02:58
Speaker
Melanie, real quick before we start, could I please get your character's name again?
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Speaker
Samantha Williams.
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Speaker
Samantha Williams.
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Speaker
Okay.
00:03:11
Speaker
Okay.
Setting Debate: Ohio vs. Florida
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Speaker
I also have not decided if I know originally I told you guys 2010.
00:03:20
Speaker
I don't know if I'm going to put a year on it.
00:03:25
Speaker
Okay.
00:03:27
Speaker
Might do this so that way it can just kind of exist whenever.
00:03:33
Speaker
I haven't made a decision on that yet.
00:03:37
Speaker
But anyway, that was just another thought that I had.
00:03:41
Speaker
If you guys are ready, we will begin.
Podcast and Player Introduction
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Speaker
Let's play pretend!
00:03:55
Speaker
Let's play pretend!
00:04:19
Speaker
Hello everybody and welcome to Let's Play Pretend, episode zero for our first campaign.
00:04:26
Speaker
Before we get into what this game is going to be, I'm going to go ahead and introduce our players.
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Speaker
My name is Jordan.
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Speaker
I am your keeper for this game.
00:04:38
Speaker
And over there we have Nick.
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Speaker
Hi, I'm Nick.
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Speaker
I will be playing Ned.
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Speaker
also known as Nigel.
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Speaker
Over there we have Breck.
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Speaker
Hi, I am Breck and I also will be playing Ryan.
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Speaker
And we have Matt.
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Speaker
Howdy.
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Speaker
I'll be playing Arthur.
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Speaker
And we have Melanie.
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Speaker
Hello, I will be playing Samantha.
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Speaker
All right, guys.
00:05:10
Speaker
And my chair just squeaked.
00:05:12
Speaker
That was just a simple shift.
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Speaker
Great start.
00:05:15
Speaker
Of course it did.
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Speaker
This game is going to be very loosely played in the Delta Green scenario.
Character Creation Adjustments
00:05:26
Speaker
Now, when I had you guys build your characters, I had you pick different professions based off of Delta Green, and then we moved some stats around for wherever they made sense.
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Speaker
Before we actually start session one next week, if you have any other questions with that or anything else you want to talk about, we can go into that.
00:05:49
Speaker
The reason that we're moving stats around is because...
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Speaker
Our campaign is going to take place with our four characters as high schoolers.
00:06:05
Speaker
So we'll take Breck's character, Ryan, for instance.
00:06:09
Speaker
He had a 50 in heavy weapons.
00:06:12
Speaker
Was it, Breck?
00:06:14
Speaker
Yes, heavy weapons.
00:06:15
Speaker
We also moved demolitions because explosives are not something you see with a 16-year-old.
00:06:21
Speaker
Exactly.
00:06:21
Speaker
Well, I mean, certain 16-year-olds probably won't play it, but...
00:06:26
Speaker
That depends on how much you're out in the woods using M80s, right?
00:06:30
Speaker
Something like that.
00:06:32
Speaker
And even that would be a stretch to call that a demolition.
Fictional Town: Gainesboro, Ohio
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Speaker
So our campaign is going to take place in the fictional town of Gainesboro, Ohio.
00:06:45
Speaker
We're doing the Midwest.
00:06:47
Speaker
I chose Ohio because it's close enough to home, but it's not home.
00:06:54
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:06:56
Speaker
A lot of weird stuff happens in Ohio.
00:07:01
Speaker
We live in the Midwest.
00:07:02
Speaker
What if I wanted to do Florida or something?
00:07:05
Speaker
Because that's where all the crazy shit happens.
00:07:08
Speaker
This is not going to be a Florida man campaign.
00:07:10
Speaker
Dang on, man, I want gators.
00:07:13
Speaker
And I promise you, we're going to get Melanie's audio figured out before the next episode.
00:07:20
Speaker
We had an issue where her computer decided to update and literally delete everything.
00:07:29
Speaker
So...
00:07:30
Speaker
Gotta love Apple.
00:07:31
Speaker
Yep, gotta love that Mac.
Explicit Content and Realistic Language
00:07:34
Speaker
I do also want to throw the warning out here.
00:07:36
Speaker
I know we're early into session zero here.
00:07:40
Speaker
I also want to throw out the warning to listeners that...
00:07:43
Speaker
This is, as you can tell from the tag on the episode, this is going to be an explicit podcast.
00:07:49
Speaker
Let's be real.
00:07:51
Speaker
When we were in high school, we didn't give a fuck what we were saying.
00:07:55
Speaker
And as these four are playing high schoolers, I don't expect them to give a fuck what they're saying.
00:08:01
Speaker
And that's just how it's going to be.
00:08:03
Speaker
Is it too late to fly?
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Speaker
I was a good fucking child.
