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Hey everybody, it's Austin here.

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Sorry for the pre-perpetua interruption, but

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I wanted to quickly make an

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announcement, one that I bet many

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of you have already heard or

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read by now, but just in

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case you hadn't, hi, Fred at

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the table has another new podcast.

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It is called Side Story. It's

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available now from basically anywhere that

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you get your podcasts. It is

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a podcast about games and the

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stories that they make us want

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to tell. I'm hosting it, which

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means that I am back to

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talking about video games on the internet,

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not just video games, but you know,

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that's going to be, I think, a

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lot of what we talk about. There's

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a lot of, we play a lot

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of video games and we don't really

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get to talk about them in the

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public that often. The whole team is

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going to be on it. We're going

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to cycle through from episode to episode

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I'll be hosting each episode in the

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first episode to kick things off Jack

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and Janine came through We talked a

0:58

lot about soul frame the new game

1:00

from warframe developer Digital extremes that's that's

1:02

currently in what they are also

1:05

calling prelude Which is like their

1:07

sort of pre-release or super not

1:09

not beta you can go listen

1:11

you'll hear us talk about it

1:13

We also talked about Repo, the

1:15

horror comedy game that we played

1:17

over on Twitch recently. And that's

1:19

maybe just a good reminder for

1:22

people who maybe just as into

1:24

the podcast. We do a bunch

1:26

of other stuff. We stream on

1:28

twitch.TVs such Friends of the Table.

1:30

Those archives go up on youtube.com/Friends

1:32

of the table. We have Media

1:34

Club Plus where Keith and the

1:36

crew are getting towards the end

1:39

of the chimera ant arc of

1:41

Hunter Hunter one of the coolest

1:43

pieces of shown in anime I

1:45

think personally ever Ali was just on

1:47

a great episode of that I'm gonna be

1:49

on the next episode of that so we

1:52

do a ton of other stuff and in

1:54

fact as part of this new podcast side

1:56

story we are launching a new video game

1:58

LP a let's play sort of play

2:01

playthrough of a game. Jack and

2:03

I are driving a game of

2:05

outward, which is a third-person open

2:07

world RPG that has a lot

2:09

of really fun, interesting systemic interactions.

2:11

You know, we spend a lot

2:13

of time making camp and running

2:15

from giant mantish shrimp and cooking

2:17

things and trying to make the

2:19

silver we had go as far

2:22

as it could and stumbling into

2:24

caves and fleeing from caves. Janine

2:26

is joining us for that one

2:28

and is... kind of the devil

2:30

and angel on our shoulder. The type of

2:32

game this is that Janine's one of Janine's

2:34

big jobs is to remind us when we

2:36

get into common that we should take our

2:38

backpacks off because otherwise it's harder to fight.

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So go check that out the first episode

2:43

of that is free. Then the rest of

2:45

them are going to be for the new

2:47

$10 patron level. And so we'll see how

2:49

it goes. My hope is that people, you

2:51

know, a lot of people have been asking

2:53

me to talk about video games again and

2:55

games are all types on the on a

2:58

podcast somewhere ever since I stopped doing that

3:00

back in the way, at the end of Waypoint,

3:02

at my time at Waypoint, I guess. And so

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doing it. I'm doing it now finally. I hope

3:06

people have been enjoying it if you already listened

3:08

to it. Thank you so much. If you listen

3:11

to it and liked it and liked it and

3:13

liked it and liked it and liked it and

3:15

liked it and then kind of like. you know

3:17

I will say that you know obviously the one

3:19

of the key things here is I'm excited to

3:21

talk about and have been missing talking about games

3:24

critically and comitically for a little while and it's

3:26

good to go back to that but it is

3:28

also to to give people a way into

3:30

what friends of the table is

3:32

and the breadth of what we've

3:34

become over the last decade people

3:36

who maybe don't have time or

3:38

interest in listening to us play

3:40

tabletop games this is you know

3:42

our passion we love doing this

3:44

this is a unique thing that

3:46

is so so so important to

3:48

me but the audience for listening

3:50

to us talk about orks and

3:52

robots and vampires I guess in

3:54

character is not huge in comparison

3:56

to for instance a podcast about

3:58

Star Wars or video games or other

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kind bigger wider small less less niche

4:03

things. And I have known for years

4:05

that the rest of the friends of

4:07

the table crew are smart and funny.

4:09

And I love talking to them about

4:12

everything else. And so I wanted another

4:14

space where we could have those conversations.

4:16

I think anyone has any doubts about

4:18

that they can go listen to Media

4:21

Club Plus, which is brilliant. It's one

4:23

of my favorite podcasts. It might be

4:25

my favorite podcast, especially right now as

4:27

we're in the chimera an arc. They've

4:30

been so, so, so, so on it.

4:32

those folks onto a podcast where I

4:34

can say like, hey, what do you

4:36

think of this new game we've all

4:39

been playing? Tell me what you feel

4:41

about this. Share your insights. Hear your

4:43

mind. Hear the stories that these games

4:46

make me want to tell. So yeah,

4:48

go check it out. It's called Side

4:50

Story. I'll get out of your way

4:52

now. I think this episode is

4:54

a banger. And that's all I'll

4:56

say. All right. Peace. A

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bell rings, out

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of the forest,

5:04

beyond the hills,

5:06

past the city

5:09

gates, through the

5:11

crowded streets, into

5:13

the Citadel Cortcullis,

5:15

and above the

5:18

throne itself. Okay,

5:24

so quick summary of last turns

5:27

that we're all on the same

5:29

page again. Art and Dre, Tomor

5:31

met a terrapine or sort of

5:34

a nomadic... turtle or tortoise guy

5:36

who was named Jonathan, and then

5:39

you learned that the mountain you

5:41

were headed towards was actually a

5:43

still active volcano, and you managed

5:46

to recover a material called Sheldonica,

5:48

which is a sort of weird

5:50

volcanic metal. Jack and Janine, Glesian

5:53

Yukai, met a weird little mole

5:55

guy, and a parade of pastoral

5:58

travelers who brought you to a

6:00

town that was obsessed with like

6:02

games and sports and competitions and

6:05

all sort. Then Keith you and

6:07

me and Harlow found our way

6:10

to a weird academy. I said

6:12

weird like eight times here but

6:14

yeah that's just you know. Let

6:17

me live. We're an academy obsessed

6:19

with the collapse of civilization, which

6:21

I think is kind of a

6:24

classic friends of the table style

6:26

university, very reflective of our own

6:29

academic experiences. And then Ali and

6:31

Sylvie Harlow found a, sorry, not

6:33

Harlow, I did it, Arley, found

6:36

a very weird, I'm so, I'm

6:38

so washed right now. You'll find

6:41

an upside down forest that was

6:43

filled with super moody and muppet

6:45

coated tree. who kind of ragged

6:48

on you a bunch until you

6:50

helped them out. I think there's

6:52

some coffee beans involved and then

6:55

they kind of set you on

6:57

your way. I believe it is

7:00

back around to tour. Oh yeah.

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Who should roll some dice? Let's

7:04

roll some dice. Do you want

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to go first art? All right

7:09

I'll do the landmark this time.

7:12

Sure. 1710 and it's a three.

7:14

Which is a town. Yeah, three

7:16

bionm dye. Here we go. We

7:19

got a lake. Oh, we got

7:21

a lake. Five, three, eight, five,

7:24

three. Love it. Then what? Then

7:26

all roll of bion. Eleven, nineteen.

7:28

And two is a mountain. Wow.

7:31

All right, and? Uh, I rolled

7:33

a dice that's actually in the

7:35

same spot as a place we've

7:38

already been to. Roll it again.

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Okay. Twelve, 24, three. Okay. That

7:43

is a new place. It is,

7:45

it's right next to the mouth

7:47

of this river is what it's

7:50

next to. Whoops. And it's a

7:52

lake? Oh, it's a lake. Well,

7:55

there's a lake at the end

7:57

of this river. Nice. That works.

7:59

Delta thing? It could be a

8:02

little. Oh yeah. That's really fun.

8:04

That makes a lot of sense,

8:06

actually. Let's just draw that out

8:09

right away. Look at that. Delta.

8:11

Throughout those two little spots. There

8:14

we go. Which kind of means

8:16

we kind of have our coastline

8:18

there, even if it's. Yes. Although

8:21

we should put a lake icon

8:23

down as well, so that we

8:26

can remember it as a place

8:28

we can travel to. This is

8:30

true. Right, right, right, yes. All

8:33

right. Well, then this is also

8:35

one right next to it, technically.

8:37

So, uh, all right. That is

8:40

your exploration phase. Sketched our locations.

8:42

We've had other tokens. It is

8:45

time for the arrival phase. Choose

8:47

location on the map. If not

8:49

closest, lose one food. Where y'all

8:52

headed from the ruined city of

8:54

Rock Castle? Hmm. your closest is

8:57

probably this new mountain that got

8:59

added or this lake to your

9:01

east one two three one two

9:04

three yeah you can spend a

9:06

food to go anywhere yeah I

9:08

kind of want to go to

9:11

a town art yeah I hear

9:13

that do you want to go

9:16

to the one that we just

9:18

made oh we have to draw

9:20

a coastline on our landmark right

9:23

yes oh yeah curious how we're

9:25

gonna how we're gonna figure out

9:28

some of these coastlinesines yeah I'm

9:30

hoping we all starved before we

9:32

have to reckon with it Great.

9:35

Good call. Good. That's a lot

9:37

of turns. Because we start losing

9:39

health, right? We don't just die.

9:42

That's right. Yeah. So that's still

9:44

like five times. Plenty of time

9:47

to get more food, for instance,

9:49

you know, yeah. I just thought

9:51

I was hoping. Right. Oh, okay.

9:54

We could run out of food

9:56

and it also be stabbed. Right.

9:59

Okay. Now, where are you headed?

10:01

You're headed towards the new one

10:03

that you put down? Yeah. the

10:06

little one to the to the

10:08

north just just below the quarith

10:10

plateau where the giants are. All

10:13

right, so spend one food and

10:15

draw a card and draw your

10:18

little dashed line. I'll draw our

10:20

line art. I'll draw a card

10:22

then. Five of diamonds. We just

10:25

had a red five. Oh, did

10:27

we? Yeah, we had five hearts

10:30

last year. This is right. This

10:32

is another and so you're gonna

10:34

meet another fellow traveler on your

10:37

journey. What rumor did they tell

10:39

you? Gain one coin. All right,

10:41

I think it's time for my

10:44

little guy. Oh, guys own. And

10:46

I would like to introduce mushroom

10:49

people. Oh, mushroom people. I think

10:51

there's all sorts of mushroom people.

10:53

Uh-huh. I think there's like big

10:56

floppy portobello people, skinny little, whatever

10:58

you call those mushrooms people. Yeah,

11:01

uh-huh. Maybe oyster mushrooms. Yeah, maybe.

11:03

And this is, are they all

11:05

the same like... They are all

11:08

the same culture? Are you saying

11:10

that this is like... Yeah, yeah,

11:12

this is a general mushroom culture.

11:15

I think that they are not

11:17

from this continent. I think they're

11:20

from another place. Can we get

11:22

a really big one that's a

11:24

chicken of the woods or a

11:27

puffball? Yeah, but those are very

11:29

rare from what I understand. Uh,

11:32

no, they're, well, not here. You

11:34

know, they're not common. You have

11:36

to find them outside, but they're

11:39

all over the place. Keith's just

11:41

teeing up so that one of

11:43

these guys can be eaten. You

11:46

gotta, hey folks, you gotta forge

11:48

chicken in the woods. Holy moly,

11:51

that's good. Animal Carberry. And they're,

11:53

they're like, in some places they're

11:55

ambassadors and some places they're adventurers

11:58

and some places they're merchants and

12:00

some places they have like a

12:03

little, a little mushroom town. Sure.

12:05

Colony. Were these the people from

12:07

potentially the, um. the same giant

12:10

city that the unnamed fallen capital?

12:12

Potentially, yeah. And I think there

12:15

might even be like rumors, like,

12:17

you know, they're really just from

12:19

underground. There's just a... bunch of

12:22

fungus upside on the ground. These

12:24

are people that have bad attitudes.

12:26

Wait, that's the people talking about

12:29

the mushrooms who live in the

12:31

ground? Yeah. Or it's people, you

12:34

describing people who blame, who think

12:36

mushrooms come from underground, those people

12:38

have bad. I'm against mushroom racists

12:41

is my good. Okay. Love this.