00:08:07
Speaker
How dare you?
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Speaker
Is it too late to turn into a Catholic kid?
00:08:11
Speaker
I mean, you do you.
00:08:13
Speaker
I don't know how the rest of the party is going to act by you, but yeah, sure.
00:08:20
Speaker
It is your backstory.
00:08:22
Speaker
So like I said, you guys are attending Gainsborough High School.
00:08:26
Speaker
I know, really, really original on the name, but you are a town that only has one high school, so they went easy on it.
School Setting and NPCs
00:08:36
Speaker
So you said this is a made-up town in Ohio.
00:08:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:08:40
Speaker
Did you actually look this up to find out if Gainsborough, Ohio is not real or not?
00:08:45
Speaker
Yes, I did.
00:08:46
Speaker
I googled Gainsborough, Ohio and nothing came up.
00:08:51
Speaker
So the power of Google told me that I was okay.
00:08:55
Speaker
Your mascot for the school is the Lightning Hawks.
00:09:01
Speaker
Oh, hell yeah.
00:09:02
Speaker
Go Lightning Hawks!
00:09:04
Speaker
Does anybody get the reference?
00:09:07
Speaker
No.
00:09:08
Speaker
Yes.
00:09:09
Speaker
Nick, would you like to... Nope.
00:09:15
Speaker
Just in case I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
00:09:18
Speaker
Now I'm curious what you think the reference is.
00:09:21
Speaker
Please, Nick, enlighten us.
00:09:23
Speaker
Nope, that's for another episode.
00:09:25
Speaker
That's for the Patreon later.
00:09:26
Speaker
60 episodes in, we'll get it figured out.
00:09:31
Speaker
So I let our players here name a couple NPCs.
00:09:37
Speaker
Excuse me, you did what?
00:09:40
Speaker
Yeah, you weren't in the other session.
00:09:43
Speaker
Oh, fuck you.
00:09:44
Speaker
I want to name an NPC.
00:09:46
Speaker
Don't worry.
00:09:47
Speaker
This has to do with our backstories.
00:09:49
Speaker
Oh my god.
00:09:50
Speaker
I fucking... I remember now.
00:09:53
Speaker
I'm looking at a character sheet.
00:09:54
Speaker
I love that character sheet.
00:09:57
Speaker
So you have plenty of time to name NPCs before session one.
00:10:01
Speaker
A favorite teacher.
00:10:02
Speaker
We have the art director, which is Mr. Vincent Link.
00:10:07
Speaker
We have our principal, who is Principal Shattuck.
00:10:11
Speaker
And now I'm thinking that maybe Matt was the only one that named one because I think I came up with those two names.
00:10:17
Speaker
Oh, absolutely.
00:10:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:10:19
Speaker
That song is definitely me.
00:10:20
Speaker
Matt, would you like to give the journalism teacher's name?
00:10:25
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:10:26
Speaker
The journalism teachers, Miss Smithington Lee.
00:10:32
Speaker
Really rolls off the tongue.
00:10:33
Speaker
Like a car crash.
00:10:35
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say, rolls off the tongue.
00:10:38
Speaker
Not like anything that rolls, but yeah, rolls off the tongue for sure.
00:10:41
Speaker
It rolls like a triangle tire, yeah.
00:10:45
Speaker
So at this point, that is basically all you need to know about our world for now.
00:10:52
Speaker
This world is going to grow along with our characters.
Evolving World and Map Introduction
00:10:58
Speaker
So things that you do, things that you interact with, people you interact with is going to shape the world.
00:11:06
Speaker
Now, before session one, I am hoping to have a rough draft of our map to you guys.
00:11:13
Speaker
So that way you guys kind of have a way out of the town.
00:11:17
Speaker
So, you know, like if I say we're going over by the movie theater, you're going to know that the movie theater is on the opposite side of town from the school or that sort of thing.
00:11:27
Speaker
I am also going to say that we are running a closed game.
00:11:32
Speaker
And what a closed game means is, say I have you guys roll a check to see something, but only Breck and Melanie see it.
00:11:43
Speaker
At that point, Nick and Matt, I will ask you guys to take off your headphones, and I will let you know when it is safe to come back.
00:11:53
Speaker
Because that will be a way where...
00:11:56
Speaker
It's going to kind of entice more role play.
00:12:00
Speaker
If the people who saw the things want to keep it from you, they can.
00:12:04
Speaker
If they want to tell you about it, it will open it up to their interpretation of what I told them to tell you.
00:12:10
Speaker
It's going to lead more to to more of a story.
00:12:15
Speaker
It's going to help flush out the story more.
00:12:17
Speaker
I understand.
00:12:18
Speaker
So.