12:43

All right, so you've now met

12:46

a, so is this a mushroom?

12:48

What's this mushroom person's deal? And

12:50

what's the rumor they tell you?

12:53

I think this is a traveling

12:55

mushroom trader with like a little

12:57

cart full of junk. Okay. Junk

13:00

colloquially, not literally. Uh-huh. I mean,

13:02

I don't want me, but personally,

13:05

me, in my modern non-fantic mind.

13:07

But tomore might. Yeah, tomore might.

13:09

Yeah, probably. So you've met this

13:12

junk trader. And what is the

13:14

rumor you learn from them? here

13:17

on the here on the road

13:19

to this town that you have

13:21

not yet found. Um, I think

13:24

I want to be about the

13:26

mountain rain. Oh, interesting. Interesting. The

13:28

mountains are sleeping giants. The giants.

13:31

I mean, do you hear the

13:33

phrase? Do you hear the altar

13:36

of perpetual? Do you get told

13:38

that like, oh, maybe. Do you

13:40

get told like, you know, quoroth

13:43

plateau. I don't know what I'm

13:45

saying, but something a little bit

13:48

into like a Norm McDonald. Yeah,

13:50

the Coroth Plateau. It's just a

13:52

knockoff of the original one, the

13:55

altar of the altar of the

13:57

old perpetual, perpetual there. And being

13:59

told this by someone who expects

14:02

you to know what they're talking

14:04

about, like, hmm. If you say

14:07

so, buddy, I'm Goku. uh that

14:09

like the the the pitch i'm

14:11

making here is that the giants

14:14

were trying to make the way

14:16

that they flattened and made that

14:19

plateau was them like replicating a

14:21

different place. There's them like building

14:23

their version of maybe in honor

14:26

to maybe in order to try

14:28

to capture the power of the

14:30

alter slash column slash whatever else

14:33

I said of perpetual. Pillar. Pillar.

14:35

I think Hillary came up several

14:38

times. Yeah. Yes, the pillar. And

14:40

then you get a coin from

14:42

this somehow. Maybe in exchange for

14:45

investigating the mining backpack. Oh, sure

14:47

How does that work? I got

14:50

a lot of those parts You

14:52

give me a coil you look

14:54

at this thing I have. Yeah.

14:57

Yeah, sure My Norm McDowell is

14:59

very good it seems I think

15:01

I'm getting old George Tony Clifton

15:04

in here likes this show and

15:06

doesn't understand late 80s early 90s

15:09

comedy is a is a someone

15:11

I have a lot of respect

15:13

for yeah there's a lot of

15:16

them out there art so um

15:18

what's the town page 56 oh

15:21

buddy a town stricken by some

15:23

foul illness what is causing the

15:25

sickness how do you remain safe

15:28

gain one reputation for being so

15:30

good at not being sick at

15:32

not being sick Mm. Maybe you

15:35

help out. Maybe you do something.

15:37

Yeah, I was gonna say we're

15:40

definitely the help out kind of

15:42

guy. We're go-koo. Yeah, if we

15:44

all know, go-koo can be one

15:47

thing, it's physical sickness. Okay, who

15:49

for the future do you meet?

15:52

Our enemy's son? I actually have

15:54

a pitch on the sickness here

15:56

and like the visual version of

15:59

the of the sickness here. But

16:01

it's not, but trucks in here

16:03

somehow. But I'm, I mean I

16:06

could, I truly literally could, but

16:08

I'm not gonna do that. And

16:11

I'm gonna, I'm gonna actually pass

16:13

and say, I'm gonna pass the

16:15

ball back to you and say,

16:18

I'd rather you all come up

16:20

with, because this just says a

16:23

sickness, a foul illness, right? Right.

16:25

But I could, but I could

16:27

go a while, a little bit.

16:30

I think that there is something

16:32

fucking wrong with this place. It

16:34

doesn't look like any of the

16:37

architecture you've seen before. If you

16:39

had some sort of Geiger counter,

16:42

it would be clicking off the

16:44

charts. And I think visually speaking,

16:46

as you approach this place that

16:49

looks like... a town from another

16:51

time and in order to make

16:54

it not just trinoble yes let's

16:56

make it look like Dragon Ball

16:58

Z town let's make it look

17:01

like West City in Dragon Ball

17:03

or look like you know big

17:06

weird round buildings I was guessing

17:08

and I couldn't have been more

17:10

right yeah it's that's cats of

17:13

court baby yeah that's what cats

17:15

there it is right big round

17:17

sci-fi buildings but they all have

17:20

a sort of shadow echo self

17:22

that's like just off. It's like

17:25

looking through 3D glasses. when you

17:27

look at it. Everything has a

17:29

sort of shadow of itself, like

17:32

an echo, a visual echo of

17:34

itself, just off to the side

17:37

vibrating. So it's like looking at

17:39

a 3D movie without 3D glasses.

17:41

Without 3D glasses. Just describing a

17:44

stigma. Sure. Yeah, I believe you.

17:46

But yeah, 3D movie without 3D

17:48

glasses is exactly right. I'm sorry

17:51

I can get an image of

17:53

that. So so that yeah that

17:56

is exactly the thing right where

17:58

it's like oh, there's a little

18:00

weird You can see the second

18:03

image that's supposed to synthesize, but

18:05

it's not synthesizing. This is still

18:08

from Avatar. That helps explain what

18:10

I'm talking about here. And it's,

18:12

it's, I don't have a name

18:15

for this yet. I've been thinking

18:17

about them as places, I've

18:19

been thinking of words like

18:21

echo and thinking of words

18:23

like. Echo, I think Echo

18:25

is the main one I've

18:27

written down in this, in

18:29

my personal notes here. Let's

18:31

see. Yeah, those are the main

18:34

ones here. But this is

18:36

wrong. This isn't from here.

18:38

And in fact, now that

18:40

I think about it, the

18:42

proximity with the Kaurath

18:44

Plateau suggests that like,

18:47

maybe it was summoned

18:49

here by what the giants

18:51

built by their fake altar.

18:53

And it's sick like it's it's

18:56

I think it's a little

18:58

bit like someone loaded the

19:00

wrong save file from a

19:02

different video game into our

19:04

video game And there are

19:07

like it's it is

19:09

a little like playing

19:11

post-apocalyptic Dragon Ball Z in

19:13

there, right? There are like echoes

19:15

of He was like, he

19:17

never really did like zombies,

19:19

right? But there is like

19:22

some sort of, I'm thinking

19:24

about the Android saga, I'm

19:26

thinking about the chimera ant

19:28

arc of Hunter Hunter, Hunter,

19:31

I'm thinking about weird creatures

19:33

lost in there. And these

19:35

creatures have the same echo

19:37

effect that the rest of

19:40

the city has, you know,

19:42

they feel like... strange twisted

19:44

versions of themselves. I'm thinking

19:47

about like big rat, rat

19:49

monsters, you know? I'm

19:51

thinking about, um, what

19:53

are other weird post-apocalyptic

19:55

type monsters? If you load

19:58

it into a 19-croaches... Yeah,

20:00

giant roach, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold

20:02

on, I'm looking up Chrono Trigger

20:04

Future Enemies. I mean, yeah, this

20:06

is what we're talking about here,

20:09

you know. Big crabs. Yep, big

20:11

crabs, or like, like, robots that

20:13

have been overtaken with crab shells.

20:15

You know, the carcinization thing of,

20:17

like, all things will eventually, is

20:19

that what it's called? What's the

20:22

convergent evolution? But it didn't happen,

20:24

but all robots started to evolve

20:26

to become more crab-like. It's just

20:28

because robots learned that fact and

20:30

self-fulfilled it. Right, they started rebuilding

20:32

themselves with more crab-like? Oh, so

20:35

it's not like a thing where

20:37

like hermit crabs or something started

20:39

getting like some sort of hermit

20:41

creature. I like that, that's fun

20:43

though. Maybe there are also hermit

20:45

crabs that have like found their

20:48

new shells from old robot parts

20:50

and stuff. It's convergent evolution, but

20:52

from two points into a center

20:54

instead of like a parallel lines.

20:56

The image of a hermit crab

20:58

that crawled into an old rotary

21:01

phone shell jumped in my mind,

21:03

but that's Bluff City. Ooh. Oh,

21:05

it can grab it's it can

21:07

grab the phone to make a

21:09

call with its clothes. How do

21:12

we get this little guy into

21:14

our into our party? Please. Thank

21:16

you. Love it. Yeah, and it's

21:18

it is this is a type

21:20

of place that exists in this

21:22

world this sort of like broken

21:25

echo zone Which is what we

21:27

called. It was a Sonic game.

21:29

I guess Yeah here and there

21:31

are this is a tight place

21:33

Actually, this one's broken echo zone

21:35

act two Right right exactly sure

21:38

sure sure yeah, and I'm gonna

21:40

I'm gonna let me see if

21:42

I just kind of tint it

21:44

Yeah, it looks this way because

21:46

we didn't hit the right points

21:48

in the Sonic CD level Exactly.

21:51

Yeah, we're in the bad future

21:53

version. Yeah, what's it say? What's

21:55

it saying in in in in

21:57

Sonic CD when you give what

21:59

is the bad? What is the

22:01

bad future? Oh, it definitely is

22:04

bad future, but I think there

22:06

is another thing. Yeah, they're called

22:08

bad future stages. That's okay. Bad

22:10

future like court squadron bad future

22:12

zone. That's good. So good fairly

22:14

cool. It's I don't know that

22:17

it's as good as I want

22:19

it to be, but it's very

22:21

cool. So yeah, sick city. Anyway,

22:23

you got plus one reputation from

22:25

this somehow. What do you do

22:27

in this place? That's what you

22:30

get the reputation for. People like

22:32

great name. Nailed it. Sick name.

22:34

Sick city. Sick city. That's what

22:36

they said. Sick name, sick city.

22:38

Ah. Wonder what it looks like

22:41

to treat this. I don't know.

22:43

Great question. I mean, you're the

22:45

character to do it. You're certainly

22:47

the most like, I mean, I

22:49

don't mean that in terms of

22:51

skill set, but I mean that

22:54

in terms of heroic vibe. You

22:56

know, Dr. So this is kind

22:58

of the theory we're working with,

23:00

the vague knowledge we're working with,

23:02

is that this is maybe the

23:04

result of some sort of old

23:07

ritual or something? That is the

23:09

loose idea that I think it's

23:11

probably, I mean y'all don't have,

23:13

y'all meaning Tomor, Tomor doesn't know

23:15

about the, oh yes you do,

23:17

because the rumor, you just heard

23:20

the rumor about the Kaurath Plateau,

23:22

you just didn't see it yourself

23:24

the way that Arley did, right?

23:26

Arley saw that plateau, where the

23:28

Giants built this place, you have

23:30

now heard a rumor about it,

23:33

and now have seen what maybe

23:35

was connected to it, in some

23:37

way, which is... Yeah, this place

23:39

seems to have been summoned or

23:41

been, you know, corrupted. Maybe there

23:43

was a city here that, or

23:46

a town that got blended with

23:48

this other place. Hard to say.

23:50

If a person leaves, is the,

23:52

is the sickness in the town

23:54

or is it like in people?

23:56

I think it's in the town.