Closed Game Mechanic
00:12:20
Speaker
it's also going to test how much we write down notes oh dude i literally just while he was talking grabbed a freaking notebook and i'm like writing delta green so i'm gonna have to get those npc names real quick after you're done yeah i'll give them to you after we're done recording
00:12:39
Speaker
Full disclosure, Nick is going to edit a majority of these unless there is a breakaway where he is not a part of it.
00:12:47
Speaker
And then we have a third party that said he'd be willing to do it.
00:12:50
Speaker
So we'll see how Nick and I are feeling when the editing of this comes out.
00:12:56
Speaker
This all might stay in.
00:13:00
Speaker
groovy because it's fun hell yeah three two one unpause unpause i left a little bit of break in there for you in case you wanted to you know in case you didn't want to come out anyway okay but talking through the break is not breaking you're right you're right this is a sign
00:13:29
Speaker
So, yeah, so this is going to be a closed game.
Remote Recording Logistics
00:13:34
Speaker
Like I just told you guys.
00:13:37
Speaker
So if that is to happen, just be sure to keep your phones by you.
00:13:43
Speaker
I will shoot a text to the group or to the discord or something and tell you it's safe to come back since we are recording remotely.
00:13:52
Speaker
Um, that's just, I can't actually have you physically leave the room.
00:13:56
Speaker
And if I have you guys leave this room that we are currently recording in, then we have to stop and then start again.
00:14:02
Speaker
And it's just an editing nightmare.
00:14:04
Speaker
So I will just have you guys take your headsets off, mute yourselves, and then I'll let you know when you're safe to come back.
00:14:10
Speaker
Works for me.
00:14:11
Speaker
It's good.
00:14:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:14:14
Speaker
That being said, I want to pass the torch to... Let's see.
00:14:23
Speaker
I don't have a d4 in front of me, so I can't randomly roll you guys.
Character Introduction: Arthur R. Gooseberg
00:14:28
Speaker
No.
00:14:29
Speaker
I could pull that up on Google.
00:14:31
Speaker
You could.
00:14:31
Speaker
You could pull that up on Google.
00:14:33
Speaker
Roll a d4.
00:14:37
Speaker
I got a three.
00:14:39
Speaker
Excellent.
00:14:39
Speaker
Matt, would you like to introduce your character?
00:14:42
Speaker
I can, of course.
00:14:45
Speaker
I didn't want to go first this time.
00:14:46
Speaker
I didn't either.
00:14:47
Speaker
I was like, I really hope it's not me.
00:14:50
Speaker
I don't think it was good.
00:14:58
Speaker
My name's Arthur and my voice might change depending on how much I like it.
00:15:04
Speaker
Oh, I sure the whole hope it changes.
00:15:08
Speaker
This is already better than the voice that he had last time.
00:15:11
Speaker
By a mile.
00:15:11
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:15:14
Speaker
My name is Arthur R. Gooseberg.
00:15:19
Speaker
I'm a little redhead boy in journalism.
00:15:23
Speaker
Oh, God, Aria, will you be quiet?
00:15:27
Speaker
Even your cat is like, yo, dad, that's the voice you're going with?
00:15:32
Speaker
No, this is an experiment.
00:15:36
Speaker
You have no idea how much I've been just experimenting with different voices.
00:15:40
Speaker
And when you said it was me, I was like, fuck.
00:15:44
Speaker
I'm going to go with whatever helps to my head.
00:15:46
Speaker
Maybe it's this.
00:15:49
Speaker
Who knows?
00:15:51
Speaker
It won't be that.
00:15:53
Speaker
Anybody here will not be that.
00:15:56
Speaker
Remember how we started this and I said I'll keep the right to veto?
00:16:01
Speaker
Yeah, that voice is being vetoed.
00:16:04
Speaker
But why?
00:16:06
Speaker
You know you sound like the gingerbread man from Shrek.
00:16:10
Speaker
Yeah, it was kind of a mixture of that and the oh my god, the puppet.
00:16:15
Speaker
Pinocchio.
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Speaker
I'm sorry.
00:16:19
Speaker
Okay.
00:16:20
Speaker
My character is Arthur.
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Speaker
Arthur R. Gooseberg.
00:16:25
Speaker
I have my profession, or I guess, well, since we're in high school, we're like my employers, the high school student.
00:16:35
Speaker
So I major in journalism.
00:16:39
Speaker
and also like to draw cool comic books, especially Lightning Hawk.
00:16:46
Speaker
I made a comic about our school because I'm a cool kid.
00:16:50
Speaker
Okay.
00:16:52
Speaker
And what age are you and what year in high school are you?
00:16:57
Speaker
I am 17 years old.
00:16:58
Speaker
I am.
00:16:59
Speaker
That would be a junior in high school.
00:17:01
Speaker
I was like, oh my gosh.