23:59

I think the town is sick

24:01

in this way. And you know,

24:03

if you like. some time investigating

24:05

it and like trying to I

24:07

think you know walking through the

24:10

streets and like looking into the

24:12

into the you're doing the krono

24:14

trigger you know level right you're

24:16

like going it getting around the

24:18

battles and trying to like learn

24:20

from the little cutscenes that play

24:23

and oh look there's a there's

24:25

an old camera record that you

24:27

could pull up to see that

24:29

like oh in in some other

24:31

version of this town the world

24:33

wasn't so bad you know the

24:36

the robots lived in peace you

24:38

know along with the the hermit

24:40

crabs or whatever right whatever whatever

24:42

normal life looked like there was

24:44

a thing like normal life there

24:46

yeah this is some sort of

24:49

like harsh echo some sort of

24:51

like you know broken bad version

24:53

of it where some of the

24:55

rules and ideas of this place

24:57

have like broken bad, you know,

24:59

have like been extended in weird

25:02

bad ways. Truly a thing that

25:04

I was prepped to do a,

25:06

you know, a prepped dungeon for

25:08

six months from now or six

25:10

weeks from now, but on the

25:12

top of my head, it's hard

25:15

to come up with one super

25:17

easily. I think that I would,

25:19

I think that I would, like,

25:21

point out as an example, would

25:23

be like, you know, Everything

25:26

here, like in the video gamey

25:28

sense, everything here takes bonus damage

25:30

from bolt, from, you know, from

25:33

lightning attacks. Yeah. Everything here, you

25:35

know, has to avoid the, you

25:37

know, the great, the great computer

25:39

that is gonna try to like,

25:42

grab you and put you into

25:44

your more crab-like form, right? Like

25:46

that, that stuff is happening. That,

25:48

theoretically, you find evidence of a

25:51

version of this city where that

25:53

wasn't happening. you know, which isn't

25:55

that different than finding a city

25:57

ruin of any kind. It's not

26:00

that different from finding the eastern

26:02

and continent city where there used

26:04

to be water and then the

26:06

water ran out. And so the

26:09

big mill city stopped being a

26:11

big mill city, except this feels

26:13

more like there has been a

26:15

sort of metaphysical corruption of the

26:18

people here, you know, and the

26:20

city itself in some way. You're

26:22

seeing the dark version of this

26:24

city, the corrupt version of this

26:27

city, not the version that once

26:29

existed. And maybe you don't solve

26:31

it, you know? This is some

26:33

real dark tower shit. Oh yeah.

26:36

That is, yes, this should feel

26:38

a little dark towery, this should

26:40

feel a little, um, what's the,

26:42

you know, like, like, did you

26:45

load the, did you hear about

26:47

the one C5? Like that drowned

26:49

and stuff? Exactly. The Yacharina of

26:51

time, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. That is the space

26:54

that these types of places, to

26:56

which this is not a unique

26:58

one. But it's not something you've

27:00

ever encountered before, aren't like. Again,

27:03

it feels a little like someone

27:05

loaded the wrong, and to us,

27:07

the viewer, the player, it should

27:09

feel like someone loaded the wrong

27:12

save file. Like someone loaded a

27:14

resident evil file into your evolution

27:16

dreamcast JRPG game. Well, that's not

27:18

what's supposed to happen. What this

27:21

conjures for me is the psychomantis.

27:23

Yes, yes, boss battle in, uh,

27:25

in metal, your solid. Yeah, where

27:27

you had to play from the,

27:30

I guess, spoilers. If you played

27:32

for the first controller part. Yeah,

27:34

I finished that. Yeah, I finished

27:36

that. Yeah. He would be able

27:39

to know your movements and you

27:41

like couldn't. I don't if you

27:43

can't beat him if you're playing

27:45

for the first controller, but. It

27:48

sure sure. I believe you can't.

27:50

Yeah. You had to change in

27:52

the second controller. What can we

27:54

do that's like changing into the

27:57

second controller port? Because I don't

27:59

know what narratively it means. Isn't

28:01

there something in the same fight

28:03

where you can tell that Psycho

28:06

Mantis is going to pull some

28:08

shit because he puts like a

28:10

weird junk save file onto the

28:12

memory card and you can go

28:15

in and like win the boss

28:17

fight early by fucking with that

28:19

save file? Am I misremembering? Is

28:21

that a different game? I don't

28:24

believe that that's correct and I

28:26

don't want to admit how young

28:28

I was when I played metal

28:30

gear solid. I was 30. Jesus.

28:33

I don't think that there's a

28:35

safe thing like that, though. There

28:37

must be a different thing. I

28:39

think the thing you're thinking of

28:42

is the fight against the end

28:44

in Metal Yourself 3. Oh, that

28:46

one rules. Yeah. But what you

28:48

can do is move your clock

28:51

time ahead. Yeah. By long enough

28:53

that he dies from old age.

28:55

Let me tell you. 13-year-old Sylvie?

28:57

Love that was a great trick.

29:00

That's sneaky. I wonder if you

29:02

can do something with your Red

29:04

Dragon 3 where you're like super

29:06

your mega game thing I get

29:09

what you mean though the idea

29:11

art being like you recognize that

29:13

there is something metaphysically weird happening

29:16

here about the rules of the

29:18

world and how do you this

29:20

is a color refuses to fight

29:22

with the same roles in the

29:25

in the dual type moment. Yeah.

29:27

I have an answer, which is

29:29

we have these rules we've never

29:31

used. Oh. For making a skill

29:34

test? Like, yeah. To make a

29:36

skill test, first consider what your

29:38

cartographer is trying to do. Consider

29:40

what's at stake and what they

29:43

stand to gain if they succeed.

29:45

Then start with one six-sided die.

29:47

For each tag, your cartographer has

29:49

that would help the situation grab

29:52

another die. For each tag that

29:54

would hinder the situation, remove one

29:56

die. I will grab some tags

29:58

real quick for you. Let's see,

30:01

what's your value? Well, that's a

30:03

weird thing to ask somebody.

30:05

Yeah. Let's see. Curious. I

30:07

think that's probably a

30:09

tag. I think it's probably

30:12

a positive tag on this.

30:14

Yeah. Investigating the situation. What's

30:16

your, what's your disposition?

30:19

Challenge. And it's definitely

30:21

another positive tag here.

30:23

You don't have any

30:26

reputation yet. You don't have

30:28

any wounds. Let's see if you've...

30:30

They say any time you draw

30:32

a face card as a prompt,

30:34

consider how the situation could give

30:37

you a new skill trade or

30:39

knowledge. That's fun. I don't

30:41

think it's come up for y'all,

30:43

has it? No. You ought to

30:45

draw this king? No. Remember we

30:47

drone both red fives. Okay, right,

30:50

right, right. I want to leave

30:52

that king of clubs to the

30:54

side so we can wrap back

30:56

around for that in a second.

30:58

a negative. Unless we just give

31:01

them one negative because they're

31:03

in an echo. Oh, because

31:05

they're in the six zone.

31:07

Yeah, they're in the six

31:09

zone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so yeah, 2D6.

31:11

You can never roll once in one

31:13

die. Yeah, roll 1D6. Yeah, roll once

31:16

in one die. Yeah, roll 2D6. And

31:18

you're looking for above a three.

31:20

Four or five or six is

31:22

a success, but a four or

31:24

five has a complication. Who wants

31:26

to roll. It was three and

31:28

then Jack reminded us of the

31:30

six out. Six or two? That's a six,

31:32

you succeed. Outcomes, when considering an outcome

31:35

for a skill test, you should look

31:37

into the context of the situation to

31:39

determine what happens. In failing or succeeding

31:41

a skill test, you may gain or

31:43

lose resources, tags, or wounds. Again, use

31:46

the context of the situation to inform

31:48

this. You may wish to roll in

31:50

the random failure outcome table. Now, let's

31:52

let's stay off the random. Maybe like

31:54

a cool item from this on top

31:57

of getting... like the

32:00

the reputation that you're going

32:02

to get. Jack, what do you think? As

32:04

the other person who's read this book

32:06

front to back a bunch. I think

32:08

an item's a good idea. I think

32:11

we should say what it is that

32:13

they're doing. Yeah, I would like to

32:15

know what the dice roll was representing.

32:17

You know, just like I'm helping someone.

32:20

Are you, are there people in there

32:22

who were from that world that you're

32:24

helping? Are there people from this world

32:26

that you're helping who got stuck in

32:28

there? Clearing it not clearing

32:31

it from the map, but like

32:33

cleansing it somehow You know thinking

32:35

about the very video gamey

32:37

metaphors of like if you

32:40

can get this crystal to

32:42

the center point and then Cleaning

32:44

it back to its original realm.

32:46

Are you banishing it away? Yeah,

32:48

like does it? It is right now

32:51

it pouring out these creatures into

32:53

the surrounding area But like if

32:55

you can if you can do

32:57

the start the ritual you can

33:00

send it away back to its

33:02

own dimension like that

33:04

That's fun. Yeah crystal crystal

33:06

rituals seems like a thing

33:08

that we should be doing

33:10

here and we should be emphasizing

33:13

So you've like gone through

33:15

the level of the dungeon?

33:17

Well, you've like you've you've

33:20

gathered up the crystal energy

33:22

or whatever and then yes,

33:25

there's a sort of spirit

33:27

bomb style maneuver as part

33:29

of the ritual to disperse

33:32

the echo energy back to

33:34

Whatever dimension this was originally

33:37

from I like that cool Any

33:39

other flourishes here any other details

33:41

y'all want to add? I think

33:44

all of the like the sort

33:46

of like double visual echo stuff,

33:48

the 3D misalignment visuals of this

33:51

place. They like shudder and shake

33:53

as you're doing this, and then

33:56

they line back up, and then

33:58

everything kind of turns. it goes

34:00

first like fully black like everything

34:02

loses all colors or just hard

34:05

black silhouettes and then it fills

34:07

with bright colorful rainbow light and

34:09

then it like phew and like

34:11

shoots up into the sky and

34:14

like disappears into the stars you

34:16

know and it's like we get

34:18

area clear you know like you

34:20

know or whatever I've been left

34:22

behind is like some remnant from

34:25

that other world. You know, you

34:27

have the like, you have something

34:29

from capsule corp. You know, you

34:31

have, you get something here. We

34:34

should probably roll on the table.

34:36

It's an item draw, it's a

34:38

card draw. Yes, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

34:40

The items are on page 52

34:42

and 53. I drew the last

34:45

card. Sure. Draw one card. Oh

34:47

my god. Oh my god. Assistant,

34:49

once per turn, you may pay

34:51

one coin to extend a coastline

34:54

or name a location. Did you

34:56

get a little robot friend? I

34:58

was gonna say it's like a

35:00

fucking like atlas, but it has

35:02

like a robot intelligence in it.

35:05

And is it his own thing

35:07

or does it like automatically merge

35:09

with our mining backpack? And now

35:11

our mining backpack is a little

35:14

map making. Does your mining backpack

35:16

grow little crab legs? And it

35:18

can have like grow a little

35:20

robot, not grow, but get robot

35:22

crab legs and a little face.

35:25

It learns about Carson. Carsonization. Yes.

35:27

the other robots and it goes

35:29

that's such a good idea I'm

35:31

doing it and that's why it

35:34

needs a coin because it still

35:36

remembers that it wants metal that's

35:38

right yeah insert metal for for

35:40

us to help you or you

35:42

know for to access assistant mode

35:45

and it has like it's downloaded,

35:47

I want to be clear, like

35:49

I think it's downloaded some sort

35:51

of robot AI from this other

35:54

echo city that had been here.

35:56

And you get one plus one

35:58

rep. And you get plus one

36:00

wrap, right? Yeah, we do have

36:02

a little robot now, so that

36:05

makes sense. This is true. We've

36:07

got to get some rep. We

36:09

can't be the least rep press.

36:11

Looks like you are, bud. Least

36:14

rep press, though, did have I

36:16

think the best one hit wonder

36:18

from the 90. So add your

36:20

rep, add your cool assistant. I

36:22

have added the rep, I have

36:25

not added cool assistant. I think

36:27

I can copy and paste the

36:29

cool assistant, which will save us

36:31

some time. I am going to

36:34

roll to Landmark Die for Glessie.

36:36

The first Landmark Die is at

36:38

426. Oh. The bottom. What is

36:40

it? Right down here. It is

36:43

a 2, which means it's an

36:45

encampment. Amazing. these people living at

36:47

the edge of the world live

36:49

in a remote area yeah and

36:51

here's another landmark die this is

36:54

2611 it's in a different it's

36:56

a different it's a different far

36:58

away this is far on the

37:00

east and this is a value

37:03

of four which is a city

37:05

we don't want them all in

37:07

this so it's closer to something

37:09

else right no this is what

37:11

the food is for yeah I

37:14

suggest where you might draw a

37:16

coastline need coastlines. Uh, you want

37:18

out at the bottom when you

37:20

do the top one? Yeah, sounds

37:23

good. You know what I'm gonna

37:25

do? What are you gonna do?

37:27

This is an island. Oh, okay.

37:29

It's a city on an island.

37:31

Oh, okay. It's a city on

37:34

an island. Oh, yeah. And Jay,

37:36

yeah, yeah, we do need to

37:38

name that location. Ten for one.