00:17:02
Speaker
It's either a junior or senior.
00:17:04
Speaker
It's been like 10 years.
00:17:07
Speaker
I'm a junior in high school.
00:17:09
Speaker
OK.
00:17:10
Speaker
I hear one of you taking notes.
00:17:14
Speaker
Oh, that might be me.
00:17:14
Speaker
I apologize.
00:17:15
Speaker
No, you're good.
00:17:16
Speaker
It might be me.
00:17:18
Speaker
I just hear someone furiously tapping away on the keyboard like this.
00:17:21
Speaker
I need to get all this down.
00:17:25
Speaker
Yeah, that's me.
00:17:25
Speaker
My mic's kind of close to the keyboard, so I'm going to keep that limited.
00:17:30
Speaker
One of us, Breck.
00:17:32
Speaker
You are good, my dude.
00:17:34
Speaker
Is there anything else about Arthur you want to say?
00:17:36
Speaker
Do you want to... Sorry, I don't know really what else to talk about.
00:17:41
Speaker
Do you want to give any of your bonds?
00:17:43
Speaker
Do you want to give any of your background?
00:17:45
Speaker
Yeah, well, I'm a pasty, redheaded stepchild, essentially.
00:17:52
Speaker
So think of that.
00:17:52
Speaker
I'm a ginger.
00:17:54
Speaker
So please be kind.
00:17:56
Speaker
Have you counted how many freckles you have on your face yet?
00:18:00
Speaker
That's demeaning.
00:18:02
Speaker
That's a good voice.
00:18:04
Speaker
This?
00:18:04
Speaker
This is a good voice?
00:18:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:09
Speaker
He said it's demeaning, but he didn't say no.
00:18:14
Speaker
I was waiting for a number.
00:18:15
Speaker
I'm still trying to find the voice.
00:18:17
Speaker
Sorry, I'm very much scatterbrained.
00:18:21
Speaker
I have bonds for my brother, Carl.
00:18:24
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Carl.
00:18:26
Speaker
My Bond is also one of our fellow classmates who's also in the nerd variety.
00:18:35
Speaker
I'll let him introduce himself later.
Character Introduction: Nigel 'Ned' Eggman-Dollarin
00:18:38
Speaker
Real quick.
00:18:40
Speaker
Brother Carl, older, younger.
00:18:42
Speaker
Oh, he's my older brother, Carl.
00:18:44
Speaker
Is he also in school or is he out of school?
00:18:49
Speaker
You know what?
00:18:50
Speaker
He's out of school.
00:18:52
Speaker
OK.
00:18:54
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I also have.
00:18:55
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One of my motivations is my dog, Frankie.
00:19:06
Speaker
He's a little wiener dog.
00:19:08
Speaker
Love it.
00:19:10
Speaker
That's a great name for a wiener dog.
00:19:14
Speaker
I also I expose the Illuminati.
00:19:19
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That's my real reason why I wanted to join journalism.
00:19:22
Speaker
I need to find out the truth.
00:19:24
Speaker
conspiracy theorist.
00:19:26
Speaker
I got 15 to a cult.
00:19:31
Speaker
That's great.
00:19:32
Speaker
Sorry, I'm also being quiet because I'm also taking notes.
00:19:37
Speaker
Did the tapping go away because I quit furiously typing?
00:19:40
Speaker
Yeah, it did.
00:19:42
Speaker
As far as I've heard, the tapping has returned.
00:19:47
Speaker
That was big.
00:19:53
Speaker
I guess that's really it, man.
00:19:56
Speaker
Arthur is just an everyman.
00:20:00
Speaker
Everyone is Arthur's friend.
00:20:02
Speaker
He's the coolest kid in school.
00:20:05
Speaker
Arthur, when you built your character, I told you to come up with two fears.
00:20:09
Speaker
What were the fears you came up with?
00:20:11
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:20:12
Speaker
So those two fears are clowns and drowning.
00:20:18
Speaker
Okay, perfect.
00:20:21
Speaker
If you have nothing else, I will let you introduce the next character.
00:20:27
Speaker
Do you want me to roll a D4?
00:20:31
Speaker
I rolled a D4.
00:20:32
Speaker
Well, I had Nick roll a D4 for me just to start.
00:20:35
Speaker
If you want to roll a D4, you can.
00:20:37
Speaker
Otherwise, if you want to 100% pick on someone, you can do that, too.
00:20:43
Speaker
Nick, can you roll me a D4?
00:20:45
Speaker
A D4 or a D3 since there's only three left?
00:20:47
Speaker
Just do a D4 and if it's a four, you re-roll it.
00:20:52
Speaker
It's a one.
00:20:53
Speaker
Alright, then it's you.
00:20:55
Speaker
Oh, bless your heart.
00:20:57
Speaker
That wasn't intentional at all.