37:40

One is nothing, right? Yes, yeah,

37:43

one is forest one is forest.

37:45

Oh, yeah, I only land Landmarks

37:47

are nothing. Oh yeah. Why am

37:49

you always dancing? We already have

37:51

10 for. Oh, roll again. Oh,

37:54

okay. 311, one. That's handy. Forest,

37:56

oh, this is now emerging, this

37:58

feels like maybe this whole little

38:00

area. Oh yeah. He's a woodland.

38:03

He is a woodland. Yeah. Do

38:05

we want to just say that

38:07

like some of that area here

38:09

is like a big forest? It's

38:11

like these. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

38:14

yeah. Okay, where are we going

38:16

Janine. Great question. That island city

38:18

is an option, but also so

38:20

is like meeting up with Harlow.

38:23

Harley. Harlow. Harlow. Harlow. Harlow. Harlow.

38:25

Or Arley. Oarley. Or Arley. Oll.

38:27

Yeah. We really made this confusing,

38:29

huh? A little bit. But I'd

38:31

spend the food to go to

38:34

the city. Oh, yeah. I have

38:36

no strong preference. So I'll follow

38:38

your legionine. We're still doing good

38:40

for food. I think we should

38:43

take advantage of that. Dotted line

38:45

to the city. Island City. This

38:47

is exciting. Uh-huh. Do you want

38:49

to draw a card? Yeah. I'm

38:51

going to draw it normal style

38:54

so I can actually see it.

38:56

Oh, no, that doesn't... No, I'm

38:58

just going to draw it. I'll

39:00

draw it over here. And it's

39:03

tiny again. I think it's a

39:05

seven. Seven of clubs. That first

39:07

is your journey thing. On page

39:09

49. 49. During your travels you

39:11

overstepped a local customer. Oh boy.

39:14

What was your oversight? Lose one

39:16

reputation. I'm going to delete this

39:18

rep. I have an idea. Oh

39:20

yeah, what is it? We crossed

39:23

the water on our own. We

39:25

like saw like, oh there's an

39:27

island over there. Let's go there.

39:29

We like found a boat. We

39:31

arrange to use it and stuff,

39:34

but there is a custom there

39:36

about like, it's really fucking rude

39:38

for someone. to take a boat

39:40

from like the mainland and take

39:43

it to the island versus waiting

39:45

for someone from the island to

39:47

come like ferry them? Yes. So

39:49

you just show up and like

39:51

what the fuck was that? What

39:54

are you here? Is it like

39:56

a union thing or is it

39:58

like a folk custom? I mean

40:00

in my head it's sort of

40:03

like a don't come into our

40:05

house unless you're invited sort of

40:07

thing, but then they'd otherwise be

40:09

very hospitable, but it could also

40:11

be like a labor thing. Like

40:14

I imagine like they do have

40:16

fairies frequently because they do want

40:18

people to come but like if

40:20

you but we didn't know that

40:23

I don't know like if you

40:25

if you're if the fairies on

40:27

the south end and you're on

40:29

the north and you're like and

40:31

you see a boat rental place

40:34

you know it really is they're

40:36

fishing boats and that it's like

40:38

not cool to take it to

40:40

the island like You know, accents

40:43

happen. This is like when you

40:45

go out of bounds in Breath

40:47

of the Wild or Tears of

40:49

the Kingdom and they have custom

40:51

dialogue written for it. Like if

40:54

you hang glide into a town

40:56

that you were supposed to climb

40:58

into and one of the Zora

41:00

turns around and it's like, what

41:03

are you doing? Exactly. When you

41:05

pick up the Zonite from the

41:07

guys and they're like, this is

41:09

my Zonite. You cannot touch that.

41:11

Okay, we had one rep, we

41:14

didn't mark it down to zero

41:16

rep. But hey, you've made it

41:18

to the city, and you again

41:20

have a black seven. So, city

41:23

prompts, black city prompts, seven. Oh,

41:25

buddy. Whoa. A city of people

41:27

dedicated to violence and war. Oh

41:29

boy. What rumors have you heard

41:31

about this city? Why are its

41:34

people so feared? Lose one landmark

41:36

die or mark a discovered settlement

41:38

as a ruin? This is working

41:40

so well with that first bit.

41:43

Wait, so is this... Which first

41:45

bit? The first bit of how

41:47

it's really really bad to go

41:49

there without them knowing you're going

41:51

there. Oh, sure. That's, my question

41:54

is like, is... this the war-like

41:56

settlement? Are we hearing about war-like

41:58

settlements somewhere else? This is a

42:00

city of people dedicated to violence

42:03

and war. Ah, okay. Yeah. So

42:05

what we're hearing from them is,

42:07

hey, we smoke that place, didn't

42:09

we? Yep. Yeah, uh-huh. I mean,

42:11

which place did they smoke? It's

42:14

a discovered settlement. Wow. Or we

42:16

lose a landmark, or we lose

42:18

a landmark die. Yeah, I was

42:20

assuming you didn't want to lose

42:23

a landmark, die. Wow, so you're

42:25

gonna kill a whole... We have

42:27

some settlements we haven't, like, fucked

42:29

with, right? But those are not,

42:31

are those discovered settlements? They're... Those

42:34

are undiscovered settlements. Is that so?

42:36

It's, uh, yes. Otherwise, they've just,

42:38

we've not discovered them. You know,

42:40

they're just a rumor out there

42:43

at that point. I would consider

42:45

it a personal favor if you

42:47

didn't hit the one that we

42:49

are currently in. Because we're starving

42:51

to death over here. I mean

42:54

I have a pitch here. What's

42:56

the pitch? Um, I mean the

42:58

pitch includes a full reveal. But

43:00

I don't know if I want

43:03

to admit, you know what I

43:05

mean? Right. Not to any of

43:07

you, you all know already. Yes.

43:09

You know. It strikes me that

43:11

these people might be... responding to

43:14

a thing they know about the

43:16

world. And they may be like,

43:18

you know what? It's time to

43:20

be the ones who are in

43:23

power. And it's time to stop

43:25

out anybody who could investigate this,

43:27

like the Grand Academy of the

43:29

Collapse. Yes, I think I'm up

43:31

for this. I think I would,

43:34

I am trying to work out

43:36

what these people are. I mean,

43:38

if I know what they do,

43:40

I'm trying to figure out. You

43:43

know, and it's hard because I

43:45

want to make sure that when

43:47

I look at the sentence a

43:49

city of people dedicated to violence...

43:51

war I'm not like oh they're

43:54

snake people you know yeah or

43:56

these are like armed bats or

43:58

something you know I don't want

44:00

to rely on it can be

44:03

a very metropolitan empire oh yeah

44:05

for sure well they could be

44:07

bats let's not throw out what

44:09

could be a fun idea right

44:11

here bats and also something that

44:14

is explicitly not a nice creature

44:16

what's what's the what's the opposite

44:18

of a bat? I see a

44:20

morning dog? Morning dog. Morning dog.

44:23

Morning dog. I think it's in

44:25

the animal, those little running lizards.

44:27

A rooster. A bird can't be

44:29

the opposite of a bat because

44:31

they both fly. Well nothing's the

44:34

opposite. The opposite is broken is

44:36

a term. We all know this.

44:38

Wait. Because like what's the opposite

44:40

of coffee? Someone like, oh, it's

44:43

tea. Like no, that's the same

44:45

drink. Benadryl. Opposite of coffee is

44:47

being drowsy. There's a lot of

44:49

ways for two things to be

44:51

the opposite. I'm just saying two

44:54

flying things. It's hard for those

44:56

to feel opposite to me. Yes,

44:58

but there, you would get an

45:00

opposition all. The point being, I

45:03

get Jack, what you don't want

45:05

to do is do like some

45:07

racial essentialism that's like, the snake

45:09

people are clearly evil. And, and...

45:11

art what you want to do

45:14

is it's cool to have an

45:16

evil bat empire and then what

45:18

we're doing is saying well it's

45:20

complicated by making it some sort

45:23

of like day and night empire

45:25

yeah exactly you know this could

45:27

just be a city of people

45:29

who like each other's vibe like

45:31

that like it's just people who

45:34

want to you know philosophically to

45:36

like what if we were in

45:38

charge There could be bad people

45:40

there. There could be a lot

45:43

of things. I think some of

45:45

them should be bats. There could

45:47

be an upside-down tree who lives

45:49

in an apartment. Yeah. What we

45:52

are torn between right now is

45:54

our natural propensity for critical world

45:56

building and thinking about how the

45:58

symbol... that we tell stories with

46:00

hold meaning and then are very

46:03

real like drive this season to

46:05

play in the sort of big

46:07

iconic space of the JRPG you

46:09

know the a JRBG would not

46:12

flinch at having an evil bat

46:14

no of course it wouldn't right

46:16

and well and and I want

46:18

to say what my goal here

46:20

is, which is to make

46:23

it clear to our audience

46:25

and the world at large

46:27

that I think that Goths

46:29

are bad, should be presented

46:31

with negative stereotypes

46:34

and fiction. Yeah. Okay,

46:36

yes, this city is

46:38

the headquarters of an

46:41

aerial armada. that is created

46:43

by the culture that lives

46:45

here. They have, they are

46:47

balloonists, not just like dirigibles,

46:49

but also I'm thinking of

46:51

like hot air balloons. I'm

46:53

also thinking of the way

46:55

that Miyazaki draws these remarkable,

46:57

hi, Miyazaki, draws these amazing,

46:59

like bizarre rippling airships in

47:01

like house moving castle. And

47:03

so when we look at

47:05

the tower blocks of these

47:08

buildings and things, they are... It

47:10

is almost like bats, fruit bats

47:12

hanging from a tree of the

47:14

like leathery deflated balloons of

47:16

their armada or like one is

47:19

getting inflated ready to go or

47:21

there are like gliders being you

47:24

know wheeling around the tops of

47:26

buildings. And the thing about this

47:28

town is that it was

47:30

founded by two people or two

47:33

families and whenever one of the...

47:35

Yeah, the bats and the doves. I

47:37

don't know if they are literally bats.

47:39

Yes, they are literally bats and doves.

47:42

Or bat-headed people. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

47:44

Because whenever one of them is awake,

47:46

the other is asleep. Whenever one of

47:49

them is awake, the other is asleep.

47:51

Whenever one of them wakes, the other

47:53

sleeps, and they don't know anything about

47:55

the other community. At least at first,

47:58

they think this is our city. sleep,

48:00

the doves wake up, the

48:02

doves fall asleep, the bats

48:04

wake up. And what these

48:06

people have done somehow over

48:08

thousands of years, despite being

48:10

completely different, and at first

48:12

not knowing about each other,

48:14

that they figured it out

48:16

eventually is that they have

48:18

developed the same ideology. You

48:20

would think that there would

48:22

be this kind of like,

48:24

we feel one way and

48:26

you feel differently and we're

48:28

fighting against you, but instead

48:31

they have both developed this

48:33

like supremacist imperial erinautical society.

48:35

But you know, they're split straight

48:37

down the middle. You know, one

48:39

of them, the flies of one

48:41

army go out and then they

48:43

roost in the trees and as

48:46

they sleep the flies of the

48:48

other army awaken and head out.

48:50

And these are like day soldiers

48:52

and night soldiers. What it makes

48:54

them a very powerful military because

48:56

they run 24 hours, right? Because

48:59

they've developed. Yeah, exactly, art. And I

49:01

think that this is how they know. Do

49:03

they know. A

49:06

clock strikes. A bell

49:08

rings. Out of

49:11

the forest, beyond

49:13

the hills, past

49:15

the city gates,

49:17

through the crowded

49:19

streets, into the

49:21

Citadel Port Colis,

49:23

and above the

49:25

throne itself, the

49:27

clock of Perpetua

49:29

counts down another

49:31

day, until total

49:33

oblivion. But

49:47

below that clock and

49:49

in that city and

49:51

in those hills and

49:53

those forests and beyond

49:55

life goes on People

49:57

go about their business

50:00

destruction is inevitable but

50:02

today there are errands

50:04

to run lessons to

50:06

learn swords to swing

50:08

lovers to make eyes

50:11

out and adventures to

50:13

go on at least

50:15

for the next few

50:18

hundred years until the

50:20

world ends like

50:22

it always does

50:25

despite the machinations

50:27

of kingdoms and

50:29

churches and academies

50:31

and armies. Grand

50:33

Sonery, the Elevana

50:35

League, the Dragon

50:37

League, the Dragon

50:39

Watchers, the Protectorate

50:41

of Placidia, the

50:43

Hundred Boroughs, the

50:46

Empire of Placidia,

50:48

the Hundred Boroughs, the

50:50

Empire of the Blue

50:52

Hour. The Passican Remnants.

50:54

The Anyad itself. These

50:57

great powers act as

50:59

if perpetual was their

51:01

grand game or their

51:03

perfect story. The people

51:05

below just pieces on

51:07

the board or characters

51:10

in their book. They

51:12

do not understand that

51:14

it is both. A

51:16

story of eager explorers

51:18

and scintillating silence. A

51:20

game of experienced inventors and

51:23

erstwhile wizards. A journey of

51:25

the innocent, the guilty, and

51:27

the redeemed. And when story

51:30

and game meet, a piece

51:32

may suddenly become a player.

51:35

A character transformed into

51:37

author. And if they are

51:39

lucky, a scripted ending turned

51:41

to new beginning. And

51:47

I want to get here embodied, right?

51:49

One of the big, one of the

51:52

big things on cartograph is like, hey,

51:54

try to stay in your character.

51:56

So here is what I want to ask

51:58

of Glessy Sydney and. Yuki, you

52:00

have stepped on some sort of

52:03

local custom. I don't know if

52:05

that's gotten you arrested, I don't

52:07

know if that's gotten you, like

52:09

you have to sneak around, I

52:11

don't know what your current situation

52:14

is. But here, in and among

52:16

the empire of the night and

52:19

day, or wherever this is going

52:21

to be, this vast headquarters of

52:23

this, this aeronautical armada, you learn

52:26

something about the world. You

52:28

learn that the world is

52:30

only hundreds of years away

52:32

from being destroyed.

52:34

Something that it seems

52:37

the people here have known

52:39

for quite some time. And

52:41

maybe this is one of those

52:43

great moments where we all learn

52:45

it at once or maybe we

52:47

all get bits of it. You

52:49

know, we get the shot of

52:51

Harlow walking through the museums of

52:53

the Grand Academy of the Claps

52:55

and slowly putting things together. Like,

52:57

no, why would there be a...

52:59

you know, dot, dot, dot, dot,

53:02

you know, as the airships get

53:04

closer to potentially destroy the city.

53:06

We get, you know, our brother,

53:08

Tomor, trying to piece together what's

53:10

up with the Kaurath Plateau and

53:12

this stuff. Where are you and

53:14

how do you learn from this

53:16

empire that the world is only

53:18

a few hundred years away from

53:21

being destroyed? I was going to

53:23

say for the idea for how we

53:25

find out. I don't think we're in

53:27

prison or anything. I think it's just,

53:30

I think it was like, maybe

53:32

we got like, I mean we

53:34

lost reputation, right? Like it's, I think

53:36

it was probably a slap

53:38

on the wrist, like it probably

53:41

happens, but it's a thing

53:43

of like, you get dirty looks

53:45

from all the guards and stuff,

53:47

like people just, it's not, it's

53:49

not good. Maybe it's like a

53:51

light fine or whatever. the world ends

53:53

eventually why not enjoy dessert like i

53:55

don't know some some shit that's just

53:58

that's just like it is so casual

54:00

and knowledge like a known thing

54:02

here where it's like people kind

54:04

of bandied around to like sell

54:06

things like or to be like

54:09

well why worry the world's gonna

54:11

end like there's like a price

54:13

that's how many years away yeah

54:15

you know yeah and you might

54:17

be thinking well wouldn't they want

54:20

to collaborate with the the Grand

54:22

Academy of the collapse? But I

54:24

mean if the Grand Academy that

54:26

collapse is able to unite the

54:28

world in some sort of, you

54:30

know, they want to be the

54:33

top, the people at the top

54:35

of the pyramid when everything starts

54:37

tumbling down. Yeah, I'm curious if

54:39

that's what it is. Let me

54:41

just slow down and pump the

54:44

brakes for a second to really

54:46

sell this. Like, this is the

54:48

pitch in some way of perpetual.

54:50

This is a world where this

54:52

whole continent has known for some

54:54

time now that the world would

54:57

end. That is natural. That is

54:59

what happens. That the world ends

55:01

and then one day remakes itself

55:03

in some new form. Drey, for

55:05

instance, do you want to say

55:08

more about the turtle people? Yeah,

55:10

the turtle people know that the

55:12

world is ending. And so their

55:14

big plan is to go out

55:16

in the world to learn as

55:18

much as possible. And then at

55:21

some point return home, become completely

55:23

insular. and basically find out a

55:25

way to make sure some form

55:27

of their society survives. into whatever

55:29

comes next. And who knows if

55:32

that works or not, but that's

55:34

a belief that they have, that's

55:36

a faith that they have, that

55:38

they believe that they can do.

55:40

And we wanted there to be

55:42

a part of the world that

55:45

was only just learning about this.

55:47

And I don't even know if

55:49

when we get to Fabula, if

55:51

that'll be this set of people,

55:53

or if there will then be

55:56

another, or maybe there's a Western

55:58

continent, or a little, you know,

56:00

a little island that hasn't hasn't

56:02

found out about this yet, that

56:04

some of you end up being

56:07

from being from being from, we'll

56:09

be from, we'll see. We'll see.

56:11

We are in. Perpetua, a world

56:13

that remakes itself, a world that

56:15

has clearly some sort of metaphysical

56:17

truth, it has dragons, it has

56:20

gods, it has magic, it has

56:22

some stuff that sticks around, and

56:24

sometimes the world gets remade radically

56:26

differently, like when there used to

56:28

be Dragon Ball Z world, with

56:31

robots that turned into crabs, for

56:33

instance. That's a different world that

56:35

existed once, and you caught a

56:37

strange sickly echo of it. And

56:39

perhaps yet, there will be others.

56:41

And we will see that as

56:44

we continue through this season. But

56:46

for now, we have to keep

56:48

drawing this map. And you have

56:50

to decide, do you want to

56:52

destroy a place or lose a

56:55

landmark dye? And it sounded like

56:57

destroy a place. I think. Personally,

56:59

the one that makes the most

57:01

sense, if it qualifies, is the

57:03

Dragon Watching Tower, to be honest,

57:05

if they're an airship-based war society.

57:08

Oh, yeah. I feel like they

57:10

would not be interested in that

57:12

existing anymore. Was that a settlement?

57:14

It has a settlement icon, like,

57:16

tiny in it. But it's a

57:19

landmark, is what it is, I

57:21

think. Oh, but you're right. It

57:23

does have the, the, it does

57:25

have, why does it have that,

57:27

for illustrative purposes or not? No,

57:29

I think it was I think

57:32

that was a settlement because I

57:34

think it was a I Forget

57:36

what it's roll up and said

57:38

die roll. Yeah, you totally could

57:40

I think it said like there's

57:43

a tower here, you know Yeah,

57:45

a grand tower overlooking the surround

57:47

who built this place is what

57:49

I think it was red 10

57:51

this would have been 18 18

57:53

18 The chat goes up high

57:56

enough. Wouldn't that table tell you

57:58

what kind of role it was?

58:00

Wouldn't it have to be in

58:02

the settlement table if that's what

58:04

it was? I am, yes, that

58:07

is exactly what it is. 1818-2-2

58:09

is encampment. Yep. So yeah, Janine,

58:11

I like that. That's interesting. They're

58:13

going after the Dragon Watchers. Yeah.

58:15

Yeah. Jack, what was the Dragon

58:18

thing that we did last... Remember,

58:20

we both... You said one thing

58:22

that I heard a different thing.

58:24

What was it? It was Dragon

58:26

Squires versus Dragon Squires. Yes. You

58:28

said Squire like... Like a look

58:31

for dragons right or our dragon

58:33

used you know oracles they use

58:35

dragon power to do foresight and

58:37

I heard squires like you know

58:39

would be nights nights and training

58:42

and I think it should be

58:44

both of them the squires of

58:46

the right claw and the squires

58:48

of the right claw and there's

58:50

like a divide like you become

58:52

a dragon knight or a dragon

58:55

mage you know Did we get

58:57

a visual of them attacking the

58:59

dragon watching tower? I think it's

59:01

this house moving castle image of

59:03

the armada on the on the

59:05

horizon Where it's you know the

59:07

the I don't know whether or

59:09

not it's the doves or the

59:11

bats attacking at this point But

59:13

they're like some of them are

59:15

flying the machine some of them

59:17

are like wheeling around the outside

59:19

of them armed with big long

59:21

spears and then yes, it's just

59:23

you know, it's like a I

59:26

think at the beginning of Boy

59:28

in the Heron or of How's

59:31

Moving Castle of these, you know,

59:33

bright red fireballs. Yeah. The thing

59:35

I'm thinking about here too is

59:37

like, I've lost the image. But

59:40

yeah, that makes perfect sense to

59:42

me. That totally work. Oh, the

59:44

thing I was going to say

59:46

is I also imagine it's not

59:49

just the bat and the dove

59:51

people that they have other recruits

59:53

who have like Like harness like

59:55

wings with harness You know what

59:58

I mean? Like they have like

1:00:00

deployable glider wings for humans who've

1:00:02

joined them and big, you know,

1:00:04

turtle people who have big balloons,

1:00:06

like attached to them to slowly

1:00:09

descend to the ground, almost like

1:00:11

parachutes, you know? Yeah, I'm sharing

1:00:13

the images of the war parties

1:00:15

in Max, in Fury Road, of

1:00:18

like these distant hazy shots of

1:00:20

the armies approaching, but it's that...

1:00:22

But instead of the like apocalyptic

1:00:24

ruinous imagery, it's the sort of

1:00:27

like leather and like parachute rip

1:00:29

cord and balloons of the city

1:00:31

of day and night or whatever

1:00:33

it's called, the city of light

1:00:36

and dark, no, didn't we do

1:00:38

that for something? I don't know.

1:00:40

We probably did never something, right?

1:00:42

What do we, we've figured out

1:00:45

of things for a lot of

1:00:47

things, haven't we? Oh yeah. I

1:00:49

would love a name for this.

1:00:51

Dusken Dawn. That's not bad. Or

1:00:54

we need to get like a

1:00:56

one word that then is the,

1:00:58

you know. Oh, like a, like

1:01:00

a yes. Yeah, is it, it's,

1:01:03

it's something fun with an antonym.

1:01:05

But we'll figure it out. Yeah.

1:01:07

Oh, wow. Who drew the explosion

1:01:09

on the dragon watching tower? As

1:01:11

we speak. Oh, nice. Drawing and

1:01:14

smoke, fire. Sorry the dragon watching

1:01:16

tower. You know I know that

1:01:18

you you were dreaming them up

1:01:20

Allies there are other dragons gone

1:01:23

and I lost a alley That

1:01:25

can't be their only tower No,

1:01:27

I don't think that they're I

1:01:29

don't think it's their only tower.

1:01:32

I was just I was just

1:01:34

saying you know We got to

1:01:36

make sure we get more of

1:01:38

them on this map Yeah, because

1:01:41

they're definitely not gone This was

1:01:43

of course like we said the

1:01:45

like a watch town the right

1:01:47

claw so that means that there

1:01:50

has to be a left claw

1:01:52

at least somewhere Yeah. In the

1:01:54

last recording, uh, with a huge

1:01:56

amount of fondness in her voice,

1:01:59

Ali said, we gotta get some

1:02:01

worms in this show. So I

1:02:03

have to imagine we got dragons

1:02:05

out here with like 25 claws,

1:02:07

you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hell

1:02:10

yeah. Is that the end of

1:02:12

your turn? I guess you have

1:02:14

to name this place. You've done

1:02:16

a great job drawing it. This

1:02:19

is a nightmare place. Yeah. Are

1:02:21

the Gold Knights part of this

1:02:23

that you first saw? Is that

1:02:25

like, because you're talking about the

1:02:28

headquarters of the armada, are they

1:02:30

out here like, and then we

1:02:32

get our fish from the Immaculate

1:02:34

Water Tower and we bring them

1:02:37

back, you know what I mean?