00:21:00
Speaker
Hi.
00:21:01
Speaker
My name is Nigel Eggman-Dollarin.
00:21:06
Speaker
Just call me Ned.
00:21:09
Speaker
I go to Gainsborough High School.
00:21:12
Speaker
I'm
00:21:13
Speaker
I'm 16 years old.
00:21:14
Speaker
I'm a sophomore.
00:21:16
Speaker
I want to be in the media one day.
00:21:20
Speaker
Of course, after I get done with the military, my dad, he really wants me to go into the military like he was.
00:21:25
Speaker
So, okay.
00:21:28
Speaker
I do lacrosse in school.
00:21:31
Speaker
Again, my dad likes it when I play all the sports.
00:21:34
Speaker
But I really enjoy being in theater.
00:21:36
Speaker
I'm almost six foot tall.
00:21:41
Speaker
but I like to wear some baggier clothes.
00:21:43
Speaker
It keeps me comfortable.
00:21:45
Speaker
I got brown eyes, brown hair.
00:21:51
Speaker
I respect my parents very much, Nathan and Janice Dolaran.
00:21:57
Speaker
They're very respectable parents.
00:21:58
Speaker
They do a great job.
00:22:00
Speaker
I don't know.
00:22:02
Speaker
I have a lot of love for my dog, Banjo.
00:22:04
Speaker
He's...
00:22:06
Speaker
we got him for my dad and well, he's really taken a liking to me and I like him a lot too.
00:22:12
Speaker
So just, I carry his leash around with me everywhere I go just cause you never know what I want to take him for a walk.
00:22:18
Speaker
And yeah, that's a little bit about me.
Character Introduction: Ryan Poole Winchester
00:22:22
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:23
Speaker
Again, I told you two fears.
00:22:25
Speaker
Could you give me those fears, please?
00:22:29
Speaker
He has a fear of failure.
00:22:33
Speaker
And he has a fear of losing his cool.
00:22:37
Speaker
He's got a little bit of an anger problem.
00:22:40
Speaker
I don't like clowns.
00:22:42
Speaker
So kind of like losing control.
00:22:44
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:45
Speaker
I like it.
00:22:46
Speaker
Like it.
00:22:46
Speaker
Like it.
00:22:46
Speaker
Like it.
00:22:48
Speaker
All right.
00:22:49
Speaker
There are two more people to pick on.
00:22:52
Speaker
Well, there's a, there's another friend of ours, or at least he's, he's friends with another friend of ours.
00:22:59
Speaker
Um,
00:23:00
Speaker
Ryan, you want to come up and do your turn next?
00:23:05
Speaker
Yeah, I think I can do that.
00:23:08
Speaker
I am Ryan Poole Winchester.
00:23:12
Speaker
My profession is special operator, but since I'm a high school student, it's a little less special operator and more around just all-rounder.
00:23:20
Speaker
Not a jock, exactly.
00:23:22
Speaker
Still do nerdy shit, but not as much as you'd think.
00:23:27
Speaker
Yeah, there's not too much to say.
00:23:29
Speaker
Just kind of...
00:23:30
Speaker
Does everything, knows a little bit about everyone, you know, hangs out with everyone occasionally.
00:23:36
Speaker
Was on the lacrosse team with Ned for a little while, but didn't really like it.
00:23:41
Speaker
Kind of kind of hit my rebellious streak.
00:23:46
Speaker
Yeah, that's about all I want to say at the moment.
00:23:49
Speaker
Anything I missed?
00:23:51
Speaker
You said you were 16 when we talked earlier.
00:23:54
Speaker
Does that that would put you at either sophomore or junior?
00:23:57
Speaker
I was going to go with junior.
00:23:59
Speaker
You were going to go with Junior.
00:24:01
Speaker
Yes, because I lived that in real life, so figured it out.
00:24:07
Speaker
That is fair.
00:24:08
Speaker
It's not fair in method acting.
00:24:12
Speaker
And then like I've asked everybody else so far, two fears?
00:24:17
Speaker
Fears are being alone and burning alive.
00:24:20
Speaker
Ooh, we got a yin-yang here, drowning and burning alive thing.
00:24:25
Speaker
It's even funnier when you ask Melanie what her character does at school.
Character Introduction: Samantha Williams
00:24:32
Speaker
Samantha, would you like to introduce yourself?
00:24:34
Speaker
So my name is Samantha Williams.
00:24:36
Speaker
I'm a senior at
00:24:40
Speaker
the high school we're at which i already forgot the name of that'd be gainsborough high school yep gainsward um that's what i said oh my i'm not a blonde i'm just tired because
00:25:03
Speaker
I'm an athlete.
00:25:04
Speaker
I'm in swim and I am in softball and I like to ride horses on my days off.