1:02:39

I want to say no, I

1:02:41

want to like really strongly say

1:02:43

no. Maybe some number of years

1:02:46

ago, a group of people who

1:02:48

eventually became Gulnites split off. And

1:02:50

because there's like a civil war,

1:02:52

something between the Gulnites, and then

1:02:55

they like left and then became

1:02:57

the, you know, like, there's maybe

1:02:59

some shared lineage there, but like,

1:03:01

the Gulnites are not accelerationists or

1:03:04

whatever. Right two bird empires easily

1:03:06

maybe the gold knights aren't an

1:03:08

empire. They're just a kingdom. They're

1:03:10

just a didn't we say that

1:03:12

they were mercenaries Maybe or is

1:03:15

that another? No, we didn't say

1:03:17

that mercenaries, but they are um

1:03:19

Yeah, I think they're their own

1:03:21

thing. I also posted in the

1:03:24

chat a big reference that I

1:03:26

have for this, which is the

1:03:28

perennial friends at the table favorite,

1:03:30

Alex Prius, Dark City. Yeah, sure.

1:03:33

And then also Jean-Pierre-Gernet's City of

1:03:35

Lost Children. And I'm also thinking

1:03:37

of like Terry Gilliam's Brazil as

1:03:39

these sort of like big, cramped,

1:03:42

odd, sort of futuristic cities. But

1:03:44

every building just. covered in flight

1:03:46

vessels ready to go real externalization

1:03:48

of the interior logic of the

1:03:51

culture type type vibe by extension

1:03:53

must also be talking about 1993

1:03:55

Super Mario Brothers movie of course

1:03:57

of course of course of course

1:04:00

of course of course of course

1:04:02

of course of course We should

1:04:04

zero in on this. What is

1:04:06

their goal? Is their goal conquer

1:04:09

the world because only then can

1:04:11

we prepare for what is coming?

1:04:13

Is it conquer the world because

1:04:15

then we can enjoy the next

1:04:17

few hundred years best? I have

1:04:20

a pitch here. They think that

1:04:22

something will happen if they control

1:04:24

it all. If they complete the

1:04:26

map, right? if they complete the

1:04:29

map there is um like a

1:04:31

bell in that town school no

1:04:33

there's like a God, there's something

1:04:35

that they can't open, or like

1:04:38

a box that can't be opened

1:04:40

or a door that they've never

1:04:42

been able to open. And you

1:04:44

know, the sleeping and waking people

1:04:47

shift over and they, you know,

1:04:49

first they can't, they have no

1:04:51

overlap and then they have this

1:04:53

30 minutes. And the first thing

1:04:56

they ask, the first thing they

1:04:58

communicate in that notes is, have

1:05:00

you opened it? Do you know,

1:05:02

how to open? Imperial culture, war

1:05:05

culture develops that they're like, well,

1:05:07

we need to have it all,

1:05:09

and we need to have it

1:05:11

all before the clock runs down,

1:05:14

and when we have it all,

1:05:16

the door opens. And the thing

1:05:18

that I think they think it

1:05:20

is, is we can prevent the

1:05:22

end of the world. This is

1:05:25

very funny, because I was thinking

1:05:27

of names, and I was sort

1:05:29

of thinking of like, what's fun

1:05:31

ways to say like, high or

1:05:34

flying or tall, and I kept

1:05:36

coming back to vault. Like vaulted.

1:05:38

And then as I'm thinking about

1:05:40

that, you said, and there's a

1:05:43

door they can't open. It's like,

1:05:45

wow, okay. I think it's spelled

1:05:47

JRPG style, V-A-L-T. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1:05:49

yeah. Yeah. Yeah, vault is really,

1:05:52

really good. It's also great because

1:05:54

it's like a little like, yeah,

1:05:56

uh-huh. And to Sylvie's point about

1:05:58

Salix, the city of... the bow

1:06:01

or whatever, this is like vault

1:06:03

the city of day and night

1:06:05

or so vault the city of

1:06:07

the bats and the doves or

1:06:10

something, you know, yeah, they're like

1:06:12

double thing is is what about

1:06:14

flesh and feather well damn damn

1:06:16

fleshy wings and feather but yucky

1:06:18

you don't like it it's a

1:06:21

little yucky no I'm it's a

1:06:23

little yucky no I'm it's not

1:06:25

only yucky it's don't birds have

1:06:27

flesh birds do you have it's

1:06:30

a new art was gonna be

1:06:32

upset because birds have flesh yeah

1:06:34

they do And feathers are, you

1:06:36

know, I think it's, I think

1:06:39

it's, you know, it's metaphorical. It's

1:06:41

the part that you see. If

1:06:43

you cut them, do they not

1:06:45

bleed? Yeah, they bleed from their

1:06:48

feathers, duh. What we've also made

1:06:50

here is Garlemald. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh.

1:06:52

I mean, yeah, I mean, that's,

1:06:54

uh, yeah, I mean, what are

1:06:57

we? Yeah. Yes, and also biting.

1:06:59

Rome and Victorian London. Yes. Yes.

1:07:01

The big bite. It's a big

1:07:03

bite. Yeah. Yeah. You got a

1:07:06

big apple. Imperial China, etc. etc.

1:07:08

etc. Yes. All right. I'm going

1:07:10

to have to fill in these

1:07:12

notes better next time. Also, people

1:07:15

from, hang on, people from there

1:07:17

can be called vaultes. Oh, vaulties.

1:07:19

The vaultes empire. It feels good,

1:07:21

right? It feels good, right? It

1:07:23

feels good. Yeah. Maybe it's an

1:07:26

empire, maybe it's something else. Yeah,

1:07:28

what if one of the people

1:07:30

lived there was like a Falcon.

1:07:32

Yeah. Yeah. All right. That's your

1:07:35

turn. Not that big of a

1:07:37

turn. It's kind of basic, low

1:07:39

level, simple turn. Yeah. Yeah. All

1:07:41

right. Pretty straightforward. Keith. Yes. It's

1:07:44

Harlow time. We didn't get blown

1:07:46

up. They decided we didn't get

1:07:48

blown up. Did we discover what

1:07:50

they discovered walking around the Grand

1:07:53

Academy of the collapse? Yeah, totally.

1:07:55

You think that makes sense? Yeah,

1:07:57

I think we find it out.

1:07:59

right away. It's all they're talking

1:08:02

about up there. What do you

1:08:04

think the moment is when we

1:08:06

went from, weird, weird to study

1:08:08

the end of the world so

1:08:11

much, but okay, sure, why not?

1:08:13

To, they're talking about a particular

1:08:15

thing that they believe is going

1:08:17

to happen in 500 years. I

1:08:20

think we meet three people and

1:08:22

we say it three times and

1:08:24

the first two are like, ha,

1:08:26

yeah, like it's a joke, like

1:08:28

yeah, weird, right, ha. And then

1:08:31

the third person is like, what

1:08:33

are you talking, we just meet

1:08:35

someone who's too literal, but actually

1:08:37

it's appropriately literal. And so we

1:08:40

say it, we're like, yeah, it's

1:08:42

weird that you guys are doing

1:08:44

this. And they're like, what are

1:08:46

you talking about? This is like

1:08:49

the main thing. Yeah. Yeah, and

1:08:51

it's at around that point that

1:08:53

you noticed that the what you

1:08:55

had thought was a single-handed clock

1:08:58

on the top of the tower

1:09:00

right the hand is actually moving

1:09:02

very very very slowly yeah like

1:09:04

wow it's been six to the

1:09:07

top of the hour for like

1:09:09

weeks oh oh oh no no

1:09:11

didn't you see that says doomsday

1:09:13

I thought it said, do Oms

1:09:16

Day. Do all your Oms, come

1:09:18

on. That was the day of

1:09:20

the week. Do Oms Day. It's

1:09:22

the day you do all your

1:09:25

Oms. You meditate. You gotta go

1:09:27

Oms Day. It's the Oms Day.

1:09:29

Yeah. Some guy vaping who's like,

1:09:31

fuck. Put out my incense. Yes.

1:09:33

Um, all right, we should roll

1:09:36

some dice. Do you want to

1:09:38

roll the landmark die this time?

1:09:40

Sure. Yeah, we only have the

1:09:42

one, right? Yeah. That's 1615.3. Three

1:09:45

is a town. We cannot get

1:09:47

a fucking discovery to save our

1:09:49

lives, huh? I know. What is

1:09:51

it going on? 1615? Yeah. So

1:09:54

it's just north of this lake.

1:09:56

And this was a town. Town

1:09:58

north of the lake. Lake Town.

1:10:00

Broo. Love a little Lake Town.

1:10:03

And now we need to roll

1:10:05

six bion die. All right, you

1:10:07

want me to be a biome

1:10:09

and you could be on icons.

1:10:12

Just do it the way we

1:10:14

did it last time. Yeah. Okay,

1:10:16

that is 420. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:10:18

And what is it? That is

1:10:21

a open land. Open land. All

1:10:23

right. Oh, we need to add

1:10:25

a coastline. To our, to our,

1:10:27

to our lake, to our lake,

1:10:30

town. Really quick. Before I forget.

1:10:32

Okay, let's do this, there we

1:10:34

go. All right, great. What's your

1:10:36

next one? Uh, 15-8, and then

1:10:38

that's a, same as closest biome.

1:10:41

15, 8, is gonna be a

1:10:43

mountain probably, right? Yeah. You didn't

1:10:45

mountain or plateau, it seems like.

1:10:47

Yeah, let's make it a plateau.

1:10:50

Well, maybe this whole little area

1:10:52

is like plateaued in the middle.

1:10:54

We'll see. Yeah. Next up. Next

1:10:56

up we've got 153 that is

1:10:59

also same as closest. 153 is...

1:11:01

Plateau? Or mountain? One, two, three,

1:11:03

open land. It's not. It's not

1:11:05

a plateau. This is a this

1:11:08

is plains. It's yeah. This one

1:11:10

thing is plateau, right? Yeah, yeah,

1:11:12

yeah. But we are kind of

1:11:14

treating it in between the mountains

1:11:17

as being like hills and plateos,

1:11:19

you know. Yeah. And then we've

1:11:21

got 126, every corner, huh? And

1:11:23

then that's a lake. What is

1:11:26

it? One six? One 26. Oh

1:11:28

damn, one 26? Yeah, one 26.

1:11:30

Yeah, corner, corner lake. Corner, lake.

1:11:32

Corner lake. Corner lake, boom. How

1:11:34

many more do we have? Two

1:11:37

more, yeah, three, 17. And that

1:11:39

is same as closest by him.

1:11:41

Three, 17. Hey, that's another lake.

1:11:43

All right, great. Or a big

1:11:46

lake. You could be a giant

1:11:48

lake here, which is fun too.

1:11:50

Let's do that. And then we've

1:11:52

got 1726 Mountain. Oh, well that

1:11:55

26 is in the fucking ocean,

1:11:57

huh? Is outside of a... Do

1:11:59

we want to... Do we want

1:12:01

to... Do we want to re-roll

1:12:04

that? Or do we want to...

1:12:06

Or do we want to re-roll

1:12:08

that? Or do we want to

1:12:10

re-roll that? I just think it's

1:12:13

a weird place because of where

1:12:15

it is. Do you see what

1:12:17

I mean? Oh, yeah. 1725 is

1:12:19

a town and then is the

1:12:22

coastline and then 1726 is the

1:12:24

next block and is a mountain

1:12:26

and that's fine it could be

1:12:28

a mountain coming out of the

1:12:31

ocean right across from this town

1:12:33

that's fine we can do that

1:12:35

but it's not like it's like

1:12:37

a distance away you're like right

1:12:39

the ocean mountain you know yeah

1:12:42

you already have an ocean mountain

1:12:44

over on 2326 over here yeah

1:12:46

exactly potentially there are also like

1:12:48

you know, when a... there's like

1:12:51

a ledge on the water or

1:12:53

like a coral reef that's like

1:12:55

really high in shipwrecks happen on

1:12:57

it. Totally. Like there can be

1:13:00

raised around in water that has

1:13:02

effects on stuff. I am totally

1:13:04

fine with it. I am happy

1:13:06

to run with it. We can

1:13:09

make it a forest. Is it

1:13:11

make it more fun to make

1:13:13

it a forest? I am fine

1:13:15

with it being here at all.

1:13:18

I just want to, the thing

1:13:20

that I want to gesture at

1:13:22

is that the book rules are

1:13:24

constantly like, hey. Just move it

1:13:27

to the other. Just move it

1:13:29

where it makes sense. Or, yeah.

1:13:31

Mostly because I don't think anyone

1:13:33

are going to go look at

1:13:36

what this one mountain is. And

1:13:38

yes, in between now and then

1:13:40

getting the fabulous. And then getting

1:13:42

the fabulous. And then getting the

1:13:44

fabulous. I could. Decide that it's

1:13:47

a cool reef thing across from

1:13:49

this town. You're totally right. I

1:13:51

don't know, maybe we're going to

1:13:53

go look at this town. The

1:13:56

town is going to say, the

1:13:58

town prompt would be like, you

1:14:00

can see something magnificent from here.

1:14:02

Change and nearby thing, and it'll

1:14:05

make perfect sense. I'm fine with

1:14:07

leaving it. But I wanted to

1:14:09

give you the opportunity, Keith, to

1:14:11

nudge, since the book leans towards

1:14:14

and says, hey, remember you can.

1:14:16

nudge. You know I think it's

1:14:18

just it's just interesting enough to

1:14:20

leave and if nothing happens and

1:14:23

it's what's the loss. That's fair.

1:14:25

We've gotten a lot of bion

1:14:27

dye so one two three four

1:14:29

five and that is our last

1:14:32

bion die finally finally. All right

1:14:34

let us now choose where we're

1:14:36

going. What's our what's our food

1:14:38

such? We have one we have

1:14:41

two food we have two food

1:14:43

we have two food we have

1:14:45

two food two food. So play

1:14:47

conservatively we would save that and

1:14:49

then if we but really we

1:14:52

could go anywhere If we if

1:14:54

we go to the closest place

1:14:56

Which is I guess it's this

1:14:58

Open land here next to the

1:15:01

river just the south. Yeah, it's

1:15:03

not a oh that's sorry. That's

1:15:05

just a blue line. That's our

1:15:07

we got a line. That's our

1:15:10

we got a line. That's our

1:15:12

we got a line. That's our

1:15:14

line. That's the dragonway That's the

1:15:16

that's the magic land or the

1:15:19

the landscape the painting yeah pathway.

1:15:21

Yeah. So he'd go to that

1:15:23

those planes or spend it. I'd

1:15:25

just go to the planes. Yeah

1:15:28

what's the difference? We've learned something

1:15:30

terrible and we've decided to simply

1:15:32

wander into the wilderness. Yep. Let's

1:15:34

just take a walk. The world's

1:15:37

ending. What are we supposed to

1:15:39

do? This is what we're going

1:15:41

to go back and tell the

1:15:43

council with the world's ending? The

1:15:45

world's ending. Hey, you... Give me

1:15:48

ten years. You were right. It

1:15:50

was important that we learned this.

1:15:52

I guess... They're going to hate

1:15:54

me. They're going to fire us.

1:15:57

What is the draw card? You

1:15:59

know, draw card. I can draw

1:16:01

a card. Let's see. It's a

1:16:03

nine. A red nine. A red

1:16:06

nine. Which is a stampede of

1:16:08

creatures storm over a savanna. What

1:16:10

are the creatures running? Wait, wait,

1:16:12

first we have to do the

1:16:15

journey, but good to know about

1:16:17

the creatures. First, your travel is

1:16:19

blessed by a rare event. What

1:16:21

did you witness? You all won?

1:16:24

Wow, we just had that I

1:16:26

think. We did just have that.

1:16:28

We did not get a wound

1:16:30

in the interim, so we still

1:16:33

don't heal again. But maybe we

1:16:35

get the... We're going to edit

1:16:37

more hair on him. Yeah, the

1:16:39

hair keeps growing. God. What did

1:16:42

we witness? Is it something good

1:16:44

or something bad? Are we... Is

1:16:46

it... Are we seen? We heal

1:16:48

from it, I guess. I mean,

1:16:50

but you could heal from something,

1:16:53

seeing something bad. You're right, you

1:16:55

could be like spurred into reading

1:16:57

to. Right, yeah, right. Yeah. I'm

1:16:59

just thinking we learned this awful

1:17:02

thing, it's not good, we're a

1:17:04

worryer, are we being propelled by

1:17:06

adrenaline because we've seen something even

1:17:08

that compounds it? Right, I say.

1:17:11

Or are we being a leaved?

1:17:13

Right. Maybe we almost did bomb

1:17:15

us and they decided not to.

1:17:17

And we saw them approach and

1:17:20

then turn away. Hey, that'll definitely

1:17:22

heal you. Maybe we saw... Maybe

1:17:24

we saw something like the Immaculate

1:17:26

Water Tower, of which we only

1:17:29

have one thing on the map.

1:17:31

Like, begin to be brought into

1:17:33

existence. Maybe we saw... I'm making

1:17:35

my own notes from... for future

1:17:38

stuff. Anybody who have thoughts on

1:17:40

a thing that you see... that

1:17:42

propels you such. Nope, your travel

1:17:44

was blessed by a rare event.

1:17:47

What did you witness? Heel one

1:17:49

rooned. And our travel literally is

1:17:51

from out the front gates of

1:17:53

the place we were at 21-1

1:17:55

to the planes just outside at

1:17:58

21-2. It's a pretty short walk.

1:18:00

I have kind of an idea.

1:18:02

Sure. This was a thing that

1:18:04

I added to the scratch dock

1:18:07

in like a... like de-gameifying things

1:18:09

to have them be a big

1:18:11

game and like game-ifying character experiences

1:18:13

but like I wanted the like

1:18:16

tutorial beast or like mini game

1:18:18

guy to be a thing that

1:18:20

existed in the world. Like you

1:18:22

know how like in Zelda or

1:18:25

something you have those little guys

1:18:27

who like are like help me

1:18:29

cross this bridge on give you

1:18:31

a coin or whatever. I was

1:18:34

thinking of like a like a

1:18:36

species of like little beast animal

1:18:38

squirrel adjacent thing that like would

1:18:40

either like you know, give you

1:18:43

a stat boost or lead you

1:18:45

to a treasure chest or do

1:18:47

a thing like that. We get

1:18:49

a little, right, I see. These

1:18:52

little guys who would like, if

1:18:54

you follow them, they lead you

1:18:56

to a thing. They lead you

1:18:58

to a little, we did, we

1:19:00

did a corrupt puzzle is what

1:19:03

you're saying. Right. We find a

1:19:05

simple environmental puzzle that has no

1:19:07

material reward. None. None. We led

1:19:09

us to a healing spring. Well,

1:19:12

I'm healed already. I'm not hurt.

1:19:14

Oh, sure. But it reminds us

1:19:16

of why we got into the

1:19:18

game to begin with. Why we

1:19:21

are scientists, open parentheses, magic, closed

1:19:23

parentheses. Weird stuff. We like weird

1:19:25

stuff. Now, number one we like

1:19:27

is safety. Right. Which is why

1:19:30

we're so fucked up about the

1:19:32

end of the world. Right. Because

1:19:34

that's the least safe thing I

1:19:36

can even imagine. Everyone else around

1:19:39

us is like, well, yeah, the

1:19:41

world is going to end one

1:19:43

day. And that's like saying, like,

1:19:45

safety doesn't matter at all. Right.

1:19:48

But here we are, where we've

1:19:50

found our little energy sprite that

1:19:52

we followed towards the healing spring,

1:19:54

and you know, maybe that's okay.

1:19:56

You get to fill it out

1:19:59

on your map. Actually, we go

1:20:01

to fill it out our map.

1:20:03

What's the actual thing that happens

1:20:05

here? Uh, there's a stampede of

1:20:08

creatures that storm over the savanna.

1:20:10

What are the creatures running from?

1:20:12

Oh my god. Isn't it... Wow,

1:20:14

wait. So they're running from something

1:20:17

bigger. Or they're running from something.

1:20:19

What are they... What are they

1:20:21

running from? So it could be

1:20:23

anything as long as they're running

1:20:26

from it. That's crazy. That's crazy.

1:20:28

That's crazy. Passer by just said.

1:20:30

That's crazy. No, no, no. It

1:20:32

was a yawn. That's crazy. That's

1:20:35

crazy. I really see this from

1:20:37

the top of the valley. Like,

1:20:39

damn. That's wilder. I don't know

1:20:41

what that is. Okay, Gabby. The

1:20:44

seasons are changing and they're running

1:20:46

from the cold weather, but it

1:20:48

also could be a different dragon.

1:20:50

Well, no, I guess dragons are

1:20:53

probably not just out and about,

1:20:55

but it could be some other,

1:20:57

it could be some lesser dragon,

1:20:59

no one cares about. It could

1:21:01

be some sort of, yeah, cursed

1:21:04

being, cursed monster. It could be

1:21:06

some sort of, it could be,

1:21:08

do we talked about the worms?

1:21:10

Allie, we just talked about it.

1:21:13

Allie, it was like we wanted

1:21:15

more worms. We got to get

1:21:17

more worms as in dragons, as

1:21:19

in W. Yeah, W. Y. W.

1:21:22

W. Right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah,

1:21:24

that's how I meant it too.

1:21:26

Yeah, but it could be the

1:21:28

other, we could get a big

1:21:31

worm anyway, you know, we get

1:21:33

a tremor over here. What if

1:21:35

there's a bunch of them? and

1:21:37

they're little ones and you could

1:21:40

follow any individual one but then

1:21:42

there's also like a like playing

1:21:44

like fish or like not fish

1:21:46

what's it called where like the

1:21:49

you know like agaria agario you

1:21:51

know the like sort of game

1:21:53

of you're a little one like

1:21:55

the first stage of spore where

1:21:58

you're like a bigger one and

1:22:00

what if they like get too

1:22:02

close together they can get they

1:22:04

can like get eaten and get

1:22:06

you know brought into a bigger

1:22:09

like monster version of the nasty

1:22:11

creature. Yeah, yeah, you know, I

1:22:13

am very much thinking I think

1:22:15

a little bit like the car

1:22:18

buckles in 14. Yeah. But like

1:22:20

even more glowy, even more, even

1:22:22

less physical, you know. Yeah, I

1:22:24

had like a sort of medical

1:22:27

end of the world idea for

1:22:29

their glowness, but I'm happy setting

1:22:31

that aside for them to. No,

1:22:33

I want to hear it. Tell

1:22:36

me. Well, I was thinking that

1:22:38

they were like one use. That

1:22:40

like, they give their hint to

1:22:42

one person and then they sort

1:22:45

of dim because. their purpose resets

1:22:47

with each reset of the whole

1:22:49

world right so I was thinking

1:22:51

of like how like it would

1:22:54

be interesting guy brought us to

1:22:56

this to the healing thing and

1:22:58

lost and then he died well

1:23:00

no he just lost his glow

1:23:03

yeah um is he dead No,

1:23:05

no, no, no, no. Okay. No,

1:23:07

I think they're still having a

1:23:09

round. Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, the,

1:23:11

like, the party experience of, like,

1:23:14

going to a place and suddenly

1:23:16

seeing a bunch of them that

1:23:18

are glowing when you only know

1:23:20

this creature is like a squirrel,

1:23:23

you know? Yeah. But so my

1:23:25

thing here is, like, what if

1:23:27

something either eats these little tutorial

1:23:29

creatures or they can be combined

1:23:32

up into one big... giant light

1:23:34

orb creature, you know? Yeah. Again,

1:23:36

like, you know what I mean,

1:23:38

right? I have a video gamey

1:23:41

thing that I think combines all

1:23:43

of these bits. Yeah. Which is

1:23:45

that once they get used up

1:23:47

as a tutorial, they have to

1:23:50

like respond. And then once they're

1:23:52

all grouped together, they go in

1:23:54

a stampede and reset and they

1:23:56

just run across the map losing

1:23:59

one of the time as they

1:24:01

go back to. their starting place

1:24:03

once there's enough of them, but

1:24:05

what happens is that there are

1:24:08

like predators along the path that

1:24:10

know like they have a predator

1:24:12

that follows the migration pattern. So

1:24:14

once there's a thousand of them

1:24:16

collected in their respawn cave, they

1:24:19

start their sort of lemming journey

1:24:21

across the map, you know. Blipping

1:24:23

away one at a time back

1:24:25

to where they're supposed to go.