00:25:12
Speaker
So like I've got a lot going on.
00:25:13
Speaker
I'm tired.
00:25:14
Speaker
Okay.
00:25:16
Speaker
I'm 18 years old.
00:25:18
Speaker
I have strong bonds with my mom, my best friend, Ashley and my horse Anubis.
00:25:24
Speaker
And my fears are the dark and spiders.
00:25:29
Speaker
Dude, this is going to be a crazy campaign.
00:25:32
Speaker
Just all the things you just gave us.
00:25:37
Speaker
Oh, I've been taking notes.
00:25:39
Speaker
I've had Kentucky, too.
00:25:40
Speaker
And I have a wonderful brother-in-law that gave me this awesome notebook for Christmas.
00:25:48
Speaker
Oh, you're welcome.
00:25:49
Speaker
So as of right this second, I am putting the notes in my phone because I forgot it upstairs.
00:25:54
Speaker
But it will be in that notebook.
00:25:57
Speaker
After today you better use that dice crossbow thing at some point.
00:26:02
Speaker
Oh my god, that'd be fantastic I don't think you understand how powerful that crossbow is it literally shoots it across the room It's a goddamn weapon you have to shoot it at like a wall or something you can't just you know functional yeah The video I show I saw when I bought it showed it against like a wall
00:26:25
Speaker
So that is going to be our campaign.
Luck Mechanic Introduction
00:26:30
Speaker
You have our setting, you have our characters, but I'm going to throw a little bit of a curve ball at you guys.
00:26:37
Speaker
I want you to go to your character sheets and under applicable skill sets on the last six of them are blank.
00:26:45
Speaker
The very last box, I want you to not the, not where you actually put your, um,
00:26:52
Speaker
number, but the blank box that you could put in a skill.
00:26:56
Speaker
I want you to type a simple four letter word called luck.
00:27:02
Speaker
Wait, where are we writing this?
00:27:04
Speaker
Very bottom, very bottom of your skills.
00:27:07
Speaker
I want you to write luck.
00:27:09
Speaker
So you guys all put luck.
00:27:11
Speaker
Now, I think we can agree as all being, you know, right around our 30s, some of us a little bit younger than the others, not pointing fingers, that there are people in this world that would be luckier than others.
00:27:30
Speaker
So here's what I want you to do.
00:27:32
Speaker
I want you to take a D100 and I want you to do this right now live.
00:27:38
Speaker
And I want you to roll it three times.
00:27:41
Speaker
And whatever your highest number that you get is what your luck will start at.
00:27:47
Speaker
What if I don't have a D100 in front of me?
00:27:51
Speaker
Google.
00:27:53
Speaker
I mean, you could use Google, yeah.
00:27:55
Speaker
That would be fine.
00:27:55
Speaker
Okay, that's in first.
00:28:01
Speaker
I know this makes for great airtime.
00:28:04
Speaker
But I really wanted to throw the players for a loop here.
00:28:08
Speaker
Thank God this isn't the first episode.
00:28:11
Speaker
Because we have not discussed luck yet.
00:28:13
Speaker
So they had no idea this was coming.
00:28:17
Speaker
I just rolled two 90 seconds back to back.
00:28:21
Speaker
Fuck you.
00:28:23
Speaker
I just got a 95.
00:28:27
Speaker
Looks like we got a couple very lucky individuals.
00:28:30
Speaker
I dropped the dice.
00:28:33
Speaker
We could hear.
00:28:34
Speaker
I don't know how lucky I am.
00:28:38
Speaker
I gotta use this one.
00:28:39
Speaker
Oof.
00:28:43
Speaker
86.
00:28:46
Speaker
What if we got a 98?
00:28:49
Speaker
Then we have some very lucky individuals.
00:28:51
Speaker
I got 87.
00:28:51
Speaker
87 is your highest.
00:28:55
Speaker
Yep.
00:28:55
Speaker
Melanie got 98 as her highest.
00:28:58
Speaker
I got 95 as my highest.
00:29:00
Speaker
95.
00:29:00
Speaker
And, Burke, what did you get as your highest?
00:29:04
Speaker
97.
00:29:04
Speaker
97.
00:29:04
Speaker
What the hell?
00:29:06
Speaker
This is not boding well for the rest of the campaign.
00:29:09
Speaker
No.
00:29:10
Speaker
That just means I get to really have some fun here.
00:29:14
Speaker
Okay.
00:29:15
Speaker
So, Luck is going to...
00:29:20
Speaker
play an integral part in this campaign luck can be used for many different things you can sacrifice 10 luck at a time to avoid damage or to avoid major damage so basically what that means is you can use up 10 luck roll a d6 and whatever that d6 is negates off of the attack so if you get hit for five and you roll four you're only taking one damage okay if
00:29:51
Speaker
You die.
00:29:52
Speaker
If your hit points reach zero, you can expend 30 luck to avoid death.
00:30:02
Speaker
What'd you say?
00:30:03
Speaker
And however that happens, I will dictate in the moment if that's what you decide to do.
00:30:07
Speaker
Do we lose the luck once we use it?
00:30:10
Speaker
Yes.
00:30:12
Speaker
Okay, so like you would deduct 30 points from what you have?
00:30:15
Speaker
Yes.
00:30:17
Speaker
Does the luck come back or is it gone forever?
00:30:20
Speaker
No.
00:30:23
Speaker
I haven't decided, but I like the idea of not telling you how, but giving you opportunities to get luck back.
00:30:33
Speaker
Interesting.
00:30:34
Speaker
And it will be a excuse me.
00:30:36
Speaker
It will be an at my discretion kind of thing.
00:30:39
Speaker
Like we've all played D&D.
00:30:42
Speaker
Think of it as when the DM decides, you know what?
00:30:47
Speaker
You deserve an inspiration point.
00:30:50
Speaker
That's going to be kind of like how I'm going to run luck.
00:30:52
Speaker
It's going to be you did something good.
00:30:55
Speaker
Here's five luck.
00:30:57
Speaker
I like it.
00:30:58
Speaker
So that's how lucky that is.
Crit Mechanics Explanation
00:31:03
Speaker
Are we going to be able to use luck to increase a role to actually not be a failure?
00:31:08
Speaker
Or is it just the two that you said?
00:31:10
Speaker
Yes, that was the other thing I was going to bring up.
00:31:12
Speaker
So.
00:31:14
Speaker
Say you have a, I told you guys you can't go over 60 in any of your stats.
00:31:20
Speaker
So say you have a 40 in something and you roll a 55.
00:31:23
Speaker
You can expend 15 luck to make that a success.
00:31:28
Speaker
Using that much luck on one singular roll, I wouldn't do unless it's an important roll personally, but hey, it's your character.
00:31:35
Speaker
You do what you want.
00:31:37
Speaker
You get over there, Matt?
00:31:38
Speaker
I moved my dice.
00:31:39
Speaker
Is it that loud?
00:31:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:31:41
Speaker
Sound like you fell over.
00:31:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:44
Speaker
Sound like you just dove out of your chair.
00:31:47
Speaker
Oh, damn.
00:31:51
Speaker
But yes, you can indeed expend luck in order to make a failure success.
00:31:59
Speaker
Speaking of successes and failures, like I said, we were playing a modified Delta Green.
00:32:04
Speaker
So crits are going to work a little bit differently in this.
00:32:11
Speaker
than like what you would be used to if you play call of cthulhu or anything like that so in like call of cthulhu you have your success great success or ultra success or whatever they call them like you have three steps you don't have that in delta green you have success failure or crits crits are going to be one or 100
00:32:34
Speaker
2 or 98 or 99.
00:32:37
Speaker
So if it's the first two or last two numbers, it's either going to be a crit success or a crit failure.
00:32:42
Speaker
But also, if your dice match, it will be a crit.
00:32:50
Speaker
So say you have a 50.
00:32:52
Speaker
Right.
00:32:53
Speaker
Say you have a 50 in your stat and you roll a 44.
00:33:01
Speaker
Even though that is only six points away from being a failure since a dice match and it's a 4-4, that would be a crit success.
00:33:10
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:11
Speaker
Does that make sense?
00:33:12
Speaker
But I'll figure it out later.
00:33:15
Speaker
Any matching numbers will be a crit success?
00:33:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:20
Speaker
So 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99 are all going to be crits.
00:33:28
Speaker
Whether that's over or under, what you're rolling will depend on if it's a crit success or a crit failure.
00:33:34
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:33:35
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:37
Speaker
That's interesting.
00:33:38
Speaker
See how that helps.
Rule Confusion and D&D Comparisons
00:33:41
Speaker
It hurts.
00:33:42
Speaker
Yeah, because you could have a 65 in a stat after we play for a little bit and bump it up and roll a 66 and crit fail by only missing the mark by one.
00:33:54
Speaker
But that also leads back to what Breck asked a little bit ago.
00:34:00
Speaker
You could also expend a luck and make that a success.
00:34:04
Speaker
Right.
00:34:05
Speaker
That's why we have a lot of luck.
00:34:08
Speaker
And you said it's 15 luck to turn something from a fail to a success?
00:34:11
Speaker
I used 15 just as an example.
00:34:16
Speaker
It's going to cost whatever the difference is.
00:34:18
Speaker
Oh, I like that better.
00:34:21
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:21
Speaker
So if you have a 50 and a stat and you roll an 80, that's going to cost you 30 luck to make that one a success.