1:24:28

Are they being, is it, sorry,

1:24:30

is the eaten part of this

1:24:32

on purpose for them? Not on

1:24:34

purpose for them, on purpose for

1:24:37

their predators. Okay, so the blipping

1:24:39

back is not, it's not, oh,

1:24:41

once we get killed, we can

1:24:43

blit back to our tutorial starting

1:24:46

point. It's just on our way

1:24:48

back to recharge to do tutorial

1:24:50

stuff again. I like that though

1:24:52

it does take away from Ali's

1:24:55

thing of they each give their

1:24:57

they can each do the tutorial

1:24:59

thing once per cycle. Oh yeah

1:25:01

instead of once per cycle it's

1:25:04

once per... Other smaller amount of

1:25:06

time, but I'm fine with not

1:25:08

doing it to maintain the cycle.

1:25:10

I love it. How long is

1:25:12

the cycle? Very, very long, but

1:25:15

not that long, you know. We

1:25:17

saw this guy, he's just sitting

1:25:19

outside the Grand Academy takes to

1:25:21

a healing spring. How is he

1:25:24

still there? We got lots of

1:25:26

them. There's a lot of them

1:25:28

at first. Yeah. Damn. Way more,

1:25:30

but they're not, birds aren't single

1:25:33

use. I mean, it doesn't die,

1:25:35

it just can't do this thing

1:25:37

anymore. Sure. I mean, I think

1:25:39

that's still true about birds. How

1:25:42

many puzzles are you doing out

1:25:44

in the wilderness per day? Maybe

1:25:46

if you were doing puzzles, you'd

1:25:48

be seeing less shiny birds. Yeah.

1:25:51

I do like the idea of

1:25:53

them being chased by... I do

1:25:55

like the idea of the ones

1:25:57

that don't have their sparks left

1:26:00

being chased by some sort of

1:26:02

big. Predator or a number of

1:26:04

predators. I like one okay, so

1:26:06

they lose their light and then

1:26:09

they migrate to Right this place.

1:26:11

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're running through

1:26:13

the savanna and they're being chased

1:26:15

by blank by a big There's

1:26:17

there's there's there's probably a table

1:26:20

for this isn't there a predator

1:26:22

generator? No, there is there's like

1:26:24

animal. I thought there was Well,

1:26:26

there's the hunting table. There is

1:26:29

a roll on the hunting table

1:26:31

Except it's for the thing hunting,

1:26:33

other stuff, not you hunting it.

1:26:35

Sure. I mean, we could just

1:26:38

pick. Interesting things here, right? We

1:26:40

could just pick. Right. From the

1:26:42

hunting table. The, for instance, we

1:26:44

could say it is a predatory,

1:26:47

horned. I kind of want enormous

1:26:49

winged horned, that coated and plated.

1:26:51

It sounds like we want a

1:26:53

worm. I guess you're describing worms.

1:26:56

Yeah. Yeah. So it's like a

1:26:58

non-flying dragon is what we're talking

1:27:00

about here. Yeah. Oh, you know,

1:27:02

four legs instead of two legs

1:27:05

in a wing, or in wings.

1:27:07

What? Is it an o- Yeah,

1:27:09

your worm or an o-worm? Bull.

1:27:11

Wild worm. What about, what about

1:27:14

like a whale worm? Like a

1:27:16

big whale mouth. You know what

1:27:18

I'm talking about? That's a Lochos

1:27:20

monster. No, no, no, no, not

1:27:22

as, not as neck, not as

1:27:25

necky. Oh, are you thinking of

1:27:27

like a big, her name's messy,

1:27:29

Austin. What's that deep sea fish

1:27:31

that has the big mouth in

1:27:34

his long? But no teeth, not

1:27:36

viper fish. Oh. The one with

1:27:38

the light? No. I mean, they'll

1:27:40

kind of... Oh, ew, not, no.

1:27:43

I'm not thinking of these. These

1:27:45

are gross. These are gross. Well,

1:27:47

you gotta be really gross to

1:27:49

go eating little guys. I'm basically

1:27:52

never thinking about a deep sea

1:27:54

fish, because they're scary to me.

1:27:56

That's fair. Understandable. You know, a

1:27:58

big whale mouth. They're going to

1:28:01

go, whoa. Yeah. And it's like

1:28:03

scoops. Yeah, because that's how they

1:28:05

get all the plankton and stuff.

1:28:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're thinking about

1:28:10

baleen. I think you are thinking

1:28:12

about baleen. That sounds right. Yeah,

1:28:14

I have to think about baleen.

1:28:16

I am thinking about baleen. Oh,

1:28:19

not so like, not just a

1:28:21

big mouth, but like, big mouth

1:28:23

with the brushy teeth that filter.

1:28:25

So this is a mouth that

1:28:27

like rolls along the floor of

1:28:30

the plane. So just like that

1:28:32

guy that I saw him in

1:28:34

my search and went yucky. He's

1:28:36

pretty awful, isn't he? He's not

1:28:39

the worst. There's worse. There's better.

1:28:41

Damn. What are the little guys

1:28:43

from Boy in the Heron called?

1:28:45

I'm such a boy in the

1:28:48

Heron little guys. What are they

1:28:50

called? They're called. The Wara-Wara. Is

1:28:52

this, are you sort of thinking

1:28:54

kind of warawara stuff for these

1:28:57

little guys, Ali? A little bit,

1:28:59

yeah, I was thinking another one

1:29:01

for me was the Nausicaka squirrel.

1:29:03

Yeah. Tido, tato. I think it's

1:29:06

tato, tato, tato, teto. Tetto, yeah,

1:29:08

yeah, yeah. Yeah, like a little

1:29:10

Evie type dude. Yeah, but like

1:29:12

glowy and almost to where like

1:29:15

you can't see the edges of

1:29:17

the... Diffuse. Well, I think we're

1:29:19

done. Our turn, because there's nothing

1:29:21

else to do. We saw it.

1:29:23

This prompt doesn't even do anything.

1:29:26

This prompt is just like we

1:29:28

saw this big landway. Do this?

1:29:30

The end. Just really important. Yeah.

1:29:32

But we got the land well,

1:29:35

right? Okay. Do you want to

1:29:37

make this temporary dice a landmark

1:29:39

or a biome? It'd be kind

1:29:41

of fun to roll two landmarks,

1:29:44

seeing as we got nothing last

1:29:46

time. Do you want to each

1:29:48

roll one? Okay, cool. You want

1:29:50

to go first or should I?

1:29:53

Okay, cool. That's a nothing. 18131

1:29:55

is a... Oh, come on. Wait,

1:29:57

what's the one? One is nothing.

1:29:59

You can be rolling. We're allowed.

1:30:02

Well, I'm sure about to roll

1:30:04

a second one, so. That's a

1:30:06

five. What's the five? A settlement.

1:30:08

A settlement. Oh, they're on the

1:30:11

same Y-axis, that's fun. Do we

1:30:13

think that this is enough to

1:30:15

connect this coastline? Well, there's the

1:30:17

one that's right here and the

1:30:20

one that's right here, right? I

1:30:22

think the settlement is here. What

1:30:24

was it? It was 2013. Yes.

1:30:26

Yes. That's what I'm thinking. Okay.

1:30:28

Should we connect those? I did

1:30:31

it. I see that. So I

1:30:33

think that we should. I don't

1:30:35

make it. Boom. There we go.

1:30:37

I think the settlement is here.

1:30:40

What was it? It was 2013?

1:30:42

2013. Yes. It is, it is,

1:30:44

wait, no. Yeah, X is across

1:30:46

yeah 2013 and then settlement is

1:30:49

yeah any of the sizes How

1:30:51

does settlement work because there aren't

1:30:53

they all hot settlements or settlement

1:30:55

a fourth one? Settlement serial theory

1:30:58

of 23? A settlement first any

1:31:00

kind of location that houses a

1:31:02

people it's either an encampment town

1:31:04

or city if you inspect the

1:31:07

market settlement you roll the settlement

1:31:09

result on a die Choose between

1:31:11

An encampment city or town so

1:31:13

it can be an encampment city

1:31:16

or town you get to choose

1:31:18

Oh All right just to refresh

1:31:20

myself. It's like here or my

1:31:22

it's over it's right here here

1:31:25

Okay, um I'm I'm well town

1:31:27

yeah, I'm feeling town or what

1:31:29

are you thinking? Yeah, okay I

1:31:31

think with where it is just

1:31:33

really in relation to other like

1:31:36

towns and cities it would make

1:31:38

sense for this to be just

1:31:40

a town right because the the

1:31:42

capstone is that what that's called

1:31:45

I need to zoom in yeah

1:31:47

is cap capstone's a city like

1:31:49

a city like a city but

1:31:51

it's not there anymore remember that's

1:31:54

not there anymore that's the echo

1:31:56

that was the echo of Dragon

1:31:58

Ball City okay is now there's

1:32:00

now been returned to its own

1:32:03

dimension a ghost over it capstone's

1:32:05

a fun name for that though

1:32:07

What city might work then, if

1:32:09

there's no city nor by here?

1:32:12

Yeah, the nearest city is the

1:32:14

vault city to the east across

1:32:16

the wall. theoretically across the water

1:32:18

though again this coastline is starting

1:32:21

to look a little weird but

1:32:23

this could be another different island

1:32:25

city yeah that's true let's go

1:32:27

city let's go city let me

1:32:30

grab a city and then let's

1:32:32

do a buy-up while you do

1:32:34

that right one-to-one yeah So there's

1:32:36

a 14, 2, and 1, which

1:32:38

means there is a forest right

1:32:41

over here by where y'all just

1:32:43

were. Uh, boo, okay. And then

1:32:45

2117 is right over by our

1:32:47

tower here. And what's a 6?

1:32:50

That's the nearest, same as closest

1:32:52

biome. I think it might be

1:32:54

this lake. You have to put

1:32:56

a coastline on the city. So,

1:32:59

one second. I'm going to start

1:33:01

making the coastlines extra large, so

1:33:03

that it's very clear where they

1:33:05

are. In that case, do you

1:33:08

feel like it should be on

1:33:10

this right side? So... Yeah, to

1:33:12

make this into more of an

1:33:14

island shape, or... So we can

1:33:17

keep the water... Well, you can

1:33:19

connect it to the one in

1:33:21

the south. How? Isn't this one

1:33:23

isn't this the end of a

1:33:26

coastline here down here? Yeah, it

1:33:28

is but but the stuff to

1:33:30

the left of it is is

1:33:32

the land Right so if we

1:33:34

connected this way that would put

1:33:37

this stuff in the ocean I

1:33:39

see Oh sure right what we

1:33:41

could do you know we could

1:33:43

come we could end up coming

1:33:46

down this way right for instance

1:33:48

right we could put this on

1:33:50

its own little island We could

1:33:52

put it underwater though. We could,

1:33:55

but we wouldn't, the thing that's

1:33:57

tough is we wouldn't know that

1:33:59

it's underwater until we draw the

1:34:01

coastline that makes it underwater. That's

1:34:04

kind of where we're running into

1:34:06

trouble with house sprout apart everything

1:34:08

as right now. Right. I mean

1:34:10

we could leave it where it

1:34:13

is and then it, like this

1:34:15

could happen, right? Yeah. It looks

1:34:17

a little. But you know, well,

1:34:19

yeah, that's what actually... Those people

1:34:22

have not heard of the rising

1:34:24

sea levels. Then maybe I'll put

1:34:26

the swoop underneath it and then

1:34:28

that seems sort of like our

1:34:31

best. Because it has that lake

1:34:33

right underneath it, so it'll either

1:34:35

be like, oh, that'll... It could

1:34:37

be right, right, right, right, right.

1:34:39

We have been with the trees.

1:34:42

We could. This mountain's the closest

1:34:44

thing to us if we want

1:34:46

to try and conserve some food.

1:34:48

We have a lot now though,

1:34:51

so we could also go to...

1:34:53

I would love to either go

1:34:55

to the... Okay, let me get

1:34:57

on pingamone, is it a pen

1:35:00

like right here? Yeah, I got

1:35:02

it. At that I can't... Yeah,

1:35:04

I was going to say that

1:35:06

too. That is not the closest,

1:35:09

so I have to subtract one

1:35:11

food. Okay, we're down to three

1:35:13

food. And then Ali are you

1:35:15

able to pull the card? I

1:35:18

would like to do that. That

1:35:20

is a queen of clubs. And

1:35:22

this is town or? This is

1:35:24

town. That is town. But first

1:35:27