00:34:27
Speaker
I like that.
00:34:29
Speaker
Got it.
00:34:31
Speaker
So just like D&D, I'm all sorts of confused, and I'll just figure it out as I go along.
00:34:37
Speaker
Jordan can explain it more off air.
00:34:39
Speaker
Yeah, I can totally explain it more.
00:34:41
Speaker
That's not going to help me.
00:34:43
Speaker
People have explained D&D to me, and I'm like, yeah, totally.
00:34:47
Speaker
Draw pictures.
00:34:50
Speaker
Just make a little cheat sheet.
00:34:52
Speaker
I just figure it up as I go.
00:34:54
Speaker
So that's just how it's going to be.
00:34:56
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:57
Speaker
And I will be happy to tell you if you're doing it wrong.
00:35:00
Speaker
Great.
00:35:03
Speaker
But I think that is all I have for this episode.
00:35:09
Speaker
Do you guys have anything else that you would like to add?
00:35:12
Speaker
Or what do you think?
00:35:17
Speaker
Yeah, I do want to say one thing.
00:35:21
Speaker
I didn't really know how to introduce my character too well.
00:35:27
Speaker
I'll just say my character definitely is that weird kid in school.
00:35:34
Speaker
The one that was drunk and drawn all the time.
00:35:37
Speaker
The one that the teacher had to tell, okay, put the notebook away.
00:35:40
Speaker
You know that kid.
00:35:42
Speaker
Oh, he's not that quiet, but I'm just saying, like, I didn't, I'll think I explained my character that well.
00:35:49
Speaker
That was the burden of being the first person.
00:35:52
Speaker
Whose day was it to bring this guy a Snickers?
00:35:59
Speaker
They don't know that the whole world is run by seven people, seven people.
00:36:06
Speaker
Good call back to a Dane Cook joke.
00:36:08
Speaker
I enjoy that.
00:36:09
Speaker
That was good.
00:36:11
Speaker
Going back to characters like Matt said,
00:36:15
Speaker
I'd like to point out that Samantha, while she is an athlete, is also a secret artist in her free time as well.
Samantha's Artistic Side
00:36:24
Speaker
That people don't really know if she can draw.
00:36:26
Speaker
I guess I also forgot to mention, you all have one mutual friend.
00:36:32
Speaker
This is a somewhat of a small town, bordering a bigger city.
00:36:36
Speaker
But you guys kind of live in a town where everybody knows everybody, so...
Character Connections and Campaign Start
00:36:41
Speaker
I'm not going to continue I don't want to get copyrighted I know it took everything I had to not continue on that with you the character that is a friend to all of you is also 18 years old she is also a senior and
00:36:59
Speaker
And her name is... So her name is Ashley Brooks.
00:37:03
Speaker
That is the name of the character.
00:37:06
Speaker
And our story will begin in the next episode with her telling you guys some sad news.
00:37:12
Speaker
Okay, but...
00:37:14
Speaker
Like, are we all in a group when she tells us this?
00:37:19
Speaker
Yes, you guys are all friends.
00:37:22
Speaker
So you guys all know each other, whether you are friends with each other or not.
00:37:27
Speaker
Or friendly.
00:37:29
Speaker
Yes, whether you are friends with each other or not is up to you.
00:37:32
Speaker
But you are all individually friends with Ashley.
00:37:36
Speaker
I'm getting a lot of Snickers.
00:37:40
Speaker
And as Melanie said, Ashley is one of her bonds.
00:37:44
Speaker
She is Melanie's character, Samantha and Ashley, our best friends.
00:37:48
Speaker
So however you guys want to spin that you are friends with Ashley, you can figure that out.
00:37:53
Speaker
Yep.
00:37:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:54
Speaker
But our story will begin with...
Cliffhanger Ending
00:37:57
Speaker
little bit of sad news coming from ashley i'm not telling you the sad news that will be for episode one thanks for the sad cliffhanger oh you're so so welcome but i think we should get used to it right yeah yeah cliffhangers are going to be uh a staple of this podcast i'm not dead yet not yet no but that's okay because there's plenty of time to change that
00:38:23
Speaker
But anyway, that is going to do it for this episode.
00:38:27
Speaker
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
00:38:29
Speaker
We will kick off into the story beginning in the next episode.
00:38:35
Speaker
We'll kick off into the podcast proper in the next episode.
00:38:38
Speaker
We just kind of want to give you guys a little bit of an introduction to us, our characters, the story.
00:38:45
Speaker
Thanks for playing pretend with us, everybody.
00:38:49
Speaker
We'll work on the outro.
00:38:50
Speaker
Have a good night, everybody.
00:38:51
Speaker
Good night.
00:38:52
Speaker
Bye.
00:38:53
Speaker
Bye.